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- EZ AND NORA WERE MARRIED 26 JUNE 1916. THEIR SON, DALLAS, WAS BORN 7 DEC 1917. AN INFANT SON WHO DIED AT BIRTH WAS BORN ABOUT FOUR YEARS LATER (1921). VIRGINIA AILEEN WAS BORN 4 MAY 1923. THEY LIVED IN A SMALL TWO ROOM HOUSE LOCATED BETWEEN THE HOME OF JIM PHILLIPS AND THE HOME OF McNEELEY MONTGOMERY. DAD AND MOTHER MOVED ABOUT A HALF MILE WEST OF McNEELEY MONTGOMERY'S HOME BETWEEN 1917 AND 1921. IT WAS A TWO ROOM HOUSE. EZRA WORKED OUR 35 ACRE FARM AND ALSO WORKED WITH HIS OTHER BROTHERS SAWMILLING AND PEELING TAN BARK UNTIL 1925. EZRA WENT TO WEST VIRGINIA AND WORKED AT A SAWMILL IN 1925 FOR ABOUT 6 MONTHS. HE THEN RETURNED TO FLOYD COUNTY AND OUR FAMILY MOVED TO FILBERT, WEST VIRGINIA, NEAR WELCH. EZRA CONTINUED AT THE SAME SAWMILL FOR 2-1/2 YEARS. AFTER WE WERE THERE 1-1/2 YEARS NORA'S MOTHER AND BROTHER(ABIE) CAME TO VISIT US. WHILE THEY WERE THERE ON A SATURDAY WE GOT A TAXI TO TAKE US TO WELCH WHERE WE BOARDED A NORFOLK AND WESTERN TRAIN AND GOT OFF IN DELBORN, KENTUCKY. THERE WE GOT A TAXI TO TAKE US UP TO PETER'S CREEK, KENTUCKY WHER WE VISITED McNEELY'S BROTHER, CISCERO MONTGOMERY. WE STAYED THERE SATURDAY NIGHT AND WENT TO A PRIMITIVE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION ON SUNDAY. LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON WE BOARDED THE TRAIN BACK TO WELCH AND ON TO FILBERT AND HOME. IN THE SPRING OF 1927 NORA HAD TO HAVE AN APPENDIX OPERATION. HER HEALTH WAS BAD FOR 2-1/2 YEARS.
WE MOVED BACK TO FLOYD COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND SHE WAS IN AND OUT OF THE HOSPITAL FROM 1927 TO 1929 AT WHICH TIME WE MOVED TO PRICE'S FORK IN 1929. WHILE LIVING THERE NORA INTRODUCED HER BROTHER, BARNEY, TO HIS FUTURE WIFE, LUCINDA LONG.
IN 1931 WE MOVED TO McCOY, VIRGINIA. THERE EZRA WORKED IN THE COAL MINES UNTIL HE WAS INJURED BY A SLATE FALL. HE WAS OUT OF WORK FOR SIX MONTHS. IN 1933 WE MOVED TO WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND THERE EZRA RAN A SERVICE STATION FOR ABOUT 14 MONTHS FOR HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, ROY MONTGOMERY. THEN EZRA AND NORA MOVED TO FANCY GAP, VIRGINIA IN MAY OF 1934. THERE THEY RAN A RESTAURANT AND BUILT A MOTEL. THIS THEY DID UNTIL THEY RETIRED IN 1970. NORA WAS VERY PROUD OF HER FAMILY AND HERITAGE. SHE ANNUALLY ATTEMPTED HAVING FAMILY REUNIONS AT HER HOME. HER EFFORTS RESULTED IN MANY OF US MEETING OUR MONTGOMERY RELATIVES FOR THE FIRST TIME. FOR MANY OF HER NIECES AND NEPHEWS SHE REPRESENTED THE LOVING GRANDMOTHER WE HAD NEVER KNOWN ON THE MONTGOMERY SIDE. SHE ALWAYS HAD A LOVING SMILE ON HER FACE AND ALWAYS TREATED EACH OF US IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY. SHE WAS A MOST UNIQUE LADY AND IS SADLEY MISSED BY MANY.
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1899 - 1974 (74 years)
