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Ivy Mae & Betsy Jane Fox ....... Well to start off rightmy name is Betsy Jane Fox & I'm originally from Atlanta. My Mama tells me that's in the deep south. My Mama was born to the wealthiest man east of the Mississippi River, Billy Mack Wise, also known as Grandaddy and, of course, Grandmama Wise. I asked my Grandmama her first name one day but she refused to tell me, I used to wonder if maybe she just didn't like her name - I even heard somebody say that's what they thought once. Come to find out, she just didn't want her grandbaby girl calling her by her first name, being the most proper lady that she is. A lot of people don't know this about our family and how we came to be well off, but my Granddaddy worked right long side the inventin of the telephone with his good friend Alexander Graham Bell. Mama has told me that Granddaddy doesn't mind at all that he doesn't receive any of the public recognition for his part in this most important invention of modern times, he was just happy to help his friend.
I was born to my mama Ivy Mae Fox an December 24, 1883, it was a cold night - I even heard of a blizzard right outside my mama's window. I never knew my daddy, but I hear that that pathetic yellow dog got himself shot up by the sheriff - plumb dead! After my new daddy had courted my mama for a very long time, they married - she's now Mrs. Ivy Mae Fox-Devereaux - we packed up and moved to Oklahoma when I was nine or so. We live in a real nice house. My new daddy is the sheriff - the one who shot my birthddaddy dead all on account of having no choice at the time - he's the sherrif in this town now! My mama kept Fox as part of her name because it's my name and my new daddy, he doesn't mind a bit. And if he did, then that'd be just too bad cause when my Mama makes up her mind there just aint no changin it unless you wanna get shot up too - and not by my daddy but by my mama herself. He says shes stubborn as a pack mule goin up the tallest mountain in the world.!!!!!! ....... ........ |
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