Hehe, reminds me of the family that comes in the local bojangles once in a while. 7 kids and pregnant again. My 80 year old dad actually met the father at the coffee pot 1 morning and ask him if he needed a tv. The guy just looked at him strange and said no.

My parents intended to have four children. I was number seven.

90% of all people are caused by accidents.

There were just three of us males in the family (Dad, brother, and I). Any more would have put my sainted Mother over the edge.

he he. I worked with a guy a long, long, time ago that was the 19th of 19 children born to a West Texas share cropper family. I was young and dumb enough to ask him if they had TV. Fortunately he liked me and told me that they staged fist fights with the children for entertainment most nights. Lucky for me he was well past fist fights! We fished on Texoma and hunted in Eastland County for years. He educated me in the way of Dove, Quail, Turkey, Deer and Catfish! I enjoyed his stories of being dirt poor in West Texas. I learned a lot from him. He left school when he was in the third grade and could not read. He wanted to learn how to reload shotgun shells and I color coded his powder and shot bushings along with the powder containers so that he would not blow himself up. You can learn a lot from a guy that actually experienced life back when a guy needed to be able to provide for his family without government help. He, just like our T mentors are mostly gone now and I fear for the next generation. Pass on your knowledge!

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What's really amazing is he got all those people in that one car, they're really not that big even in the back. Somebody must've been standing on the rear floorboards somewhere.

And from Loretta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcdONaKSQM
Mom loved this song.

My Grandfather was the oldest of 17 (all boys) and he out lived all but the youngest brother. I know that there were 2 or three 3 girls who did not survive child birth so his family would have had 19 to 20. He was a cheese maker in Switzerland and he and my Grandmother from Germany came to this country at the end of WWI.

Paul, I was bouncing around the den laughing at your story!! Thanks! and thank you - again - Jay for the entertainment aspect of this Forum.
I also used to know a fellow -also from west Texas- who said they were so poor that they didn't have a tree on the property from whence his dad could obtain whipping switches. So dad would grab one of his younger brothers by the ankles and whip him with his brother. HA!

My parents had 5 boys and then decided to give up on having a girl.

george house,

There is a lot more to that story but some of it I can't post on this newly nice forum. If you are at Chickasha I will tell you "The rest of the story".

I wonder if they ever figured out what was causing all those kids?

Jim,

Yes and no. Ever wonder why the birth rate rises 9 months after a black out?

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