John and Reba Beall
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Early Years
John: I finished school at Eva, got married in’42, drove the bus that same year. They made that into a junior high. Built a new building up there this last year and I think they’re fixing to move in to it right away. It was a senior high school back in them days. Had taken agriculture up there three years. L. J. McDonald was the vocational teacher. Can’t remember his first name but Holiday was the principal when I finished school up there. Before then, l went to Centerdale School in my elementary school through the sixth grade. It was up close to Eva there, about four or five miles from Eva. They did away with that school the year that I left there.
G. L. Bryant was principal there then. He’s still living, living there at Falkville. He’s about ninety-seven or ninety-eight years old or one hundred, somewhere along in there. He’s still living. In our class, when I finished there was ten girls and five boys. Don’t ask me their names. I don’t remember them all. That would have been in’43. I finished school in ’43. She (Reba) moved up here from Tennessee, I believe, wasn’t it?
Reba: Yes. Pulaski, Tennessee.
John: We went together about four or five months wasn’t it?
Reba: Something like that. I was standing out in the backyard and I told Mama, “I’m going to marry that short boy’. There was a big old tall boy with him. What were the boy’s names that lived over there close to us and that big old tall boy had a brother that was smaller than him?
John: Bates.
Reba: No, Brady, Brady Harden?
John: Yes.
Reba: Brady Harden. They were going somewhere, come right through our yard, and I said, “Mama, that’s the one I’m going to marry right there one of these days.” I picked him out. I had gone up to Mrs. Holloway’s to spend the night with her and her daughter. She had a son. I had talked to him a while but he wasn’t the one. Didn’t go anywhere.
Daddy sat in the room with us. He would go to bed but his bed was right close to our room. I never did go off anywhere with him. He would just come up from his house. There were a few houses between his house and my house. Daddy went on though, and he would sit right in there and talk to us. When John would come to see me, Daddy would sit in there and talk and when he got ready to go to bed, well, his bed was in the next room from us.
We didn’t have just a regular living room. We just had the bedrooms and a little kitchen and a place in there, a little room, where we put our table to eat. I had one brother and the rest of them were sisters. Ruby, she’s dead now. She died with whatever it was she had. I can’t even think what it was she died with. Me and her was the oldest. From there down it was about three or four girls. My brother was next and then another sister and another sister and two more. One little brother died, just a little baby. A friend of ours went and made it a little coffin and put white material around it and little trimming. Did up real nice. That was when we lived in Tennessee. Lot of things happened to me in my life.
I was born in Anniston, Alabama. Went to Tennessee when I was three months old, down to Leoma, Tennessee. From there to Lawrenceburg. We farmed, that’s what we did. Then we moved from there to Pulaski and from Pulaski down here cause one of Daddy’s brothers had moved down here and he wanted to move down here too. We followed them down here. My Dad and Mama was born down there at Anniston. Ruby was the first one and I was born next but we were both born in Alabama. We’re Alabama girls but we were raised mostly in Tennessee. When we moved down here I was nearly eighteen, seventeen or eighteen. Nineteen, because I got him (John) at twenty. I had my birthday on July 17th. I was twenty and he was almost nineteen.
John: I think there’s about eighteen months difference in our birthdays.
Reba: I’m eighty-two and he’s eighty-one.
John: We got married October, ’42. 17th I believe wasn’t it?
Reba: I guess.
John: I’ve got the marriage license in there somewhere.
Reba: Well, Mama always carried us to these churches. A woman preacher would preach if her husband was gone. A woman would get up and dance all over the place and her hair would fall down. She had long hair. Then another little old bitty short lady, shorter than Mama, she’d get up there with her. You know they’d give the, you know, to come up and let them pray for them or whatever you did back at that time. Mama and this lady went up. Daddy was holding one of the babies over here on that side of the house from where the crowd was sitting. Course I was back over there with him and the baby you know. And had old wooden doors like windows where you could latch them inside. But anyway, that old woman got through preaching and she told them to come up and they come up there and commenced dancing all over the place. This little old lady, she was short but her hair touched the floor when it come down. She never did cut her hair, you see. Well, the lady that was preaching had long hair too but she was just a preaching and she wasn’t a jumping. Like they were talking in tongues and all, something you couldn’t understand. That baby got to crying over there and Daddy went out the window with it. It was touching the ground where he could get out there with that baby. They were a making a racket and it got scared.
John: Back then they had buildings built and shutters over the windows. Didn’t have any glass.
Reba: The window would flop back on the outside but they had that thing on it, you pulled it in and latched it. They used heaters in the church back then (in the wintertime). It was in Tennessee there close to Pulaski, no it was close to Lawrenceburg.
Family
Reba: You know I never met any people that were members of the Church before moving down here and married him. ‘Was Frank a member of the church then?
John: Not now, he used to be.
Reba: I mean when we married. I don’t guess he was.
John: He was a member of the church back then after they got married.
Reba: What about Ernest? Ernest never did obey the gospel. I never did go into this here like Momma was in. We were in class but we never did lead to that. They’d give us a little card with Jesus’ name on it. First one thing and then another like that with some little reading on it. I wish I had kept some of them but I didn’t. When we moved out here Momma and them got to going to church up there above us. She was baptized into that church up there. She was baptized down there but she was baptized here. Daddy was baptized here. I don’t know, I just never go about that there. I didn’t know what they were doing all that dancing for. Aunt Eva Self, John’s Daddy’s sister, it was after he was in service, she lived down at Childersburg and Aunt Eva come up here and I went back with her on the bus down there. I got more out of what she taught me than anybody. His aunt, his Daddy’s sister. She was a little bitty short woman.
John: She was Connard Self’s mother. The one that died about a month and a half ago. Lived out at Macedonia.
Reba: They went to Macedonia (church).
John: He died with pneumonia over here at CRMC. Stayed in the hospital there about a week. He had a cancer operation on the colon last year and he didn’t have any resistance anymore. Pneumonia hit him and he didn’t last long.
Reba: Aunt Eva, we were talking about, it was her son. I went to church at Macedonia when l obeyed the gospel. The church building, it wasn’t where it’s at now. You go on up there to Etha Church and turn down to the left and it was back down there with a little old square building with a door there and, I think it was two doors there and one on this side and little windows maybe. That’s where I was baptized but my two children were born before I obeyed the gospel. John went and done his things in the service after Peggy was born.
I had a sister that come over there from Tennessee and picked cotton. It was after he (John) came out of service. I obeyed the gospel that morning and that evening she come over there where they was going to baptize me at, in that pond. She obeyed the gospel right there and was baptized. I was telling you about me obeying the gospel out there at Macedonia and I was baptized in Watt South’s pond.
This is a picture of my aunt that lived over here on Gold Ridge Road. She was keeping Peggy while I worked at a little old cafe over in town a little while. I just worked about a week or two. She kept Peggy for me. I never have worked in town or nothing else (since).
John: This is a picture of my Grandpa and Grandma Morgan, my Mother’s Daddy and Mother. They wore long dresses back then. He lived to about eighty something years old. I don’t know how old she was when she died. He died a good while before she did. My Mother’s maiden name was Morgan. Lela Morgan. They were members of the church. They come from Georgia over here. I had five brothers and one sister. Two of them are dead. Two brothers.
Reba: Ernest and G. H. The little boy was named John Henry but they called him G. H. Three of them lived in Decatur. A girl and two boys, Rueben, Tommy and Jane. Tommy Joe was the oldest. From there down, Jack, G. H. and Ernest (John). John had one sister.
John: Had a brother that died when he was fifteen years old. (Died with) leukemia. Blood disease. I believe that was about 1954, somewhere along in there.
Reba: He was the youngest boy, wasn’t he?
John: He was the youngest boy.
Reba: Tommy and Jane and Frank and Rueben and Ernest and G. H.
John: Most people don’t have families that big any more.
Reba: All of his family was born around Eva.
John: Frank lives in Flint, right there close to Decatur. In fact he lives in the city of Decatur right now. My brother that died, he lived in Florida. He’s buried down there in Florida. My Dad and Mother was originally from Georgia. Both of them come from Georgia. Here is a picture of my Momma and Daddy. He’s just about bald headed too. He used to be red headed. My Dad’s first name was George.
Reba: They called it Bell over there but it is Beall. Mrs. Beall and Tommie Joe, I remember it when somebody called Beall, they would say, ‘No its spelled Bell.” Roy Bell is no kin to us. He’s a Bell but we’re a Beall.
John: She used to call it Bell all the time. They come over from Ireland and Scottish.
Reba: Well, your Daddy’s family though is the one that changed the name from Bell to Beall and kept saying Bell.
John: They changed the name on account of the mail getting all mixed up and they changed the name and spelled it Beall.
Reba: I had a mail lady out here one day. I went out to get the mail at the mailbox. She says, “Is your name Bell, Beall or Be All? I said its Beall but we go by Bell all the time.
John: We’ve got some people living over in Georgia and down in Florida. Used to be one lived in Birmingham. Hadn’t heard anything from them in a long time. Bunch of them live out west, California and Idaho and places like that. This picture is back in the’50’s I believe it was.
Reba: It was when Grandpa had hair and when Grandma had black hair. It was grayer than that picture is when she died.
John: She had black hair when that picture was taken there. He’s just about bald headed. He was in World War One, climbing the telegraph poles back in those days, picked up wires and things.
Reba: He had red hair though. Wasn’t any of you all, you kids, had red hair did you?
John: Frank, some of his kids have got red hair.
Reba: I’m talking about your brothers.
John: My brother’s boy, he’s real black headed. A bunch of his kids are redheaded.
Reba: Frank’s wife, Myrtle, she wasn’t black headed. She had kind of reddish looking hair.
John: My brother’s boy is just about bald headed now. He started getting bald headed when he was about twenty-five years old.
Reba: Now Tommy Joe had black hair.
John: Now, Frank, my younger brother, he’s about bald headed too but he’s dark headed. He’s got a boy that just as red headed as he can be.
Reba: Them boys had eyelashes long like their momma, Lela Morgan.
John: She come from a big family too. Had about ten, twelve, thirteen of them. The Morgan family, a bunch of them.
Reba: In your Daddy’s family, the girls, some of them were red headed. Aunt Violet, Aunt Vernice. Aunt Helen had redder hair than one of them others did. They were all kind a short though. Your Daddy wasn’t real tall either.
World War Two
John: When I got my draft notice, I was farming. We raised peanuts. We made more off of peanuts that year than we did off of cotton. We shelled one hundred pounds of peanuts, those little Spanish peanuts. We shelled them by hand and planted with a planter. Had about seven acres of them. We section harrowed them pretty often. They never did grow up on us. Thrasher come around and thrashed them out. We made more that year off of peanuts than we did off our cotton crop. The government bought the peanuts. They bought them to make some kind of oil out of them. They made ammunition out of that powder, gunpowder.
Back in those days everything was rationed to us, coffee, gasoline, tires was rationed. I’ve still got some of those old gas coupons. My dad used to have them. They are laying here somewhere. I don’t know where they are. We had a bunch of policies paid up for our kids and I finally got around giving them to them the other day. They are paid out.
When I got drafted, they put me in the Navy and I’ve been in there ever since. Right down here at Birmingham Post Office building and I saw those boys over here at Anniston. We went over there in a bus. Saw those boys out there crawling around. I said, “That’s not for me.” I had broken arches in my feet. That’s the reason they put me in the Navy. That boy right behind me, he wanted the Navy and they put him in the Army. (How did you get into cooking?) Something convenient on the ship. When I went in the Navy I just weighed one hundred and thirty-five pounds. When I come out I weighed one hundred and eighty. This is where were taking our training in Camp, Wallace, Texas. Ten thousand sailors there at that time. It used to be an Army camp but they turned it over to the Navy.
I was in the receiving several months. That’s where we were waiting on the ship. It was up in Tacoma, Washington. We were just putting in time there. That’s all we were doing. Come back down to California then and got fitted out in the ship. That’s where we went overseas. (It was a) refrigeration (ship). Yard patrol, they called it. It was all refrigeration. It was made out of wood. Our ship was twenty-nine foot wide and one hundred and twenty-nine foot long. About a four story building in height. On that bottom deck in rough water, you’d take on water all the time. You’d have to be careful on there. We’d keep our doors closed, showers and everything.
They carried foodstuff in where they couldn’t get in with the big ship. We even carried stuff into Indonesia down there where they had all that trouble the other day. Jakarta, we went in there and we took stuff off Australian ships and carried it in there and unloaded it on the other ship. They couldn’t get in there with the big ships from Australia. We had a twenty-five-man crew. Not one gunner on there. We had twenty millimeter was the biggest gun we had. We had depth charges aboard. Pretty smooth down there except when you run into the storms.
We had a storm down there in the Mindanao Sea and we were doing a forty-degree roll and they said if we ever did a forty-five it wouldn’t come back over. It was getting close. In 1945, our ship dropped anchor. Our ship and another one run together but it didn’t hurt it, just scarred it up a little bit. A typhoon, they called it, coming in there, you’d drag anchor on that ship. There was a bunch of them anchored in there and you would see why they would run together because they didn’t have any place to go.
My job in the Navy was cook, doorkeeper, laundryman, and number one gunner on starboard side with that 20 millimeter. I did a little bit of everything. I cooked a lot of meals. There was a first class cook from Georgia. The first time I ever met him he was about half shot. Had a big old chicken leg, eating on it. He was a good guy though. He would show you how to do things. That’s where I made third class cook.
We left California and went to Hawaii. We did a zig zag course going over. Took us two weeks to go to Hawaii. They had submarines out there back in those days. Course they didn’t bother a small ship like that. We were in a convoy with cruisers and everything else. They don’t fight wars like we used to. I’d rather been in what we’d been in than in what these boys over here are doing. They haven’t got a chance, half of them. They hit land mines and car bombs too. You never know when they are going to happen.
When I was in the Hawaiian Islands, I had a cousin that was in charge of the naval base there, the subrnarine base. He checked out all the ships that come in. He could give the OK where they could get them worked on. He come over there and got me in a jeep two or three times, carried me, showing me around the islands there. I went and saw all the sunken ships around there, the Arizona and all them. I got to see all them. We went right up by them. There was still the ship sticking up out of the water but they’ve got them cut back now. They don’t stick up out of the water any more. Standing right on its end. He brought me two or three bottles of wine over there. I didn’t drink it and my captain found out I had it. I give it to him and he took care of it. He was up there where they had plenty of wine and stuff.
From Hawaii we went to Wake Island. We took on fuel and stuff there. There’s a big airbase there. The runway runs right out in the edge of the water. Wake and Midway islands are pretty close together. Then we went on down to the Philippines. That’s where our headquarters was. Leyte was where our headquarters was. We operated out of there. One of our generators went down and a long time we stayed in the harbor there, tied up to the dock. They really wasn’t shooting at you every minute, that’s for sure. We were in about seventy miles of that big cruiser that got sunk out there but they didn’t bother us. We heard about it just a few hours after it happened. Why they wouldn’t mess with a small ship like us. A big cruiser is what they was after. Houston, I believe, was the name of it, got sunk right at the end of the war there. One time when the generator went bad we had to go out to sea and dump all that stuff overboard. Thawing up, foodstuff that was frozen, we dumped it over to the fish. That’s the orders we got. That’s what we had to do. We never did eat any government rations, nothing like that. We had fresh eggs and milk all the time. The chickens would come in barrels, packed in ice, and they’d keep them froze in that thing. We had chickens all the time. Some of them had legs on them that long. We had fresh chickens, fresh oranges, onions, fresh onions, everything like that, green peas, cauliflower, all that kind of junk.
(You couldn’t have asked for a better assignment?) No. That’s the reason we never did try to get out of there. We had fresh milk most of the time. We got fresh milk aboard when we went to Hawaiian Islands. We had milk all the time we were over there. We had fresh water all the time. We had facilities, if we had to, we could take that ocean water and make fresh water out of it. We had facilities on there to do that but we never did have to use it. (You had it made) We knew it too. (Didn’t anybody object to it, the assignment). We had jobs to do all the time. We’d go out, practice shooting those guns every once in a while. You’ve got to change barrels on them. They’d get red hot and nearly melt on those things. You’ve got to change barrels on them to cool them off. You’d take asbestos gloves and take the barrel off and put a new one on it. We went all over the place around there. I forgot now where all we did go. Went to Borneo. We went to Borneo down there three days after they’d burned that harbor up. It was smoking and going on around there. That Shell Oil Company had big tanks up there and they cut holes in them and set it afire. It run down in the harbor and burned the docks and everything up.
That’s where I saw my biggest snake. We run into a big snake up there twenty-seven feet long. That thing was about that big around. Somebody just had killed it. They had crews there to unload (the ship). We didn’t have to touch any of it. Our Bosun mate operated the crane and took that stuff out of the hold but we didn’t have to bother any of it. They’d send people in there to get that stuff out. We were out walking around the hills. We had taken on fresh water while we was there. They still had a water supply. We stopped in Quadulan lslands down there. That’s where they’ve made it into an atomic energy place. We stopped down there and got fresh water one time. Got fuel too while we was there. Now then that’s all atomic energy stuff. It’s been there since World War Two. We went on an island there about five or six miles long and about three quarters of a mile wide. They had water facilities and everything else on there. Fuel and everything.
Reba: You know as old as I am I never have heard all this.
John: We were told not to say much about it. I liked the officers we had. We had two ensigns aboard. One JG, he was a JG Lieutenant He was the captain of the ship. He was from Baltimore, Maryland. He was nice to us. I remember one time when we were down in the Philippines there somewhere or another and we had to go in between the islands there. You could reach out and get the bushes on each side of the ship. They had to have a pilot aboard to carry you up through there. That thing sometime would nearly just stand there and quiver. The rudder would be turning and be so strong you know. It would finally take on off then.
When we were at the Philippines that’s when we got in that storm down there in the Mindanao Sea. Only lasted about four or five hours. Got daylight, then we ran out of the storm. Boy that was rough water. It was rough. We were up in the wheelhouse and we had a bucket we’d heave in. It would slide all the way back and forth there. Water would come up to the windows every once in a while. Those rough seas are the worst thing you can get into just about. I got seasick before I got out of the harbor in San Pedro, California. When I first left. Groundswells made me sick. You sit right in the middle of the ship if you can. Don’t get it so bad. You just had to endure it. You’d get so sick you were afraid you weren’t going to die. Some people, it didn’t bother them on there. We had two or three on there, it didn’t ever bother them. Never did get seasick, but most of them did. Same thing as airsickness, I guess.
The captain of the ship, one time, found out I had a pair of shoes and he wore the size about that I did. That pilot aboard, he got me another pair of shoes, had me to give him those shoes. I always kept an extra pair on hand. You don’t know when you might need them you know. He (the pilot) needed a pair. They only cost you about seven or eight dollars. Black slippers. You wore the dress slippers all the time. I did. I shipped all my clothes back home, dungarees and everything else. When I got back to San Francisco, they issued me a new dress suit and everything, coat and all, when I was getting out.
I didn’t have any clothes. When I got back here and they had to get me up some clothes. I had already sent mine home. They had already got them. Sent two sea bags full. I come back on a big old transport ship. AP-8. Boy, it got rough too. We hit those tidal waves coming back. It got rough out there. That ship would come up and down and sound like thunder you know. Flopping and hitting the bottom. Come up out of the water. We come back in March and they had a tidal wave out there somewhere or another and we ran across it. We never did know it except when the ship would go up and down you could hear that noise. If it had been a small ship it would have been rough out there. We come back to San Francisco then we got on buses and trains and things coming across the country. I was glad to get off of that ship. When I wasn’t so sick my job was making drinks for them, putting them in a big old stainless steel container Kool-Aid and stuff like that. On ships and things like that they would serve hot tea a lot, you know, out there. Put milk in it or cream or whatever you wanted in it.
Reba: What kind of parties did you have over there?
John: We didn’t have any parties. There wasn’t any parties to go to. Before I was discharged l was in Memphis. I come out about the sixth of April, somewhere along in there.
Home Again
Reba: We made a farm before you went to the college.
John: Yes, but I went down there that fall in December.
Reba: I bought him a farm and he wouldn’t keep it. Forty-five acres but it was good land. Raised two bales of cotton and we had us a cow and a mule and three hogs and the old mule, he’d run away with us. He got me a big old horse and couldn’t even put a bridle on him. My place didn’t cost much, a thousand dollars for forty-five acres.
John: Sold it for eighteen hundred.
Reba: Bought a car. I had my Irish potatoes this high when he come home. My brother helped me a little bit. I could plow. I could plow at nine years old. That’s when I learned to plow. He (Daddy) said, “Come here, “I want to show you how to plow this cotton” and he said, “If you cut up a stalk between here and the woods”, you have to go around a terrace row you know on that row on to a new ground he’d call it where the trees was, and said, “You go around there and come back. Go on this side arid come back on this side.” I went that way but I didn’t get close to that cotton. It was up about this high. He was laying it by. He said if I pulled up one stalk of cotton he was going to whip me with it. I didn’t want him to get a hold of me with that stick.
Reba: I come back around there. He said, “You pull up any?” I said, “No, I didn’t.’ I didn’t run close to it. That’s the reason.
John: We used to lay by corn with a turning plow, plowing terrace rows. The corn would be tasseling and silking when we would lay it by.
Reba: Now those stalks of cotton was up this high. They hadn’t put all of their bolls and things. They had coming out though.
John: That was back in the days of the boll weevil that eat a lot of it up. Made three bales of cotton off that, that year. Had a little patch of corn and a little garden out there. These Irish potatoes was up when he come home.
When you moved over here to St. Bernard, what were you going to school for?
John: I was learning to be a butcher and restaurant management over there. I went to restaurant management three four years then I went and took meat cutting for two years, I believe it was. Had a brother over there. He died with cancer of the brain. When they put me to butchering there Brother Plost let me help them some up there. I had to slaughter it, cut it up and everything to ready it for use. Killed hogs too. They would serve about three meats to a meal too. I had to smoke my bacon and sausage out there. I had a smoke house out there behind the butcher shop made of bricks. Go over to the sale barn and get them (the cows) or they’d bring them over there to us. They’d have to be inspected and everything now. Had a highway patrol come up there or one day looking around and he said, “There’s only one thing wrong with this.” He says, “It ought to be inspected.” We slaughtered them there. Had a big pit down there then. It ran out down through the pasture.
Reba: When was this happening there around me?
John: I was butchering for the public then. I worked for them (St. Bernard’s) ’til five o’clock. Then I worked on my own after five. I’d go up there at four o’clock in the morning. I went to work down there in December of ’46. That spring we canned peaches, tomatoes and everything else from that garden up there. Bought one hundred bushels of peaches at one time and in a week’s time we had them all canned and put them in half a gallon fruit jars. I did a little bit of everything around there.
I worked up at Chemstrand, that’s Monsanto now, three years. I cooked up there all the time. I come back to St Bernard and went back to butcher work. I moved back down here. We stayed busy. Went out there one time and worked twenty-four hours before I could get home. There come a big snow and I couldn’t get home. Nobody could get in. They said that’s the first time that ever happened. Said it never would happen again.
Reba: We could get around better back then than we can now. We couldn’t even get a work wagon on a farm now.
John: (At St. Bernard I was) a cook for six years and they had Sisters come in there and took over the cooking part. Mexican Sisters. I worked in the dairy over at St. Bernard there, milked cows for about four or five years. Had Guernsey cows. Had Surge milkers. Built another dairy barn while I was there. Me and a Harris man, Keith’s daddy, went to Missouri up there to get a big bull and we brought him back. I think they got one calf from him. OId J. C. Penny used to own all that stuff up there. He came down here to see us one time. He owned all that stuff up there around in Missouri. Got the stores now. I’ve seen him. I met him over there at St. Bernard. He didn’t stay but about a day and a half there. That was back in the ’50’s and ’60’s, somewhere along in there. I forgot exactly when it was. Yes, he come to Cullman. I worked at St. Bernard twenty-three years. I cooked for six years and worked on a farm a couple of years. Butchered for twelve years.
I went to Wolverine in ’72. Worked fifteen years up there. Worked in the box department building boxes and cutting them. That’s when I shot a sixteen-penny nail through my finger with a pressure gun. The doctor that took that out had to take wire pliers to pull it out. It never did bleed any. Come right on back and went to work that same night. Had a big bandage on it. Never did get very sore. I worked at Wolverine until I retired in ’86. January of ’86.
We painted the church building over there, a time or two, inside and out. ’59 I think itwas, when Brother Clark was still over there.
Reba: When did you become an elder?
John: In the’60’s.
Reba: How long?
John: Between twenty and twenty-five years, somewhere along in there.
Reba: Was that before we moved to Decatur or after? It was after wasn’t it?
John: It was after. It was in the ’50’s and ’60’s. When I worked at Wolverine, I was still an elder there. I was in there when Brother Creel was in there and Harry Hackworth and myself. I believe that was all of them. About three or four of them. Then Brother Creel retired. That just left three of us. Ray and Eugene and myself. That’s when we built the new auditorium over there. Everybody said we wouldn’t ever build it. You know what that thing cost? Less than four hundred thousand. That’s’ parking lot and all. You won’t get one built now that cheap.