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stand where the cow had lain to warm their feet.
Hunting, trapping, cutting pulp wood, etc., were typical ways of supplementing the family income.
By about age 18, Charley went to work for Mr. John Keyser at a dollar a day. He worked about three years here then at about 21 went to work at the Virginia Oak Tannery in Luray, making the whooping sum of fifty-eight cents an hour. He remained at this line of work for the next 20 years. The next ten years he worked for Hylton Construction Company in Woodbridge.
When a day short of his 22nd birthday, on June 7, 1951, Charley was married to his wife, the former Florine Elizabeth Pullen.
Due to an accident in 1958 which disabled him for some two years, the family fell into some rough times. With little income, the kids beginning school, livestock to feed, etc., but with the help of good neighbors, family and friends we pulled through and stayed together.
Charley’s hobbies or passions have been in their turn, “coon” hunting, and fishing. At one time, although it was more or less a business to supplement the family income, he maintained an apiary of over 100 hives of honey bees.
He rented out the bees to local orchardist for pollination of their fruit trees and extracted
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