I called aunt Velma and talked to her for awhile. Here is what I got from her. Her mind is still sharp.
Her and uncle Raymond married Jan. 4, 1935. Dad built the house on the road and we moved over there. Raymond and aunt Velma lived in the old house. Uncle Grover and Aunt Cora came for a visit from Calif. in late 1936. Raymond and Velma went back home with them to Calif. They stayed in Calif. a year then came back home. That would be in 1937. I would have been 7 years old.

I remember a family named Braymer living for a while in Raymonds house.

Murrel pulled one of his houdini tricks one day and I set out looking for him. There was no one home at the Braymers. I walked thru the hall way of the house and looked up. There sat Murrel and the Braymer boy on the plank that spanned the hallway. It stayed there for years. You may remember it. They had caught a chicken and had a choke hold on it so it would not make any noise. They planned on going over to the glade on the hill behind Raymonds and have a chicken roast. They could not get rid of me so I joined the two chicken thieves and we went over on the glade to roast the chicken. Problem was the subject for dinner would not cooperate. The chicken got loose and we ran it all over the hill side. We finially killed it with rocks and cooked that thing. It smelled and tasted like burned feathers.

They never lived in Michigan. It was in the late 1920's or early 1930s when Raymond worked in Flint. He worked in Chevrolet plant #4. Chuck worked in the same plant in the early 1950s. He met Raymonds Foreman. Ask him about it sometime.....unkle (Sunday, May 03, 2009 )