Great-grandfather Arthur is the boy standing behind the baby on the right. His parents Andrew and Polly were farmers in Corinth and did not have much. Andrew was also illiterate, so I imagine they were sharecroppers. Arthur had to drop out of the third grade to work on the family farm and never learned to read or write as well.
Two older brothers to the left, Lowell and Bill, were involved in organized crime in North Mississippi. The other older brother with them, Leman, was killed in a car wreck after he came home from Japan in 1946.
My grandfather told me Lowell and Bill were bookies and one of them was killed in a drive by by this crime organization over a debt he owed and Pop actually witnessed his murder. The other was shot and killed by an angry husband while he was in the middle of boinking the guy's wife.
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Pop is what we always called my great grandfather. He died when I was in middle school.