Oldest Brother and Oldest Sister
Marry

This is a picture of my father's oldest brother and my mother's oldest sister.  They were married, which makes their children my "double cousins."

Gus Wolfe was married before he married my mother's sister, Emma Blackburn.  He was married to Hazel Mockabee.  Gus and Hazel had four children:  Lester, Gusty, Beulah, and Chester Ellis (who died in infancy).

Gus and Emma had two children:  Eugene and Joyce Wolfe.  They are, as I say, my double cousins.

This is a picture of Hazel Mocabee, first wife to Gus Wolfe.

Gus died at the age of 47 of a sudden heart attack.  I did not know Gus, because he died the year I was born.  My father was the youngest of the children, and there were 12 children; so a lot of time went by between the first and last child in this large family. 

Emma, however, lived many years after, so I knew her very well.  Emma visited me in the hospital when I had Polio.  She lived very close to the hospital, and my parents lived in the country; so Emma visited nearly every day, and my parents came when they could.

Emma would visit our home often, so I got to know her very well.  She came nearly every holiday.  My mother's family had 12 children, also, but my mother was third from the oldest, so I got to meet most of her brothers and sisters.  Emma died Aug. 24, 2001.

I had the privilege to preach her funeral and the funerals of several others of her siblings.