Sweet Home Alabama
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I love it here [:)]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i019fwYM_Pw&feature=player_embedded#at=31http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAst-EfsOa8&NR=1&feature=fvwphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHdXQAQHjd8&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLWYLlwh2QIqc
[:D] I do miss my home country every now and then, but this is as good as it gets [:)]0 -
Ok so I am sitting here in my office and I hear Sweet Home Alabama coming out of the family room. I figured that the wife was tired of Obama and changed the channel so I walked in there only to see Densel Washington talking about something wth Sweet Home Alabama playing in the background. Dang they are jamming to Skinnard at the Prez ball. There just might be hope 0 -
Alabama Couple Celebrates 80th Anniversary
A Scottboro couple recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary, one of the longest marriages among living people when compared to reports in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.
Alonzo, 97, and Beulah Sims, 94, celebrated their anniversary a day early Sunday at the nursing home where they have lived since May 2002.
Without their families' approval, the two teens married in 1927, when he was working at a farm, plowing fields with a mule and picking cotton for 50 cents a day.
The couple, who raised six children, credit their long lives to hard farm work and eating lots of vegetables. They moved frequently to find farm work, going from Paint Rock Valley near Garth to Atchley Bottom in Madison County and then to Woodville in the 1960s.
They said their eight decades of marriage have been virtually free of fussing.
"We've been too busy to fight," Beulah Sims said.
Alonzo Sims retired from farming in 1966 and did janitorial work at Redstone Arsenal until 1972. They also operated service stations in Paint Rock and Woodville for a few years. Now, they spend their time visiting other residents at the nursing home, listening to gospel music, and playing bingo.
"After all these years," he said, "I still enjoy being with her."
- Anybody wanna do the math??0 -
My degree is in English, but I think she was 14 and he was 17. I wonder why their parents didn't approve. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by cce1302
My degree is in English, but I think she was 14 and he was 17. I wonder why their parents didn't approve.
I thought that was more common back in the early 20th century.0 -
Marrying at an early age was typical of American families regardles of locale, and only the most "politically correct type" would have disapproved in those days. 0 -
Marrying at 14 or 15 was VERY common back then. Check how old your great- and great-great-grandparents were when they were married. You'll be surprised.
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People wanted to get married a lot of the time back then to have kids and have help with the farm. If you didn't marry someone...you worked for someone.
Plus, they didn't go to school when they got older.0 -
I married my neice when she was 12 and I was 10. Course we lived in arkansas at the time. Damn straight 0 -
What was life expectancy a hundred years ago? 0 -
Great Grandma would be 107 this yr, she only made 99 yrs 11mon. 6days.
Granpa passed a year ago he was 93, he had his first kid when he was 18, uncle chuck is going on 760 -
my grandparents got married when he was 21 and she was 16. they were married for 61 years and had 4 children and 22 grandchildren. every holiday we always got togerther as a family and family meant everything.
today, people are more "enlightened" and "smarter" and clinical pychologists say that marriage at that age is "damaging". today the divorce rate is 51% and 36% of american children are born out of wedlock and never know their father.
britney spears is typical of mothers and marriage these days.0
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