early 1940's

Sometime during the early 40's I remember living in a duplex apparent the other family there last names Was the Parkers and they had two daughters one was Older than me and the other younger. The house was on top of the highway embankment that was a major highway as for as roads of that time. Across the road was a larger open area bound by a railroad tracks, a couple of roads and a large number of paths crisscrossed the mostly swamp. A great place for a bunch of semi-wild boys to fight wars, Indians and other evils.

Greenville at this time was the center of textile manufacturing in the state if not the world.
The family farm was not able to support such a large number of people. To this day I have no idea of how or why they chose to move to South Carolina but they did. It was one way to put behind them the passing of their first child. A brother that I would never know. He was born and died in 1939.
The duplex on highway 29 maybe 80 is just a vague memory. When I started school we
Had moved. We were coming up in the world. My father bought a used 1939 Chevrolet
4 door sedan black in color and giant back seat were I rode like a king. Not long after the we bought a 4 room house . The people that lived there were pigs..it took weeks to clean and make the house livable. The house was a big square box two bedrooms kitchen and a living room/parlor
Yep that right no indoor bathroom.......