I wanted to do the
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge, but I didn't find out until the week one entries were already posted, so I offer 51 ancestors instead...
Since I am already a week behind, I will have to chose an easy one for this week, right? Is it cheating to use someone from my husband's family? I offer, Robert Henry Bledsoe, to you.
By the time I met "Mr. B" as he was known, he was already 90 years old and was having a lot of trouble remembering things. What I know of his life comes from his descendants. He was born in 1901 in Louisiana and worked as a depot agent for the Rock Island Railroad. He married Alma Lois Avinger around 1921 and they had three daughters together. I also know that at some point in the 1950s, he moved to Shreveport Louisiana and started a Nash dealership:

That's Mr. B on the left. The gentleman on the right was a local radio personality at the time. All that's left of the dealership is a clock that hung in it, a promotional item from Quaker State Motor Oil, which still runs great and hangs in our kitchen. Mr. B retired to Breckenridge, Texas with Alma and stayed there until he died in 1995. They are both buried in Breckenridge Cemetery.
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