David James Lassiter |
Retha Kinsley Haughton |
Born in Conway,
SC, on June 27, 1889 Died in Oakland, CA, November 14, 1972 |
Born in Roper,
NC, on March 15, 1898 Died in Oakland, CA, June 3, 1974 |
| They were married May 5, 1915, in Creswell, NC. He was almost 26 years old; she was seventeen. | |
Grandfather Lassiter worked
for years for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. He maintained
and operated a steam skidder,
used to transport logs down mountains. Dad said that his father held a
patent on some device having to do with the steam skidder.
Sometimes the distance between the family
residence and the logging site was great enough that Grandfather came
home only on weekends.
Grandfather moved to Oakland, California, and retired from Greyhound Bus Company after years of servicing bus transmissions. See Marjorie's notes.
The Truth came to them after a workmate let Grandfather have one of Judge Rutherford's books. This was about 1933, when they were still in West Virginia.
I regret very much that I had
no
opportunity to get to know Dad's parents. We lived on opposite coasts,
so I met them on only two occasions.
The 1920 Census
lists David's father as
being from England. Actually, James Gaston Lassiter was born in
Whiteville, NC, April 4, 1864. . The same census record
lists Francis as "Daughter"!
