A couple of posts about the Marries Chappell Cemetery brought back some memories to me. It is not Genealogy, but about Three Red River County citizens that have gone on to their finial reward. Delete if you wish. Several years ago, when you left Hgy. 271 and went south towards the Marries Chappell Cemetery, the First house was that of Mr. & Mrs. Guy Stephens. Now Mrs. Stephens was a very nice and polite lady. Mr. Stephens was a nice person too, but he really liked a good prank. He was out working in his garden one day, and Mr. Pat Beadle of Clarksville came along, looking for votes in his effort to win the Red River County Attorney position. He saw Mr. Stephens and stopped to talk a bit. Mr. Stephens said he would vote for him, and if he wanted to walk down to his house, hw would have his wife give them a cold drink of water, and he could probably get her vote too. As they walked to his house, Mr. Stephens told Pat that his wife could hardly hear, but if you looked in the ! face and talked loud, she could hear a little, and read his lips enough to have a conversation. Reaching his house, he invited Mr. Beadle to sit on the front porch in a rocking chair, and he would get Mrs. Stephens and the ice water. While in the house, he told his wife that Pat Beadle wanted to talk to her, but he warned her that Mr. Beadle could not hear very well, but to look him in the face, and talk loud. Imagine, when she came out and brought the water, she and Mr. Beadle stood there shouting at each other, both thinking the other was hard of hearing. They were so loud, some neighbors thought something was wrong. Anyway, they are all passed on now, but Mr. Stephens told me that as far as he knew, they never knew the difference, and he was not about to tell them. Thank you for letting me share a lighter moment about those that lived in the county, but have since passed on Sam Paris