Wednesday, June 27, 2012

William Woodcock Sr. #4

06-26-2012 03;52;34PM by bucklesw1
06-26-2012 03;52;34PM, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.
My dad wrote on the back:
"Charles Woodcock
Born in England, died at Hot Springs, Ark. 1919.
Father of Bill Woodcock Sr."

Posted by Buckles at 6/27/2012 06:26:00 AM

4 comments:

Chic Silber said...

What was his profession

27 June, 2012 09:42
Buckles said...

My father was very devoted to his adopted mother, I have a number of letters he wrote, one describes me a few days after I was born, "He looks a lot like me, same ears, yells and scowls a lot, I guess we'll keep him!" but overall they were a subject that never came up.
They must have had considerable means to afford a seasonal home miles away.
My mother pointed out several apartment houses they had once owned and my father told a funny story about driving a delivery truck at his father's grocery store but that's about.
Fetching him back from the first circus he ran away to join and putting him in a Military Academy in Bell Buckle, Tennessee didn't come cheap either.
After all was said and done my grandmother willed us a small home on 200 Bloom St. where we lived for many years while we were off the road.

27 June, 2012 12:34
Chic Silber said...

Just think after all these years

Shannon could have been working as

a clerk in Dalilah's grocery store

At least they'd never go hungry

27 June, 2012 12:54
Buckles said...

The first day of my Junior year in High School, Mrs. Beasley asked me to stay after class.
She then told me that her maiden name was Woodcock and after a brief conversation said, "Oh, so you are the ones that travel with circuses!"
She than told me that when she was about three years old and living in one of the afore mentioned apartment houses, she managed to lock herself into a bath room on the third floor.
She said my father climbed up a drain pipe, crawled thru the window and unlocked the door from the inside. She remembered it vividly.
With the exception of a sign in front of the Quapaw Bath House that included "Louis Woodcock Mgr." this was the sum total of the dealings with my Arkansas connection.

27 June, 2012 13:23

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