Wiley Durden's Christmas Record
Wiley Durden's accent -- on his Christmas record -- is a very upscale Southern
accent, which is pretty amazing considering he was made to quit formal
education after 3rd grade and worked in textile mills and as a common
laborer until he went in the Navy. According to relatives here that
knew him personally, he learned everything in the Navy. The story we
were told that his first wife (he was a widower) was a schoolteacher
who supposedly taught him everything was a myth. His first wife was
Ida Mae Long, who was 16 when he married her (he was 18). Nobody knows
anything about her, and the census records are silent. I suspect she
died in childbirth. This place was a third world country before WWII.
This must be the last record he made, or close to the end because he
got pneumonia at the end of his life, and this sounds like it. He had
a lot of things wrong in the very end, but the pneumonia was the final
straw from what I was told down here.
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