My Mother's Birthday

My mother was born 85 years ago today. She died almost 10 years ago at 75. Her only surviving sibling, my Aunt Sibyl, turned 89 in September. Sibyl lives down in Milledgeville on my brother Randy's property. My mother was born "at home" back in the days when you didn't necessarily go to the hospital for such things. There were two boys and three girls. One of the boys, D.T. (DeWitt Talmadge) was killed in a car wreck when he was 16. This was before I was born so he was the uncle I never knew. I may have seen a photo or two of him. When my mother spoke of him, it was always in a wistful way. He was bright, funny, clever and gone from this world all too soon. What happened was this: A friend of his was housesitting a big house in Milledgeville while the owners were away. He asked D.T. to come and stay with him. At some point during the night they went for a ride in the friend's car. It overturned, throwing D.T. out. The wreck wasn't discovered until the next morning and D.T. was dead. Among the things I found at my mother's house after she died was the newspaper that carried an article about the accident.