The Demise of Cotton Picking for the Coon-Dog Jones Eleven

About the Book

I was born on a farm in Southwestern Oklahoma.  We were a family of eleven children.  There were lots of funny things that happened along the way.  I started to write some of them down while I was attending class at a Metaphysical Church.  We celebrated all the Solstice's with programs. I was asked to do stand up and help with the music.  I took some of the things I had written down and enhanced them a bit.  It was a big hit!  About the time my mother died in 1980, I started thinking about putting all this in a book.  We had some neat experiences while she was waiting for God.  Then I thought the story of my parents was unusual for their time in history.  Next, I thought about my 10 siblings and the different paths each took, so I wrote that down.  When I retired in 2003, I began to put it all together.  I wanted the family history for my two children and three Grandsons.  I tried to concentrate on humorous happenings.  Of course, in the game of life, everything cannot be funny, so I had to include those parts also.  All the events are true, so this is my story!

About the Author

Vera was number eleven in a family of eleven children.  The family lived on a cotton farm eleven and one half miles south of  Carnegie, Oklahoma.  She attended a one room gradeschool and walked a mile to get there.  In fifth grade, she was transferred to a school that had two grades in one room and a school bus that picked her up,  She graduated from Alden High School, which had twenty-five students in all four grades.  After high school, she attended Oklahoma College for Women.  She started out in journalism, but finished in elementary edcation.  She began her career teaching school in California.  She married at the age of twenty-four, and gave birth to two children.  She gave up teaching after fifteen years and went into the business world.  She began writing poetry and stories when she retired.  This is her first published work.