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Mimi24
July 28, 2009

If I Could Turn Back Time...

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Thanks to Anderjackie for the wonderful layout that I lifted. Her wonderful original is titled, "Made in China." I tried to do it justice. The journaling is a continuation of the title and reads, "....I would be nicer to Carlton. I would be like my daddy, who talked and laughed with him. Because of his stuttering and mental slowness, I, like my mother, was scared of him. He was sweet and gentle and kind, but as a child, I couldn't see that. I wish I had." On the back of the layout, the story continues, "Carlton was my daddy's first cousin; their mothers were sisters. Carlton was born in 1912, the youngest of seven children, several of whom did not live to adulthood. I don't know if Carlton was born with his disabilities or if they were a result of some illness or accident. He walked with an awkward, shuffling gait; he stuttered badly; his mental ability was noticeably limited. His father and mother, Matthew and Ida Bell Williams Shuffield divorced in 1949 after 52 years of marriage! Matthew remarried one month later. Can you imagine such a remarkable and scandalous event in our time, much less at that time?! In 1952, when Carlton was 40 years old, his mother died at the age of 75. I assume he then lived with one of his siblings, but they all died before he did, so I'm not sure where he ended up. I do know he lived for many years in a pleasant looking country house on Farm Road 485, just north of Maysfield, Texas. My mother and father always pointed it out whenever we traveled between Bryan and Temple. "That's where Carlton lives," they would say each time. If they told me whose house it was, I don't remember.

I used paisley shapes and embossing as an embellishment because of Carlton's shirt. You can't see it in my terrible photo of the layout, but there are wonderful embroidered (I suppose) paisley shapes up and down the front of his shirt.


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