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THE LIFE OF ME
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Clarence Edgar Johnson
Copyright 1978
Clarence Edgar Johnson 2538 Chestnut San Angelo, Texas 76901

DEDICATION
To
Ima, my wife
Virgil Dennis, our first son
David Larry, our youngest son
and especially to our late daughter, Anita Joyce.

CONTENTS
Preface

Chapter 1.
Grandparents, Parents, And Our First Farm 2. Early Childhood At The

Flint Farm 3. At The Exum Farm After I Was Five 4. Social Living,
Loving, Listening, And Learning 5. Books, Folklore, Medicine, And
Dreams 6. Prosperity, Animals, Growing Up 7. Dry Year On The Texas
Plains, 1917 8. Moved To Jones County. Picked Cotton In Oklahoma 9.
Back To Our Lamesa Farm In 1919. School At Ballard 10. Sold Farm,
Moved To Hamlin 11. Road Work At Gorman, Texas 12. My
Inventions And High School Days 13. My Travels To The Gulf,
McCamey, And Denver 14. Haul Maize, Repair Trucks, Turn Trucks
Over 15. Got Married, Drove Truck, Farmed, Cattle Drive 16. At
Royston Until World War II 17. World War II Was On. We Went to
California 18.