March 12, 2010 At Steele Indian School Park

Had some yogurt and ready to rest and write.

My Mother's father's name was William Buffalo McDiffett.  He was really a Roberts but his mother couldn't marry his father because he already had a wife!

William McDiffett's wife was Anna Mary Yost (Youst) and my sister was named after her.  My sister didn't like Anna so she always called herself Anne.

My Father's father, William Parker, was born in England and I don't know the whole story about him.  He had a family in England, and then married my grandmother Green here in the U.S. and had 9-10 more children, in addition to the two he had in England.

My grandparents were all dead except William McDiffett when I was born.  He died a month later.

That's about all I know about where they came from.

My brother, Leonard, lives in Winnemucca, NV.  His son, Leonard Lee Roy Parker, Jr., lives next door and his daughter, Rhonda Maria and her husband, Tom Creary, live in Las Vegas, NV.

Leonard was 8-9 when I was born

Ruth Edna Parker Schofield, my oldest sister, was 16 when I was born.  She was married up to 5-6 times finally settling in Utah with a Jack Mormon.  She had five children.  Anna Irene that died at the age of 22 form kidney disease.  Lloyd Dean who lives in Utah with his family, a wife from Germany and at least one son.  Dennis Dean lives in Needles, CA.  His wife is Mary and he has a couple of sons.  Jacqueline (don't know last name) his sister lives in Needles area also with her daughter.  Billy Lauck, the youngest is the one I've lost track of.  They all have children that I don't know.  My mother kept track of all of them, though.

My mother and her sister, Edna, married brothers, my Dad and his brother Spotsy, nicknamed because he had freckles.

My Dad's oldest brother, Will, came out west to live, too, because it was good for his health.  He was gassed in WWI in France.

I can't remember the order but there was Will, Margaret, Francis, Matthew, Johnny, Spotsy, Tom, Isabel, and Chuck, with a girl who died in infancy, Matty I believe

My Mother's family was Albert (Ab), Dorsey (Dot), Margaret, Opal, Virginia, Melvin (died at age 16 when a wall fell on him), Edna and Bobby.

Seems like all my relatives were ugly as sin.  They all had false teeth and never wore all of them.  Couldn't understand them most of the time.

Only Aunt Opal played an important part in my growing up.  She visited us in Arizona and taught me to ride my bike.  She may have also visited us in Parker Dam.  I also loved her place, the Old Homestead of the McDiffett Clan, in WV near Littleton.  It was on a crick named Long Drean (I always thought it mean Long Drain, drained a lot of territory, but who knows?).  Aunt Opal had a huge goiter but so did my mother and my uncle Dot and a couple more.  It was because there was no idodine in their diet.  That is one of the reason almost all salt says "Iodized" now, to prevent goiters.

Almost the only time we saw family was when we went back to visit them in WV.