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ALVIN RYE MAY (MAY 106) |
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Alvin Rye May At the age of 15 (1930) Alvin began driving to Florida from Lawrence County Tennessee to buy produce to sell in Nashville Tennessee. After a couple of years he began working as a carpenter. He laid hardwood floors, slate roofs and painted all types of buildings. He worked for insurance companies and businesses in the Lawrenceburg, and Nashville TN area. One insurance company sent Alvin to Sidney Ohio to lay floors and install slate roofs. He also started painting for several businesses in the Sidney. Alvin moved to Ohio in 1938 and continued carpentering. He was considered by many businesses in the Sidney area as a master painter. Before he married Edna Ruth he began working for The Gartland Haswell Foundry Company. Soon after they married he was sent to a foundry in Sandusky Ohio to be a night foreman on a shake-out line. He worked in the foundry through the winter of 1941 They moved back to Shelby county and he began working as a carpenter and painter again. In the September of 1942 Alvin enlisted in the Navy CBs as master painter. He was sworn in on September 24, 1942 and returned to Sidney to wait for orders to report for duty. In October 1942 Alvin was carrying tools and shingles up a ladder when the second rung broke and he went through the bottom rung and and ruptured a disc in his back. He reported for duty in December and a medical officer saw him limping and had his condition evaluated. The injury was so severe he was given a medical discharge and could not enlist or be drafted by any branch of the military. After his discharge Alvin began dairy farming in Shelby County and moved to a dairy farm in Muskingum county. Alvin started going to the Monday and Wednesday livestock auctions in Zanesville where he met the Gibson Brothers of Gibson Packing Company who bought a truck and start sending Alvin to Wapakoneta Ohio to buy butcher bulls at the Tuesday livestock auction. He soon started buying feeder cattle, pigs and sheep in Zanesville to sell in Wapakoneta on Tuesday, Kenton on Thursday and Columbus Grove on Friday. He stopped milking and sold the farm in Muskingum county and moved back to Shelby county in late 1948 or early 1949 to a farm on St. Rt.47 east of Sidney where he dealt in livestock until October 1982 when he had to stop because of his failing health
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