Mary Trainor’s Memories

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I was born April 12, 1921, in Houston County, Alabama. I was premature and very small. My mother said that I only weighed three pounds and fit in the palm of my fathers' hand. I had epilepsy until I was 14 years old. I, evidently, grew out of it. I was always told that my name was Annie Belle Bessie Lee Hudspeth. Everyone called me “Belle”. When I was 21 years old I found out that the name on my birth certificate was not "Annie Belle Bessie Lee Hudspeth", but just said “Baby girl Hudspeth”. I was glad about that because I had always hated my name. So I applied for the proper paperwork to amend the name on my birth certificate, and named myself Mary Elizabeth Hudspeth. Not many people get to name themselves. However, most of my family continued to call me Belle. Some of my nieces and my one remaining brother still call me Belle to this day. My parents, Samuel Edmond Hudspeth, born December 6, 1887, died September 30, 1962, and Annie Belle Monk, born December 2, 1894, died September 5, 1974, had five children. I was their third. I had an older sister that died at a...

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