Oral History Interview with Ervin Vernon, November 3, 2012 Page: 3

                                
EV: Yeah, yeah. He could make biscuits in the top of a flour
sack.
RG: Is that right?
EV: Yeah. And cook cornbread in a cast iron Dutch oven, you
know, (overlapping dialogue; inaudible)
RG: Did you pick up any of that ability?
EV: No.   (laughs) No.
RG: How about your mom? Was she a homemaker, or did she work
somewhere?
EV: My mom was a homemaker. The sad part -- my mother and
father divorced when I was about three-and-a-half to four
years old, so my father raised I and my two brothers.
RG: Okay. And how about your brothers? Do you have any
sisters, or just brothers?
EV: Just two brothers, twins. They were twins.
RG: And what were their names?
EV: Ovie and Novie Vernon.
RG: So Ovie --
EV: Ovie is O-V-I-E.

RG: Okay. And Novie?
EV: And Novie is N-O-V-I-E. It was Ovie Harold and Novie
Gerald. And Ovie was in the Navy. He was on an old four-
stack destroyer called the [Sycard?], and -- which was a
converted -- it was converted into a minesweeper. And Ovie

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