Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 36
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"Once I had put me a little pan of the syrup to cook on the
big heater in the front room and we were playing around like child-
ren will and I knocked that pan of boiling syrup off the heater
and into my shoes. I don't know how long it was before my feet
were well enough for me to walk but I stayed in bed for three
weeks "
One other tragedy that Gladys recalled was the unsolved mur-
der and assault of a neighbor and his wife as they were sleeping.
"They never found who did it. But they thought it was for the
money this man had. A screen had been ripped off and the man was
killed and his wife was bad hurt. She didn't die but she was never
right again. My mama took me with her to see and I will never
forget that."
Apparently the only means of young people getting together
with any amount of freedom was at the dances, which though care-
fully chaperoned, permitted the young ones a little personal con-
tact and private talk.
It was at such a dance that Gladys met her first husband,
Porly Broussard. He would come courting her and was allowed to
sit close, but not to touch, and always in the company of others.
Porly would say to my brother: 'bring Gladys somewhere so I can
kiss her' but my brother would say no.
When he couldn't stand it any more he told my mama and papa,
'I want to marry Gladys' and they said, 'all right, you can.'
We had a big wedding in the church and a big supper after. Porly
was a good husband. I loved him and it hurt so bad when he died."36.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978, periodical, January 1978; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255383/m1/44/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Orange County Historical Society.