Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 37
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Gladys and Porly were married seven years when he died at
the age of 25 from some sort of hemorrhage brought on from
drinking ice water after becoming overheated while working at
a sawmill.
The young widow was left with three small children to raise,
no easy task. She soon put away her grief and accepted an offer
of marriage from Falcean Boudreaux. Though this marriage lasted
for many years, in time Gladys was again widowed.
They had left the farms of Louisiana behind and moved to
Orange where Falcean was employed in the shipyards before his
death. They acquired some property and Gladys ran a rooming
house on Market Street.
She had also begun to practice midwifery - a trade learned
from her mother who had been recognized as an herb doctor and
midwife. It has only been in the last few years that Gladys has
not been called upon to deliver a baby. Two years ago she de-
livered a negro baby.
This trade, obviously a labor of love, was often a thankless
task. Her third husband, and her enduring love, was Perry Daniel
Odom, whose death some nine years ago left Gladys in a state of
grief that lasted almost a year.
"He didn't like for me to be gone from home at night but
he never tried to stop me from going. Sometimes they would come
in the middle of the night, white men or black ones and I never
refused to go. I must have been very brave!" Gladys laughed.
But brave or foolish, Gladys was never mistreated by any37.
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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/m1/45/?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.