User:SidPrice

My user name is taken from my Great Great Grandfather Sidney Moore Price. Born in Alabama in 1820 he came to Texas with his famly in 1840. When he came to Texas the state was an independent republic having won its independence from Mexico in 1836. My mothers family has a long line of very distinguished ancestors with proven family connections to surety barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Chadta as well as to King John Lackland and through that line to William the Conqueror. My Fathers family came to Texas from Louisiana in 1867. They settled in Brazos County where the seven children young enough to accompany their father Samuel Bullock ( their mother Permelia had died.)

My grandfather, John Calhoun Breckenridge Bullock, his brothers Joseph and Natrhan migrated further west. Joseph was the first to move west settling in Lampassas County. Nathan, a circuit riding Baptist preacher settled in Greene County and John took land in Scurry County.

My father, Arthur Vaughn Bullock was born in 1901 in Scurry County. His family (He was the youngest of 9 children), lived in a half dugout, essentially a hole in the ground with a roof over it.

I was born in Ralls, Texas, Crosby County on June 2, 1932. I have been blessed to live these 81 years through the 20th century ands well into the 21st. When I was born man had just learned to fly. The autom,obnile was still init infancy and most people had never been very fdar from hoime. I lived through the "Greeart Depressikon," the dust bowl and the 2nd World War. In 1953 I was graduated from what was then East Texas State Teachers College in Commerce, Texas My mother attended the school when it was east texas Normal College and my oldest doughtier attended the school when it became East Texas State University.

I was commissioned a 2lt in the United States Air Force Reserve through the ROTC program Friday August 28th 1953. I received my diploma on Saturday the 29th and my wife, now my wife of 60 yearfs Velm a Lucille Bullock Phjd, were marfried on August 30. 1953.o