Jimmie Marshall Goes to War!
- Born: 1911
- Place: Glenwood, Arkansas
- High School: Gilmer, Texas
- 1932 B.A. Baylor University
- 1932-1942 Worked in Family Dry Goods Business in Gilmer, Texas
- 1942-1945 Military Service
- 1945-1982 Partner, Marshalls in Gilmer and Mout Pleasant, Texas
- Died of a heart attach in Nacogdoches, Texas, 1982.
- Place: Glenwood, Arkansas
- Born: January 28, 1913;
- Place: Laneville, Texas northwest of Mt. Enterprise; (Rusk Country
- High School: Laneville (to 1928) , Waco; (1928); graduated from Henderson HS in 1928;
- 1929-30 College of Industrial Arts; (Denton)
- 1930-33 B. A. Baylor University;
- 1934 Married Christmas time to James Marshall in Waco;
- 1933-35 Taught elementary school in Ragan, Texas;
- 1935 Moved to Gilmer where she substituted for a while.
- Place: Laneville, Texas northwest of Mt. Enterprise; (Rusk Country
- Answer: My parents and grandparents both lived in Laneville;
but, I only went to the 10th grade in Laneville. My father died, and we
moved to Waco to live with her grandmother; I had never been away from home
when I went to CIA [TWU, now]; two brothers attended Baylor of a while;
prelaw and engineering were not offered at Baylor at the time, so they transferred
to Texas A&M and Texas; great grandmother Galloway went to Baylor at
Independence (Nanny Wallace Galloway)
- Baylor was about 1000 students in the early 1930's; knew everyone, if not by name, by sight; classes small and personal contact with teachers; lived at home; took classes in Old Main and Science Building; took geology; took music and voice in Waco Hall; lived on south 5th street; not her grandmother's home, her aunt decided to operate a boarding house (Greer House) for men; many boarding houses on 5th street; her daughter (Ginger's cousin) also went to Baylor; major was elementary education and minor in English.
Question: When did you first meet Jimmie Marshall?
- Answer: Roommate was supposed to take Ginger to an open house at Brooks Hall; asked Jimmie to take her instead. "They had to clean up real good" in order to have the open house. Girls lived in Burleson and Memorial, possibly Alexander.
Essential Information on Jimmie Marshall:
Essential Information on Ginger Marshall, Interviewee:
Question: Will you tell us something about your background, Ginger?
- Answer: No I was lucky; just assummed I was supposed to go.
Question: When did you first realize their was trouble brewing in Europe?
- Answer: Not really aware of impending crisis; did listen to the radio and knew of the troubles, but not really aware that the US might get involved; when war broke out (1941) and Jimmie was drafted, his father Walter Marshall was in the hospital in New Orleans having throat surgery for cancer; Jimmie got one deferment in order to keep the store running until his father could get out of the hospital; not aware that they were drafting people before Pearl Harbor; never dreamed that Jimmie would be drafted or that he would have to go overseas; he was 32; guess they took him because they needed men and because he and Ginger had no children; he was next to the oldest man in his company.
Question: Can you remember when Jimmy got his notice?
- Answer: Yes, it was his nephew Buzzy's birthday, in the spring of 1942; Sister had taken him [Buzzy] and some of his friends to Twin Lakes for a picnic; when she returned home and heard the news, she was furious and threw a fit. She thought Jimmie was 31 and too old to be drafted. But, we did not have any children. Many men were drafted at the same time, and they all went off on the bus together to Barkley Base in Abilene, Texas where he did his basic training. While there, he applied for offficer's candidate school, but there were no openings. Finally, after many months and the departure of most of his friends, he decided to give up this idea and was transferred first to Florida where he joined the Company C4 Infantry; then he went to Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, and then overseas. I remember Agnes' son Clarence went at the same time as did C. C. Abney. Grandmother Marshall and I went out to Abelene twice while he was in basic training in 1942. It was 111 degrees out there.
Question: Did you have any distinct feeling about Baylor during the Depression?
The Marshall Family in 1942
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