Haigler People Remembered - Green Muse Collins Hoover Roundtree

The following was submitted by Alice Gregory:

I remember some things that Rich said about Dick and Molly Green and their son.

Rich Gregory was a pre-teenager, full of mischief. A grinnie, time of life when town kids got together every day and played on the streets and around town. Dick & Molly Green were a black couple who ran a cream station on main street in Haigler. The kids would climb a tree and get on top of the building where the roof hung over the sidewalk. They would use a wire with a hooked end to reach down and pull Molly Green’s wig off as she walked down the street.

Rich told that story one time when we were visiting his mom, Mollie Roach, about the time that Bud, Rich’s youngest brother, was a pre-teen. His mom said, “Now Richard, you would think it awful if Bud would do something like that!!!”

Molly Green had worked for a family in a town somewhere east of Haigler and when she got married to Dick Green, her boss got them the cream station. They lived in the house east of town just north of the highway. There was a son, I think his name was Floyd, but he didn’t look very black. I think the town kids teased them a lot.

There was a bridge over the river north of there. In the 40's, my folks lived in the next place north owned by Mrs. Andres. Later Ash Roundtree bought it.

I also remember George Muse, Lloyd Collins and Wade Hoover and that Wade loved baseball. His kids were Russell, Marcia, Wyoma, Rodney, Dick and Colleen. Lloyd Collins married Hollis Clark when she was 15 years old, the oldest of the Nate Clark family. I remember going to their charivari. They had 3 boys. George Muse married Eleanor Wheaton and they ran her café in Haigler.