Chuck Yeager’s family history
Chuck Yeager’s Parents & His Childhood Church
There were two Methodists churches in Hamlin. One was the Southern Methodist Church all Democrats, the other congregation was Northern Methodist Church the hardcore Republicans of Lincoln County, where we belonged. On election day, Dad traveled the hollers armed with two-dollar bills and whiskey trying to buy GOP votes. Dad, Albert Hal Yeager, had Dutch…
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General Chuck Yeager. Ask him who his heroes were growing up and he’ll tell you. Grandpa Yeager. He could do anything. He could fix anything. It used to take 5 hours to walk to Grandpa Yeager’s. That’s if they didn’t get a ride up Mud River. And a ride literally up the creek – the…
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