 He was an only child, and he went as far as he could go in school in Piper, which was the ninth grade. My daddy was smart. And I'm not, there's no brag, it's fact. This is a story I've always heard. The principal told my grandmother in Neesworth, that boy needs to go further. And my grandmother had relatives in Fairfield. So when he finished the ninth grade, he came to Fairfield, and he went to Fairfield Industrial High School.