I tell you. I had two things. I looked on ancestry.com and it gives you a lot of people from there. And you get to correspond with them, and they've got information. Some. There's a lot of Tramels out there. Some are kins. I think if you went back far enough they're prolly all kin.

The furthest I went back was when our ancestors landed in South Carolina. And then they migrated West to Tennessee, basically. Course they went a little lateral ways. From Tennessee they stayed there awhile then they went back to Alabama. And they stayed in Alabama a long time. Prolly fifty, sixty years. And I don't think any of them is there that's named Tramel now. But your Grandmother, Billie and I, we went to see yall a couple of times. And we'd go up to the area just to the East of Birmingham, where they were at. It's all there in the books. They lived there quite a while. And then they migrated West again and ended up in Oklahoma, and also -- well before Oklahoma they got into Texas and Arkansas. But primarily Texas. And ... course they were marrying as they went along or they got older. The kids [unknown]. But then they went to Oklahoma territory, before it was a state. And they lived there, and that's where my mother and father, our mother and father were born there in Oklahoma in [Native] territory. Then it become a state in 1907. And that's where our dad and mother were, and we were born in Oklahoma.

And then, of course I joined the Air Force [coughing] when our parents were killed. Well, died. Our mother, our mother died in forty-four [May 5, 1945] of cancer. And our father got killed in forty-five [Jul 28, 1946] by a motor scooter [chuckling] of all things. Got hit, and caused him to fall on the cement, on the road. He had a concussion and never did wake up. So they're both buried in Oklahoma, one in Chickasha and one in Guthrie. It's all in my book there.

So when I was about forteen I started heading towards Texas. I worked in Duncan, Oklahoma. Went to school there. I've got my year books and all that there. My sister Wanda, our sister, her and her husband, they got married just a few months after my dad got killed. I graduated from high school and they got married. And they moved to Dallas. And I eventually ended up in Dallas. That's where I finished school and went in the Air Force. 

Acutally, I guess instead of being an Okie now I'm a Texan cause I married one.