Little Joe Deaton

Frances Helms shares this with us:

"Sherrilyn, Patrick, Aaron and I visited the Unity Cemetery and Little Joe was born Nov. 25, 1943 - died Sept 18, 1997."

Thanks Frances, I knew Little Joe was two or three years younger than I am; he was three, and I knew he was born during the war. I was born in 1940, and since Mr. Joe and my Dad were good friends, Mr. Joe sent me gifts from Italy even after his son was born, who he had not seen yet; until Mrs. Ruth had to remind him that he had a son of his own. I still have a bracelet with my name engraved on it that he sent.