Big Daddy.......Little Daddy

My dad Arthur Elsworth Hugonin married my mother Margie Mitchell on December 20, 1941.  On August 25, 1942 my dad enlisted in the Army.  His enlistment period was for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six (6) months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to the law.  I was born on December 31, 1942.  My mother and I lived with her parents, John Hollis Mitchell and Zeda Chamness Mitchell, in Tomball Texas. 

The only daddy that I new was my grand daddy Mitchell.  So when I began to talk I called him "Big Daddy".  My daddy returned to the states from the War on October 4, 1945.  When I meet him for the first time I called him "Little Daddy".   

Other 1940 Census Surprises

When you do not know the street address where your relatives were living in 1940 you will have to wait until the 1940 census is fully indexed to locate them.  However sometimes you get lucky.  My cousin Joanne decided to check a small community close to where our family was living in 1930.  On page 19 of 33 ED # 101-49 Harris County Texas of the 1940 census she found my uncle Leroy A Hugonin 34, single, a chicken farmer, and my father Arthur Elsworth Hugonin (Leroy A Hugonin's youngest brother) 18, a farmers helper, living in the same household.   And on page 22 of 33 ED # 101-49 was my grandfather Lewis Alexander Hugonin (62) head of household,  grandmother Bessie Bell Myers Hugonin (60), and Bessie Mae Hugonin (16) their daughter.