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Great Grandpa MuniReddy died of cholera on outskirts of village, on the way back from pilgrimage to Tirupati

while my Great Grandma contracted cholera but survived. Great Grandma Bayamma who was born in Molluru was pregnant with my Grandpa GhangiReddy who was born in Gorlamudivedu

Grandma Mangamma was born in Cherlopalli

Grandpa's older sister Nangamma

From 5th grade to 11 grade Pops walked 3 miles to school, along the way the passed thru other villages and kids would join them till they reach the school in Raychoty.

Pops said when he was in high school he went porcupine hunting, as well as for rabbits. He said village folks would eat porcupines, rabbits and pigs. Pop ate a lot of pork cuz he liked it but stopped cuz he vomited from eating to much. After that incident he stopped eating meat till he went to college and started eating meat again. In high school Pops only owned two shirts.

Pops also told me there use to be a lot of wild life in the fields surrounding the village like foxes & bears. The bears ate the crops, particularly the peanuts. When he was a child the fields were always green full of crops, they grew three crops at a time then, cause they had so much rain. Now the village is drought ridden and has been for most of my life.

Grandpa gave Pops a bicycle when he got into jr. college in Cuddapah near the train station. It was Hercules brand british manufactured, my dad rode and traveled w/ it till he came to America.

He strapped it to the bus to Tirupati.

What I learned on this talk:

- my girl cousin was "given" to a village

one of the villages is real "rowdy" lots of killings murders missing peoples cuz of family feuds then chuckles / i think, rowdy probably misleading adjective maybe dangerous and violent, scary even ?

V: what time did you wake up, to go to school.

P: oh i don't know we didn't have clocks or watches and all those things.

V: How'd you tell time ?

P: We used the sun to know when to go and come.

V: That explains why you wake up 5:30 am daily.

Pops smuggled bottles of liquor from ? Madras ? train to Tirupati. Have him retell this story.

Also in college there main form of entertainment was going to the cinema once a ?week?

1967-1969 - pops was a proff of surgical procedure & nutrition @ veternary college triputi

Dad Coming to America Story

tirupati train station in the evening - dad w/ friends go for a walk and hang out at station

- parot picked a card from a deck of cards, on the card it was written in telegu you will go to america

- a few months later dad arrived in america !

1969 Sep 20th - Dads comes to America. Via Air India from madras to beirut to england? to nyc then transfers in NYC to twa to st. louis, then hopes on a bus from st. louis to carbondale

Carbondale days -

Jewish friend was a pot dealer - wealthy father didn't give him money.

Black friend was a ?

Hang out in someone's trailer who had a girlfriend.

Uncles names who were his roommates. Every week the roommates would rotate buying groceries 2 brown bags full w/ allowance that they each chipped in.

And they would take turns cooking food.

1969 - Masters in Diary Animal Nutrition @ Carbondale

1970 - Dec Kansas City Kansas State - PHD in feed tech.

1973 - Feb

met 3 women before mom. mom was the 3rd women

1975 -

1976 - June to Chicago

1976-1977 mom residency at grant hospital internal medicine w/ zarin daddaboy

Armitage and Pulaski lived for a year.

then moved to Maywood -

1977-fellowship & while working got gi

1977 -

mom came in june 1973

Pops named after great grandfather on his paternal side