My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..
My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..

Early Cotton Gin drawing

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..

Forney Hay Company warehouse, about 1902

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..

Cotton yard, temporary storage of bales, 1930s

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..

Hoeing crew, weeding either a cotton field or a hay meadow

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..

Cotton pickers on the A. J. Farmer farm, about 1911

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..
My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..
My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..

A few years before the days Billy organized our ‘picking’ team

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..

Forney Gin & Cotton Co., early 1900s

My “cotton-picking business” around 1959-1960…..

Forney area gin (Blue Goose Gin?), about 1911

Thu, 01/07/2021 - 5:00am

**Billy Owen Costello, son of William O. “Bill” (farmer, mail carrier, car salesman) and Maxine Costello (my 3rd grade school teacher), one afternoon had a “bright idea” of how all of us “kids” in the neighborhood could get rich—by PICKING COTTON! He told us to meet beside the Costello house ...

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