Carl was 20 years old and had graduated from Cove High Agriculture School. Thelma graduated from Woodbury High and was married to Ira Amick. They went to housekeeping close by us. My brothers, John and Lester Baker, had gone to California. They both came home and kept saying what a wonderful place it was. John stayed home and got married, but Lester went back to Los Angeles, California. It wasn’t long till Carl wanted to go. He found out of another boy from the Cove going, so Carl’s dad sold chickens and gave him the money to go. So they went together. They got to Los Angeles where Carl got with Lester and Carl got work in the bakery where Lester worked. They roomed together. In less than a year Carl came home, was home awhile, then went again. This time he had money to go. He went on a bus and worked at the same place. While Carl was home Ira and Thelma went. Ira worked at the bakery too, so when Carl went he stayed with Ira and Thelma. A cousin of theirs was close by – Marie Ringler. She was a registered nurse. She had a friend and neighbor girl from Vicksburg, Pa., Aldine Aungst, who was married to Rev. Paul Baughman, who was the pastor of the Grace Brethren church in Los Angeles, where they all attended. Carl stayed almost a year that time, then came home and got married to Nellie Miller. In the meantime we kept farming, the children getting bigger, going to school. Harry graduated and had girlfriends, Mary had boyfriends. Her and Kathryn Morgan were good friends, run around together and we all kept talking about going to California.

Almost two years went by, then Carl and Nellie decided to go back to California. By then they had a baby girl named Mary. She was eight months old when they with Harry, our next son, went with them in an old car. They left Christmas Day 1939 – no heat in the car. They said later they had to take clothes to put around the doors to keep warm. They got there safe and went to Lester’s, who had got Married and had a house, where they took them in. They soon found a place to live. Carl got his old job back, but Harry walked the streets till his shoes wore out. He had to send back several times for some money for Carl wasn’t making much. Then finally Harry got work in a cafeteria. Well Mary graduated in the Spring of 1941. The boys still wrote for us to come to California. Well we started to plan to have a farm sale and give it a try, George and me both not knowing anything about city life or what we would get into. We still had six children home to support.