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James was born about two miles southwest of Hopkins, Mo.. This is where his father and mother, Thomas and Lucy Ulmer, lived at the time of his birth. Around 1911, his father, Thomas Ulmer, moved the family to Green Ridge, Mo.. Later the family lived at Camp Branch, Mo.. He preferred to be called and known as "True". Most all of True's life, after the family's move to Green Ridge, was centered around the Green Ridge - Camp Branch, Mo. area. He worked, helping his father in the livery stable they had at Green Ridge, and as a farmer part of his life; and he did a great amount of carpentry work. The period of him making a living as a carpenter is the time period I knew of his job as being. I knew him between the years of 1947, till his death in 1959. True, like many of this Ulmer family members are, was a real good carpenter. He build many homes in the Green Ridge area. At one time he also worked at the lumber yard in Green Ridge.
He and his wife, Mary, lived with James, True's Uncle, at Camp
Branch. Mo. for awhile. This was after True and Mary were married. I
think it was around the 1930's or so. James lived a mile or so south
of Camp Branch at that time. Later, True and Mary lived in Camp
Branch, then later on they moved back to Green Ridge, where his
father, Thomas Ulmer, had moved the family to from Hopkins, Mo.
around the year 1911. |
