I wanted to share this family photo of my grandfather Hugh Oxford with the community. Location: Taylorsville, North Carolina. Papaw taught me the value of hard work and family values. While working on his farm between the ages of 12-16, I earned my first year of college tuition. He was a farmer and owner of a prize-winning dairy herd. Active in politics, as a Democrat, he was Chairman of the Alexander County Board of Commissioners. He voted the straight party line until 1960. As a Deacon in his Baptist Church, he abandoned his party and voted for Richard M. Nixon for President on the premise that with Kennedy, the Pope might run the White House.
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