Mary Florence Stafford married Robert Paul Bonner in 1912. They live the rest of their lives on his family cotton farm in Fort Necessity, Louisiana, struggling financially year-to-year with the vagaries of agricultural seasons, economic recessions, and the Great Depression. They have four children [Amy Lena (“Sissy”), Robert Stafford (“Buddy”), Allen Wesley (“Wes”), and Mary Florence (“Baby”), my mother] and twelve grandchildren. He dies in 1952 at age 72 from a stroke while out in his cotton field.  She dies in 1978 at age 91.