Lewis Winfield Sowards
The following is a transcript of thoughts from Cline Sowards on his grandfather from an audio tape in June of 2001 Memories of L. W. Sowards By Cline Sowards A few of the things that I remember about Grandpa Sowards When I was real young, apparently he took me everywhere. Whenever he and Grandma went somewhere, I don’t know whether it was him or Grandma, but I always managed to go along. Jean was pretty jealous of this, she always felt that he really catered to the boys and just disregarded the fact that there were girls. One of the things that I remember about him was that we were all gathered around one day, I don’t remember what day it was, but I remember that the financial situation in the United States was really going to pot, and Grandpa was extended out awfully far. He had several thousand head of cattle and sheep that he had bought on margin and he had to pay for them. He had the phone right there by the front door and he was sitting there and in that afternoo