Ralph Sloan
Son of Dock Sloan and Pittie Blankenship
Sumitted by Leatha Sloan,Louella McLendon,Janice Williams,Patty white
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Ralph Sloan
Taken abt.1993
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Ralph Sloan,Leatha
Fleshman
Ralph's parents
Dock Sloan,Pittie Blankenship |
Ralph Sloan married Leatha Fleshman on January
22,1946
Ralph served
in The Navy during WWII ,Ralph
was home on
leave,and they decided to elope,they
found that
their love could not wait.
It lasted a
life time.....
And awaits
the moment that once again they
will stand
before their God together again........
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Ralph Sloan meant his bride Leatha while
in the 7the grade at school ,he sit behind
her desk and would pick on her in the teasing
manner that he had all his life ,they both
came from coal mining family's and lived
in the same small coal mining town of Bellburn
West Virginia.
WWII Came in
Ralph along with two of his
brothers joined
the armed forces ,Ralph served
in the Navy
where his two brothers served
in the Army.
When Ralph
came home on leave before shipping
out the two
decided that they did not..,could
not..wait .
So on January
22,1946 Ralph
married the woman
he loved Leatha
Fleshman.
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When the war ended the young married couple
set up housekeeping in McRoss, WVA. ,Ralph
went to work in the Rainelle Lumber Co.where
they made shoe heels,
Leatha Louella
their first daughter was born
in McRoss.
The family
moved following Leatha's parents
to York Springs
Pa. sometime before 1948
where they
had two more daughters Janice
Susan and Patricia
Jean.
This completed
the family.
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The Daughters of ralph Sloan and Leatha Fleshman
Baby Patty Sloan---Janice Sloan---Louella
Sloan |
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Of all the Sloan brothers Ralph was the most
like his father Dock.
He to was a
tall gentle man ,soft spoken,caring
man that loved
his God and his family.One
of my last
memories of Ralph was when he
and Leatha
were spending a month at the campgrounds
where most
of the Fleshmans spend their summers.
Upon my arrival
to visit I saw Ralph sitting
on a tree stump
holding a fishing rod in
his hand as
if he were fishing,as I walked
over to him
I noticed a peanut tied to the
bottom of the
line.I asked him what he was
doing he told
me to sit down beside him and
to be real
quite and I would see.
It wasn't to
long before a tiny chipmunk
came up to
pull the peanut from the line,Ralph
laughted as
he tied another peanut to the
line ,he told
me that he had spend an hour
playing with
this little guy,and this Gods
creature would
not go hungry this winter.As
many bags of
peanuts that were fed to this
little guy
I imagined that the whole forest
of chipmunks
did not go hungry since it was
more then any
one tiny animal could have
consumed.
But that was
the kind of man that Ralph was
he could find
so much pleasure and joyment
out of the
most common little
things in life
,things that most people would
overlook and
pass by..
I can almost
picture him now ...sitting beneath
a tree beside
a stream laughing softly and
playing with
the small creature's of God's
Kingdom
WAITING.......
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