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Patti Chandler

2026-04-19T07:47:41Z

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{{Quote|The spirit of Patti will have his soul for dinner tonight! She will be haunting your nightmares, [[Asperchu|Mr. Leary]].|Chris, [[Asperchu is a Horrendous Joke|respecting his deceased pet.]]}}

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|header1 = Information
|label1 = Name
|data1 = Patti Chandler
|label3 = Date of Birth
|data3 = [[1988|17 March 1988]] (as reported by Chris)
|label4 = Date of Death
|data4 = [[June 2006|27 June 2006]] (aged {{Age|1988|3|17|2006|6|27}})
|label5 = Gender
|data5 = Female
|label6 = Breed
|data6 = {{w|Beagle}}-{{w|spitz}} mix
|label7 = Owners
|data7 = [[Bob]] (deceased) [[Barbara]] [[Chris]]
|label8 = Sagas
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'''Patti Chandler''' (17 March [[1988]] - 27 [[June 2006]]) was [[Chris]]'s childhood dog, a {{w|Beagle}}-{{w|spitz}} mix who was put down in [[2006]].<ref name="father call">[[Father Call]]</ref> As can be seen in Patti's eulogy below, Chris reports that her birthdate was 17 March 1988. It should be noted though that in an email Chris sent to [[The Wallflower]] on 28 [[February 2010]], he wrote that he learned what Patti's birthdate was after a veterinarian determined it for him.<ref>[[Wallflower E-mails 2]]</ref> It is doubtful that a veterinarian can determine the precise date in which a dog was born, making the birth date Chris reports as dubious. If it's even roughly accurate though, Patti lived a very long life for a dog.

As Chris tells in Patti's eulogy, he picked her up as a puppy from a litter at the house of his [[Aunt Corrina]]. On September 1993, Chris and Bob moved from Ruckersville to Chesterfield County.<ref>[[Chris's Wikipedia profile#His Early Years - Birth to 1992]]</ref> This led to him being separated from Patti for 3 years, as Barbara did not accompany her husband and son, but rather stayed in the Chandlers old home along with the pets. Only in early 1996 did Barbara move to Chesterfield along with Patti and the rest of the family's pets.<ref>[[Mailbag 32#Chris is no stranger to stupid name changes]]</ref><ref>[[:Image:0078-CWCNote2.jpg]]</ref>

Chris brought Patti back to life in [[Sonichu 6|''Sonichu'' 6]] as [[Patti-Chan]] (a character created by [[Megan Schroeder]] to help Chris [[Chris and coping|cope]] with the loss of his beloved pet), where she somehow gained the ability to walk, talk, and apply for [[Monthly tugboat|welfare]] in [[CWCville]]. Patti is allowed no rest, as her soul remains in Chris's fantasy world, alongside [[Clover and Snoopy|an anthropomorphized version of Snoopy]] when that animal died over a decade and a half later. According to [[Asperchu is a Horrendous Joke|a video from January 2010]], Patti now feasts on human souls. While this may seem to be at odds with the canon of the Sonichu comics, it makes perfect sense if you consider the distinct possibility that CWCville ''is'' Hell.

There is not a single known picture of Patti indoors, suggesting that she was just left in her pen in the backyard all the time. According to Chris, her wood-and-plastic doghouse weighed between "5-10 tons".<ref name="father call"/> While a normal person might say something like that figuratively to represent the emotional weight it would take to move the home of a deceased pet for the last time, Chris seems to [[11042009 51 50|honestly believe that's how much it weighs]].

When confronted about his [[Chris and remorse|insensitivity]], or when someone tries to point out that he has never experienced any substantial hardships, Chris is quick to point out that he experienced the loss of Patti.<ref name="father call"/> Indeed, Patti seems to be the pet that Chris was closest to, being one of the only living things that he truly loved beyond a sense of obligation, and [[Borb]] more or less alienated the rest of Chris's family from him, so it makes sense that he'd point to Patti's passing as a traumatic experience.

==Eulogy for Patti, as written by Chris==
<blockquote>
 Patti Chandler
 March 17, [[1980s#1988|1988]] to June 27, [[2006]]

 Eulogy written by Christian Weston Chandler, June 27, 2006
[[Image:091-PattiMemory.jpg|thumb|Patti, you sweet, unlucky dog.]]
 My family, [[Chris_and_sex#Bestiality|furry]] friends, (anyone else present), we are gathered here today to pay our last respects and wishes to our dearly beloved beagle/spitz, Patti, who has departed from our world here on earth to a [[CWCville|doggy heaven where she will be happier]], because she will run free and play with all the other dogs who are already having fun up there. And she will often look down upon her beloved family, me, Christian Chandler, my mother, [[Barbara Chandler]], and my father [[Bob Chandler|Robert Chandler]], and the [[Chandler Cats|cats]] who have grown fond of Patti.

 I will always remember Patti for all the lovely memories she has shared with me from:
 -When I picked her out of the litter at my [[Aunt Corrina|Aunt Corina's]] house in Redoak, Virginia.
 -The many walks I have shared with her around this neighborhood, as well as the neighborhood in the [[Chris's_homes#Newberry_Towne_Subdivision|Newberry Towne subdivision in Richmond, Virginia]].
 -The time I watched my old best friend, [[Sarah Nicole Hammer|Sarah Hammer]], take Patti by her front paws and danced a bit.
 -The times I've watched her stand on her hind legs and then rewarded her with a biscuit bone.
 -The time I took my camera to her pen and took this lovely picture of her and me, and I made a big deal how she'll be like a movie dog star.
 -The times I've just sat with her in the yard and petted her head. I've always given her a "Bally-Scratch" where I stroke her head with all five fingers like as if I was gently squeezing a rubber ball.
 -The many times I've fed her a can of food and a cup full of dry food, and refilled her bucket with fresh water so she can drink it and wash her face.
 -There was also the one time I saw her resting on top of her doghouse (not on her back like Snoopy).
 -{{w|Border collie|I've often wondered why between both her ears, why one was bent and the other was straight like an arrowhead}}.

 When Patti was brought to the vet on that [[Chris and English|faithful]] day, I was distraught with fright and concern for her health. I stayed with her during her final moments with a hand on her head and a tear in my eye. When my mother was brought the paper that gave the doctor permission to send her on her way, I didn't want her to be the one to sign it. I raised Patti since she was a six-week old pup, and I wanted to take the strain for signing the one-way ticket (it was hard for me, but it was for the best). So I signed that paper, with a crying [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] face saying, "We love you, Patti." After that, I gave her my final pets, hug, hand-to-paw hold, eye-contact, ear-rub, cheek-to-fur rub, and I sadly waved her for the final time, and I said, "Good Bye, Patti, I Love You." As I stood outside, I heard Patti's last barks saying, "I will always love you, Chris. Thank You."

 But we all must move on with our lives with our beloved lucky mutt in our hearts and in our memories. So, Patti, may your old dog house and surrounding flowers forever memorialize your blessed heart, your barks at the stars and strangers, and your loyal love that you have blessed upon me and my family and friends. Bark on, and rest in peace, our beloved lucky Patti.<ref>[[Chris E-mails 2006#September]]</ref></blockquote>

Take note that Chris actually shoehorned [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] in his dog's eulogy.

==Current activity==
Not content with an eternity of biscuit bones and "bally-scratches" in doggy heaven, Patti has apparently taken time out of being dead to [[Dreams#The Patti-chan dream|assure her former master]] of her peaceful afterlife in a dream. Also, Chris has averred that her vengeful spirit will seek out [[Alec Benson Leary]] and his cohorts for allegedly besmirching her memory and proceed to, in no particular order, give them nightmares, consume their souls and kill them. Yet, as always, Chris still thinks of himself as a [[Chris and anger|kindhearted]], [[Chris and religion|Christian]] individual.

Patti's physical remains rest underneath her 10-ton doghouse in the Chandlers' backyard. The notion of exhuming and desecrating her bones has become a popular running joke among trolls, to the point that Chris, in [[Haters Gonna Hate.MOV|a September 2010 YouTube video]], took the time to fiercely deny any rumors that the corpse of his dog was anywhere except where he had buried it.

Ironically, in a video created about a year after that one, Chris pretended (while dressed as a hooker) to [[It's not that cold|dig up Patti]] and repurpose her as a coat. It seems that not only is Patti an unholy weapon of soul-sucking revenge, but a snuggly, warm coat, too.

The doghouse [[14 Branchland Court#Tour of the Chandler Yard|still stands]] as of April 2019.

==Gallery==
<center>
<gallery>
Image:0052-Patti.JPG|Patti full of [[stress]]
Image:0053-Patti1.jpg|Although Patti lived in a cage outside, it was at least 1,000 times better than the disaster zone called the Chandler house.
Image:0054-Patti2.jpg|Patti will devour your soul!
Image:0055-Patti3.jpg
Image:0717-Patti4.jpg
Image:0050-Patti5.jpg|Patti relaxing.
Image:0051-Patti6.jpg
Image:0056-CWCPatti2.jpg|Even Patti is ashamed by Chris's [[chris and fashion|get-up]]
image:0514-CWCWithPatti.jpg|Overexposed photo of Chris and Patti in 2000 for his school report.
Image:0719-PattisDoghouse.JPG|Can you dig it?
Image:0720-PattisDoghuseISO.JPG|"That thing had to weigh, like, five, ten tons."
Image:ModNation PattiChan.jpg|Her [[Patti-chan|horrendous furfag alter ego]] as seen in [[ModNation Racers]].
Image:Itj5aFp.jpg|The doghouse in [[April 2015]].
File:Patti-Chancard.jpg|As a [[TSSSF]] card. Yes, that is a fucking crop-top.
File:PattiDoghouseApr2025.jpg | The doghouse in [[April 2025]]
</gallery>
</center>

==See also==
*[[Chris and death]]
*[[Patti-Chan]]
*[[Clover and Snoopy]]
*[[Pollo]]

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160329095145/http://archive.sonichu.com/cwcipedia/index.php?title=Eulogy_for_Patti Patti's eulogy on CWCipedia]

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Prank calls

2026-02-28T04:37:27Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Sonichussy Call */

It's no secret that the Chandler home gets many '''prank calls''', thanks to [[Chris]]'s e-fame and the fact he actually revealed his phone number to the entire Internet. Multiple times. However, many of the [[weens]] that call the Chandler home record their calls and upload them to [[YouTube]], providing an insight into the Chandlers' thoughts. In other cases, people have used {{w|Soundboard (computer program)|soundboards}} made with clips of Chris and his father Bob to prank call others for their [[Laughs Under Lucricities|amusement]].

== DPF phonecalls ==
=== Part 1 ===

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 '''Chris:''' Hello?
 '''Jynx:''' Hel-(cut off by static)
 '''Jack:''' Hi I'm *inaudible*
 '''Chris:''' I'm sorry what?
 '''Jynx:''' Good evening.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah, good evening.
 '''Jynx:''' We tried to conta-well I tried to contact you earlier, I wanted to ask permission to use something of yours. A character of yours.
 '''Chris:''' I see.
 '''Jynx:''' I, um, I own a comic called Marty-Bob, right? It's pretty popular. It's based off the series Negima, you may have heard of it. Have you?
 '''Chris:''' Uh, no. I have not.
 '''Jynx:''' Well, as you know, I am English, and it's rather popular over here, right? And your character, being pretty popular in England as well, um, I wanted to see if I could use him just as a cameo to say hi to Marty-Bob.
 '''Chris:''' Mmm.
 '''Jynx:''' Well I-[cut off by Chris]
 '''Chris:''' Well, I give you, I give you permission to use my c-, use my Sonichu as a as a, in a cameo appearance in there, just make sure you reference me and the CWCipedia.
 '''Jack:''' We'll, we'll do that sir.
 '''Jynx:''' We'll link and everything and give credit to you [Text comes up reading 'Sonichu can come up and give Marty-Bob a handshake and then Marty-Bob can meet'] Sonichu and say he's awesome.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah okay, that's fine.
 '''Jack:''' Also, I was wondering, I have a character I'd like to audition for you, for your Sonichu comic.
 '''Chris:''' I see. Hmm.
 '''Jack:''' His, his name is Poliochu, he has Polio, he's like the uh, clone of FDR and he has Polio, so he needs a wheelchair.
 '''Chris:''' I see, hmm, well you can send me a drawing of it, to my e-mail address or to the mailbag on the CWCipedia and I'll uh, I'll look at-I'll look the character over.
 '''Jynx:''' Will you look at 'em all of your e-mails?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah, I'll look at the e-mails.
 '''Jynx:''' Okay that's good.
 '''Jack:''' That's good, that's good. Also, um, are you getting those dastardly trolls? I mean, they're just so mean.
 '''Chris:''' Yes they are mean.
 '''Jynx:''' I liked your recent video where you spoke French or s-[static pause]
 '''Chris:''' [cutting in] Spanish.
 '''Jynx:''' You taught me how to say it it was like illis zububolis or something.
 '''Jack:''' What does that mean anyway what you said in Spanish?
 '''Chris:''' Mmm, yeah th- the meaning escapes me at the moment, but it's pronounced "uhcrepsa etah y uhcinos evol.
 '''Jack:''' Mhm.
 '''Jynx:''' Chris, can I just say something?
 '''Chris:''' Mhm?
 '''Jynx:''' I'm your biggest fan; you're so awesome.
 '''Chris:''' Thank you.
 '''Jack:''' You do not deserve any of the bad treatment towards you like, Clyde Cash, he's just a jerk and whatever that guy who says he's you but like not as like, good looking.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' So what is Asperchu?
 '''Chris:''' Okay, well Asperchu is not mine, it belongs to Alec Benson Leary and I have no connection to him whatsoever, except for him buying out the ad space and putting his ads onto th-[cuts out]
 '''Jynx:''' What?
 '''Jack:''' Why would he do that to you?
 '''Chris:''' He's just being, he's just being mean and a jerk.
 '''Jynx:''' I thought that um, you guys were having a meeting. That's what you said in your video.
 '''Chris:''' Mmm, no I challenged him to come and meet- challenged him to come to Virginia so we can see who stacks up better here.
 '''Jynx:''' Right.
 '''Jack:''' Did Clyde Cash ever come to your house and try to fight you?
 '''Chris:''' Mmm, people have come to my house, and uh, gone so-gone as far as to egg my house.
 '''Jack:''' Egged? Your house has been egged?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' That's not very nice they're [inaudible]
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' It's a waste of eggs.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jack:''' Eggs are supposed to be eaten.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah that's probably-
 '''Jack:''' [cuts off Chris] They're made with french toast.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' I wanted to ask you a question.
 '''Chris:''' Mhm?
 '''Jynx:''' Y'know Magi-chan?
 '''Chris:''' Yep.
 '''Jynx:''' How come he's got -chan at the end of his name but not -chu?
 '''Chris:''' It's a play off the word magician.
 '''Jynx:''' I see. I didn't know that! That's pretty cool, I've learned something new today!
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jack:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' But what's that, so his species name is Magi-chan?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' So, could I capture my own Magi-chan if it was in a pokémon game?
 '''Chris:''' Hmm, not really. If I- if there was a pokémon game with all the Sonichu characters in there, you'd have to, uh, evolve it from a Sonee with a Moon Stone.
 '''Jynx:''' Ah, I see.
 '''Jack:''' Also I was wondering, uh, what is this A.D. Vision thing project you're making-you're going on talking about?
 '''Chris:''' Ah, uh, oh, turns out tha-turns out I was fooled there, apparently A.D. Vison went ou-went out of business in September 2009. I did not realize that until recently.
 '''Jynx:''' Oh, I got, I got to ask you a really important question.
 '''Jack:''' Who is Ginger? We just want to know; we're confused about that.
 '''Chris:''' She's a fan.
 '''Jack:''' She's a fan?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' Like us?
 '''Jack:''' [inaudible]
 '''Chris:''' She talked to me recently.
 '''Jack:''' Oh, where does she live?
 '''Chris:''' Mmm, she lives in Florida.
 '''Jack:''' Florida? That's-
 '''Chris:''' [cuts in] Yeah.
 '''Jack:''' Pretty f-pretty far a way aways man.
 '''Chris:''' Well-
 '''Jack:''' [cuts in] Around.
 '''Chris:''' I wasn't doing anything lately, y'know?
 '''Jynx:''' Chris!
 '''Chris:''' Mhm?
 '''Jynx:''' Could I ask your opinion on something?
 '''Chris:''' Okay.
 '''Jynx:''' It's something you haven't released information or anything and it's so important I wanna ask you this.
 '''Chris:''' Mhm?
 '''Jynx:''' Um, do you like Digimon?
 '''Chris:''' Digimon's okay.
 '''Jynx:''' But you think poké-
 '''Jack:''' They're just a pretty ripoff of Pokémon right?
 '''Chris:''' Mmm, yeah I would dare say it's sort of a ripoff.
 '''Jynx:''' But, I, I like Digimon and I like Sonichu, because I'm awesome like that; that's how I roll.
 '''Chris:''' Mkay. Alright, that's cool.
 '''Jynx:''' Do you like Kermit the Frog?
 '''Chris:''' 'Kay.
 '''Jynx:''' Would you like to speak to Kermit the Frog?
 '''Chris:''' No. I-
 '''Jack:''' [cuts in] He has like the best voice of doing it though.
 '''Jynx:''' Yeah, I-I'm pretty good.
 '''Chris:''' Alright, I'll listen to your imitation of Kermit the Frog.
 '''Jynx:''' Okay, here it is, ready? [Mimics Kermit the Frog] Hi there, Kermit the Frog here speaking to Chris-Chan, which is pretty cool.
 '''Chris:''' Mmm.
 '''Jynx:''' You like it?
 '''Chris:''' It's okay...uh, [Mimics Kermit the Frog; Inaudible mumbling in the voice] and sound like Kermit the Frog. Ladies and Gentlemen, [inaudible name] in the audience, yay!
 '''Jynx:''' Oh, wow! That was good at the end! That was excellent!
 '''Jack:''' Can you hear my- can you hear my Bill Cosby voice. Do you know Bill Cosby?
 '''Chris:''' Yep.
 '''Jack:''' Alright, here it is. [Mimics Bill Cosby] Hello Chris-Chan, with the bippin' and the boppin' and the hippin'. [Coughs] God that hurt.
 '''Chris:''' [Mimicking Bill Cosby] Mmm, that's pretty good, but I think [inaudible] and we could talk all day long! And we could do all the jibba jabba blibba blabba.
 '''Jynx:''' Oh, uh, do you know who Cleveland Brown?
 '''Chris:''' Yep. [Mimics Cleveland] Oh yeah, I know Cleveland Brown. Yeah I watch the Cleveland Show. [Attempts Cleveland's laugh]
 '''Jynx:''' Oh, I like his laugh, it's like [mimics laugh]
 '''Jack:''' When are you going to do a Metal Gear Solid themed episode?
 '''Chris:''' Uh, I'm sorry, I didn- I didn't understand the question.
 '''Jack:''' When are you going to do a Metal Gear Solid themed comic ser-type of like, Sonichu?
 '''Chris:''' Well uh, maybe later, but not right now.
 '''Jack:''' Here, I could do, I could do I good Snake voice. Let's get into it. Listen.
 '''Chris:''' Mkay.
 '''Jack:''' [Mimicking Snake] Otacon, this is Snake. Where are we? [cough]
 '''Jynx:''' Is that the one from Super Smash Brothers?
 '''Jack:''' No.
 '''Jynx:''' Is-have you ever played Super Smash Brothers, Chris?
 '''Chris:''' Yep.
 '''Jynx:''' Do you have a friend code for it?
 '''Chris:''' Mmm, yeah, but it would be hard for me to get to it right now.
 '''Jynx:''' Ah.
 '''Jack:''' Ah okay.
 '''Jynx:''' I would love to play you because I actually don't have Snake in Brawl yet. I don't know how to unlock him.
 '''Chris:''' Mmm, uh, I'm sorry, you don't-uh, you're talking about the Snake character, unlocking him in Super Smash Brothers Brawl?
 '''Jynx:''' Yeah.
 '''Chris:''' Mmm, you could look, you could look up the answer how to unlock him on GameFAQs, G A M E F A Q S dot com.
 '''Jynx:''' Chris, who do you use?
 '''Jack:''' He uses Sonic of course.
 '''Chris:''' Mmm.
 '''Jynx:''' Do you know that if you hack the game, you could mix Pikachu's move with Sonic, and then you can make, like Sonichu in brawl?
 '''Chris:''' Hmm, that's interesting.
 '''Jynx:''' That'd be cool. I used to do that; I used to hack Brawl at one point.
 [End of audio]
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=== Part 2 ===

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 '''Jack:''' Reggie Fils-Aime, I've always tried to talk with him, I've called Nintendo of America like a billion times asking to talk with him, he's like always busy.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah, it turned out-it turned out between him and, uh, Sh-and, uh, Sh-
 '''Jack:''' (cutting in) Shigeru Miyamoto?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah. It turned out when I talked to them they turned out to be just trolls pretending to be both of them.
 '''Jynx:''' Well, was that Clyde Cash again?
 '''Chris:''' No, uh, another troll. Under Clyde Cash, I'm sure.
 '''Jack:''' [mumbling] oh, oh. Have you seen "The Book of Eli" yet?
 '''Chris:''' No, I have not.
 '''Jack:''' You should go see it. Oh, there-here, my, uh, my little sister would like to talk to you.
 '''Jynx:''' She's from Australia.
 '''Jack:''' Yeah.
 '''Girl:''' Is this really Sonichu? I'm really excited now!
 '''Chris:''' (cutting in) Hello?
 '''Girl:''' Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? I've been trying to talk with you for hours and hours now! Sonichu! Oh my god, I love this show! I love it, I love it, I love it!
 '''Jack:''' (cutting in) she's just
 '''Chris:''' (inaudible)
 '''Girl:''' Shut up, shut up Jack, I'm talking! I'm so...oh, wow.
 '''Jynx:''' Do you like Family Guy then?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah, I mean, it's a good show.
 '''Jynx:''' I have, do you know what my favorite Chris Chan video is? The one where you do the life in a day of Sonichu. That was great!
 '''Chris:''' Yeah. Thank you.
 '''Jynx:''' Yeah, I've-
 '''Jack:''' (cutting in) Did you notice that Chris Mc-Chris McFarland-Seth McFarlane has put you in one of the episodes?
 '''Chris:''' Uh. Sorry, I did not understand that.
 '''Jack:''' Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, he put you in that one episode, where they did like, a Stephen King parody? He made Peter look just like you.
 '''Chris:''' No, uh, (sound cut off) -like that.
 '''Jynx:''' That's your shirt.
 '''Girl:''' (speaking over Chris) Oh, I LOVE YOUUU!
 '''Jack:''' (inaudible) -that you're famous though.
 '''Chris:''' Hm... Indeed.
 '''Jack:''' Are you ever gonna come to Anime Expo?
 '''Chris:''' I might.
 '''Jynx:''' Oh, what kind of anime do you like? Do you like, uh, Lucky Star? Haruhi Suzumiya, Naruto, Bleach? So many to choose from.
 '''Girl:''' (cutting in) Oh, Anime, do you like Anime? I like Anime!
 '''Jynx:''' Death Note, Shaman King, Vampire Knight, Love Hina, Negima, Marty Bob? There's a whole load of this, what do you like?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah, I like a lot of anime, but I would say that I really like Excel Saga.
 '''Jack:''' Excel Saga? Yeah, Nabushin's the best.
 '''Jynx:''' I like Azumanga Daioh.
 '''Jack:''' I don't even know what that is man.
 '''Girl:''' [unintelligible], Ponies~.
 '''Jack:''' [unintelligible]...(Over Chris) Me and Chris know what it's about.
 '''Chris:''' Listen, I'm busy working on a this project right now.
 '''Jack:''' Which project is it?
 '''Chris:''' Oh it's some, uh... (static)
 '''Jack:''' (Cutting off Chris) Is it like a video, or some sort of, like, game, or picture.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah, it's a drawing, alright?
 '''Jack:''' It's a drawing? Oh, oh, oh. Ok. Here's another Sonichu character, alright? His name is Hunter ThompsonChu... He's like, he's like a writer sort of Sonichu character, and he wears, like, um, what is it? Like, ah... Do you wa- Have you read or watched "Bleach" before?
 '''Chris:''' Mm. Yeah.
 '''Jack:''' You know that shopkeeper (audio fades) that hat, but a different color. And he wears, like, sunglasses. And he just, like, he types and he's just, like, a really crazy kooky character.
 '''Chris:''' Alright, well, again, ya'know, send the pictures to the email or send it to the mailbag and I'll h- and I'll look at it.
 '''Jack:''' (An unintelligible voice starts with Jack, then stops.) Great, and I'll go find Alec for you and I'll get him for you. I'll beat him up.
 '''Girl:''' [Grainy and obnoxious] I HAVE A QUESTION!
 '''Jynx:''' Chris, Chris, Chris, I wanna say something. (Mention our?) parody fandub in your next video.
 '''Chris:''' Umm... I might.
 '''Jack:''' We need the, um, We need the, um, We need the, uh, what is it?
 '''Jynx:''' The Views.
 '''Jack:''' Yeah, we need the views, please.
 '''Jynx:''' And I've supported Sonichu for a long time, like, I've even posted fan-pictures on Youtube.
 '''Jack:''' I'm even getting a tattoo, later tomorrow, of Sonichu, on my chest... Ultra Sonichu.
 '''Chris:''' Well, I... Alight, it was nice talking to y'all but I gotta go.
 '''Jack:''' Can we call you next time? Will you answer us?
 '''Chris:''' Eh, I might.
 '''Jack:''' Please, that would make my sister's day. Alright, Please?
 '''Chris:''' Ok, hello.
 '''Girl:''' Heeeeeeee. (Forced Giddiness) I have a question, I has a question, it (trails off). How long do you take drawring [sic] your pictures?
 '''Chris:''' Uhh, Sometimes it can take me up to 2 or 3 hours.
 '''Girl:''' Why?
 '''Jack:''' You could have a drawing contest against Alec to see who's the better c-(cuts off)
 '''Girl:''' I like drawing, too.
 '''Jack:''' (cuts back in) -drawings.
 '''Girl:''' I like drawing... Can I draw pictures for Sonic-chan? I like drawring.[sic]
 '''Chris:''' (Softly, unsure) ...yeah...
 '''Jynx:''' Do you like, um, Wall-E?
 '''Chris:''' Wally?
 '''Jynx:''' Yeah.
 '''Chris:''' I do not know what w- I do not know which Wally you're talking about.
 '''Jynx:''' [simultaneously] The Pixar thing. / Eeeevaaa.
 '''Jack:''' [simultaneously] The one with "WALL EEEEE and EVE" Eeevvaaa.
 '''Chris:''' I've never heard of that.
 '''Jynx:''' What's your favorite movie?
 '''Chris:''' Mary Poppins.
 '''Jynx:''' Mary Poppins?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' Is that the one with the dancing penguins?
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Jynx:''' Is that your favorite animal?
 '''Chris:''' No, pengu- No, not my favorite animal.
 '''Jynx:''' What is your favorite animal?
 '''Jack:''' Sonichu?
 '''Chris:''' Not sure, I'm not sure at the moment. I, hey listen, I gotta go.
 '''Jynx:''' Please don't hang up, We're your biggest fans!
 '''Chris:''' Ok, thank you.
 '''Girl:''' (Overtly Sensual) I really like Sonichu, too. Makes me feel... Good.
 '''Jack:''' That was my sister, sorry.
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==Prank Call Collection==
A collection of various prank calls made to the almighty [[Bob Chandler|Internet Lumberjack]] on a Sunday afternoon.

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'''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' Yeah, how you doin'? My name is Chris, I'm from Boston.
 '''Bob:''' Hello? I don't understand your conversation.
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' Would it be possible for me to get your name?
 '''Bob:''' You called me.
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' Um, there's somebody playing games with the phone.
 '''Bob:''' Nobody's playing games with the phone unless you are.
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' [''speaking over Bob''] We're connected to each other through a computer because somebody's sittin' in a room, hacking telephone numbers.
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon? I'm just answerin' my telephone. [''Inaudible''] You called me. What the hell is on your mind, man?
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' [''again, speaking over Bob''] We're connected to each other through a computer because somebody's sittin' in a room, hacking telephone numbers.
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon? What's on your mind? You called me, and now shut up or get off the phone or speak!
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' You're a narcissist. You've got a personality di-disorder. Did you know that?
 '''Bob:''' I don't have a damn thing! You're the one that's a guh-guh-gutter creep [''Inaudible''] -that's just what you are.
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' [''talking over Bob again''] I know your weaknesses. I know your weaknesses.
 '''Bob:''' Tell me what you want. I'm- I answered the phone, now tell me what you want. You rang my damn number.
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' You see, what you're doing is, you're burning up ''tens'' of ''thousands'' of dollars.
 '''Bob:''' I ain't burnin' up nothin', fella. Now you tell me what the hell you want, or I'm gonna hang this phone up. I don't need ''your'' crap.
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' Sir, you've just threatened me. And I've got you recorded now. Now you've committed a felony.
 '''Bob:''' That's good. I'm just gonna hang up if you don't tell me what you want.
 '''Chris the Hacker (soundboard):''' Can you hear that stuff at the other end?
 [''redialed'']
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Hello, I'm calling, this is Officer Martin from the sheriff's department. How can I help you this evening?
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon? I didn't understand you.
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Deputy Martin from the sheriff's department.
 '''Bob:''' I still didn't understand you. [''Inaudible''] -speak distinctly.
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' [''talking over Bob''] I've already told you who I am. I've already told you who I am. This is sheriff's office. Deputy Martin from the sheriff's department.
 '''Bob:''' I don't understand why you're callin' me.
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' I'm Deputy Martin from the sheriff's department.
 '''Bob:''' What insurance department?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Well, you need to stop- to quit callin' here.
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' I'm advising you to stop calling.
 '''Bob:''' I didn't ''call'' you! You called me! What are- Who are you, and what's goin' on?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' I'm here at Big Daddy's Pizza. I'm Deputy Martin from the sheriff's department.
 '''Bob:''' Would you speak slowly and one syllable at a time so I can understand you?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Big Daddy's Pizza. I'm here at Big Daddy's Pizza.
 '''Bob:''' You're mayor of Big Daddy's Pizza? Is that what you said?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' No one's called ya.
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' No one's called ya.
 '''Bob:''' I can't understand you. You need to take a diction lesson.
 [''Barbara is heard in the background urging Bob on'']
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' I'm gonna advise you now, this is the sheriff's department.
 '''Bob:''' Are- are you the sheriff's department?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Yeah.
 '''Bob:''' Good. Why did you call me?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' No one's called ya.
 '''Bob:''' No one's called me? Then why didn't my phone ring?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Well, you need to stop- to quit callin' here.
 '''Bob:''' I didn't call you! Listen!
 [''call dropped; redialed'']
 '''Bob:''' [''in the middle of a conversation with Barb'']
 '''Barbara:''' What's the phone number comin' in?
 '''Bob:''' Nothin'.
 '''Barbara:''' Well, hang up!
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Who is this?
 '''Bob:''' Who the hell is this?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Hello, I'm calling, this is Officer Martin from the sheriff's department. How can I help you this evening?
 '''Bob:''' [''chuckling''] I don't know, you can't help me. You're calling me.
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Callin' you and cussin' you, OK? Why would I call you when I'm on the sheriff's department why would I call somebody and cuss them out?
 '''Bob:''' I don't know.
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Who is this?
 '''Bob:''' Who is ''this''? For cryin' in a bucket...
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' This is the sheriff's office. Deputy Martin from sheriff's department.
 '''Bob:''' Well, insurance department of what?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' Big Daddy's Pizza.
 '''Bob:''' Big Daddy's Pizza. OK, Big Daddy. Will you please quit callin' me and leave my phone alone?
 '''Officer Martin (soundboard):''' I'm advising you to stop calling.
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 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' Hello.
 '''Bob:''' Why are you calling my phone?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' Now listen, you stupid son of a bitch, I've never called you before you god danged you...[interrupted] -pick about every third day to call me, so fuck you!
 '''Bob:''' YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH! Don't call me again! Get down in your damn low-life gutter, okay?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' [interrupting] Hey, fuck you, you stupid cocksucker.
 '''Bob:''' I don't play that. And don't call me again! You bastard!
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' Fuck you.
 '''Bob:''' Forget my number! Alright?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' Whatta ya need done?
 [''redialed'']
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' Duncan Construction.
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' This is Frank Garrett.
 '''Bob:''' This is who?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' This is Frank Garrett.
 '''Bob:''' Well, Frank, what is on your mind?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' Hey, does your mama still got, uh, worms crawlin' out her pusshy?
 '''Bob:''' What is on your mind, sir?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' Did they turn you out of your fuckin' cage again or what?
 '''Bob:''' Listen, you motherfucker! Get off of my telephone and quit bothering' it! Okay?
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' [interrupting] No.
 '''Bob:''' Get down in your low-life gutter and stay there!
 '''Frank Garrett (soundboard):''' No.
 [''redialed'']
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Bob:''' Yes, why are you calling my number?
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' I didn't call you.
 '''Bob:''' Uhh, then, uhh, why are you speaking with me?
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' I have been called 15 times.
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon?
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' Why are you callin' me every 3 minutes for?
 '''Bob:''' I'm not calling you. I'm sitting here in my... living room, watching TV.
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' Why don't you get your brass balls and come up here buddy?
 '''Bob:''' Well, I don't know who you are or where you are, but- and I don't really care! But you- I'll let you talk to my wife and you tell her why you're cussin' at me!
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' OK.
 ''[Bob goes off to talk with Barb. Meanwhile, the troll holds back a laugh.]''
 '''Barbara:''' Hello!
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Barbara:''' Who are you calling?
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' I didn't call you.
 '''Barbara:''' Well, you're fucked up somehow! Goodbye!
 '''Gay Florist (soundboard):''' I'd bust your head wide open if I could see you.
 [''redialed'']
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Depressed Guy (soundboard):''' Hello?
 [''somber music plays in the background'']
 '''Bob:''' Why are you callin' on me on a Sunday afternoon?
 '''Depressed Guy (soundboard):''' I didn't call you, I'm just trying to go to sleep.
 '''Bob:''' I wish you'd quit bothering my telephone, I'm trying to watch TV. I'm an 82 year old man, now cut it out!
 '''Depressed Guy (soundboard):''' My fuckin' life's not doing too well right now, dude.
 ''[call ends]''
 ''[music goes on for a while then fades out]''
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==Failed Prank Call==
In this video, a gaggle of unfunny [[ween]]s attempt to prank call Chris. Due to their unoriginality, all they could think of was yelling [[For Julie's Eyes Only|JULAYYYYY]] into the phone in a lame attempt to roast Chris. Instead, they get Bob, who instantly realizes the prank and roasts them. One of the weens appears to be [[BlueSpike]], or at least he has a similar-sounding voice.

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'''BlueSpike:''' [''whispering''] Fucking pick up, piece of shit!
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''BlueSpike:''' JULAAAAY, JULAAAAY, JULAAAAY!
 '''Troll 2:''' [''overlapping''] Juliiiie!
 '''Bob:''' What the hell is that supposed to mean? That you're an idiot?
 '''Troll 2:''' Whoa, whoa, whoa, are you Bob Chandler?
 '''Bob:''' It doesn't matter who I am, who is this idiot I'm talking to on the other end?
 '''Troll 2:''' Umm...
 '''Bob:''' You got some funny-ass ideas about playing games of mind on the telephone, don't you? Are you six years old or somethin'? [''Barb is heard in the background; after a little bit he hangs up'']
 '''BlueSpike:''' [''unintelligible chattering''] We got his fucking dad. Shit.
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==Chris Calls Bob ==
In this video, a troll calls the Chandler home, using a soundboard of Chris-chan to prank the Chandler home. Note how Bob either recognizes that the call is a prank or he doesn't recognize his own son's voice; also, note that he has a caller ID phone. (Prank call starts at 1:32.)

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'''Bob:''' Hello.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Bob:''' Why are you calling my phone?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Good evening sir, how are you?
 '''Bob:''' I'm fine, but you're wasting your time calling my phone, you know that?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Don't say that.
 '''Bob:''' Because it doesn- it doesn't make any noise. All it does is flash a light. So it really doesn't bother me, I just thought I would tell you that you're wasting your time
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Are you really at a 14 Branchland Court?
 [Call likely cut - redialed]
 '''Bob:''' I thought I told you, we don't answer any calls that have unknown names on them or unknown numbers.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' I did not mean to give off the impression of being-
 [Redialed]
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm high-functionally autistic.
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Hello!
 '''Bob:''' Hello.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Good evening sir, how are you?
 '''Bob:''' I'm pretty good.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm good!
 '''Bob:''' Why do you bother to call this phone?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Are you really at a 14 Branchland Court?
 '''Bob:''' Yes, I am. Why do you bother to call this phone, because the phone doesn't ring.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' What the hell? Why are you- why have you started doing this in the first place, you little son of a bitch?
 '''Barbara:''' Don't call us anymore.
 '''Bob:''' Now don't, don't cuss at me, fella.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Shut the hell up.
 '''Bob:''' I'll start cussing at at you.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' You weak little son of a bitch!
 '''Bob:''' Listen, fella. Kid. Whatever you dumbass is.
 '''Barbara:''' ''[heard in the background]'' Hang up the phone!
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' My name is Christian.
 ''[more indistinct conversation in the background, "Hang up the phone!" etc.]''
 '''Bob:''' Well listen, listen. The phone doesn't ring, all it does is light a light, so you're not botherin' me and every once in a while I try and tell you people that you're wastin' your damn time. Okay, you're not botherin' us. So why the hell do you do-waste all that effort? Put it in to something con- constructive and creative.
 '''Barbara:''' ''[interjects]'' Go to Haiti!
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, go to Haiti and help those people, or go to hell, one or the other. ''[Chris soundboard says something simultaneously]''
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Yes- Yes I agree with you, this is frustrating.
 [''Bob hangs up'']
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==Epic Crazy Lady calls Bob==
A troll using the [http://soundboardprankcalls.wikia.com/wiki/Epic_Crazy_Lady Epic Crazy Lady] soundboard yells at Bob over the phone, while Bob throws insults at her and makes comments on how he can't understand her, as she continues to get angrier.
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 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' Hello.
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' Who do you think you are?
 '''Bob:''' Who are you?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' I don't know who you are, but I tell you what, I live at 900 Collins Road. Why don't you bring yourself over here?
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon, who do you think you're talking to?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' Do you know that you're not supposed to talk that way?
 '''Bob:''' Who are you?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' You have got a issue problem. God forgive you.
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon, who or what is...
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' [''Interrupting''] God needs to move in your life.
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon. I can't even begin to understand what you're saying.
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' God needs to move in your life ''severely''!
 '''Bob:''' Why don't you quit dialing my number, and go somewhere and play a game with the gutter rats?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' Bring yourself over here! I'll show you what's the matter! OK?
 '''Bob:''' Why don't you come over here and I'll show ''you'' what's the matter?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' Nine hundred Collins Road, bring yourself, buddy.
 '''Bob:''' Hey, buddy. Listen, boy.
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' You ain't no man.
 '''Bob:''' Listen, boy. You get your black ass down in the gutter and stay there. You understand?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' I am the woman of the house, and you don't call me and ask me who my daddy is.
 '''Bob:''' I don't know what you are, or who you are, and I don't really care. But you are invading my privacy, and you are cussing at me, and I don't like it.
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' Call my house and talk that way. I tell you what, why don't you call my husband, and tell my husband that?
 '''Bob:''' I don't know who you are or who you think I am...
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' Yeah, that's what you are, a big old chicken.
 '''Bob:''' Who do think I am?
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' God forgive you.
 '''Bob:''' I wish that you knew what number you called, because I think you're calling the wrong number.
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' I ain't called your house. Who do you think you are, calling my house?
 '''Bob:''' I didn't call your house, sir, ma'am...
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' [''Interrupting''] No, you are!
 '''Bob:''' ...or whatever you are.
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' You ain't no man. I don't know who you are, but I tell you what, I live at 900 Collins Road. Why don't you bring yourself over here?
 '''Bob:''' I'll let you talk to my wife, maybe she can talk some sense into your head.
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' Fine.
 '''Bob:''' [''In the background, Bob says something to Barbara about a "goddamn screwy woman." Barbara tells him: "Hang up on her. I ain't talkin' to nobody, this time of night. Hang it up."''] You better check the number that you called, because you're not talking to anybody that you know.
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' I ain't called your house. Who do you think you are, calling my house?
 '''Bob:''' I haven't called your house. I am the one who picked up the phone and said, "Hello."
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' You have got a issue problem.
 '''Bob:''' [''In the background, Barbara tells Bob to hang up because he's getting on her nerves.''] I don't have an issue problem with anybody, but please quit calling my number.
 '''Epic Crazy Lady (soundboard):''' [''Unintelligible''] bring yourself over here and I'll show you what a whooping is.
 [''Bob hangs up'']
 '''Harlem Barber:''' Barbershop
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' You get your black ass in the gutter and stay there.
 '''Harlem Barber:''' [''Whistles'']
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Hey, buddy.
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==Bob Calls Himself==
In this one, Bob seems not to be able to recognize his own voice, and his view on trolls is the same as Chris's, "Internet people who persecute people". Also, Snorlax makes an appearance.

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'''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Bob:''' Why are you calling me?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Why are you calling my phone?
 '''Bob:''' I'm not calling your phone, why are you calling my phone?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Who the hell is this?!
 '''Bob:''' Well who are you? You're the one that made the call.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Who do you think I am?!
 '''Bob:''' I don't know wha- who you are but I know you're in Oklahoma.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I wish that you- you knew what number you called because I think you're calling the wrong number.
 '''Bob:''' I didn't call the number; my phone rang.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Why I-I answered the phone now tell me what you want you rang my damn number.
 '''Bob:''' I didn't ring your number but if you're in Oklahoma you shouldn't be upset like that.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I wish that you- you knew what number you called because I think you're calling the wrong number.
 '''Bob:''' I didn't call anybody I just picked up the phone; let me explain something to you, can I do that? I-I'm a Texan now can I-can I explain something to you?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Good.
 '''Bob:''' Okay. There is on the Internet... a a bunch of trolls, now they persecute people and these these trolls have found somewhere somebody that have engineered a set of software that allows them to call people on the telephone and put in any particular number they want to put in as the caller ID. Now this-the telephone company knows about this and the federal government knows about this, to the point where they've even gived it a named called spoofing. S-P-O-O-F-I-N-G. And I think if I-if you think that I called your number and that's what's happening to you because I did not call your number. But that's-
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' [''Speaking over''] Who are you?
 '''Bob:''' -what's happened to me.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Who are you?
 '''Bob:''' Who am I? I'm Robert Chandler and I live in Ruckersville, Virginia.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I beg your pardon?
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, I'm 82 years old but I was born in Fort Worth, so I'm a neighbor.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' What's on your mind, you called me now shut up or get off the phone or speak!
 '''Bob:''' Well I'm talking to you what do- else do you want?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I don't have an issue problem with anybody but please quit calling my number.
 '''Bob:''' I didn't call you but I'm trying to explain how these people do it. Okay?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Nobody's playing games with the phone unless you are.
 '''Bob:''' Well, look: I'm 82 years old, all right? I was born in Fort Worth. I'm basically a neighbor of yours or at one time I was. I have a cousin who lives in Tulsa. Okay? I have a lot of [[Cherokee]] relatives that live in your state also.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I don't know what you are or who you are and I don't really care.
 '''Bob:''' Well I'm trying to be nice to you and to explain what's happening. You're being a victim of the Internet people that persecute people, because I didn't call your number.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I still didn't understand you.
 '''Bob:''' Well I don't wha-wha how can I explain it any simpler to you. They-
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Listen boy
 '''Bob:''' -they have a program in-in their computer which allows them to dial numbers anywhere in the country and put in as the caller ID any particular telephone number they want to.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Listen you motherfucker get down in your lowlife gutter and stay there!
 '''Bob:''' Listen, listen, I didn't start cussing at you now-now-now just [[Bob walks in|cut it down]], cool it down; I'm trying to be nice to you.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I don't need your crap.
 '''Barbara:''' Hello there.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Hello.
 '''Barbara:''' Sir or ma'am or whatever the hell you are.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Who the hell is this?
 '''Barbara:''' Don't you call up here- look- don't you call up here cussing at my husband.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Get down in your lowlife gutter and stay there.
 '''Barbara:''' We didn't have- we didn't have anything to do with this damn... er... thing that's going on. There are a lot of- lot of [[Chris|weird]] [[Barb|people]] out here and you might be included as one of them if you're calling us and cussing us out. Now hang up the phone and forget the number.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' You get your black ass down in the gutter and stay there!
 '''Barbara:''' I ain't got no black ass! You get your gutter ass out in the gutter and shut up!
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Hey buddy.
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== Liquid Bob calls Bob ==
A troll pretending to be a Liquid version of Bob (which, years later, was revealed to be [[Jack Z]], after he admitted it in his [http://archive.vn/0giZa#selection-2095.0-2095.69 Kiwi Farms thread]), calls Bob. In this video we learn that Bob doesn't know of Sonic, and thinks Chris invented Sonichu himself. Also, he seems to think that [[Jimmy Hill|Chris won "a case in England" over Sonichu's copyright]]. We learn that the trolls are spoofing the telephone company.

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'''Bob:'''-FBI and everybody else, that there's a system that goes on that says that anybody that wants to do it that knows how with the proper software and stuff can call any number in the country that they want to and can put any particular phone number in the system as if it came from that number to the people: called spoofing. S-P-O-O-F-I-N-G. Now-
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Is-
 '''Bob:''' -you can call your local police department if you like about that but that's the name they all know it as: spoofing. Now I'm not calling your number some dizzy kook out there on the Internet is playing games with ya.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Are you telling me that somebody out there on the Internet is using your phone number in an attempt to pin the blame on your family?
 '''Bob:''' That's right. It goes on all the time, I've gotten calls from people everywhere. I've even-I've even uh gotten calls where I was terrorizing people and I wasn't even on the phone!
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Uh, sir I-I do not happen to know if anybody on the Internet who is drawing cartoons, I-I don't know I don't use the Internet but if that's-
 '''Bob:''' I don't use the Internet either, but my son does.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Oh-
 '''Bob:''' These people they hate him because he has copyright, and he just won a case in England on copyright, and there are people in the world that hate him, there are people in the world that love him but there are people in the world that hate him and the people in the world that hate him are going to all sorts of ends to try and destroy him.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Your son-your son is a
 '''Bob:''' -one of the ways they do it.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Your son is a cartoonist?
 '''Bob:''' Yes he is.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' That's very-that's a very nice to hear. I hope he's doing good.
 '''Bob:''' Well he doesn't make a living at it but he's autistic, he's shares his cartoons with the world and has for the last ten or twelve years.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' I've got a grandson who's into cartoons like that, he might know 'em. He's on the Internet, uh, looking up cartoons on the Internet and, uh, I think it's pretty nifty to be quite honest with you. That-
 '''Bob:''' Well the ones that my son does is called Sonichu.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Sonichu? Is that some Japanese thing or what?
 '''Bob:''' Well it's Sonic and chu.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Oh oh so-
 '''Bob:''' Like a Pikachu and like the Sonic.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Well my grandkids are into this little thing called Pikachu but I wouldn't know anything about that. You taught your son-your son is a creator of this character?
 '''Bob:''' Ever since before the year 2000-
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Oh
 '''Bob:''' -he's been putting and drawing them and putting them on the Internet with the world.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Oh oh I see where this- I just wanted to find w-where these telephone numbers are up and coming from because-
 '''Bob:''' I'm not calling you, you can go and check with your local police department if you like but there is this system called spoofing.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Spoo-
 '''Bob:''' They gon' come and say they can't stop it either,
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Spoofing.
 '''Bob:''' I-I could be put in jail for just terrorizing people cause my number comes in on their caller ID.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Can I-is this Mister Chandler right, your name is Mister Chandler right?
 '''Bob:''' That's right.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Oh, you-your
 '''Bob:''' Robert Chandler, I've got nothing to hide.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' There-there are
 '''Bob:''' I'm eighty-two years old and I'm retired from GE.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' There are other people I have heard I think one of my sons has been receiving calls from that number as well. I did a look-read up of that as well, my son who is very into the Internet did a look up of that number and found out that most people are getting calls from that number as well.
 '''Bob:''' Well you see these people are using our number to try and get us in trouble.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' I am very sorry to hear that sir.
 '''Bob:''' Well that's just how this world goes there are some lousy people in this world [''laughs'']
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Well I-uh oh man I uh- have you reported this incident yet?
 '''Bob:''' Well you try and get in touch with the FBI, have you ever tried to get in touch with he FBI, you can't get in touch with the FBI. They don't even have any phone numbers and if you find a phone number you then get an answering machine and nobody ever calls you back. They get no money for this kind o' thing, this Internet crime stuff-
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Are-are you saying they are purposely ignoring this-
 '''Bob:''' [''speaking over''] -mistaken identity and everything.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' -they are purposely ignoring this?
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon?
 '''Liquid Bob:''' They are purposely ignoring this?
 '''Bob:''' That's right they are purposely ignoring it, the telephone company will tell you the same thing. They all have this thing named and it's called spoofing.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' So they know this thing exists but they won't do anything about it.
 '''Bob:''' That's right they won't do a thing about it.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Yeah-
 '''Bob:''' The caller ID won't block it or anything.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Are you a Republican sir?
 '''Bob:''' I'm a-I'm a Republican yes.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' That is-
 '''Bob:''' I didn't vote for Obama that's-
 '''Liquid Bob:''' I did not vote for Obama either.
 '''Bob:''' Heh. What part of New York are you in?
 '''Liquid Bob:''' I think we live around Upstate New York, I-we're very conservative-
 '''Bob:''' -Upstate New York once, I lived in Utica.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' I have a cousin who lives in Utica, I don't know if he's still living there but I haven't spoke to him in ten years-
 '''Bob:''' Yeah I worked with GE up there once bout forty years ago.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' General Electric?
 '''Bob:''' Yeah General Electric.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Huh, that's a very nice-I heard that's a very nice employ- steady job.
 '''Bob:''' Yeah well I retired from there so.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Well I just want-
 '''Bob:''' I enjoyed it, I used to go hiking in the Adirondacks and up there in the-in the mountains of uh-whate- white mountain I guess it is they call it or something.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' I think that's what we'll call it, it's very cold up here too; very very cold.
 '''Bob:''' I could remember some days when it was 35 below 0 up here. I got my tootsie-
 '''Liquid Bob:''' We just had sixteen, sixteen inches of snow. I was-
 '''Bob:''' Would you believe I'm sitting in Charlottesville if you know where that is, in Virgin-Virginia
 '''Liquid Bob:''' I think it's
 '''Bob:''' next to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, I can see the mountains from my house. But we have right now two feet of snow in our yard and one time we had over three feet; bout two weeks ago.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' That- holy moly! Are you able to get on the road safely?
 '''Bob:''' Well I-I parked my car next to the street and I finally we got a plow and I can get in and out right now because I'm next to street but for about a week we couldn't get out at all.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Huh- that's very scary to hear that you guys get that much snow during the winter months.
 '''Bob:''' It stopped Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York too, the same storms. It put the government out of business for seven days up there.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Oh, that just goes to shown ya you can't underestimate nature.
 '''Bob:''' That's right you can't, that's what I learned while I was in Utica in Upstate New York there.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' It gets pretty bad up here let me tell. It-we had an ice storm about twenty years ago, it took the power out for nearly a month, all the cars were frozen, we couldn-we couldn't even use our refrigerator, oh it was scary we were afraid it wasn't even gonna come back on.
 '''Bob:''' Well I'm [''chuckles''] I'm sure, well I can remember it we used to get all that what do you call it; lake effect snow?
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Uh what was-
 '''Bob:''' -snow up there, the snow that comes off the moisture off the great lake there? And uh I can remember three feet of snow in Utica
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Uh yeah uh that's-
 '''Bob:''' [''laughs'']
 '''Liquid Bob:''' -it hasn't been that bad yet, hopefully it won't be that bad in the future, winter months almost over and I can tell ya I want to get out on my boat again. And fish don't- and I go snapper fishing and they don't come 'till August.
 '''Bob:''' That's right, I remember a joke about it up there, you-you had two seasons: winter and the 4th of July.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' [''forced laughing''] Yeah uh- that's what they call it: Christmas and July [''chuckles'']
 '''Bob:''' That's right.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Well I'm gotta be going now, well I just wanted to clear this-
 '''Bob:''' -sorry just ignore those calls cause it ain't us.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Well I just wanted to be-verify this cause occasionally people have called us and we just wanted to see if it was important or not. Cause I do have family in Virgi-
 '''Bob:''' Somebody might not like your son on the Internet and that's why they're- number and everythin' and that's why they're using our number to terrorize you.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Well uh that probably answers some random number- back when I was little boy we used to just type in random numbers and the-phone just make ran- calls. I'm not proud of it or anythin' that's just what we did, it's none of this scary stuff that involves computers and everything; we did it in good fun we weren't tryin' to be antagonistic about it.
 '''Bob:''' Well there you are- for a while there they were even trying to talk my son into committing suicide over the Internet.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Well that's just wrong.
 '''Bob:''' Yeah it's disgusting and the federal government won't do a thing to help us- or the local government or anybody.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Have you gotten the police involved yet?
 '''Bob:''' It's just uh- it's just we've learned how to cope with it that's all.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' That's a-that's a shame. I hope they- you know- don't go too far with this or you better get the police involved.
 '''Bob:''' We have but they don't do anything; they say this is an Internet matter it's federal government
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Apparently-
 '''Bob:''' -federal government says we don't have any money.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' -according to my son the police say we don't give crap about goes on the Internet; they only care if it goes on-
 '''Bob:''' That's absolutely correct.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Well uh I have to be going now Mister Chandler it's uh-
 '''Bob:''' -sorry, sorry somebody's been botherin' you but it ain't us.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' I'll just keep-I'll just- I'll block uh this whoever spoofin' me from now on. Well thank you for clearin' this up I uh hope things go better for you and your son. Have a good day sir.
 '''Bob:''' We've learned to just ignore it.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' You should. Well have a good day and I hope the winter months don't give you the cold shoulder [''laughs'']
 '''Bob:''' I'll be alright.
 '''Liquid Bob:''' Alright take care now.
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== Snake Productions Calls Bob Chandler ==
Not much of a prank, but rather an informative call. From this brief conversation between troll and dad we learn that Bob is fully aware that Chris posted their dox in numerous places on the Internet, and actually thinks [[ShecameforCWC.JPG|his]] [[For Julie's Eyes Only|son]] [[April 16 Fetish Vids|is]] [[Twin Falling Towers|a]] [[Sonichu Special 4|better]] [[Sonichu 10|person]].

Audio clip [http://solidsnakeproductions.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/snake-calls-bob-chandler/]

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 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Troll:''' Oh, hello?
 '''Bob:''' Hello? Why you ringin' my number?
 '''Troll:''' Oh, oh, hey, um, I've been hearing that, uh...
 '''Bob:''' Why you ringin' my number?
 '''Troll''': Um, your son's kinda like getting you through some trouble on the, uh...online. He's giving out his- giving out your home phone number.
 '''Bob:''' My home phone number's been on the Internet four years, and I don't care. Now why you callin' my number?
 '''Troll:''' Yeah, your...I think you heard about how your, uh, [[Tour of Chris's House|videos of your house]] [[THAT IS MY HOUSE|were on the Internet]]?
 '''Bob:''' I've heard a lot of stuff, and most of it is a bunch of trash, okay?
 '''Troll:''' Well, um...
 '''Bob:''' Why you callin' my number?
 ''' Troll:''' W-w-w-w-w-wait a minute, wait. Um...
 '''Bob:''' I'm gettin' kinda sick and tired of you people botherin' my home phone number. This is my private phone number, now get rid of it.
 '''Troll:''' Wait, wait, I'm not trying to piss you off.
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, you are, because you're comin' in on an unknown blocked number call.
 '''Troll:''' Your-
 '''Bob:''' If you were up and aboard and above board(?) and really doin' what you say you ki- think you're doin', then your number would come in along with your name.
 '''Troll:''' [''quietly''] Shit, whatever lumberjack.
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, you can't argue with that, can you? Now quit callin' my damn number and leave it alone!
 '''Troll:''' Okay [[Chris_and_race#Parental_influence|KKK cracker.]]
 '''Bob:''' Okay, cracker.
 [''Troll snickers'']
 '''Bob:''' Get your act together. I'm 82 years old, and I've survived a long damn time. The way you're goin', you're not gonna make it very far.
 '''Troll:''' Can't raise your damn son right.
 '''Bob:''' I raised my son. [[Chris and psychology|My son is fine]]. My son has done a lot better than you have, [[Chris and anger|he's a hell of a lot nicer than you are]], he doesn't go around callin' people all the damn time.
 '''Troll:''' Hey, I'm nice, but I'm just- I'm just trying to let you know, you're trying to, you're kinda being an ass on the other line.
 '''Bob:''' No, I'm not being an ass. I'm just gettin' tired of [[Chris and his ego|you people out there thinkin' you're God's gift to the world when you're not]].
 '''Troll:''' W-well, I'm- I'm not thinking, I'm not-
 '''Bob:''' Look at yourself in the mirror every morning, look at yourself...
 '''Troll:''' I do.
 '''Bob:''' ...and say "Now what do I do to deserve to judge other people?..."
 '''Troll:''' Well, I'm not-
 '''Bob:''' "...I'm so great that I can judge other people, and they're so damn far below me?" No, I think you should get off the phone and find yourself somethin' constructive to do as an entertainment.
 '''Troll:''' Well, I'm just-
 '''Bob:''' Thank you and good night.
 '''Troll:''' Okay, bitch.
 [''call ends'']
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==Snake Productions Calls Barbara Chandler==
The same troll above makes another call to the Chandlers, this time claiming Chris harassed his [[Pedofork|14-year old sister]]. It should be noted that Barb's behavior when communicating with trolls is eerily similar to that of her equally-delusional son's.

Audio clip [http://solidsnakeproductions.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/snake-pisses-of-snorlax/]

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 '''John:''' Uh, hello, this is, ah, John Morris. I've been calling a couple of times, but I'm getting calls from your house, and I guess someone named Christian who lives there has been calling my sister, who's underage, probably 14 years - 14 years old, has been asking my, er, d-asking my d- sister-
 '''Barbara:''' (Interrupting) M-my son does not call your daughter that's 14 years underage [Unintelligible]
 '''John:''' Yeah, I-I have recorded-
 '''Barbara:''' SHUT UP!SHUT UP!
 '''John:''' Here, here's the call.
 '''Barbara:''' Stop trying to set up my son!
 '''John:''' Here.
 '''Barbara:''' You lousy creep!
[A recording of a girl's voice starts, but Barb is blathering over it]
 '''Barbara:''' One of you- one of you trolls out there
 '''John:''' Here, what's this- here
 '''Barbara:''' Don't bother- don't bother calling us back again!
 '''John:''' Here, right here.
[The recording starts again, but Barb hangs up]
 '''John:''' Oh, she- Tch.

The credits roll, followed by the actual "recording" of the call - obviously a soundboard.

 '''Girl:''' Hello?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Girl'''Who is this?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' My name is Christian Weston Chandler
 '''Girl:''' Who are you looking for?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' You want me to caress your breasts?
 '''Girl:''' What?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' You'll be lovin' my dick, it's so big and all that, you know. And you'll just- and it'll be- I'll be puttin' it between your tits while you're all tied up.
 '''Barbara (Soundboard):''' SHUT UP! SHUT UP! Stop trying to set up my son! You lousy creep!
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==ThePCAssassins Calls==
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==Chris calls the Po-Po; Po-Po calls Bob==
Most of this call is the CWC soundboard trying to get around the standard questions of the Greene County Sheriff Department's receptionist. The last two minutes involve a police soundboard calling Bob. Note: The CWCki doesn't condone or support pranking legitimate business and services (like the police) in order to prank the Chandlers.
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'''Receptionist:''' Greene County Sheriff's Department. This is [''unintelligible''].
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Receptionist:''' Yes?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Uhh, who is this?
 '''Receptionist:''' This is the Greene County sheriff's office.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' My name is Christian.
 '''Receptionist:''' Umm, 'kay. Can I get your last name?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Christian Weston Chandler...
 '''Receptionist:''' Christian Chandler?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah.
 '''Receptionist:''' [''overlapping slightly''] Christian- then what can we do for you tonight?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Bring the police and, uhh, ambulance around.
 '''Receptionist:''' You need the police and the ambulance?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah.
 [''pause'']
 '''Receptionist:''' OK. Why do you need the police and the ambulance?
 [''long pause'']
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sigh''] Oh, Jesus... [''sigh'']
 [''long pause'']
 '''Receptionist:''' Can you tell me why you need them?
 [''pause'']
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm high-functionally autistic.
 '''Receptionist:''' OK... So why do you need the police? Is there something wrong?
 [''short pause'']
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah.
 '''Receptionist:''' OK, what's wrong?
 [''long pause'']
 '''Receptionist:''' Can you tell me what's goin' on?
 [''pause'']
 '''Receptionist:''' Hey, Christian?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Yes?
 '''Receptionist:''' Can I get your address?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' 14 Branchland Court.
 '''Receptionist:''' 14 Branchland Court? Is that where you're at right now?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah.
 '''Receptionist:''' Can I get your phone number?
 [''pause'']
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' No.
 '''Receptionist:''' You don't want to give out your phone number?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm currently living with my mother and my father.
 '''Receptionist:''' You're living with your mother and your father? Is there something wrong with them? [''pause''] Is that why you need law enforcement?
 [''pause'']
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Receptionist:''' Yes, this is the Greene County sheriff's office.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'm Robert Chandler.
 '''Receptionist:''' Yes, sir. Umm, we received a call saying that you needed law enforcement to your location. Can you tell me if there's anything going on there?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Well, right now it's midnight. What in the world do you want?
 '''Receptionist:''' Well, sir, we were called by this number, and they said that they needed law enforcement there. Can you tell me what's going on?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Why did you call me?
 [''pause'']
 '''Receptionist:''' ''We'' were called, sir. We didn't call you.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' You were up and [''unintelligible''] along with your name
 '''Receptionist:''' Excuse me?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' You come over here and I'll show you whats a matter.
 '''Receptionist:''' Sir, are you threatening me?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yeah.
 '''Receptionist:''' ...Okay, well sir we were called in request of law enforcement to your location. If there's something wrong we need to know about it before we send somebody out there.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Can I let you talk to my wife, and you tell her why your cussin' at me?
 '''Receptionist:''' Sir, I'm not cursing at you.
 '''Barbara (soundboard):''' Hello there! Sir, or ma'am, or whatever the hell you are!
 '''Receptionist:''' Is there anything, that I can do for you?
 '''Barbara (soundboard):''' [''unintelligible''] this damn, uh, thing that's goin' on!
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay, do you require anymore assistance from me?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yeah
 '''Receptionist:''' ...Okay, what can I do than?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Can I explain somethin' to you?
 '''Receptionist:''' Yes you may.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' There is on the internet, a bunch of trolls; they have a program in their computers which allows them to dial numbers, anywhere in the country and put in as the caller ID any particular number they want to.
 '''Receptionist:''' I understand sir, but I am not looking at a caller ID, I was called by Christian Chandler and he stated he needed law enforcement at his location,
('''Bob Interrupting:''' Yeah)
 '''Receptionist:''' and he gave me this address.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yes.
 [''pause'']
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Receptionist:''' Yes sir?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I beg your pardon?
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay is there anything more I can do for you?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I need you to come over here.
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay why do you need law enforcement to come over there?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' What you just did was stick a knife in our back and kill us!
 '''Receptionist:''' Can you repeat what you just said to me?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Are you six years old or somethin'?
 '''Receptionist:''' No sir, I am not six years old, but your phone is very staticy, and it's very difficult to hear what you're saying.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Well, I, I've had plenty of sense in my head.
 '''Receptionist:''' No one is denying you have sense in your head sir, I'm just trying to find out why law enforcement was called to your location, we just need to know if there's anything going on.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Well I don't- well- How can I explain it any simpler to you?
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay sir, thank you for your time.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Listen boy!
 '''Barbara (soundboard):''' You can [''unintelligible''] and shut up!
 (LOUD BANG, END OF CALL)
 (Audio Ends)
'''THIS IS THE SECOND CALL IN THE SAME VIDEO'''
 '''Receptionist:''' Green County Sheriff office, this is [''unintelligible'']
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' YOU'VE BEEN NOTHING BUT A- You've been nothing but a pain in my side!
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay can you repeat what you just said?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' I am going to find you, and I am going to have you proven as a lier!
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay- what did I lie about?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' You, no no- You've been copying me for the past random 6 months!
 '''Receptionist:''' Is this the Chandler?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah... Oh yeah, (Receptionist tries to interrupt) you know my address right?
 '''Receptionist:''' Is this Christian? Or this the mother? '''(Chris interrupting.:''' My name...) We have law enforcement on scene now.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' My name is Christian.
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay Christian, I have a deputy on scene now.
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Yup
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' Oh yeah you know my address right, you got mapquest to come all the way over?
 '''Receptionist:''' Excuse me?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' YOU CAN FIND ME RIGHT NOW, I LIVE IN 14 BRANCHLAND COURT IN RUCKERSVILLE, VIRGINIA!
 '''Receptionist:''' Okay. Is there a deputy on scene right now with you?
 '''Chris (soundboard):''' No.
 '''Receptionist:''' Can you hold on just one moment please?
 (Call ends, Skype hangup sound heard)

'''THIS IS THE THIRD, AND LAST CALL IN THE SAME VIDEO, THIS TIME TO BOB(REAL BOB) USING A DIFFERENT SOUNDBOARD'''
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' Yeah police department.
 '''Bob:''' I can't understand you.
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' You are talking to Sgt. Libski
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon? I can't understand you.
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' This is Sgt. Libski
 '''Bob:''' Okay, that's fine. What can I do for you?
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' Is this an emergency?
 '''Bob:''' No, I have no emergency.
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' Alright, get me the nearest officers out here. We're sending the nearest officers to you out there right now to your address.
 '''Bob:''' We have told you people, you at Green County. Why are you coming in on unknown numbers?
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' We don't take jokes; you said you needed Fire, Medical, or police assistance. This is not a joke, we're sending officers out to your house right now.
 '''Bob:''' I don't- we don't have no problem!
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' Yeah. I got you on GPS right now, you're calling the police department.
 '''Bob:''' I am not calling, I answered my phone!
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' Are you making a prank call to the police department?
 '''Bob:''' No, I am not I answered my phone, it was ringing
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' Uh, you just called me.
 '''Bob:''' No I didn't
 '''Sgt. Libski (Soundboard):''' [''unintelligible''] What is your problem?
 '''Bob:''' I don't have a problem, somebody else in this world must have a problem. I don't not have a problem, I'm just sitting here watching 'I love Raymond' on T.V.
 [''unintelligible gibberish'']
 '''Bob:''' What?
 [''Call ends, skype hangup sound heard.'']
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==Calls to Bob and Chris==
A <s>troll posing as a</s> [[Honest|TRUE and LOYAL]] Sonichu Fan calls Bob and later Chris, demanding [[Sonichu (comic)|new comics]]. The lumberjack suggests that the trolls come talk with him in public, and gives his [[Burger king|daily morning routine]]. This call was uploaded to YouTube on 19 August 2010, but the actual date in which it took place is not known. With that being said, in a 22 August 2010 post at [[Trolling Train]] Chris mentioned that Bob recently had a [[Trollin Train#Hey, guys (Sun 22 Aug 2010)|phone conversation with a self proclaimed Sonichu fan]]. The call Chris referred to was very reminiscent of this call, suggesting it occurred not long before it was uploaded.

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''[Phone rings for about 19 seconds.]''
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Fan:''' Hello, am I speaking to a Mr. Christian Weston Chandler?
 '''Bob:''' Uh well, he's not here right now, could I take a message?
 '''Fan:''' Uh yes I-I'm a big fan of the Sonichu comics. Uh could you ask him when the uh when the community can expect another Sonichu release?
 '''Bob:''' I-I don't really know and I'm not sure he's got one planned right now.
 '''Fan:''' Oh.
 '''Bob:''' Cause the trolls are givin' him a kinda tough time.
 '''Fan:''' Yeah, I hate the trolls.
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, they're- they're just kind of ah, he's kinda layin' low, I guess. Ha ha ha. I would if I were him.
 '''Fan:''' My brother and I are very big Sonichu fans, and we're really lookin' forward to more of his comics.
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, well I think he'd get more if all the trolls, uh, would let him alone.
 '''Fan:''' Yeah.
 '''Bob:''' You'll have to, ah, you'll have to get in some o' the chat rooms and tell the trolls to just lay off. They're stifling his [[Chris and copyright|creativity]]. Heh heh heh.
 '''Fan:''' Yes. Well, I actually know some of the places the trolls congregate at, and I'll see if I can stop them from harassing your family and Christian.
 '''Bob:''' Well, you could- you could pass on a message from me. [''Fan: Uh, sure.''] 'Cause I'm his father. This is Bob, if you haven't heard about me. Ev'ry morning, between 9:30 and about, uh, 10:30 or so, I'm at Burger King restaurant in [[Ruckersville]], eating my breakfast, in the northeast corner booth of the restaurant. And if they wanna come in person and talk to me, I'm not - I don't lie to people and I don't hide under a screen name. And, uh, I'll be glad to talk to anybody and if they've got reasonable questions about Christian, I'll be glad to answer 'em. But I don't do things like that on the phone, and I don't do it on the Internet 'cause I'm not even on the Internet. But I'll be glad to talk to them in person if they're- if they're brave enough to come out in person. 'Cause I got- I got no [[Internet lumberjack|axe to grind]] with any of 'em, and [[Chris and anger|neither has Christian]]. Ha ha, and I don't know why [[Death threats|they think he does]]... he doesn't. We-we'll be glad, or I'll be glad, and I'm sure if Christian knew somebody was comin' and wanted to know, he'd be there for breakfast too. So just tell em, every morning between 9:30 and 10:30 at Burger King. In Ruckersville, Virginia.
 '''Fan:''' I'll be sure to let them know.
 '''Bob:''' Okay? And anybody at UVA that wants to talk, uh, we-we're always there. But it's a public place, and nobody can harm anybody. Ha ha.
 '''Fan:''' I will definitely be sure - to pass on-
 '''Bob:''' We got nothing- you know, we got nothing to hide. Nothin' at all. So I'd 'preciate it if you'd let the trolls know that we're not secretive. Just come talk to us in person. Don't try to hide behind a computer... or the Internet. I- I thank you.
 '''Fan:''' Uh, no problem. ''[Bob hangs up]'' It's been nice talking to you... Goodbye.
 ''[At 3:50, phone rings for about 23 seconds.]''
 '''Chris:''' Hello?
 '''Fan:''' Hello, am I speaking to a Mr. Christian Weston Chandler?
 '''Chris:''' Yes. May I help you?
 '''Fan:''' Uh, yes. Well, just to start off, I am not a troll, I absolutely abhor trolls, and uh, I just have a quick question. ''[Chris says "Mhmm"]'' My brother and I are huge [[Sonichu]] fans, and we were wondering when to expect another Sonichu release?
 '''Chris:''' Eventually, but not right now, 'cause I'm gettin' away from the- cause I've been getting away from the Internet and all that.
 '''Fan:''' Ah. I understand. I recently talked to your father, just a few minutes ago, and, uh, I've called your house before - thought you might be home, and instead I got your dad.
 '''Chris:''' Yeah.
 '''Fan:''' Yeah. Uh, that's pretty much the only question I had, and I thank you for answering it-
 '''Chris:''' Okay. Yeah, well I gotta go. You have a good day. Bye bye.
 '''Fan:''' You too.
|}

==Carlos Chantor Call==

<center>{{#ev:youtube|n-R-notFGdY}}</center>

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 '''Effeminate Caller:''' Is this a Mr [[Carlos Chantor]]? I thought I heard something about you with the, you had an escort service going on.
 ''' Chris:''' Um, I'm sor- uh, I'm sorry you have the wrong number.
 '''Effeminate Caller:''' Oh really? This isn't [''call is disconnected''] Oh you fat...
 ''' Male voice:''' All right, let's try this again.
 '''Efeminate Caller:''' Likely whore.

[''Sound of sniffing'']
 ''' Male voice:''' uhhhh, faggot.

[''Phone rings'']
 ''' Chris:''' Hello?
 '''Effeminate Caller:''' Uh, excuse me I thought that this was the number for Carlos Chantor, I uh looked up the escort ad.
 ''' Chris:''' Oh, um.
 '''Effeminate Caller:''' Yes.
 ''' Chris:''' Yeah, actually, yeah um yeah, it is but I er can't talk, I can't talk right now, could you me call back...
 '''Effeminate Caller:''' Oh
 ''' Chris:''' another time please?
 '''Effeminate Caller:''' Well, yes I was just wondering about, oh what time should I call back cuz I heard you were into watersports?
 ''' Chris:''' Hmm. I may be.
 '''Effeminate Caller:''' What kind of watersports?
 ''' Chris:''' Hmm, uh, talk more about, we'll talk more about that, uh later, uh, call back at [''audio cuts'']
 '''Effeminate Caller:''' Will do, honey.
 ''' Chris:''' Ok, all right, bye bye.
 '''Effeminate Caller:''' Bye now.
|}

==A Redneck calls Bob Chandler==

A redneck is called with a soundboard of Bob Chandler. The redneck is then made into a soundboard, and the real Bob is called with him.

<center>{{#ev:youtube|nPYZkQtJs-g}}</center>

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'''Redneck:''' [indistinct].
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Hello?
 '''Redneck:''' Hey
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Why you calling me?
 '''Redneck:''' Huh?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Why you calling my number?
 '''Redneck:''' Who is this?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I beg your pardon, who do you think you're talking to?
 [Redneck talks over him, asking "Who you talking to?"]
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Who- Who do you think I am?
 '''Redneck:''' Ohhhh...
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Why you calling my phone?
 '''Redneck:''' You sound familiar, who is this?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'm 82 years old. I'm Robert Chandler
 '''Redneck:''' Robert Chandler?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yeah, I'm 82 years old and I was born in Fort Worth.
 '''Redneck:''' ...Shoot!
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'm a Texan, now. So I'm a neighbor.
 '''Redneck:''' You i- Are you out in Texas?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yes. I'm basically a neighbor of yours.
 '''Redneck:''' A neighbor?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I have a cousin who lives in Tulsa.
 '''Redneck:''' ...Huh! Gye- This is Mississippi.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I have a lot of Cherokee relatives that live in your state also.
 '''Redneck:''' Right, I'm Choctaw.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I live in, Ruckersville, Virginia!
 '''Redneck:''' Really, yeah.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yes.
 '''Redneck:''' Hmm!
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Why you calling me?
 '''Redneck:''' I have no idear. ''[Chuckles]'' I didn't know I did, I was outside at the shop, I hear the phone rung...
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'm just an-answerin my telephone.
 '''Redneck:''' Oh. ''[Chuckles]''
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Well, what is on your mind?
 '''Redneck:''' Aw, well I don't know we just trying to get finished up here where we're closed up for Christmas.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Who is this?
 '''Redneck:''' This is Robert Johnson in ''[censored]'', Mississippi.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'm Robert Chandler.
 '''Redneck:''' Well, Merry Christmas, Robert Chandler.
 '''Bob (soundboard:''' Yes.
 '''Redneck:''' Where're you, in Oklahoma now?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' In Oklahoma.
 '''Redneck:''' You in Tulsa?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yes.
 '''Redneck:''' Yeah I heard poor ol' Roberts died up there.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I-I'm a Texan, now.
 '''Redneck:''' Oh, you in Texan? Oh okay.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Okay.
 '''Redneck:''' Well I'm, I don't know who would've called your number, man.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'll let you talk to my wife, maybe she can talk some sense into your head.
 '''Redneck:''' Alright, good. ''[chuckles]''
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' HELLO THERE!
 '''Redneck:''' Hello!
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' Sir, or ma'am, or whatever the hell you are. ''[Redneck chuckling in background]'' There are a lot of, lot of weird people out here, ''[Redneck says something indistinct]'' and you might be included as one of them if you're calling us and cussin' us out!
 '''Redneck:''' Ah naaaar!
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' A-duh, look, don't you call here and cuss us out!
 '''Redneck:''' I didn't know I cussed you out, but ''[more chuckling]''
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' You get your black ass out of the gutter and shut up!
 '''Redneck:''' ''[laughing]'' A-good lord! Wha-
 
 [Call ends. New call]
 
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Hey.
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' You sound familiar.
 '''Bob:''' Well who is this?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' This is Robert Johnson of ''[censored]'', Mississippi.
 '''Bob:''' Well... I guess I might sound familiar cuz I'm a southerner.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' You i- are you out in Texas?
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Where're you in Oklahoma, now?
 '''Bob:''' Nnno, I'm in Virginia.
 [Long pause]
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' This is Mississippi.
 '''Bob:''' Well I don't understand, you rang my telephone and I picked it up.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Well I'm, I don't know who would've called your number.
 '''Bob:''' ''[Pause, TV indistinct in background]'' I don't either.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' I didn't know I did, I was outside at the shop I hear the phone rung.
 '''Bob:''' ...Huh.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Huh?
 '''Bob:''' I'm sorry. ''[Redneck soundboard laughs]'' Somebody just called me, and... it's kinda screwy I guess.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Merry Christmas, Robert Chandler!
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, that's me, who is this?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' This is Robert Johnson of Poplarville, Mississippi. ''[unknown as to why this mention was not censored]''
 '''Bob:''' Well how do you know me?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Huh?
 '''Bob:''' I said how do you know me?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' You sound familiar.
 '''Bob:''' You just called my name, so how do you know me?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Well I'm, I don't know who would've called your number.
 '''Bob:''' I don't either, but you're talkin' to me so somebody must've called.
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' HELLO THERE!
 [Long pause]
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' Who are you calling?
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' HELLOO!
 [Long pause]
 '''Bob:''' Hello?
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' HELLOO!
 [Pause]
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' Who are you calling?
 '''Bob:''' I'm not calling, I'm answering.
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' There are a lot of, lot of weird people out here... and, you might be included as one of them if you're calling us and cussin' us out.
 '''Bob:''' I'm not calling you and cussin' you out! I'm just-
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' ''[interrupting]'' WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO with this damn... uh, thing that's goin' on!
 '''Bob:''' ...I don't understand what you're talkin' about.
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' HANG UP THE PHONE AND FORGET THE NUMBER.
 '''Bob:''' Listen, I-I'm in Virginia, I don't know who you are
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' Well, you're fucked up somehow, goodbye!
 [Long pause]
 '''Bob:''' I-I got a call that says you're in Oklahoma yet, your husband or somebody says you're in Mississippi.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' This is Mississippi.
 '''Bob:''' [Pause] Okay, well your... telephone number came up as Oklahoma on my IDer.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Where're you in Oklahoma now?
 '''Bob:''' No, I'm in Virginia.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' You i- are you out in Texas?
 '''Bob:''' No, I'm not in Texas, I'm in Virginia. I'm in the central part of Virginia where we got two feet of snow.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Huh?
 '''Bob:''' I said I'm in the central part of Virginia, ''[Redneck soundboard laughs]'' where we got two feet of snow and we got buried with snow. We haven't been out in four days. The only reason I've answered the phone, is because I have relatives in Oklahoma and I thought it might be them.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Merry Christmas, Robert Chandler!
 '''Bob:''' Well, Merry Christmas to you. I don't know who you are or why you're callin', but uh, Merry Christmas anyway.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' I didn't know I did, I was outside at the shop I hear the phone rung.
 [Long pause]
 '''Bob:''' Well, have you been gettin' calls from me or somethin'?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Huh?
 '''Bob:''' I say, have you been getting calls from me or somethin'?
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Well I'm, I don't know who would've called your number.
 '''Bob:''' I don't either. But I do know that there's some people on the internet that have some, some electronic program at their disposal, where they can call people around the country, and then cause the telephone ID to come up that says it's somebody else's number other than theirs.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' ''[Laughs]''
 '''Bob:''' This is a system they've got that's called 'Spoofing' as I understand from the uh, police and everybody.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Spoofing!
 '''Bob:''' Yeah it's called spoofing. And, uh, I don't, the federal government knows about it but they don't seem to wanna try to put a stop to it. So you can't even believe your caller ID anymore, can you.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Now, the telephone company knows about this and the federal government knows about this to the point where they've even given it a name called 'spoofing'.
 '''Bob:''' That's right. That's what they tell me. Neh... I-I've gotten calls, like I got this call that says it's from Oklahoma but it's not from Oklahoma.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' In Oklahoma!
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, got the call, my caller ID says you live in Oklahoma.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I live in, Ruckersville, Virginia.
 '''Bob:''' Eh, well, you may live in Ruckersville, I don't know where you live in Ruckersville.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I was born in Fort Worth.
 '''Bob:''' Well that's good. I know other people that were born in Fort Worth.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'm basically a neighbor of yours.
 '''Bob:''' Well that's nice, I'm, I guess you're snowed in too.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yes.
 [Long pause]
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I have a cousin that lives in Tulsa.
 '''Bob:''' Yeah, I do too.
 [Even longer pause]
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' This is who?
 '''Bob:''' I beg your pardon?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' You there.
 '''Bob:''' I'm here.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Who are you?
 '''Bob:''' I live in Virginia.
 [Long pause]
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'm just an-answerin' my telephone.
 '''Bob:''' Well that's all I did was answer my telephone. Sounds like we're both doin' the same thing.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yes.
 '''Bob:''' Some kinda screwy thing goin' on.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'll let you talk to my wife, an' you tell her why you're cussin' at me.
 '''Bob:''' Why I'm what?
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'll let you talk to my wife, maybe she can talk some sense into your head.
 '''Bob:''' Well, I-I have plenty of sense in my head, I-I don't understand your wife, either, I don't know who your wife is.
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' HELLO THERE!
 '''Bob:''' ''[Pause]'' Hello-
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' Sir, or ma'am, or whatever the hell you are.
 '''Bob:''' ''[Pause]'' I don't know who ''you'' are.
 '''Barb (soundboard):''' Kuh, duh, look, don't you call up here cussin' at my husband.
 '''Bob:''' I haven't cussed at your husband, I don't cuss! I'm 82 years old, why should I cuss? I got nobody to cuss.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' I'm 82 year old man.
 '''Bob:''' That's right, I'm 82 year old man, I'm proud of it.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Yeah, I'm 82 years old, but I was born in Fort Worth.
 '''Bob:''' Ngh, that's good, I'm glad you were.
 [Pause]
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Who is this?
 '''Bob:''' When you make more sense, I guess I can talk to you again.
 '''Bob (soundboard):''' Okay.
 '''Bob:''' Okay! You take care.
 '''Redneck (soundboard):''' Merry Christmas, Robert Chandler!
 ''[Call ends]''
|}

{{quote| Merry Christmas, Robert Chandler| Redneck, to| Bob |color=silver|size=360%}}

== Batman Call ==
<center>{{#ev:archiveorg|youtube-4yUUi2Qco5Q}}</center>

In this prank call, another gaggle of weens attempt to prank call Chris, but unfortunately for them, they fail, due to their lack of originality when it comes to jokes, and Chris near-immediately handing the phone over to Barb.

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<poem>
'''Troll #1:''' Eh, I thought it was a hidden camera.(?)
'''Female Troll:''' No, calm down. Well, it's kind of, like, dying.(?)
'''Troll #1:''' Keep it together. [''rustling'']
'''Chris:''' Hello?
'''Troll #1:''' [''talking over Chris''] Hey, Chris! '''I'M BATMAN.'''
'''Chris:''' Huh?
'''Troll #1:''' Hey, Chris, why don't you get back onto the internet?
'''Troll #2:''' We love you, man!
'''Barb:''' Who do-who-who do you think you are?
'''Troll #1:''' '''I'M BATMAN.''' [''pause''] '''I'M BATMAN.'''
'''Troll #2:''' He's Batman, man!
'''Troll #1:''' '''GET BACK ON THE INTERNET.''' [''pause''] '''WHERE ARE YOU GOING?'''
'''Troll #2:''' [''simultaneously''] How are you doin' lately? We just wanted to give you a...call, give you some company, man! [''pause; loud sniffling sound''] You seemed pretty lonely on Facebook, lately...
'''Troll #1:''' '''I THINK HE HUNG UP.'''
'''Troll #2:''' No, i-it's still goin', man. [''a fellow female troll whispers to him unintelligibly''] What?
'''Troll #1:''' What?
'''Barb:''' [''puts on an exaggerated accent of some sort''] Hello, this is your Barb!
'''Troll #2:''' What?!
'''Barb:''' Y'aim a foreigner in your country!
'''Troll #2:''' WHAT?!
'''Troll #1:''' '''I'M BATMAN.'''
'''Troll #2:''' [''both speaking over Barb''] Hey, Batman?
'''Troll #1:''' '''I'M BATMAN.'''
'''Female Troll:''' What's wrong with his voice?!
'''Troll #1:''' '''HE'S, LIKE, RETARDED OR SOMETHING.'''
'''Barb:''' [''is drowned out by the other trolls''] Goodbye! [''hangs up'']
'''Troll #1:''' '''I'M BATMAN.'''
'''Female Troll:''' Who the hell ''was'' that?!
'''Troll #2:''' I don't know, it was [[random-access humor]]! [''unaware Barb hung up''] You love random-access humor, Chris?
'''Troll #1:''' '''[[Duck|HE WANTS THE D]].'''
'''Troll #2:''' Chris, can I hear some of your random-access humor?
'''Troll #1:''' [''briefly speaking over Troll #2''] '''HE WANTS THE D.''' [''speaking with others in background'']
'''Troll #2:''' Wow, we actually got him.
'''Troll #1:''' Let's do star-67 so he doesn't know who we are.
'''Female Troll:''' Wait, does he know you?
'''Troll #2:''' No.
'''Troll #1:''' No, you know--he--like, never ha--uh...he never...picks up.
'''Troll #2:''' [''stuttering''] Can we hear the recording?
'''Troll #1:''' Yeah--
</poem>
|}

==Risotto call==
<center>{{#ev:youtube|VnDPXiPCPos}}</center>

In this prank call, a troll uses the Chris-Chan soundboard to prank a risotto restaurant in Virginia.

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'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Thank you for calling Risotto--
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Good evening sir, how are you?
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Who is this?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Chris.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Oh -- [''unintelligible'']
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Hello?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You got the touch!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' What's that?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You got the power...yeah!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Yeah...why don't you go fuck yourself?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You're beautiful!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' It's true!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Hey bro, why don't you go fuck yourself?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You're my baby!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Shut the hell up.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''unintelligible''] Goodbye.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You shut up!
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Hello?
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Hello? Yeah?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Good evening sir, how are you?
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' What?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' How are you?
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' How you doin'?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm retarded.
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' Naw, don't play with my time.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm high-functionally autistic.
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' Naw, you're not retarded -- you're good.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm retarded.
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' I have a doctor right here. Hold on a second.
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' Doctor [''unintelligible, some name'']?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm high-functionally autistic.
 
[''He hands the phone to the doctor'']
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' Yes, can I help you?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm high-functionally autistic.
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' You functionally have what?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm retarded.
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' You're retarded?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah.
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' Are you hungry?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yes.
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' You're hungry?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yes.
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' Well, if you're hungry, then you should order some food.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' What do you wanna order?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto!
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' What kind?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Vanilla h- [cuts off]
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' Vanilla risotto?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yes.
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' We don't have vanilla risotto.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' No. No.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sighs twice'']
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' Yeah, sorry. No vanilla risotto. So sorry.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' What time do you think you could be by my place?
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' I can see if Sean has some risotto.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' What time do you think you could be by my place?
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' Sean lives in Pleasantville.
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' Call the [''unintelligible''] bar in Pleasantville. I think they have, uh, bagnoche, I think they have risotto too.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yes.
 
'''Doctor (female employee):''' Okay. And --
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Y'know, I watched my own share of pornography in my lfietime, but that's just me growing up, you know?
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' Risotto's.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm sorry.
 
'''Restaurant employee''': You okay?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' We had miscommunication.
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' What?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' We had miscommunication.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Well, I'm speechless at the moment.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Well, I'm sorry I gave off that impression.
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' Okay.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I did not mean to give off the impression of being crazy.
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' Alright, can you call back tonight? We are very busy right now.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' No.
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Risotto's, may I help you?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' Hello?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' Hello, how can I help you?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' I'm gonna call the cops right away, okay?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I will call 911.
 
'''Restaurant employee (male):''' I'm gonna call the cops right now.
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Risotto's, how may I help you?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''unintelligible'']
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
[''People talk in the background''.]
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I never promised you a happy ending!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Can you say that again?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto! Risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''high pitched''] Oh my god, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Police officer #1 (female):''' I'm sorry, this is the police station, you shouldn't be fooling around like that.
 
'''Police officer #1 (female):''' So don't call here anymore, okay?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Go ahead! Go ahead and take it to the police!
 
'''Police officer #1 (female):''' Okay.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You can find me right now! I live at 14 Branchland Court in Ruckersville, Virginia!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' We are in the same time zone.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' 14 Branchland Court.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Ruckersville.
 
'''Police officer #1 (female):''' No --
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You got the touch!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You got the power...yeah!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You're beautiful, you're beautiful, it's true.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I never promised you a happy ending!
 
[''indistinct mumbling in background'']
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Risotto's, may I help you?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female)''': We have Caller ID, and we're gonna call the cops.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I invite you to come, I invite you to write this down.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' What?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You can find me right now! I live at 14 Branchland Court in Ruckersville, Virginia!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Go ahead! Go ahead and take it to the police!
 
[''indistinct mumbling in the background'']
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sigh'']
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Hello?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Hello, Risotto's?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' You're an asshole.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Oh yeah, I'm so excited! I just can't hide it!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' A real asshole.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Oh, that sounds good, that sounds real good.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' You're a fuckin' asshole.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Oh yeah...turns me on.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''sarcastically''] Oh...good.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You know it, girl.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [''sarcastically''] Oh, good for you.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Oh yeah!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Look, what kind of man is that, that they call a restaurant twenty times and say "Risotto House" -- what are you, fuckin' retarded?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm retarded.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' I ''know'' you're retarded.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I am full of surprises!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Why don't you come down here and tell me that?
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' What kind of man are you?
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Huh?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I am a strong man.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' What kind of man is that? He's not a man.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I am a strong man.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Y'know what, see how strong you are, come down here.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I did 51 reps with 50 pound weights.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' I don't care how many --
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''interrupting''] Shut the hell up.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' You probably have a little dick, too.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You've been nothing but a pain my, pain in my side.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Oh, now you're mad?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You shut up!
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Now you gettin' mad?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Why don't you call the police station and tell them your story?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Oh, come on.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Huh?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Oh, come on.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' You want their number?
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' It's 1010-201-060-[''unintelligible'']
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' It goes to my father.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm just rubbin' myself thinking about it.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [Gaugin?] Doolittle.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Uh, no, my right arm was holding the phone and I used my left hand to touch myself.
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' [nonsense, trying to drown out voice] Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You want me to caress your breasts?
 
'''Restaurant employee (female):''' Uh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh.
 
[The rest of these phrases are interspersed with the employee trying to talk over voice in similar manner.]
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah, I'm gonna keep bangin' your breasts over and over again until I give you the first dosage of my comeuppance.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You'll be lovin' my dick, it's so big and -- and all that you know, and you'll just -- I'll be putting it between your tits while you're tied up.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [high pitched] R-R-R-R-R-Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto! Risotto!
 
[''dial tone'']
 
'''Police officer #2 (female):''' Welcome to the police station.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''high pitched''] Risotto, risotto!
 
Cl2: Bring the police and the amublance around.
 
'''Police officer #2 (female):''' What is your emergency?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I will call 911.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Go ahead! Go ahead and take it to the police!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I invite you to come, I invite you to write this down.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You can find me right now! I live at 14 Branchland Court in Ruckersville, Virginia.
 
'''Police officer #2 (female):''' What is your emergency?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I am retarded.
 
'''Police officer #2 (female):''' What is your emergency?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm high-functionally autistic.
 
'''Police officer #2 (female):''' What is your emergency?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I like to draw and color.
 
[''talking in background'']
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sighs nine times'']
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I'm just rubbin' myself thinking about it.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Oh, Jesus.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sighs three times'']
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' You want me to caress your breasts?
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sighs four times'']
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah, I'm gonna keep bangin' your breasts over and over again until I give you the first dosage of my comeuppance.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sighs two times''] Yeah.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sighs twice''] You'll be lovin' my dick, it's so big and -- and all that you know, and you'll just -- I'll be putting it between your tits while you're tied up.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' And then you know what, I'm going to lick it, I'm gonna lick it off your face, and then we're gonna share it in our tongue like tongue sharing ''moment''!
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sighs four times''] Yeah. Yes.
 
'''Chris (soundboard):''' [''sighs''] Oh, Jesus.
 
|}

==THe GAMe PLACe Call==
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In this prank call, a troll uses the Chris-Chan soundboard to prank [[The GAMe PLACe]].

Take note of the fact that this was done the day before [[28 October 2011]]. Some have speculated that this call may have been one of the triggers that caused that event; Bob died a month before the call and Chris and Barb were still mourning for him, and having to deal with another call from the police station over false events likely caused him and Barb to snap.

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'''Female Employee:''' GAMe PLACe, [''indistinct'']
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Hello?
'''Female Employee:''' Hello.
'''Chris (soundboard):''' My name is Christian Weston Chandler.
'''Female Employee:''' [''talking under him''] Yeah?
'''Chris (soundboard):''' I invite you to come--I invite you to...write this down. Are you really at 14 Branchland Court?
'''Female Employee:''' ...I have no idea about what you're talking about, I think you've called the wrong number.
[''The employee hangs up the line. The troll using the soundboard calls again.'']
'''Female Employee:''' GAMe PLACe, [''indistinct'']
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Hello?
'''Female Employee:''' Hello.
'''Chris (soundboard):''' How are you?
'''Female Employee:''' [''indistict''] Do you need something?
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Yeah, y'know, I've watched my own share of pornography in my lifetime. But you know, that's just--uh, uh, that's just me growing up, you know?
'''Female Employee:''' I think that maybe you need to grow up. I'll gonna call the cops if you call again, if you keep on messing with me. [''hangs up'']
'''Chris (soundboard):''' Bring the police and, uhh, ambulance around.
[''calls employee again'']
'''Female Employee:''' GAMe PLACe, [''indistinct'']
'''Chris (soundboard):''' YOU GOT THE TOUCH!
'''Female Employee:''' What?
'''Chris (soundboard):''' YOU GOT THE POWAAAAAARRRRRR, YEAAAAAH!
'''Female Employee:''' [''laughing''] Okay--
'''Chris (soundboard):''' YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL! YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, IT'S TRUE!
'''Female Employee:''' [''indistinct; near the end it sounds like she says "Thanks for the call", "We're tracing your call" or "They're tracing the call"'']
</poem>
|}

==Chris Chan calls Time-Life==
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=="The many Prank Calls of Chris Chan"==
In this series of calls, another gaggle of weens repeatedly call Chris under the guise of wanting to conduct an interview with him. Chris goes along with it at first, but quickly hangs up after one of the trolls brings up his sex tapes. After three more failed attempts at calling him, which end with Chris pretending to get feedback, wittering on about how he is STRAIGHT, and quickly hanging up, respectively, he continues on with a call at the very end, when one of the weens poses as a fan named Avril/Lily. "Avril" manages to secure a time and date for the "interview", which never ended up happening.
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{{Quote|It's okay to be stupid, but NOT homosexual, you can QUOTE me on that!|Chris}}
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'''Troll #1:''' [''talking over Chris unintentionally''] Well, you guys are, like, bad...
'''Chris:''' Hello? [''pause''] Hello?
'''Troll #2:''' Yeah.
'''Chris:''' Hello?
'''Troll #2:''' Who is this?
'''Chris:''' Uh.....I should be asking that question.
'''Troll #1:''' You're Chris-Chan, aren't you?
'''Chris:''' Yes.
'''Troll #1:''' Uh-huuuh.
'''Troll #2:''' Wait, you ''are'' Chris-Chan?
'''Troll #1:''' Oh, really?
'''Troll #2:''' Oh, hello there.
'''Chris:''' Yes--
'''Troll #1:''' You're the ''[[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]]'' guy, aren't you?
'''Chris:''' Yes.
'''Troll #1:''' You have, like, a high amount of autism, don't you?
'''Chris:''' Uh, what?
'''Troll #2:''' [''talking over Chris''] Eh, don't worry, I have autism too, I...just...
'''Troll #1:''' Hey, Chris-Chan, we just want a word with you. Um, what was your inspiration for ''Sonichu''?
'''Chris:''' I'm sorry, I can't quite--I did not quite understand that, I got my mind on other things as well at the moment.
'''Troll #1:''' Well, mm-mm--well, anyways, Chris-Chan, what was your biggest inspiration for ''Sonichu''?
'''Chris:''' Hmm...oh, wa--oh so many things that I can't really say off the top of my head right now.
'''Troll #1:''' Isn't it a conversion of S-uh, Pokémon and Sonic, correct?
'''Chris:''' It's--that is one thing, yes, but there are so many other things as well.
'''Troll #1:''' [''blowing the call almost immediately''] And you make sex tapes. [''chuckles'']
'''Troll #2:''' Oh, don't you go and do that! Idiot.
'''Troll #1:''' Oh, sorry...
'''Troll #2:''' Dammit...
[''Chris hangs up, and after a few seconds of silence the default Skype hangup sound is heard'']
'''Troll #2:''' Dammit, Leonard(?), you went a little too far.
'''Troll #3:''' You blew it.....you blew it! At least we knew something. Right?
'''Troll #2:''' Mmmhmm.
'''Troll #3:''' Rrrrright?
'''Troll #2:''' Right.
[''they call him again'']
'''Chris:''' Hey, [[Kim]]! [''pause''] Kim? ...hello?
'''Troll #1:''' Christian?
'''Chris:''' Uh, yes, who is this?
'''Troll #1:''' Uhhhhh, well, we--a bunch of people, my friends, we both, uh, decided to interview you if you don't mind.
'''Chris:''' [''poorly imitating feedback''] Ah-kk-kkkk-I-kkkk-can't-kkkk-hear-kkkk-going-kkkk-through-kkkk-the-kkkk-ground, uhhh, ugh-kkkk-talk to you...guys...later! [''hangs up'']
'''Troll #1:''' Uhh...i-it won't be...''that douchebag!'' Where--
[''they call him again'']
'''Chris:''' Hello?
'''Troll #1:''' Hello, Chris-Chan, my name is John Speed. I'm one of your biggest fans and I wanna know if I can do an interview with you?
'''Chris:''' I will answer one question, and that will be: I AM STRAIGHT.
'''Troll #1:''' That's--
'''Chris:''' The--I only made that video as a ''mockery'', as a slanderous mockery, like is it--it was done in ''[[Monty Python]] Flying Circus'', except now it--now, '''it's'''..."''Really Stupid Flying Jackass''"!
'''Troll #1:''' [''tries talking, is continually interrupted'']
'''Chris:''' So, that's what--so, that was basically the premise of that video, and I'm about to make an announcement video, cons--to, uh, emphasize that, I was going--I was going with the direct, uh--direction of ''stupid''...in the, duh, ih, the definition of "stupid" then referring to the word GEHHHHH! EHH! It's okay to be stupid, but NOT homosexual, you can QUOTE me on that! You can QUOTE me on that! Bye-bye.
'''Troll #1:''' .....FUCK!
'''Troll #3:''' Uh, the contrary(?)...
'''Troll #1:''' Fail number three. [''sarcastic applause''] Thaaaaat's it. We can't call him.
[''they nevertheless call him again'']
'''Chris:''' Hello?
'''Troll #3:''' Hello, Chris-Chan! ['''Chris:''' ...goodbye!] Or, can I say, father?
'''Troll #1:''' YOU GOT PWNED BY CHRIS-CHAN! [''the other trolls laugh'']
'''Troll #3:''' ''What?''
'''Troll #2:''' Chris-Chan pwned!
'''Troll #3:''' Really, what? Since when has Chris-Chan been--
[''they call him one last time'']
'''Chris:''' Hello?
'''Female Troll:''' Hello, um, is this Christian Weston Chandler?
'''Chris:''' Uh, yes, who is this?
'''Female Troll:''' Oh, um, I'm sorry we've never been properly introduced here, uh, my name is, um, Avril. See, my-my real name is Lily, but my, uh, my screenname on the internet is "Avril the Hedgehog", and I'm from a, uh, a small, close-knit Sonic community and we would like to conduct a phone interview with you if you d-if you don't mind.
'''Chris:''' Well, uh, uh--I would not mind but I'm busy at the moment, so, perhaps another time?
'''Female Troll:''' Alright, well, tell me whatever time's best for you and I will contact you then, I will patch you in for anytime you're available except for tomorrow, tomorrow I will be busy. But Monday or Tuesday is probably the best time for me.
'''Chris:''' I see, what will you be doing tomorrow?
'''Female Troll:''' Tomorrow, I have to do some stuff with my family, my, um, father's moving into a new house, I have to make sure everything is all checked out, so that's, I'm gonna be out of the house all day, I'm going to be very, very busy. Real estate, y'know.
'''Chris:''' Okay, okay, uh, did you say Tuesday was not good?
'''Female Troll:''' Tuesday's fine with me, I can do Tuesday.
'''Chris:''' A'ight, Tuesday night then.
'''Female Troll:''' Alright, Tuesday, what time?
'''Chris:''' About--about 9:00 Eastern.
'''Female Troll:''' Oh, that's wonderful, that's perfect for me, thank you very much, Chris.
'''Chris:''' Alright, what timezone do you live in?
'''Female Troll:''' I live in Eastern as well, so this is perfect for me.
'''Chris:''' Okay. Alright, take care, be safe.
'''Female Troll:''' You too, thank you very very very much. Okay.</poem>
|}

==Sonichussy Call==
On 26 [[December 2023]], Twitter user Caseyj109 uploaded a video, and wrote "@CPU_CWCSonichu why didn’t you answer my phone call? #chrischan #cwcville #sonichu"<ref>https://twitter.com/Caseyj109/status/1739863842207805592 ([https://twitter.com/Caseyj109/status/1739863842207805592 archive])</ref> The video depicts Casey calling [[Barbara Chandler]] and asking for "[[Weening|Sonichussy]]", which unsurprisingly goes nowhere.

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'''Casey:''' [''video starts mid-sentence''] --ourt house?
 '''Barbara:''' Yup, what'cha need?
 '''Casey:''' Hello, is, uh, is-is, is Christine there?
 '''Barbara:''' No.
 '''Casey:''' No?
 '''Barbara:''' Christine does not live here.
 '''Casey:''' [''drowned out by Barb''] She doe--?
 '''Barbara:''' Why do you need her--why do you need Christine?
 '''Casey:''' I'm just trying to figure out what that Sonichussy's like.
 '''Barbara:''' You tryin' to figurin' out what?
 '''Casey:''' What that So, what that Sonichussy's like.
 '''Barbara:''' Oh...
 '''Casey:''' ...yes, ma'am?
 '''Barbara:''' I don't know. Just watch, just watch the co... read the comic books.
 '''Casey:''' Read the comic books?
 '''Barbara:''' Yeah.
 '''Casey:''' Okay. And I'll figure out what that Sonichussy be like?
 '''Barbara:''' ...okay, bye.
 '''Casey:''' ''(imitating Barb)'' Bye. ''(giggles like an idiot)''
|}

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[[Category:Phone calls]]

Kellie Andes

2026-02-13T14:47:12Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Gallery */ Chris included all four yearbook photos of everyone from his middle school and high school.

{{quote|I REALLY missed out on that when I could have had the chance to take it.|Chris, totally deluded<ref>[[User:ChrisChanSonichu profile#The Teenage Years]]</ref>}}
[[Image:0315-KellieAndesY2K.jpg|thumb|right|Kellie Andes (circa [[2000]]).]]

{{quote|OMG guys it gets WORSE! I threw up a little in my mouth after watching [[For J-R's Eyes Only.MOV|this]]. If you have a weak stomach, turn back now.|Kellie's reaction to Chris several years after High School.<ref>[[December 2013 Facebook posts]]</ref>}}

'''Kellie Andes''' was [[Chris]]'s crush in [[Manchester High School|high school]] that he met in sophomore year. They lost contact in mid-[[2001]].<ref>[[:Image:0309-CWCNote5.jpg|DVD, note 5]]</ref> Today, Chris thinks he had a chance with her but blew it due to [[naïve|naïveté]].<ref>[[User:ChrisChanSonichu profile#The Teenage Years]]</ref> Chris calls her his [[Gal-Pals and Past Sweethearts (CWCipedia page)|High School Sweetheart]], despite the fact that the term is usually reserved for people that are officially dating.

==During High School==
Kellie was Chris's lab partner in chemistry class at Manchester High, along with [[Gal pal#Sarah Anne Bevel|Sarah Anne Bevel]]. Chris developed a crush on her in his sophomore year. She was apparently friendly enough with Chris to attend [[My big 18th party|his 18th birthday party]], where she gave him a jawbreaker.

==After High School==
Unlike most of his gal-pals, Chris managed to keep in touch with Kellie for some time after graduation. He gave her a [[Christian's Favorite Hits!#Other Releases|personalized CD]] for [[Christmas]] 2000. He claims to have called her every weekend for about a year to a year and a half. Then he stopped. He has told contradictory stories about why. In notes he made for his [[DVD]] in 2007, he said that the cause was [[noviophobia]]: "I was afraid that you [Kellie] may have moved on to someone who you may have called your sweetheart."<ref>[[DVD Slideshow Transcripts#CWC Note 3]]</ref> In 2009, however, he told [[Kacey]] that one week, he just forgot to call Kellie, and, having broken the routine, never resumed.<ref>[[Kacey Call 6]]</ref> Even more confusing, while his May 2009 [[Wikipedia]] profile indicated that he believed that he could have gotten some from Kellie if he just hadn't been so damn shy, a few months later he told Kacey that his [[Barb|mother]] had informed him back in 2001 that Kellie obviously had a boyfriend at seinor [sic] prom, and that his weekly phone calls were in vain. In 2014, he changed his story again to make himself seem less clueless, implying that he had figured out for himself around graduation (not a year later) that Kellie was dating someone.<ref>[[Catherine E-mails#Ex-gal pals]]</ref>

His mother's eye-opener in 2001 that Kellie had been someone else's sweetheart all along was a "shock" to Chris that lasted for several weeks. It broke his last remaining tie to his high school life. It obviously contributed to his sense of loneliness and self-doubt.

Chris never had a chance with Kellie under any scenario. In [[User:Delabonte/Kellie|2010 correspondence]], Kellie confirmed that Chris was definitely not her type.

{{quote|I never liked Christian in that way. Christian is def. not my type nor has he ever been.|Kellie, describing her relations with Chris}}

Throughout 2013, as Chris planned the fifteenth annual Manchester High School reunion, he fantasized about hanging out with Kellie, but in reality she wanted nothing to do with him. In [[December 2013]], Kellie discovered Chris's antics since high school and provided some telling commentary. She shared a link on her [[Facebook]] page for Chris's [[For J-R's Eyes Only.MOV]] video with the comment, "OMG guys it gets WORSE! I threw up a little in my mouth after watching [[For J-R's Eyes Only.MOV|this]]. If you have a weak stomach, turn back now."<ref>[[December 2013 Facebook Posts#It Gets WORSE!]]</ref> Chris admitted in 2014 that Kellie had blocked him on Facebook a few years earlier.

In [[February 2021]], [[Bella]] allegedly impersonated Kellie in a set of e-mails to Chris (misspelling her name as Kelly), which Chris responded to.<ref>[[Bella chats#Kelly Andes E-mails]]</ref>

==In the comic==
[[Image:Kellie Andes.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Kellie, upon discovering Chris's [[nudes]].]]

Kellie appears in the last page of [[Episode 15]] of the [[comic]] as someone who discovers Chris's [[nudes]]. In [[Episode 17]], [[Rosechu]] mentions Kellie as the one who informed her about [[4-cent_garbage]]. In reality, Chris admits that he only gave Kellie the honor of discovering the ED page in the comic.<ref>[http://cogsdev.110mb.com/sonichu/SchuComic9P4.htm Sonichu 8, page 4.] Chris in an [[Blanca E-mails#Chris describes Episode 17: "Rage Against the Garbage"|email to Blanca]]</ref> It's highly unlikely she did in real life.

Some argue that she is also the inspiration for [[Kel]]'s name. In [[Sonichu 10|''Sonichu'' #10]] Kel is actually referred to as "Kellie"; while it's still possible they're not meant to be the same person (especially considering the appearance of "real" Kellie in episode 15), the spelling at least reinforces the idea that Kel is meant to be some version of Kellie. The fact that Kel is in love with [[Reldnahc]] (who is essentially a Freudian version of Chris) is telling of Christian's obsession with his high school years.

==Gallery==
<center>
<gallery>
Image:0312-KellieAndes97.jpg|Kellie, 1997.
Image:0313-KellieAndes98.jpg|Kellie, 1998.
Image:0314-KellieAndes99.jpg|Kellie, 1999
Image:0315-KellieAndesY2K.jpg|Kellie, 2000.
File:0487-CWC18th18.jpg|Chris's 18th birthday party. Kellie is second from the left.
Image:0562-KellieAndesAllAround.jpg|Kellie and [[wikipedia:Domonic Jones|Domonic Jones]] at the [[Manchester High School]] prom. He went on to play professional basketball, she went on to marry a firefighter and have two children. Chris drew unpublishable comics in his bedroom for ten years.
Image:0565-CWCKellieGrads.jpg|Kellie and [[Chris]]
File:0575-CWCKellieXmas.jpg
File:0576-CWCKellieColdHello.jpg
Image:0577-KellieWSchuSweater.jpg|Kellie modelling the finest Sonichu fashion
File:049-Songs4Kellie.jpg|"Songs 4 Kellie," his 2000 Christmas gift.
File:Lego Kellie Andes.jpg|[[LEGO]] Kellie. Chris made this in '''''2014'''''.
</gallery></center>

== Sources ==
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{{HighSchoolSaga}}
{{Love Quest}}
{{People}}
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[[Category:Real people who have appeared in Sonichu comics]]
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'''Row One''': C. Chandler, J.S. Edwards, G.W. Floyd, S. D. Miller, T.L. Holt, A.L. Rivers, M.D. Powell, K. Miller; '''Row Two''': Coach McCoull, Coach Watkins, D.L. Willis, W.J. Smith, A.D. Jefferson, I.L. Potter, K.A. Brown, M.M. Baker, C.V. McDowell, D.R. Jones, Coach Benz, J. Herring

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2001

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[[Image:0583-CWC19-2.jpg|thumb|Chris in '''2001'''.]]
[[Image:0315-KellieAndesY2K.jpg|thumb|In '''2001''', Chris lost touch with [[Kellie Andes]].]]
[[Image:0618-BarbaraIs60-1.jpg|thumb|Cake Chris made for his mother's 60th birthday in '''2001'''. It features [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]]...]]
[[Image:063-SonicVsSonichu.jpg|thumb|Early [[Sonichu (comic)|Sonichu]] art.]]

'''2001''' was the year that [[Chris]] turned 19 years old. It's worth mentioning that beginning from age 19 onwards, Chris has been rapidly gaining weight, as photos taken from this year show his growing double chin as well as the first noticeable appearance of his [[manboobs]].

Among other events, this year saw Chris joining [[eBay]], as well as beginning (and ending) his job at [[Wendy's]], which would turn out to be the only sort of employment (next to [[Cutco|an MLM stint]]) he'd ever pursue.

==Events of 2001==
* Summer 2001 - [[LEGO|Bionicle]] is released in the U.S.

===January===
* 17 January - [[Copitz]] is born.
* 29 January - Chris posts the confusingly-titled "Issue #1" of [[Sonichu's News Dash]], which consists of the cheat codes for five [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] games. He updates [[CWC's Sonichu Site!]].
* 31 January - [[Sega]] announces they will be exiting the console business to focus exclusively on game developing and publishing.

===February===
* 3 February - Chris makes a new [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] card.
* 13 February - Chris updates [[CWC's PokéSite 2]]. He adds some images.
* 20 February - Chris creates a [[Metonic]] Pokemon card.
* 21 February - Chris creates the "_______'s Sonichu" card.
* 22 February - [[Rosey]], the offspring of a [[Rosechu]], is conceived by Chris. Chris also makes another Sonichu card, calling him "the fastest Pokemon alive."
* 24 February - Chris's 19th [[birthday]]. A picture is taken of Chris as he prepares to leave the house wearing a Manchester High sweatshirt that is somewhat small for him, a non-matching blue shirt underneath his sweatshirt, a backpack, a cheap digital watch, leather gloves and his Ash Ketchum hat. It is assumed that he likely wore outfits like this during his first year at PVCC.

===March===
* 1 March - Chris creates the Racing Sonichu card.
* 6 March - Chris makes an Archie Comics cover for "[[Sonic The Hedgehog]] vs. Sonichu."
* 14 March - [[Vamprosa]], [[Rosechu]]'s evolution, is born.
* 31 March - Sega's final console, the Dreamcast, is discontinued.

===May===
* 28 May - Chris joins [[eBay]].

===June===
* 6 June - Chris makes a CD called "Linda Ronstadt (En [[Spanish|Espanol]])."<ref>[[:File:051-LindaRonstadtCD.jpg]]</ref>
* 19 June - Shadow the Hedgehog's first appearance, in ''Sonic Adventure 2''. He would later be ripped off as [[Blake]].

===July===
[[File:2002 BrickFest7.jpg|thumb|Chris and [[Bob]] at BrickFest.]]
* 12 July - Chris shoots "[[The City of Cwicville Tour!]]" video.
* 13-15 July - Chris and his father Bob attends BrickFest 2001

===August===
* August - Chris enters his second year at [[Piedmont Virginia Community College]].
* August - Chris starts working at [[Wendy's]] according to his [[Chris's résumé|résumé]] (in the [[Father Call]] he implies that he started earlier).
* Summer - Chris loses touch with his [[gal-pal]] [[Kellie Andes]].

===September===
[[File:Memory-card-15-2.jpg|thumb|The infamous Dark Arbok.]]
* September (before 11 September) - Chris is fired from [[Wendy's]] according to the [[Father Call]].
* 4 September - [[Bob]] turns 74.
* 11 September - A newly unemployed Chris goes shopping with [[Barbara]] at a Dollar Tree.<ref>[[September 2012 Facebook_posts#September 11]]</ref> He buys a card which turns out to be a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120719044537/http://www.pokemontradingpost.com/images/Rocket/H-2_Dark_Arbok.jpg Dark Arbok], which he seems to see as a negative omen.<ref>[[Jackie E-mails 29]]</ref> Also, Chris is allegedly [[Apology for 9/11 Joke|saddened]] by the [[terrorist]] attacks on the World Trade Center. [[Father Call|Matthew Devoria]]'s mother ([[Kacey]]'s grandmother) dies in the WTC, while Kacey herself was volunteering as a rescue worker at Ground Zero, donating blood and providing medical aid to wounded survivors.

===October===
* October - Chris stops working at [[Wendy's]] (according to his [[Chris's résumé|résumé]]).
* 1 October - Barb turns 60. Chris puts [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] on her cake.
* 2 October - Chris updates [[CWC's Sonichu Site!]].

===November===
* 17 November - Chris creates the Mystery-to-Solve card.
* 29 November - Chris creates the Hooked on Sonichu card.

===December===
[[File:Sing-A-Longs For Madeline CD image 2.jpg|thumb|Sing-A-Longs For Madeline]]
* December - For [[Christmas]], Chris makes a CD for his cousin [[Madeline]], and he also makes a copy for himself.<ref>[[Cwclight#Sing-A-Longs For Madeline - Original CD Burned and Decorated by JCWCSP]]</ref>
* 4 December - Chris creates "CWC's Vroom-A-Zoom!," his [[Hot Wheels]] website.

==References==
<references/>

{{Timeline}}

[[Category:Chronology]]

2002

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[[Image:0599-CWC20-4.jpg|thumb|Chris, turning 20 in '''2002'''.]]
'''2002''' was the year that [[Chris]] turned 20 years old. What Chris did in this year is mostly a mystery, but it <s>might</s> almost definitely includes playing [[vidya]].

==Events==
===January===
* January - Chris opens his own [[Lego|Bionicle]] website.

===February===
* 20 February - The Shining [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] card is created.
* 24 February - Chris's 20th [[birthday]]. He creates the [[Rainbow|Turbo Rainbow]] card to put on [[The Wall of Originals]]. He also receives an AstroPad (a third-party Dreamcast controller), some Bionicles, the ''Super Mario 64'' soundtrack, a ''Powerpuff Girls'' card, some Sonic figurines and a ''Sonic Advance'' strategy guide.

===March===
* 11 March - Armat, Steeline and Dark Steeline are created by Chris.
* 15 March - Chris updates [[CWC's Pokésite 2]].
* 16 March - Chris offers a [[naïve]] definition of love when he creates the Sonichu & [[Rosechu]] card. "Sonichu and Rosechu love each other so much, that neither one ever forgets the other's Birthday."
* 21 March - Chris creates the Evil Energy card.
* 24 March - Evails, the famous Eevee-Tails hybrid, is born, as well as its evolution, Supreon. Also, Chris creates the Whammy!!!... card, featuring a character ripped off from the 80's game show ''Press Your Luck''.
* 25 March - Chris makes a Dark Christian card, and threatens to kill [[Harry Potter]] on it.
* 28 March - [[Ultra Sonichu]] is created by Chris. He updates [[CWC's Sonichu Site!]].

===April===
* 5 April - Techti and Cytiger, technological Pokémon, are born.
* 11 April - Chris creates the [[Sonichu Ball]] card.
* 13 April - Chris creates the Chaos Emerald card, and makes two [[Power Rangers]] themed cards called "Bulk and Skull" and "Sonichu Zord".

===May===
* 15 May - Chris creates the Shiney Stadium card.
* 16 May - Fox cancels ''[[Family Guy]]''.
* 31 May - Chris buys a GameCube.<ref>''"I've had my Gamecube for about almost a year and a half now, got it on May thirty-first, twenty o'two."'', [[Animal Crossing Documentary#Transcription|Animal Crossing Documentary]] </ref>

===June===
* June - Chris stops working as a volunteer assistant Gym Leader at [[Toys "R" Us]].
* June - Chris starts working as a volunteer assistant Gym Leader at [[The GAMe PLACe]].

===July===
* 19-21 July - Chris attends [[BrickFest]] 2002 and displays a lego version of himself at "Rockersville", Virginia.
* 24 July - Chris makes a homemade card of [[Blake]], called Black Sonichu at the time.

===August===
* August - Chris enters his third year at [[Piedmont Virginia Community College]].

===September===
* September - Chris signs his own guestbook on his website as [[Ricardo]], and says that [[Harry Potter]] is a "spaz".
* 4 September - [[Bob]]'s 75th birthday.
* 7 September - The Christian's Maintenance card is created for the [[Wall of Originals]].
* 17 September - [[Caden Peck]] is born

===October===

* 1 October - Barb's 61st birthday.

===November===
*21 November - Release of ''[[Pokémon|Pokémon Ruby]]'' and ''[[Pokémon|Sapphire]]'': first appearance of [[Pokémon#Boulder-Dropping Whale|Wailord]] and [[Pokémon#Mudkip|Mudkip]].

===December===
[[File:Santa letter 2002.jpeg|thumb|]]
*7 December - A letter Chris addressed to [[Santa Claus]] wishing for a video game, gifts for relatives and friends, and for [[Sonichu]] to be made real, is published in the local ''Daily Progress'' newspaper.<ref>[[Chris in the media#Daily Progress]]</ref>
*10 December - Barb is pulled over and is charged with the following offense: "DEFECTIVE RIGHT SIDE BRAKE LT".<ref>[[:File:Barbchan2.PNG]]</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{Timeline}}

[[Category:Chronology]]

Bob Chandler

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{{quote|It was an interesting life I had.|Bob, at peace.<ref>[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7]]</ref>}}

{{quote|I had more freedom when he was alive.|Chris, reflecting on his life prior to his father's death.<ref name=LoudNoise>[[February 2017 Facebook Posts#Claiming hospital staff killed Bob]]</ref>}}

{{quote|I don't believe he ever, Mr. C, any of her past boyfriends, ex-husbands... haven't really reached and hit her G-spot really with their dicks.|Chris, insulting Bob's memory by claiming that [[Affair with Mother|he was better at fucking]] [[Barbara Chandler|the man's wife]] [[Chris and his ego|than he ever was]].<ref>[[Incest Call]]</ref>}}

{{Infobox Person
| name = Robert Franklin Chandler Jr.
| image = Chrischansdad.jpg
|imagesize = 250
|aliases = Bob Bobby Mr. C [[Bob Walks In|Internet Lumberjack]] [[Cole Smithey#Relationship with Barbara and Bob|Republican cur]] [[:File:Chandler family as ponies.png|Gallop Crush]] Robertchu<ref>[[List of beliefs brainwashed into Chris#Sonichu genealogy for Chris, Bob and Ted Bundy]]</ref>
|label3 = Date of Birth
|day = 4
|month = 9
|year = 1927
|deathday = 6
|deathmonth = 9
|deathyear = 2011
|gender = Male
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|race = White [[Count Dankula|Half-Sonichu]]<ref>Planted by [[Idea Guys#Lingering influence|Idea Guy]], mentioned in [[Count Dankula]] interview</ref>
|religion = Protestant (Methodist)
|label8 = Height
|ft = 5
|in = 7.5
|spouse = Patricia Faye Harley (1956–1980, divorce) [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara Ann Weston]] (1980–2011, his death)
|children = Dr. David Alan Chandler Carol Suzanne Chandler [[Christian Weston Chandler]] [[Cole Smithey]] (stepson)
|grandchildren = [[Savannah Chandler]]
|father = Robert Franklin Chandler Sr. (1906–1977)
|mother = Jean Hollomon (1906–1945)
|education = [[wikipedia:Auburn_University|Auburn University]] ([[wikipedia:Bachelor of Electrical Engineering|BEE]]) [[wikipedia:Jacksonville_State_University|Jacksonville State University]] (did not graduate)
|occupation = Military communications Engineer Inventor
|saga = {{saga|childhood|cn}}, {{saga|greene|cn}}, {{saga|bearstein|cn}}, {{saga|julie|cn}}, {{saga|emily|cn}}, {{saga|ivy|cn}}, {{saga|secondexile|cn}}
}}

'''Robert "Bob" Franklin Chandler Jr.'''<ref>[[Blanca E-mails#Chris likes Blanca|Email to Blanca]]</ref> (4 September [[Pre-1980#1920s|1927]] – 6 September [[2011]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180110224343/http://www.harveypowers.com/wynn/wynn/d155.html</ref>) was the father of [[Christian Weston Chandler]], [[Carol Chandler]] and [[David Alan Chandler]], the stepfather of [[Cole Smithey]], and husband of [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara Weston Chandler]]. Bob became a firm favorite with [[trolls]] due to Chris's antipathy towards him and for his infamous cameo when he [[Bob Walks In|walked in]] on Chris [[mass debating]].<ref>[[Bob Walks In]]</ref> His nickname, "The [[Chris and the Internet|Internet]] Lumberjack," came from this incident, wherein he promised to cut the internet down.

Despite being estranged from his other children, and despised by his stepson for abusive behavior, Bob was widely viewed as a better parent than his wife [[Barbara]] by Christorians, and – as far as Chris's own testimony can be trusted – he treated Chris better than any of his previous children. Bob had serious difficulties working with Chris's [[autism]], a disorder that he and his wife did not fully understand, but nonetheless, he had high hopes for his child in spite of the difficulties that he faced. Bob hoped to instill Chris with a variety of interests that reflected his own varied tastes, and he created The Dreaming Studio in their backyard in the hopes that they'd create things there (though, sadly, nothing of note was ever created there).

Because of this, Bob's popularity stems from being somewhat concerned with Chris's foolish behavior, and the fact that he occasionally tried to encourage a modicum of responsibility in Chris's sorry life, bringing up the fact that he devoted 29 years to raising his son. Of course, Chris was almost entirely unaffected by Bob's efforts to better him, but unlike Barb, he at least made the effort, even if his attempts were futile or harmful at worst. That being said, he also encouraged Chris to ''not'' seek employment in favor of getting [[Monthly tugboat|welfare]], even though Chris could still hold a part-time job and receive those benefits, so he's not entirely blameless for the sorry state that his son is in today, either. Not to mention that many of [[Homos|Chris's more backward]] [[Chris and race|social perspectives]] that he had in the "Classic Era" stem from his influence.

Bob was always eager to chat, and indeed much of the known information about Bob's life comes from conversations he had with trolls. It seems that Chris's passion for [[Honest Content]] did not fall too far from that tree, although Bob at least had a filter that his son lacks. Whether in person or over the phone, Bob appeared to relish the opportunity to speak with just about anyone. According to Chris, he was also a strong negotiator.<ref>[[The Place chats - ProjectSNT and Opuscon789#Browsing Kiwi Farms]]</ref>

On 6 September 2011, Bob died of complications from heart failure at Martha Jefferson Hospital ICU, surrounded by his family, his pastor and hospital staff.<ref name="BobObitarchive">http://web.archive.org/web/20130211071324/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyprogress/obituary.aspx?n=robert-franklin-chandler&pid=153539600 (archive from 11 Feb 2013)</ref> He was survived by his wife and son, who then had to become the man of the house. Chris occasionally raked in some income through commission work, though he has never looked for a serious career. Chris initially came to terms with his father's death in a conventional, healthy way, but eventually turned to a [[Chris and coping|coping]] mechanism where he genuinely believed that his father was alive in [[Dimensions|another dimension]] as a [[Sonichu (species)|Sonichu]] named Robertchu.

Years later in 2021, Chris would disgrace Bob's memory by repeatedly having dubiously-consensual sex with his wife in an [[Affair with Mother|incest]]-based affair, with Chris bragging that he could get Barb off better than "Mr. C" ever could. Following this incident, both were separated from the house that he maintained, with Chris jailed, Barb temporarily hospitalized before eventually returning to the residence, and the Dreaming Studio left abandoned for good.

==Biography==
Bob was born on 4:15 PM at a medical arts building in {{w|Fort Worth, Texas}},<ref name="Prank calls">[[Prank calls]]</ref> and raised in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama}}.<ref name="About">[[Date with Emily#Bob's work history (0:07:18–0:16:58)]]</ref> He was the only child of Robert "Bob" Franklin Chandler Sr. (8 February 1906<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103153414/robert-franklin-chandler ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328063730/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/H5S7-BZM archive])</ref> – 27 December 1977<ref>https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FG5R-6M6 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328072547/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FG5R-6M6 archive])</ref>), an Alabamian insurance agent, and Jean Hollomon (28 March 1906<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5947049/jean-chandler ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328094240/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/H5S7-12M archive])</ref> – 10 May 1945<ref>https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JK33-QW8 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328092829/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JK33-QW8 archive])</ref>), a Texan housewife.<ref>[[:File:Bob Chandler's birth certificate.jpg]]</ref> Bob has eight younger half-siblings on his father's side.<ref>https://www.hufffuneralhome.com/obituary/Dorothy-Chandler</ref> He also mentioned having a cousin and several [[Cherokee]] relatives in Oklahoma.<ref>[[Prank calls#Bob Calls Himself]]</ref><ref>[[Prank calls#A Redneck calls Bob Chandler]]</ref> However, a distant relative disputed his Cherokee heritage,<ref>[[Chandler Family Tree#Ancestry.com content]]</ref> and his son's [[Cherokian Clan#Reality|DNA test results]] in 2018 belied any American Indian descent. It is common for white Southerners to make dubious claims to Cherokee ancestry, for a variety of historical reasons.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210120042/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/cherokee-blood-why-do-so-many-americans-believe-they-have-cherokee-ancestry.html Slate article]</ref>

[[File:Robert Sr 1942.jpeg|thumb|left|200px|Bob in army uniform, 1946]]

[[File:Bob_Chandler_1945.png|thumb|right|200px|Bob Chandler (left) as a Boy Scout in 1945.]]

Bob has said that he was, "...interested in the world," around him since he was ten, and began collecting foreign [[stamps]] as a child in the [[1930s]]; his first stamp was of {{w|Michael I of Romania}}. He also developed an interest in foreign music, eventually collecting some 15,000–20,000 LPs from various genres and cultures.<ref name="PSN 37"/> About 100 or so survived the 2014 [[house fire]].<ref>[[Discord Q&A 4#Bob's record collection]]</ref>

Bob joined the [[wikipedia:Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]], becoming an Eagle Scout and a Scoutmaster for over 20 years.<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris]]</ref>

According to Chris, Bob lost his [[virgin with rage|virginity]] at the age of 27, which would have been in 1954 or 1955.<ref>[[January 2012 Facebook Posts#February is coming up]]</ref>

===Service and education===

A 1942 yearbook from Sylacauga High School lists a "Bobby Chandler" in the freshman class and glee club, suggesting that he graduated from this school in spring 1945 before matriculating at {{w|Auburn University}} as an aeronautical engineering major that autumn.

[[File:Chris Korean War Graphic.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Bob served in Korea, and, thankfully for Chris, who believes that he was a sperm carried in one of his father's testicles during that time, he left before the Korean War broke out.]]

Bob apparently had knowledge that the Army desired,<ref>(Majoring in Aeronautical Engineering, Auburn University, Freshman p. 95 of the 1946 yearbook [https://web.archive.org/web/20170725175556/http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/gloms/id/4124/rec/14])</ref> was conscripted as a special draftee in 1946 and placed in the {{w|Signal Corps (United States Army)|Signal Corps}}. There, he learned how to install valve systems, switchboards, and telephones. After basic training and Signal School in {{w|Fort Monmouth}}, New Jersey, Bob was sent to Korea for a year to install infrastructure with the American occupation force. Bob recounted a reckless decision he made during his time in the Army after returning from Korea for the Christmas holiday in 1947. He hitchhiked to New York City, where he stayed for two weeks before running out of money, and then had to figure out how to get back to Fort Monmouth.. Serving until 1948, he was entitled to the WWII Victory Medal: his service number was 44107856.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210120633/https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=11&tf=F&q=Chandler&bc=&sort=24996%2520desc&rpp=10&pg=4&rid=8565331&rlst=5136538%2C4652469%2C8564216%2C1000879%2C987835%2C4549799%2C991002%2C8565331%2C5188385%2C8565346]</ref>

Figuring he'd get "swallowed up" at a big college, Bob picked a small college, {{w|Jacksonville State Teachers College}} (now Jacksonville State University), after leaving the military. He studied pre-engineering and played French horn for the band and orchestra there for two years before returning to Auburn University, where he studied electrical engineering and graduated in 1952 with a {{w|Bachelor of Electrical Engineering}} degree.<ref>(page 269 of the 1952 yearbook)[https://web.archive.org/web/20170725175342/http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/gloms/id/16173/rec/20] {{w|G.I. Bill}}.</ref><ref name="About" /> As an engineer, he never learned to spell properly.<ref name = "Meet">[[Date with Emily#Meet the Parent (0:05:20–0:07:17)]]</ref> While he was at Auburn, he was part of the band once again, was a member of {{w|Wesley Foundation}}, a [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|United Methodist]] religious group; and Phi Mu Alpha, a social frat dedicated to men who are interested in music.

===Career===
[[File:Bob 25th Anniversary at General Electric.jpg|thumb|200px|Article on Bob's 25th anniversary at General Electric.]]

A 1946 military record included Bob's occupation while he was a student as "tinsmith, coppersmith, and sheet metal worker".

Bob worked for {{w|Western Electric}} as an engineer for four years, where he designed a variety of electrical subsystems, including relays, telephones and valve systems. Initially, he was working with the radar systems in test-planning automatic test equipment. With Western Electric, Bob and his co-worker filed a patent for electrical terminal block in 1955, which was published in 1959.<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US2884613A/en</ref> During the 1950s, he lived in [[wikipedia:Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Winston-Salem, North Carolina]], where his father and half of his half-siblings lived for the rest of their lives.

He was then offered a job by [[wikipedia:General Electric|General Electric]] in [[wikipedia:Utica, New York|Utica, New York]]. Since New York is too cold (and Yankee) for Bob, he left after three years, returning back to Winston-Salem for a few years before transferring to [[wikipedia:Roanoke, Virginia|Roanoke]] in Southwest Virginia, where he discovered his love for the mountains. In 1975, he moved to [[Richmond]], where he worked until 1980, when he was transferred to [[Charlottesville]].<ref name="About" /> He worked with both Goodrich and Goodyear.<ref name="PSN 37" />

With General Electric, Bob was responsible for at least seven patents. [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] claimed, in an email to [[Shigeru Miyamoto|Miyamoto]], that without Bob's influence in the computer world, the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System|NES}} "...might not have arrived so soon,"<ref name="Barbara" /> ignoring the fact that the NES was designed and released in Japan in 1983, without influence from American electronics.

{{quote|Bob Chandler is one of the most creative engineers in the organization.|The General Manager at G.E.<ref>[[:File:Bob 25th Anniversary at General Electric.jpg]]</ref>}}

Examples of Bob's accomplishments include an automated steel mill for rolling steel for cars, a paper mill for the production of Kleenex, warehousing, railroads and tanker ships. He designed scooters, die casting machines, machines for producing plastic products<ref name="About" /> and a vehicle logging system.<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3486009</ref> Both Chris and Barbara have bragged that Bob designed controls<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3889849</ref> that were used in plastic water container molding machines.<ref name="About" /><ref name="Barbara">[[Miyamoto Saga#A Word from Snorlax]]</ref>

Bob retired in 1987 at the age of 59 or 60 after 31 years of service for General Electric.<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris#Open Letter - December 26th, 1987]]</ref> His relatively early retirement may have been provoked by health problems, as he writes in his December 1987 [[Bob's Letters to Chris|letter to Chris]] that "I know now that I, at best, haven't much time left to share myself with you".

Bob himself was proud of his, "...natural inclination for logic," although he was, "...inundated," by all his designs and whether he did well for the world. Would plastic water bottles lead to mankind's salvation or utter destruction? Only time would tell.<ref name="About" />

===World consciousness===
[[Image:0012-BobbyReading.jpg|thumb|Bob Chandler learning how to cut that Internet down.]]

{{quote|I have been very interested in the world since I was 10 years old, and that was 70 years ago and, the, uh, I'm very fond of and I really truly believe in the United Nations, but you won't find anybody else in my countryside or around here, I think, that does. (laughing) But anyway, I'm very world conscious.|[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7|Bob]]}}

Bob referred to himself as a {{w|Republican Party (United States)|Republican}}, and he did not vote for [[Barack Obama]] in {{w|United States presidential election, 2008|the 2008 presidential election}}.<ref name="Prank calls"/> That said, he had misgivings about {{w|Bob McDonnell}}, the Republican candidate in the {{w|Virginia gubernatorial election, 2009|2009 Virginia gubernatorial election}} and the ultimate winner of the election, possibly because of McDonnell's support for very strict anti-abortion laws, which made no exceptions for cases of rape or [[Chris and sex#incest|incest]]. Bob and Chris considered writing in Snoopy from ''[[Peanuts]]'' as a protest vote.<ref>[[Regina e-mails#Wikipedia: The answer to everything]]</ref>

In a potentially damaging moment on 18 [[February 2009]], Bob doubted the existence of [[Molvanîa]], [[Julie]]'s country of origin,<ref>[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.5]]</ref> but he continued talking on the grounds that his grasp of post-Soviet geography was shaky. He apparently convinced himself that Molvanîa was the same place as the real country of {{w|Moldova}}, a former Soviet republic located near the Black Sea.<ref name="PSN 37">[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7]]</ref> However, he rather damningly failed to question why Julie spoke perfect English with an American accent.

Besides Korea, Bob also visited Australia and England at some point in his life.<ref name = "Retired Life">[[Date with Emily#Retired life (0:16:59–0:24:22)]]</ref>

==Relationships==

===Previous family===

Bob was previously married to a woman named Patricia Harley on 29 September 1956 at a United Methodist church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They had two children, [[David Alan Chandler]] (b. 1961) and [[Carol Suzanne Chandler]] (b. 1964).

Bob and Patricia separated on 28 June 1976 before divorcing on 28 January 1980.<ref name="BobObit">https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailyprogress/name/robert-franklin-chandler-obituary?n=robert-franklin-chandler&pid=153539600</ref><ref>[[:File:1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.png]]</ref> Bob's relationships with David and Carol were strained in his later years.<ref name="Cole2">[[:Image:Cole 07-03-06-2.PNG|6 March 2007 email, page 2]]</ref> Because of this, Chris did not know he had a niece via David, named [[Savannah Chandler|Savannah]], until she was 8 years old,<ref>[[CWC's Diary#January 2004]]</ref> and Bob's relationship with Carol was even more distant. According to Chris, Bob was always concerned about Carol. None of the Chandlers knew what was going on with her, and the last they had heard was that she was working for the federal government, implying that she did not show up to her father's funeral.<ref>[[:File:Savannah_chandler3.png]]</ref> David, on the other hand, did attend his father's funeral.<ref>[[:File:Savannah_chandler.png]]</ref>

===Barbara===

[[Image:0063-BobAndBarbaraNewLife.jpg|thumb|With [[Barbara Chandler|Barb]].]]

Bob and [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] met in 1979 at "Maddy's Pub" in Richmond<ref>[[April 2012 Facebook posts#Fear of the future]]</ref> (probably Matt's British Pub in Shockoe Slip, where Bob was a sing-along leader in the late 1970s).<ref name=godbear>[[It took a talking bear to give the name a young boy loves]]</ref> Barbara was there with a friend and Bob was singing.<ref name="Mumble 3.5">[[Mumble 3.5]]</ref> According to Chris, Bob claimed that Barbara did the [[How to Talk to Girls|pursuing]]: "She chased him down the hallway," though Barb has disputed this.<ref>[[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special#Part 2]]</ref> This version of events may be why Chris figured that he could get away with being passive in terms of courtship. In contrast, [[Cole Smithey|Cole]]'s friend Chuck McGuigan, who worked at the pub as a bartender, has a vivid memory of them, "...acting out as a couple of drunken losers."<ref name="Cole2" />

They got married in 1980,<ref name="Mumble 3.5" /> only months after Bob and Patricia had divorced.<ref>[[:File:1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.jpeg]]</ref> Barb later told Chris that she ultimately married Bob because, "...he owned [[14 Branchland Court|a house]]."<ref>[[Jail Letter - 11 May 2022]]</ref>

According to Chris, Barb and Bob did not have sex for at least two decades before Bob's passing. They had been sleeping in separate rooms in the years leading up to his death.<ref>[[IRC (27 December 2008)]]</ref>

===Cole===
Bob married Barbara when her son [[Cole Smithey|Cole]] was nearly 17, around the time Cole left to lead his own life.

Cole feels that Bob's bitterness ruined the relationship between himself and his mother. Cole said he would celebrate<ref name="Cole2"/> "...when that fuck Bob finally drops,"<ref>[[:Image:Cole 07-07-24-3.PNG|Email from Cole to Chris]]</ref> but it is unknown if he did so. Cole said that he and Bob shared a mutual hatred,<ref name="Cole2" /> though there isn't any proof that Bob hated Cole. At the least, it is certain that Bob knew Cole didn't like him.<ref name = "Meet" />

===Chris===

{{see also|Bob's Letters to Chris}}

{{quote|Get away from the Internet! I'm cutting it down, right now.|Bob Chandler, Internet lumberjack.}}

[[File:Dreaming studio.png|thumb|Dreaming studio of Mr. C and Little C. Where dreams do come true - 1989.]]

Bob's relationship with Chris was rather complex. While Bob was considered to be a better parent than his wife [[Barb]], he was by no means the good ol' pop-pop Chandler many thought he was. While Bob at least tried to help Chris, his attempts at doing so were either futile, misguided or even harmful to Chris in the long term.

When Chris was a boy, Bob encouraged him to learn more about the world and tried sharing his interests and hobbies, including engineering, geography and [[Stamps|stamp collecting]].

When Chris was seven, Bob converted a shed in the backyard of [[14 Branchland Court]] to a workshop where he and Chris could build things together, dubbing it the "dreaming studio." Chris could not recall what they had built together when asked about it in the years following Bob's death;<ref>[[IRL Tour of 14 Branchland Court]]</ref> he and Barb had been using the space for hoard storage.

Bob wished that Chris was more interested in the world. He tried to teach Chris about foreign geography such as [[Julie|Europe]] and [[PandaHalo|Australia]], but figured (correctly) that Chris doesn't understand countries and continents beyond what he's seen on [[television]], and can only associate with the places he's physically been to in Virginia.<ref name="PSN 37" />

Bob had difficulties understanding Chris's [[Autism]] and vehemently refused to get Chris the help he needed, likely out of fear driven inertia that is typical for people of his age and generation. In fact, he fought tooth and nail for years to keep Chris from getting the special education he needed to cope with the real world. It was the very reason why Bob rented a second home in a Chesterfield County so Chris couldn't attend special classes that Greene County recommended. Bob was most likely under the impression, that Chris would be thrown into a lunatic asylum, lobotomized and that Chris needs to be sheltered all his life because of it, never mind his autistic [[Savannah|granddaughter]], who lives a relatively normal life.

When Chris entered [[Manchester High]], Bob arranged for [[Gal pal|a bunch of girls]] to babysit and pretend to be friends with Chris. He gave Chris money to hand it to at least one gal pal, claiming it was for her Friendship and Attention.

Bob enjoyed collecting stamps as a boy growing up in the 1930s, and he continued to do so for several decades, with a focus on the United Nations and foreign countries,<ref>[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7]]</ref> building a collection of stamp albums which filled six boxes.<ref>[[I'm selling my father's stamp collection; come on down and buy some of it]]</ref> He taught Chris about his hobby, buying him a beginner's stamp album in 1992.<ref>[[eBay#Chris's stamp album]]</ref> Chris seemed to enjoy the hobby as well, since he had many pages of stamps filled in. In [[Bob's Letters to Chris|letters]] to Chris (written when Chris was a few years old), Bob gave Chris permission to pass along his various collections onto others after inheriting them. In 2017, Chris began selling pieces of the inherited stamp collection. Bob's pieces were decently priced, generally for $5 per set, though he tried to sell his own personal stamp album for $1,000.<ref>[[eBay]] - see listings for their stamp collections.</ref>

Bob's racist joke that [[Barack Obama]] would paint the White House black as soon as he became president influenced Chris to draw it in [[Sonichu 8|''Sonichu'' #8]].

Chris's phobia of [[Pickle|penises]] was apparently sparked from barging into his parents' room, where Bob had a habit of sleeping nude from the waist down.<ref>[[February 2020 social media posts#On seeing his father's penis]]</ref>

Chris has often complained about stressful confrontations with his father:

{{quote|well, my father is a major stressor against me; starts arguements [sic], annoys me, [[Chris and health#hygiene|rarely washes his hands after restroom breaks]] (lord knows I've tried to encourage him to wash numerous time, and rarely succeeded).|Chris, [[IRC (31 December 2008)]]}}

However, the many instances of Bob communicating with trolls show that he was generally pleasant and amicable, not at all inclined to start arguments, as Chris asserts. As seen during the lead up to the fateful encounter between [[Emily]], Chris and the [[Man in the Pickle Suit]], Bob seemed to be more than happy to discuss stories with people, even those he hadn't seen or heard that much of - [[Robert Simmons V]], who met Bob during his [[Church audio|visit to Chris's church]] conversed with him extensively, later saying that he was a 'really pleasant guy.' Bob also engaged in friendly and interesting conversation with [[ThePCAssassins]] many times through [[2010]] and [[2011]], further disproving Chris's belief. The antagonism to which Chris refers was likely Bob attempting to constructively criticize Chris in order to better him, as Chris deeply resents being told what he does not want to hear.
[[File:Bob drawing Nov. '15.jpg|thumb|200px|left|A drawing of Bob by Chris, released in [[November 2015]].]]

An example of this criticism was Bob telling Chris that, since Bob had looked after Chris for 29 years despite his childish and outrageous behavior, Chris should show more gratitude towards him. Chris was completely dismissive, figuring that his father was ''obligated'' to take care of him, and seeing no reason as to why he should demonstrate any foreign concepts like "love," "support," "gratitude," and "willingness to help." Reinforcing Bob's point, Chris still ran for his father's aid when he felt threatened, as in the later parts of the [[Kacey and Liquid Call]].

Despite Bob's occasional [[Mumble 1|frustration]] over Chris's actions, he seemed to have bought into the theory that Chris is tormented by a [[Encyclopedia Dramatica|complex network of enemies spanning the entire world]], due to the success that he has earned from his own Sonichu franchise.<ref name="Church">[[Church audio]]</ref><ref name="Noble">[[Matthew Noble call]]</ref> In the [[Matthew Noble call]], it appeared that Bob was the source of Chris's tendency to bring up unrelated mishaps and debacles to make current incidents and sources of [[stress]] seem "petty" in comparison.

[[Image:0106-ChristianWDad.jpg|thumb|Bob and a younger Christian. Note Chris's "Family Bonding" shirt.]]
Once during a phone call with a troll, Bob stated that Chris was [[Chris and anger|"a hell of a lot nicer"]] and "has done a lot better than" the troll calling him.<ref name="Prank">[[Prank calls#Snake Productions Calls Bob Chandler]]</ref>

After Chris got his now obsolete [[CADD]] degree, instead of telling Chris to get to work like any other parent would, he encouraged Chris to stay home just so he could continue to get his taxpayer-funded [[tugboat]].

He never seemed to get past the notion that Chris could and had already achieved things, given that he continued to have to nursemaid Chris well into his son's late 20s. In the later parts of 2009 and throughout 2010, as chronicled in Chris's emails with [[Vivian Gee E-mails, 2009|Vivian Gee]] and [[Jackie E-mails 7|Jackie]], Bob had been forced to take an increasingly active role in controlling Chris's spending and debt, paying off Chris's credit cards with his own money in an attempt to prevent interest charges from spiraling even further out of control. By the fall of 2010, he was monitoring Chris's bank accounts on a daily basis and keeping him on a strict allowance. Upon finding out about Chris's [[Tomgirl Pictures|escapades]] in early 2011, Bob's reaction was to question Chris's sexuality, at one point even calling him a "fag", even though he indirectly contributed to it through his unbalanced approach of socializing Chris.

Chris has said specifically that he doesn't have to love his father, but has to respect him.<ref>[[Mumble 1#Transcript|Mumble Chat 1]]</ref> Confidential details collected after Bob's death, however, suggests Chris was more emotionally attached than he let on, providing rare and precious evidence that Chris doesn't take the presence of others for granted. He also got genuinely emotional while reading a letter that his father had left for him on-camera, again indicating how much he misses his father.<ref>[[CLog 09042017 - Mister C]]</ref>

In [[December 2012]], Chris uploaded the soundtrack from the [[WTJU Marathon|1990 WTJU Jazz Marathon]], in which Bob was a performer and a host. It was notable as one of the few moments where Chris publicly honored his father's memory since his passing in [[September 2011]].

Bob lives on in his son's memory. Chris noted the occasion of his father's passing by attaching angel wings to the [[Lego]] minifigure representing him,<ref>Seen at 4:24 in [[CWC Lego Manchester High School Oct 18 2013]]</ref> and displaying two photos of him in front of his TV.<ref>[[:File:Totem2ebay.jpeg]]</ref> He often sees Bob in his [[dreams]].<ref>[[March 2012 Facebook Posts#Still Feeling Lonely II|March 2012 Facebook Posts]]</ref><ref>[[List of OkCupid Answers#2014 Answers--LevelUpKing|OkCupid Answers]]</ref>

Due to the influence of the [[Idea Guys]], Chris later expressed beliefs that Bob is half-Sonichu and is apparently still alive in the [[CWCville]] dimension. These beliefs began around December 2017 and continued even after the Idea Guys had been removed from power, as shown by the below quote from 2018's Father's Day.

{{quotebox|[[File:Father's Day 2018.jpg|200px|thumb]]

<nowiki>#HappyFathersDay</nowiki> to each and every Father in This World and in Every Single Other Dimension Too! My father is alive again! I still love him, even in his checker-patterned glory! ⚡️💙❤️⚡️<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191211070743/https://twitter.com/cwcsonichu/status/1008449921387778048</ref>}}

In the [[Incest Call]], Chris claimed he was better at [[Affair with Mother|pleasuring]] [[Barb]] than his own father. One can only imagine Bob's reaction to this news if he were still alive to bear witness to what his son has become.

Despite his best efforts to the contrary, Chris, his second chance at being a father, was Bob's greatest failure as a parent, even when factoring in his strained relationship with his other children.

===Other relationships===
In spite of his redneck background, Bob seems to have gotten along better with foreigners than with his own countrymen. His closest friend in Richmond was Reverend Chen of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church,<ref>[[Date with Emily#Eating spaghetti and conversing (0:36:49–0:44:46)]]</ref> and he had English friends through his involvement with Matt's British Pub.<ref name=godbear></ref> He also had friends in Australia,<ref>BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7</ref> and Czechoslovakian friends in late 1970s, who were illegal immigrants escaping Czechoslovakia. Chris said Bob and Barb enjoyed conversing and drinking {{w|Slivovitz}} with them and that Bob would drive to Maryland to buy Slivovitz.<ref>[[Regina_e-mails#Random-access_humor_demonstration]]</ref>

From his father's second marriage, Bob had, "...a large number of half-brothers and sisters in... [[wikipedia:Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Salem, North Carolina]],"<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris]]</ref> but he does not seem to have been very close with them. Bob's stepmother's obituary confirms that eight of these half-siblings were alive as of 2015.<ref>https://www.hufffuneralhome.com/obituary/Dorothy-Chandler</ref>

[[Prank calls#Call Bobby Chandler|Contrary to popular beliefs]], he did not have friends in the Ku Klux Klan.

==Later life, poor health and death==
{{See also|Death of Bob Chandler}}
[[File:Bob playbill for musical push cart.jpg|thumb|200px|Playbill for Mr. C. and his musical pushcart.]]

Bob lived on Social Security as well as his General Electric pension.<ref name = "Retired Life" /> He never really had people to chat with at home (he would ramble to [[Trolls|total strangers]] on the phone if he could), so he sat around, listened to music, and took care of the garden inside the greenhouse.<ref name="PSN 37" /> With a 1970s stereo system set up in the greenhouse, he went to 'swing with the music' on his swing there.<ref name="Retired Life" />

Bob had two triple bypasses and four heart attacks. The two triple-bypass operations took place first in August 1980 and at last in 1992. He had {{w|Coronary artery disease}} and wore an {{w|Artificial cardiac pacemaker|artificial pacemaker}}.<ref>[[Autism papers#FAMILY_HISTORY:]]</ref><ref>[[Mumble 3]]</ref> He apparently had several vivid near-death experiences: during [[Date with Emily#Bob's health problems (0:24:23–0:25:29)|Chris's date with]] [[Emily]], Bob tells her that he has "died" several times, and Chris says that Bob, "...has seen the light, but did not actually go to it." In one prank call, Bob revealed that after surgery for cancer it was discovered that he had a fluid build-up in his legs, which is symptomatic of CHF. This rapid decline in health worried him.<ref name="Prank calls"/> He attributed his long life to the [[Cherokee]] in him. His uncles and grandfather all lived past 90.<ref name="PSN 37" /> Despite his heart troubles he continued to eat at [[Burger King]] daily.<ref>[[Prank calls#Calls to Bob and Chris]]</ref><ref>[[Trollin Train#Hey, guys (Sun 22 Aug 2010)]]</ref>

On 1 [[March 2010]], Chris [[Twitter|tweeted]] that Bob had been taken to the hospital in the early morning for "congested [sic] {{w|heart failure}}". Chris seemed confident that his father was not in for a long stay. Considering Bob's age, lifestyle, and long history of heart disease, [[Chris and death|Chris did not seem to grasp the seriousness of his heart failure]]. Bob had been the only thing keeping [[14 Branchland Court|the Chandler household]] from imploding, and as such, trolls and [[White-Knighting|white knights]] alike wished him the very best.

[[Image:Bobbed.jpg|thumb|Apart from the dying heart]]

In the month following Bob's hospitalization, Chris was remarkably quiet on the subject of his father. News about his condition was hard to come by, as information only arose [[Chris and his Ego|when Chris was inclined to complain about it online]]. Statistically, congestive heart failure is not as immediately fatal as its name implies,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210121845/https://www.healthline.com/health/chf-life-expectancy]</ref> but Bob's age, prior heart attacks and [[Tour of Chris's House|lifestyle]] made this a very serious situation.

Chris's videos over the month of March made no mention of Bob at all. Staying true to his painfully predictable nature, Chris instead lost a [[The Wallflower|girlfriend he never had]], [[Chris Drops the N-Bomb|made racial slurs and death threats towards a cartoon character]], and [[F Abstinance|raged against abstinence]]. His silence on the subject of his father was probably because of [[Naïve|genuine ignorance]] of the seriousness of his father's condition.

A poster on [[/cwc/]] contacted Chris via PSN regarding Bob. He posted a screen capture of Chris's response, saying, "He is doing much better, thank you."<ref>[[:File:Bobbetter.jpg]]</ref> Another contacted Chris via email and got a response saying, "Yes, my father is healthy and safe." Clearly he was neither, but this was at least proof that Bob hadn't joined the Whites-Only section of Heaven just yet. In late May, Chris finally made [[Some Favored Comedians|a brief mention]] in a public video that his father was "alive and well". Chris was, at least, half right.

==Appearances==

===In ''Sonichu''===
{{quote|Christian, you are not a girl! Go put your pants back on.|Bob, ''Sonichu'' #12}}

[[File:Chandlers & Sonichus.jpg|200px|thumb]]

In [[Sonichu 8#Spring Break, 2008!|"Spring Break, 2008"]], a radio announcement from [[Jamsta Sonichu]] mentions that Bob founded [[CWCville]] in 1982, presumably after Chris's birth on [[Chris's birthday|24 February]] given that Bob named the city after his newborn son. Comic Bob presumably served as mayor before Chris took the office at an unknown date. At other points, Bob was mentioned in Chris's tangents about hating men other than himself and his father.

In [[Sonichu 9#Episode 19|"Date Ed"]], there are two dolls for the class to practice talking to, girls received "Robert" dolls, while boys received "Barbara" dolls, an obvious reference/homage to Bob and Barb.

Bob made his first official appearance in [[Sonichu 11|''Sonichu'' #11]], photoshopped into a "family photo" alongside Chris, Barb and various [[Electric Hedgehog Pokémon]].

[[File:Borb, Sonichu12.jpg|200px|thumb|left]]

[[File:Bob,Sonichu12.jpg|200px|thumb|right]]

In [[Sonichu 12|''Sonichu'' #12]], Bob appears in a set of pages that combine an autobiographical account of Chris coming out as a [[tomgirl]] to his parents, and a tribute to his late father. He is depicted as an elderly man, as the page took place in 2010 (due to Chris's [[Oedipus complex]], Barb is depicted as much more youthful). He attempts to dissuade Chris from continuing his tomgirl lifestyle, although Chris states that Bob later, "...told me he accepts and love ''[sic]'' me for who I am," shortly before his passing in 2011.

Chris concludes Bob's appearance in the book with a photo in memoriam of his life, saying that he and Barb continue to miss him every day.

[[File:Chandler family as ponies.png|200px|thumb|left|Bob, pictured at right, as ''Gallop Crush'', in a [[MLP]]-inspired drawing from [[August 2017]].]]

In August 2017, Chris unveiled a drawing of the Chandler family depicted as [[My Little Pony]] characters, saying that they will make further appearances in [[Sonichu 12-9|''Sonichu'' #12-9]]. The ponified Bob, known as "Gallop Crush", appears as [[Night Star]]'s father, reaffirming the self-insert nature of Chris's ponysona.

In the [[Idea Guy]]-written [[Sonichu 16|''Sonichu'' #16]], Bob's spirit crosses over into CWCville where he meets and strikes up a conversation with serial killer [[Ted Bundy]].

{{Mayors of CWCville}}

===As a toy===

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File:BobAmiibo.jpg|[[Amiibo]] Bob, which Chris offered for sale on [[Etsy]] in [[November 2015]]. Oh yes.
File:ChrisFamilyEtsyC.jpg|Promo drawing
</gallery></center>

===Audio and video===

In every appearance, Bob has proven himself to be better at charming Chris's [[sweetheart]]s than Chris himself (not a difficult feat, to be fair).

* [[1990]]: Bob appeared as the DJ to the [[WTJU Marathon]].
* 26 February [[1994]]: Bob appears briefly behind Chris from 0:26-0:36 in the news report of the [[Chris in the media|Sonic Watch & Win Sweepstakes]].
*[[Christmas|25 December]] [[2004]]: Bob makes multiple physical appearences in [[ChandlerFamilyChristmas2004]], where he appears remarkably depressed.
* 14 [[February 2009]]: [[Bob Walks In]] to Chris [[mass debating]] in the [[kitchen]].
* 18 [[February 2009]]: In [[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.5]] and [[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7|3.7]], Bob rambles to [[Julie]].
* 15 [[March 2009]]: Bob [[Church Visit|talked]] to [[Robert Simmons V]] at [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|church]] while [[DIRTY, CRAPPED BRIEFS|Chris went to shit himself]].
* [[March 2009]]: Bob chaperoned Chris on his date with [[Emily]].
* 27 [[March 2009]]: Bob gets intruded by Chris in the [[Tour of Christian's House]], but is not visible.
* 27 [[August 2009]]: [[THAT IS MY HOUSE|Bob enters Chris's room]] and scolds him for making the house tour, (correctly) fearing that if someone saw the house as it was, they would be evicted (Uncut version only). This is a momentous occasion, showing some awareness on the part of the Chandlers that the filth and squalor they live in is a health hazard. This video subsequently off a wave of emails and calls to the Greene County Health Department, masterminded by trolls who hoped to realize Bob's fear of eviction, but the campaign was seemingly unsuccessful.
* [[November 2009]]: Bob and [[Barb|Snorlax]] make a brief appearance at the end of the [[Kacey and Liquid Call]].
* 15 [[August 2010]]: In his final outing on the damn Internet, Bob gets a [[Matthew Noble call|call from the GAMe PLACe]] and is informed of Chris's actions earlier in the year. He then goes on a tangent about how Chris has been tormented by everyone ever since he was banned, and then demands Michael Snyder's information. Barbara also is audible at the end of the call.
* [[Prank calls]]: Bob answered several of these. He was usually sincere when talking with prank callers, providing them with true and honest information about himself and Chris, but was occasionally pushed to trolling them back, on one occasion telling a particularly obnoxious pair of trolls that he had ties to the Ku Klux Klan.

==Gallery==
<center>
<gallery>
File:Bob1946Auburn.jpg|Bob's Auburn freshman yearbook photo, taken for the 1946 yearbook.
File:BobJax1950.PNG|Bob's 1950 Jacksonville State Teachers College sophomore yearbook photo.
File:Bobauburn1951.PNG|Bob's 1951 Auburn junior yearbook photo.
File:Bobauburn1952.PNG|Bob's Auburn senior yearbook photo.
File:WW2BobChandler(badquality).jpg|Bob's 1946 U.S. Army draftee (written in 1945).
File:Bob1946WW2DraftCardPhysicalDetail.png|Bob's 1946 Draft card on a physical detail (written in 1945).
File:BobPatMarriage.png|Bob and Patricia's newspaper engagement.
File:1956 9 25 - Bob, Patricia marriage license.png|1956 9 25 - Bob, Patricia marriage license.
File:1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.png|1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.
File:1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.jpeg|1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.
File:Bob and his parents - 1930s census.png|Bob and his parents - 1930s census.
File:Bob and his parents - 1940s census.png|Bob and his parents - 1940s census.
File:Bob1950Census.jpg|Bob in the Jacksonville State Teachers University's dormitory room - 1950s census.
File:Bob's birth certificate.png|Bob's birth certificate.
File:Chris's family tree up to his great great grandparents.png|Chris's family tree up to his great-great-grandparents.
File:RobertChandler1960s.png|Bob in the late 1960s/early 1970s
Image:0009-ChristopherChristmas2.jpg|Christmas at the Chandlers, taken sometime during the 1980s.
Image:0011-ChristopherBobXmas.jpg|That isn't Chris's half-senile old grandfather at [[Christmas]] time. It's Bob. He was that age when Chris was about one.
File:0012-BobbyReading.jpg
File:0033-MommasBirthday.jpg
Image:0014-YoungerFather.jpg
Image:0032-BobAtRestraunt.jpg|
File:1993family.png|Barb, Chris and Bob in [[1993]]
Image:0038-AuntCorinaAndDad.jpg|Bob with [[Aunt Corrina]].
Image:0062-NewChristian&Dad.jpg|
File:0063-BobAndBarbaraNewLife.jpg
File:0090-Christmas95-5.jpg
File:0091-Christmas95-6.jpg
Image:0120-BobbyBehindBars.jpg|
File:0106-ChristianWDad.jpg
File:0473-CWC18th4.jpg
File:0114-MomsBirthday97-2.jpg
File:0115-MomsBirthday97-3.jpg
Image:0230-ChristianAndDadInClass.jpg|
File:Bob&BarbMay2000.png|
File:Bob1997article1.png|Bob's short brief article from Richmond Times-Dispatch in July 1997.
File:Bob1997article2.png|Bob's short brief article from Richmond Times-Dispatch in August 1997.
Image:0626-BobbyInGarden.jpg|Bob used to enjoy gardening back in the day.
File:0472-CWC18th3.jpg
File:2002 BrickFest7.jpg|Bob with Chris at [[BrickFest]] [[2001]].
File:2002 BrickFest10.jpg
Image:CreepyBobAndChris.JPG
Image:Bob_80th.jpg
File:Robert Chandler, 19 June 2016 Facebook post photo.jpg|Last known photo.
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</center>

==References==
{{Fan Art|chris=Bob Chandler}}
<references />

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20201210122203/https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141038783/robert-franklin-chandler Bob Chandler at Find a Grave]

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List of conventions

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NightcoreSwift004: /* Conventions Chris has successfully attended */ OP fixed their title mistake, it was 2001, not 2002

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[[File:Bc1 with RarifriendHN.jpg|thumb|Chris at BronyCon 2017.]]

Chris has attended many '''conventions''' over the years. Prior to the 2010s, he had only ever been to two specific conventions; since then, he has regularly attended various conventions.

Chris generally has a blast attending conventions, as it lets him get out of his house and surround himself with people with similar interests, therefore making it easier for him to [[Chris and socialization|socialize]] with them. Chris has noted that he feels more accepted at conventions, although whether this was truly the case or simply an incorrect interpretation of what really went on can be [[Mass debating|debated]] (and in terms of conventions he's attended after the [[Affair with Mother|incest scandal]], safely assumed to be the latter).

==Conventions Chris has successfully attended==
{{Needs Updating|https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1od0wm9/comment/nlbct01/ [[September 2018 social media posts#Gem and mineral show]]}}
[[File:2002 BrickFest2.jpg|thumb|Chris at BrickFest 2001.]]
* '''{{w|BrickFest}}''' (9-11 June [[2000]], 19-21 July [[2002]]; Arlington, Virginia): An adult [[LEGO]] convention and the first convention that Chris ever attended. Not much is known about his exploits here, but we can assume he probably showed off his Lego creations. Chris attended the very first BrickFest as well as its 2002 installment. In October 2025, [[r/ChrisChanSonichu]] user studiopalas uploaded photos of Brickfest 2001, noting Chris to be among the people pictured.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1od0wm9/brickfest_2002_photos/ ([https://archive.fo/eleZF archive])</ref>
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File:0858-Cwcville7.JPG|Chris's Lego sculpture from BrickFest 2001.
File:2002 BrickFest1.jpg|Attendee photos uploaded by studiopalas.
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File:2002 BrickFest4.jpg
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* '''[[Anime Mid-Atlantic]]''' (29 May [[2004]], 17-19 June [[2005]]; [[Richmond]], Virginia): The last convention Chris would attend for a decade. Here, he met voice actors and actresses such as [[wikipedia:Monica Rial|Monica Rial]], tried out Japanese foods, and hocked copies of [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]] while [[cosplay]]ing as [[Christian Weston Chandler (comic character)|himself]].

* '''Madicon''' (9 [[March 2013]]; Harrisonburg, Virginia): A two-day "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Anime, and Gaming convention" held at [[James Madison University]]. Chris was invited to the convention by a [[gal-pal]] but expressed concern that [[Barb]] would not allow him to be away from the house for an entire day, let alone a weekend. Barb eventually relented and allowed Chris to go for just the first day of the convention. He came dressed as Tom Cruise's masked, hooded character from ''Eyes Wide Shut'' in order to keep a low profile and not be recognized for himself.<ref>[[LoveYouLongTime E-mails, 2013-2014#Madicon]]</ref> He described the experience in [[March_2013_Facebook_posts#Madicon|a few Facebook posts]] as "The best day I have had in a very long time".

* '''[[OmegaCon]]''' (29 [[August 2015]], 28 [[August 2016]]; [[Charlottesville]], Virginia): Chris went alone dressed up as the MLP character Vinyl Scratch and attended a cosplaying contest that he lost. He went back the next year and attended all three days from winning a free ticket from the last year. Chris also apparently tried [[Chris and drugs#Cannabis|marijuana]] here.

* '''[[BronyCon]]''' (11 [[August 2017]]-4 [[August 2019]]; Baltimore, Maryland): Chris attended this My Little Pony-themed convention for its final three years.

* '''[[MAGfest]]''' (6-7 [[January 2018]]; National Harbor, Maryland): Chris wanted to attend this convention all the way back in [[2011]], but [[Chris and money|budgeting issues]] (and [[LoveYouLongTime E-mails, 2011-2012#Borb vs MAGfest|Barb threatening suicide]]) prevented him from doing so. He later attended it 7 years later after hearing that there would be a panel themed after him that year.

* '''Unnamed rock (mineral) and stamp conventions''' (Dates unknown): In [[June 2021]], Chris claimed on [[Twitter]] to have attended "a couple of stamp conventions and rock conventions", stating that "vibes were neutral, in general, between them."<ref>[[June 2021 social media posts#Convention stuff]]</ref> These conventions probably took place in or around the Charlottesville area.

[[File:Festival of Light building.png|thumb|The building in which the Festival of Light took place.]]
* '''Festival of Light''' (10 [[May 2025]]; [[Lynchburg]], Virginia): On 7 [[June 2025]], Chris posted four pictures of his toys, the backgrounds of which revealed a booklet with a picture of Chris on the front.<ref>[[June 2025 social media posts#Everybody loves my Transformers reviews]]</ref> Upon research, it was discovered that it was an "Aura Care Booklet", obtained from an "aura imaging photography" service provided by Avillion of Universal Insight.<ref>https://archive.ph/TARkN</ref><ref>https://archive.ph/39Xfm</ref> The written date on the booklet, 10 May, matched up with timing of the Festival of Light, an event held at 1499 Coffee Road, Lynchburg, VA 24503 over 10-11 [[May 2025]] during 10 AM through 5 PM, which provided the service. The booklet cost Chris $45, and provided him with "One full-color Aura Photograph of your Heart Chakra," a "Personal Chakra Report with 2 printed Full Body Pictures," and "An Aura Care Booklet with additional information on maintaining a strong and healthy Aura". There is seemingly an option to get a private "Angel-Guided Golden Light Ascension" reading session with the aura photograph for $90, but it is completely unknown whether or not Chris purchased it alongside his booklet. The admission fee for the event is unclear, with the prices for same event but held in [[November 2025]] set to cost $8 per day or just $10 for a weekend pass, while a random [[Facebook]] user claimed the entry price for the May 2025 festival was $5 per day. It is unknown whether or not Chris attended the second day of the festival, which landed on [[Barb|Mother]]'s Day.

==Conventions Chris was kicked out of==
* '''[[TooManyGames]]''' (22-23 [[June 2018]], Oaks, Pennsylvania): The first convention Chris was booted from during attendance. Chris got too touchy-feely with guests and kissed many of them without their consent; because of this, he was kicked out on the second day of the three-day convention. Chris reacted by melting down, curling in the fetal position, and crying on the floor for an extended period of time. It is not known if Chris was explicitly banned from coming back in later years, but he never made another effort to attend.

* '''[[Animate! Raleigh]]''' (5-7 [[January 2024]], Raleigh, North Carolina): A comic/cartoon convention Chris went to with [[Flutter]]. Likely in order to avoid a pre-emptive ban, he did not announce his intention of attending the convention on social media, and he bought his ticket in person the day before it began. On day 2 of the convention, a friend of a Redditor claimed to have witnessed Chris and Flutter being escorted out by staff after having been previously denied entry earlier that day.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1907pum/chris_chan_kicked_out_of_animate_raleigh/ ([https://archive.fo/bWEz2 archive])</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1907pum/comment/kgn0c0r/?context=3 ([https://archive.fo/WDBeL archive])</ref> The exact reasons for Chris being booted are currently unknown, but what is known is that he was ratted out by the staff and they took the [[Ween|snitch]]'s word over his.<ref>[[Focused, Divine Guidances - 01142024]]</ref>

==Conventions that have pre-emptively banned Chris==
[[File:SeaquestriaFest.jpg|350px|thumb|Artist's depiction of what could have been; had Chris not done the [[Affair with Mother|soul bonding]] with his [[mother]].]]

* '''Seaquestria Fest''' (13-15 [[May 2022]], Ocean City, Maryland): Chris was included on a preemptive blacklist made before this MLP convention's slated 2020 launch, and he will probably remain permanently banned from any subsequent events. Chris mentioned wanting to go once in 2019. Due to COVID-19, it was not held in 2020 or 2021. Chris was nevertheless in jail when the 2022 launch took place.

* '''[[Everfree Northwest]]''' (13-15 [[August 2021]], Bellevue, Washington): In [[June 2021]], [[Null]] announced that Chris would attend Everfree Northwest, a Seattle-area ''[[My Little Pony]]'' convention held in August 2021. Originally, Chris had planned to take the over 40-hour drive to the convention, however, he was convinced by [[Null]] to simply take a flight to Washington instead, stating that he would help with Chris's financial arrangements for the trip.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (Null)#Everfree Northwest Announcement]]</ref> Later in [[July 2021]], Null would start a GoFundMe campaign in order to help raise the money for the trip, and Chris would upload [[Help send Chris-Chan to Everfree NW|a video]] promoting it, stating that donators to the campaign would receive shout out videos and artwork from Chris. Throughout July Chris would draw commissioned artwork and record videos for the donators. <ref>https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-chrischan-get-to-evergreen-ponycon (https://archive.is/OTXD3)</ref> However, following the [[Incest call]] being leaked later that month, and Chris [[Jail Saga|being arrested]] in a motel parking lot on 1 [[August 2021]], Chris was silently banned from attending Everfree Northwest by having his ticket revoked by the convention.<ref>[[The Knights of CWC chats (July 2021)#Chris's Final Messages in the Knights Server]]</ref> Null later refunded all donors and cut his ties with Chris once and for all.<ref>[[Help send Chris-Chan to Everfree NW#Update 4]]</ref>

* '''[[BABSCon]]''' (29-31 [[March 2024]], Burlingame, California): Chris first expressed interest in attending this San Francisco Bay Area [[My Little Pony]] convention in 2017 upon learning that volunteers were given free admission, but he lost interest after he realized that travel expenses would not be covered. He made a more serious attempt to raise money to attend the 2020 convention, but it was canceled that year due to the [[COVID-19]] pandemic. Instead, he [[coped]] by playing make-believe that he had gone to the BABScon in dimension [[C-197]]. Chris's intention to attend the 2021 convention was frustrated when it too was canceled due to the ongoing pandemic. Chris's plan was to drive all the way from Virginia to California and back. BABScon eventually took place on [[April 2022]], but Chris was incarcerated while the con took place. Before the 2024 convention took place, Chris was informed by the [[Manajerks|convention organizers]] that he had been blacklisted permanently,<ref>[[BABSCon E-mails]]</ref> obviously due to the societal stigma against literal motherfuckers like Chris.

==Conventions Chris failed to attend for other reasons==
* '''[[wikipedia:Otakon|Otakon]]''' (Baltimore, Maryland): In 2010, Chris planned for a time to visit the Otakon convention in Baltimore (in large part so he could meet [[Jackie]] there), but he managed to thwart himself by spending the money he'd set aside for the expedition. In an e-mail to Jackie, he claims that he overdrew his bank account shortly beforehand.<ref name=email6>[[Jackie E-mails 6]]</ref> Chris's parents had initially been fine with him going on the trip, since Chris had a plan laid out. However, his failure to control his spending, along with Chris having been tricked by [[trolls]] into going on the [[Ohio trip]] the year before (leading his parents to - correctly - assume he was being set up again), led them to reconsider, and they forbade Chris from the trip.<ref name=email6></ref>

==Looking ahead==
Even though Chris was granted [[Autism disorder deferred disposition|deferred disposition]] for his incest charges, it is safe to assume that if convention organizers ever neglect to pre-emptively ban Chris from attending a convention, and he shows up unannounced like he did at Animate! Raleigh, he will be promptly booted as soon as his presence becomes known. This is provided, of course, that convention organizers view Chris as [[Chris and his ego|too much of]] [[Chris and anger|a liability]]. Otherwise, Chris might luck out like he did with the Festival of Light.

==See also==
* [[Chris and socialization]]
* [[List of places that have banned Chris]]

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My discord account got hacked and I completely lost access to it since yesterday Oct 7, so yeah.

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who was also one of the family's farmworkers. Before he was born, his family's home had been heavily burned down by an arsonist who was harassing his siblings and received no insurance for the losses. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up in poverty, Robert and his siblings lived with relatives after their parents were separated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Robert and his siblings had worked on the family's peach farm at an early age and later at his aunt Littleton's farm. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} at age 18 for better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the home of the Methodist minister in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas in {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a drugstore clerk for about five years while living in Garland. While living there, Robert and Jean worked together renting out properties they owned in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supply handler and later a supply clerk at {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing company, in the weaving department at the Eva Jane plant. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. His job initially involved managing the physical handling and distribution of materials in the supply room, often described as carrying supplies like a moving van. Later, he transitioned to clerical tasks, overseeing inventory, tracking supplies, and ensuring timely deliveries for production. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter. Two months before his death, Weston served as a director of the Charlotte County chapter of the Farmers Union, contributing to leadership decisions and supporting initiatives for local farmers.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1888, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with over 200 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

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===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Primitive Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

==Sandbox page test==

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BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool1.jpg|As we were young - School yearbook section, with photo of toddler Barb.
BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool2.jpg|As we were young - Another photo of child Barb.
BarbaraLibraryClub56.jpg|1956 Library Club - Barbara standing third row, second to the left.
BarbJVBasketball.jpg|1956 Junior Varsity Basketball Team - Barbara sitting first row left.
1957BarbaraFHA.png|1957 Future Homemakers of America - Barbara sitting on grass first row very right, as seen with a red star.
BarbSafetyPatrol.jpg|1957 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara kneeling, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
BarbaraLibraryClub58.jpg|1958 Library Club - Barbara standing 7th to the right.
BarbaraSpanishClub1958.jpg|1958 Spanish Club - Barbara standing behind a few rows, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraCheerleader.jpg|1958 Cheerleaders - Barbara as a cheerleader.
BarbaraFHA1.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 1 - Barbara the FHA treasurer sitting on the couch second to the left.
BarbaraFHA2.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 2 - Barbara the FHA treasurer standing the first row in the middle.
BarbaraMonogramClub.jpg|1960 Monogram Club - Barbara standing first row, third to the left.
BarbaraSpanishClub.jpg|1960 Spanish Club - Barbara standing high up, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraBusPatrol.jpg|1960 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara the reporter for RH safety bus patrol, wearing glasses standing first row left.
BarbaraSeniorDirectory.jpg|Barbara's senior year directory.
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Death of Bob Chandler

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{{Honest}}
[[Image:Rip internet lumberack by vekke.png|thumb|May you always watch over our sweet autist.]]
{{quote|When Mister C. left this universe to become his Sonichu form self that he has been for years now, as the "Internet Lumberjack" that he was, he left that impression of "It's time to stop this shit."|Chris on Bob's death.<ref>[[List of Chris's comments on YouTube#The Cat's Corner - March 29, 2021]]</ref>}}

On 6 September 2011, '''Chris's father, [[Bob Chandler]], had died''' of congestive heart failure.

Bob's death also marked another significant change in Chris's life, as the vast majority of the trolls associated with the "Classic Era" voluntarily retired from trolling Chris, knowing that he was deeply depressed by his father's passing. Only a few of these trolls still remain active as observers on [[Kiwi Farms]], and a trolling renaissance did not begin until much later in the decade with the advent of the [[Idea Guys]].

==Bob's Final Months==

A breakdown of Bob's final months reads as follows.

On 24 March 2011, Bob claimed [[Bob's got Cancer|in a phone call]] to have cancer of some description<ref>http://youtu.be/y-GGSOyCm2k</ref> in a phone call with [[ThePCAssassins]]. This is the first recorded example of Bob telling anyone outside of his family that he had cancer. His language in the video suggests that he may have been diagnosed on the 24th of March or in the few days prior.

On 23 April 2011, in an email to Jackie, Chris revealed that Bob had received surgery for colon cancer.<ref>[[Jackie_E-mails_24]]</ref>

On 20 July 2011, it was revealed that [[Tomboys And Tomgirls of Virginia#Re: Coming out to my parents|Bob knew about Chris's cross-dressing tendencies]] and, like Barb, vehemently disapproved of them.

On 29 August 2011, Chris, now deeply entrenched in his [[Tomgirl Saga|tomgirlish ways]], [[Response to ADF|mentioned that Bob was an ill and sickly shut-in]], and was suffering from [[Chris and English|"feet-bloatings"]].

In early September 2011, Bob was rushed by ambulance to Martha Jefferson hospital with heart failure. [[Rocky Shoemaker call|It was discovered later]] that Bob had been put into quarantine when he arrived because his body was [[14 Branchland Court|covered in bug bites]] and he posed a contamination risk. On the sixth of that month, he died at age 84.<ref name="BobObit"></ref> Out of respect for him and his family, the CWCki was closed for a week, 12–19 September, with the start date coinciding with the day Bob's funeral service was held. Site visitors were directed to a page which simply read "Robert Franklin Chandler Jr. 1927–2011."<ref name="BobObit" />

It is said that [[Man in the Pickle Suit|Marvin]] and other trolls, using the [[Jackie]] identity as a catfish, attempted to contact Chris over the phone shortly after Bob's death for unclear reasons; Chris was noted to be audibly upset as he cried throughout the conversation. While the audio was recorded and archived on what is referred to as the "Black Tape" by some Christorians, the contents of the call were never released publicly due to Chris's miserable emotional state. The trolls who participated in the call realized after the fact that it was simply too soon to try to reach out to Chris in this fashion and, for a change, opted to respect his privacy for once. The Black Tape either still exists in the hands of the trolls who participated in its creation, or it has been lost to time.<ref>[[CWCki Forums posts (Marvin)#The Black Tape]]</ref>

==Cause of death==
Despite the fairly clear-cut nature of the lumberjack's passing, Chris has since declared that the [[trolls]] were responsible for Bob's death. In an [[Misc_E-mails|email]] leaked on 22 [[March 2014]], Chris claimed that the stress of his trolling led to Bob's heart attack. This keeps in the trend Chris has developed of blaming any and all misfortunes (even those faced by everyone, like burying a family member) on trolls.

{{quote|AND the total [[stress]] KILLED my Father Prematurely; if not for those Trolls, he would still be alive, and would have likely lived beyond 2015.|Chris.}}

Even for Chris this is appalling behavior; using the '''death of his own father''' as a vehicle to play the victim and attempt to stave off trolls. While it's not uncommon for those who have lost loved ones to blame their deaths on external causes (however impossible or insane, as in this case), Chris's actions stemmed purely from selfishness and egotism – business as usual.

Years later, in 2017, Chris revised his claim and said that Bob was killed after hospital staff surprised him with a "Loud Noise." He went on to say that he had more freedom when Bob was alive.

{{quote|I wish I could go back to September 5, 2011 and stop the staff from making the Loud Noise that killed my father with stressful surprise. I had more freedom when he was alive.|Chris<ref name=LoudNoise></ref>}}

==Obituary==
Both [[Barbara Chandler|Barb]] and Chris collaborated in writing Bob's obituary, which was published in two local papers. Main points of the obituary, apart from the standard birth date, date of death, and next of kin, include:

* Text going into [[autism|unusual detail]] about what Bob did at General Electric.
* The location of the memorial service, "to follow on a later date", at [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church]], the church that Barb, Bob and Chris used to frequent together. This is the same church that [[Rocky Shoemaker]] counseled Chris from.
* A footnote asking readers to not donate flowers, but to [[Chris and money|donate money to Barbara and Chris]].

With Chris taking part in writing the obituary, it's amazing that the writing stayed focus on Bob and did not once mention Sonichu or become about Chris (except for the request for money at the end).

===Original text===
{{quoteboxgray|
:''Robert Franklin Chandler Jr., 84, of Ruckersville, passed away the morning of Tuesday, September 6, 2011, at Martha Jefferson Hospital ICU surrounded by family, pastor and hospital staff.''

:''He was born on September 4, 1927, in Texas, the son of the late Robert Franklin Chandler Sr. and Jean Holloman Chandler. On June 7, 1980, he married Barbara Anne Weston, who survives. And the couple gave birth to a son, Christian Weston Chandler, who survives. Also surviving is ex-wife, Patricia, and their shared children, son, Dr. David Alan Chandler, survives, and daughter, Carol Suzanne Chandler, survives.''

:''He graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Engineering.''

:''He served in the United States Army Seoul Korea in the Signal Corp during the Korean War. He worked for General Electric as an Engineer with Steels, Plastics, etc. He also had patents for the controls for Plastic Molding Machines; without him, we would not have even a simple plastic funnel.''

:''Also surviving are granddaughter, Savannah Chandler, the daughter of David Alan Chandler and his wife, Kimberly.''

:''A funeral service will be held at Monticello Memory Gardens in Charlottesville, Virginia, 10 a.m. Monday, September 12, 2011. A memorial service to follow on a later date at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church.''

:''Instead of flowers, you may make monetary donations to his widow, Barbara Chandler and son, Christian Chandler.<ref name="BobObit" />}}

==In memoriam==
[[File:Chandler_Niche.jpg|thumb|left|Bob's final resting place.]]

Bob is often seen as a gregarious, hard-working man ([[Ruckersville, VA|all things considered]]) who tried ([[2014 house fire|albeit without]] [[26 December 2014|success]]) his best to refine Chris into someone that could at least pass for a responsible adult, giving him mock job interviews and [[Date with Emily|chaperoning him on dates]], where he proved (unsurprisingly) more adept at charming the date than Chris, but stopped altogether in his later years, leaving Chris to his own devices.

On the other hand, we have him to thank for some of his son's more [[Homos|backward]] [[Niggos|worldviews]]. He managed to alienate his other children enough that [[Carol Chandler|his daughter]] didn't attend his funeral or keep in touch while he was alive. He helped Chris to construct [[Matthew Noble call|bizarre]] [[Greene County Conspiracy|conspiracy theories]] to justify [[Chris and the law|trespassing and the like]], among [[Chris and his ego|other things]]. He, like Barbara, enabled Chris's crippling dependence on them, general immaturity and irresponsibility, and his myriad of other flaws. He bailed out his son repeatedly and never really let Chris experience the [[Financhu Crisis|consequences]] of his misinformed [[Chris and money|life decisions]]. He never made any serious effort to correct his son's glaring character flaws and shortcomings, even when he [[Bob Walks In|caught him masturbating in the kitchen]]. The [[THAT IS MY HOUSE|few]] times he did intervene, it wasn't even for Chris' own benefit, but to shake off the trolls and the Health department. He also did not make any real attempt to provide for Chris's future, beyond ensuring the tugboat. He left all of his money to Barbara, who promptly wasted it all on [[Rob Bell|lawyer's fees]] – a conscientious parent would have anticipated this and put some of the money in a trust for Chris, not that Chris would've handled the money any better. Better yet, he could've given the money to his son Alan, Carol or his own [[Savannah|granddaughter]].

While some like to remember Bob as a kind-hearted, albeit ignorant old man who tried his best to be a good father, others see him as a remnant of a bygone era who is responsible for moulding Chris into the person he is today.

{{clear}}

==Chris's beliefs on Bob's afterlife==
{{main|Robertchu}}

During the [[Idea Guys]] saga, Chris believed that Bob had been reincarnated into [[CWCville]] as a half-Sonichu named "[[Robertchu]]". He has maintained belief in this since, and sometimes substitutes the Robertchu name when speaking about Bob as a person.

{{clear}}

==Fan Videos==
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| video = {{#ev:youtube|cyMoams7EMw}}
| Stardate = 10 September 2011
| Maker = TheSevenRiders
| Subject = ''[[Metal Gear]]''
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{{Infobox/Fanvideo
| name = Tribute to Bob Chandler
| video = {{#ev:youtube|ajEN2zrY8cQ}}
| Stardate = 11 September 2011
| Maker = 8x13Wolf
| Subject =
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{{Infobox/Fanvideo
| name = RIP Bob Chandler
| video = {{#ev:youtube|tyoboaDCJ0s}}
| Stardate = 29 September 2011
| Maker = furnacewoodsband
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}}

==See Also==
*[[Chris and death]]
*[[Robertchu]]
*[[The Black Tape]]

{{References}}

{{SecondExile}}

Chandler Family Tree

2025-07-26T20:26:47Z

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[[File:Chrisfamilytree.png|thumb|Chris' family tree up to his great-great-grandparents|600x600px]]
Chris's ideas about his ancestry and lineage unsurprisingly differ greatly from what is known to be true.

Family members who live(d) after Chris was born can be found at [[Minor Family Members]].

==What Chris Actually Believes==
This '''Chandler Family Tree''' includes pets and people [[Chris]] ''imagines'' to be related to him:

[[Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan|Ancient leader]] [[Anne Boleyn]],
[[Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan|of the]] [[Anne Boleyn|Queen of England]]──────Mary Boleyn
[[Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan|Cherokee Clan]] │
│ ???
│ │
│ {{w|Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland|Richard Weston,}}
│ {{w|Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland|1st Earl of Portland}}
??? │
│ ???
│ │
│ [[Daniel Weston]]
│ │
Robert Jean ???
Franklin-----------Hollomon │
Chandler Sr. │ Chandler ├────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬─────────────────────┐
│ │ │ │ │
Patricia [[Bob Chandler|Robert]] [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] Jack Ran [[Aunt Corrina|Corrina]] Harriett Tom [[Minor_Family_Members#Uncle_Raymond|Raymond]]
Chandler---------[[Bob Chandler|Franklin]]------------[[Barbara Chandler|Anne]]-----------Dale or Coleman [[Aunt Corrina|Weston]] Ashby-----Ashby [[Minor_Family_Members#Uncle_Raymond|Weston]]
│ [[Bob Chandler|Chandler Jr.]] │ [[Barbara Chandler|Weston]] │ Smithey Yeatts │
┌───────────┤ ┌─────┴─────┐ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ │
[[David Alan Chandler|David]] [[Carol Suzanne Chandler|Carol]] [[Christopher's name change|Christopher]] [[Chandler Cats|cats]] [[Cole Smithey|Cole]] [[Minor_Family_Members#Jonathan_Carey|Jonathan]]
[[David Alan Chandler|Alan]] [[Carol Suzanne Chandler|Suzanne]] [[Christian Weston Chandler|Weston]] [[Cole Smithey|Smithey]] [[Minor_Family_Members#Jonathan_Carey|Carey]]
[[David Alan Chandler|Chandler]] [[Carol Suzanne Chandler|Chandler]] [[Christian Weston Chandler|Chandler]]
│ │
│ ┌─────┴─────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────┐
│ │ │ │ │ │
[[Savannah]] [[Patti Chandler|Patti]] [[Crystal Weston Chandler (daughter)|Crystal]] [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]]-----[[Rosechu]] [[Reginald Chandler|Reginald]]
[[Savannah|Chandler]] [[Patti Chandler|Chandler]] [[Crystal Weston Chandler (daughter)|Weston]] │ [[Reginald Chandler|Chandler]]
[[Crystal Weston Chandler (daughter)|Chandler]] │
┌─────┴─────┬───────────┐
│ │ │
[[Sonichu and Rosechu's children|Cerah]] [[Sonichu and Rosechu's children|Christine]] [[Sonichu and Rosechu's children|Robbie]]

==Poké Family Tree==

[[Image:457-FamilyTreeTitle.JPG|thumb|Poké Family Tree]]
[[Image:456-FamilyTreeAndCar.JPG|thumb|Poké Family Tree]]

Chris naturally drew his family tree in the form of [[Pokémon]]. He gives pilgrim hats to those on the Weston side and feathered headdresses to those on the Chandler side, both in reference to the extremely [[Daniel Weston|dubious]] [[Cherokian Clan|tales]] of Chris's heritage.

Below is a transcription with the format ''Name / Date of Birth / Description / Culture and Pokemon''.

; Top row

* [[Cole Smithey]] / born 7.24.1969 / Likes to play drums. Movie reviewer for New York Newspaper / English Pilgrim Electabuzz
* [[Chris|Christian W. Chandler]] / born 2.24.82 / Likes [[Pokemon]], [[Sonic]], and [Mario?]. 12th Grade student at [[Manchester High]] / Pikachu with Both Pilgrim and [[Cherokian Clan|Native American]] garb.
* [[Carol Suzanne Chandler|Carol Chandler]] / born 7.7.64 in [[wikipedia:Roanoke, Virginia|Roanoke]] / Math wiz at college. / Native American Wigglytuff
* [[David Alan Chandler|Allen Chandler]] [sic] / born 11.28.62 in Roanoke / ophthalmologist / Native American Alakazam

; Row 2

* [[Aunt Harriet and Uncle Tom|Harriett Ashby]] / born ?.?.? / Administrative Assistant. Married to Tom Ashby / English Pilgrim Clefable
* [[Barbara|Barbara W. Chandler]] / born ?.?.? / ??? / English Pilgrim [[Pokémon#Snorlax|Nidoqueen]]
* [[Bob|Robert F. Chandler]] / born 2.9.1928 / Retired Engineer. Likes old music. / Native American Nidoking

; Row 3

* Carrie Edna Weston / ? / ? / English Pilgrim Clefairy
* Joseph Otto Weston / ? / ? / English Pilgrim Haunter
* Jean Holloman Chandler / ? / ? / Native American Vulpix
* Robert F. Chandler Sr. / ? / ? / Native American Farfetch’d

; Row 4

* Victoria Wynn / ? / ? / English Pilgrim Victreebell
* Robert Wynn / ? / ? / English Pilgrim Fearow
* ? / ? / ? / English Pilgrim Missingno
* ? / ? / ? / English Pilgrim Dugtrio
* Frances Holloman / ? / ? / Native American Jynx
* J Holloman / ? / ? / Native American Porygon
* ? / ? / ? / Native American Jigglypuff
* ? / ? / ? / Native American Sandslash

; Row 5

* ? / ? / ? / Native American Missingno
* ? / ? / ? / Native American Exeggutor
* ? / ? / ? / Native American Missingno
* ? / ? / ? / Native American Kadabra

; Bottom row

* ? / ? / ? / Native American Missingno
* ? / ? / ? / Native American Hitmonlee
* ? / ? / ? / Native American Nidorina
* ? / ? / ? / Native American Persian

== Actual family tree ==
Basic ancestry of Chris is depicted in this tree.

Imaginary people removed:

[[File:Harvey Powers updated family tree.gif]]

A full-sized family tree going back many generations [https://imgur.com/gallery/0BgQLyH can be viewed here]<ref>[https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Chandler-Jr/6000000004391419048 Bob's Ancestors]</ref><ref>[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chandler-5468 Bob's Immediate Family]</ref><ref>[http://www.ellerfamilyassociation.com/getperson.php?personID=I141&tree=christian2 Chris's Maternal Grandmother]</ref><ref>[https://www.richmond.com/news/local/hanover/mechanicsville-local/obituaries/william-gryder/article_d1f3f188-3241-11e6-8986-bf6ec13073c1.html One of Chris's Maternal Uncles by Marriage]</ref>.

== Notable ancestors ==
This section lists Chris' ancestors in chronological order from most to least recent death. Ancestors who fought for the Confederate States of America are listed separately, in the "Dixiechus" section.

=== Robert Wynn ===
Barbara's maternal grandfather '''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was allegedly a two-timing [[Alcohol|drunk]] and moonshiner who "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children".<ref>http://www.harveypowers.com/genealogy/roots/individual.html#118</ref> In his death certificate, his profession is given as [[tobacco]] farmer.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238604751/robert-pettis-wynn</ref>

=== John James Hollomon ===
[[File:John James Hollomon.jpg|thumb|right|150px|John James Hollomon in 1910]]
Bob's maternal grandfather '''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) <ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10638068/john-james-hollomon]</ref> was born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}} but lived most of his later life in {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, a city and suburb in {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} and {{w|Dallas}} respectively. He was a well-known local pharmacist in the Collin county for over 50 years. He married twice in his life, first to Mary Francis Hollomon (née Teer 10th March 1872 - 3 Jul 1914), the daughter of a doctor specializing in osteopathic, whom he had 4 children including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. In 1915 he married Helen E. Hollomon (née Nelms 10 Apr 1893 - 29 Oct 1972) with whom he had 3 more children including Bob's half uncle Dr. John James "JJ" Hollomon Jr (1917-1992). Bob reminisces that Hollomon gave him a straight razor "by means of [Hollomon's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver, which he later held onto this regret for decades well into his 60s because he believed Hollomon wanted him to have it as a personal item and value.

Notable enough, his father was an Esquire John Richmond Hollomon (1831 - 1899), a lawyer and attorney in the Meigs County area.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70362078/susanna-brady#:~:text=of%20her%20son%2C-,J.R.%20Hollomon%20Esq.,-of%20this%20county</ref> More notable enough, his grandfather Pleasant Hollomon (1803 - 1865), served in the {{w|Tennessee House of Representatives}} in the Meigs and {{w|Rhea County, Tennessee|Rhea}} counties from 1849 to 1851. A democrat, he was a constable of the 5th Civil district of Meigs county in 1836-1839, was a deputy sheriff of Meigs in early 1840s and a deputy and tax collector in 1845.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70361465/pleasant-hollomon</ref>

===Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler===
'''The Reverend Sidney Smith Chandler''' (1805 - September 1866) was a Baptist minister and clergyman in Alabama. He is Chris's great-great-great grandfather along his paternal line. Born in Georgia, his father died in 1816 when he was 11. He moved to Alabama in 1829 and became a Primitive Baptist Clergyman and Minster in Autauga County. He also was a slaveowner, owning one female slave in the 1850 slave census.

He later married Mary Lucinda Walker and later fathered 12 children, including Joseph and his brother Edmund. He died in September of 1866 just shortly after the end of the American Civil War. Two of his sons, James (1830-1862) and Edmund (1835-1865) would die fighting in the Civil War.

===Francis Weston===
'''Francis Weston Sr.''' (Feb 1793 - 19 March 1838) was an English-born immigrant to the United States and a frontiersmen. He is Barbara's great-great-grandfather along her paternal line, making him Chris's maternal great-great-great-grandfather.

Born in {{w|Derbyshire}}, he had immigrated to [[Ohio]] by 1820 and married at {{w|Wheeling, West Virginia}} a year later to Grace Moore, an English-born American, whose parents were also an immigrants from Derbyshire. They had six out of seven children survived, the second oldest being Mary Ann Weston in 1825 and the youngest Joseph Edward "John" Weston in July 1836,<ref>[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6Q23-PTF?i=2&cc=1401638&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMXSB-9Q8 Joseph (listed as Edward Weston) with his three older siblings and mother Gracy in 1850 census)]</ref><ref>[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BS6-DF?i=8&cc=1473181&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMCPH-V55 Gracy Weston (Joseph's mother) in 1860 census with her son Francis]</ref> all in {{w|Augusta Township, Carroll County, Ohio|Augusta Township}}. Through Joseph, Francis's surname would be carried on to [[Barbara]], which, in turn, would serve as the basis for [[Chris|our hero]]'s middle name.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118642485/francis-weston</ref>

According to newspapers, After immigrating to Augusta Township, Francis, a frontiersmen, built a homestead house of his and his family in a wilderness place with 2 other families surrounded by wild animals and forest. The homestead house was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay. They mentioned about the one occasion Francis was chased by wolves in a forest when coming home from buying fresh meats. Francis would pass away at age 45 in March 1838, 2 years after his youngest son Joseph was born.

In a later pseudo-historical account of events by Barbara and Chris, Francis is replaced by a certain [[Daniel Weston]]. Unlike the historical Francis Weston, ''Daniel'' Weston travelled to North America in 1620 (a whole 2 centuries earlier than Francis), and has the honor of being of a descendant of [[Anne Boleyn]] (whose {{w|Elizabeth I|only daughter}} died childless).

Francis' son, Francis Weston Jr, according to newspapers, was a "popular" and successful businessman and general merchant, owning iron and furnace company, and many other successful companies at Ohio, West Virginia and Missouri with a college education to his name. Through his daughter Jane, Francis Sr is the grandfather of {{w|Pierce County, Washington}}'s Superior Court judge & attorney William Oscar Chapman, who at the time of admitting to {{w|Ohio State Bar Association|Ohio bar}}, was in the same group of applicants with a later president of the United States {{w|William Howard Taft}}.

=== Captain Joseph Looney ===
Joseph Lewellyn Looney (abt.1740-1816) fought in the {{w|American Revolutionary War}} on the Patriot side. He fought in the {{w|Battle of Guilford Court House}} under major general [[Nathanael Greene Elementary School|Nathanael Greene]].<ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Looney-149</ref>

=== Polly Bowman ===
{{main|Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan}}
Chris has at least one [[Cherokee]] ancestor, about whom he absolutely knows nothing. The ancestor was introduced in ''[[Sonichu 2|Sonichu #2]]'', which was completed on 3 May 2005. The ancestor was long assumed to be nonexistent, but on 16 January 2025 - 19 years and 8 months later - the ancestor was discovered to be real by CWCki editor [[User:Cilria2|Cilria2]]. '''Polly Bowman "Cherokee Mother" Cherokee''' (abt 1703 to 1790) is Chris's 7th great-grandmother.

=== John Chandler and Elizabeth Lupo ===
Although there is no evidence that his mother's ancestors were on board the ''Mayflower'', Chris's paternal ancestors were among the first settlers of his home state of Virginia. Chris's direct male ancestor '''John Chandler''' (c. 1600-1657), a native of London, was an early settler of {{w|Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown}}, [[Virginia]], arriving in 1610 with a boat ''Hercules'', ten years before the ''Mayflower''.<ref>https://www.geni.com/people/John-Chandler-l/6000000008639070482</ref> John married the widow '''Elizabeth Lupo''' (née '''Bassano'''), a member of the illustrious {{w|Jeronimo Bassano|Bassano family}} of [[music|musicians]] who had been recruited from Venice by {{w|King Henry VIII}} to serve in his court (some have claimed that the Bassanos were of [[Jewish]] origin, but the jury is out). The Chandler family migrated southwest over the generations, passing through North Carolina and Georgia before settling in Alabama, Bob's home state.

John Chandler is the fifth great-grandfather of the Dixiechu Joseph Chandler, and the ninth great-grandfather of Chris.

===Richard Baker===
{{w|Richard Baker (chronicler)|Richard Baker}} (c. 1568 – 18 February 1645) was a politician, historian and religious writer. He was the English author of the ''Chronicle of the Kings of England'' and other works.

He is the 12th great-grandfather of Chris on Bob's mother side.

===Edward, Thomas Palmer & Thomas Overbury===
Thanks to John Chandler's grandson's wife Elizabeth Palmer, Chris's 7th great-grandmother, some Christorians did research about her ancestors. Chris has three known ancestors, two of which are Chris descendent of, and other is distantly related.<ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Palmer-2791</ref><ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Palmer-533</ref><ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Palmer-229</ref>

Chris is a descendant of his 10th great-grandfather '''{{w|Edward Palmer (d.1624)|Edward Palmer}}''' (c. 1555–1624) from {{w|Gloucestershire}}, England, a gentleman with antiquarian interests who was known for his [[Stamps|extensive collections]] such as Roman coins and is best remembered for purchasing the then unnamed {{w|Garrett Island}} in colony of Virginia (now Maryland) for his plan of establishing university at the island.<ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Palmer-544</ref>

Edward had a son whom Chris is also descendant from. '''{{w|Thomas Palmer (burgess)|Thomas Palmer}}''' settled at Jamestown, Virginia on a boat ''Tyger'' with his wife Joan Jordan and 11 years old daughter Priscilla in November 1621. Shortly after their arrival at Jamestown, the Palmers were nearly killed by the [[Cherokian Clan|Powhatans]] during the {{w|Indian massacre of 1622}}, but survived by living in {{w|Jordan Point, Virginia#Jordan's Journey: Beggars Bush|Jordan's Journey}} shelter residence. Thomas was a captain in command of a company of militia from {{w|Eppes Island|Shirley Hundred Island}} and was a member of {{w|House of Burgesses}} at Jamestown on October 16, 1629.<ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Palmer-229</ref>

Perhaps notably, Thomas was a first cousin of [[Chris_and_writing#Chris_as_a_poet_and_lyricist|poet]] and [[Chris_and_writing#Chris_as_an_essayist|essayist]] '''{{w|Thomas Overbury}}''' through his father's sister Mary Palmer and her husband {{w|Nicholas Overbury}}. Overbury was known for his poem, ''A Wife'', and a victim of murder by poisoning which led to a scandalous trial.<ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Overbury-10</ref>

=== Sir James Croft ===
Sir {{w|James Croft}} (1518- 4 September 1590) was English politician, who was Lord Deputy of Ireland, and MP for Herefordshire in the Parliament of England, He is Chris 12th great-grandfather on his paternal side.

=== Hugh and Isabel Bardolf ===
[[Image:Chris Anne Boleyn.png|thumb|How Chris is related to Anne Boleyn.]]
'''Hugh Bardolf''' (c. 29 September 1259 - c. 20 September 1304) <ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bardolf-9</ref> and '''Isabel Bardolf''' (born '''Isabel Aguillon'''; c. 25 March 1258 - c. 28 May 1323) <ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Aguillon-5</ref>, Chris' 19th great-grandparents, were a medieval English couple who married in 1281. According to a Redditor's Wikitree research in 2022, they are Chris' most recent shared ancestors with [[Anne Boleyn]] (albeit on his father's side, not his mother's): they gave birth to Thomas (Boleyn's 6th great-grandfather) in 1282, Margery around 1283, William in 1284, and Nicola (Chris' 18th great-grandmother) around 1294. This means that, although Chris is not ''descended'' from Anne Boleyn, he is indeed a distant relative. This is hardly surprising, as all humans are relatives of each other of varying distance.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/tedhwz/barb_may_not_have_been_related_to_anne_boleyn_but/</ref><ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Aguillon-5</ref>

In addition to being the source of Chris's distant connection with Anne Boleyn, Hugh Bardolf was the first nobleman of {{w|Baron Bardolf}}, a noble title in the {{w|Peerage of England}}. His wife Isabel was a member of the {{w|Aguillon family}} (of French origin), who were feudal landowners in England. Isabel's father, Sir Robert Aguillon (c. 1226 - 15 February 1286)<ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Aguillon-4</ref>, was a Sheriff of Surrey & Sussex County and a keeper of two castles in both counties.

Hugh Bardolf's descendants unite with those of John Chandler (b. 1600) in 1700, when Robert Chandler (John's grandson, 1659 - c. 1720) and his wife Elizabeth Palmer (Hugh's 10th great-granddaughter, b. 1664) give birth to Joseph Chandler (11 Aug 1700 - 11 Oct 1764), Chris' 6th great-grandparent, in {{w|New Kent, Virginia}}.

A stark contrast can be observed in the fact that Hugh's first child is the ancestor of prestigious nobility (namely an Anne Boleyn and actual queen of England, Elizabeth I), while Hugh's fourth and last child is the ancestor of our infamous protagonist.

== Dixiechus ==
"'''Dixiechus'''" is a nickname used by Christorians to describe ancestors of Chris who fought for the {{w|Confederate States of America}} during the {{w|American Civil War}}. It is a portmanteau of ''{{w|Dixie}}'' and ''[[Sonichu]]''. The first Dixiechu to be identified was Joseph Chandler, discovered by Kiwifarms user Meat Pickle on 20 December 2021. The term "Dixiechu" was proposed on the [[Official CWCki Server]] on 24 April 2024, by which point four Dixiechus had been identified.

During the [[Jail Saga]], Chris was asked if he may have had ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, at a time when Joseph Chandler (on his father's side) was the only known Dixiechu. In [[Jail Letter - 25 May 2022]], he denied that his father's ancestors had fought for the Confederacy, but conceded that his mother's ancestors may have done so. In 2024, Christorians discovered William Drury Thompson - a Dixiechu on the maternal side of Chris' ancestry - partially vindicating Chris' statement.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that half of modern-day southerners have ancestors who fought for the Confederacy.<ref>There is no large-scale study of Confederate ancestry to the knowledge of this wiki, but genealogists familiar with this area tend to estimate a ballpark of 40-55%.[https://pastexplore.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/okay-so-you-have-civil-war-ancestors/][https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-todays-southern-US-population-actually-have-ancestors-who-fought-for-the-confederacy]</ref> In this light, Chris' Confederate heritage should be seen as reflecting the norm rather than his own eccentricity.

In chronological order from most to least recent death, the Dixiechus include:

=== Joseph Chandler ===
[[File:Joseph chandler.png|thumb|right|150px|Joseph Chandler in 1911]]
'''Joseph Chandler''' (14 April 1832 - January 1925) of {{w|Autauga County, Alabama}} is Chris's great-great-grandfather along his paternal line. Joseph Chandler enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in May 1862. Serving in the unit {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}} at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}}, he fought in the {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay}} before being paroled in April 1865 after the conclusion of the war and was later discharged in August of that year due to broken shoulder.<ref>[https://kiwifarms.net/threads/random-thoughts-questions.49854/page-1487#post-10736839 A Kiwi Farms post with a record of Joseph Chandler]</ref><ref>https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=0AA5818C-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A</ref> Joseph's professions after the war were farmer, shoe maker and largely a herb doctor.<ref>http://alagenealogy.com/Patriarchs/Chandler,%20Sidney%20Smith.htm#JOSEPH%20H.2%20CHANDLER</ref>

Joseph also had a younger brother Edmund (1835 - 1865, Chris's great-great-granduncle), who also fought for the Confederacy at [https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Camp_of_Instruction,_Talladega,_Alabama#:~:text=Talladega%20was%20one%20of%20two,would%20be%20obliged%20to%20enroll.| Camp of Instruction, Talladega, Alabama], died as a result during the war in 1865.<ref>https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=C3A5818C-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A</ref> Joseph's two younger sons John (1876 - 1932) and Rufus (1880 - 1932), both were killed on March 21, 1932 in {{w|Chilton County, Alabama|Chilton County area}}, from the {{w|1932 Deep South tornado outbreak}}.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106731994/john-tyler_morgan-chandler</ref><ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26986157/rufus-sidney-chandler</ref>

=== Caleb Nelson Headley ===
[[File:CalebHeadley.png|thumb|right|150px|Caleb Headley]]

'''Caleb Nelson Headley''' (1847-1921) was born on the 8th of March 1845 (1846 or 1847 depending on which source) in Darlington County, South Carolina as the only son of Wills Headley and Rebecca Bell, Caleb's father Wills died when he was just 7 years old in 1854, and he was soon taken into the custody of James Huckabee (who would later become his stepfather), who taught the boy farming until he was 21 years old.

In 1863 when he was just 18 years old, he enlisted in the Confederate Army as part of the 63rd Alabama Regiment, Company H (They were also known as Second Alabama Reserve), he took part in fighting in Spanish Fort (he was wounded) and was discharged at his home (he was on furlough at the time) in May of 1865.

Shortly after the end of the war, he settled in Coosa County Alabama, in 1874 he married Caroline Louisa Estes when he was 28 and she was 24 at her father's house in Talladega, Alabama, He would have 8 children from 1874 to 1892 including Martha Headley (Bob's paternal grandmother), Caleb was a farmer for most of his life, in 1898 he attempted to run for a political seat in Alabama State Assembly as a Representative for Chilton County as independent but withdraw and then backed the Populist ticket for that seat.

Caleb would see his health worsen in his later years, he became nearly blind by his late 60s and by 1920 was living with his son Robert E. L Headley. He died on August 21st, 1921 in Shelby County, Alabama at age of 76.

=== William Teer ===
[[File:Willam Teer.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Image of William Teer. (Very likely to be authentic) <ref>This image was uploaded to findagrave in 2016; William Teer was not known to Christorians to be Chris' ancestor in 2016. Family trees from both 2017[https://sonichu.com/cwcki/File:Chris%27s_family_tree_up_to_his_great_great_grandparents.png] and 2019[https://imgur.com/gallery/0BgQLyH] omit the ancestry of Bob's maternal grandmother. Furthermore, his biography on rootsweb uses a similar image.[https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~dougmay/genealogy/Wmteer.htm]</ref>]]
Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather, '''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919), was born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, and grew up in {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} since he was 10 years old with his seven siblings. The family later relocated to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked as a farmer before enlisting in the army for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in April 1862, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William suffered serious injuries, including a shattered right arm, a damaged spleen, and later contracting hepatitis (It might be worth reflecting how close Teer was to dying at this point - a slightly different outcome could have prevented all of Christory a century before it began). After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by the US Army, they retreated, leaving William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before shortly being captured. He was later paroled in May 1862, returning to San Antonio. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse, in 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}. From this marriage, he had seven children, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894, William remarried to Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm, William established himself as an {{w|osteopath}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases." He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness. As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. After retiring, he resided at the Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in 1918, where he later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} home caused by a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a book titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

=== Garnder E. Shearin ===
'''Garnder E. Shearin'''' (1836/1837 - 28 January 1901)<ref>https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/shearin-gardner-e.-warren-county/1671784</ref><ref>https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-warren-record-gardner-early-shearin/521312/</ref> was a Confederate veteran from North Carolina. He married Martha in 1859. In May 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate army in Warren County, North Carolina, fighting in company B of North Carolina's 30th infantry regiment remaining in service until the end of the war in 1865.

An obituary to him reads: "I was not with him in the army but learned from others, that he was a faithful soldier. My association with him since the war enables me to say I never knew a kinder hearted or monre congenial natured man. Always ready to serve a friend."

He is ancestor of Chris via Barb's side of his ancestry.

=== William Drury Thompson ===
'''William Drury Thompson''' (1814 - 17 May 1862) was a civil war enlistee from North Carolina, although it's unknown which side of the military force, (although there's a record suggesting he's a Confederate enlistee for North Carolina's Infantry 12th Regiment), died during his basic training in Richmond, Virginia due to illnesses, 2 months after enlisting.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/262604729/william-drury-thompson</ref>

He is Chris' great-great-great-grandfather. More specifically, he is the paternal grandfather of the maternal grandmother of Barbara.

=== Rufus Walker ===

'''Rufus Walker''' (1820-1895) was a Confederate soldier who served in Company H and came from Milton, Alabama, located in Autauga County. He became a prisoner of war after being surrendered by Lieutenant General Richard Taylor to Major E.R.S. Canby on May 4, 1865. Rufus was later paroled in Selma in June 1865.<ref>https://38thalabama.com/ndashv-to-zndash.html</ref>

He is Chris' great-great-great-grandfather, with the lineage as follows: Rufus Walker (1820-1895) > Mary Elizabeth Walker (1840-1887) > Joseph Chandler (1871-1947) > Robert F. Chandler Sr. (1906-1977) > Robert ("[[Bob]]") F. Chandler Jr. (1927-2011) > Chris

==Ancestry.com content==
In [[January 2017]], a distant relative of Chris posted images to Kiwi Farms, on various documents relating to the Chandler family, acquired from Ancestry.com<ref>https://kiwifarms.net/threads/interesting-info-about-chriss-family-particularly-their-parents.27521/</ref>

{{quotebox|Bob is apparently an only child, however Barbara has five deceased siblings and several more living ones.}}
{{quotebox|Most of Chris's ancestors were [[RandomSong1|farmers]], doing tasks that Chris would find back breaking.}}
{{quotebox|Chris, from what I gathered, is not 1/16 Cherokian. He is however 1/16 British and 1/8 French Canadian.}}
{{quotebox|His great great grandparent's from Northern Ireland.}}
The "Northern Irish" ancestor was Chris's great-great-grandmother Mary Weston (née McClintic, 31 Oct 1834 - 25 Dec 1910). Mary was born in the town of {{w|Omagh}} (whose name means "the [[Virgin with Rage|virgin]] plain" in Gaelic) in County [[niggos|Tyrone]], in what is today {{w|Northern Ireland}}. She came to the United States between 1840 and 1850, likely as a result of the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22502739/joseph-mcclintock</ref> She settled in Augusta, Ohio, where she married Joseph "John" Edward Weston, Chris's great-great-grandfather, in 1858, who was also from Augusta. Both later settled in {{w|Clarksville, Virginia}}.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24279732/mary-weston</ref>

The "French Canadian" ancestor was Chris's great-grandmother Sarah Ann Weston (née {{w|Clan Hamilton|Hamilton}}, Apr 1867 - 25 Jan 1938), who was born in [[wikipedia:Huntingdon, Quebec|Huntingdon]], {{w|Quebec}} and came to Virginia with her family during the 1870s, settling near Red Oak.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35318370/sarah-jane-weston</ref><ref>https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6823228286:62476</ref> Although the majority of Quebeckers speak French, her surname and the fact that she was born in a predominantly English-speaking part of Quebec suggest that she belonged to the province's English-speaking minority. Moreover, her paternal and maternal grandparents were all born in [[Tito Got No Luck Against We Brits, Irish and Scots!|Scotland]], making her of entirely Scottish descent.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/249266361/jane-hamilton</ref><ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/249027191/daniel-hamilton</ref> Sarah is Chris's most recent immigrant ancestor.

<center><gallery>
File:RobertPettusWynnWW1Draft.jpg|Robert Wynn WW1 military draftee (1918).
File:JosephWW1.png|Joe Weston WW1 military draftee (1918).
File:RobertChandlerSrDraft.png|Bob's father's WW2 military draftee (1940).
File:RobertSr1940DraftCardPhysicalDetail.png|Bob's father's military card on a physical detail (1940).
File:Bob&Parents.png|Bob and his parents, Jean Hollomon & Robert F. Chandler Sr., (early 1940s).
File:RobertPettusWynnOldManWW2DraftCard.jpg|Robert Wynn WW2 military draft card (1942).
File:RobertWynn1942DraftCardPhysicalDetail.png|Robert Wynn military card on a physical detail (1942).
File:JoeOttoWestonOldMan1942WW2DraftCard.jpg|Joe Weston WW2 military draft card (1942).
File:JoeWeston1942DraftCardPhysicalDetail.png|Joe Weston military card on a physical detail (1942).
File:WW2BobChandler(badquality).jpg|Bob's military card draftee (1946) (written in 1945).
File:Bob1946WW2DraftCardPhysicalDetail.png| Bob's WW2 military card on a physical detail (1946) (written in 1945).
File:JohnJamesHollomonObituary1950.jpeg|John James Hollomon's newspaper obituary (1950).
File:1956 9 25 - Bob, Patricia marriage license.png|1956 9 25 - Bob, Patricia marriage license.
File:1961 6 17 - Barb and Ran marriage license.jpeg|1961 6 17 - Barb and Ran marriage license.
File:1963 5 15 - Barb, Ran divorce.jpeg|1963 5 15 - Barb, Ran divorce.
File:Robert Chandler Sr.png| Bob's father with his four youngest kids (1969)
File:Chandler family reunion 1975.png | Chandler Family Reunion (1975)
File:Robert f obit.jpeg| Bob's father obituary (1977)
File:JerryAndBarbDivorce.png|1980 1 7 - Barbara, Jerry divorce.
File:1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.png|1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.
File:1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.jpeg|1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.
File:Bob and his parents - 1930s census.png|Bob and his parents - 1930s census.
File:Bob and his parents - 1940s census.png|Bob and his parents - 1940s census.
Bob1950Census.jpg|Bob in Jacksonville State University dormitory room - 1950s census.
File:Barbarafamilycensus1950.png|Barbara and her parents and siblings - 1950s census.
File:Bob's birth certificate.png|Bob's birth certificate.
File:Cole Smithey's family tree.png|Cole Smithey's family tree.
File:David Alan Chandler and Kimberly Fay Howard's marriage certificate.png|David Alan Chandler and Kimberly Fay Howard's marriage certificate.
File:Savannah Chandler's family tree.png|Savannah Chandler's family tree.
File:2023ChrisDNATest.png|Chris's ancestry, showing him to be 100% pure cracker. [[Transgender|Also note the got-dang Y chromosome.]].
</gallery></center>

== See also ==

*[[Imaginary family]]
*[[Minor Family Members]]
*[[Weston Haiku]]

==Sources==
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[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Family Members]]
[[Category:Lists]]
{{Fantasies}}

File:Bob&Parents.png

2025-07-22T16:29:35Z

NightcoreSwift004: Bobby Chandler & his parents, Robert F. Chandler Sr. and Jean Hollomon, early 1940s

== Summary ==
Bobby Chandler & his parents, Robert F. Chandler Sr. and Jean Hollomon, early 1940s

Kiwi Farms posts (waltahwhite'freemovies)

2025-06-16T03:48:17Z

NightcoreSwift004:

This page is an archive of [[Waltah White]]'s key posts about Chris on the online forum Kiwi Farms, under the username waltahwhite'freemovies. Posts are sorted by date.

==Livestream==
18 May 2025<ref>{{cite farms|thread = 219983|post = 21458253}}</ref>

Walt posts the first call he had with Chris, where he interrupted his [[Jesus Christ Chan - Sonic 2006 Speed Playthrough Part 3|Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) livestream]].

{{quoteboxkiwi|eh at least he was kind to pause the stream and give old waltah a call

[''embed of [[Walt's call with cwc! 5/17/25]]'']}}

==Flutter Call==
13 June 2025<ref>{{cite farms|thread = 180104|post = 21697526}}</ref>

In [[Flutter]]'s Kiwi Farms thread, a user posts an alleged call that revealed her first name as "Auli". Walt uses his experiences with Chris in order to question the call's authenticity.

{{quoteboxkiwi|so having spoke to chris over the phone. im trying to figure out if its real. like it sounds like chris but when he called me it didnt sound as clean over the phone. the rage at the end does sound like something he would say though. but comparing that call with my own, the audio of chris is too clean. unless he used a diffrent number}}

{{References}}
[[Category:Kiwi Farms posts]]

Duolingo

2025-05-11T15:22:06Z

NightcoreSwift004:

[[File:Duolingo avatar december 2024.jpg|thumb|200px|Chris's avatar as of December 2024]]

'''Duolingo''' is a website and phone application for learning languages. [[Chris]] joined the platform in [[October 2023]].

Surprisingly, Chris remained a dedicated user of Duolingo for months on end. On 4 December 2023, Chris posted on [[Twitter]] that he had acquired the rank of Galactic Legend.<ref>[[December 2023 social media posts#Duolingo]]</ref> On 29 [[January 2024]], he hit a 100-day learning streak.<ref>[[:File:Twitter - Duolingo100 - 29Jan2024.jpg]]</ref> Chris broke his streak on around 18 [[April 2024]] after days of inactivity, bringing his record streak to over 150. He became inactive in July 2024 until mid October, when he resumed practicing Finnish daily again, exceeding his streak record of 175 days in April 2025. On 7 [[May 2025]], he hit a 200-day learning streak.

Even more surprisingly, Chris has used the platform almost exclusively to study Finnish, which is regarded as a very difficult language for native English speakers to learn and which is spoken by fewer than 6 million people. Chris has avoided making public comments on his interest in the language, however he was spotted in [[Finland]] in [[April 2024]], [[September 2024]] and [[December 2024]]. One popular theory is that his mysterious [[gal pal]] [[Flutter]], who was first seen in public with Chris around the time he joined Duolingo, and accompanied him to Finland, is Finnish or speaks the language.

==Languages==
Stats from [[November 2023]] show that Chris has studied:

*[[Finland|Finnish]] (21822 XP)
*[[Spanish]] (120 XP)
*[[Messiah complex|Heb]][[Chris and race#Jews|rew]] (15 XP)

By [[May 2025]], only the Finnish stat had changed, increasing to 122,850 XP.

In [[January 2025]], Chris began studying Japanese, but he quickly gave up on it, stopping at 150 XP.

==Gallery==
<center><gallery>
File:Duolingo avatar.png|Chris's avatar in Duolingo as of [[January 2024]]
File:Chris Duolingo October 2024.png|Chris's avatar as of [[October 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 1.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 2.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 1.png|Stats from 30 [[January 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 2.png|Stats from 30 January 2024
</gallery></center>

==External links==
*[https://www.duolingo.com/profile/001832.a1fQYRZw Chris's Duolingo profile]
{{References}}
{{The Internet}}
[[Category:Websites]]

Duolingo

2025-04-09T13:45:03Z

NightcoreSwift004:

[[File:Duolingo avatar december 2024.jpg|thumb|200px|Chris's avatar as of December 2024]]

'''Duolingo''' is a website and phone application for learning languages. [[Chris]] joined the platform in [[October 2023]].

Surprisingly, Chris remained a dedicated user of Duolingo for months on end. On 4 December 2023, Chris posted on [[Twitter]] that he had acquired the rank of Galactic Legend.<ref>[[December 2023 social media posts#Duolingo]]</ref> On 29 [[January 2024]], he hit a 100-day learning streak.<ref>[[:File:Twitter - Duolingo100 - 29Jan2024.jpg]]</ref> Chris broke his streak on around 18 [[April 2024]] after days of inactivity, bringing his record streak to over 150. He became inactive in July 2024 until mid October, when he resumed practicing Finnish daily again, exceeding his streak record of 175 in April 2025.

Even more surprisingly, Chris has used the platform almost exclusively to study Finnish, which is regarded as a very difficult language for native English speakers to learn and which is spoken by fewer than 6 million people. Chris has avoided making public comments on his interest in the language, however he was spotted in [[Finland]] in [[April 2024]], [[September 2024]] and [[December 2024]]. One popular theory is that his mysterious [[gal pal]] [[Flutter]], who was first seen in public with Chris around the time he joined Duolingo, and accompanied him to Finland, is Finnish or speaks the language.

==Languages==
Stats from [[November 2023]] show that Chris has studied:

*[[Finland|Finnish]] (21822 XP)
*[[Spanish]] (120 XP)
*[[Messiah complex|Heb]][[Chris and race#Jews|rew]] (15 XP)

By [[March 2025]], only the Finnish stat had changed, increasing to 121,697 XP.

In [[January 2025]], Chris began studying Japanese, but he quickly gave up on it, stopping at 150 XP.

==Gallery==
<center><gallery>
File:Duolingo avatar.png|Chris's avatar in Duolingo as of [[January 2024]]
File:Chris Duolingo October 2024.png|Chris's avatar as of [[October 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 1.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 2.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 1.png|Stats from 30 [[January 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 2.png|Stats from 30 January 2024
</gallery></center>

==External links==
*[https://www.duolingo.com/profile/001832.a1fQYRZw Chris's Duolingo profile]
{{References}}
{{The Internet}}
[[Category:Websites]]

Duolingo

2025-03-31T13:43:30Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Languages */

[[File:Duolingo avatar december 2024.jpg|thumb|200px|Chris's avatar as of December 2024]]

'''Duolingo''' is a website and phone application for learning languages. [[Chris]] joined the platform in [[October 2023]].

Surprisingly, Chris remained a dedicated user of Duolingo for months on end. On 4 December 2023, Chris posted on [[Twitter]] that he had acquired the rank of Galactic Legend.<ref>[[December 2023 social media posts#Duolingo]]</ref> On 29 [[January 2024]], he hit a 100-day learning streak.<ref>[[:File:Twitter - Duolingo100 - 29Jan2024.jpg]]</ref> Chris broke his streak on around 18 [[April 2024]] after days of inactivity, bringing his record streak to over 150. He became inactive in July 2024 until mid October, when he resumed practicing Finnish daily again, exceeding his streak record of 160 in March 2025.

Even more surprisingly, Chris has used the platform almost exclusively to study Finnish, which is regarded as a very difficult language for native English speakers to learn and which is spoken by fewer than 6 million people. Chris has avoided making public comments on his interest in the language, however he was spotted in [[Finland]] in [[April 2024]], [[September 2024]] and [[December 2024]]. One popular theory is that his mysterious [[gal pal]] [[Flutter]], who was first seen in public with Chris around the time he joined Duolingo, and accompanied him to Finland, is Finnish or speaks the language.

==Languages==
Stats from [[November 2023]] show that Chris has studied:

*[[Finland|Finnish]] (21822 XP)
*[[Spanish]] (120 XP)
*[[Messiah complex|Heb]][[Chris and race#Jews|rew]] (15 XP)

By [[March 2025]], only the Finnish stat had changed, increasing to 121,697 XP.

In [[January 2025]], Chris began studying Japanese, but he quickly gave up on it, stopping at 150 XP.

==Gallery==
<center><gallery>
File:Duolingo avatar.png|Chris's avatar in Duolingo as of [[January 2024]]
File:Chris Duolingo October 2024.png|Chris's avatar as of [[October 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 1.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 2.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 1.png|Stats from 30 [[January 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 2.png|Stats from 30 January 2024
</gallery></center>

==External links==
*[https://www.duolingo.com/profile/001832.a1fQYRZw Chris's Duolingo profile]
{{References}}
{{The Internet}}
[[Category:Websites]]

Sightings (2025)

2025-03-29T19:58:35Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* February */

{{protip|We once again advise you to ''never'' directly engage with Chris nor attempt to get him [[banned]] from the places he's been to, [[Xela|as doing so won't work well in your favor]]. On the off-chance that you cross paths with Chris, the ''most'' that you should do is [[Passive observers|get some kind of documentation of Chris]], [[Unholy Quintet|but never to directly engage with him]].}}
{{Ongoing}}

Since his release from jail in [[2023]], '''sightings''' of Chris have occurred in [[2025]]. The sightings are particularly notable, given Chris's decline in terms of having an active online presence.

==February==
===Pet & Aquatic Warehouse===
On 14 [[February 2025]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted browsing at Pet & Aquatic Warehouse in [[Lynchburg]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1iq5krs/the_person_send_me_the_photos_without_the/ ([https://archive.ph/wip/WlvTc archive])</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1iq4vgl/alternate_angles_of_chris_at_pet_store_on/ ([https://archive.ph/wip/u5PNx archive])</ref>

Observers have also noted that Chris doesn't stick out as much in these photos, as his fashion sense has become more conventional and less feminine than it was before his trips to Finland. He is wearing a nondescript black hoodie and baggy jeans, and his blue [[hair]] seems to be fading to a natural grayish color. He is still wearing his [[Chris and fashion#Custom-painted shoes|custom-painted shoes]], however.

<center><gallery>
File:14 February 2025 Chris and Flutter in pet store1.jpg
File:14 February 2025 Chris and Flutter in pet store2.jpg
File:14 February 2025 Chris and Flutter in pet store3.jpg
File:14 February 2025 Chris and Flutter in pet store4.jpg
</gallery></center>

==March==
===Food Lion===
{{incomplete|[https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1jmudsu/chris_chan_sighting March 2025 Ruckersville Food Lion sighting]}}

{{References}}
{{The Internet}}

Duolingo

2025-03-23T02:15:40Z

NightcoreSwift004: Just now he hit 160 day of learning

[[File:Duolingo avatar december 2024.jpg|thumb|200px|Chris's avatar as of December 2024]]

'''Duolingo''' is a website and phone application for learning languages. [[Chris]] joined the platform in [[October 2023]].

Surprisingly, Chris remained a dedicated user of Duolingo for months on end. On 4 December 2023, Chris posted on [[Twitter]] that he had acquired the rank of Galactic Legend.<ref>[[December 2023 social media posts#Duolingo]]</ref> On 29 [[January 2024]], he hit a 100-day learning streak.<ref>[[:File:Twitter - Duolingo100 - 29Jan2024.jpg]]</ref> Chris broke his streak on around 18 [[April 2024]] after days of inactivity, bringing his record streak to over 150. He became inactive in July 2024 until mid October, when he resumed practicing Finnish daily again, exceeding his streak record of 160 in March 2025.

Even more surprisingly, Chris has used the platform almost exclusively to study Finnish, which is regarded as a very difficult language for native English speakers to learn and which is spoken by fewer than 6 million people. Chris has avoided making public comments on his interest in the language, however he was spotted in [[Finland]] in [[April 2024]], [[September 2024]] and [[December 2024]]. One popular theory is that his mysterious [[gal pal]] [[Flutter]], who was first seen in public with Chris around the time he joined Duolingo, and accompanied him to Finland, is Finnish or speaks the language.

==Languages==
Stats from [[November 2023]] show that Chris has studied:

*[[Finland|Finnish]] (21822 XP)
*[[Spanish]] (120 XP)
*[[Messiah complex|Heb]][[Chris and race#Jews|rew]] (15 XP)

By [[March 2025]], only the Finnish stat had changed, increasing to 121,697 XP.

In [[January 2025]], Chris began studying Japanese.

==Gallery==
<center><gallery>
File:Duolingo avatar.png|Chris's avatar in Duolingo as of [[January 2024]]
File:Chris Duolingo October 2024.png|Chris's avatar as of [[October 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 1.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 2.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 1.png|Stats from 30 [[January 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 2.png|Stats from 30 January 2024
</gallery></center>

==External links==
*[https://www.duolingo.com/profile/001832.a1fQYRZw Chris's Duolingo profile]
{{References}}
{{The Internet}}
[[Category:Websites]]

Duolingo

2025-03-23T01:22:20Z

NightcoreSwift004: I'm really amazed Chris still is learning Finnish

[[File:Duolingo avatar december 2024.jpg|thumb|200px|Chris's avatar as of December 2024]]

'''Duolingo''' is a website and phone application for learning languages. [[Chris]] joined the platform in [[October 2023]].

Surprisingly, Chris remained a dedicated user of Duolingo for months on end. On 4 December 2023, Chris posted on [[Twitter]] that he had acquired the rank of Galactic Legend.<ref>[[December 2023 social media posts#Duolingo]]</ref> On 29 [[January 2024]], he hit a 100-day learning streak.<ref>[[:File:Twitter - Duolingo100 - 29Jan2024.jpg]]</ref> Chris broke his streak on around 18 [[April 2024]] after days of inactivity, bringing his record streak to over 150. He became inactive in July 2024 until mid October, when he resumed practicing Finnish daily again, exceeding his streak record of over 160 in March 2025.

Even more surprisingly, Chris has used the platform almost exclusively to study Finnish, which is regarded as a very difficult language for native English speakers to learn and which is spoken by fewer than 6 million people. Chris has avoided making public comments on his interest in the language, however he was spotted in [[Finland]] in [[April 2024]], [[September 2024]] and [[December 2024]]. One popular theory is that his mysterious [[gal pal]] [[Flutter]], who was first seen in public with Chris around the time he joined Duolingo, and accompanied him to Finland, is Finnish or speaks the language.

==Languages==
Stats from [[November 2023]] show that Chris has studied:

*[[Finland|Finnish]] (21822 XP)
*[[Spanish]] (120 XP)
*[[Messiah complex|Heb]][[Chris and race#Jews|rew]] (15 XP)

By [[March 2025]], only the Finnish stat had changed, increasing to 121,697 XP.

In [[January 2025]], Chris began studying Japanese.

==Gallery==
<center><gallery>
File:Duolingo avatar.png|Chris's avatar in Duolingo as of [[January 2024]]
File:Chris Duolingo October 2024.png|Chris's avatar as of [[October 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 1.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 23Nov2023 2.png|Stats from 23 [[November 2023]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 1.png|Stats from 30 [[January 2024]]
File:Duolingo stats 30Jan2024 2.png|Stats from 30 January 2024
</gallery></center>

==External links==
*[https://www.duolingo.com/profile/001832.a1fQYRZw Chris's Duolingo profile]
{{References}}
{{The Internet}}
[[Category:Websites]]

Barbara Chandler

2025-02-23T16:06:34Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Early life */

{{Unreliable|type=cred|Barb has a long history of [[LoveYouLongTime_E-mails,_2011-2012#Borb_vs_MAGfest|manipulating]] people.|She might also have dementia or some other cognitive disability. Alternatively, she may be faking dementia symptoms on camera.}}
{{Needs Updating|[[The Place chats (December 2020)#Scary Barbara and Cirrusfire Rant]]|[[The Place chats - ProjectSNT#Browsing Kiwi Farms]]|[[An Honest Self-Portrait from June, 2021]]|[[Jail Letter - 4 July 2022]]|[[Jail Letter - 21 July 2022]]|[[Jail Letter - 29 July 2022]]}}
{{Honest}}
{{Misinfo|Barb has not been confirmed to have dementia. It is impossible to know for sure, and, while theorization is okay, it is ideal not to confirm or deny it on this wiki without further evidence.}}

{{quote|I am close to my mother, but I would advise some space between you and your mother. And I recommend [[Love Quest|finding yourself]] a Girlfriend/Sweetheart to remain with in your later years of life. Mama's not gonna be around forever.|Chris feigns giving advice to a ''Sonichu'' fan.<ref>[[Mailbag 13#Paging Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Freud...]]</ref>}}

{{quote|She [[Death threats|threatens to kill me]] in her episode of emotional rage.|Chris on Barb.<ref name="jackie26">[[Jackie E-mails 26]].</ref>}}

{{quote|Barbara was more of a “Guilty Pleasure” waifu|Chris [[Chris and escapism#Roleplaying|roleplaying]] as Magi-Chan, demonstrating his [[Chris and sex#Incest|Oedipus complex]].<ref>[[September 2019 social media posts#Barbara was more of a "guilty pleasure" waifu]]</ref>}}

{{Infobox Person
|name = Barbara Chandler
|image = July11BarbPhoto2.jpg
|birthname = Barbara Ann Weston
|aliases = Barb Bobcat [[Obesity|Snorlax]] [[:File:Chandler family as ponies.png|Sugar Darling]] Barbie Barbie Chan<ref>[[June 2021 social media posts#Decent flashlight]]</ref> lady friend<ref>[[Incest fallout chat leaks]]</ref> Merlin<ref>[[Jail Letter - 11 January 2022]]</ref>
|label3 = Date of Birth
|year = 1941
|month = 10
|day = 1
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|race = White
|religion = Presbyterian
|spouse = Ran Coleman Yeatts Sr. (1961–1963, divorce) Walter Jerome Harmon Jr. (1968-1980, divorce) [[Bob Chandler|Robert Franklin Chandler, Jr.]] (1980–2011, his death)
|children = [[Cole Smithey|Joseph Cole Smithey]] [[Christian Weston Chandler]]
|father = Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston (1896–1955)
|mother = Carrie Edna Wynn (1911–1968)
|occupation = Magician's assistant (1967-1976) Substitute English teacher (Early 1960s) Office worker (retired)
|saga = {{saga|childhood|cn}}, {{saga|greene|cn}}, {{saga|highschool|cn}}, {{saga|gameplace|cn}}, {{saga|ivy|cn}}, {{saga|secondexile|cn}}, {{saga|incest|cn}}, {{saga|jail|cn}}
}}

'''Barbara 'Barb' Weston Chandler'''<ref>[[:File:Barbara Chandler Fail to Yield Right-of-Way charge.png]]</ref> (''née'' '''Weston''', formerly '''Yeatts''' and '''Smithey'''; born 1 {{w|1941#October|October 1941}}<ref name=Harvey155>https://web.archive.org/web/20170903151241/http://www.harveypowers.com/wynn/wynn/d155.html</ref>) is the widow of [[Bob Chandler]] and the mother of [[Christian Weston Chandler]] and [[Cole Smithey]]. The sole recognition for her motherly qualities is the Mother of the Year [[2000]] Award Chris created for her.<ref>[[A Week With Christian Chandler#Page 13|A Week With Christian Chandler, page 13]]</ref> She has not won the award since.

Though Bob has remained relatively popular with [[trolls]] and Christorians alike, the same cannot be said for Barbara, who has been consistently disliked by nearly everyone but Chris and her late husband – with many members of her own family distancing themselves from her at least since at least the funeral of one of [[Aunt Corrina|Chris's aunts]]. Whereas Bob eventually recognized his shortcomings as a parent to Chris and attempted to correct them late into his life, Barbara has consistently been one of the biggest enablers of Chris's bad behavior since he was a child, on top of emotionally manipulating, threatening, and on occasion physically abusing him (elements which Chris would turn around and use on her later in her life). Barbara has been instrumental in turning Chris into the spoiled manchild that he is, and like Bob before her, has encouraged him not to seek a serious career path in favor of [[Monthly tugboat|getting welfare off of his condition]], in spite of the fact that he could get a minimum-wage job and still qualify for welfare.

It has long been suspected that she has some form of narcissistic personality disorder, which goes hand-in-hand with what we know about her neglectful to abusive relationship with Chris, along with his half-brother [[Cole Smithey]], who received a much worse treatment from her. Her hoarding habits also indirectly lead to the [[2014 house fire]], as sparks from a coffee maker that had no business being plugged into an extension cord in the bathroom burned the paper, plastic, and wood in the room before engulfing the house, and much of the [[Financhu Crisis]] is subsequently on her.

For much of the Classic Era of Christory, Barbara was extremely obese and napped a lot (earning her the nickname "{{w|Snorlax}}," after the fat, sleepy [[Pokémon]] of the same name), but she has since shed a ton of weight in her twilight years. This sharp loss of weight, loss of hair color, and knowledge of her son's status as a living internet meme all factored into her role in appearing in multiple begging videos.

On 27 [[June 2021]], Chris began [[Affair with Mother|an incestuous relationship with Barbara]],<ref>[[WCT DMs#New sweetheart]]</ref> claiming to have sex every three nights.<ref>[[WCT DMs#Every three nights]]</ref> A month later, on 27 [[July 2021]],<ref>[[WCT DMs#Asking about Incest Call leak]]</ref> Chris decided to brag about the identity of his sexual partner [[Incest Call|in a call over the Signal app]] and [[Incest Texts|in text messages]] the following day. The material was leaked to the general public at approximately past midnight on 30 July; later that morning, a [[welfare check]] was conducted at [[14 Branchland Court]], and as a result, Chris was [[ban]]ned from the house and from contact with Barbara for a week, and Barbara was sent to the hospital for a senior care inspection.<ref name=nullsummary>[[Kiwi Farms posts (Null)#Summing Up Post-Incest Leak]]</ref> On 1 August, Chris was [[Incest Arrest|arrested at a motel in Richmond]] and charged with incest.<ref>[[:File:Charged.png]]</ref>

Barbara returned to her residence at some point in [[August 2021]].<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (other users)#Status of 14 Branchland Court]]</ref><ref>[[Fan visits#e1ectricthunder]]</ref> In an [[October 2021]] letter to a fan, Chris mentioned that he had received a letter from Barbara during his stay in jail.<ref name=25letter>[[Jail Letter - 25 October 2021 (Virginia fan)]]</ref>

In [[November 2021]], Barbara failed to yield the right-of-way while driving<ref>[[:File:Barbara Chandler Fail to Yield Right-of-Way charge.png]]</ref> and was injured in a car crash from which she suffered two broken ribs and a concussion and her van was wrecked,<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (other users)#Confirming Car Crash]]</ref> and she was helped to recover from it by extended family members.<ref>[[Jail Letter - 27 November 2021]]</ref>

Barbara and Chris no longer live together, with Barbara continuing to reside in [[Ruckersville]] and Chris moving to [[Big Island]], VA.

==Spelling of name==
Barbara's high school yearbook and both her marriage licenses spell her full maiden name as ''Barbara '''Ann''' Weston'', as do other sources like Harvey Powers's genealogical website<ref name=Harvey155/> (her divorce decree omits the middle name entirely). Chris, however, usually (though not consistently) spells her name as ''Barbara '''Anne''' Weston Chandler'' with an e. This may be because he believes she is named after [[Anne Boleyn]].

==Early life==
{{Quote|Her life was a Redneck Simple Country one. She had mastered sewing, mending, and making clothes and other farm-life facets and Church-Going habits.|Chris describes his mother's childhood<ref name=jailletter11may>[[Jail Letter - 11 May 2022]]</ref>}}
[[Image:Barb1960.jpg|thumb|left|Barbara's senior photo from high school. While she looks pretty here, she would not age well.]]

Barbara is the fifth child (out of eight) of Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston (1896–1955), a lifelong [[RandomSong1|farmer]] and carpenter and Carrie Edna Wynn (1911–1968), a housewife and later a shoe company worker in Lynchburg.<ref>https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C958-RFTD?i=1&cc=2377565&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQVRC-X438</ref> They married in February 1927, when Carrie was 15 years old and Joseph [[Pedofork|was 30]]. They lied about their ages in their marriage certificate.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170825073641/http://www.harveypowers.com/wynn/wynn/d141.html</ref><ref>https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZT-H9QK-J?cc=1726957</ref> Joe died in 1955, after falling from a horse-drawn wagon.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200603075643/http://genealogytrails.com/vir/charlotte/obits_w.html</ref> Barb's maternal grandfather was an alcoholic moonshiner, who carried out affairs and failed to provide even the most basic support for her mother's family.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180425032751/http://www.harveypowers.com:80/wynn/wynn/d118.html</ref> For whatever reason, Barb believes that she is descended from [[Anne Boleyn]], but this is impossible given that Elizabeth I, Boleyn's only daughter, died without an heir. She also thinks that a more recent ancestor named [[Daniel Weston]] boarded the ''Mayflower'', but no such person exists.

[[Image:0839-MomDesi.JPG|thumb|Barb, emboldened by her hoard, evolved into a Snorlax over time.]]

Barb grew up in a low-income farming household in [[Wikipedia:Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak, Virginia]], a rural area in the far south of the state. An early memory from when she was two years old was seeing her father covered in silver paint, having fallen off the roof of their house while painting it and nearly killed himself.<ref name=jailletter11may></ref> She graduated from {{w|Randolph-Henry High School}} in {{w|Charlotte Court House, Virginia}} in 1960. Due to family poverty, she was obliged to sew her own clothing.<ref name=younger>[[June 2021 social media posts#Chris larps as his younger self]]</ref> While at Randolph-Henry, she was treasurer of her school's chapter of the [[Women's rights|Future Homemakers of America]], a reporter of the Randolph-Henry safety bus patrol, a typist for her school yearbook, ''The Log'', and a member of the [[Spanish]] Club. She was also a member of many other school organizations, suggesting that she was very involved in extracurricular activities while in high school. She was also known for her perfect attendance record from her sophomore through her senior years of high school. According to her senior yearbook, her nickname in high school was Bobcat.

Barb had two boyfriends in high school, one of whom was [[Aunt Harriet and Uncle Tom|Tom Ashby]], who would later marry her younger sister Harriet. According to a [[January 2012 Facebook Posts#February is coming up|Facebook status]] Chris wrote on 29 January 2012, Barbara lost her virginity during her high school years. Why Chris knows this is anyone's guess, although it's possible that he learned the basic principles of [[Honest Content]] from Mommy Dearest. In a jail letter from 10 May 2022, however, Chris denies that Barbara ever had sex with her high school boyfriends, although he claims that her sisters accused her of doing so.<ref name=jailletter11may></ref>

According to a [[Incest Texts|leaked message]] to [[Bella]], Barbara has had sex with eight different men over the course of her life (not including Chris). Chris claims she told him that she has never [[mass debating|masturbated]].

Shortly after graduating from high school in 1960, Barb left Red Oak and, "...decided to set off on her own... [[Love Quest|in search for romance and her future]]." Apparently, she left in order to go to college, breaking off her relationship with Tom, who was one year her junior. After Barb moved away, "her siblings, cousins, and others in Redoak" began to spread rumors about her and call her a slut in her absence. Around this time her mother also disowned her.<ref>[[Rebeckah Bentley E-mails#Chris has scabies too]]</ref> As it turned out, her relationship with her family would never get much better. Barb's relationship with Harriet and Tom is especially strained. Chris stated in a leaked video that he and his mother are not liked by the members of the Weston family who have outlived Corrina.<ref>[[Message for John Kyle]]</ref>

According to Chris, Barb majored in "accounting and numbers."<ref name=younger></ref> Where Barb attended college is unknown, but it may have been {{w|Wake Forest College}}, where her future first husband, Ran Coleman Yeatts, was studying at the time. Wherever it was, she probably dropped out in 1961, when he graduated and married her. Her divorce report with Jerry and marriage certificate to Bob both say that she had not completed any years of college education.

==Cole and his various fathers==
[[Image:0467-CWC18th20.jpg|thumb|left|Cole visits for Chris's [[My big 18th party (story)|18th birthday]].]]

From approximately 1961 through 1980, Barbara lived in [[Richmond]]. At one point, she aspired to be an English teacher and occasionally filled in for other teachers as a substitute.<ref>[[Regina_e-mails#Chris_answers_a_bunch_of_questions,_is_still_a_virgin]]</ref><ref>[[Rental_House_Tour#Barb's_family_heritage]]</ref> Ultimately, however, she ended up working in a series of secretarial roles, including at {{w|Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters|Reynolds Metals Company}}.<ref>[[Miyamoto_emails#A_Word_from_Snorlax]]</ref>

Over the course of Barb's adult life prior to meeting Bob, she had relationships with five men, three of whom are known by name.<ref name=jailletter11may>[[Jail Letter - 11 May 2022]]</ref>

Barbara gave birth to [[Cole Smithey|Cole]] in 1963. Throughout his life, Barbara has lied to Cole about who his father is.

Based on his experiences with various stepfathers, [[Cole Smithey|Cole]] thinks that Barbara has a "...proclivity to isolate herself via scurrilous mates."<ref name="coleemail2">[[:File:Cole 07-03-06-2.PNG|6 March 2007 email from Cole to Chris, page 2]]</ref> The use of "scurrilous" in this statement makes no sense, suggesting [[Cole Smithey|Cole]] tries to use [[Chris and English|big]] words to impress people – a family trait, perhaps.

===Ran Coleman Yeatts===
[[Image:RanColemanYeatts-WakeForestHowler1961.png|thumb|right|Cole's [[TRUE and HONEST]] biological father, Ran Coleman Yeatts Sr., from the 1961 Wake Forest College yearbook.]]
[[Image:Barb1961WeddingPortrait.png|thumb|left|Barbara in her wedding dress at age 19, June 1961]]

Records found by Cole in Richmond show that Barb married one '''Ran ''Cole''man Yeatts''', a personnel analyst for DPT, on June 17, 1961. Yeatts was born on 27 December 1939 in {{w|Pittsylvania County, Virginia}} but grew up in {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, a town about 35 miles east of Red Oak which also happens to be the hometown of Barb's mother Carrie and her moonshiner dad. Yeatts graduated from {{w|Park_View_High_School_(South_Hill,_Virginia)|Park View High School}} from South Hill in 1957 and later that year he was enrolled at {{w|Wake Forest College}} in {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}} (now Wake Forest University).<ref>https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/28659?ln=en#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=94&r=0&xywh=2347%2C1534%2C681%2C414</ref><ref>https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/28685?ln=en#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=77&r=0&xywh=1396%2C1140%2C926%2C414</ref><ref>https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/28686?ln=en#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=81&r=0&xywh=460%2C1252%2C1363%2C609</ref><ref>https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/28677?ln=en#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=64&r=0&xywh=2241%2C1842%2C1441%2C875</ref> An {{w|Alpha Sigma Phi}} brother, he graduated from Wake Forest with a BA degree in human resources management in spring 1961, a few months before he and Barb married.<ref>http://www.archive.org/stream/howler1960wake/howler1960wake_djvu.txt</ref> Coincidentally, Bob Chandler was also living in Winston-Salem around the same time, where he was married to Patricia Faye Harley and working as an engineer.

According to their marriage certificate, Ran, a technician for The Virginia State Highway Department, was living in Richmond at the time of the marriage, while Barb, a secretary for Glidden Company of Richmond, was still living in Red Oak. Although however, two newspaper articles from April and June 1961 stated that Barb was already living in Richmond. They were married at a Baptist church in {{w|Wylliesburg, Virginia}} near Red Oak (which the divorce documents misspell as "Sylliesburg").

A divorce was granted to Barb on 15 May 1963, at which point she was pregnant with Cole and living in Richmond. The decree states that Ran deserted her on 28 April 1962, although the final digit in "1962" appears to have been altered from a "3". The divorce license lists zero children. Cole was born two months later, on 24 July 1963.

To further fuel Cole's rage, Yeatts would visit him during his childhood and be introduced as a "friend of the family".<ref name="Cole Smithey E-mails" /> After Cole hired a private detective, Barbara hung up on him when he called to ask about his father.<ref name="Cole Smithey E-mails" />

Yeatts later remarried and died aged 67 on 6 June 2007. His obituary in the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' makes no mention of Cole or Barb, although it indicates that Ran had a grandson also named Cole.<ref>[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/timesdispatch/name/ran-yeatts-obituary?id=5417433 Ran Yeatts Obituary]</ref>

Per the [[Cole Smithey E-mails]], it appears that Barb's nickname for Ran was '''"Ramblin' Randy"''', although there is a slim chance that nickname refers to another ex-lover of Barb's whom we know nothing about.

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File:BarbYeattsEngagementNewspaper.png|April 1961 - Charlotte Gazette newspaper about Barb and Ran's engagement announcement.
File:June1961MarriageArticleOfWestonYeatts.png|June 1961 - Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper about Barb and Ran's marriage announcement.
File:1961 6 17 - Barb and Ran marriage license.jpeg|1961 6 17 - Barb and Ran marriage license
File:1963 5 15 - Barb, Ran divorce.jpeg|1963 5 15 - Barb, Ran divorce
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===Jack Smithey===
Barb insists that Cole's father is '''Jack Dale Smithey,''' to whom she claims she was once married. However, Cole was unable to find a marriage license for the couple or any photographs from their alleged wedding.<ref name="coleemail2" /> Indeed, Christorians have been frustrated in their efforts to locate any such evidence; their ability and persistence in documenting everything Chris-adjacent rivals that of any private detective. In 1995, Cole's friend, syndicated cartoonist {{w|Ted Rall}}, made an Internet post questioning the whereabouts of Jack Dale Smithey. According to the post, Smithey lived in Richmond in 1963 (the year Cole was born) and was a Merchant Marine. He later worked as a trucker for Pilot Trucking in North Carolina but had not been heard of since 1964.<ref>http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SURNAMES/1995-04/0798938259</ref> Cole eventually hired a private detective who tracked down Jack Smithey in {{w|Sarasota, Florida}}.<ref name="Cole Smithey E-mails">[[Cole Smithey E-mails]]</ref>

Although there is no hard evidence that Barb was ever married to Jack, newspaper articles from the 1960s indicate that she used the surname Smithey up until she married Jerry Harmon in 1968. According to Barbara (as quoted by Chris), she and Jack had a "fancy" wedding which was attended by her sisters and mother. Chris told Cole that Barbara considers Jack "a total drunk and loser".<ref name="Cole Smithey E-mails">[[Cole Smithey E-mails]]</ref>

In [[July 2021]], (in the middle of his incestuous affair with her), Chris asked Barbara about her relationship with Jack.

{{quote|Short story of it is that Jack and Barbie went out, sexed up, knocked her up.

Then he hit the road; was not in it to be a daddy. The life on the open road called out to him more.|Chris on Jack}}

Chris also mentioned that no photos of Jack were kept at home, though they did have photos of Jerry.<ref>[[WCT DMs#Barbara's ex]]</ref>

Jack died in 2010 at the age of 81 in Winston-Salem.

===Jerry Harmon===
[[Image:JerryHarmonandBarb.PNG|thumb|Jerry Harmon performing magic tricks with Barb assisting him, December 1968.]]
[[Image:Jerry_Harmon_WRVA_Bio.JPG|thumb|Jerry's employee bio in a booklet published by radio station WRVA, 1950.]]

'''Walter Jerome "Jerry" Harmon, Jr.''' was Barbara's second (or third) ex-husband and the alleged sinister stepfather of [[Cole Smithey]], Chris's older half-brother. Jerry was born on July 1st, 1931 in {{w|Springfield, Massachusetts}} but grew up in {{w|Millboro, Virginia}} and later Richmond. Jerry's father died when he was 18 months old.<ref name="HarmonVDAdamo">https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/va-supreme-court-records-vol195/14/</ref> Much like Bob, Jerry had a technical background; he had graduated from {{w|Capitol Technology University}} (then Capital Radio Engineering Institute) in {{w|Laurel, Maryland}} and worked as a {{w|Broadcast_engineering|broadcast engineer}} at local radio station WRVA around 1950.<ref>https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/WRVA-25th-II.pdf WRVA 25th Anniversary booklet, W. Jerome "Jerry" Harmon bio top center of page 8.</ref> In April 1951, Jerry fathered a child out of wedlock with Nancy Louise Janetos. The mother offered the child up for adoption until she and Jerry married in September of 1951. The couple eventually regained custody of their baby in 1953 following a legal case ''Harmon v. D'Adamo''<ref name="HarmonVDAdamo" /> that was taken all the way to the Virginia Supreme Court. At some point, Jerry ended up in the military, which Cole has written about in two articles. According to Cole, Jerry was a combat medic during the Korean War before switching his role to train his soldiers in specialized combat techniques, such as decapitation using piano wire (with watermelons standing in for actual heads during this training). He was also a captain in the Civil Air Patrol and would pilot planes during and after the Korean War. One time, he was injured after crash-landing his plane during a fighter pilot mission in Korea.

According to the adoption court case records, Jerry wished to further study medicine at {{w|University of Richmond}}, though it is unclear if this ever happened. Somewhat ironically, while married to Barb, Jerry served in different roles with the Richmond [[Chris and mental healthcare|Mental Health]] Association,<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/image/829546397/?terms=%22Jerry%20Harmon%22%20&match=1 Richmond Times-Dispatch 28 Jan 1973</ref> where he was known for building a model of the human nervous system, which he brought to speaking engagements.

Barbara claims to have married Jerry after her relationships with Jack Dale Smithey and Ran Coleman Yeatts. However, in the course of Cole's investigation into his family history, he was unable to find a marriage certificate.<ref name="Cole Smithey E-mails" /> That being said, there is a divorce record which claims that Jerry and Barbara married on 18 June 1968 in Washington D.C. and divorced on 7 January 1980 after one year of living apart, three weeks before Bob had divorced his first wife Patricia. In a Facebook comment from 2020, Cole claims that Jerry adopted him in 1966.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/blendonlodge339/posts/1084760088251976</ref><ref name="colesmithey">https://www.colesmithey.com/articles/2017/09/operation-snowball-my-first-career-in-show-business.html</ref>

{{quote|I grew up in an abusive household with Barbara and my former stepfather Jerry, where physical and mental punishments ran the gamut from bare-assed beatings to cold showers to bizarre scenarios acted out with glee by two deeply neurotic adults... Even at a very young age, I knew that they would abandon me. They were both irresponsible and incompetent parents who exposed me to traumas that I would rather not remember.|Cole on Barb and Jerry's parenting skills.<ref name="Cole Smithey E-mails" />}}
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{{quote|He might not have been the best dad, but Jerry was a humanitarian, as evidenced by his actions.|Cole being more charitable towards Jerry.<ref name="colesmithey" />}}
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[[Image:JerryBarb&Cole.jpg|thumb|Jerry Harmon with Barbara and young Cole in late 1960s/early 1970s]]
In both his article "[[Saturday Night Special]]" and "[[Operation Snowball|Operation Snowball: My First Career in Show Business]]," Cole would further elaborate on his first stepfather in his early life and later life (look above). According to Cole, Jerry was a professional magician for decades since he was 20, was a dedicated {{w|Freemasonry|freemason}} and was an active member of the Invisible Lodge. Jerry lived with Barbara in a second-floor apartment adjacent to the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond during the early 1970s. Jerry allegedly kept a gun in his nightstand drawer, which his stepson would play with, and was out cheating on his wife when an intruder came to the apartment, forcing Barb to retrieve and fire the gun to scare them off. The shot ricocheted off the floor and the apartment's steel door and nearly killed Cole as a result, hitting the wall a hair's breadth behind his head. Cole would later remove the first article from his blog.

Cole describes how Jerry, Barb, and himself took part in an annual traveling magic show which performed at mental hospitals and veteran hospitals in Virginia every [[Christmas]] season from 1967 to 1976. The trio performed under the name of "King Karnak, Barbie, and Cole". Each show would end with Jerry chopping off Barb's head with a guillotine. During this time and later of his life, Jerry worked as a radio announcer for WEZS radio station. Cole claimed that the former Virginia Governor {{w|Mills Godwin}} would pilot them around in a Cessna Twin-Engine plane to their magic show and Jerry would sometimes pilot the plane.

Cole would further elaborate more about Jerry. He was an ambulance driver for the Richmond volunteer rescue squad; he also taught [[Jerkop|police recruits]] Standard First Aid before he began working for the mental health agency headquartered at Monument Avenue. Cole even said that Jerry cared about mental health movements so much that the whole purpose for the magic show performance at local hospitals were to provide entertainment for the patients, war veteran patients and mentally ill patients. Aside from this, Jerry was also the owner of his own company Karnak Enterprises, which specializes in production work, special effects and entertainment.<ref name="colesmithey" /><ref>https://www.facebook.com/blendonlodge339/posts/1084760088251976</ref><ref name=sjf>http://sjf.stparchive.com/Archive/SJF/SJF01221981P08.php</ref> Interestingly, Jerry married a woman named Rose LaNora Lotts in 1981, whom he first met when she was employed as an assistant for his "King Karnak" act, suggesting that she replaced Barb in more ways than one.<ref name=sjf></ref>

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File:JerryAndBarbDivorce.png|1980 1 7 - Barb and Jerry's divorce record
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==Life with Bob==
{{quote|He is only interested in making things look like he did 'em, it was his idea and I really didn't have anything to do with it. Even when I help him. I get no credit for anything. He never gives me credit to my face. Or if he's talking to anybody else. Just like he tells you sometimes, “Well I don't get no help from your mother.”|Barb ranting about her husband to Chris<ref>[[Kacey Call 15]]</ref>}}

[[File:Bob&BarbMay2000.png|thumb|Nearly happy looking Borb in 2000]]
[[File:1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.jpeg|thumb|1980 6 7 - Borb's marriage license]]

[[Bob Chandler|Bob]] and Barbara met at "Maddy's Pub" in Richmond<ref>[[April 2012 Facebook posts#Fear of the future]]</ref> (probably Matt's British Pub in Shockoe Slip, where Bob was a sing-along leader)<ref>[[It took a talking bear to give the name a young boy loves]]</ref> one night in 1979. Barbara was there with friends and [[Bob]] was singing.<ref name=annivspecial>[[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special]]</ref> Cole's friend Chuck, who worked at the bar, vividly recalled them being a pair of drunken dumbasses.<ref>[[:Image:Cole 07-07-24-1.PNG|24 July 2007 email #1 from Cole to Chris]]</ref> According to Chris, Barbara did the [[How to Talk to Girls|pursuing]]: "She chased him down the hall." They married in 1980.<ref name=annivspecial></ref> Chris claims that, "Barbara, In her own words, Married him because 'He owned a house'."<ref name=jailletter11may></ref> Later that year Bob was transferred from Richmond to [[Charlottesville]]. They settled in the outlying suburb of [[Ruckersville]].

Barbara worked for several years as a finance secretary for numerous companies and businesses, included Virginia Power (VEPCO, today called [[Wikipedia:Dominion Energy|Dominion Energy]]) and First North American National Bank (partnered with {{w|Circuit City}}.)<ref>https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Date_with_Emily#Eating_spaghetti_and_conversing_(0:36:49%E2%80%930:44:46):~:text=Bob%3A%20And%20uh%2C%20she%20worked%20for%2C%20um%2CCircuit%20City%20for%20a%20while%20before%20she%20retired.</ref>
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In September [[1993]], Chris and Bob moved from Ruckersville to Chesterfield County near Richmond so that Chris would be able to attend middle school at a mainstream school.<ref>[[Chris's Wikipedia profile#His Early Years - Birth to 1992]]</ref> Barbara did not accompany them and remained in Ruckersville. Chris claimed that the separation allowed Barbara to continue working at her job until retirement and that she still visited Bob and Chris every weekend during the time she lived separately from them. After going into retirement when Chris was in the eighth grade (early 1996), Barbara came to live with her husband and son in Chesterfield.<ref>[[Mailbag 32#Chris is no stranger to stupid name changes]]</ref><ref>[[:Image:0078-CWCNote2.jpg]]</ref>

With both Barbara and Bob retired, they spent their twilight years from 2000 onward living in their Ruckersville home with Chris. It is difficult to ascertain what their relationship was like, but sources such as the tour of the house would suggest that Chris's parents neglected the [[14_Branchland_Court|family home]] and spent most of their time apart in separate areas of the house. According to Chris, Barbara had not had sex with Bob for at least two decades before his death. They began sleeping in different rooms sometime around the mid-2000s "because they're not as close as they should, used to or can be".<ref>[[IRC (27 December 2008)]]</ref> It can be presumed that as they got older, they grew more distant, but never to the point of wanting a divorce.

Barbara became a widow on 6 September 2011 when Bob died.<ref name="BobObit">http://web.archive.org/web/20130211071324/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyprogress/obituary.aspx?n=robert-franklin-chandler&pid=153539600</ref>

==Relations with Chris==

[[File:Barbara1993cropped.png|thumb|Barb c. 1993.]]
[[Image:0033-MommasBirthday.jpg|thumb|Age was not kind to Barb.]]

===Abuse and manipulation===
{{quote|And he told me of mom saying she was going to pack up and leave the house, then I ran downstairs, finding her on the couch; she was soo miserable and sad; she talked of Wanting to Die, "you don't even have to change my clothes, you can just bury me in what I have on." I was soo sad and crying and soo sorry for the way I misbehaved; we hugged and made up a bit.|An example of Barb's manipulation.<ref name=magfest>[[LoveYouLongTime E-mails, 2011-2012#Borb vs MAGfest]]</ref>}}

Barb has had a long history of abusing and/or [[Chris and manipulation|manipulating]] her children. For example, she has often used threats of suicide to guilt Chris into obeying her whims. When Bob and Chris once tried to discuss cleaning the hoard with Barb, she responded by threatening suicide.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (Marvin)#Barb's Hoarding]]</ref>
She also threatened suicide to her family during the [[Ivy]] Saga, supposedly as a response to the stress she was going through.<ref name="IvyQ&A"/>

In an episode from 2011, when Chris failed to book himself a hotel room for [[MAGfest]], due to being broke, and planned to sleep in his car,<ref>[[Jackie E-mails 29]]</ref> Barb prevented him from going by pointing out the, "...crime risk and chilly temperatures," threatening to lock him out of their house, claiming that she would pack up and leave, and later told him she wanted to die. After Chris folded and went to his room to cry about it, she gave him a "half-payment of a copy of DC Universe Online to make up for not allowing [him] to go."<ref name=magfest></ref> Later that year, after Chris became a [[tomgirl]], Barb tried to stop him from wearing dresses and make-up by telling him she feared he would kill her. She then ordered him to sit down, and she cut his hair.<ref name="jackie26"></ref>

In addition, Barb has used the specter of old age for her own gain, by manipulating Chris into thinking she will have a heart attack. This tactic has been used so often that Chris will panic and call 911 if Barb does not answer the phone when he calls her to check up on her when he is out of the house.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (Marvin)#Welfare Check on Barbara]]</ref> When Barb and Chris were both arrested for [[assault and battery]], Chris was extremely worried about her health, saying in an email:

{{quotebox|My mother fought the police in my defense, and she was handcuffed and I was emotionally distraught, I screamed and Screamed and SCREAMED, until an ambulance came for my mother to take her to UVA Hospital; she was okay, but her Blood Pressure was high.

I prayed a LOT to Jesus for my release and safe return home with my mother. And I banged the cell door with both my feet while lying on a folding mattress on the floor (to get those bastards to let me see and talk to my mother

Only after seeing my mother in her suit pass by my second cell, did I start to calm down. I was REALLY WORRIED about my mother and her health. She Needed Me, and I Needed Her.}}

[[Marvin]] summed up Chris's relationship with Barb:

{{quoteboxgreen|Well, I don't think they talk very much. However, no, Chris is Barb's hand servant. She screams for him and he comes running. She has him change the newspaper the dogs shit on, she has him run errands to bring her stuff, and she used to have him haul her goodwill crap to the car, and then from the car into the house.

''...''

I think Barb's yelling has gotten much less frequent nowadays. It seems like she's pretty feeble nowadays. Chris is just as scared of Barb as he used to be though. I don't think he realizes how much power he has over Barb nowadays.

They're really physically affectionate in a strange way. Chris is pretty touchy feely with women because of habits he learned by spending time with Barb.<ref name=qualified>[[Kiwi Farms posts (Marvin)#Barb and Chris]]</ref>}}

After Bob died, Barb's abuse of Chris escalated. According to Marvin, she treated him as a hand servant and forced him to be on-call at all times. Around [[2013]], she forced Chris to move out of his bedroom, specifically so she could bark orders at him more efficiently, by throwing a tantrum and wrecking his possessions.

{{quoteboxgreen|a few months to a year before the fire, Chris stopped being permitted to sleep separately from Barb, in his bedroom. He had to sleep closer to Barb, because she needed to be able to yell for him to go to [[sheetz]] and buy her crap, and he wasn't able to hear her up in his bedroom. He kind of tried to resist at first, but then she got super pissed and threw a tantrum. She wrecked his room and like flipped everything over because he was trying to sleep on his own.<ref name=qualified/>}}

===Financial exploitation===
{{quote|she is also being Very Annoying. “Christine, Let’s put this random good item on eBay. I REALLY Need the Money for not only my bill payments, but also, we need more food here. I am greedy too.”

“OH! You sold something of Yours? I Want $50 From That”, she is constantly pestering and bugging me. Nowadays, Nearly every time she comes downstairs to talk or chill, my Impulsive, Subconscious feeling of her presence is Cringe and “Oh, No! She’s gonna Bug Me Again of the Da** Finances Again!”|Chris<ref>[[September 2018 social media posts]]</ref>}}

===Pampering===
{{quote|Yeah, but then my Mom is pretty much jealous of me loving another woman more than her.|Chris, describing his {{w|Oedipus complex}}.<ref>[[Mumble 10]]</ref>}}

{{quote|Yes, dear.|Chris, addressing Barb<ref>[[Live Game Stream - C-Log 04142017]]</ref>}}

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File:Parenting Interview 001.jpg|Barb and Bob's answers on a parenting quiz.
File:Parenting Interview 002.jpg|The second page.
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[[Image:0028-ChristopherWMom1.jpg|thumb|[[Affair with Mother|Horrifyingly qualifies as foreshadowing.]]]]

According to Cole, Bob and Barbara left Chris alone every day for years with the [[abusive babysitter]] while going out drinking, effectively ignoring the manifestation of the earliest symptoms of autism.<ref>[[:Image:Cole 07-03-06-3.PNG|6 March 2007 email from Cole to Chris, page 3]]</ref> After Chris's initial diagnosis, and after their negligence was inevitably thrown back in their face, Barbara resorted to any means necessary to coax Chris into talking, most notoriously by bribing him with toys.<ref>[[Song of Christian]]</ref>

[[Image:ImWorkingOnIt.png|thumb|left|Chris and Barbara in an intimate moment. A less subtle case of foreshadowing.]]

While both of Chris's parents are largely responsible for his current state, Barb has more often than not been the most active in protecting Chris from recognizing any failure or shortcoming on his part, doing everything from being his sole commission with [[Cutco]] to going as his date to his [[Manchester High School#The Senior Prom|senior prom]].

This pattern of accountability continues even into Chris's adult years. On at least two occasions, most notably after he was banned permanently, Barbara visited [[the GAMe PLACe]] attempting to protect and defend her little snowflake and argue his case with [[Michael Snyder]], but to no avail.

Barbara constantly babies Chris and tells him how handsome he is.<ref>[[Sonichu Girls]] and [[White knight emails]]</ref> She also told Chris that the reason he often "blanks out" or gets confused is not that he is an absent-minded, slothful buffoon, but that he is a "[[Chris and art|creative genius]] and is simply overwhelmed by having so many creative ideas".<ref>[[Kacey Call 12]]</ref>

However, it seems that even Barb has her limits. Like Bob, she was [[Tomboys And Tomgirls of Virginia#Re: Coming out to my parents|ashamed of Chris's effeminate escapades]], claiming that she did not raise a daughter, and that "tomgirl" is not a thing. [[Tomboys And Tomgirls of Virginia#Re: Mothers|She tried and failed]] to get Chris to stop wearing a bra and panties, even offering to pay him to stop.

===Chris and the Internet===
As first evidenced by the "GAMe PLACe/4Chan picture" incident, Barbara has some concerns over Chris's online misadventures, likely because she fears that he'll [[Jerkhief|get]] [[Bagget|arrested]] and [[28 October 2011|go to prison]]. Given some of the violent states of some of his videos and Chris's [[Arrest|track record]], she is probably not too far from the truth. She also felt Chris could be vulnerable to entrapment, as she tried to discourage Chris from meeting with [[Blanca]] because she thought it was possible Blanca would have ended up being part of a sting operation that could have resulted in Chris's arrest.<ref>[[Mumble 10]]</ref> As it turned out, Blanca was not real and was only a persona cooked up by Internet [[trolls]] seeking to humiliate Chris. She tried to screen another suspicious troll by interrogating [[Ivy]] for about half an hour, but ultimately let her speak to Chris.<ref name="IvyQ&A">[[Ivy Q&A]]</ref> Barbara even seems to suspect that [[Megan Schroeder]], one of the few women Chris has known who ''was not'' out to troll him, is partially responsible for the persecution he has endured over the years.

===Intimate behavior===
{{See also|Affair with Mother}}

From [[LittleBigPlanet]] [[Autism Tutorial Part 2]], Chris advised the parents of autistic children to "give them hugs..., even if they don't want to" and mentioned that Barb never stopped hugging him as a child, even when he didn't want to and then "eventually felt the love". Some children with ASD struggle with physical closeness regardless of the context. This experience may have decreased Chris's sense of personal space & boundaries, thinking that it's normal to hug, kiss, and touch females without their consent, even after they have explicitly told him not to.

{{quote|I, myself, Did have dreams of having sex with my mother.|[[August 2016 Facebook posts#Incestuous Thoughts|One result of Barb's parenting choices, as explained by Chris in August 2016.]]}}

To cap off their relationship, Chris revealed in private conversations with multiple people that Barb has spooned with him.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxGU4nSlX0M ''PVCC NEW info: on Chris and Barbara spoon eachother!'' (YouTube)]</ref>

From [[Arthur Spatchcock]], on Chris sharing a bed with his mother:

{{quoteboxred|Story time, kids. Now most of us are aware of the fire; how Barb and Chris were displaced for some time while the house was getting renovated. You know how Chris was all whiny about his legos, right? Some getting melted, shit like that...well he kind of left out that his own bed was ruined as well given it had years of grease soaked into it because not bathing is so chic in his eyes. So when they got back home Chris didn't have his own bed anymore so he was sharing one with Barb instead. This came with the horrifying addendum that Barb wanted to spoon with him; I don't know if he was little spoon or big spoon but I know she was unimpressed and one night just unloaded on him angrily enough that Chris decided to get his own bed with his own money. So it goes without saying that from the time Chris and Barb got back home [[DStecks|until he got that grand]] he was sleeping in the same bed as his mother.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190423212237/https://kiwifarms.net/threads/fb-4-11-e-begging-intensifies.19356/page-5</ref>}}

In August 2016, the [[Man in the Pickle Suit]] observed Chris and Barb in public during a court hearing:<ref>[[26 December 2014]]</ref>

{{quoteboxgreen|Barb and Chris are way too physically intimate. It's one thing to describe their creepy relationship, it's quite another to watch it IRL. They hold hands and Chris is always putting his arm around her and rubbing her shoulders sensually. That's shit I'd do to someone I'd want to bang. Not a family member. It's weird.}}

{{quote|I am not a "Bates". OMG.|Chris, in denial<ref>[[Misc texts]]</ref>}}

[[File:Home.png|thumb|right|{{w|Apocalypse Now|"The horror. The horror."}}]]

Barb's habit of cuddling with Chris had been going on since Bob was alive, and he knew of it, but, due to Barb's manipulation, he was not able to stop her.<ref>http://archive.is/zwWV9</ref> In [[August 2016]], Chris [[Honest content|admitted]] to having [[Chris and sex#Dreams of sex with Barb|incestuous fantasies about Barb]], prompting further analysis of their uncomfortably intimate relationship. Chris sometimes refers to her as [[Darling|"dear" or "darling"]], as he usually does for [[DoopieDoOver|would-be sweethearts]]. In his [[Twitch#CLog 04172018 - Buy My Toys|April 2018 Twitch stream]], when Chris got his mother to reluctantly say "[[Random-access humor|turn me loose, you silly goose]]" after hugging him, he commented that she "used to do that more [[Chris and English|flirtingly]]".

In [[June 2021]], not long before his [[Affair With Mother|incestuous relationship]] with his mom allegedly began, Chris, [[Honest Content|completely unprompted]], claimed in a [[Facebook]] post that he and Barb had never slept in the same bed:<ref>[[June 2021 social media posts#CPU stuff and Barb]]</ref>

{{quotebox|Also, during the time my mom and I slept in my bedroom, we slept in Separate Furniture; she slept on the couch, and I slept in the bed. She and I Never ever had slept in the same bed together during those short months between ‘11 and ‘12.

Never in the same bed. ⚡️💙⚡️}}

Throughout 2021, Chris was feeling several instances of sexual frustration, hitting on [[MKRNightVee|several]] [[Annie Ikenberry|women]] [[Isabella Loretta Janke|of]] [[Fiona|interest]]. It has gotten to the point where Chris would release all of this sexual tension on Barbara in mid-June, where he would continuously have sexual intercourse with her every three days. The context in which this has all happened is hazy at best, as information on the affair primarily came from an [[Incest Call|infamous call]] where he describes incestuous acts, and a few leaked chats Chris had with people. Throughout his affair with Barbara, Chris would hint at having such an affair online, calling Barbara a "sweetheart over 50". Sometime after [[Fiona]] had leaked a chunk of the call on a Discord Server, which would soon after be posted onto various websites by her friends, several concerned observers would contact authorities about the affair, leading to his arrest.

===Post-incest===
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A major change that came from the summer 2021 incestuous [[Affair with Mother]] is that Barbara and Chris no longer live together as of late [[July 2021]]. On the 30th, Chris was served an Emergency Protective Order [[ban]]ning him from [[14 Branchland Court]] (Barbara's house in which he had lived).<ref name=nullsummary></ref> After his nearly two-year stay in [[Central Virginia Regional Jail]] on a charge of incest, Chris went to live at [[Gateway Homes]] for a brief time, then [[Caden Peck]] financed a home in [[Big Island, VA]] in which Chris currently lives.

Chris has been observed returning to 14 Branchland Court. On 4 [[September 2023]], a [[r/ChrisChanSonichu]] user photographed his [[Son-chu|car]] in the driveway.<ref>[[Fan visits#nemo1316]]</ref> On 7 [[November 2023]], another r/ChrisChanSonichu user claimed to have seen both Barbara and Chris at the house. The user alleged that Chris mentioned having taken Barbara shopping and that he was taking some belongings to his house.<ref>[[Post-jail sightings (2023)#14 Branchland Court]]</ref> In [[April 2024]], ''[[The Chris Chan Conspiracy]]'' creator GamerFromMars claimed that Chris had told him that he visits Barbara about once a month.<ref>[[The Chris Chan Conspiracy#Interview comments]]</ref>

[[File:X - Kamala Harris 2024 sign1.jpeg|thumb|150px|Barbara seen at center window]]
Chris has also occasionally alluded to returning to the house on social media. On 22 [[April 2024]], he uploaded [[Harvesting Process, Gravel at the Sonichu Temple]], which shows him gathering gravel in the driveway. In [[September 2024]], he posted photos of his custom-drawn [[yard]] sign supporting [[Kamala Harris]]'s run for the presidency; in one photo, Barbara can be glimpsed in the window. In [[November 2024]], Chris informed fans that his PO Box had been closed in error, and that they could send mail to 14 Branchland Court instead. Chris noted that either the mail would be forwarded to him, or he would personally retrieve it.<ref>[[November 2024 social media posts#Lynchburg P.O. box closed]]</ref>

==Pets==
{{quote|They both need some serious training, and my mom recently met, and flirted with, a verified "Smith" who is a pro dog trainer. He offered to train the beagles for a discount from his original rate.|Chris in [[2012]]<ref>[[LoveYouLongTime E-mails, 2011-2012#Dogs]]</ref>}}
As of [[March 2024]], Barbara's pets are the beagle [[Clover and Snoopy|Clover]] and some of the [[Chandler Cats]]. Barbara has a history of neglect towards the pets.

Clover, as well as her deceased brother Snoopy, were acquired as puppies by Barbara and Chris. It had been Barbara's idea to get a beagle for a pet, and Chris eventually agreed to it.<ref>[[May 2012 Facebook posts#These poor fucking dogs]]</ref> Snoopy was officially Barbara's, while Clover was ostensibly Chris's. However, Chris has criticized Barbara's decisions on the dogs, an implication she was in control.<ref name=barbblame>[[Anaxis DMs#Introduction/Bismuth Messages]]</ref>

Despite being a hoarder, Barbara neglected to clear sufficient space for the dogs. At one point, Snoopy fell off a "mountain of clothes" as a puppy, leaving his leg permanently damaged.<ref>[[July 2021 social media posts#Eulogy for Snoopy]]</ref> Both dogs were usually kept inside the house, to the point they became obese and relieve themselves on newspapers. Chris has commented it would be ideal if the dogs could use [[Patti]]'s old pen in the side [[yard]] instead.<ref name=barbblame></ref>

In regards to the cats, [[Scamper]] was killed as a result of the [[2014 house fire]], of which Barbara's hoarding was a major factor. Barbara also accidentally locked [[Sorbet]] inside a room overnight, and Chris found him early morning when feeding the other cats.<ref>[[December 2016 Facebook posts#Sorbet lost, then found]]</ref>

==Quirks==
===Meals===
The night after the Chandler family moved back to Ruckersville in [[2000]], Bob and Chris refused a spaghetti dinner offered by Barb. As a response, Barb decided to forgo cooking for her family and did not make a meal for Chris for at least eleven years afterwards. Chris mentioned in [[2011]] that she was still upset over it:<ref name=jackie24>See emails sent by [[Jackie E-mails 24|Chris to Jackie on 24 and 26 April 2011]].</ref>

{{quote|The spaghetti topic is soo yesterdecade, but apparently she remembers it as well as having a very close relative pass away. Obviously I can empathize with that; I still have my chip on the shoulder from [[Michael Snyder]] banning me from the [[The GAMe PLACe|Game & Hobby Place]]|Chris in a 2011 email<ref name=jackie24></ref>}}

Barb may have resumed making meals at some point. In a [[September 2019]] chat, Chris said he was concerned over his hypertension and "told Barbara to kill the spicy foods for a while."<ref>[[The Place chats - Ben Saint]]</ref>

In a [[May 2016]] begging video, Chris claimed to need money for food, and gave as an example bananas, which he said Barb liked to eat.<ref>[[Donations, Please, plus Live Game Stream tonight.]]</ref>

In the mid-2010s, Barb's doctor advised that she drink meal replacement shakes.<ref>[[September 2018 social media posts#Dynamics between Chris and Barb]]</ref> In [[Minor Update, Handouts!]], a set of begging videos from [[May 2017]], Chris asked his audience for money, claiming it was needed to pay for more of Barb's meal shakes, and admitted he had [[neglect]]ed to buy enough for the month. Barb also made an appearance in which she mentioned consuming the meal shakes. Barb again mentioned the meal shakes during a livestream in [[April 2018]], saying that she liked them and referred to them as "chocolate milkshakes."<ref>[[CLog 04172018 - Buy My Toys]]</ref>

In the [[August 2018]] video [[Shoe Colouring]], Barb mentioned that she did some cooking for her dinner and lunch, which consisted of chicken, fish, and half a can of yams.

==Health problems==
===Weight===
[[Image:Cheers01.jpg|thumb|Artist's depiction.]]

Like Chris, Barbara was [[obesity|obese]] at the time of his discovery by the internet. As late as the 1990s, Barbara was reasonably slim, but she, along with Chris, ballooned out as the 2000s rolled along, to the point of resembling English serial killer {{w|Rose West}}. Her massive size earned her the affectionate nickname '''Snorlax''' from the [[trolls]]. Barb's size may have led to her [[Chris and stress|sleeping a lot]]<ref>[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7]]</ref> and usually skipping [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|church]].<ref>[[Church audio]]</ref>

However, according to eyewitness reports, Barbara lost weight in 2012.<ref>[[This is how the Trial went‎]]</ref> Her weight loss is visible in photos Chris took of her at a 2012 Mythbusters tour stop in Washington, DC.<ref>[[:File:BarbMarch2012.png]]</ref>

This has continued into her old age. When she attended Chris's [[26 December 2014|court hearings]] throughout [[2015]], Christorians in attendance invariably noted that although she has lost weight, she appears to have low muscle mass; probably due to her sedentary lifestyle. In particular, at [[26 December 2014#15 October Hearing|his last hearing]], it was noted that Barb appeared to be growing increasingly frail, and appeared much more passive to Chris than she has otherwise been known to be, as she did not present as very responsive. Chris also reportedly got short with her due to her poor hearing.

In 2018, Chris decided to cash in on the Snorlax joke, claiming that his mother found it funny. He listed a plush Snorlax for sale on [[eBay]], at $200.

{{quote|Hey, Everyone! Those in the meme-know: the times when my mother used to be large and lazy, everyone called her a Snorlax. Well, Barbara likes the joke too, and can laugh it off as she is doing a lot better these days. So, one time only, she signed a Snorlax Plush, and YOU can own it; a 20% More Awesome Collectible. A personal Certificate or Letter of Authenticity will be included. Thank you.}}

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==="Holey buttocks"===
In a [[Twitter|tweet]] to Cole from June 29, 2013, Chris tells him that "[he] ought to be over here putting bandages on [their] Mom's holey buttocks". It was not clear exactly what sort of problem this referred to, though it hardly sounds pleasant. On October 14, 2013, Chris elaborated in a Facebook post, stating, "my mother stresses me with her continuous rants about her damn miniature scabie flies, her suffering, the [[Financhu_Crisis|low finances]] and shit!!!". The consensus was that the so-called "holey buttocks" were, in fact, lesions. It is now believed that Barb has (or had) a colony of parasitic mites, rather than flies, that have burrowed into her prodigious posterior. Naturally, while Barb is being eaten alive by parasites other than Chris, her child whines about having to take care of her.

===Dental===
In August 2014, Chris begged for money on [[Facebook]], supposedly to pay [[List of toys|dental fees]], as he claimed his mother had cavities in her teeth that needed treatment. In July 2016, Barb herself begged for money.<ref>[[Donations Further Requested, Please]]</ref> Chris and Barb restarted begging for [[Lego|dental]] money in early 2018.

===Hearing loss===
During Chris's 2014 court hearing for [[pepper spray]]ing a [[GameStop]] employee, [[Marvin]] was in attendance and observed Chris imply that Barb had hearing loss.<ref>[[26 December 2014#15 October Hearing]]</ref>

{{quote|After a bit, the PD went up to the judge and they called Chris up. Chris starts getting impatient with Barb. He said something like "are your ears clogged up??" and then "wanna follow me so you can hear what's going on?" Then she got up and trundled up there to accompany Chris.|Marvin}}

On 20 September 2021, Reddit user e1ectricthunder visited [[14 Branchland Court]] and had a brief conversation with Barb, during which Barb had difficulty understanding what was being said.<ref>[[Fan visits#e1ectricthunder]]</ref>

===Aging===
{{quote|They treat, they treat you very badly in there. She, she would, she, she, she would never want me to put her into a home, and I would not do that.|Chris, August 2014<ref>[[Catie Date Conversation Transcript]]</ref>}}

[[File:Barb reacts to Quinn.jpg|thumb|200px|Barb, aged 76, tissue in hand, comforting Chris after [[Jessica Quinn]] broke up with him.]]

In November 2015, [[Family Needs to appreciate Family]] was uploaded to YouTube. The video is a plea for [[Cole Smithey]], [[David Alan Chandler]], and [[Carol Suzanne Chandler]] to visit Barb before "her time runs out", even though the latter two are not Barb's progeny.

On 13 July 2016, Barb unexpectedly starred in [[Donations Further Requested, Please|one of Chris's e-begging videos]]. In the minute-long video, she speaks slowly and almost inaudibly, hardly moving or blinking for the entirety of the video. While some have voiced concerns that this may be an early sign of dementia, it is just as likely that Barb, being a manipulative narcissist, was putting on an act for money. She has since re-appeared in numerous other e-begging videos from Chris, including multiple in [[August 2018]]; her appearance is frail and quite frazzled, and her sentences are often punctuated with tons of "ums" and "uhs", along with extended pauses.

[[File:Barbovertime.gif|left]]
[[File:Our signatures00001.png |thumb|right|Barb and Chris in March 2018, the former wearing the [[$400 gold necklace]].]]
In August 2016, [[Anna McLerran]] posted a photo on Facebook of herself and Barb together.<ref>[[:File:Barb and anna.jpg|With Anna, presumably in August 2016.]]</ref> In it, Barb appears to have aged significantly since her last appearance in the "Donations Further Requested, Please" video.

In November 2016, Barb escaped injury when she slipped and fell.<ref>[[November 2016 Facebook posts#Barb slips and falls]]</ref>

Chris was increasingly tasked with helping Barb around the house in her elderly age. He stated in April 2017 that he was taking caregiving classes.<ref>[[Live Game Stream - C-Log 04272017]]</ref>
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===Other===
In [[October 2009]], Barbara spent her birthday at the hospital with what the Chandlers thought was food poisoning.<ref name="9 October 2009">[[9 October 2009]]</ref> Barbara was diagnosed with {{w|colitis}}, a gastrointestinal disease characterized by the inflammation of the colon. It manifests in diarrhea and cramps. Which kind of colitis has yet to be determined. It seems the Chandler family's diet has finally come to affect her, and in order to survive she will have to change her eating habits; considering their stubbornness, this clearly will end badly.

Hearing the plight of the Chandler family, [[Trolls|fans]] of Sonichu created the website "Barbara Chandler Has AIDS" to spread awareness regarding AIDS and to collect donations for research foundations and charities.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201009073942/https://sites.google.com/site/barbarachandlerhasaids/home "Barbara Chandler Has AIDS" Awareness Website]</ref> Chris himself denied the rumor.<ref name="9 October 2009"/>

On 23 August 2013, Chris claimed that Barbara had been afflicted with breast cancer but managed to survive.<ref>[[Facebook#Breast Cancer Awareness]]</ref> He did not give details about when was she diagnosed with the ailment, at what stage it was, or what kind of treatment Barb received.

In [[November 2020]], Chris mentioned that Barbara had an appointment with a cardiologist.<ref>[[The Place chats (November 2020)#Chris's Body Shakes]]</ref>

==Mental problems==
Barb is understood by most to be a highly unstable woman, and worryingly, many of her behaviors can also be observed in Chris. Many believe her to be selfish and extremely narcissistic, on account of her baseless belief that she is [[Daniel Weston|descended from]] [[Anne Boleyn|Tudor high nobility]], and the pathological manner in which she lies and assigns blame to others, even in instances where the fault clearly lies with her. All of these traits are shared by Chris, with Barb's apparent encouragement. Additionally, many aspects of her relationship with Chris are consistent with [https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020245/https://www.daughtersofnarcissisticmothers.com/mothers-with-narcissistic-personality-disorder/ narcissistic motherhood], which is a fascinating but complex topic, too lengthy to be discussed in detail here. Although Chris seems to be her [https://web.archive.org/web/20201112024302/https://www.daughtersofnarcissisticmothers.com/golden-child-and-scapegoat/ "golden child"], she does not shy from mistreating him if he displeases her. This can be seen in an email to [[Jackie]] from May 2011; Chris claimed that his mother flew into a rage over his [[tomgirl]] inclinations, forcing him to submit to a haircut and [[Death threats|threatening to kill him]].<ref name="jackie26"></ref>
===Hoarding===
Aside from her narcissism, Barb is also infamous to Christorians for her hoarding. During Chris's youth, she would create piles of clothes as tall as her son.<ref name=younger></ref> Chris has labeled her a "pack rat",<ref>[[Father Call]]</ref> and on more than one occasion has indicated his displeasure at her hoarding and the consequent state of [[14 Branchland Court|their house]], although neither he nor Bob are known to have ever seriously challenged it. Barb compulsively hoards her purchases, particularly from Goodwill, which, by [[2009]], had rendered the living room uninhabitable.<ref>[[Tour of Chris's House]]</ref> When Bob was admitted to the hospital for the final time, he was quarantined for bug bites, ostensibly due to the conditions in the Chandler household.<ref>[[Rocky Shoemaker call]]</ref> The situation did not improve after Bob's passing, either. A [[Tour of Chris's House II|second house tour video]] made by Chris in [[2013]] revealed that Barb's hoarding had gotten severe enough to render entire rooms completely inaccessible, with some rooms literally full of stuff to within inches of the ceiling, and others reduced to crevices carved into walls of junk.

Barb's hoarding was predicted by many to lead to disaster, and finally did on [[2014 house fire|10 January 2014]], when Chris accidentally started a house fire in the morning while trying to brew coffee in the bathroom, because the kitchen had been among the rooms blocked off by Barb's junk. Naturally, Barb's hoard provided ample kindling for the fire, and the house was severely damaged before the fire could be contained. In fact, given the state of the house in the second tour video, it's surprising that Chris and Barb were able to escape. Unsurprising, however, is the fact that one of the Chandlers' remaining cats died in the blaze, and one of the firefighters sent to the scene also suffered unspecified injuries.

While the Chandlers [[Rental House|relocated]], pending repairs to their home, Barb's stuff went into storage. When repairs were completed a year later, Barb had all of it moved back to 14 Branchland Court, and is not known to have disposed of any of it, even though, by all accounts, most of what she and Chris were able to salvage was subjected to either fire, smoke or water damage, rendering it completely useless. This was confirmed in April 2017, when Chris mentioned the laundry room contained a "mountain pile" of 20-40 bags of dirty, damaged clothing that had not been washed since the fire occurred.<ref>[[April 2017 Facebook posts#Offering The Classic shirt for $12,000 minimum]]</ref>
===Memory?===
Barb has also been long speculated to suffer from a form of dementia due to later video appearances (mostly begging videos) showing her as struggling with forming sentences without a degree of prompting by Chris. Some initially speculated that Chris and Barb were taking advantage of her feeble, elderly state for the purpose of emotionally manipulating their audience into giving them more donations out of pity, as there were other videos where Barb appeared to be more cognizant and seemed to be able to handle her own finances to some degree. Some people close to Chris, such as [[The Captain]], have proclaimed her to not have dementia.

{{quote|She's fully there mentally.. She can drive, hold a conversation, etc. But yeah I can't explain that [[Creepy stare|damn stare]] lol|The Captain<ref>[[Kiwi_Farms_posts_(The_Captain)#Dementia Theory]]</ref>}}

However, this statement was made in [[2018]], and it's possible in the years following that she has developed a form of cognitive disability. In light of the [[Chris and sex#Incest|incest]] situation, in which Chris noted that she seemed "partially confused" on at least one of the occasions that he jumped her bones, how much of her situation was an act (presuming if any of it was) and how much is real has been called into question.

In the [[July 2021]] [[Incest Texts]], Chris claimed that Barb has memory problems (and that his incestuous acts were helping to heal her).

{{quote|She has had memory problems at time beforehand, yes, but she is being better stimulated in her mind and soul, and it Really Shows! Her mental processing speed is even going back up.|Chris}}

Barb was evaluated at a hospital after being separated from her son and was able to return to her home after he was incarcerated, though it should still be noted that the bar for being deemed qualified enough to take care of oneself is low. In [[June 2022]], a letter from Chris claimed that Barb is suffering from a "falling mentality", although it's not clear what that entails.<ref>[[Jail Letter - 27 June 2022]]</ref>

==Legal problems==
On [[28 October 2011]], Chris and Barb were caught in an incident with [[The GAMe PLACe]] and were actually arrested with several serious charges, with Barb's including felony assault and failure to stop. The two were later released on bail. After a succession of court hearings, Barb, along with her son, was arraigned on her felony charges on 10 July 2012. She was sentenced to community service and was put on a two-year probation, as well as being ordered to pay Michael Snyder's medical bills. When informed of the latter fact during the trial, Chris explained that his mother, a retired, obese, seventy-year-old woman, would take care of the charges for him. No one was particularly surprised at this revelation.

==Financial problems==
[[File:Barb's blankets ebay listings photos 01.jpg |Barb advertising blankets for sale in summer 2018.|thumb|250px]]

Barb lives off social security ({{w|Retirement Insurance Benefits}}) and a small pension from her old job; about $14,000 a year.<ref name=charbincome>[[CWCki Forums posts (Cousin Al)#Chris and Barbara's Income]]</ref>

In 2016, Barb was sued by a Discover bank in Norfolk for not paying [[debt]]s. This came to light on [[March 2016|March 14]], [[2016]], when sharp-eyed [[Kiwi Farms|Kiwis]] noticed that she had a hearing on March 16. Since grave neglect of her debt was likely the cause of her being taken to court, it was widely assumed that she would ignore the summons too. Instead, once the court records were updated, many were surprised to see that not only had Barb attended, but she had represented herself, too. Equally unsurprisingly, this bold move failed to pay off, and Barb was still sentenced to pay $4,706.93.<ref>[[:File:Barb discover bank result.png]]</ref>

Five months later, Barb was sued again, this time by Capital One, for the same reason. The hearing in September resulted in a Default Judgement against Barb, meaning that she did not bother attending. She owes Capital One $15,906.99.<ref>[[:File:Barb vs Capital One Bank result.png]]</ref>

Her out-of-control debt was the catalyst for the [[Financhu Crisis]] of 2016.

From June through July of that year, Barb appeared in three videos:

*[[Donations Required, Serious. Please help]]
*[[Donations Requested, Please]]
*[[Donations Further Requested, Please]]

In the videos, she and Chris beg for donations, claiming to need money for her asthma medication and dental work (although they receive a combined amount of $2,500 per month from the government<ref name=charbincome></ref> and their costly hoards are clearly visible behind them). See the Appearances section for more appearances by Barb.

She has failed to take accountability for ruining the family's finances, trying to pin the blame on Chris,<ref>[[Patreon announcement]]</ref> even though her known debt of over $20,000 is much larger than Chris's.

She and Chris had an inheritance from Bob worth "tens of thousands of dollars" when he passed away, but Barb decided to frivolously spend it on [[Rob Bell]] in an attempt to gain exoneration for her [[assault and battery]] charge.

In the summer of 2018, she joined forces with Chris in selling stuff on [[eBay]], including items from her hoard and her autographs, which some fans bought.

==Appearances==

===In ''Sonichu''===
[[File:Bc.PNG|thumb|200px|Chris gets to live out his fantasy of being (and having) an adequate son.]]

In [[Sonichu 0|''Sonichu'' #0]], Barbara makes a brief appearance in "Classic Sonichu Strips".

In [[Sonichu 9|''Sonichu'' #9]], the male [[Dating education#In Sonichu|Dating Education]] students are given Barbara dolls to talk to.

In the 2015 revisions to [[Sonichu 10|''Sonichu'' #10]], Chris wrote out Blanca's character and replaced her with his mother.

According to the [[CWCipedia]], [[Sandy Rosechu]] and [[Sonichu and Rosechu's children]] go to Anneweston Elementary School.<ref>[[CWCipedia]] on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130831123750/http://archive.sonichu.com/cwcipedia/index.php?title=Wild_Sonichu Wild Sonichu]</ref> It is unknown whether or not Sonichu and Rosechu's children still go to that school after their [[Sonichu and Rosechu's children#Sonichu and Rosechu's children|evolution]].

[[File:Chandlers & Sonichus.jpg|200px|thumb|left]]

In [[Sonichu 11|''Sonichu'' #11]], Barb is photoshopped into a "family photo" alongside Chris, Bob and the various Chus.

[[File:Borb, Sonichu12.jpg|200px|thumb|In ''Sonichu'' #12.]]

In [[Sonichu 12|''Sonichu'' #12]], Barb is in a set of pages that is a cross between Chris writing an autobiographical account of himself coming out as a tomgirl to his parents and a tribute to his late father.

Due to Chris's Oedipal complex, Barb is depicted as much more youthful than Bob, even though she was nearly 70 at the time. She is also drawn as being freakishly tall compared to Chris and Bob, despite being shorter than both in real life, though this may just be Chris's inability to keep his characters properly proportioned at work. Barb expresses surprise at her son's announcement of being trans. Chris states that she was "hesitant for a long while", but "got used to my subtle and more changes".

This is a drastic understatement, as the real-life Barb tried to stop his [[tomgirl]] lifestyle in ways including suicide threats, guilt trips (by claiming that she was worried Chris would kill her), paying him to stop cross-dressing, and even ordering him to submit to a haircut. If her attitude towards him cooled, it was only out of resignation rather than acceptance. Evidence of this is when she became angry with him again after finding out that he had successfully changed his name in 2016.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (MasterDisaster)#Name Change Drama]]</ref>

[[File:Chandler family as ponies.png|200px|thumb|left|Barb, pictured at left, as ''Sugar Darling'', in a [[My Little Pony|MLP]]-inspired drawing from [[August 2017]].]]

In August 2017, Chris unveiled a drawing of the Chandler family depicted as [[My Little Pony]] characters, saying they will make further appearances in [[Sonichu 12-9|''Sonichu'' #12-9]].

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===As toys===
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File:LegoSnorlax.jpg|As [[Christian Weston Chandler|Chris]] sees her in [[Lego]] form.
File:BarbAmiibo.jpg|Barb [[Amiibo]], complete with cleavage, which Chris offered for sale on [[Etsy]] in [[November 2015]].
File:Barb drawing Nov. '15.jpg|Promo drawing for the Amiibo.
File:BarbaraCard.jpg|As a [[TSSSF]] card. Note that Chris calls her a "redneck tomboy" and her power is to steal a shipping partner.
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===Audio===
* Private Skype chat with [[Sarah May]].
* 4 [[February 2009]], [[Mumble 2]]: Barbara denies singing while vacuuming [[Chris's room]].
* 17 [[February 2009]], [[BlueSpike PSN Chat 2]]: Barbara talks to Chris but when Julie wants to talk to her, Barbara says she isn't "able to talk to anybody right now".
* [[March 2009]]: Barbara takes over the phone from Chris when Clyde [[Clyde#Prostitutes|calls after the date with Emily]].
* [[Kacey Call 15]]: Chris keeps [[Kacey]] on the phone for nearly fourteen minutes while Barb talks about the value of [[Chris and his Ego|humility]], her poor health, and her relationship with Bob, among other things.
* [[November 2009]], [[Kacey and Liquid Call]]: Barbara tells Chris to "just hang up on the bitch!"
* 10 [[August 2010]], [[Matthew Noble call]]: Barbara claims that Megan "lied" to Chris and abruptly hangs up mid-sentence. Throughout the call, she can be heard denying that she and Bob are the slightest bit in the wrong. At one point she complains about the time Michael Snyder kicked her and Chris out of the GAMe PLACe following Chris's final ban from the store.
* [[Prank calls]]: Barbara yells in the background and foreground of several prank calls.

===Videos===
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Barbara has appeared in several videos: off-camera in the [[Christian Weston Chandler Interview]], and on-camera (for the first time) in [[You're Always Pretty]]. [[ChandlerFamilyChristmas2004|Two decade-old videos]] were leaked in December 2014 showing the Chandlers celebrating Christmas. Another video of her was recorded by a [[troll]] as she and Chris left court after his hearing in February 2015.

She has most frequently appeared during the [[Financhu Crisis]].

[[Donations Required, Serious. Please help|Two more]] [[Donations Requested, Please|videos]] were released in June 2016 showing Chris begging for donations to buy asthma pills for Barbara. Barbara is shown practically dead in both of these videos so [[Chris and Death|god only knows what will happen in the near future.]]

In a [[Donations Further Requested, Please|video]] released on 13 July 2016, Barbara joins her son in shamelessly e-begging. Her voice tired and hoarse, mouth agape, she stares directly into the camera like a deer caught in the headlights.

She resumed begging in a [[EMERGENCY HOME UPDATE|video]] from April 2017, in which she wears a [[$400 gold necklace]] while asking Chris's audience to give him $1,000 in exchange for his old [[Stamps|stamp album]].

She next appeared in [[Live Game Stream - C-Log 04142017]], when she walked in while Chris was recording.

After more uploads from Chris, Barb starred in another begging video uploaded on 24 May 2017, titled [[We Said Donations No Less than $1 00, US, Please]]. Chris removed the video the next day after people threatened to report him for elder abuse.

After the last failed attempt of getting donations, Barb and Chris engaged in yet another begging video on 16 June 2017, titled [[We need immediate funds, please]]. Ironically, she wore both the [[$400 gold necklace]] and a pearl necklace.

Almost a month had passed, without any appearances from Barb. With Chris getting decent amounts of funds from his [[Patreon]] account, there no longer seemed to be a desire to beg. On 14 July 2017, she makes a small voice-only cameo in a [[Soda Awawawawa Puccho Candy Response]], screaming at him for not closing the front door. She also comments in [[Solar Eclipse Vlogs]], asking Chris if he's ready to go back inside after the eclipse ends.

Barb's first appearance on video in 2018 was in [[Selling Vintage Comic Books (Cole Smithey’s Comic Books)]]. She appeared a couple of weeks later in [[Our signatures]] to demonstrate that her signature, a key selling point in the comic sales, was real. On 9 April, Barb appeared for the seventh time during the Financhu Crisis to beg in [[Buy Our Things off of my eBay to help us, Please.]]

On 16 April, a [[April 2018 Paid Video Requests|bizarre video of a few seconds of Barb standing in a doorway]] was posted to the [[CWCki Club]]. On the 17th, she appeared as a guest on Chris's [[Twitch]] stream.

On 8 May, Barb appeared in [[WE NEED MONEY FOR MORTGAGE NOW, PLEASE!]]. Two days later, Barb appeared in [[May 2018 Paid Video Requests|paid videos giving shout-outs to school shooters Nicholas Cruz and Adam Lanza]].

She watched Chris spray-paint his shoes (and his bedroom carpet) in [[Shoe Colouring]], sitting in the same room with poor ventilation.

In the summer of 2018, she appears in multiple videos to promote her partnership with Chris's eBay business: [[My Mother WORKED Hard, Spent Hard; Needs Money NOW.]], [[Barbara Chandler will be making out autographed photos and posters.]] and [[Barbara’s Blankets]]. She then begged for her car payment money in [[Mother needs a car payment]].

[[Barb confirms she isn't dead]] was her next appearance, a rare non-begging video.

Chris (possessed by [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]]) got Barb to appear on camera in [[Watching TF2 Analysis Anarchy Red Vs Blue Part 3]] (12 June 2020).

Barb gave a video shout-out to [[Cole]] in the [[September 2020]] video [[To Cole Smithey, from Barb, and Sonichu (Prime)]].

==Gallery==

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BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool1.jpg|As we were young - School yearbook section, with photo of toddler Barb.
BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool2.jpg|As we were young - Another photo of child Barb.
BarbaraLibraryClub56.jpg|1956 Library Club - Barbara standing third row, second to the left.
BarbJVBasketball.jpg|1956 Junior Varsity Basketball Team - Barbara sitting first row left.
1957BarbaraFHA.png|1957 Future Homemakers of America - Barbara sitting on grass first row very right, as seen with a red star.
BarbSafetyPatrol.jpg|1957 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara kneeling, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
BarbaraLibraryClub58.jpg|1958 Library Club - Barbara standing 7th to the right.
BarbaraSpanishClub1958.jpg|1958 Spanish Club - Barbara standing behind a few rows, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraCheerleader.jpg|1958 Cheerleaders - Barbara as a cheerleader.
BarbaraFHA1.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 1 - Barbara the FHA treasurer sitting on the couch second to the left.
BarbaraFHA2.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 2 - Barbara the FHA treasurer standing the first row in the middle.
BarbaraMonogramClub.jpg|1960 Monogram Club - Barbara standing first row, third to the left.
BarbaraSpanishClub.jpg|1960 Spanish Club - Barbara standing high up, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraBusPatrol.jpg|1960 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara the reporter for RH safety bus patrol, wearing glasses standing first row left.
BarbaraSeniorDirectory.jpg|Barbara's senior year directory.
Image:Barbarafamilycensus1950.png|Barb and her family, 1950 census.
Image:Babs1956.PNG|Barb's 8th grade (or "Pre-Freshman") photo.
Image:Babs1957.PNG|Barb's freshman photo from high school.
File:Babs1958.png|Barb's sophomore photo from high school.
File:Barab?.JPG|Seen in the background of a 2020 photograph; this is Barb's wedding portrait at age 19 in 1961.
File:JerryBarb%26ColeDisasterHeadquarters.jpg|King Karnak, Barbie & Cole at the backstage of "Disaster Headquarters".
File:Chris's family tree up to his great great grandparents.png|Chris's family tree up to his great-great-grandparents.
Image:0002-1-Baby Chris and Mommy.jpg|Barbara with baby Chris. Oh, how full of hope and promise.
Image:0027-ChristopherWMom2.jpg|"Talk, you little idiot!"
Image:0026-ChrisAndMom.jpg
Image:0107-ChristianWMom.jpg|This is when ''[[The Simpsons]]'' went downhill.
Image:0063-BobAndBarbaraNewLife.jpg
Image:0096-MomRetire4.jpg|Barbara's retirement party from secretarial services at Virginia Power in 1996.<ref>[[:Image:0078-CWCNote2.jpg|DVD, note 2]]</ref>
Image:0029-BarbaraWithDrinks.jpg
Image:0113-MomsBirthday97-1.jpg|From her 55th birthday.
Image:0229-ChristianAndMomInClass.jpg
Image:0037-BarbaraInGreen.jpg|Nothing says the 80s like a woman in a power suit and a lady tie.
Image:0041-BarbaraCorinaTomAndHerriet.jpg|Barb with [[Aunt Corrina]], Uncle Tom, and Aunt Harriet.
Image:0042-BarbaraCorinaHerrietAndElvis.jpg|The King left the building when he started to notice the foul smell of the house.
Image:0618-BarbaraIs60-1.jpg|Poor Barb, Chris put [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]] on HER birthday cake.
Image:0074-BarbaraWSonicDoll.jpg
Image:0540-Prom2.jpg|It was originally believed this image was from Chris's graduation. Turns out this is from his senior prom, where he took his mom as his date.
Image:0549-Prom11.jpg|Barb talking to [[Tiffany Gowen|Tiffany]], one of Chris's [[gal pal]]s, at the prom.
Image:Babura.PNG|Barb [[You're Always Pretty|is always pretty]].
BarbMarch2012.png|Barb in 2012, having devolved from a Snorlax into a Munchlax.
File:SnoopyDoobieDoo.png|With [[Snoopy]] in [[2013]].
Image:Barb 2016.JPG|During 2016.
File:Barb and anna.jpg|With Anna, presumably in August 2016.
File:Chandlers.Png|Barb and Chris. Barb is interrupting Chris during a live [[YouTube]] stream.
File:Certificate of Authenticity with Barb's signature.jpg|Barb's signature on a Certificate of Authenticity, included with [[2018 Sales Listings|the purchase of one of Cole's comics]].
Barb autograph photo listing.jpg|Barb with an autographed photo of herself.
File:Chris's 37th birthday 2.jpg|Barb during Chris's 37th birthday.
File:BarbPhoto20Aug.jpg|[[August 2019]].
File:Barb 11-19-2019.jpg|Barb in [[November 2019]].
File:Barbjune2020.jpg|Barb during [[Analysis_Anarchy_Reaction_Livestreams#Watching_TF2_Analysis_Anarchy_Red_Vs_Blue_Part_3|a livestream]] in [[June 2020]]
File:Barb-Instagram-4.jpg|"And Barbara Anne Weston Chandler [[Chris and reality|still looks good for her wise age]]. [[May 2021|#happymothersday2021]]"
File:July11BarbPhoto1.jpg|Barb in [[July 2021]], showing off her new haircut [[July_2021_social_media_posts#Barbie_Chan|done by none other than Chris]]. [[Affair with Mother|Look at the fear in her eyes.]]
Barb in June 2022 drawing.png|Drawing of Barb by Chris in [[June 2022]]
barb2023.png|Barb, age 81, in [[August 2023]]. Notice how significantly she has aged.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1618sah/myself_and_uatahsia_drove_to_virginia_and_we_had/</ref>
BarbaraChandlerSeptember2024.png|Barb, age 82, in [[September 2024]]<ref>https://sonichu.com/cwcki/September_2024_social_media_posts##KamalaHarris4President2024</ref>
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==See Also==
*[[Affair with Mother]]
*[[Bob Chandler]]

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Sightings (2025)

2025-02-15T16:28:28Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Pet store */

2024

2025-01-02T10:00:04Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* December */

[[File:cwc-jan2024.jpeg|thumb|Chris in January 2024 sporting a new version of [[The Classic]].|350px]]
{{Quote|I reiterate: there is no pregnancy with anyone.|[[November_2024_social_media_posts#Pregnancy_rumor_confirmed_false|Chris, prompting the world to breathe a sigh of relief.]]}}
[[File:X - Kamala Harris 2024 sign2.jpeg|thumb|In 2024, Chris backed [[Kamala Harris|a loser]].]]
'''2024''' was the sixteenth year since [[Chris]]'s discovery. It was Chris's first full year not spent in [[jail]] since [[2020]].

This year marked the first time in Chris's life that he has traveled outside the [[United States]], having visited to Finland in [[April 2024|April]], [[September 2024|September]] and [[December 2024|December]]..

2024 also marked the U.S. presidential election, with [[Pmurt]] having regained his president title against vice president and democrat candidate [[Kamala Harris]]; Chris had shown open support for the latter. Chris was eligible to vote, because his felony [[incest]] case was dropped by the [[autism disorder deferred disposition]].

==January==
{{main|January 2024}}
Chris attended his first post-jail convention, [[Animate! Raleigh]], and, unsurprisingly, was kicked out. Chris would also be interviewed by [[Keffals]].

==February==
{{main|February 2024}}
[[File:IHaveNotWatchedAnyHentai.png||thumb|left|Chris in February 2024.|300px]]
This month consisted of Chris releasing streams and videos under the influence of [[Praetor]] and getting spotted at [[Liberty University]]. Chris spent his 42nd birthday playing [[Pokémon GO]].<ref>[[Sightings_(2024)#Liberty_University]]</ref>

==March==
{{main|March 2024}}
[[File:Praetor_Sonichu_Amiibo_5.jpg|thumb|Chris in March 2024.|300px]]
This month consisted of Chris releasing streams and videos under the influence of [[Praetor]] and [[BABSCon#2024|getting banned from BABScon]]. Chris would also be interviewed by [[TheGamerFromMars]].<ref>[[Sightings_(2024)#River_Ridge_Mall_(March,_second_sighting)]]</ref>

==April==
{{main|April 2024}}
[[File:Chris and Flutter in Finland, April 2024.mp400001.png|thumb|left|Chris in April 2024.|300px]]
Chris's [[April 2024 social media posts|internet activity slowed down a considerable amount]] compared to previous months since his [[Jesus Christ Chan Sonichu Prime Resurrected and Returned|online return]]. Chris also did not stream this month, which he had done at least once per month the previous six months. Chris would publish his first video at [[14 Branchland Court]] since [[July 2021]] to promote the fake rocks on his [[OfficialCWCmart|Etsy store]].<ref>[[Harvesting Process, Gravel at the Sonichu Temple]]</ref> It was revealed about 6 months later that he had flown to [[Finland]] alongside [[Flutter]] this month, the first time he's traveled outside the [[United States]].

==May==
{{main|May 2024}}
[[File:Cwc-may2024.jpg|thumb|Chris in May 2024.|300px]]
Chris flew on an airplane for the first time in [[Cole_Smithey#California_(1980-96)|35 years]] as he was spotted at a Dallas Airport terminal. Chris's online activity this month consisted of [[AI_Chris_Chan_Vs_Christ_Chan#AI_Chris_Chan_Vs_Christ_Chan_-_Suvwl'_van_bom|a single video]] and complaining about being photographed in public despite his continued [[Honor roll|refusal to dress normally]]. CCTV cameras were used at [[Lynchburg_and_Big_Island,_VA#House|Chris's house]] to discourage [[weens]] from visiting.

==June==
{{Main|June 2024}}
[[File:Cwc-jun2024.jpg|thumb|left|Chris in June 2024.|300px]]
The start of summer was marked by a lengthy period of social invisibility, making this Chris's quietest month since April. After issuing empty threats of legal action against anyone who recorded or photographed him unaware, he went without being sighted for almost the full length of June, being seen only once at the end of the month alongside Flutter - the first time the two had been seen together since March. He would return to streaming himself playing video games for the first time since mid-February, but aside from advertising what would be his only video in June his online presence and social media activity likewise diminished; the most outstanding development otherwise was a post made to Twitter on the 15th, a rambling address that attributed his lack of activity to 'soul searching'.

==July==
{{Main|July 2024}}
[[File:Cwc-jul2024.jpg|thumb|Chris in July 2024.|300px]]
July would commence with a brace of sightings a week apart, with Chris and Flutter being seen shopping at Walmart stores in Lynchburg. They would be seen once again on the road a few days after the second sighting, seemingly moving towards Charlottesville. Chris's social media activity was very sporadic with most of his few Twitter posts being made mid-July, and the month came and went without a stream.

==August==
{{Main|August 2024}}
[[File:Cwc-aug2024.jpg|thumb|left|Chris in August 2024.|300px]]
Chris was sighted on three separate occasions across August, in both Roanoke and Lynchburg; Flutter accompanied him in two of these sightings. On the 14th of August, he crossed the 100,000 subscriber milestone on his YouTube channel, taking to Twitter to celebrate. On the 31st, he also uploaded [[ITS DA BUTTON|a video]] - his first in two months - commemorating this achievement upon receiving his silver Play Button. Bodycam footage of his encounter with Henrico County police three years prior was also uploaded to YouTube on the 17th, providing the clearest picture yet of the circumstances of his arrest.

==September==
{{Main|September 2024}}
[[File:Cwc-sep2024.jpg|thumb|Chris in September 2024.|300px]]

Chris launched a new website for selling items and posting blogs, [[Cwclight]], with the help of [[Praetor]]. He was spotted at [[Walmart]] in Lynchburg again, and - more surprisingly - was seen with Flutter in Helsinki, [[Finland]].

==October==
{{Main|October 2024}}
October went without any sightings of Chris for the first time since he was rediscovered after his release from jail, likely due to Chris possibly still being in Finland. He provided another image of an uncolored page of [[Sonichu 0 HD]], uploaded a number of videos from July and August to YouTube that were primarily related to ongoing [[Minecraft]] projects, and posted an image of a Sonichu pumpkin carving to Twitter to celebrate Halloween.

==November==
{{Main|November 2024}}
[[File:Cwc-nov2024.jpg||thumb|left|Chris in November 2024.|300px]]
Chris was confirmed to be back in the United States on the first of November after his car was spotted at a [[Wendy's]] drive-thru in [[Lynchburg]]. This month was also the Presidential Election between former President [[Pmurt]] and Vice-President [[Kamala Harris]]. After Pmurt won, Chris expressed his disappointment by posting about it on [[Bluesky]], a [[Twitter]] alternative that Chris began "transitioning" to this month. Chris's reasoning for moving mainly being his disapproval for [[Elon Musk]] and [[Donald Trump]]. Chris's excuse for not using Bluesky exclusively is that he doesn't have enough followers yet.

Rumors spread online that [[Flutter]] was pregnant, and were even reported in the ''Daily Mail'' and ''The Times of India''; Chris denied this in a livestream.<ref>[[November_2024_social_media_posts#Pregnancy_rumor_confirmed_false]]</ref>
==December==
{{Main|December 2024}}
Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted in Helsinki, [[Finland]] on 17 December.
{{References}}
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User:NightcoreSwift004

2024-12-18T18:18:34Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* John James Hollomon */

==Chris' ancestors sandbox test for a page ==

===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who was also one of the family's farmworkers. Before he was born, his family's home had been heavily burned down by an arsonist who was harassing his siblings and received no insurance for the losses. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up in poverty, Robert and his siblings lived with relatives after their parents were separated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Robert and his siblings had worked on the family's peach farm at an early age and later at his aunt Littleton's farm. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} at age 18 for better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the home of the Methodist minister in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas in {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a drugstore clerk for about five years while living in Garland. While living there, Robert and Jean worked together renting out properties they owned in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supply handler and later a supply clerk at {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing company, in the weaving department at the Eva Jane plant. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. His job initially involved managing the physical handling and distribution of materials in the supply room, often described as carrying supplies like a moving van. Later, he transitioned to clerical tasks, overseeing inventory, tracking supplies, and ensuring timely deliveries for production. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter. Two months before his death, Weston served as a director of the Charlotte County chapter of the Farmers Union, contributing to leadership decisions and supporting initiatives for local farmers.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1888, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with over 200 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Primitive Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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BarbaraLibraryClub56.jpg|1956 Library Club - Barbara standing third row, second to the left.
BarbJVBasketball.jpg|1956 Junior Varsity Basketball Team - Barbara sitting first row left.
1957BarbaraFHA.png|1957 Future Homemakers of America - Barbara sitting on grass first row very right, as seen with a red star.
BarbSafetyPatrol.jpg|1957 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara kneeling, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
BarbaraLibraryClub58.jpg|1958 Library Club - Barbara standing 7th to the right.
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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who was also one of the family's farmworkers. Before he was born, his family's home had been heavily burned down by an arsonist who was harassing his siblings and received no insurance for the losses. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up in poverty, Robert and his siblings lived with relatives after their parents were separated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Robert and his siblings had worked on the family's peach farm at an early age and later at his aunt Littleton's farm. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} at age 18 for better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the home of the Methodist minister in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas in {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a drugstore clerk for about five years while living in Garland. While living there, Robert and Jean worked together renting out properties they owned in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supply handler and later a supply clerk at {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing company, in the weaving department at the Eva Jane plant. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. His job initially involved managing the physical handling and distribution of materials in the supply room, often described as carrying supplies like a moving van. Later, he transitioned to clerical tasks, overseeing inventory, tracking supplies, and ensuring timely deliveries for production. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter. Two months before his death, Weston served as a director of the Charlotte County chapter of the Farmers Union, contributing to leadership decisions and supporting initiatives for local farmers.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Primitive Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who was also one of the family's farmworkers. Before he was born, his family's home had been heavily burned down by an arsonist who was harassing his siblings and received no insurance for the losses. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up in poverty, Robert and his siblings lived with relatives after their parents were separated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Robert and his siblings had worked on the family's peach farm at an early age and later at his aunt Littleton's farm. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} at age 18 for better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the home of the Methodist minister in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas in {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a drugstore clerk for about five years while living in Garland. While living there, Robert and Jean worked together renting out properties they owned in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supply handler and later a supply clerk at {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing company, in the weaving department at the Eva Jane plant. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. His job initially involved managing the physical handling and distribution of materials in the supply room, often described as carrying supplies like a moving van. Later, he transitioned to clerical tasks, overseeing inventory, tracking supplies, and ensuring timely deliveries for production. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Primitive Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who was also one of the family's farmworkers. Before he was born, his family's home had been heavily burned down by an arsonist who was harassing his siblings and received no insurance for the losses. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up in poverty, Robert and his siblings lived with relatives after their parents were separated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Robert and his siblings had worked on the family's peach farm at an early age and later at his aunt Littleton's farm. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} at age 18 for better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the home of the Methodist minister in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas in {w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a drugstore clerk for about five years while living in Garland. While living there, Robert and Jean worked together renting out properties they owned in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supply handler and later a supply clerk at {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing company, in the weaving department at the Eva Jane plant. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. His job initially involved managing the physical handling and distribution of materials in the supply room, often described as carrying supplies like a moving van. Later, he transitioned to clerical tasks, overseeing inventory, tracking supplies, and ensuring timely deliveries for production. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Primitive Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked laboring the farm. Before he was born, his family's home was recently burned down by an arsonist harassing his siblings. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings later lived with relatives as their parents were seperated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supply handler and later a supply clerk at {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing company, in the weaving department at the Eva Jane plant. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. His job initially involved managing the physical handling and distribution of materials in the supply room, often described as carrying supplies like a moving van. Later, he transitioned to clerical tasks, overseeing inventory, tracking supplies, and ensuring timely deliveries for production. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Primitive Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked laboring the farm. Before he was born, his family's home was recently burned down by an arsonist harassing his siblings. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings later lived with relatives as their parents were seperated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supply handler and later a supply clerk at {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing company, in the weaving department at the Eva Jane plant. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. His job initially involved managing the physical handling and distribution of materials in the supply room, often described as carrying supplies like a moving van. Later, he transitioned to clerical tasks, overseeing inventory, tracking supplies, and ensuring timely deliveries for production. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked laboring the farm. Before he was born, his family's home was recently burned down by an arsonist harassing his siblings. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings later lived with relatives as their parents were seperated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supply handler and later a supply clerk at {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing company, in the weaving department at the Eva Jane plant. His job initially involved managing the physical handling and distribution of materials in the supply room, often described as carrying supplies like a moving van. Later, he transitioned to clerical tasks, overseeing inventory, tracking supplies, and ensuring timely deliveries for production. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool1.jpg|As we were young - School yearbook section, with photo of toddler Barb.
BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool2.jpg|As we were young - Another photo of child Barb.
BarbaraLibraryClub56.jpg|1956 Library Club - Barbara standing third row, second to the left.
BarbJVBasketball.jpg|1956 Junior Varsity Basketball Team - Barbara sitting first row left.
1957BarbaraFHA.png|1957 Future Homemakers of America - Barbara sitting on grass first row very right, as seen with a red star.
BarbSafetyPatrol.jpg|1957 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara kneeling, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
BarbaraLibraryClub58.jpg|1958 Library Club - Barbara standing 7th to the right.
BarbaraSpanishClub1958.jpg|1958 Spanish Club - Barbara standing behind a few rows, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraCheerleader.jpg|1958 Cheerleaders - Barbara as a cheerleader.
BarbaraFHA1.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 1 - Barbara the FHA treasurer sitting on the couch second to the left.
BarbaraFHA2.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 2 - Barbara the FHA treasurer standing the first row in the middle.
BarbaraMonogramClub.jpg|1960 Monogram Club - Barbara standing first row, third to the left.
BarbaraSpanishClub.jpg|1960 Spanish Club - Barbara standing high up, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraBusPatrol.jpg|1960 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara the reporter for RH safety bus patrol, wearing glasses standing first row left.
BarbaraSeniorDirectory.jpg|Barbara's senior year directory.
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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked laboring the farm. Before he was born, his family's home was recently burned down by an arsonist harassing his siblings. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings later lived with relatives as their parents were seperated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 21 and 23 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool1.jpg|As we were young - School yearbook section, with photo of toddler Barb.
BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool2.jpg|As we were young - Another photo of child Barb.
BarbaraLibraryClub56.jpg|1956 Library Club - Barbara standing third row, second to the left.
BarbJVBasketball.jpg|1956 Junior Varsity Basketball Team - Barbara sitting first row left.
1957BarbaraFHA.png|1957 Future Homemakers of America - Barbara sitting on grass first row very right, as seen with a red star.
BarbSafetyPatrol.jpg|1957 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara kneeling, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
BarbaraLibraryClub58.jpg|1958 Library Club - Barbara standing 7th to the right.
BarbaraSpanishClub1958.jpg|1958 Spanish Club - Barbara standing behind a few rows, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraCheerleader.jpg|1958 Cheerleaders - Barbara as a cheerleader.
BarbaraFHA1.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 1 - Barbara the FHA treasurer sitting on the couch second to the left.
BarbaraFHA2.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 2 - Barbara the FHA treasurer standing the first row in the middle.
BarbaraMonogramClub.jpg|1960 Monogram Club - Barbara standing first row, third to the left.
BarbaraSpanishClub.jpg|1960 Spanish Club - Barbara standing high up, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraBusPatrol.jpg|1960 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara the reporter for RH safety bus patrol, wearing glasses standing first row left.
BarbaraSeniorDirectory.jpg|Barbara's senior year directory.
</gallery>}}

Sightings (2024)

2024-11-03T11:44:28Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Colorado */

{{protip|We once again advise you to ''never'' directly engage with Chris nor attempt to get him [[banned]] from the places he's been to. On the off-chance that you cross paths with Chris, the ''most'' that you should do is [[Passive observers|get some kind of documentation of Chris]], [[Unholy Quintet|but never to directly engage with him]].}}
{{Ongoing}}

Since his release from jail in [[2023]], multiple '''sightings''' of Chris have occurred in [[2024]]. The sightings are particularly notable, given Chris's decline in terms of having an active online presence.

==January==
===Ultimate Comics (North Carolina)===
On 4 [[January 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted and photographed at Ultimate Comics in [[wikipedia:Cary, North Carolina|Cary, North Carolina]] by [[r/ChrisChanSonichu]] user RandyMagnum68, who claimed that the pair were picking up tickets for [[Animate! Raleigh]], a convention in [[wikipedia:Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh NC]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/18yqgb5/chris_chan_sighting_in_cary_nc_with_young_girl/</ref> The following day, they were seen together at the event.

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===Animate! Raleigh===
{{main|Animate! Raleigh}}

===Raleigh Convention Center===
On 6 [[January 2024]], Chris and Flutter were spotted outside of the [[Animate! Raleigh]] convention, purportedly being denied entry. An image was provided by r/ChrisChanSonichu user DeadStargazer, who stated that security was awaiting Chris and Flutter's arrival. The user says no incident prompted this removal, simply that Chris was reported to the convention ops on 5 January.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1907pum/chris_chan_kicked_out_of_animate_raleigh/</ref>
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===Gas station===
On 13 [[January 2024]], Reddit user u/lynnwood_davis allegedly spotted Chris at a gas station, presumably [[Sheetz]], in Henrico County.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/196hbd8/chris_came_into_my_job_yesterday/ ([https://archive.fo/nmSqb archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|I was finishing an order around 3:45pm when I noticed someone ordering had on really ugly green leggings and a jean skirt. I smiled to myself and thought "that lady looks like Chris Chan, got the ugly leggings+skirt combo on too", just for me to look at her face and realize it IS Chris Chan, with her fading blue hair and she/her pin on. I couldn't take a picture because she DEFINITELY noticed how much I was staring and I couldn't stop smiling. I texted my buddy on the register and apparently she ended up going through his line. he told me later that day that when he realized she was in his line, his eyes bugged out of his head and she awkwardly just said "doot doot doo..." under her breath. he confirmed his suspicions when she took out her Sonichu wallet. she awkwardly shuffled around the coffee area waiting for her order and mumbled anxiously looking for napkins, and left soon after.}}

This sighting, due to the lack of photos and credibility, has been disputed for a long time; however, since it's located near the airport Chris picked up Flutter from a month earlier and Flutter was nowhere to be seen, it's safe to say that's when she left the scene once again, as confirmed by later sightings and overall activity of Chris.

===Target===
On 23 [[January 2024]], Chris was spotted at [[Target]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/DatabaseSuccessful99 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/19er88t/christinachandler_at_target// ([https://archive.ph/D0Fl3 archive])</ref>

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Chris was separately spotted and recorded the same day by @andrewtsquid on TikTok.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@lolcow.docs/video/7333269261877546270</ref><ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewtsquid/video/7333255461040377134</ref>

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==February==
===Walmart===
On 21 [[February 2024]], Chris was spotted at [[Walmart]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/Unhappy-Rub-6371 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1awq6vd/sorry_chris_chan_lynchburg_walmart_on_wards_road/ ([https://archive.ph/b6xA1 archive])</ref>

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===Liberty University===
On 24 [[February 2024]] Chris was spotted at [[wikipedia:Liberty University|Liberty University]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by @munchaboy24 on [[Twitter]]<ref>https://x.com/munchaboy24/status/1761490091661513085?s=20 ([https://archive.ph/eCJko archive])</ref>

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Chris was spotted again the same day by @AryehSYE on Twitter.<ref>https://x.com/AryehSYE/status/1761560858964943327?s=20 ([https://archive.ph/bALw8 archive])</ref>

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==March==
===River Ridge Mall (March)===
On 3 [[March 2024]] Chris was spotted at [[wikipedia:River Ridge Mall|River Ridge Mall]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/white_crayon69 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1b5skl7/chris_chan_spotted_at_the_river_ridge_mall_332024/ ([https://archive.ph/IjlfF archive])</ref>

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===Sheetz (March)===
On 11 [[March 2024]] Chris was spotted and photographed at a [[Sheetz]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by @hystericvision on [[Twitter]]. Chris's Car was also photographed with a new bumper sticker that reads [[Virginia is for Virgins|"VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS"]].<ref>https://twitter.com/hystericvision/status/1767282747943391638 ([https://archive.ph/JAoO6 archive])</ref>

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===River Ridge Mall (March, second sighting)===
At 2 pm on 18 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted at River Ridge Mall.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1bjg9cv/spotted_at_river_ridge_mall_318/ ([https://archive.fo/MOv81 archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|(Censored face of person sitting in bar behind them) Two guys had a camera and were recording a conversation with Chris, who (at one point) raised a hand and started singing a high note, garnering looks from the people around the food court.}}

The poster later claimed the individual interviewing Chris was [[TheGamerFromMars]], this was later confirmed by TheGamerFromMars in a podcast.<ref>https://youtu.be/dbcjCjg_sPg?si=ufj-1VfWZr42RReL&t=1796</ref>
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===TJ Maxx===
On 23 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted with [[Flutter]] at {{w|TJ Maxx}} in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/Possible-Major-6101 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1bm8mws/chris_chan_spotted/ ([https://archive.ph/5MuWP archive])</ref> This was the first time Flutter was seen since Animate! Raleigh, disproving rumors about her staying away from Chris due to the aftermath of the event.

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===Target Parking Lot===
On 25 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted alone in a parking lot near [[Target]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/DatabaseSuccessful99 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1bnlb6d/saw_her_again/ ([https://archive.ph/L3Eeh archive])</ref>

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==April==
===Arabia Shopping Centre, Helsinki, Finland===
[[File:Chris and Flutter in Finland, April 2024.mp400001.png|thumb|200px]]
On 4 [[April 2024]],<ref>https://x.com/octopoxYT/status/1841851727391166936 ([https://ghostarchive.org/archive/oBza3 archive])</ref> Chris and [[Flutter]] were seen in Helsinki, [[Finland]] at the Arabia Shopping Centre. A brief video clip was recorded but was not shared until 1 [[October 2024]] when it was posted on [[Kiwi Farms]]; the person filming had been uncertain at the time whether it was Chris, though they noted the height similarity and that English was being spoken.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (other users)#Finland Sighting]]</ref>

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==May==
===Dallas Fort Worth===
On 24 [[May 2024]] Chris was spotted at {{w|Dallas Fort Worth International Airport}}, Texas by [[Reddit]] user Accomplished_Fix1716. Accomplished_Fix1716 said that Chris's flight was canceled. Accomplished_Fix1716 also said that Chris was calling someone, as well as texting.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1d029xf/botched_chris_chan_spotting/ ([https://archive.ph/2UMXH archive])</ref>

Of note, Dallas Fort Worth offers direct service to {{w|Helsinki Airport}} in Finland. Assuming Chris flew in directly from Helsinki, he would have been in the air for close to 11 hours, which would help to explain his mood in the video.

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====Transcript====
''[Accomplished_Fix1716 walks up to Chris seated while texting on his phone.]''

'''Accomplished_Fix1716:''' Uh, (clears throat) excuse me?

'''Chris:''' Mmmmm... I'm not acknowledging you right now.

'''Accomplished_Fix1716:''' Oh, okay. Sorry.

===Big Island House===
On 29 [[May 2024]], [[Kiwi Farms]] user TwistedFreak posted two pictures of Chris's car, alongside one photo of Chris himself in front of the [[Big Island House]].<ref>https://kiwifarms.st/threads/random-chris-updates.23605/page-2069#post-18414439 ([https://archive.ph/7Zv1X archive])</ref> TwistedFreak later realized it was not, in fact, Chris's car in the side-view mirror photo taken at H&H Mart. <ref>https://kiwifarms.st/threads/random-chris-updates.23605/page-2074#post-18478398)</ref>
{{quoteboxgreen|Good afternoon Kiwis.

I present to you Day 2 of #Crishing - a Twisted Freak Production.

I come bearing answers to two long debated questions:
 <nowiki>
1.Does Chris read Kiwi Farms?</nowiki> <nowiki>
2.Does bullying work?</nowiki>

After less than a week of being publicly shamed on KF for his antisocial parking behavior, Christopher has changed his ways. See pic:

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That was from this morning. On my second trip of the day #Crishing on [House address], I spotted a wild Christopher outside of his paper mill goon mansion:

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So much for that airport fit, back to dressing like a 5 year old girl apparently.

After snapping that pic, I flipped a U-Turn and went to H&H Mart. After laying down a doozer in the bathroom, I saw Christopher getting gas at the gas station. I didn't notice him until I was already in my car. Rather than startle him with a camera in his face, I managed to snap a picture of him leaving:
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==June==
===River Ridge Mall (June)===
On 29 [[June 2024]], Chris was sighted at River Ridge Mall in Lynchburg with [[Flutter]] by [[Reddit]] user ProduceFuzzy1353. According to the Redditor, Chris and Flutter had Chick-Fil-A and went to see a movie,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1drypjd/chris_chan_spotted/ ([https://archive.fo/H72AD archive])</ref> later confirmed to be ''Inside Out 2''.<ref>[[June_2024_livestream]]</ref>
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==July==
===Walmart (July)===
On 5 [[July 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at a [[Walmart]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by a friend of Reddit user white_crayon69.<ref>https://reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1dwaeub/chris_chan_spotted_at_the_walmart_in_lynchburg/ ([https://archive.fo/JGzmg archive])</ref>
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Another user, by the nick of Silly_Tourist123, later published a 2-second video clip of them at the customer service line, writing: "I saw them too while I was checking out my bags. I managed to tail [[Chevrolet Aveo|his car]] as he was leaving for a short ways."<ref>https://archive.is/WwiWk</ref><ref>https://streamable.com/9fdmp0 ([https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u1L2U9qwAvI backup copy])</ref> Silly Tourist also posted to [[Kiwi Farms]], where a photo of the car sighting was posted.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (other users)#Walmart Sighting]]</ref>
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File:Walmart 5Jul2024 3 (cropped).png|Screenshot taken from the video
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===Walmart Part II (July) ===
On 12 [[July 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at a [[Lynchburg, VA]] Walmart by Reddit user ClownPrinceofGrape,<ref>https://new.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1e1uju0/chris_chan_is_in_lynchburg/ ([https://archive.fo/Q7FEu archive])</ref> who remarked:<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1e1uju0/comment/lcxxlnn/ ([https://archive.fo/6d6nH archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|I do want to say i overheard them talking when they were checking out next to me and she was talking in a fake anime girl voice and he was telling her how to bag food properly and it was beyond weird}}

A Kiwi Farms user asked for details, and ClownPrinceofGrape replied that Chris was doing most of the talking about the food they needed and the order to bag it, and that Flutter was replying with simple answers such as "that sounds great!" or "ok!" in a waifu voice.<ref>[[:File:My Earnest Opinions-ClownPrinceofGrape 13Jul2024 DM.jpg]]</ref>

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===On the road===
On 16 [[July 2024]] Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted driving by [[Reddit]] user StalinF.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/s/mWreylWzcd</ref> StalinF mistook Flutter in the backseat for a child due to her appearance. StalinF left a comment saying:

{{quotebox|I don’t know much about the Chris chan lore so idk if this is interesting but I saw him on the way towards [[Charlottesville, VA|Charlottesville VA]] with whoever the kid is in his backseat}}

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==August==
===River Ridge Mall (August)===
On 13 [[August 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at River Ridge Mall.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1erots6/chris_chan_spotted_again/ ([https://archive.fo/Fk8An archive])</ref>
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===Valley View Mall===
On 19 [[August 2024]], Chris and Flutter were spotted at Valley View Mall in Roanoke, VA. Flutter was initially mistaken for a child by the photographer, who also wrote: <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1ewezzx/chrischan_sighting_in_roanoke_va/</ref>

{{quotebox|Seen at Valley View Mall. She had what looked like a little kid, but I did some research and it seems like someone named Flutter? I haven’t been tapped into the lore recently but that’s my best guess. She wouldn’t get a picture with my friend and I but she fist bumped us and said we’re blessed.}}

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Two days later on 21 [[August 2024]], Reddit user LancieBoi365 posted another photo from this sighting, which marked the first time Flutter's face had been photographed since [[October 2023]]. <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1ey6yvh/blurry_pic_of_flutter_and_chris_chan_from/</ref>

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| name = CWC Flutter Valley View Mall video clip
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| stardate = 19 [[August 2024]]
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====Transcript====
[''Ween walks up to his two friends and Chris, with his recording phone down.'']

'''Ween2''': I have a question, are you Christian?

'''Chris:''' Yes.

'''Ween2''': Can I get a quick photo with you?

'''Chris:''' No.

'''Ween3''': I feel really bad about how everyone's treating you like-

'''Chris:''' Yes.

'''Ween3''': [''unintelligible'']

'''Chris:''' Thank you, I'll give you each a fist bump [''unintelligible''].

'''Ween3''': Ohhh, thank you

'''Chris:''' And you both are blessed.

'''Ween2''': [''Talks over Chris''] [''unintelligible'']-pictures?.

'''Chris:''' Yeah, no pictures.

'''Ween2''': Are you sure?

'''Ween3''': Okay.

'''Ween2''': Are you sure?

'''Chris:''' Yeah I'm sure.

'''Ween2''': We really appreciate it.

'''Chris:''' That's okay, y'all have a nice day. [''Chris walking away, with Flutter behind leaving too.'']

[''All three weens said'': Thank you, you too.]

===Target (August)===
On 25 [[August 2024]], Chris was spotted at a Target in [[Lynchburg]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1f1es6s/my_friend_spotted_chris_chan_in_target_today/</ref>

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==September==
===Walmart (September)===
On 1 [[September 2024]], Chris was spotted without Flutter at a Walmart in [[Lynchburg]] by Reddit user literallytits and her friends.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1f6wvoh/met_chris_today/</ref>

{{quotebox|Saw Chris today at the Walmart on Wards Rd, Lynchburg VA 6:20pm. My friend asked for his number but he rejected her :(}}

According to the user, Chris acted surprisingly normal although a bit awkward and shy during the interaction. When asked by the user's boyfriend what he does for work, Chris replied: "I am a comic book author and a philosopher". He was also noted to have no noticeable [[Chris_and_health#Hygiene|stench]].

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===Normal, Helsinki, Finland===
On 27 [[September 2024]], Chris was seen on a security camera in Helsinki, [[Finland]]. r/ChrisChanSonichu user marenze leaked a cropped still from the camera footage two days later, saying the location is Helsinki and that the picture was taken by a co-worker.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1fsaabx/chris_spotted_in_helsinki/ ([https://archive.ph/gLn96 archive])</ref> Locals believe the sighting was at the Mall of Tripla, in a store named Normal.<ref>https://ylilauta.org/satunnainen/27nxqc ([https://archive.fo/sOdD5 archive])</ref>
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===Mall of Tripla, Helsinki, Finland===
[[File:Chris and Flutter at Mall of Tripla, Helsinki, Finland.mov00001.png|thumb]]
On 28 [[September 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at the {{w|Mall of Tripla}} in Helsinki, [[Finland]]. A video clip of the two from behind was taken by an anonymous Instagram user,<ref>According to a comment Geno Samuel made in [[Official CWCki Server]]</ref> who sent it to [[Geno Samuel]] for posting.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (SamuellyGenie)#Finland Sighting]]</ref>

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==November==
===Wendy's===
On 1 [[November 2024]], [[Reddit]] user onethreesixfour took a picture of [[Son-Chu#Chevrolet Aveo|Chris's car]] and posted that they were behind Chris "at a drive thru in VA", later claiming it to be at a [[Wendy's]] in [[Lynchburg]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1ghddm5/im_currently_behind_chrischan_at_a_drive_thru_in/ ([https://archive.fo/3bIql archive])</ref>
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===Colorado===
{{incomplete|https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1gi1g85/chris_chan_spotted/|}}

{{References}}
{{Articleofthenow}}
{{The Internet}}
[[Category:Eyewitness Accounts]]

Sightings (2024)

2024-11-03T11:41:05Z

NightcoreSwift004:

{{protip|We once again advise you to ''never'' directly engage with Chris nor attempt to get him [[banned]] from the places he's been to. On the off-chance that you cross paths with Chris, the ''most'' that you should do is [[Passive observers|get some kind of documentation of Chris]], [[Unholy Quintet|but never to directly engage with him]].}}
{{Ongoing}}

Since his release from jail in [[2023]], multiple '''sightings''' of Chris have occurred in [[2024]]. The sightings are particularly notable, given Chris's decline in terms of having an active online presence.

==January==
===Ultimate Comics (North Carolina)===
On 4 [[January 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted and photographed at Ultimate Comics in [[wikipedia:Cary, North Carolina|Cary, North Carolina]] by [[r/ChrisChanSonichu]] user RandyMagnum68, who claimed that the pair were picking up tickets for [[Animate! Raleigh]], a convention in [[wikipedia:Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh NC]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/18yqgb5/chris_chan_sighting_in_cary_nc_with_young_girl/</ref> The following day, they were seen together at the event.

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===Animate! Raleigh===
{{main|Animate! Raleigh}}

===Raleigh Convention Center===
On 6 [[January 2024]], Chris and Flutter were spotted outside of the [[Animate! Raleigh]] convention, purportedly being denied entry. An image was provided by r/ChrisChanSonichu user DeadStargazer, who stated that security was awaiting Chris and Flutter's arrival. The user says no incident prompted this removal, simply that Chris was reported to the convention ops on 5 January.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1907pum/chris_chan_kicked_out_of_animate_raleigh/</ref>
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===Gas station===
On 13 [[January 2024]], Reddit user u/lynnwood_davis allegedly spotted Chris at a gas station, presumably [[Sheetz]], in Henrico County.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/196hbd8/chris_came_into_my_job_yesterday/ ([https://archive.fo/nmSqb archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|I was finishing an order around 3:45pm when I noticed someone ordering had on really ugly green leggings and a jean skirt. I smiled to myself and thought "that lady looks like Chris Chan, got the ugly leggings+skirt combo on too", just for me to look at her face and realize it IS Chris Chan, with her fading blue hair and she/her pin on. I couldn't take a picture because she DEFINITELY noticed how much I was staring and I couldn't stop smiling. I texted my buddy on the register and apparently she ended up going through his line. he told me later that day that when he realized she was in his line, his eyes bugged out of his head and she awkwardly just said "doot doot doo..." under her breath. he confirmed his suspicions when she took out her Sonichu wallet. she awkwardly shuffled around the coffee area waiting for her order and mumbled anxiously looking for napkins, and left soon after.}}

This sighting, due to the lack of photos and credibility, has been disputed for a long time; however, since it's located near the airport Chris picked up Flutter from a month earlier and Flutter was nowhere to be seen, it's safe to say that's when she left the scene once again, as confirmed by later sightings and overall activity of Chris.

===Target===
On 23 [[January 2024]], Chris was spotted at [[Target]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/DatabaseSuccessful99 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/19er88t/christinachandler_at_target// ([https://archive.ph/D0Fl3 archive])</ref>

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Chris was separately spotted and recorded the same day by @andrewtsquid on TikTok.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@lolcow.docs/video/7333269261877546270</ref><ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewtsquid/video/7333255461040377134</ref>

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==February==
===Walmart===
On 21 [[February 2024]], Chris was spotted at [[Walmart]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/Unhappy-Rub-6371 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1awq6vd/sorry_chris_chan_lynchburg_walmart_on_wards_road/ ([https://archive.ph/b6xA1 archive])</ref>

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===Liberty University===
On 24 [[February 2024]] Chris was spotted at [[wikipedia:Liberty University|Liberty University]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by @munchaboy24 on [[Twitter]]<ref>https://x.com/munchaboy24/status/1761490091661513085?s=20 ([https://archive.ph/eCJko archive])</ref>

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Chris was spotted again the same day by @AryehSYE on Twitter.<ref>https://x.com/AryehSYE/status/1761560858964943327?s=20 ([https://archive.ph/bALw8 archive])</ref>

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==March==
===River Ridge Mall (March)===
On 3 [[March 2024]] Chris was spotted at [[wikipedia:River Ridge Mall|River Ridge Mall]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/white_crayon69 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1b5skl7/chris_chan_spotted_at_the_river_ridge_mall_332024/ ([https://archive.ph/IjlfF archive])</ref>

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===Sheetz (March)===
On 11 [[March 2024]] Chris was spotted and photographed at a [[Sheetz]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by @hystericvision on [[Twitter]]. Chris's Car was also photographed with a new bumper sticker that reads [[Virginia is for Virgins|"VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS"]].<ref>https://twitter.com/hystericvision/status/1767282747943391638 ([https://archive.ph/JAoO6 archive])</ref>

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===River Ridge Mall (March, second sighting)===
At 2 pm on 18 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted at River Ridge Mall.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1bjg9cv/spotted_at_river_ridge_mall_318/ ([https://archive.fo/MOv81 archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|(Censored face of person sitting in bar behind them) Two guys had a camera and were recording a conversation with Chris, who (at one point) raised a hand and started singing a high note, garnering looks from the people around the food court.}}

The poster later claimed the individual interviewing Chris was [[TheGamerFromMars]], this was later confirmed by TheGamerFromMars in a podcast.<ref>https://youtu.be/dbcjCjg_sPg?si=ufj-1VfWZr42RReL&t=1796</ref>
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===TJ Maxx===
On 23 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted with [[Flutter]] at {{w|TJ Maxx}} in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/Possible-Major-6101 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1bm8mws/chris_chan_spotted/ ([https://archive.ph/5MuWP archive])</ref> This was the first time Flutter was seen since Animate! Raleigh, disproving rumors about her staying away from Chris due to the aftermath of the event.

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===Target Parking Lot===
On 25 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted alone in a parking lot near [[Target]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/DatabaseSuccessful99 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1bnlb6d/saw_her_again/ ([https://archive.ph/L3Eeh archive])</ref>

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==April==
===Arabia Shopping Centre, Helsinki, Finland===
[[File:Chris and Flutter in Finland, April 2024.mp400001.png|thumb|200px]]
On 4 [[April 2024]],<ref>https://x.com/octopoxYT/status/1841851727391166936 ([https://ghostarchive.org/archive/oBza3 archive])</ref> Chris and [[Flutter]] were seen in Helsinki, [[Finland]] at the Arabia Shopping Centre. A brief video clip was recorded but was not shared until 1 [[October 2024]] when it was posted on [[Kiwi Farms]]; the person filming had been uncertain at the time whether it was Chris, though they noted the height similarity and that English was being spoken.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (other users)#Finland Sighting]]</ref>

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==May==
===Dallas Fort Worth===
On 24 [[May 2024]] Chris was spotted at {{w|Dallas Fort Worth International Airport}}, Texas by [[Reddit]] user Accomplished_Fix1716. Accomplished_Fix1716 said that Chris's flight was canceled. Accomplished_Fix1716 also said that Chris was calling someone, as well as texting.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1d029xf/botched_chris_chan_spotting/ ([https://archive.ph/2UMXH archive])</ref>

Of note, Dallas Fort Worth offers direct service to {{w|Helsinki Airport}} in Finland. Assuming Chris flew in directly from Helsinki, he would have been in the air for close to 11 hours, which would help to explain his mood in the video.

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====Transcript====
''[Accomplished_Fix1716 walks up to Chris seated while texting on his phone.]''

'''Accomplished_Fix1716:''' Uh, (clears throat) excuse me?

'''Chris:''' Mmmmm... I'm not acknowledging you right now.

'''Accomplished_Fix1716:''' Oh, okay. Sorry.

===Big Island House===
On 29 [[May 2024]], [[Kiwi Farms]] user TwistedFreak posted two pictures of Chris's car, alongside one photo of Chris himself in front of the [[Big Island House]].<ref>https://kiwifarms.st/threads/random-chris-updates.23605/page-2069#post-18414439 ([https://archive.ph/7Zv1X archive])</ref> TwistedFreak later realized it was not, in fact, Chris's car in the side-view mirror photo taken at H&H Mart. <ref>https://kiwifarms.st/threads/random-chris-updates.23605/page-2074#post-18478398)</ref>
{{quoteboxgreen|Good afternoon Kiwis.

I present to you Day 2 of #Crishing - a Twisted Freak Production.

I come bearing answers to two long debated questions:
 <nowiki>
1.Does Chris read Kiwi Farms?</nowiki> <nowiki>
2.Does bullying work?</nowiki>

After less than a week of being publicly shamed on KF for his antisocial parking behavior, Christopher has changed his ways. See pic:

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That was from this morning. On my second trip of the day #Crishing on [House address], I spotted a wild Christopher outside of his paper mill goon mansion:

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So much for that airport fit, back to dressing like a 5 year old girl apparently.

After snapping that pic, I flipped a U-Turn and went to H&H Mart. After laying down a doozer in the bathroom, I saw Christopher getting gas at the gas station. I didn't notice him until I was already in my car. Rather than startle him with a camera in his face, I managed to snap a picture of him leaving:
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==June==
===River Ridge Mall (June)===
On 29 [[June 2024]], Chris was sighted at River Ridge Mall in Lynchburg with [[Flutter]] by [[Reddit]] user ProduceFuzzy1353. According to the Redditor, Chris and Flutter had Chick-Fil-A and went to see a movie,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1drypjd/chris_chan_spotted/ ([https://archive.fo/H72AD archive])</ref> later confirmed to be ''Inside Out 2''.<ref>[[June_2024_livestream]]</ref>
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==July==
===Walmart (July)===
On 5 [[July 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at a [[Walmart]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by a friend of Reddit user white_crayon69.<ref>https://reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1dwaeub/chris_chan_spotted_at_the_walmart_in_lynchburg/ ([https://archive.fo/JGzmg archive])</ref>
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Another user, by the nick of Silly_Tourist123, later published a 2-second video clip of them at the customer service line, writing: "I saw them too while I was checking out my bags. I managed to tail [[Chevrolet Aveo|his car]] as he was leaving for a short ways."<ref>https://archive.is/WwiWk</ref><ref>https://streamable.com/9fdmp0 ([https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u1L2U9qwAvI backup copy])</ref> Silly Tourist also posted to [[Kiwi Farms]], where a photo of the car sighting was posted.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (other users)#Walmart Sighting]]</ref>
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===Walmart Part II (July) ===
On 12 [[July 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at a [[Lynchburg, VA]] Walmart by Reddit user ClownPrinceofGrape,<ref>https://new.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1e1uju0/chris_chan_is_in_lynchburg/ ([https://archive.fo/Q7FEu archive])</ref> who remarked:<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1e1uju0/comment/lcxxlnn/ ([https://archive.fo/6d6nH archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|I do want to say i overheard them talking when they were checking out next to me and she was talking in a fake anime girl voice and he was telling her how to bag food properly and it was beyond weird}}

A Kiwi Farms user asked for details, and ClownPrinceofGrape replied that Chris was doing most of the talking about the food they needed and the order to bag it, and that Flutter was replying with simple answers such as "that sounds great!" or "ok!" in a waifu voice.<ref>[[:File:My Earnest Opinions-ClownPrinceofGrape 13Jul2024 DM.jpg]]</ref>

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===On the road===
On 16 [[July 2024]] Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted driving by [[Reddit]] user StalinF.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/s/mWreylWzcd</ref> StalinF mistook Flutter in the backseat for a child due to her appearance. StalinF left a comment saying:

{{quotebox|I don’t know much about the Chris chan lore so idk if this is interesting but I saw him on the way towards [[Charlottesville, VA|Charlottesville VA]] with whoever the kid is in his backseat}}

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==August==
===River Ridge Mall (August)===
On 13 [[August 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at River Ridge Mall.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1erots6/chris_chan_spotted_again/ ([https://archive.fo/Fk8An archive])</ref>
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===Valley View Mall===
On 19 [[August 2024]], Chris and Flutter were spotted at Valley View Mall in Roanoke, VA. Flutter was initially mistaken for a child by the photographer, who also wrote: <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1ewezzx/chrischan_sighting_in_roanoke_va/</ref>

{{quotebox|Seen at Valley View Mall. She had what looked like a little kid, but I did some research and it seems like someone named Flutter? I haven’t been tapped into the lore recently but that’s my best guess. She wouldn’t get a picture with my friend and I but she fist bumped us and said we’re blessed.}}

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Two days later on 21 [[August 2024]], Reddit user LancieBoi365 posted another photo from this sighting, which marked the first time Flutter's face had been photographed since [[October 2023]]. <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1ey6yvh/blurry_pic_of_flutter_and_chris_chan_from/</ref>

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====Transcript====
[''Ween walks up to his two friends and Chris, with his recording phone down.'']

'''Ween2''': I have a question, are you Christian?

'''Chris:''' Yes.

'''Ween2''': Can I get a quick photo with you?

'''Chris:''' No.

'''Ween3''': I feel really bad about how everyone's treating you like-

'''Chris:''' Yes.

'''Ween3''': [''unintelligible'']

'''Chris:''' Thank you, I'll give you each a fist bump [''unintelligible''].

'''Ween3''': Ohhh, thank you

'''Chris:''' And you both are blessed.

'''Ween2''': [''Talks over Chris''] [''unintelligible'']-pictures?.

'''Chris:''' Yeah, no pictures.

'''Ween2''': Are you sure?

'''Ween3''': Okay.

'''Ween2''': Are you sure?

'''Chris:''' Yeah I'm sure.

'''Ween2''': We really appreciate it.

'''Chris:''' That's okay, y'all have a nice day. [''Chris walking away, with Flutter behind leaving too.'']

[''All three weens said'': Thank you, you too.]

===Target (August)===
On 25 [[August 2024]], Chris was spotted at a Target in [[Lynchburg]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1f1es6s/my_friend_spotted_chris_chan_in_target_today/</ref>

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==September==
===Walmart (September)===
On 1 [[September 2024]], Chris was spotted without Flutter at a Walmart in [[Lynchburg]] by Reddit user literallytits and her friends.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1f6wvoh/met_chris_today/</ref>

{{quotebox|Saw Chris today at the Walmart on Wards Rd, Lynchburg VA 6:20pm. My friend asked for his number but he rejected her :(}}

According to the user, Chris acted surprisingly normal although a bit awkward and shy during the interaction. When asked by the user's boyfriend what he does for work, Chris replied: "I am a comic book author and a philosopher". He was also noted to have no noticeable [[Chris_and_health#Hygiene|stench]].

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===Normal, Helsinki, Finland===
On 27 [[September 2024]], Chris was seen on a security camera in Helsinki, [[Finland]]. r/ChrisChanSonichu user marenze leaked a cropped still from the camera footage two days later, saying the location is Helsinki and that the picture was taken by a co-worker.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1fsaabx/chris_spotted_in_helsinki/ ([https://archive.ph/gLn96 archive])</ref> Locals believe the sighting was at the Mall of Tripla, in a store named Normal.<ref>https://ylilauta.org/satunnainen/27nxqc ([https://archive.fo/sOdD5 archive])</ref>
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===Mall of Tripla, Helsinki, Finland===
[[File:Chris and Flutter at Mall of Tripla, Helsinki, Finland.mov00001.png|thumb]]
On 28 [[September 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at the {{w|Mall of Tripla}} in Helsinki, [[Finland]]. A video clip of the two from behind was taken by an anonymous Instagram user,<ref>According to a comment Geno Samuel made in [[Official CWCki Server]]</ref> who sent it to [[Geno Samuel]] for posting.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (SamuellyGenie)#Finland Sighting]]</ref>

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==November==
===Wendy's===
On 1 [[November 2024]], [[Reddit]] user onethreesixfour took a picture of [[Son-Chu#Chevrolet Aveo|Chris's car]] and posted that they were behind Chris "at a drive thru in VA", later claiming it to be at a [[Wendy's]] in [[Lynchburg]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1ghddm5/im_currently_behind_chrischan_at_a_drive_thru_in/ ([https://archive.fo/3bIql archive])</ref>
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===Colorado===
{{stub|https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1gi1g85/chris_chan_spotted/|}}

{{References}}
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[[Category:Eyewitness Accounts]]

Sightings (2024)

2024-11-03T11:34:31Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Wendy's */

{{protip|We once again advise you to ''never'' directly engage with Chris nor attempt to get him [[banned]] from the places he's been to. On the off-chance that you cross paths with Chris, the ''most'' that you should do is [[Passive observers|get some kind of documentation of Chris]], [[Unholy Quintet|but never to directly engage with him]].}}
{{Ongoing}}

Since his release from jail in [[2023]], multiple '''sightings''' of Chris have occurred in [[2024]]. The sightings are particularly notable, given Chris's decline in terms of having an active online presence.

==January==
===Ultimate Comics (North Carolina)===
On 4 [[January 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted and photographed at Ultimate Comics in [[wikipedia:Cary, North Carolina|Cary, North Carolina]] by [[r/ChrisChanSonichu]] user RandyMagnum68, who claimed that the pair were picking up tickets for [[Animate! Raleigh]], a convention in [[wikipedia:Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh NC]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/18yqgb5/chris_chan_sighting_in_cary_nc_with_young_girl/</ref> The following day, they were seen together at the event.

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===Animate! Raleigh===
{{main|Animate! Raleigh}}

===Raleigh Convention Center===
On 6 [[January 2024]], Chris and Flutter were spotted outside of the [[Animate! Raleigh]] convention, purportedly being denied entry. An image was provided by r/ChrisChanSonichu user DeadStargazer, who stated that security was awaiting Chris and Flutter's arrival. The user says no incident prompted this removal, simply that Chris was reported to the convention ops on 5 January.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1907pum/chris_chan_kicked_out_of_animate_raleigh/</ref>
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===Gas station===
On 13 [[January 2024]], Reddit user u/lynnwood_davis allegedly spotted Chris at a gas station, presumably [[Sheetz]], in Henrico County.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/196hbd8/chris_came_into_my_job_yesterday/ ([https://archive.fo/nmSqb archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|I was finishing an order around 3:45pm when I noticed someone ordering had on really ugly green leggings and a jean skirt. I smiled to myself and thought "that lady looks like Chris Chan, got the ugly leggings+skirt combo on too", just for me to look at her face and realize it IS Chris Chan, with her fading blue hair and she/her pin on. I couldn't take a picture because she DEFINITELY noticed how much I was staring and I couldn't stop smiling. I texted my buddy on the register and apparently she ended up going through his line. he told me later that day that when he realized she was in his line, his eyes bugged out of his head and she awkwardly just said "doot doot doo..." under her breath. he confirmed his suspicions when she took out her Sonichu wallet. she awkwardly shuffled around the coffee area waiting for her order and mumbled anxiously looking for napkins, and left soon after.}}

This sighting, due to the lack of photos and credibility, has been disputed for a long time; however, since it's located near the airport Chris picked up Flutter from a month earlier and Flutter was nowhere to be seen, it's safe to say that's when she left the scene once again, as confirmed by later sightings and overall activity of Chris.

===Target===
On 23 [[January 2024]], Chris was spotted at [[Target]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/DatabaseSuccessful99 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/19er88t/christinachandler_at_target// ([https://archive.ph/D0Fl3 archive])</ref>

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Chris was separately spotted and recorded the same day by @andrewtsquid on TikTok.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@lolcow.docs/video/7333269261877546270</ref><ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewtsquid/video/7333255461040377134</ref>

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==February==
===Walmart===
On 21 [[February 2024]], Chris was spotted at [[Walmart]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/Unhappy-Rub-6371 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1awq6vd/sorry_chris_chan_lynchburg_walmart_on_wards_road/ ([https://archive.ph/b6xA1 archive])</ref>

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===Liberty University===
On 24 [[February 2024]] Chris was spotted at [[wikipedia:Liberty University|Liberty University]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by @munchaboy24 on [[Twitter]]<ref>https://x.com/munchaboy24/status/1761490091661513085?s=20 ([https://archive.ph/eCJko archive])</ref>

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Chris was spotted again the same day by @AryehSYE on Twitter.<ref>https://x.com/AryehSYE/status/1761560858964943327?s=20 ([https://archive.ph/bALw8 archive])</ref>

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==March==
===River Ridge Mall (March)===
On 3 [[March 2024]] Chris was spotted at [[wikipedia:River Ridge Mall|River Ridge Mall]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/white_crayon69 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1b5skl7/chris_chan_spotted_at_the_river_ridge_mall_332024/ ([https://archive.ph/IjlfF archive])</ref>

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===Sheetz (March)===
On 11 [[March 2024]] Chris was spotted and photographed at a [[Sheetz]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by @hystericvision on [[Twitter]]. Chris's Car was also photographed with a new bumper sticker that reads [[Virginia is for Virgins|"VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS"]].<ref>https://twitter.com/hystericvision/status/1767282747943391638 ([https://archive.ph/JAoO6 archive])</ref>

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===River Ridge Mall (March, second sighting)===
At 2 pm on 18 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted at River Ridge Mall.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1bjg9cv/spotted_at_river_ridge_mall_318/ ([https://archive.fo/MOv81 archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|(Censored face of person sitting in bar behind them) Two guys had a camera and were recording a conversation with Chris, who (at one point) raised a hand and started singing a high note, garnering looks from the people around the food court.}}

The poster later claimed the individual interviewing Chris was [[TheGamerFromMars]], this was later confirmed by TheGamerFromMars in a podcast.<ref>https://youtu.be/dbcjCjg_sPg?si=ufj-1VfWZr42RReL&t=1796</ref>
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===TJ Maxx===
On 23 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted with [[Flutter]] at {{w|TJ Maxx}} in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/Possible-Major-6101 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1bm8mws/chris_chan_spotted/ ([https://archive.ph/5MuWP archive])</ref> This was the first time Flutter was seen since Animate! Raleigh, disproving rumors about her staying away from Chris due to the aftermath of the event.

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===Target Parking Lot===
On 25 [[March 2024]], Chris was spotted alone in a parking lot near [[Target]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by u/DatabaseSuccessful99 on [[Reddit]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1bnlb6d/saw_her_again/ ([https://archive.ph/L3Eeh archive])</ref>

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==April==
===Arabia Shopping Centre, Helsinki, Finland===
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On 4 [[April 2024]],<ref>https://x.com/octopoxYT/status/1841851727391166936 ([https://ghostarchive.org/archive/oBza3 archive])</ref> Chris and [[Flutter]] were seen in Helsinki, [[Finland]] at the Arabia Shopping Centre. A brief video clip was recorded but was not shared until 1 [[October 2024]] when it was posted on [[Kiwi Farms]]; the person filming had been uncertain at the time whether it was Chris, though they noted the height similarity and that English was being spoken.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (other users)#Finland Sighting]]</ref>

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==May==
===Dallas Fort Worth===
On 24 [[May 2024]] Chris was spotted at {{w|Dallas Fort Worth International Airport}}, Texas by [[Reddit]] user Accomplished_Fix1716. Accomplished_Fix1716 said that Chris's flight was canceled. Accomplished_Fix1716 also said that Chris was calling someone, as well as texting.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1d029xf/botched_chris_chan_spotting/ ([https://archive.ph/2UMXH archive])</ref>

Of note, Dallas Fort Worth offers direct service to {{w|Helsinki Airport}} in Finland. Assuming Chris flew in directly from Helsinki, he would have been in the air for close to 11 hours, which would help to explain his mood in the video.

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====Transcript====
''[Accomplished_Fix1716 walks up to Chris seated while texting on his phone.]''

'''Accomplished_Fix1716:''' Uh, (clears throat) excuse me?

'''Chris:''' Mmmmm... I'm not acknowledging you right now.

'''Accomplished_Fix1716:''' Oh, okay. Sorry.

===Big Island House===
On 29 [[May 2024]], [[Kiwi Farms]] user TwistedFreak posted two pictures of Chris's car, alongside one photo of Chris himself in front of the [[Big Island House]].<ref>https://kiwifarms.st/threads/random-chris-updates.23605/page-2069#post-18414439 ([https://archive.ph/7Zv1X archive])</ref> TwistedFreak later realized it was not, in fact, Chris's car in the side-view mirror photo taken at H&H Mart. <ref>https://kiwifarms.st/threads/random-chris-updates.23605/page-2074#post-18478398)</ref>
{{quoteboxgreen|Good afternoon Kiwis.

I present to you Day 2 of #Crishing - a Twisted Freak Production.

I come bearing answers to two long debated questions:
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1.Does Chris read Kiwi Farms?</nowiki> <nowiki>
2.Does bullying work?</nowiki>

After less than a week of being publicly shamed on KF for his antisocial parking behavior, Christopher has changed his ways. See pic:

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That was from this morning. On my second trip of the day #Crishing on [House address], I spotted a wild Christopher outside of his paper mill goon mansion:

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So much for that airport fit, back to dressing like a 5 year old girl apparently.

After snapping that pic, I flipped a U-Turn and went to H&H Mart. After laying down a doozer in the bathroom, I saw Christopher getting gas at the gas station. I didn't notice him until I was already in my car. Rather than startle him with a camera in his face, I managed to snap a picture of him leaving:
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==June==
===River Ridge Mall (June)===
On 29 [[June 2024]], Chris was sighted at River Ridge Mall in Lynchburg with [[Flutter]] by [[Reddit]] user ProduceFuzzy1353. According to the Redditor, Chris and Flutter had Chick-Fil-A and went to see a movie,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1drypjd/chris_chan_spotted/ ([https://archive.fo/H72AD archive])</ref> later confirmed to be ''Inside Out 2''.<ref>[[June_2024_livestream]]</ref>
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==July==
===Walmart (July)===
On 5 [[July 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at a [[Walmart]] in [[Lynchburg, VA]] by a friend of Reddit user white_crayon69.<ref>https://reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1dwaeub/chris_chan_spotted_at_the_walmart_in_lynchburg/ ([https://archive.fo/JGzmg archive])</ref>
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Another user, by the nick of Silly_Tourist123, later published a 2-second video clip of them at the customer service line, writing: "I saw them too while I was checking out my bags. I managed to tail [[Chevrolet Aveo|his car]] as he was leaving for a short ways."<ref>https://archive.is/WwiWk</ref><ref>https://streamable.com/9fdmp0 ([https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u1L2U9qwAvI backup copy])</ref> Silly Tourist also posted to [[Kiwi Farms]], where a photo of the car sighting was posted.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (other users)#Walmart Sighting]]</ref>
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===Walmart Part II (July) ===
On 12 [[July 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at a [[Lynchburg, VA]] Walmart by Reddit user ClownPrinceofGrape,<ref>https://new.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1e1uju0/chris_chan_is_in_lynchburg/ ([https://archive.fo/Q7FEu archive])</ref> who remarked:<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1e1uju0/comment/lcxxlnn/ ([https://archive.fo/6d6nH archive])</ref>

{{quotebox|I do want to say i overheard them talking when they were checking out next to me and she was talking in a fake anime girl voice and he was telling her how to bag food properly and it was beyond weird}}

A Kiwi Farms user asked for details, and ClownPrinceofGrape replied that Chris was doing most of the talking about the food they needed and the order to bag it, and that Flutter was replying with simple answers such as "that sounds great!" or "ok!" in a waifu voice.<ref>[[:File:My Earnest Opinions-ClownPrinceofGrape 13Jul2024 DM.jpg]]</ref>

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===On the road===
On 16 [[July 2024]] Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted driving by [[Reddit]] user StalinF.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/s/mWreylWzcd</ref> StalinF mistook Flutter in the backseat for a child due to her appearance. StalinF left a comment saying:

{{quotebox|I don’t know much about the Chris chan lore so idk if this is interesting but I saw him on the way towards [[Charlottesville, VA|Charlottesville VA]] with whoever the kid is in his backseat}}

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==August==
===River Ridge Mall (August)===
On 13 [[August 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at River Ridge Mall.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1erots6/chris_chan_spotted_again/ ([https://archive.fo/Fk8An archive])</ref>
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===Valley View Mall===
On 19 [[August 2024]], Chris and Flutter were spotted at Valley View Mall in Roanoke, VA. Flutter was initially mistaken for a child by the photographer, who also wrote: <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1ewezzx/chrischan_sighting_in_roanoke_va/</ref>

{{quotebox|Seen at Valley View Mall. She had what looked like a little kid, but I did some research and it seems like someone named Flutter? I haven’t been tapped into the lore recently but that’s my best guess. She wouldn’t get a picture with my friend and I but she fist bumped us and said we’re blessed.}}

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Two days later on 21 [[August 2024]], Reddit user LancieBoi365 posted another photo from this sighting, which marked the first time Flutter's face had been photographed since [[October 2023]]. <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichuSFW/comments/1ey6yvh/blurry_pic_of_flutter_and_chris_chan_from/</ref>

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====Transcript====
[''Ween walks up to his two friends and Chris, with his recording phone down.'']

'''Ween2''': I have a question, are you Christian?

'''Chris:''' Yes.

'''Ween2''': Can I get a quick photo with you?

'''Chris:''' No.

'''Ween3''': I feel really bad about how everyone's treating you like-

'''Chris:''' Yes.

'''Ween3''': [''unintelligible'']

'''Chris:''' Thank you, I'll give you each a fist bump [''unintelligible''].

'''Ween3''': Ohhh, thank you

'''Chris:''' And you both are blessed.

'''Ween2''': [''Talks over Chris''] [''unintelligible'']-pictures?.

'''Chris:''' Yeah, no pictures.

'''Ween2''': Are you sure?

'''Ween3''': Okay.

'''Ween2''': Are you sure?

'''Chris:''' Yeah I'm sure.

'''Ween2''': We really appreciate it.

'''Chris:''' That's okay, y'all have a nice day. [''Chris walking away, with Flutter behind leaving too.'']

[''All three weens said'': Thank you, you too.]

===Target (August)===
On 25 [[August 2024]], Chris was spotted at a Target in [[Lynchburg]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1f1es6s/my_friend_spotted_chris_chan_in_target_today/</ref>

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==September==
===Walmart (September)===
On 1 [[September 2024]], Chris was spotted without Flutter at a Walmart in [[Lynchburg]] by Reddit user literallytits and her friends.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1f6wvoh/met_chris_today/</ref>

{{quotebox|Saw Chris today at the Walmart on Wards Rd, Lynchburg VA 6:20pm. My friend asked for his number but he rejected her :(}}

According to the user, Chris acted surprisingly normal although a bit awkward and shy during the interaction. When asked by the user's boyfriend what he does for work, Chris replied: "I am a comic book author and a philosopher". He was also noted to have no noticeable [[Chris_and_health#Hygiene|stench]].

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===Normal, Helsinki, Finland===
On 27 [[September 2024]], Chris was seen on a security camera in Helsinki, [[Finland]]. r/ChrisChanSonichu user marenze leaked a cropped still from the camera footage two days later, saying the location is Helsinki and that the picture was taken by a co-worker.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1fsaabx/chris_spotted_in_helsinki/ ([https://archive.ph/gLn96 archive])</ref> Locals believe the sighting was at the Mall of Tripla, in a store named Normal.<ref>https://ylilauta.org/satunnainen/27nxqc ([https://archive.fo/sOdD5 archive])</ref>
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===Mall of Tripla, Helsinki, Finland===
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On 28 [[September 2024]], Chris and [[Flutter]] were spotted at the {{w|Mall of Tripla}} in Helsinki, [[Finland]]. A video clip of the two from behind was taken by an anonymous Instagram user,<ref>According to a comment Geno Samuel made in [[Official CWCki Server]]</ref> who sent it to [[Geno Samuel]] for posting.<ref>[[Kiwi Farms posts (SamuellyGenie)#Finland Sighting]]</ref>

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==November==
===Wendy's===
On 1 [[November 2024]], [[Reddit]] user onethreesixfour took a picture of [[Son-Chu#Chevrolet Aveo|Chris's car]] and posted that they were behind Chris "at a drive thru in VA", later claiming it to be at a [[Wendy's]] in [[Lynchburg]].<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1ghddm5/im_currently_behind_chrischan_at_a_drive_thru_in/ ([https://archive.fo/3bIql archive])</ref>
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===Colorado===
{{stub|https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisChanSonichu/comments/1gi1g85/chris_chan_spotted/|}}

User:NightcoreSwift004

2024-10-22T09:54:48Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Robert Franklin Chandler Sr */

==Chris' ancestors sandbox test for a page ==

===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked laboring the farm. Before he was born, his family's home was recently burned down by an arsonist harassing his siblings. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings later lived with relatives as their parents were seperated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol and relocated with his family to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same neighborhood. He passed away in December 1977, almost at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool1.jpg|As we were young - School yearbook section, with photo of toddler Barb.
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BarbJVBasketball.jpg|1956 Junior Varsity Basketball Team - Barbara sitting first row left.
1957BarbaraFHA.png|1957 Future Homemakers of America - Barbara sitting on grass first row very right, as seen with a red star.
BarbSafetyPatrol.jpg|1957 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara kneeling, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
BarbaraLibraryClub58.jpg|1958 Library Club - Barbara standing 7th to the right.
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BarbaraFHA1.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 1 - Barbara the FHA treasurer sitting on the couch second to the left.
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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked laboring the farm. Before he was born, his family's home was recently burned down by an arsonist harassing his siblings. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings later lived with relatives as their parents were seperated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and later a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked laboring the farm. Before he was born, his family's home was recently burned down by an arsonist harassing his siblings. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings later lived with relatives as their parents were seperated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of Joseph Edward Weston Jr., a road surveyor and a tobacco farmer and Sarah Ann Hamilton, a housewife and an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked laboring the farm. Before he was born, his family's home was recently burned down by an arsonist harassing his siblings. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings later lived with relatives as their parents were seperated in late 1910s; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age. His parents were divorced in 1922 when he was 16.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton, an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool1.jpg|As we were young - School yearbook section, with photo of toddler Barb.
BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool2.jpg|As we were young - Another photo of child Barb.
BarbaraLibraryClub56.jpg|1956 Library Club - Barbara standing third row, second to the left.
BarbJVBasketball.jpg|1956 Junior Varsity Basketball Team - Barbara sitting first row left.
1957BarbaraFHA.png|1957 Future Homemakers of America - Barbara sitting on grass first row very right, as seen with a red star.
BarbSafetyPatrol.jpg|1957 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara kneeling, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
BarbaraLibraryClub58.jpg|1958 Library Club - Barbara standing 7th to the right.
BarbaraSpanishClub1958.jpg|1958 Spanish Club - Barbara standing behind a few rows, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraCheerleader.jpg|1958 Cheerleaders - Barbara as a cheerleader.
BarbaraFHA1.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 1 - Barbara the FHA treasurer sitting on the couch second to the left.
BarbaraFHA2.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 2 - Barbara the FHA treasurer standing the first row in the middle.
BarbaraMonogramClub.jpg|1960 Monogram Club - Barbara standing first row, third to the left.
BarbaraSpanishClub.jpg|1960 Spanish Club - Barbara standing high up, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraBusPatrol.jpg|1960 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara the reporter for RH safety bus patrol, wearing glasses standing first row left.
BarbaraSeniorDirectory.jpg|Barbara's senior year directory.
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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked as a farm laborer. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings often lived with relatives instead of their parents; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton, an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1898, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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BarbWhenWeWereYoungSchool1.jpg|As we were young - School yearbook section, with photo of toddler Barb.
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1957BarbaraFHA.png|1957 Future Homemakers of America - Barbara sitting on grass first row very right, as seen with a red star.
BarbSafetyPatrol.jpg|1957 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara kneeling, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraLibraryClub1957.jpg|1957 Library Club - Barbara the treasurer for Library Club.
BarbaraLibraryClub58.jpg|1958 Library Club - Barbara standing 7th to the right.
BarbaraSpanishClub1958.jpg|1958 Spanish Club - Barbara standing behind a few rows, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraCheerleader.jpg|1958 Cheerleaders - Barbara as a cheerleader.
BarbaraFHA1.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 1 - Barbara the FHA treasurer sitting on the couch second to the left.
BarbaraFHA2.jpg|1960 Future Homemakers of America 2 - Barbara the FHA treasurer standing the first row in the middle.
BarbaraMonogramClub.jpg|1960 Monogram Club - Barbara standing first row, third to the left.
BarbaraSpanishClub.jpg|1960 Spanish Club - Barbara standing high up, as seen with a red star.
BarbaraBusPatrol.jpg|1960 Randolph Henry safety bus patrol - Barbara the reporter for RH safety bus patrol, wearing glasses standing first row left.
BarbaraSeniorDirectory.jpg|Barbara's senior year directory.
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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked as a farm laborer. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings often lived with relatives instead of their parents; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown. At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years living in Garland. While in there, Robert and Jean would work together renting out properties they own in Dallas.

Robert and his family moved back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}, where his parents, siblings were living at. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. His father, siblings, nieces and nephews were also working at Avondale. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton, an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1899, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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==Chris' ancestors sandbox test for a page ==

===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked as a farm laborer. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings often lived with relatives instead of their parents; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown.

At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years before moving back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry where his siblings, nephews and nieces also worked at, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton, an informal nurse. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1899, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked as a farm laborer. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings often lived with relatives instead of their parents; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown.

At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years before moving back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry where his siblings, nephews and nieces also worked at, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1899, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with his experience in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked as a farm laborer. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings often lived with relatives instead of their parents; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown.

At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years before moving back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry where his siblings, nephews and nieces also worked at, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1899, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, when they were 19 and 21 respectively. Mary was a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked as a farm laborer. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings often lived with relatives instead of their parents; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown.

At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years before moving back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry where his siblings, nephews and nieces also worked at, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1899, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants from {{w|Derbyshire}}. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, a {{w|Northern Irish}}-born American whose parents immigrated to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather. Initially he farmed on a land adjacent to his brother's farm until buying another farmland to live with his family in early 1860s. He became financially stable through his career in {{w|Carroll County, Ohio|Carroll}} and {{w|Stark County, Ohio|Stark County}} as a dry goods and grocery merchant, having $7,000 of personal and real estate value combined.

In 1873, after their seventh child was born, the family moved to Virginia near the border of {{w|Mecklenburg County|Mecklenburg}} and {{w|Charlotte County|Charlotte Counties}} in Abbeyville, next to Staunton & Roanoke rivers. He was a secretary of the Abbeyville Land Association until the family relocated to a wheat, corn and tobacco farm in Centerville (or Centreview), next to {{w|Red Oak, Virginia|Red Oak}} in Charlotte County. John was so fascinated with in the county that he encouragingly advices his friends from Ohio to move to Charlotte County due to it's cheap lands and describing favorably about the county's farmland.

Shortly after their move to Charlotte County, John faced financial and legal issues the following decades. He filed for bankruptcy in 1876 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1867, seeking discharge from his debts. He was also arrested in 1878 for paying the unpaid taxes of the several African Americans, as it was a "violation of the statute of Virginia" and had been put into grand jury. The investigators filed arrest warrants on multiple people that John paid taxes. This legal case against John, which put him on a list of delinquents, was later dismissed in 1892 after 14 years.

John was involved in politics, initially working as a deputy collector of Charlotte County in 1870s before announcing his candidacy as a {{w|liberal Republican}} for the {{w|Virginia House of Delegates}} in 1877. He however, didn't win since Virginia was strongly conservative at the time. He was a delegate to the {{w|1880 Republican National Convention}} and also announced his candidacy for the {{w|Virginia Senate}} in 1891, which again he didn't get elected. Newspaper publishers at the time had such strong bias and was disapproval of nominators like John Weston because they aren't racially conservative.

He later moved in 1880s to Jeffress, a community in Mecklenburg County five miles south of Red Oak and north of {{w|Clarksville, Virginia|Clarksville}}. He worked four jobs the remaining of the 19th century. He continued working his wheat and tobacco farm, and in 1890s was a postmaster of Jeffress post office. He also returned to his old job as a dry goods and grocery merchant, running these three professions until his death. Before 1900, John diversified his business interests further by opening the Lithia-Dena Hotel in Jeffress, tapping into the popularity of {{w|Lithia water}} — a mineral-rich water believed to have health benefits. The hotel offered accommodations ranging from $20 to $25 per month, and Lithia water was sold for $4 per case. John acted as the proprietor of the hotel until his death in January 1905 at the age of 68. His wife Mary hired managers to run the hotel's daily operation while she retained the hotel's ownership until her death in October 1910. John and Mary were buried together in the Clarksville's cemetery.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked as a farm laborer. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings often lived with relatives instead of their parents; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown.

At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years before moving back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry where his siblings, nephews and nieces also worked at, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1899, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, a Northern Irish-born American whose parents immigrated to Ohio to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

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===Robert Franklin Chandler Sr===
'''Robert Franklin Chandler Sr.''' (8 February, 1906 - 27 December, 1977) was a textile mill worker and a security guard who was Bob's father and Chris's paternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural {{w|Chilton County, Alabama}}, Robert was the son of Joseph Jessie Chandler, a peach farmer and {{w|day laborer}}, and Martha Frances Headley, a housewife who also worked as a farm laborer. He was one of the youngest of 14 children in a Baptist family, with five of his siblings dying in infancy. His father was an avid hunter, capable of hunting seven pigs in one day, a hobby many of Robert's brothers took up, though it is unclear if Robert followed suit. Growing up, Robert and his siblings often lived with relatives instead of their parents; Robert lived with his aunt and uncle, Sadie and James Littleton. Before that, Robert and his siblings did manual labor for the family's peach farm at an early age.

After dropping out of high school in his freshman year, Robert worked at a steel mill before moving to {{w|Lake City, Florida}} for a better job opportunities. In June 1926, Robert married Jean Hollomon of {{w|Wylie, Texas}}, the daughter of a pharmacist, at the Methodist church in Dallas. They were 20 years old at the time of their marriage and lived together in Lake City before moving back to Texas at {{w|Fort Worth}}, where he worked as an insurance agent. They had their only child Robert "Bob" Chandler Jr. in September 1927 and shortly after that, they moved to {{w|Garland, Texas|Garland}} near Jean's hometown.

At the behest of Jean and his father-in-law, Robert worked as a pharmacist for about five years before moving back to Alabama in 1933, settling in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama|Sylacauga}}. There, he worked for over 20 years as a supplier for {{w|Avondale Mills}}, a textile manufacturing industry where his siblings, nephews and nieces also worked at, excluding a few years of military work during World War II. Receiving $624 a year from Avondale, the family faced financial struggles to the point of moving periodically during the 1940s and having very limited values in their possessions, as recounted by Bob in a letter detailing their issues with poverty. To supplement the family's income, Jean worked filling batteries at Avondale and Robert engaged in the newspaper business while still working at Avondale. Jean unexpectedly passed away at the young age of 39 in May 1945, shortly before Bob finished high school. Robert remarried in April 1949 to Dorothy Julia Wolfe, the daughter of a lumber inspector. Dorothy had a daughter from a previous marriage, whom Robert later adopted.

In 1955, Robert and his family moved to {{w|Winston-Salem, North Carolina}}, settling in a $70-a-month four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at a public housing project in the Piedmont Park neighborhood, next to {{w|Smith Reynolds Airport}}. They stayed there for the next 13 years. Robert found employment as a security guard for the Winston-Salem Merchant Patrol Inc., a private security company that provided security services to retail stores, business premises, and industrial sites. His job involved patrolling properties of retail stores and businesses, preventing break-ins, reporting crimes, and collaborating with law enforcement. One of the business building he started guarding at since 1966 was an abandoned {{w|Western Electric}} plant at the Chatham Road, the same company where his son Bob used to work as an electrical engineer at the same site for four years until 1956. By late 1967, he took a larger additional roles in the plant building; while he worked as a security guard for the Merchant Patrol, he also served as a general superintendent and plant manager for H. Rubin & Sons Inc., an investment company that owned the abandoned plant building until they sold it in 1970. His son Ray, a high school student born in 1950, worked alongside his father as a guard at the same plant from 1966 to 1970, to supplement the family's income. Robert received only $70 a week, and although Ray earned a part-time salary, the family still faced financial struggles.

In October 1966, Robert received an eviction notice from the Winston-Salem Housing Authority, but no reason for the eviction was provided. Robert, represented with a non-profit attorney, contested the eviction, taking legal action in Justice of the Peace and Forsyth Superior Court. Robert's attorney argued that eviction without a reason violated his constitutional and tenants rights, which under 14th Amendment, guarantees due process. Chandler said he'll get justice not just for himself and his family, but for other "thousands" of evicted tenants Chandler had witnessed during the 12 years he had lived at Piedmont. For several months, the Housing Authority continued to withhold an explanation for the eviction. It wasn’t until September 1967 that they finally claimed Robert's household income exceeded the $4,900 annual limit required to remain in public housing. Robert's attorney disputed this, arguing that even with contributions from the working members of his family, the family’s income did not exceed the limit. Despite his efforts, in January 1968, the court ruled in favor of the Housing Authority. A consent judgment was reached, requiring Chandler to pay $345 in back rent immediately and $463 in weekly installments of $10, and to vacate the apartment by April 1968. However, Robert, who had gave up on the case and no longer had interest in living at Piedmont anyway, publicly stated to a reporter that he would not pay "a penny one" of the back rent. He stressed that he had no property, no money in the bank and that the Housing Authority could only collect a judgment from him, "but that's just fun to me", Robert said. Due to his statements, the court expedited the eviction, and Robert, along with his wife and seven children, was evicted in late January 1968.

The Chandlers, with the help of the community organizations, moved out the day they got evicted to a rental house in the Forest Park neighborhood before relocating to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the same area, near {{w|Bowman Gray Stadium}} and {{w|Winston-Salem State University}}. Robert retired in 1970 at age 64, after 15 years of service for the Merchant Patrol. He passed away in December 1977 at age 71 after three months of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He was Chris's last grandparent to die.

From 1950 to 1962, Robert and Dorothy had seven children, including Wayne Chandler in January 1955 and twin daughters Betty and Joan Chandler in April 1962. Various newspapers regarded Robert as a loving husband and father who fought hard for his family's survival. In 1966, believing his 16-year-old son Ray might have been electrocuted at work, Robert rushed to the workplace to save him and afterward called the fire department and rescue team for help; the boy was not hurt. Robert became an enthusiastic fisherman after moving to Winston-Salem, frequently visiting the {{w|Outer Banks}} to fish with his family. Locals remembered him as a friendly person who loved telling stories about his youth and once said that [[women's rights|women should never be forced to conform to societal norms imposed upon them]].

===Joseph Otto Weston===
'''Joseph Otto "Joe" Weston''' (3 October, 1896 - 8 April, 1955) was a lifelong tobacco farmer who was Barb's father and Chris's maternal grandfather.

Born and raised in rural area of {{w|Red Oak, Virginia}}, he was the 4th child out of 5th and the youngest son of a farmer Joseph Edward Weston Jr. and Sarah Ann Hamilton. Up until he was around 5 years old, he was {{w|unbreeched}}, meaning he wore girly clothes at a very young age. Dropping out of school at 5th grade, Joe started doing manual work on his parents' farm at an early age and continued farming for them until in his late 20s, when he established his own farm. His father and grandfather Joseph Jr. and Joseph "John" Weston Sr. were both tobacco farmers and he himself later became a self-employed tobacco farmer. He was briefly conscripted near the end of World War 1 in June 1918 but was exempted due to bad teeth. During the early years of World War 2, Joe began working in carpentry on construction projects, specifically for military camps like {{w|Fort Gregg-Adams}} in {{w|Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County}} and {{w|Fort Barfoot}} in {{w|Blackstone, Virginia|Blackstone}}, as well as other projects in Newport News. This profession led him to identify as both a farmer and a carpenter.

Around the time he established his own farm, Joe, a Baptist, married Carrie Edna Wynn of {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}}, the daughter of a tobacco farmer who was a Methodist, when they were 15 and 30 respectively. They were married at a Baptist church in Carrie's mother's hometown {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} in February 1927, falsely stating their ages as 18 and 28 on their marriage certificate. From 1927 to 1950, they had 8 children together, including Corrina (1934), Barbara (1941), Harriet (1947) and Wayne (1950) and raised them in a low-income farming household in northwest Red Oak. Their property included a house, barn, 9.1 acres of land with a 971-pound tobacco allotment, a cow, pigs, a vegetable garden, and a well for water. Family members said during his children's upbringing, they would eat red eye gravy and fat back bacon, as well as tomato sandwiches for lunch. They had a lot of canned vegetables, traded canned goods with one of the family member and milked their only cow. They also mentioned in the Weston's home, they had a bucket of water from the well to drink in the kitchen and a coal stove in the main room with kerosene.

Joe would soon get into a couple incidences that would soon get to his death. When Barb was two years old, she witnessed his father falling off the roof, almost killing himself while painting his house. About 12 years later Joe would instantly pass away due to broken neck of 5th cervical vertebra from a work accident. While hauling woods, he fell near the rear of a wheel while climbing onto loads and as horses pulled off, the drawn wagon wheel ran over his neck, killing him. His body was discovered when a driverless horses & wagon arrived at a nearby service station. Barbara was 13 when he was killed and the younger children, Madeline, Harriet and Wayne were 11, 8 and 5 years old respectively. Funeral service were later held at Antioch Baptist Church in Red Oak and was buried in the church's cemetery, where he was a longtime member with his wife and children, along his parents and siblings. Despite the fact that he married a girl half his age, his family still loved him dearly and expressed profound sadness and sorrow over his death. In their 1966 local memoriam newspaper, Carrie and his eight children published a poem for the 11th anniversary of his passing, expressing their grief and remembrance.

Leaving Carrie to support the family and managing the farm, she got a job working for Craddock-Terry Shoe Company in Lynchburg to supplement their already worsening financial status until her death. Two years after Joe's death in October 1957, Carrie married a farmer and a longtime bachelor Elmer Thomas Rickman, who were both about 46 and were born a week apart. Elmer, who helped with the Weston family farm, would become a stepfather of a 16 year old Barbara and Carrie's younger children.

After his death, his property was inherited by his two children, Barbara and William Stanley Weston (1932 - 1984). Barbara and Stanley fought against each other to gain full control of their father's property, with Barbara initiating a lawsuit from March 1974 to March 1975. The court ordered the property to be sold at a public auction on March 22. The outcome of the lawsuit remains unknown. It's unknown why the two siblings each wanted to fully control their father's property, but knowing Barb, it's possible that Stanley's actions were driven by a desire to prevent her from selfishly selling the property for money.

===Robert Wynn===
'''Robert Pettus Wynn''' (17 Nov 1882 - 20 Jan 1954) was a tobacco farmer and a moonshiner who was Barb's maternal grandfather and Chris's matrilineal great-grandfather.

Born and raised in the {{w|South Hill, Virginia|South Hill}} area, Robert was the son of illiterate farmer, Francis Wynn, and Harriet Jones. He was the middle child of three but grew up as an only child after his siblings' death. Dropping out of school at 3rd grade, he remained illiterate for the rest of his life. He began doing manual work on his parents' farm at a very young age before later becoming a self-employed tobacco farmer around the time he got married. In December 1903, he married Victoria Malone Thompson of {{w|Warrenton, North Carolina}} at her father's house in South Hill, with a Methodist minister, when they were 21 and 17 respectively. From 1904 to 1924, they had seven children together, five girls and two boys, including Carrie Edna Wynn in December 1911, and have raised them on a farming household in the area between {{w|Baskerville, Virginia|Baskerville}}, {{w|Boydton, Virginia|Boydton}} and mainly South Hill. Two of his children died at a relatively young age; his oldest son Bernard in 1939 at age 31 from a car accident and his daughter Carrie in 1968 at age 56 from a hereditary stroke.

Robert Wynn was described by his family members as a scoundrel who drank heavily and had a girlfriend during his marriage. His family members said he "failed to provide even the most basic support for his wife and children" and that he was a moonshiner. Victoria passed away in October 1935 after one year of uterus cancer, and about two years later in March 1937, Robert married to a widow of two, Virginia Harris Simons, the same girlfriend he cheated on Victoria with. Virginia became a widow of her first husband's death in January 1936, meaning Robert and Virginia both had an affair with each other behind their partners' back. His marriage with Virginia, with her two children living with him, lasted until his death in 1954.

Robert's health would later start to decline as he grew older. Weighting under 113 pounds at 5'6", the underweight Robert was diagnosed with hypertensive heart disease at age 61. 10 years later in January 1954, as a result of his hypertensive disease, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke (i.e. blood begins bleeding into the brain) and subsequently passed away 48 hours later at age 71. He was later buried at his first wife's family cemetery "Thompson Family Cemetery" in South Hill.

===John James Hollomon===
'''John James Hollomon''' (3 May 1868 - 16 Mar 1950) (sometimes known as J.J. Hollomon) was a pharmacist who was Bob's maternal grandfather and Chris' patrilineal grandfather.

Born in {{w|Meigs County, Tennessee}}, he was the second youngest child out of 9 children to Meigs attorney and a lawyer, Esquire John Richmond Hollomon, and Mary Baker. Owing to his father's successful legal and political career, he was raised on a comfortably middle-class household at a hundreds of acres that contained a large farm. John worked on his parents' farm alongside his siblings while attending school, with his father's help, a "gentlemen farmer".

After finishing high school in 1886, John left Tennessee & moved to {{w|Wylie, Texas}} in 1890, a newly incorporated city in northeast Dallas with 400 residents. He worked during the 1890s for the postal service as a assistant postmaster before later switching his career the following decade. John was considered as one of the Wylie's oldest and earliest businessmen at the time. He was the vice president of the Wylie's first state bank in 1910s and donated moneys to local schools.

John was a well known pharmacist in the Wylie's {{w|Collin County, Texas|Collin County}} for over 50 years, and owning his own pharmacy, Hollomon Drug Store since 1896. During his career, besides selling medicines, he gave away all kinds of materials, supplies, gifts and all other things from his pharmacy, that included school supplies, candies, cosmetics, baby gifts, pottery, etc. Giving away gifts and others from his pharmacy were generous enough that his pharmacy was one of the 40+ businesses and stores mentioned in Wylie's newspaper article, for helping out and gifting the local high school's students. He also let a dentist open one of their dental offices for practical session in his pharmacy.

John was married twice and had seven children, six of whom survived. In about 1899, he married Mary Francis Teer of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}}, the daughter of a {{w|osteopathic}} doctor, and had four children together, including Jean Hollomon, Bob's mother. Mary died in July 1914 from complications of childbirth, the day after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Maxine Hollomon. John got married again in April 1915 to Helen Nelms of {{w|Denison, Texas|Denison}}, the daughter of a furniture salesman, who would work at his pharmacy as a sales clerk. They had three children together, two of whom survived, including Dr. John James "J.J." Hollomon Jr, Bob's half-uncle.

John was described as a highly respected person, a very generous and sweet man by family members and many friends of his. Bob reminisces that his grandfather had given him a straight razor "by means of [John's] last will and testament," and Bob instead broke it while using it as a screwdriver. Bob held into this regret well into his 60s, because he believed John wanted him to have it as a personal item and value. At the time of Bob writing [[Bob's Letters to Chris|his 1987 letters to Chris]], Bob thinks of his mother, who passed away when he was 17, and maternal grandfather highly in a personal manner, to the point that he was a devout Methodist, like his mother and grandfather.

John faced serious health problems in the last years of his life. In December 1947, at age 79, he was diagnosed with diabetes. His condition was so severe that in September 1948, he was rushed by ambulance to a Dallas hospital, where he experienced frequent fluctuations in his health during his three-month stay. In November, John underwent two major operations, having both of his legs amputated within a span of seven days, after which his condition reportedly improved. As a result of the surgeries, he retired as a pharmacist after over 50 years and transferred ownership of his pharmacy to his wife, Helen, who continued working and managing the store after his death. Despite the amputation and retirement, John continued to work part-time alongside his wife at the pharmacy.

It seems his conditions didn't get any better after the surgery; he suffered a "bad attack" in October 1949, 5 months before his death, and was told that his health was improving again. In March 1950, he passed away 2 months away from his 82nd birthday at his home in Wylie, Texas after over two years of diabetes complications. His funeral service were held at a Methodist church in Wylie and was buried in a city's cemetery.

===Joseph Jesse Chandler===

===Caleb Headley===

===William Teer===
'''Dr. William Teer''' (March 29, 1837 - October 19, 1919) was an osteopath and a Confederate army soldier who was Bob's matrilineal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born in {{w|Neshoba County, Mississippi}}, he was the third child out of eight siblings to a poor cotton farmer, Curtis Wiley Teer, and Dollie Jordan. He grew up in Neshoba County and later to {{w|Angelina County, Texas}} when he was 10 years old. The family relocated again to {{w|Hopkins County, Texas|Hopkins County}} outside of {{w|Cumby, Texas|Cumby}} in 1860, where he worked on his parents' cotton farm before enlisting for the Civil War.

In October 1861, aged 24, William and his two brothers James (1830 - 1863) and Wiley (1839 - 1862), enlisted in the Confederate Army in San Antonio. Serving in the Company K, 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, William and Wiley participated in the {{w|New Mexico campaign}} under {{w|Henry Hopkins Sibley|General Sibley}}. Both of his brothers died during the war; James died at a Union prison camp in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1863. William and Wiley fought in the battles of {{w|Battle of Valverde|Valverde}} and later to {{w|Battle of Glorietta Pass|Glorietta Pass}}, where in March 1862, when assisting in capturing artillery battery, Wiley was reportedly "lost or killed" and William was shot and seriously wounded. His right arm was shattered by a minie ball, sustained a damaged spleen and later contracted hepatitis at a hospital. After the capture of Texas Army's supply wagons by US Army, they retreated, abandoning William and other recovering soldiers at the {{w|Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe}} hospital before subsequently being captured in April. He was later paroled a month later in May 1862, walking a 1,500-mile journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to his home in Texas before returning to military service. Due to his injuries and disability, he was honorably discharged from his unit by General {{w|Thomas Green (general)|Thomas Green}} in September 1863 and returned to his home in Cumby, working as a cotton farmer despite his shattered right arm.

William was married four times throughout his life. In December 1862, he married his comrade's sister Mary Frances Carraway of Alabama, who passed away in 1867, with him being a single father of their daughter Martha. He then remarried Louisa Frances Spears of Tennesse in July 1868, but that marriage also ended early. In January 1871, he married Nancy Jane Coburn of {{w|Ashley County, Arkansas}}, presumably an orphan girl. From this marriage, he had seven children from 1871 to 1885, including Mary Francis Teer, Bob's maternal grandmother and the wife of John James Hollomon. After Nancy's death in 1894 and being a single parent to his younger children, William remarried Bettie King of {{w|Mount Pleasant, Texas|Mount Pleasant}} in March 1907 at age 70, and this marriage lasted until his death in 1919.

In November 1903, inspired by the nerve damage in his shattered right arm and with nearly two decades of practice, William established himself as an {{w|osteopathic}} doctor in {{w|Tyler, Texas}}, specializing in "Exophthalmic Goitre, Biliary Calculi (Gall Stones) Paralysis, and all Nervous Diseases". He became the president of the State Association of Drugless Doctors of Texas and advocated massaging and other holistic approaches to wellness, as well as a method through what he called "scientific massage". As a doctor in Tyler, he was described as a highly respected figure, endorsed by many prominent members of the city's society. Despite his esteemed reputation and a legal title "Doctor", William faced legal challenges in 1910 when he was arrested for practicing medicine without a proper license. Having practiced what he called 'scientific massage' for over 25 years, he was charged under the new medical regulations in Texas, which restricted alternative practices. William refused to comply with the conditions set forth by the authorities, which would have barred him from treating the sick without formal medical credentials. Instead, he chose to serve his sentence, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to his practice and his patients. Even after paying the penalty, he continued to provide care without compensation, emphasizing his belief in the value of his work and his dedication to the suffering.

William retired in 1916 after suffering a paralyzing stroke and resided at Texas Confederate Home in Austin before moving back to Cumby in June 1918, a beloved city where he was considered a longtime prominent citizen. He later passed away in October 1919 at his youngest daughter's home {{w|Miller Grove, Texas|Miller Grove}} after suffering a second paralyzing stroke.

William was mentioned in a biographies book about some of the men that served the Confederate States from Texas titled "[https://archive.org/details/texanswhoworegra00john| Texans who Wore the Gray (1907)]", written by a Confederate officer, journalist, and author Sidney Smith Johnson (1840-1910). Johnson described William as "a brave Confederate soldier, a man of fine education, and a Christian gentleman."

===John Weston===
'''Joseph "John" Edward Weston Sr.''' (July 22, 1836 - January 20, 1905), was a merchant and hotel owner who was Barb's paternal great-grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised on a homestead house built by his father in {{w|Augusta, Ohio}}, he was the youngest child of six to Francis Weston Sr., a frontiersman and a wheat farmer and Grace Moore, both English immigrants. The homestead house he grew up on was a shanty with puncheon floor and chimney made with sticks and clay in the middle of the wilderness forest with only two families as the neighbors. His father died in March 1838 when John was 18 months old, leaving his children to grow up without a father. Through his father's will, John inherited "small silver cased hunting watch" and a five acre of land near {{w|Minerva, Ohio|Minerva}} reserved for him when he came of age. Despite the loss of his father, the family grew up with a stable income and John worked on the family's farm with his brothers.

In May 1858, John married Mary McClintock of Augusta, a Northern Irish immigrant who came to America to presumably escape the {{w|Irish Potato Famine}}. They had eight children together from 1859 to 1879, including their second child Joseph Edward Weston Jr., Barb's paternal grandfather.

===Joseph Chandler===
'''Dr. Joseph Chandler''' (April 14, 1832 - January 4, 1925) was a herbalist and a Confederate soldier who was Bob's paternal great grandfather and Chris's great-great grandfather.

Born and raised in a rural farm nearby {{w|Kingston, Alabama|Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama}}, he was the second child out of ten to a Baptist minister, clergyman and a priest Rev. Sidney Smith Chandler Sr. and Mary Lucinda Walker. His lower class family lived on a rustic 250-acre cotton farm with many livestock such as cows, bulls, pigs and a horse, as well as various household and farming items including smoothing irons, hunting guns, a hatchet, numerous books, and a family Bible, along with two pets: a dog and a cat. Joseph and his brothers worked on the family's cotton farm for around a decade before he was enlisted for the Civil War, although he became the family's only active worker on the farm since his brothers got married and established their own farms.

According to his father's probates and wills files, Joseph's father disliked him from adolescence over his opposition to slavery and allegedly having a feminine traits, claiming that Joseph was an "effeminate man" who couldn't perform "even the most basic of masculine tasks" and believed that Joseph is better off as a woman. In the same records, Joseph as a child asked his dad why are "humans owning other humans" and why don't slaves be free if God loves all humans, in which Sidney, a slaveowner of two, responds by calling black people the n-word and that they "don't worship god". Sidney also wrote in one of his original will that he wants all of his estate, inheritance and property be given to his third son Edmund, with two older sons Joseph and James to be given none. This was later changed to be given to Joseph since James and Edmund passed away around the time of Sidney's death.

In May 1862, at age 30, Joseph and his two brothers James (1830 - 1862) and Edmund (1835-1963), enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private at {{w|Fort Gaines, Alabama|Fort Gaines}} near {{w|Mobile, Alabama|Mobile}}. Two months after the enlistment, he contracted measles, which prevented him to perform his military duties and was absent for the remainder of 1862 until he re-enlisted in February 1863. Serving in the Company H, {{w|38th Alabama Infantry Regiment}}, he fought against the {{w|Siege of Fort Gaines}}, then in the Battles of {{w|Battle of Mobile Bay|Mobile Bay}} and {{w|Battle of Selma|Selma}}, the latter of which he suffered a broken shoulder from a fall after he was shot underneath his horse. Joseph was later paroled at Selma in April 1865 before he was discharged in August due to his disability and returned to Autauga County. His two brothers died in the war; James died as a prisoner of the war at Springfield, Illinois in 1862 and his younger brother Edmund died in the battle in 1863.

Joseph was married twice throughout his life. In April 1867, he married for the first time at age 35, to his comrade's daughter and his brother's widow Mary Elizabeth Walker of Autauga County (no relation to Joseph's mother). Around the same month, he successfully petitioned to take guardship of his nephew and niece Ferdinand and Mary Chandler and raise them as well. He and Mary later had five children together from 1868 to 1879, including Joseph Jessie Chandler, Bob's paternal grandfather. He and his family lived the remaining 1860s and 1870s, initially in Autauga County, and Chilton County, then briefly in Florida before moving back to Chilton County before 1880, where they made their permanent home in nearby {{w|Jemison, Alabama|Jemison}}. After his first wife's death in 1887, he remarried in June 1888 to a widow Ruth Williams (née Dennis) of Autauga County, whom he remained married to until her death sometime in 1910s.

To support himself and the family's poverty situation while raising his children, he worked a variety of jobs throughout the late 19th century. Shortly after the war and receiving his father's final inheritance, he established his own farm around the time of his marriage, then later acquired a peach farm after his move to Chilton County before 1880. He also owned a saw mill, of which he briefly lived inside shortly after selling his residence to relocate to another residence. During his time in Chilton, he worked three jobs to support the family's needs, working on his peach farm, working as a shoemaker by trade and occasionally handling real estate transactions. He would even attempt apply for a Confederate pension in 1891 at age 59, to supplement his family's income, only to be approved in 1893 with 26$ a year pension. He missed five years getting his pension from 1893 to 1898. At the start of 1890s, he began practicing medicine through herbal medicine and selling them to patients, in which he earned the title Dr. by his county for his modest success as a herb doctor. He continued working at his peach farm in the early 20th century while also selling medicine.

By the time he was widowed in 1910s, he was living by himself in a two-room house at a 30-acre farm in nearby Jemison, with flock of cows and a lot of pigs as well as a watch, a "double-barrel gun" and a sewing machine. According to his pension applications in 1910s and 1920s in his 80s, he was living by himself through a poverty line with over 100$ through his name, with little support from his children despite them helping writing his pensions for him during last years of his life as he became nearly blind. He said he depends solely on his pensions and have no means of income besides selling medicine, as he became too old to continue working on his farm. Receiving 25$ and later 35$ a year since 1898, his pension finally got upgraded to first class in 1921, receiving 75$ a year. He later passed away at his home in January 1925 from an old age, three months shy of his 93rd birthday.

===Rev Sidney Chandler (rewriting====

===Francis Weston (rewriting)===

===John Chandler (rewriting)===

==Sandbox page test==

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Bob Chandler

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{{quote|It was an interesting life I had.|Bob, at peace.}}

{{quote|I had more freedom when he was alive.|Chris, reflecting on his life prior to his father's death.<ref name=LoudNoise>[[February 2017 Facebook Posts#Claiming hospital staff killed Bob]]</ref>}}

{{quote|I don't believe he ever, Mr. C, any of her past boyfriends, ex-husbands... haven't really reached and hit her G-spot really with their dicks.|Chris, insulting Bob's memory by claiming that [[Affair with Mother|he was better at fucking]] [[Barbara Chandler|the man's wife]] [[Chris and his ego|than he ever was]].<ref>[[Incest Call]]</ref>}}

{{Infobox Person
| name = Robert Franklin Chandler Jr.
| image = Chrischansdad.jpg
|imagesize = 250
|aliases = Bob Bobby Mr. C [[Bob Walks In|Internet Lumberjack]] [[Cole Smithey#Relationship with Barbara and Bob|Republican cur]] [[:File:Chandler family as ponies.png|Gallop Crush]] Robertchu<ref>[[List of beliefs brainwashed into Chris#Sonichu genealogy for Chris, Bob and Ted Bundy]]</ref>
|label3 = Date of Birth
|day = 4
|month = 9
|year = 1927
|deathday = 6
|deathmonth = 9
|deathyear = 2011
|gender = Male
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|race = White [[Count Dankula|Half-Sonichu]]<ref>Planted by [[Idea Guys#Lingering influence|Idea Guy]], mentioned in [[Count Dankula]] interview</ref>
|religion = Protestant (Methodist)
|label8 = Height
|ft = 5
|in = 7.5
|spouse = Patricia Faye Harley (1956–1980, divorce) [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara Ann Weston]] (1980–2011, his death)
|children = Dr. David Alan Chandler Carol Suzanne Chandler [[Christian Weston Chandler]] [[Cole Smithey]] (stepson)
|grandchildren = [[Savannah Chandler]]
|father = Robert Franklin Chandler Sr. (1906–1977)
|mother = Jean Hollomon (1906–1945)
|education = [[wikipedia:Auburn_University|Auburn University]] ([[wikipedia:Bachelor of Electrical Engineering|BEE]]) [[wikipedia:Jacksonville_State_University|Jacksonville State University]] (did not graduate)
|occupation = Military communications Engineer Inventor
|saga = {{saga|childhood|cn}}, {{saga|greene|cn}}, {{saga|bearstein|cn}}, {{saga|julie|cn}}, {{saga|emily|cn}}, {{saga|ivy|cn}}
}}

'''Robert "Bob" Franklin Chandler Jr.'''<ref>[[Blanca E-mails#Chris likes Blanca|Email to Blanca]]</ref> (4 September [[Pre-1980#1920s|1927]] – 6 September [[2011]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180110224343/http://www.harveypowers.com/wynn/wynn/d155.html</ref>) was the father of [[Christian Weston Chandler]], [[Carol Chandler]] and [[David Alan Chandler]], the stepfather of [[Cole Smithey]], and husband of [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara Weston Chandler]]. Bob became a firm favorite with [[trolls]] due to Chris's antipathy towards him and for his infamous cameo when he [[Bob Walks In|walked in]] on Chris [[mass debating]].<ref>[[Bob Walks In]]</ref> His nickname, "The [[Chris and the Internet|Internet]] Lumberjack," came from this incident, wherein he promised to cut the internet down.

Despite being estranged from his other children, and despised by his stepson for abusive behavior, Bob was widely viewed as a better parent than his wife [[Barbara]] by Christorians, and – as far as Chris's own testimony can be trusted – he treated Chris better than any of his previous children. Bob had serious difficulties working with Chris's [[autism]], a disorder that he and his wife did not fully understand, but nonetheless, he had high hopes for his child in spite of the difficulties that he faced. Bob hoped to instill Chris with a variety of interests that reflected his own varied tastes, and he created The Dreaming Studio in their backyard in the hopes that they'd create things there (though, sadly, nothing of note was ever created there).

Because of this, Bob's popularity stems from being somewhat concerned with Chris's foolish behavior, and the fact that he occasionally tried to encourage a modicum of responsibility in Chris's sorry life, bringing up the fact that he devoted 29 years to raising his son. Of course, Chris was almost entirely unaffected by Bob's efforts to better him, but unlike Barb, he at least made the effort, even if his attempts were futile or harmful at worst. That being said, he also encouraged Chris to ''not'' seek employment in favor of getting [[Monthly tugboat|welfare]], even though Chris could still hold a part-time job and receive those benefits, so he's not entirely blameless for the sorry state that his son is in today, either. Not to mention that many of [[Homos|Chris's more backward]] [[Chris and race|social perspectives]] that he had in the "Classic Era" stem from his influence.

Bob was always eager to chat, and indeed much of the known information about Bob's life comes from conversations he had with trolls. It seems that Chris's passion for [[Honest Content]] did not fall too far from that tree, although Bob at least had a filter that his son lacks. Whether in person or over the phone, Bob appeared to relish the opportunity to speak with just about anyone. According to Chris, he was also a strong negotiator.<ref>[[The Place chats - ProjectSNT and Opuscon789#Browsing Kiwi Farms]]</ref>

On 6 September 2011, Bob died of complications from heart failure at Martha Jefferson Hospital ICU, surrounded by his family, his pastor and hospital staff.<ref name="BobObitarchive">http://web.archive.org/web/20130211071324/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyprogress/obituary.aspx?n=robert-franklin-chandler&pid=153539600 (archive from 11 Feb 2013)</ref> He was survived by his wife and son, who then had to become the man of the house. Chris occasionally raked in some income through commission work, though he has never looked for a serious career. Chris initially came to terms with his father's death in a conventional, healthy way, but eventually turned to a [[Chris and coping|coping]] mechanism where he genuinely believed that his father was alive in [[Dimensions|another dimension]] as a [[Sonichu (species)|Sonichu]] named Robertchu.

Years later in 2021, Chris would disgrace Bob's memory by repeatedly having dubiously-consensual sex with his wife in an [[Affair with Mother|incest]]-based affair, with Chris bragging that he could get Barb off better than "Mr. C" ever could. Following this incident, both were separated from the house that he maintained, with Chris jailed, Barb temporarily hospitalized before eventually returning to the residence, and the Dreaming Studio left abandoned for good.

==Biography==
Bob was born on 4:15 PM at a medical arts building in {{w|Fort Worth, Texas}},<ref name="Prank calls">[[Prank calls]]</ref> and raised in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama}}.<ref name="About">[[Date with Emily#Bob's work history (0:07:18–0:16:58)]]</ref> He was the only child of Robert "Bob" Franklin Chandler Sr. (8 February 1906<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103153414/robert-franklin-chandler ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328063730/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/H5S7-BZM archive])</ref> – 27 December 1977<ref>https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FG5R-6M6 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328072547/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FG5R-6M6 archive])</ref>), an Alabamian insurance agent, and Jean Hollomon (28 March 1906<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5947049/jean-chandler ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328094240/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/H5S7-12M archive])</ref> – 10 May 1945<ref>https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JK33-QW8 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328092829/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JK33-QW8 archive])</ref>), a Texan housewife.<ref>[[:File:Bob Chandler's birth certificate.jpg]]</ref> Bob has eight younger half-siblings on his father's side.<ref>https://www.hufffuneralhome.com/obituary/Dorothy-Chandler</ref> He also mentioned having a cousin and several [[Cherokee]] relatives in Oklahoma.<ref>[[Prank calls#Bob Calls Himself]]</ref><ref>[[Prank calls#A Redneck calls Bob Chandler]]</ref> However, a distant relative disputed his Cherokee heritage,<ref>[[Chandler Family Tree#Ancestry.com content]]</ref> and his son's [[Cherokian Clan#Reality|DNA test results]] in 2018 belied any American Indian descent. It is common for white Southerners to make dubious claims to Cherokee ancestry, for a variety of historical reasons.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210120042/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/cherokee-blood-why-do-so-many-americans-believe-they-have-cherokee-ancestry.html Slate article]</ref>

[[File:Robert Sr 1942.jpeg|thumb|left|200px|Robert Sr in 1942.]]

[[File:Bob_Chandler_1945.png|thumb|right|200px|Bob Chandler (left) as a Boy Scout in 1945.]]

Bob has said that he was, "...interested in the world," around him since he was ten, and began collecting foreign [[stamps]] as a child in the [[1930s]]; his first stamp was of {{w|Michael I of Romania}}. He also developed an interest in foreign music, eventually collecting some 15,000–20,000 LPs from various genres and cultures.<ref name="PSN 37"/> About 100 or so survived the 2014 [[house fire]].<ref>[[Discord Q&A 4#Bob's record collection]]</ref>

Bob joined the [[wikipedia:Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]], becoming an Eagle Scout and a Scoutmaster for over 20 years.<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris]]</ref>

According to Chris, Bob lost his [[virgin with rage|virginity]] at the age of 27, which would have been in 1954 or 1955.<ref>[[January 2012 Facebook Posts#February is coming up]]</ref>

===Service and education===

A 1942 yearbook from Sylacauga High School lists a "Bobby Chandler" in the freshman class and glee club, suggesting that he graduated from this school in spring 1945 before matriculating at {{w|Auburn University}} as an aeronautical engineering major that autumn.

[[File:Chris Korean War Graphic.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Bob served in Korea, and, thankfully for Chris, who believes that he was a sperm carried in one of his father's testicles during that time, he left before the Korean War broke out.]]

Bob apparently had knowledge that the Army desired,<ref>(Majoring in Aeronautical Engineering, Auburn University, Freshman p. 95 of the 1946 yearbook [https://web.archive.org/web/20170725175556/http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/gloms/id/4124/rec/14])</ref> was conscripted as a special draftee in 1946 and placed in the {{w|Signal Corps (United States Army)|Signal Corps}}. There, he learned how to install valve systems, switchboards, and telephones. After basic training and Signal School in {{w|Fort Monmouth}}, New Jersey, Bob was sent to Korea for a year to install infrastructure with the American occupation force. Bob recounted a reckless decision he made during his time in the Army after returning from Korea for the Christmas holiday in 1947. He hitchhiked to New York City, where he stayed for two weeks before running out of money, and then had to figure out how to get back to Fort Monmouth.. Serving until 1948, he was entitled to the WWII Victory Medal: his service number was 44107856.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210120633/https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=11&tf=F&q=Chandler&bc=&sort=24996%2520desc&rpp=10&pg=4&rid=8565331&rlst=5136538%2C4652469%2C8564216%2C1000879%2C987835%2C4549799%2C991002%2C8565331%2C5188385%2C8565346]</ref>

Figuring he'd get "swallowed up" at a big college, Bob picked a small college, {{w|Jacksonville State Teachers College}} (now Jacksonville State University), after leaving the military. He studied pre-engineering and played French horn for the band and orchestra there for two years before returning to Auburn University, where he studied electrical engineering and graduated in 1952 with a {{w|Bachelor of Electrical Engineering}} degree.<ref>(page 269 of the 1952 yearbook)[https://web.archive.org/web/20170725175342/http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/gloms/id/16173/rec/20] {{w|G.I. Bill}}.</ref><ref name="About" /> As an engineer, he never learned to spell properly.<ref name = "Meet">[[Date with Emily#Meet the Parent (0:05:20–0:07:17)]]</ref> While he was at Auburn, he was part of the band once again, was a member of {{w|Wesley Foundation}}, a [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|United Methodist]] religious group; and Phi Mu Alpha, a social frat dedicated to men who are interested in music.

===Career===
[[File:Bob 25th Anniversary at General Electric.jpg|thumb|200px|Article on Bob's 25th anniversary at General Electric.]]

A 1946 military record included Bob's occupation while he was a student as "tinsmith, coppersmith, and sheet metal worker".

Bob worked for {{w|Western Electric}} as an engineer for four years, where he designed a variety of electrical subsystems, including relays, telephones and valve systems. Initially, he was working with the radar systems in test-planning automatic test equipment. With Western Electric, Bob and his co-worker filed a patent for electrical terminal block in 1955, which was published in 1959.<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US2884613A/en</ref> During the 1950s, he lived in [[wikipedia:Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Winston-Salem, North Carolina]], where his father and half of his half-siblings lived for the rest of their lives.

He was then offered a job by [[wikipedia:General Electric|General Electric]] in [[wikipedia:Utica, New York|Utica, New York]]. Since New York is too cold (and Yankee) for Bob, he left after three years, returning back to Winston-Salem for a few years before transferring to [[wikipedia:Roanoke, Virginia|Roanoke]] in Southwest Virginia, where he discovered his love for the mountains. In 1975, he moved to [[Richmond]], where he worked until 1980, when he was transferred to [[Charlottesville]].<ref name="About" /> He worked with both Goodrich and Goodyear.<ref name="PSN 37" />

With General Electric, Bob was responsible for at least seven patents. [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] claimed, in an email to [[Shigeru Miyamoto|Miyamoto]], that without Bob's influence in the computer world, the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System|NES}} "...might not have arrived so soon,"<ref name="Barbara" /> ignoring the fact that the NES was designed and released in Japan in 1983, without influence from American electronics.

{{quote|Bob Chandler is one of the most creative engineers in the organization.|The General Manager at G.E.<ref>[[:File:Bob 25th Anniversary at General Electric.jpg]]</ref>}}

Examples of Bob's accomplishments include an automated steel mill for rolling steel for cars, a paper mill for the production of Kleenex, warehousing, railroads and tanker ships. He designed scooters, die casting machines, machines for producing plastic products<ref name="About" /> and a vehicle logging system.<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3486009</ref> Both Chris and Barbara have bragged that Bob designed controls<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3889849</ref> that were used in plastic water container molding machines.<ref name="About" /><ref name="Barbara">[[Miyamoto Saga#A Word from Snorlax]]</ref>

Bob retired in 1987 at the age of 59 or 60 after 31 years of service for General Electric.<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris#Open Letter - December 26th, 1987]]</ref> His relatively early retirement may have been provoked by health problems, as he writes in his December 1987 [[Bob's Letters to Chris|letter to Chris]] that "I know now that I, at best, haven't much time left to share myself with you".

Bob himself was proud of his, "...natural inclination for logic," although he was, "...inundated," by all his designs and whether he did well for the world. Would plastic water bottles lead to mankind's salvation or utter destruction? Only time would tell.<ref name="About" />

===World consciousness===
[[Image:0012-BobbyReading.jpg|thumb|Bob Chandler learning how to cut that Internet down.]]

{{quote|I have been very interested in the world since I was 10 years old, and that was 70 years ago and, the, uh, I'm very fond of and I really truly believe in the United Nations, but you won't find anybody else in my countryside or around here, I think, that does. (laughing) But anyway, I'm very world conscious.|[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7|Bob]]}}

Bob referred to himself as a {{w|Republican Party (United States)|Republican}}, and he did not vote for [[Barack Obama]] in {{w|United States presidential election, 2008|the 2008 presidential election}}.<ref name="Prank calls"/> That said, he had misgivings about {{w|Bob McDonnell}}, the Republican candidate in the {{w|Virginia gubernatorial election, 2009|2009 Virginia gubernatorial election}} and the ultimate winner of the election, possibly because of McDonnell's support for very strict anti-abortion laws, which made no exceptions for cases of rape or [[Chris and sex#incest|incest]]. Bob and Chris considered writing in Snoopy from ''[[Peanuts]]'' as a protest vote.<ref>[[Regina e-mails#Wikipedia: The answer to everything]]</ref>

In a potentially damaging moment on 18 [[February 2009]], Bob doubted the existence of [[Molvanîa]], [[Julie]]'s country of origin,<ref>[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.5]]</ref> but he continued talking on the grounds that his grasp of post-Soviet geography was shaky. He apparently convinced himself that Molvanîa was the same place as the real country of {{w|Moldova}}, a former Soviet republic located near the Black Sea.<ref name="PSN 37">[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7]]</ref> However, he rather damningly failed to question why Julie spoke perfect English with an American accent.

Besides Korea, Bob also visited Australia and England at some point in his life.<ref name = "Retired Life">[[Date with Emily#Retired life (0:16:59–0:24:22)]]</ref>

==Relationships==

===Previous family===

Bob was previously married to a woman named Patricia Harley on 29 September 1956 at a United Methodist church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They had two children, [[David Alan Chandler]] (b. 1961) and [[Carol Suzanne Chandler]] (b. 1964).

Bob and Patricia separated on 28 June 1976 before divorcing on 28 January 1980.<ref name="BobObit">https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailyprogress/name/robert-franklin-chandler-obituary?n=robert-franklin-chandler&pid=153539600</ref><ref>[[:File:1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.png]]</ref> Bob's relationships with David and Carol were strained in his later years.<ref name="Cole2">[[:Image:Cole 07-03-06-2.PNG|6 March 2007 email, page 2]]</ref> Because of this, Chris did not know he had a niece via David, named [[Savannah Chandler|Savannah]], until she was 8 years old,<ref>[[CWC's Diary#January 2004]]</ref> and Bob's relationship with Carol was even more distant. According to Chris, Bob was always concerned about Carol. None of the Chandlers knew what was going on with her, and the last they had heard was that she was working for the federal government, implying that she did not show up to her father's funeral.<ref>[[:File:Savannah_chandler3.png]]</ref> David, on the other hand, did attend his father's funeral.<ref>[[:File:Savannah_chandler.png]]</ref>

===Barbara===

[[Image:0063-BobAndBarbaraNewLife.jpg|thumb|With [[Barbara Chandler|Barb]].]]

Bob and [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] met in 1979 at "Maddy's Pub" in Richmond<ref>[[April 2012 Facebook posts#Fear of the future]]</ref> (probably Matt's British Pub in Shockoe Slip, where Bob was a sing-along leader in the late 1970s).<ref name=godbear>[[It took a talking bear to give the name a young boy loves]]</ref> Barbara was there with a friend and Bob was singing.<ref name="Mumble 3.5">[[Mumble 3.5]]</ref> According to Chris, Bob claimed that Barbara did the [[How to Talk to Girls|pursuing]]: "She chased him down the hallway," though Barb has disputed this.<ref>[[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special#Part 2]]</ref> This version of events may be why Chris figured that he could get away with being passive in terms of courtship. In contrast, [[Cole Smithey|Cole]]'s friend Chuck McGuigan, who worked at the pub as a bartender, has a vivid memory of them, "...acting out as a couple of drunken losers."<ref name="Cole2" />

They got married in 1980,<ref name="Mumble 3.5" /> only months after Bob and Patricia had divorced.<ref>[[:File:1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.jpeg]]</ref> Barb later told Chris that she ultimately married Bob because, "...he owned [[14 Branchland Court|a house]]."<ref>[[Jail Letter - 11 May 2022]]</ref>

According to Chris, Barb and Bob did not have sex for at least two decades before Bob's passing. They had been sleeping in separate rooms in the years leading up to his death.<ref>[[IRC (27 December 2008)]]</ref>

===Cole===
Bob married Barbara when her son [[Cole Smithey|Cole]] was nearly 17, around the time Cole left to lead his own life.

Cole feels that Bob's bitterness ruined the relationship between himself and his mother. Cole said he would celebrate<ref name="Cole2"/> "...when that fuck Bob finally drops,"<ref>[[:Image:Cole 07-07-24-3.PNG|Email from Cole to Chris]]</ref> but it is unknown if he did so. Cole said that he and Bob shared a mutual hatred,<ref name="Cole2" /> though there isn't any proof that Bob hated Cole. At the least, it is certain that Bob knew Cole didn't like him.<ref name = "Meet" />

===Chris===

{{see also|Bob's Letters to Chris}}

{{quote|Get away from the Internet! I'm cutting it down, right now.|Bob Chandler, Internet lumberjack.}}

[[File:Dreaming studio.png|thumb|Dreaming studio of Mr. C and Little C. Where dreams do come true - 1989.]]

Bob's relationship with Chris was rather complex. While Bob was considered to be a better parent than his wife [[Barb]], he was by no means the good ol' pop-pop Chandler many thought he was. While Bob at least tried to help Chris, his attempts at doing so were either futile, misguided or even harmful to Chris in the long term.

When Chris was a boy, Bob encouraged him to learn more about the world and tried sharing his interests and hobbies, including engineering, geography and [[Stamps|stamp collecting]].

When Chris was seven, Bob converted a shed in the backyard of [[14 Branchland Court]] to a workshop where he and Chris could build things together, dubbing it the "dreaming studio." Chris could not recall what they had built together when asked about it in the years following Bob's death;<ref>[[IRL Tour of 14 Branchland Court]]</ref> he and Barb had been using the space for hoard storage.

Bob wished that Chris was more interested in the world. He tried to teach Chris about foreign geography such as [[Julie|Europe]] and [[PandaHalo|Australia]], but figured (correctly) that Chris doesn't understand countries and continents beyond what he's seen on [[television]], and can only associate with the places he's physically been to in Virginia.<ref name="PSN 37" />

Bob had difficulties understanding Chris' [[Autism]] and vehemently refused to get Chris the help he needed, likely due to his antiquated view of the Mental Health system. In fact, he fought tooth and nail for years to keep Chris from getting the special education he needed to cope with the real world. It was the very reason why Bob rented a second home in a Chesterfield County so Chris couldn't attend special classes that Greene County recommended. Bob was most likely under the impression, that Chris would be thrown into a lunatic asylum, lobotomized and that Chris needs to be sheltered all his life because of it, never mind his autistic [[Savannah|granddaughter]], who lives a relatively normal life.

When Chris entered [[Manchester High]], Bob hired [[Gal pal|a bunch of girls]] to babysit Chris in a misguided attempt to socialize Chris. He let Chris believe they were legit friends, when they were only in it for their own gain.

Bob enjoyed collecting stamps as a boy growing up in the 1930s, and he continued to do so for several decades, with a focus on the United Nations and foreign countries,<ref>[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7]]</ref> building a collection of stamp albums which filled six boxes.<ref>[[I'm selling my father's stamp collection; come on down and buy some of it]]</ref> He taught Chris about his hobby, buying him a beginner's stamp album in 1992.<ref>[[eBay#Chris's stamp album]]</ref> Chris seemed to enjoy the hobby as well, since he had many pages of stamps filled in. In [[Bob's Letters to Chris|letters]] to Chris (written when Chris was a few years old), Bob gave Chris permission to pass along his various collections onto others after inheriting them. In 2017, Chris began selling pieces of the inherited stamp collection. Bob's pieces were decently priced, generally for $5 per set, though he tried to sell his own personal stamp album for $1,000.<ref>[[eBay]] - see listings for their stamp collections.</ref>

Bob's racist joke that [[Barack Obama]] would paint the White House black as soon as he became president influenced Chris to draw it in [[Sonichu 8|''Sonichu'' #8]].

Chris's phobia of [[Pickle|penises]] was apparently sparked from barging into his parents' room, where Bob had a habit of sleeping nude from the waist down.<ref>[[February 2020 social media posts#On seeing his father's penis]]</ref>

Chris has often complained about stressful confrontations with his father:

{{quote|well, my father is a major stressor against me; starts arguements [sic], annoys me, [[Chris and health#hygiene|rarely washes his hands after restroom breaks]] (lord knows I've tried to encourage him to wash numerous time, and rarely succeeded).|Chris, [[IRC (31 December 2008)]]}}

However, the many instances of Bob communicating with trolls show that he was generally pleasant and amicable, not at all inclined to start arguments, as Chris asserts. As seen during the lead up to the fateful encounter between [[Emily]], Chris and the [[Man in the Pickle Suit]], Bob seemed to be more than happy to discuss stories with people, even those he hadn't seen or heard that much of - [[Robert Simmons V]], who met Bob during his [[Church audio|visit to Chris's church]] conversed with him extensively, later saying that he was a 'really pleasant guy.' The antagonism to which Chris refers was likely Bob attempting to constructively criticize Chris in order to better him, as Chris deeply resents being told what he does not want to hear.
[[File:Bob drawing Nov. '15.jpg|thumb|200px|left|A drawing of Bob by Chris, released in [[November 2015]].]]

An example of this criticism was Bob telling Chris that, since Bob had looked after Chris for 29 years despite his childish and outrageous behavior, Chris should show more gratitude towards him. Chris was completely dismissive, figuring that his father was ''obligated'' to take care of him, and seeing no reason as to why he should demonstrate any foreign concepts like "love," "support," "gratitude," and "willingness to help." Reinforcing Bob's point, Chris still ran for his father's aid when he felt threatened, as in the later parts of the [[Kacey and Liquid Call]].

Despite Bob's occasional [[Mumble 1|frustration]] over Chris's actions, he seemed to have bought into the theory that Chris is tormented by a [[Encyclopedia Dramatica|complex network of enemies spanning the entire world]], due to the success that he has earned from his own Sonichu franchise.<ref name="Church">[[Church audio]]</ref><ref name="Noble">[[Matthew Noble call]]</ref> In the [[Matthew Noble call]], it appeared that Bob was the source of Chris's tendency to bring up unrelated mishaps and debacles to make current incidents and sources of [[stress]] seem "petty" in comparison.

[[Image:0106-ChristianWDad.jpg|thumb|Bob and a younger Christian. Note Chris's "Family Bonding" shirt.]]
Once during a phone call with a troll, Bob stated that Chris was [[Chris and anger|"a hell of a lot nicer"]] and "has done a lot better than" the troll calling him.<ref name="Prank">[[Prank calls#Snake Productions Calls Bob Chandler]]</ref>

After Chris got his now obsolete [[CADD]] degree, instead of telling Chris to get to work like any other parent would, he encouraged Chris to stay home just so he could continue to get his taxpayer-funded [[tugboat]].

He never seemed to get past the notion that Chris could and had already achieved things, given that he continued to have to nursemaid Chris well into his son's late 20s. In the later parts of 2009 and throughout 2010, as chronicled in Chris's emails with [[Vivian Gee E-mails, 2009|Vivian Gee]] and [[Jackie E-mails 7|Jackie]], Bob had been forced to take an increasingly active role in controlling Chris's spending and debt, paying off Chris's credit cards with his own money in an attempt to prevent interest charges from spiraling even further out of control. By the fall of 2010, he was monitoring Chris's bank accounts on a daily basis and keeping him on a strict allowance. Upon finding out about Chris's [[Tomgirl Pictures|escapades]] in early 2011, Bob's reaction was to question Chris's sexuality, at one point even calling him a "fag", even though he indirectly contributed to it through his unbalanced approach of socializing Chris.

Chris has said specifically that he doesn't have to love his father, but has to respect him.<ref>[[Mumble 1#Transcript|Mumble Chat 1]]</ref> Confidential details collected after Bob's death, however, suggests Chris was more emotionally attached than he let on, providing rare and precious evidence that Chris doesn't take the presence of others for granted. He also got genuinely emotional while reading a letter that his father had left for him on-camera, again indicating how much he misses his father.<ref>[[CLog 09042017 - Mister C]]</ref>

In [[December 2012]], Chris uploaded the soundtrack from the [[WTJU Marathon|1990 WTJU Jazz Marathon]], in which Bob was a performer and a host. It was notable as one of the few moments where Chris publicly honored his father's memory since his passing in [[September 2011]].

Bob lives on in his son's memory. Chris noted the occasion of his father's passing by attaching angel wings to the [[Lego]] minifigure representing him,<ref>Seen at 4:24 in [[CWC Lego Manchester High School Oct 18 2013]]</ref> and displaying two photos of him in front of his TV.<ref>[[:File:Totem2ebay.jpeg]]</ref> He often sees Bob in his [[dreams]].<ref>[[March 2012 Facebook Posts#Still Feeling Lonely II|March 2012 Facebook Posts]]</ref><ref>[[List of OkCupid Answers#2014 Answers--LevelUpKing|OkCupid Answers]]</ref>

Due to the influence of the [[Idea Guys]], Chris later expressed beliefs that Bob is half-Sonichu and is apparently still alive in the [[CWCville]] dimension. These beliefs began around December 2017 and continued even after the Idea Guys had been removed from power, as shown by the below quote from 2018's Father's Day.

{{quotebox|[[File:Father's Day 2018.jpg|200px|thumb]]

<nowiki>#HappyFathersDay</nowiki> to each and every Father in This World and in Every Single Other Dimension Too! My father is alive again! I still love him, even in his checker-patterned glory! ⚡️💙❤️⚡️<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191211070743/https://twitter.com/cwcsonichu/status/1008449921387778048</ref>}}

In the [[Incest Call]], Chris claimed he was better at [[Affair with Mother|pleasuring]] [[Barb]] than his own father. One can only imagine Bob's reaction to this news if he were still alive to bear witness to what his son has become.

Despite his best efforts to the contrary, Chris, his second chance at being a father, was Bob's greatest failure as a parent, even when factoring in his strained relationship with his other children.

===Other relationships===
In spite of his redneck background, Bob seems to have gotten along better with foreigners than with his own countrymen. His closest friend in Richmond was Reverend Chen of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church,<ref>[[Date with Emily#Eating spaghetti and conversing (0:36:49–0:44:46)]]</ref> and he had English friends through his involvement with Matt's British Pub.<ref name=godbear></ref> He also had friends in Australia,<ref>BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7</ref> and Czechoslovakian friends in late 1970s, who were illegal immigrants escaping Czechoslovakia. Chris said Bob and Barb enjoyed conversing and drinking {{w|Slivovitz}} with them and that Bob would drive to Maryland to buy Slivovitz.<ref>[[Regina_e-mails#Random-access_humor_demonstration]]</ref>

From his father's second marriage, Bob had, "...a large number of half-brothers and sisters in... [[wikipedia:Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Salem, North Carolina]],"<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris]]</ref> but he does not seem to have been very close with them. Bob's stepmother's obituary confirms that eight of these half-siblings were alive as of 2015.<ref>https://www.hufffuneralhome.com/obituary/Dorothy-Chandler</ref>

[[Prank calls#Call Bobby Chandler|Contrary to popular beliefs]], he did not have friends in the Ku Klux Klan.

==Later life, poor health and death==
[[File:Bob playbill for musical push cart.jpg|thumb|200px|Playbill for Mr. C. and his musical pushcart.]]

Bob lived on Social Security as well as his General Electric pension.<ref name = "Retired Life" /> He never really had people to chat with at home (he would ramble to [[Trolls|total strangers]] on the phone if he could), so he sat around, listened to music, and took care of the garden inside the greenhouse.<ref name="PSN 37" /> With a 1970s stereo system set up in the greenhouse, he went to 'swing with the music' on his swing there.<ref name="Retired Life" />

Bob had two triple bypasses and four heart attacks. The two triple-bypass operations took place first in August 1980 and at last in 1992. He had {{w|Coronary artery disease}} and wore an {{w|Artificial cardiac pacemaker|artificial pacemaker}}.<ref>[[Autism papers#FAMILY_HISTORY:]]</ref><ref>[[Mumble 3]]</ref> He apparently had several vivid near-death experiences: during [[Date with Emily#Bob's health problems (0:24:23–0:25:29)|Chris's date with]] [[Emily]], Bob tells her that he has "died" several times, and Chris says that Bob, "...has seen the light, but did not actually go to it." In one prank call, Bob revealed that after surgery for cancer it was discovered that he had a fluid build-up in his legs, which is symptomatic of CHF. This rapid decline in health worried him.<ref name="Prank calls"/> He attributed his long life to the [[Cherokee]] in him. His uncles and grandfather all lived past 90.<ref name="PSN 37" /> Despite his heart troubles he continued to eat at [[Burger King]] daily.<ref>[[Prank calls#Calls to Bob and Chris]]</ref><ref>[[Trollin Train#Hey, guys (Sun 22 Aug 2010)]]</ref>

On 1 [[March 2010]], Chris [[Twitter|tweeted]] that Bob had been taken to the hospital in the early morning for "congested [sic] {{w|heart failure}}". Chris seemed confident that his father was not in for a long stay. Considering Bob's age, lifestyle, and long history of heart disease, [[Chris and death|Chris did not seem to grasp the seriousness of his heart failure]]. Bob had been the only thing keeping [[14 Branchland Court|the Chandler household]] from imploding, and as such, trolls and [[White-Knighting|white knights]] alike wished him the very best.

[[Image:Bobbed.jpg|thumb|Apart from the dying heart]]

In the month following Bob's hospitalization, Chris was remarkably quiet on the subject of his father. News about his condition was hard to come by, as information only arose [[Chris and his Ego|when Chris was inclined to complain about it online]]. Statistically, congestive heart failure is not as immediately fatal as its name implies,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210121845/https://www.healthline.com/health/chf-life-expectancy]</ref> but Bob's age, prior heart attacks and [[Tour of Chris's House|lifestyle]] made this a very serious situation.

Chris's videos over the month of March made no mention of Bob at all. Staying true to his painfully predictable nature, Chris instead lost a [[The Wallflower|girlfriend he never had]], [[Chris Drops the N-Bomb|made racial slurs and death threats towards a cartoon character]], and [[F Abstinance|raged against abstinence]]. His silence on the subject of his father was probably because of [[Naïve|genuine ignorance]] of the seriousness of his father's condition.

A poster on [[/cwc/]] contacted Chris via PSN regarding Bob. He posted a screen capture of Chris's response, saying, "He is doing much better, thank you."<ref>[[:File:Bobbetter.jpg]]</ref> Another contacted Chris via email and got a response saying, "Yes, my father is healthy and safe." Clearly he was neither, but this was at least proof that Bob hadn't joined the Whites-Only section of Heaven just yet. In late May, Chris finally made [[Some Favored Comedians|a brief mention]] in a public video that his father was "alive and well". Chris was, at least, half right.

A breakdown of Bob's final months reads as follows.

On 24 March 2011, Bob claimed in a phone call to have cancer of some description.<ref>http://youtu.be/y-GGSOyCm2k</ref>

On 23 April 2011, in an email to Jackie, Chris revealed that Bob had received surgery for colon cancer.<ref>[[Jackie_E-mails_24]]</ref>

On 20 July 2011, it was revealed that [[Tomboys And Tomgirls of Virginia#Re: Coming out to my parents|Bob knew about Chris's cross-dressing tendencies]] and, like Barb, vehemently disapproved of them.

On 29 August 2011, Chris, now deeply entrenched in his [[Tomgirl Saga|tomgirlish ways]], [[Response to ADF|mentioned that Bob was an ill and sickly shut-in]], and was suffering from [[Chris and English|"feet-bloatings"]].

In early September 2011, Bob was rushed by ambulance to Martha Jefferson hospital with heart failure. [[Rocky Shoemaker call|It was discovered later]] that Bob had been put into quarantine when he arrived because his body was [[14 Branchland Court|covered in bug bites]] and he posed a contamination risk. On the sixth of that month, he died at age 84.<ref name="BobObit"></ref> Out of respect for him and his family, the CWCki was closed for a week, 12–19 September, with the start date coinciding with the day Bob's funeral service was held. Site visitors were directed to a page which simply read "Robert Franklin Chandler Jr. 1927–2011."<ref name="BobObit" />

It is said that [[Man in the Pickle Suit|Marvin]] and other trolls, using the [[Jackie]] identity as a catfish, attempted to contact Chris over the phone shortly after Bob's death for unclear reasons; Chris was noted to be audibly upset as he cried throughout the conversation. While the audio was recorded and archived on what is referred to as the "Black Tape" by some Christorians, the contents of the call were never released publicly due to Chris's miserable emotional state. The trolls who participated in the call realized after the fact that it was simply too soon to try to reach out to Chris in this fashion and, for a change, opted to respect his privacy for once. The Black Tape either still exists in the hands of the trolls who participated in its creation, or it has been lost to time.<ref>[[CWCki Forums posts (Marvin)#The Black Tape]]</ref>

Bob's death also marked another significant change in Chris's life, as the vast majority of the trolls associated with the "Classic Era" voluntarily retired from trolling Chris, knowing that he was deeply depressed by his father's passing. Only a few of these trolls still remain active as observers on [[Kiwi Farms]], and a trolling renaissance did not begin until much later in the decade with the advent of the [[Idea Guys]].

==Cause of death==
Despite the fairly clear-cut nature of the lumberjack's passing, Chris has since declared that the [[trolls]] were responsible for Bob's death. In an [[Misc_E-mails|email]] leaked on 22 [[March 2014]], Chris claimed that the stress of his trolling led to Bob's heart attack. This keeps in the trend Chris has developed of blaming any and all misfortunes (even those faced by everyone, like burying a family member) on trolls.

{{quote|AND the total [[stress]] KILLED my Father Prematurely; if not for those Trolls, he would still be alive, and would have likely lived beyond 2015.|Chris.}}

Even for Chris this is appalling behavior; using the '''death of his own father''' as a vehicle to play the victim and attempt to stave off trolls. While it's not uncommon for those who have lost loved ones to blame their deaths on external causes (however impossible or insane, as in this case), Chris's actions stemmed purely from selfishness and egotism – business as usual.

Years later, in 2017, Chris revised his claim and said that Bob was killed after hospital staff surprised him with a "Loud Noise." He went on to say that he had more freedom when Bob was alive.

{{quote|I wish I could go back to September 5, 2011 and stop the staff from making the Loud Noise that killed my father with stressful surprise. I had more freedom when he was alive.|Chris<ref name=LoudNoise></ref>}}

==Obituary==
Both [[Barbara Chandler|Barb]] and Chris collaborated in writing Bob's obituary, which was published in two local papers. Main points of the obituary, apart from the standard birth date, date of death, and next of kin, include:

* Text going into [[autism|unusual detail]] about what Bob did at General Electric.
* The location of the memorial service, "to follow on a later date", at [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church]], the church that Barb, Bob and Chris used to frequent together. This is the same church that [[Rocky Shoemaker]] counseled Chris from.
* A footnote asking readers to not donate flowers, but to [[Chris and money|donate money to Barbara and Chris]].

With Chris taking part in writing the obituary, it's amazing that the writing stayed focus on Bob and did not once mention Sonichu or become about Chris (except for the request for money at the end).

===Original text===
[[Image:Rip internet lumberack by vekke.png|thumb|May you always watch over our sweet autist.]]
{{quoteboxgray|
:''Robert Franklin Chandler Jr., 84, of Ruckersville, passed away the morning of Tuesday, September 6, 2011, at Martha Jefferson Hospital ICU surrounded by family, pastor and hospital staff.''

:''He was born on September 4, 1927, in Texas, the son of the late Robert Franklin Chandler Sr. and Jean Holloman Chandler. On June 7, 1980, he married Barbara Anne Weston, who survives. And the couple gave birth to a son, Christian Weston Chandler, who survives. Also surviving is ex-wife, Patricia, and their shared children, son, Dr. David Alan Chandler, survives, and daughter, Carol Suzanne Chandler, survives.''

:''He graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Engineering.''

:''He served in the United States Army Seoul Korea in the Signal Corp during the Korean War. He worked for General Electric as an Engineer with Steels, Plastics, etc. He also had patents for the controls for Plastic Molding Machines; without him, we would not have even a simple plastic funnel.''

:''Also surviving are granddaughter, Savannah Chandler, the daughter of David Alan Chandler and his wife, Kimberly.''

:''A funeral service will be held at Monticello Memory Gardens in Charlottesville, Virginia, 10 a.m. Monday, September 12, 2011. A memorial service to follow on a later date at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church.''

:''Instead of flowers, you may make monetary donations to his widow, Barbara Chandler and son, Christian Chandler.<ref name="BobObit" />}}

==In memoriam==
[[File:Chandler_Niche.jpg|thumb|left|Bob's final resting place.]]

Bob is often seen as a gregarious, hard-working man ([[Ruckersville, VA|all things considered]]) who tried ([[2014 house fire|albeit without]] [[26 December 2014|success]]) his best to refine Chris into someone that could at least pass for a responsible adult, giving him mock job interviews and [[Date with Emily|chaperoning him on dates]], where he proved (unsurprisingly) more adept at charming the date than Chris, but stopped altogether in his later years, leaving Chris to his own devices.

On the other hand, we have him to thank for some of his son's more [[Homos|backward]] [[Niggos|worldviews]]. He managed to alienate his other children enough that [[Carol Chandler|his daughter]] didn't attend his funeral or keep in touch while he was alive. He helped Chris to construct [[Matthew Noble call|bizarre]] [[Greene County Conspiracy|conspiracy theories]] to justify [[Chris and the law|trespassing and the like]], among [[Chris and his ego|other things]]. He, like Barbara, enabled Chris's crippling dependence on them, general immaturity and irresponsibility, and his myriad of other flaws. He bailed out his son repeatedly and never really let Chris experience the [[Financhu Crisis|consequences]] of his misinformed [[Chris and money|life decisions]]. He never made any serious effort to correct his son's glaring character flaws and shortcomings, even when he [[Bob Walks In|caught him masturbating in the kitchen]]. The [[THAT IS MY HOUSE|few]] times he did intervene, it wasn't even for Chris' own benefit, but to shake off the trolls and the Health department. He also did not make any real attempt to provide for Chris's future, beyond ensuring the tugboat. He left all of his money to Barbara, who promptly wasted it all on [[Rob Bell|lawyer's fees]] – a conscientious parent would have anticipated this and put some of the money in a trust for Chris, not that Chris would've handled the money any better. Better yet, he could've given the money to his son Alan, Carol or his own [[Savannah|granddaughter]].

While some like to remember Bob as a kind-hearted, albeit ignorant old man who tried his best to be a good father, others see him as a remnant of a bygone era who is responsible for moulding Chris into the person he is today.

{{clear}}

==Chris's beliefs on Bob's afterlife==
===Idea Guy influences===
{{quote|Robert Franklin Chandler Jr's and Ted Bundy's souls never went to Heaven or Hell; They both became reborn ''[...]'' as their respective Sonichu forms. ''[...]'' Mister C. and Ted also serve to help the nation of CWCville in defense, and in intellect.|[[Sonichu 16|''Sonichu'' #16]], page 49}}

[[File:Bobchu.jpeg|thumb|150px|Bob's Sonichu form.]]
[[File:Bob meets Ted Bundy, Sonichu 16.JPG|Bob meets Ted Bundy in the hereafter.|thumb|150px]]

During the [[Idea Guys]] saga, Chris's belief in multiple dimensions was exploited and his sense of reality hijacked to make changes to many of Chris's characters, concepts and perspectives of the real world, with him considering them to be valid. Perhaps one of the more heinous examples of this was the Idea Guys' [[Chris and manipulation|manipulation]] of Chris's views on his own father; views which Chris has yet to abandon, despite the Idea Guys being removed from power by the [[Guard Dogs]] in mid-2018. Ideas involving Bob include:

*Bob's spirit resides in CWCville, dimension [[C-197]], as a half-Sonichu named Robertchu, styled in his Sonichu form as a beaver with checkerboard fur<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201210122024/https://twitter.com/CWCSonichu/status/1008449921387778048</ref><ref>The drawing of Robertchu was among those drawn for Idea Guy, and no references to it exist beforehand.</ref> (a reference to his troll-given Internet Lumberjack nickname).

*Bob met serial killer Ted Bundy while in CWCville and helps defend it alongside Ted.<ref>[[Sonichu 13|''Sonichu'' #13]]</ref>

Post-Idea Guys, Chris decided that Robertchu's fur color was really red with black ears because he found it too time-consuming to draw the checkerboard pattern.<ref>[[June 2019 social media posts#Father's Day memorial]]</ref>

Robertchu was featured as cards in Chris's homemade [[Shipfic]] expansion. In one, Chris photoshopped a photo of [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] so that she is standing beside a drawing of Robertchu in his Sonichu form. The card text reads, "Honey, I'm Home" and states:

{{quotebox|Every once in a while, Mister C runs back home to offer comfort to Barbara. Before the Dimension Merge's completion, she has missed him everyday, and found the solace and comfort when he comes by. He continues to carry a torch for her in his heart and soul while he helps to protect everyone in Cwcville and at this old temple of a house.}}

[[File:RobertchuBackHome.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Robertchu as a [[Shipfic]] card.]]

{{clear}}

==Appearances==

===In ''Sonichu''===
{{quote|Christian, you are not a girl! Go put your pants back on.|Bob, ''Sonichu'' #12}}

[[File:Chandlers & Sonichus.jpg|200px|thumb]]

In [[Sonichu 8#Spring Break, 2008!|"Spring Break, 2008"]], a radio announcement from [[Jamsta Sonichu]] mentions that Bob founded [[CWCville]] in 1982, presumably after Chris's birth on [[Chris's birthday|24 February]] given that Bob named the city after his newborn son. Comic Bob presumably served as mayor before Chris took the office at an unknown date. At other points, Bob was mentioned in Chris's tangents about hating men other than himself and his father.

In [[Sonichu 9#Episode 19|"Date Ed"]], there are two dolls for the class to practice talking to, girls received "Robert" dolls, while boys received "Barbara" dolls, an obvious reference/homage to Bob and Barb.

Bob made his first official appearance in [[Sonichu 11|''Sonichu'' #11]], photoshopped into a "family photo" alongside Chris, Barb and various [[Electric Hedgehog Pokémon]].

[[File:Borb, Sonichu12.jpg|200px|thumb|left]]

[[File:Bob,Sonichu12.jpg|200px|thumb|right]]

In [[Sonichu 12|''Sonichu'' #12]], Bob appears in a set of pages that combine an autobiographical account of Chris coming out as a [[tomgirl]] to his parents, and a tribute to his late father. He is depicted as an elderly man, as the page took place in 2010 (due to Chris's [[Oedipus complex]], Barb is depicted as much more youthful). He attempts to dissuade Chris from continuing his tomgirl lifestyle, although Chris states that Bob later, "...told me he accepts and love ''[sic]'' me for who I am," shortly before his passing in 2011.

Chris concludes Bob's appearance in the book with a photo in memoriam of his life, saying that he and Barb continue to miss him every day.

[[File:Chandler family as ponies.png|200px|thumb|left|Bob, pictured at right, as ''Gallop Crush'', in a [[MLP]]-inspired drawing from [[August 2017]].]]

In August 2017, Chris unveiled a drawing of the Chandler family depicted as [[My Little Pony]] characters, saying that they will make further appearances in [[Sonichu 12-9|''Sonichu'' #12-9]]. The ponified Bob, known as "Gallop Crush", appears as [[Night Star]]'s father, reaffirming the self-insert nature of Chris's ponysona.

In the [[Idea Guy]]-written [[Sonichu 16|''Sonichu'' #16]], Bob's spirit crosses over into CWCville where he meets and strikes up a conversation with serial killer [[Ted Bundy]].

{{Mayors of CWCville}}

===As a toy===

<center><gallery>
File:BobAmiibo.jpg|[[Amiibo]] Bob, which Chris offered for sale on [[Etsy]] in [[November 2015]]. Oh yes.
File:ChrisFamilyEtsyC.jpg|Promo drawing
</gallery></center>

===Audio and video===

In every appearance, Bob has proven himself to be better at charming Chris's [[sweetheart]]s than Chris himself (not a difficult feat, to be fair).

* [[1990]]: Bob appeared as the DJ to the [[WTJU Marathon]].
* 26 February [[1994]]: Bob appears briefly behind Chris from 0:26-0:36 in the news report of the [[Chris in the media|Sonic Watch & Win Sweepstakes]].
*[[Christmas|25 December]] [[2004]]: Bob makes multiple physical appearences in [[ChandlerFamilyChristmas2004]], where he appears remarkably depressed.
* 14 [[February 2009]]: [[Bob Walks In]] to Chris [[mass debating]] in the [[kitchen]].
* 18 [[February 2009]]: In [[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.5]] and [[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7|3.7]], Bob rambles to [[Julie]].
* 15 [[March 2009]]: Bob [[Church Visit|talked]] to [[Robert Simmons V]] at [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|church]] while [[DIRTY, CRAPPED BRIEFS|Chris went to shit himself]].
* [[March 2009]]: Bob chaperoned Chris on his date with [[Emily]].
* 27 [[March 2009]]: Bob gets intruded by Chris in the [[Tour of Christian's House]], but is not visible.
* 27 [[August 2009]]: [[THAT IS MY HOUSE|Bob enters Chris's room]] and scolds him for making the house tour, (correctly) fearing that if someone saw the house as it was, they would be evicted (Uncut version only). This is a momentous occasion, showing some awareness on the part of the Chandlers that the filth and squalor they live in is a health hazard. This video subsequently off a wave of emails and calls to the Greene County Health Department, masterminded by trolls who hoped to realize Bob's fear of eviction, but the campaign was seemingly unsuccessful.
* [[November 2009]]: Bob and [[Barb|Snorlax]] make a brief appearance at the end of the [[Kacey and Liquid Call]].
* 15 [[August 2010]]: In his final outing on the damn Internet, Bob gets a [[Matthew Noble call|call from the GAMe PLACe]] and is informed of Chris's actions earlier in the year. He then goes on a tangent about how Chris has been tormented by everyone ever since he was banned, and then demands Michael Snyder's information. Barbara also is audible at the end of the call.
* [[Prank calls]]: Bob answered several of these. He was usually sincere when talking with prank callers, providing them with true and honest information about himself and Chris, but was occasionally pushed to trolling them back, on one occasion telling a particularly obnoxious pair of trolls that he had ties to the Ku Klux Klan.

==Gallery==
<center>
<gallery>
File:Bob1946Auburn.jpg|Bob's Auburn freshman yearbook photo, taken for the 1946 yearbook.
File:BobJax1950.PNG|Bob's 1950 Jacksonville State Teachers College sophomore yearbook photo.
File:Bobauburn1951.PNG|Bob's 1951 Auburn junior yearbook photo.
File:Bobauburn1952.PNG|Bob's Auburn senior yearbook photo.
File:WW2BobChandler(badquality).jpg|Bob's 1946 U.S. Army draftee (written in 1945).
File:Bob1946WW2DraftCardPhysicalDetail.png|Bob's 1946 Draft card on a physical detail (written in 1945).
File:BobPatMarriage.png|Bob and Patricia's newspaper engagement.
File:1956 9 25 - Bob, Patricia marriage license.png|1956 9 25 - Bob, Patricia marriage license.
File:1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.png|1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.
File:1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.jpeg|1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.
File:Bob and his parents - 1930s census.png|Bob and his parents - 1930s census.
File:Bob and his parents - 1940s census.png|Bob and his parents - 1940s census.
File:Bob1950Census.jpg|Bob in the Jacksonville State Teachers University's dormitory room - 1950s census.
File:Bob's birth certificate.png|Bob's birth certificate.
File:Chris's family tree up to his great great grandparents.png|Chris's family tree up to his great-great-grandparents.
File:RobertChandler1960s.png|Bob in the late 1960s/early 1970s
Image:0009-ChristopherChristmas2.jpg|Christmas at the Chandlers, taken sometime during the 1980s.
Image:0011-ChristopherBobXmas.jpg|That isn't Chris's half-senile old grandfather at [[Christmas]] time. It's Bob. He was that age when Chris was about one.
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File:1993family.png|Barb, Chris and Bob in [[1993]]
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File:Bob1997article1.png|Bob's short brief article from Richmond Times-Dispatch in July 1997.
File:Bob1997article2.png|Bob's short brief article from Richmond Times-Dispatch in August 1997.
Image:0626-BobbyInGarden.jpg|Bob used to enjoy gardening back in the day.
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File:Robert Chandler, 19 June 2016 Facebook post photo.jpg|Last known photo.
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==Fan tributes==
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==References==
{{Fan Art|chris=Bob Chandler}}
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20201210122203/https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141038783/robert-franklin-chandler Bob Chandler at Find a Grave]

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Bob Chandler

2024-10-20T12:48:02Z

NightcoreSwift004: /* Other relationships */ Interesting thing I found about Bob.

{{quote|It was an interesting life I had.|Bob, at peace.}}

{{quote|I had more freedom when he was alive.|Chris, reflecting on his life prior to his father's death.<ref name=LoudNoise>[[February 2017 Facebook Posts#Claiming hospital staff killed Bob]]</ref>}}

{{quote|I don't believe he ever, Mr. C, any of her past boyfriends, ex-husbands... haven't really reached and hit her G-spot really with their dicks.|Chris, insulting Bob's memory by claiming that [[Affair with Mother|he was better at fucking]] [[Barbara Chandler|the man's wife]] [[Chris and his ego|than he ever was]].<ref>[[Incest Call]]</ref>}}

{{Infobox Person
| name = Robert Franklin Chandler Jr.
| image = Chrischansdad.jpg
|imagesize = 250
|aliases = Bob Bobby Mr. C [[Bob Walks In|Internet Lumberjack]] [[Cole Smithey#Relationship with Barbara and Bob|Republican cur]] [[:File:Chandler family as ponies.png|Gallop Crush]] Robertchu<ref>[[List of beliefs brainwashed into Chris#Sonichu genealogy for Chris, Bob and Ted Bundy]]</ref>
|label3 = Date of Birth
|day = 4
|month = 9
|year = 1927
|deathday = 6
|deathmonth = 9
|deathyear = 2011
|gender = Male
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|race = White [[Count Dankula|Half-Sonichu]]<ref>Planted by [[Idea Guys#Lingering influence|Idea Guy]], mentioned in [[Count Dankula]] interview</ref>
|religion = Protestant (Methodist)
|label8 = Height
|ft = 5
|in = 7.5
|spouse = Patricia Faye Harley (1956–1980, divorce) [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara Ann Weston]] (1980–2011, his death)
|children = Dr. David Alan Chandler Carol Suzanne Chandler [[Christian Weston Chandler]] [[Cole Smithey]] (stepson)
|grandchildren = [[Savannah Chandler]]
|father = Robert Franklin Chandler Sr. (1906–1977)
|mother = Jean Hollomon (1906–1945)
|education = [[wikipedia:Auburn_University|Auburn University]] ([[wikipedia:Bachelor of Electrical Engineering|BEE]]) [[wikipedia:Jacksonville_State_University|Jacksonville State University]] (did not graduate)
|occupation = Military communications Engineer Inventor
|saga = {{saga|childhood|cn}}, {{saga|greene|cn}}, {{saga|bearstein|cn}}, {{saga|julie|cn}}, {{saga|emily|cn}}, {{saga|ivy|cn}}
}}

'''Robert "Bob" Franklin Chandler Jr.'''<ref>[[Blanca E-mails#Chris likes Blanca|Email to Blanca]]</ref> (4 September [[Pre-1980#1920s|1927]] – 6 September [[2011]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180110224343/http://www.harveypowers.com/wynn/wynn/d155.html</ref>) was the father of [[Christian Weston Chandler]], [[Carol Chandler]] and [[David Alan Chandler]], the stepfather of [[Cole Smithey]], and husband of [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara Weston Chandler]]. Bob became a firm favorite with [[trolls]] due to Chris's antipathy towards him and for his infamous cameo when he [[Bob Walks In|walked in]] on Chris [[mass debating]].<ref>[[Bob Walks In]]</ref> His nickname, "The [[Chris and the Internet|Internet]] Lumberjack," came from this incident, wherein he promised to cut the internet down.

Despite being estranged from his other children, and despised by his stepson for abusive behavior, Bob was widely viewed as a better parent than his wife [[Barbara]] by Christorians, and – as far as Chris's own testimony can be trusted – he treated Chris better than any of his previous children. Bob had serious difficulties working with Chris's [[autism]], a disorder that he and his wife did not fully understand, but nonetheless, he had high hopes for his child in spite of the difficulties that he faced. Bob hoped to instill Chris with a variety of interests that reflected his own varied tastes, and he created The Dreaming Studio in their backyard in the hopes that they'd create things there (though, sadly, nothing of note was ever created there).

Because of this, Bob's popularity stems from being somewhat concerned with Chris's foolish behavior, and the fact that he occasionally tried to encourage a modicum of responsibility in Chris's sorry life, bringing up the fact that he devoted 29 years to raising his son. Of course, Chris was almost entirely unaffected by Bob's efforts to better him, but unlike Barb, he at least made the effort, even if his attempts were futile or harmful at worst. That being said, he also encouraged Chris to ''not'' seek employment in favor of getting [[Monthly tugboat|welfare]], even though Chris could still hold a part-time job and receive those benefits, so he's not entirely blameless for the sorry state that his son is in today, either. Not to mention that many of [[Homos|Chris's more backward]] [[Chris and race|social perspectives]] that he had in the "Classic Era" stem from his influence.

Bob was always eager to chat, and indeed much of the known information about Bob's life comes from conversations he had with trolls. It seems that Chris's passion for [[Honest Content]] did not fall too far from that tree, although Bob at least had a filter that his son lacks. Whether in person or over the phone, Bob appeared to relish the opportunity to speak with just about anyone. According to Chris, he was also a strong negotiator.<ref>[[The Place chats - ProjectSNT and Opuscon789#Browsing Kiwi Farms]]</ref>

On 6 September 2011, Bob died of complications from heart failure at Martha Jefferson Hospital ICU, surrounded by his family, his pastor and hospital staff.<ref name="BobObitarchive">http://web.archive.org/web/20130211071324/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyprogress/obituary.aspx?n=robert-franklin-chandler&pid=153539600 (archive from 11 Feb 2013)</ref> He was survived by his wife and son, who then had to become the man of the house. Chris occasionally raked in some income through commission work, though he has never looked for a serious career. Chris initially came to terms with his father's death in a conventional, healthy way, but eventually turned to a [[Chris and coping|coping]] mechanism where he genuinely believed that his father was alive in [[Dimensions|another dimension]] as a [[Sonichu (species)|Sonichu]] named Robertchu.

Years later in 2021, Chris would disgrace Bob's memory by repeatedly having dubiously-consensual sex with his wife in an [[Affair with Mother|incest]]-based affair, with Chris bragging that he could get Barb off better than "Mr. C" ever could. Following this incident, both were separated from the house that he maintained, with Chris jailed, Barb temporarily hospitalized before eventually returning to the residence, and the Dreaming Studio left abandoned for good.

==Biography==
Bob was born on 4:15 PM at a medical arts building in {{w|Fort Worth, Texas}},<ref name="Prank calls">[[Prank calls]]</ref> and raised in {{w|Sylacauga, Alabama}}.<ref name="About">[[Date with Emily#Bob's work history (0:07:18–0:16:58)]]</ref> He was the only child of Robert "Bob" Franklin Chandler Sr. (8 February 1906<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103153414/robert-franklin-chandler ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328063730/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/H5S7-BZM archive])</ref> – 27 December 1977<ref>https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FG5R-6M6 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328072547/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FG5R-6M6 archive])</ref>), an Alabamian insurance agent, and Jean Hollomon (28 March 1906<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5947049/jean-chandler ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328094240/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/H5S7-12M archive])</ref> – 10 May 1945<ref>https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JK33-QW8 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160328092829/https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JK33-QW8 archive])</ref>), a Texan housewife.<ref>[[:File:Bob Chandler's birth certificate.jpg]]</ref> Bob has eight younger half-siblings on his father's side.<ref>https://www.hufffuneralhome.com/obituary/Dorothy-Chandler</ref> He also mentioned having a cousin and several [[Cherokee]] relatives in Oklahoma.<ref>[[Prank calls#Bob Calls Himself]]</ref><ref>[[Prank calls#A Redneck calls Bob Chandler]]</ref> However, a distant relative disputed his Cherokee heritage,<ref>[[Chandler Family Tree#Ancestry.com content]]</ref> and his son's [[Cherokian Clan#Reality|DNA test results]] in 2018 belied any American Indian descent. It is common for white Southerners to make dubious claims to Cherokee ancestry, for a variety of historical reasons.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210120042/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/cherokee-blood-why-do-so-many-americans-believe-they-have-cherokee-ancestry.html Slate article]</ref>

[[File:Robert Sr 1942.jpeg|thumb|left|200px|Robert Sr in 1942.]]

[[File:Bob_Chandler_1945.png|thumb|right|200px|Bob Chandler (left) as a Boy Scout in 1945.]]

Bob has said that he was, "...interested in the world," around him since he was ten, and began collecting foreign [[stamps]] as a child in the [[1930s]]; his first stamp was of {{w|Michael I of Romania}}. He also developed an interest in foreign music, eventually collecting some 15,000–20,000 LPs from various genres and cultures.<ref name="PSN 37"/> About 100 or so survived the 2014 [[house fire]].<ref>[[Discord Q&A 4#Bob's record collection]]</ref>

Bob joined the [[wikipedia:Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]], becoming an Eagle Scout and a Scoutmaster for over 20 years.<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris]]</ref>

According to Chris, Bob lost his [[virgin with rage|virginity]] at the age of 27, which would have been in 1954 or 1955.<ref>[[January 2012 Facebook Posts#February is coming up]]</ref>

===Service and education===

A 1942 yearbook from Sylacauga High School lists a "Bobby Chandler" in the freshman class and glee club, suggesting that he graduated from this school in spring 1945 before matriculating at {{w|Auburn University}} as an aeronautical engineering major that autumn.

[[File:Chris Korean War Graphic.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Bob served in Korea, and, thankfully for Chris, who believes that he was a sperm carried in one of his father's testicles during that time, he left before the Korean War broke out.]]

Bob apparently had knowledge that the Army desired,<ref>(Majoring in Aeronautical Engineering, Auburn University, Freshman p. 95 of the 1946 yearbook [https://web.archive.org/web/20170725175556/http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/gloms/id/4124/rec/14])</ref> was conscripted as a special draftee in 1946 and placed in the {{w|Signal Corps (United States Army)|Signal Corps}}. There, he learned how to install valve systems, switchboards, and telephones. After basic training and Signal School in {{w|Fort Monmouth}}, New Jersey, Bob was sent to Korea for a year to install infrastructure with the American occupation force. Bob recounted a reckless decision he made during his time in the Army after returning from Korea for the Christmas holiday in 1947. He hitchhiked to New York City, where he stayed for two weeks before running out of money, and then had to figure out how to get back to Fort Monmouth.. Serving until 1948, he was entitled to the WWII Victory Medal: his service number was 44107856.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210120633/https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=11&tf=F&q=Chandler&bc=&sort=24996%2520desc&rpp=10&pg=4&rid=8565331&rlst=5136538%2C4652469%2C8564216%2C1000879%2C987835%2C4549799%2C991002%2C8565331%2C5188385%2C8565346]</ref>

Figuring he'd get "swallowed up" at a big college, Bob picked a small college, {{w|Jacksonville State Teachers College}} (now Jacksonville State University), after leaving the military. He studied pre-engineering and played French horn for the band and orchestra there for two years before returning to Auburn University, where he studied electrical engineering and graduated in 1952 with a {{w|Bachelor of Electrical Engineering}} degree.<ref>(page 269 of the 1952 yearbook)[https://web.archive.org/web/20170725175342/http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/gloms/id/16173/rec/20] {{w|G.I. Bill}}.</ref><ref name="About" /> As an engineer, he never learned to spell properly.<ref name = "Meet">[[Date with Emily#Meet the Parent (0:05:20–0:07:17)]]</ref> While he was at Auburn, he was part of the band once again, was a member of {{w|Wesley Foundation}}, a [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|United Methodist]] religious group; and Phi Mu Alpha, a social frat dedicated to men who are interested in music.

===Career===
[[File:Bob 25th Anniversary at General Electric.jpg|thumb|200px|Article on Bob's 25th anniversary at General Electric.]]

A 1946 military record included Bob's occupation while he was a student as "tinsmith, coppersmith, and sheet metal worker".

Bob worked for {{w|Western Electric}} as an engineer for four years, where he designed a variety of electrical subsystems, including relays, telephones and valve systems. Initially, he was working with the radar systems in test-planning automatic test equipment. With Western Electric, Bob and his co-worker filed a patent for electrical terminal block in 1955, which was published in 1959.<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US2884613A/en</ref> During the 1950s, he lived in [[wikipedia:Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Winston-Salem, North Carolina]], where his father and half of his half-siblings lived for the rest of their lives.

He was then offered a job by [[wikipedia:General Electric|General Electric]] in [[wikipedia:Utica, New York|Utica, New York]]. Since New York is too cold (and Yankee) for Bob, he left after three years, returning back to Winston-Salem for a few years before transferring to [[wikipedia:Roanoke, Virginia|Roanoke]] in Southwest Virginia, where he discovered his love for the mountains. In 1975, he moved to [[Richmond]], where he worked until 1980, when he was transferred to [[Charlottesville]].<ref name="About" /> He worked with both Goodrich and Goodyear.<ref name="PSN 37" />

With General Electric, Bob was responsible for at least seven patents. [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] claimed, in an email to [[Shigeru Miyamoto|Miyamoto]], that without Bob's influence in the computer world, the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System|NES}} "...might not have arrived so soon,"<ref name="Barbara" /> ignoring the fact that the NES was designed and released in Japan in 1983, without influence from American electronics.

{{quote|Bob Chandler is one of the most creative engineers in the organization.|The General Manager at G.E.<ref>[[:File:Bob 25th Anniversary at General Electric.jpg]]</ref>}}

Examples of Bob's accomplishments include an automated steel mill for rolling steel for cars, a paper mill for the production of Kleenex, warehousing, railroads and tanker ships. He designed scooters, die casting machines, machines for producing plastic products<ref name="About" /> and a vehicle logging system.<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3486009</ref> Both Chris and Barbara have bragged that Bob designed controls<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3889849</ref> that were used in plastic water container molding machines.<ref name="About" /><ref name="Barbara">[[Miyamoto Saga#A Word from Snorlax]]</ref>

Bob retired in 1987 at the age of 59 or 60 after 31 years of service for General Electric.<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris#Open Letter - December 26th, 1987]]</ref> His relatively early retirement may have been provoked by health problems, as he writes in his December 1987 [[Bob's Letters to Chris|letter to Chris]] that "I know now that I, at best, haven't much time left to share myself with you".

Bob himself was proud of his, "...natural inclination for logic," although he was, "...inundated," by all his designs and whether he did well for the world. Would plastic water bottles lead to mankind's salvation or utter destruction? Only time would tell.<ref name="About" />

===World consciousness===
[[Image:0012-BobbyReading.jpg|thumb|Bob Chandler learning how to cut that Internet down.]]

{{quote|I have been very interested in the world since I was 10 years old, and that was 70 years ago and, the, uh, I'm very fond of and I really truly believe in the United Nations, but you won't find anybody else in my countryside or around here, I think, that does. (laughing) But anyway, I'm very world conscious.|[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7|Bob]]}}

Bob referred to himself as a {{w|Republican Party (United States)|Republican}}, and he did not vote for [[Barack Obama]] in {{w|United States presidential election, 2008|the 2008 presidential election}}.<ref name="Prank calls"/> That said, he had misgivings about {{w|Bob McDonnell}}, the Republican candidate in the {{w|Virginia gubernatorial election, 2009|2009 Virginia gubernatorial election}} and the ultimate winner of the election, possibly because of McDonnell's support for very strict anti-abortion laws, which made no exceptions for cases of rape or [[Chris and sex#incest|incest]]. Bob and Chris considered writing in Snoopy from ''[[Peanuts]]'' as a protest vote.<ref>[[Regina e-mails#Wikipedia: The answer to everything]]</ref>

In a potentially damaging moment on 18 [[February 2009]], Bob doubted the existence of [[Molvanîa]], [[Julie]]'s country of origin,<ref>[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.5]]</ref> but he continued talking on the grounds that his grasp of post-Soviet geography was shaky. He apparently convinced himself that Molvanîa was the same place as the real country of {{w|Moldova}}, a former Soviet republic located near the Black Sea.<ref name="PSN 37">[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7]]</ref> However, he rather damningly failed to question why Julie spoke perfect English with an American accent.

Besides Korea, Bob also visited Australia and England at some point in his life.<ref name = "Retired Life">[[Date with Emily#Retired life (0:16:59–0:24:22)]]</ref>

==Relationships==

===Previous family===

Bob was previously married to a woman named Patricia Harley on 25 September 1956 at a United Methodist church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They had two children, [[David Alan Chandler]] (b. 1961) and [[Carol Suzanne Chandler]] (b. 1964).

Bob and Patricia separated on 28 June 1976 before divorcing on 28 January 1980.<ref name="BobObit">https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailyprogress/name/robert-franklin-chandler-obituary?n=robert-franklin-chandler&pid=153539600</ref><ref>[[:File:1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.png]]</ref> Bob's relationships with David and Carol were strained in his later years.<ref name="Cole2">[[:Image:Cole 07-03-06-2.PNG|6 March 2007 email, page 2]]</ref> Because of this, Chris did not know he had a niece via David, named [[Savannah Chandler|Savannah]], until she was 8 years old,<ref>[[CWC's Diary#January 2004]]</ref> and Bob's relationship with Carol was even more distant. According to Chris, Bob was always concerned about Carol. None of the Chandlers knew what was going on with her, and the last they had heard was that she was working for the federal government, implying that she did not show up to her father's funeral.<ref>[[:File:Savannah_chandler3.png]]</ref> David, on the other hand, did attend his father's funeral.<ref>[[:File:Savannah_chandler.png]]</ref>

===Barbara===

[[Image:0063-BobAndBarbaraNewLife.jpg|thumb|With [[Barbara Chandler|Barb]].]]

Bob and [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] met in 1979 at "Maddy's Pub" in Richmond<ref>[[April 2012 Facebook posts#Fear of the future]]</ref> (probably Matt's British Pub in Shockoe Slip, where Bob was a sing-along leader in the late 1970s).<ref name=godbear>[[It took a talking bear to give the name a young boy loves]]</ref> Barbara was there with a friend and Bob was singing.<ref name="Mumble 3.5">[[Mumble 3.5]]</ref> According to Chris, Bob claimed that Barbara did the [[How to Talk to Girls|pursuing]]: "She chased him down the hallway," though Barb has disputed this.<ref>[[The 24th Wedding Anniversary Special#Part 2]]</ref> This version of events may be why Chris figured that he could get away with being passive in terms of courtship. In contrast, [[Cole Smithey|Cole]]'s friend Chuck McGuigan, who worked at the pub as a bartender, has a vivid memory of them, "...acting out as a couple of drunken losers."<ref name="Cole2" />

They got married in 1980,<ref name="Mumble 3.5" /> only months after Bob and Patricia had divorced.<ref>[[:File:1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.jpeg]]</ref> Barb later told Chris that she ultimately married Bob because, "...he owned [[14 Branchland Court|a house]]."<ref>[[Jail Letter - 11 May 2022]]</ref>

According to Chris, Barb and Bob did not have sex for at least two decades before Bob's passing. They had been sleeping in separate rooms in the years leading up to his death.<ref>[[IRC (27 December 2008)]]</ref>

===Cole===
Bob married Barbara when her son [[Cole Smithey|Cole]] was nearly 17, around the time Cole left to lead his own life.

Cole feels that Bob's bitterness ruined the relationship between himself and his mother. Cole said he would celebrate<ref name="Cole2"/> "...when that fuck Bob finally drops,"<ref>[[:Image:Cole 07-07-24-3.PNG|Email from Cole to Chris]]</ref> but it is unknown if he did so. Cole said that he and Bob shared a mutual hatred,<ref name="Cole2" /> though there isn't any proof that Bob hated Cole. At the least, it is certain that Bob knew Cole didn't like him.<ref name = "Meet" />

===Chris===

{{see also|Bob's Letters to Chris}}

{{quote|Get away from the Internet! I'm cutting it down, right now.|Bob Chandler, Internet lumberjack.}}

[[File:Dreaming studio.png|thumb|Dreaming studio of Mr. C and Little C. Where dreams do come true - 1989.]]

Bob's relationship with Chris was rather complex. While Bob was considered to be a better parent than his wife [[Barb]], he was by no means the good ol' pop-pop Chandler many thought he was. While Bob at least tried to help Chris, his attempts at doing so were either futile, misguided or even harmful to Chris in the long term.

When Chris was a boy, Bob encouraged him to learn more about the world and tried sharing his interests and hobbies, including engineering, geography and [[Stamps|stamp collecting]].

When Chris was seven, Bob converted a shed in the backyard of [[14 Branchland Court]] to a workshop where he and Chris could build things together, dubbing it the "dreaming studio." Chris could not recall what they had built together when asked about it in the years following Bob's death;<ref>[[IRL Tour of 14 Branchland Court]]</ref> he and Barb had been using the space for hoard storage.

Bob wished that Chris was more interested in the world. He tried to teach Chris about foreign geography such as [[Julie|Europe]] and [[PandaHalo|Australia]], but figured (correctly) that Chris doesn't understand countries and continents beyond what he's seen on [[television]], and can only associate with the places he's physically been to in Virginia.<ref name="PSN 37" />

Bob had difficulties understanding Chris' [[Autism]] and vehemently refused to get Chris the help he needed, likely due to his antiquated view of the Mental Health system. In fact, he fought tooth and nail for years to keep Chris from getting the special education he needed to cope with the real world. It was the very reason why Bob rented a second home in a Chesterfield County so Chris couldn't attend special classes that Greene County recommended. Bob was most likely under the impression, that Chris would be thrown into a lunatic asylum, lobotomized and that Chris needs to be sheltered all his life because of it, never mind his autistic [[Savannah|granddaughter]], who lives a relatively normal life.

When Chris entered [[Manchester High]], Bob hired [[Gal pal|a bunch of girls]] to babysit Chris in a misguided attempt to socialize Chris. He let Chris believe they were legit friends, when they were only in it for their own gain.

Bob enjoyed collecting stamps as a boy growing up in the 1930s, and he continued to do so for several decades, with a focus on the United Nations and foreign countries,<ref>[[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7]]</ref> building a collection of stamp albums which filled six boxes.<ref>[[I'm selling my father's stamp collection; come on down and buy some of it]]</ref> He taught Chris about his hobby, buying him a beginner's stamp album in 1992.<ref>[[eBay#Chris's stamp album]]</ref> Chris seemed to enjoy the hobby as well, since he had many pages of stamps filled in. In [[Bob's Letters to Chris|letters]] to Chris (written when Chris was a few years old), Bob gave Chris permission to pass along his various collections onto others after inheriting them. In 2017, Chris began selling pieces of the inherited stamp collection. Bob's pieces were decently priced, generally for $5 per set, though he tried to sell his own personal stamp album for $1,000.<ref>[[eBay]] - see listings for their stamp collections.</ref>

Bob's racist joke that [[Barack Obama]] would paint the White House black as soon as he became president influenced Chris to draw it in [[Sonichu 8|''Sonichu'' #8]].

Chris's phobia of [[Pickle|penises]] was apparently sparked from barging into his parents' room, where Bob had a habit of sleeping nude from the waist down.<ref>[[February 2020 social media posts#On seeing his father's penis]]</ref>

Chris has often complained about stressful confrontations with his father:

{{quote|well, my father is a major stressor against me; starts arguements [sic], annoys me, [[Chris and health#hygiene|rarely washes his hands after restroom breaks]] (lord knows I've tried to encourage him to wash numerous time, and rarely succeeded).|Chris, [[IRC (31 December 2008)]]}}

However, the many instances of Bob communicating with trolls show that he was generally pleasant and amicable, not at all inclined to start arguments, as Chris asserts. As seen during the lead up to the fateful encounter between [[Emily]], Chris and the [[Man in the Pickle Suit]], Bob seemed to be more than happy to discuss stories with people, even those he hadn't seen or heard that much of - [[Robert Simmons V]], who met Bob during his [[Church audio|visit to Chris's church]] conversed with him extensively, later saying that he was a 'really pleasant guy.' The antagonism to which Chris refers was likely Bob attempting to constructively criticize Chris in order to better him, as Chris deeply resents being told what he does not want to hear.
[[File:Bob drawing Nov. '15.jpg|thumb|200px|left|A drawing of Bob by Chris, released in [[November 2015]].]]

An example of this criticism was Bob telling Chris that, since Bob had looked after Chris for 29 years despite his childish and outrageous behavior, Chris should show more gratitude towards him. Chris was completely dismissive, figuring that his father was ''obligated'' to take care of him, and seeing no reason as to why he should demonstrate any foreign concepts like "love," "support," "gratitude," and "willingness to help." Reinforcing Bob's point, Chris still ran for his father's aid when he felt threatened, as in the later parts of the [[Kacey and Liquid Call]].

Despite Bob's occasional [[Mumble 1|frustration]] over Chris's actions, he seemed to have bought into the theory that Chris is tormented by a [[Encyclopedia Dramatica|complex network of enemies spanning the entire world]], due to the success that he has earned from his own Sonichu franchise.<ref name="Church">[[Church audio]]</ref><ref name="Noble">[[Matthew Noble call]]</ref> In the [[Matthew Noble call]], it appeared that Bob was the source of Chris's tendency to bring up unrelated mishaps and debacles to make current incidents and sources of [[stress]] seem "petty" in comparison.

[[Image:0106-ChristianWDad.jpg|thumb|Bob and a younger Christian. Note Chris's "Family Bonding" shirt.]]
Once during a phone call with a troll, Bob stated that Chris was [[Chris and anger|"a hell of a lot nicer"]] and "has done a lot better than" the troll calling him.<ref name="Prank">[[Prank calls#Snake Productions Calls Bob Chandler]]</ref>

After Chris got his now obsolete [[CADD]] degree, instead of telling Chris to get to work like any other parent would, he encouraged Chris to stay home just so he could continue to get his taxpayer-funded [[tugboat]].

He never seemed to get past the notion that Chris could and had already achieved things, given that he continued to have to nursemaid Chris well into his son's late 20s. In the later parts of 2009 and throughout 2010, as chronicled in Chris's emails with [[Vivian Gee E-mails, 2009|Vivian Gee]] and [[Jackie E-mails 7|Jackie]], Bob had been forced to take an increasingly active role in controlling Chris's spending and debt, paying off Chris's credit cards with his own money in an attempt to prevent interest charges from spiraling even further out of control. By the fall of 2010, he was monitoring Chris's bank accounts on a daily basis and keeping him on a strict allowance. Upon finding out about Chris's [[Tomgirl Pictures|escapades]] in early 2011, Bob's reaction was to question Chris's sexuality, at one point even calling him a "fag", even though he indirectly contributed to it through his unbalanced approach of socializing Chris.

Chris has said specifically that he doesn't have to love his father, but has to respect him.<ref>[[Mumble 1#Transcript|Mumble Chat 1]]</ref> Confidential details collected after Bob's death, however, suggests Chris was more emotionally attached than he let on, providing rare and precious evidence that Chris doesn't take the presence of others for granted. He also got genuinely emotional while reading a letter that his father had left for him on-camera, again indicating how much he misses his father.<ref>[[CLog 09042017 - Mister C]]</ref>

In [[December 2012]], Chris uploaded the soundtrack from the [[WTJU Marathon|1990 WTJU Jazz Marathon]], in which Bob was a performer and a host. It was notable as one of the few moments where Chris publicly honored his father's memory since his passing in [[September 2011]].

Bob lives on in his son's memory. Chris noted the occasion of his father's passing by attaching angel wings to the [[Lego]] minifigure representing him,<ref>Seen at 4:24 in [[CWC Lego Manchester High School Oct 18 2013]]</ref> and displaying two photos of him in front of his TV.<ref>[[:File:Totem2ebay.jpeg]]</ref> He often sees Bob in his [[dreams]].<ref>[[March 2012 Facebook Posts#Still Feeling Lonely II|March 2012 Facebook Posts]]</ref><ref>[[List of OkCupid Answers#2014 Answers--LevelUpKing|OkCupid Answers]]</ref>

Due to the influence of the [[Idea Guys]], Chris later expressed beliefs that Bob is half-Sonichu and is apparently still alive in the [[CWCville]] dimension. These beliefs began around December 2017 and continued even after the Idea Guys had been removed from power, as shown by the below quote from 2018's Father's Day.

{{quotebox|[[File:Father's Day 2018.jpg|200px|thumb]]

<nowiki>#HappyFathersDay</nowiki> to each and every Father in This World and in Every Single Other Dimension Too! My father is alive again! I still love him, even in his checker-patterned glory! ⚡️💙❤️⚡️<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191211070743/https://twitter.com/cwcsonichu/status/1008449921387778048</ref>}}

In the [[Incest Call]], Chris claimed he was better at [[Affair with Mother|pleasuring]] [[Barb]] than his own father. One can only imagine Bob's reaction to this news if he were still alive to bear witness to what his son has become.

Despite his best efforts to the contrary, Chris, his second chance at being a father, was Bob's greatest failure as a parent, even when factoring in his strained relationship with his other children.

===Other relationships===
In spite of his redneck background, Bob seems to have gotten along better with foreigners than with his own countrymen. His closest friend in Richmond was Reverend Chen of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church,<ref>[[Date with Emily#Eating spaghetti and conversing (0:36:49–0:44:46)]]</ref> and he had English friends through his involvement with Matt's British Pub.<ref name=godbear></ref> He also had friends in Australia,<ref>BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7</ref> and Czechoslovakian friends in late 1970s, who were illegal immigrants escaping Czechoslovakia. Chris said Bob and Barb enjoyed conversing and drinking {{w|Slivovitz}} with them and that Bob would drive to Maryland to buy Slivovitz.<ref>[[Regina_e-mails#Random-access_humor_demonstration]]</ref>

From his father's second marriage, Bob had, "...a large number of half-brothers and sisters in... [[wikipedia:Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Salem, North Carolina]],"<ref>[[Bob's Letters to Chris]]</ref> but he does not seem to have been very close with them. Bob's stepmother's obituary confirms that eight of these half-siblings were alive as of 2015.<ref>https://www.hufffuneralhome.com/obituary/Dorothy-Chandler</ref>

[[Prank calls#Call Bobby Chandler|Contrary to popular beliefs]], he did not have friends in the Ku Klux Klan.

==Later life, poor health and death==
[[File:Bob playbill for musical push cart.jpg|thumb|200px|Playbill for Mr. C. and his musical pushcart.]]

Bob lived on Social Security as well as his General Electric pension.<ref name = "Retired Life" /> He never really had people to chat with at home (he would ramble to [[Trolls|total strangers]] on the phone if he could), so he sat around, listened to music, and took care of the garden inside the greenhouse.<ref name="PSN 37" /> With a 1970s stereo system set up in the greenhouse, he went to 'swing with the music' on his swing there.<ref name="Retired Life" />

Bob had two triple bypasses and four heart attacks. The two triple-bypass operations took place first in August 1980 and at last in 1992. He had {{w|Coronary artery disease}} and wore an {{w|Artificial cardiac pacemaker|artificial pacemaker}}.<ref>[[Autism papers#FAMILY_HISTORY:]]</ref><ref>[[Mumble 3]]</ref> He apparently had several vivid near-death experiences: during [[Date with Emily#Bob's health problems (0:24:23–0:25:29)|Chris's date with]] [[Emily]], Bob tells her that he has "died" several times, and Chris says that Bob, "...has seen the light, but did not actually go to it." In one prank call, Bob revealed that after surgery for cancer it was discovered that he had a fluid build-up in his legs, which is symptomatic of CHF. This rapid decline in health worried him.<ref name="Prank calls"/> He attributed his long life to the [[Cherokee]] in him. His uncles and grandfather all lived past 90.<ref name="PSN 37" /> Despite his heart troubles he continued to eat at [[Burger King]] daily.<ref>[[Prank calls#Calls to Bob and Chris]]</ref><ref>[[Trollin Train#Hey, guys (Sun 22 Aug 2010)]]</ref>

On 1 [[March 2010]], Chris [[Twitter|tweeted]] that Bob had been taken to the hospital in the early morning for "congested [sic] {{w|heart failure}}". Chris seemed confident that his father was not in for a long stay. Considering Bob's age, lifestyle, and long history of heart disease, [[Chris and death|Chris did not seem to grasp the seriousness of his heart failure]]. Bob had been the only thing keeping [[14 Branchland Court|the Chandler household]] from imploding, and as such, trolls and [[White-Knighting|white knights]] alike wished him the very best.

[[Image:Bobbed.jpg|thumb|Apart from the dying heart]]

In the month following Bob's hospitalization, Chris was remarkably quiet on the subject of his father. News about his condition was hard to come by, as information only arose [[Chris and his Ego|when Chris was inclined to complain about it online]]. Statistically, congestive heart failure is not as immediately fatal as its name implies,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201210121845/https://www.healthline.com/health/chf-life-expectancy]</ref> but Bob's age, prior heart attacks and [[Tour of Chris's House|lifestyle]] made this a very serious situation.

Chris's videos over the month of March made no mention of Bob at all. Staying true to his painfully predictable nature, Chris instead lost a [[The Wallflower|girlfriend he never had]], [[Chris Drops the N-Bomb|made racial slurs and death threats towards a cartoon character]], and [[F Abstinance|raged against abstinence]]. His silence on the subject of his father was probably because of [[Naïve|genuine ignorance]] of the seriousness of his father's condition.

A poster on [[/cwc/]] contacted Chris via PSN regarding Bob. He posted a screen capture of Chris's response, saying, "He is doing much better, thank you."<ref>[[:File:Bobbetter.jpg]]</ref> Another contacted Chris via email and got a response saying, "Yes, my father is healthy and safe." Clearly he was neither, but this was at least proof that Bob hadn't joined the Whites-Only section of Heaven just yet. In late May, Chris finally made [[Some Favored Comedians|a brief mention]] in a public video that his father was "alive and well". Chris was, at least, half right.

A breakdown of Bob's final months reads as follows.

On 24 March 2011, Bob claimed in a phone call to have cancer of some description.<ref>http://youtu.be/y-GGSOyCm2k</ref>

On 23 April 2011, in an email to Jackie, Chris revealed that Bob had received surgery for colon cancer.<ref>[[Jackie_E-mails_24]]</ref>

On 20 July 2011, it was revealed that [[Tomboys And Tomgirls of Virginia#Re: Coming out to my parents|Bob knew about Chris's cross-dressing tendencies]] and, like Barb, vehemently disapproved of them.

On 29 August 2011, Chris, now deeply entrenched in his [[Tomgirl Saga|tomgirlish ways]], [[Response to ADF|mentioned that Bob was an ill and sickly shut-in]], and was suffering from [[Chris and English|"feet-bloatings"]].

In early September 2011, Bob was rushed by ambulance to Martha Jefferson hospital with heart failure. [[Rocky Shoemaker call|It was discovered later]] that Bob had been put into quarantine when he arrived because his body was [[14 Branchland Court|covered in bug bites]] and he posed a contamination risk. On the sixth of that month, he died at age 84.<ref name="BobObit"></ref> Out of respect for him and his family, the CWCki was closed for a week, 12–19 September, with the start date coinciding with the day Bob's funeral service was held. Site visitors were directed to a page which simply read "Robert Franklin Chandler Jr. 1927–2011."<ref name="BobObit" />

It is said that [[Man in the Pickle Suit|Marvin]] and other trolls, using the [[Jackie]] identity as a catfish, attempted to contact Chris over the phone shortly after Bob's death for unclear reasons; Chris was noted to be audibly upset as he cried throughout the conversation. While the audio was recorded and archived on what is referred to as the "Black Tape" by some Christorians, the contents of the call were never released publicly due to Chris's miserable emotional state. The trolls who participated in the call realized after the fact that it was simply too soon to try to reach out to Chris in this fashion and, for a change, opted to respect his privacy for once. The Black Tape either still exists in the hands of the trolls who participated in its creation, or it has been lost to time.<ref>[[CWCki Forums posts (Marvin)#The Black Tape]]</ref>

Bob's death also marked another significant change in Chris's life, as the vast majority of the trolls associated with the "Classic Era" voluntarily retired from trolling Chris, knowing that he was deeply depressed by his father's passing. Only a few of these trolls still remain active as observers on [[Kiwi Farms]], and a trolling renaissance did not begin until much later in the decade with the advent of the [[Idea Guys]].

==Cause of death==
Despite the fairly clear-cut nature of the lumberjack's passing, Chris has since declared that the [[trolls]] were responsible for Bob's death. In an [[Misc_E-mails|email]] leaked on 22 [[March 2014]], Chris claimed that the stress of his trolling led to Bob's heart attack. This keeps in the trend Chris has developed of blaming any and all misfortunes (even those faced by everyone, like burying a family member) on trolls.

{{quote|AND the total [[stress]] KILLED my Father Prematurely; if not for those Trolls, he would still be alive, and would have likely lived beyond 2015.|Chris.}}

Even for Chris this is appalling behavior; using the '''death of his own father''' as a vehicle to play the victim and attempt to stave off trolls. While it's not uncommon for those who have lost loved ones to blame their deaths on external causes (however impossible or insane, as in this case), Chris's actions stemmed purely from selfishness and egotism – business as usual.

Years later, in 2017, Chris revised his claim and said that Bob was killed after hospital staff surprised him with a "Loud Noise." He went on to say that he had more freedom when Bob was alive.

{{quote|I wish I could go back to September 5, 2011 and stop the staff from making the Loud Noise that killed my father with stressful surprise. I had more freedom when he was alive.|Chris<ref name=LoudNoise></ref>}}

==Obituary==
Both [[Barbara Chandler|Barb]] and Chris collaborated in writing Bob's obituary, which was published in two local papers. Main points of the obituary, apart from the standard birth date, date of death, and next of kin, include:

* Text going into [[autism|unusual detail]] about what Bob did at General Electric.
* The location of the memorial service, "to follow on a later date", at [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church]], the church that Barb, Bob and Chris used to frequent together. This is the same church that [[Rocky Shoemaker]] counseled Chris from.
* A footnote asking readers to not donate flowers, but to [[Chris and money|donate money to Barbara and Chris]].

With Chris taking part in writing the obituary, it's amazing that the writing stayed focus on Bob and did not once mention Sonichu or become about Chris (except for the request for money at the end).

===Original text===
[[Image:Rip internet lumberack by vekke.png|thumb|May you always watch over our sweet autist.]]
{{quoteboxgray|
:''Robert Franklin Chandler Jr., 84, of Ruckersville, passed away the morning of Tuesday, September 6, 2011, at Martha Jefferson Hospital ICU surrounded by family, pastor and hospital staff.''

:''He was born on September 4, 1927, in Texas, the son of the late Robert Franklin Chandler Sr. and Jean Holloman Chandler. On June 7, 1980, he married Barbara Anne Weston, who survives. And the couple gave birth to a son, Christian Weston Chandler, who survives. Also surviving is ex-wife, Patricia, and their shared children, son, Dr. David Alan Chandler, survives, and daughter, Carol Suzanne Chandler, survives.''

:''He graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Engineering.''

:''He served in the United States Army Seoul Korea in the Signal Corp during the Korean War. He worked for General Electric as an Engineer with Steels, Plastics, etc. He also had patents for the controls for Plastic Molding Machines; without him, we would not have even a simple plastic funnel.''

:''Also surviving are granddaughter, Savannah Chandler, the daughter of David Alan Chandler and his wife, Kimberly.''

:''A funeral service will be held at Monticello Memory Gardens in Charlottesville, Virginia, 10 a.m. Monday, September 12, 2011. A memorial service to follow on a later date at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church.''

:''Instead of flowers, you may make monetary donations to his widow, Barbara Chandler and son, Christian Chandler.<ref name="BobObit" />}}

==In memoriam==
[[File:Chandler_Niche.jpg|thumb|left|Bob's final resting place.]]

Bob is often seen as a gregarious, hard-working man ([[Ruckersville, VA|all things considered]]) who tried ([[2014 house fire|albeit without]] [[26 December 2014|success]]) his best to refine Chris into someone that could at least pass for a responsible adult, giving him mock job interviews and [[Date with Emily|chaperoning him on dates]], where he proved (unsurprisingly) more adept at charming the date than Chris, but stopped altogether in his later years, leaving Chris to his own devices.

On the other hand, we have him to thank for some of his son's more [[Homos|backward]] [[Niggos|worldviews]]. He managed to alienate his other children enough that [[Carol Chandler|his daughter]] didn't attend his funeral or keep in touch while he was alive. He helped Chris to construct [[Matthew Noble call|bizarre]] [[Greene County Conspiracy|conspiracy theories]] to justify [[Chris and the law|trespassing and the like]], among [[Chris and his ego|other things]]. He, like Barbara, enabled Chris's crippling dependence on them, general immaturity and irresponsibility, and his myriad of other flaws. He bailed out his son repeatedly and never really let Chris experience the [[Financhu Crisis|consequences]] of his misinformed [[Chris and money|life decisions]]. He never made any serious effort to correct his son's glaring character flaws and shortcomings, even when he [[Bob Walks In|caught him masturbating in the kitchen]]. The [[THAT IS MY HOUSE|few]] times he did intervene, it wasn't even for Chris' own benefit, but to shake off the trolls and the Health department. He also did not make any real attempt to provide for Chris's future, beyond ensuring the tugboat. He left all of his money to Barbara, who promptly wasted it all on [[Rob Bell|lawyer's fees]] – a conscientious parent would have anticipated this and put some of the money in a trust for Chris, not that Chris would've handled the money any better. Better yet, he could've given the money to his son Alan, Carol or his own [[Savannah|granddaughter]].

While some like to remember Bob as a kind-hearted, albeit ignorant old man who tried his best to be a good father, others see him as a remnant of a bygone era who is responsible for moulding Chris into the person he is today.

{{clear}}

==Chris's beliefs on Bob's afterlife==
===Idea Guy influences===
{{quote|Robert Franklin Chandler Jr's and Ted Bundy's souls never went to Heaven or Hell; They both became reborn ''[...]'' as their respective Sonichu forms. ''[...]'' Mister C. and Ted also serve to help the nation of CWCville in defense, and in intellect.|[[Sonichu 16|''Sonichu'' #16]], page 49}}

[[File:Bobchu.jpeg|thumb|150px|Bob's Sonichu form.]]
[[File:Bob meets Ted Bundy, Sonichu 16.JPG|Bob meets Ted Bundy in the hereafter.|thumb|150px]]

During the [[Idea Guys]] saga, Chris's belief in multiple dimensions was exploited and his sense of reality hijacked to make changes to many of Chris's characters, concepts and perspectives of the real world, with him considering them to be valid. Perhaps one of the more heinous examples of this was the Idea Guys' [[Chris and manipulation|manipulation]] of Chris's views on his own father; views which Chris has yet to abandon, despite the Idea Guys being removed from power by the [[Guard Dogs]] in mid-2018. Ideas involving Bob include:

*Bob's spirit resides in CWCville, dimension [[C-197]], as a half-Sonichu named Robertchu, styled in his Sonichu form as a beaver with checkerboard fur<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201210122024/https://twitter.com/CWCSonichu/status/1008449921387778048</ref><ref>The drawing of Robertchu was among those drawn for Idea Guy, and no references to it exist beforehand.</ref> (a reference to his troll-given Internet Lumberjack nickname).

*Bob met serial killer Ted Bundy while in CWCville and helps defend it alongside Ted.<ref>[[Sonichu 13|''Sonichu'' #13]]</ref>

Post-Idea Guys, Chris decided that Robertchu's fur color was really red with black ears because he found it too time-consuming to draw the checkerboard pattern.<ref>[[June 2019 social media posts#Father's Day memorial]]</ref>

Robertchu was featured as cards in Chris's homemade [[Shipfic]] expansion. In one, Chris photoshopped a photo of [[Barbara Chandler|Barbara]] so that she is standing beside a drawing of Robertchu in his Sonichu form. The card text reads, "Honey, I'm Home" and states:

{{quotebox|Every once in a while, Mister C runs back home to offer comfort to Barbara. Before the Dimension Merge's completion, she has missed him everyday, and found the solace and comfort when he comes by. He continues to carry a torch for her in his heart and soul while he helps to protect everyone in Cwcville and at this old temple of a house.}}

[[File:RobertchuBackHome.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Robertchu as a [[Shipfic]] card.]]

{{clear}}

==Appearances==

===In ''Sonichu''===
{{quote|Christian, you are not a girl! Go put your pants back on.|Bob, ''Sonichu'' #12}}

[[File:Chandlers & Sonichus.jpg|200px|thumb]]

In [[Sonichu 8#Spring Break, 2008!|"Spring Break, 2008"]], a radio announcement from [[Jamsta Sonichu]] mentions that Bob founded [[CWCville]] in 1982, presumably after Chris's birth on [[Chris's birthday|24 February]] given that Bob named the city after his newborn son. Comic Bob presumably served as mayor before Chris took the office at an unknown date. At other points, Bob was mentioned in Chris's tangents about hating men other than himself and his father.

In [[Sonichu 9#Episode 19|"Date Ed"]], there are two dolls for the class to practice talking to, girls received "Robert" dolls, while boys received "Barbara" dolls, an obvious reference/homage to Bob and Barb.

Bob made his first official appearance in [[Sonichu 11|''Sonichu'' #11]], photoshopped into a "family photo" alongside Chris, Barb and various [[Electric Hedgehog Pokémon]].

[[File:Borb, Sonichu12.jpg|200px|thumb|left]]

[[File:Bob,Sonichu12.jpg|200px|thumb|right]]

In [[Sonichu 12|''Sonichu'' #12]], Bob appears in a set of pages that combine an autobiographical account of Chris coming out as a [[tomgirl]] to his parents, and a tribute to his late father. He is depicted as an elderly man, as the page took place in 2010 (due to Chris's [[Oedipus complex]], Barb is depicted as much more youthful). He attempts to dissuade Chris from continuing his tomgirl lifestyle, although Chris states that Bob later, "...told me he accepts and love ''[sic]'' me for who I am," shortly before his passing in 2011.

Chris concludes Bob's appearance in the book with a photo in memoriam of his life, saying that he and Barb continue to miss him every day.

[[File:Chandler family as ponies.png|200px|thumb|left|Bob, pictured at right, as ''Gallop Crush'', in a [[MLP]]-inspired drawing from [[August 2017]].]]

In August 2017, Chris unveiled a drawing of the Chandler family depicted as [[My Little Pony]] characters, saying that they will make further appearances in [[Sonichu 12-9|''Sonichu'' #12-9]]. The ponified Bob, known as "Gallop Crush", appears as [[Night Star]]'s father, reaffirming the self-insert nature of Chris's ponysona.

In the [[Idea Guy]]-written [[Sonichu 16|''Sonichu'' #16]], Bob's spirit crosses over into CWCville where he meets and strikes up a conversation with serial killer [[Ted Bundy]].

{{Mayors of CWCville}}

===As a toy===

<center><gallery>
File:BobAmiibo.jpg|[[Amiibo]] Bob, which Chris offered for sale on [[Etsy]] in [[November 2015]]. Oh yes.
File:ChrisFamilyEtsyC.jpg|Promo drawing
</gallery></center>

===Audio and video===

In every appearance, Bob has proven himself to be better at charming Chris's [[sweetheart]]s than Chris himself (not a difficult feat, to be fair).

* [[1990]]: Bob appeared as the DJ to the [[WTJU Marathon]].
* 26 February [[1994]]: Bob appears briefly behind Chris from 0:26-0:36 in the news report of the [[Chris in the media|Sonic Watch & Win Sweepstakes]].
*[[Christmas|25 December]] [[2004]]: Bob makes multiple physical appearences in [[ChandlerFamilyChristmas2004]], where he appears remarkably depressed.
* 14 [[February 2009]]: [[Bob Walks In]] to Chris [[mass debating]] in the [[kitchen]].
* 18 [[February 2009]]: In [[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.5]] and [[BlueSpike PSN Chat 3.7|3.7]], Bob rambles to [[Julie]].
* 15 [[March 2009]]: Bob [[Church Visit|talked]] to [[Robert Simmons V]] at [[Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church|church]] while [[DIRTY, CRAPPED BRIEFS|Chris went to shit himself]].
* [[March 2009]]: Bob chaperoned Chris on his date with [[Emily]].
* 27 [[March 2009]]: Bob gets intruded by Chris in the [[Tour of Christian's House]], but is not visible.
* 27 [[August 2009]]: [[THAT IS MY HOUSE|Bob enters Chris's room]] and scolds him for making the house tour, (correctly) fearing that if someone saw the house as it was, they would be evicted (Uncut version only). This is a momentous occasion, showing some awareness on the part of the Chandlers that the filth and squalor they live in is a health hazard. This video subsequently off a wave of emails and calls to the Greene County Health Department, masterminded by trolls who hoped to realize Bob's fear of eviction, but the campaign was seemingly unsuccessful.
* [[November 2009]]: Bob and [[Barb|Snorlax]] make a brief appearance at the end of the [[Kacey and Liquid Call]].
* 15 [[August 2010]]: In his final outing on the damn Internet, Bob gets a [[Matthew Noble call|call from the GAMe PLACe]] and is informed of Chris's actions earlier in the year. He then goes on a tangent about how Chris has been tormented by everyone ever since he was banned, and then demands Michael Snyder's information. Barbara also is audible at the end of the call.
* [[Prank calls]]: Bob answered several of these. He was usually sincere when talking with prank callers, providing them with true and honest information about himself and Chris, but was occasionally pushed to trolling them back, on one occasion telling a particularly obnoxious pair of trolls that he had ties to the Ku Klux Klan.

==Gallery==
<center>
<gallery>
File:Bob1946Auburn.jpg|Bob's Auburn freshman yearbook photo, taken for the 1946 yearbook.
File:BobJax1950.PNG|Bob's 1950 Jacksonville State Teachers College sophomore yearbook photo.
File:Bobauburn1951.PNG|Bob's 1951 Auburn junior yearbook photo.
File:Bobauburn1952.PNG|Bob's Auburn senior yearbook photo.
File:WW2BobChandler(badquality).jpg|Bob's 1946 U.S. Army draftee (written in 1945).
File:Bob1946WW2DraftCardPhysicalDetail.png|Bob's 1946 Draft card on a physical detail (written in 1945).
File:BobPatMarriage.png|Bob and Patricia's newspaper engagement.
File:1956 9 25 - Bob, Patricia marriage license.png|1956 9 25 - Bob, Patricia marriage license.
File:1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.png|1980 1 28 - Bob, Patricia divorce.
File:1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.jpeg|1980 6 7 - Borb marriage license.
File:Bob and his parents - 1930s census.png|Bob and his parents - 1930s census.
File:Bob and his parents - 1940s census.png|Bob and his parents - 1940s census.
File:Bob1950Census.jpg|Bob in the Jacksonville State Teachers University's dormitory room - 1950s census.
File:Bob's birth certificate.png|Bob's birth certificate.
File:Chris's family tree up to his great great grandparents.png|Chris's family tree up to his great-great-grandparents.
File:RobertChandler1960s.png|Bob in the late 1960s/early 1970s
Image:0009-ChristopherChristmas2.jpg|Christmas at the Chandlers, taken sometime during the 1980s.
Image:0011-ChristopherBobXmas.jpg|That isn't Chris's half-senile old grandfather at [[Christmas]] time. It's Bob. He was that age when Chris was about one.
File:0012-BobbyReading.jpg
File:0033-MommasBirthday.jpg
Image:0014-YoungerFather.jpg
Image:0032-BobAtRestraunt.jpg|
File:1993family.png|Barb, Chris and Bob in [[1993]]
Image:0038-AuntCorinaAndDad.jpg|Bob with [[Aunt Corrina]].
Image:0062-NewChristian&Dad.jpg|
File:0063-BobAndBarbaraNewLife.jpg
File:0090-Christmas95-5.jpg
File:0091-Christmas95-6.jpg
Image:0120-BobbyBehindBars.jpg|
File:0106-ChristianWDad.jpg
File:0473-CWC18th4.jpg
File:0114-MomsBirthday97-2.jpg
File:0115-MomsBirthday97-3.jpg
Image:0230-ChristianAndDadInClass.jpg|
File:Bob&BarbMay2000.png|
File:Bob1997article1.png|Bob's short brief article from Richmond Times-Dispatch in July 1997.
File:Bob1997article2.png|Bob's short brief article from Richmond Times-Dispatch in August 1997.
Image:0626-BobbyInGarden.jpg|Bob used to enjoy gardening back in the day.
File:0472-CWC18th3.jpg
Image:CreepyBobAndChris.JPG
Image:Bob_80th.jpg
File:Robert Chandler, 19 June 2016 Facebook post photo.jpg|Last known photo.
</gallery>
</center>

==Fan tributes==
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{{Infobox/Fanvideo
| name = Tribute to Bob Chandler
| video = {{#ev:youtube|ajEN2zrY8cQ}}
| Stardate = 11 September 2011
| Maker = 8x13Wolf
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{{Infobox/Fanvideo
| name = RIP Bob Chandler
| video = {{#ev:youtube|tyoboaDCJ0s}}
| Stardate = 29 September 2011
| Maker = furnacewoodsband
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==References==
{{Fan Art|chris=Bob Chandler}}
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20201210122203/https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141038783/robert-franklin-chandler Bob Chandler at Find a Grave]

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