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Charles Leon "Charlie" Floyd, 1934-2016, District 4 Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame 2019 Legacy Award

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On Sept. 5, 1934, the day Charles Leon Callahan Jr. was born, his father, Charles Callahan Sr., loaded his mother, Ernestine (Watson) Callahan into a cattle truck in Lafayette, Alabama, and drove her to the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where he also delivered a load of cattle to market. Charles's parents divorced a few years later, and by age 4 he was living much of the time with aunts and uncles on their South Carolina farms while his mother worked as a traveling nurse. Charles's last name was changed to Floyd when his mother remarried.

It was at these two farms that Charl...

 

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