Billy and the Turkey
Shoot
A Thanksgiving Story
Feaster Mixson Reunion in 1952
Held for many a year since
1937
under the Old Oak Tree on the Feaster homestead. Barbara (my
mother) of the story holding Brenda, just to right of center. Danny
Tillman, author of the story, at the age of five, would likely to
have been there as his mother was Feaster.
List of Characters in the Story
| Billy | - Billy Yawn, husband of Betty |
| Betty | - Betty Dixon#FE042, Billy’s wife. Danny's first cousin and one of the two daughters of Danny's Aunt Elizabeth (Lizzie Lois Feaster#FE002 Dixon), Mary's sister. |
| Janice | - Janice Yawn#FE047, Billy's and Betty's oldest daughter. |
| Mary | - Mary Leila Feaster#FE006 Tillman, Danny's mother. |
| Morris and Barbara | Mixson#918 - friends of Billy and Betty. |
| m.w. | - Danny Lynn Tillman#FE179, the masked writer and the fictitious author of most of these Stories for Mary. |
| Rufus | - Rufus Tillman#FE006h, Danny's daddy. |
| Sonny | - Rufus “Wilburn” Tillman, Jr.#FE178, Danny's brother. I give him, me and my two sisters (Jane and Judy) fictitious names for these Stories for Mary. |
| Aunt Vonnie | - Aunt Vonnie, who was a neighbor of ours when we lived in Jacksonville, Florida. She wasn't an actual aunt, but that's what Wilburn and I called her. She drove the school bus. |
Note: Superscript numbers are my genealogy reference numbers. Click to see references.