LIFE AND TIMES OF THE GOAT-MAN.......

From my recent blog on seeing the GOAT-MAN in person has aroused my interest in this character, so I have done some research on him and will share this amazing odd ball legend.
Charles "Ches" McCartney was born in 1901 in the state of Iowa and is better known as The GOAT-MAN. He became a legend in his own time as well as after his death. Times were simple and tough during those early days in Iowa as a youth. At the age of 14 he ran away from home and went to New York. While in New York sometimes later he married a woman 10 years his senior. She was Spanish and worked in a carnival as a knife thrower. Guess who became her target after they married, yeah Ches. Imagine your bride throwing sharp knifes at you every day. Not the kind of life Ches dreamed. I'll bet he didn't give her a hard time!! This marriage didn't last long, I can't understand why??? Ches decided to return to Iowa and start farming.
Times were hard during those depression days. Ches had little success with the farm. The bank foreclosed on the note and Ches lost everything but some goats, a BIBLE, and the book; Robinson Crusoe. He soon found work with the W.P.A. a goverment agency that put people to work during those depression days. He began helping cut down timber and one day a tree fell on him and knocked him unconscious. The men working with him thought he was dead so they took him to a funeral home. On the mortician's table while the embaling needle was being injected he WOKE UP!! " Don"t do that, I'm not dead yet" he said.
The tree accident left him with a mangled arm for the rest of his life. Ches married again and him and his wife had a son they named Albert Dean Mc Cartney. His wife didn't like all his goats and they never could get along with each other. It was said that Ches sold his wife to some farmer in the area for $1,000. She must have been some kind of a looker to bring all that money during those depression days.
STORY TO CONTINUE.................GOAT-MAN AND SON HIT THE ROAD!!!