Here’s a bit more: according to a newspaper article I’m reading, Alvin was actually in the middle of a federal court case in the middle of 1961, concerning violence against freedom riders.
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I posted below with more links, but my quick research tells this story: The child she was pregnant with here was born, and they had another one in ‘59. In june of ‘61, lightening struck the house, which burned down with the three inside it. Alvin was elsewhere- perhaps work- when it happened. The news archives I can…
This appears to be them, Alvin, Barbara, and his other wives and children. http://www.palmspringsbum.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I98863&tree=Legends