Papa Bo: A Biography on for my grandfather.

Daniel Harrell Carelock was born in El Dorado, Arkansas on November 1930 25^{th ,}  1930. His mother is Alpha Leister Carelock and Father, William Carelock, had 6 children together. Twins, Julius and Jimmy, were the youngest, then Rosie, Daniel was the middle child and the oldest boys were Ralph and Orland. Daniel had to help take care of his younger siblings when he was near 7 years old. They lived in a rural area and had livestock and a vegetable garden to take care of. Daniel had a cow to milk each morning, as did Rosie. They also had to collect fire wood. Daniel, to his family, was only called Bo. He knew is grandfather well. Myers Carelock traveled from North Carolina by Wagon to El Dorado and raised his children alone since his wife died when Daniels father was only 8. He settled the Carelock Family in the same land for the next few generation.

            Daniel went to a small school near old south field road for only a few years. In 5^th grade he began school at Parkers Chapel. His mother was a school teacher. Around the time of World war 2, his mother traveled to schools who were lacking teachers around Arkansas. The first President he really remembered was Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, then Harry Truman after the war. He had two really good childhood friends name Grimm and Kenneth. Past times that they enjoyed were riding there bicycles. Daniel had horses they would ride also. Kenneth had a couple of cousins that had a house with a lake near it. On summer days they would go swimming.  At around 9, his family got their first radio. Everyday at 5pm they listened to the Uncle Moe show on K01D. He listened to gospel, country, and a little of rock and roll. When he turned 16 he got his first job working for his grandfather, his mothers father. He drove gravel trucks to construction sites. In High School his favorite teachers were an Algebra Teacher name Mrs. Hamm and his History teacher Mr. Latemer. After school, he was done with academics.

            He wanted to get rich and him and a few of his buddies packed up for California. For a summer they got a job picking grapes at a California vineyard. It became a hard life and they didn't get paid well enough to live on. Eventually they had to move back to El Dorado. At 19, he got his first salary job. It was for the Monsanto Chemical company. When he was 20 he met Mary Alice Jackson at his church at Bethal Baptist. They sang together in the choir. In 1950, they got married. Her father and his were the only guests to the outside service. For their honey moon they went to Mississippi. In 1951, their first child was born, Danny Carelock. The first house they called their own was a small 1 story in Smackover. They lived there for 2 years before David was born at Warren Hospital. They then moved back to El Dorado for a short year and went on to Parkers Chapel. He bought a small hamburger restaurant called bamboos. Mary and him co-owned it and ran the business on a small lot on Hillsboro. It owned one of the most revolutionary record players. It began to lose money so he sold it and worked back with Monsanto Chemical until 1956.

            He then began working in car dealership. He found his niche on a week where he was taking care of his friends dealership while he was away on business. By the end of the week, Daniel had sold every one of the cars. He once traded a car for a house in Fordyce. When he began his first car lot there were two good friends of his that helped him out allot. One man was a mechanic who looked at the vehicles that came in and another was a body shop owner who repaired good running cars. Simultaneously he bought, renovated, and sold homes around El Dorado. In 1964 he had a near fatal car wreck . It was raining and a car carrying Dr. Rammy, his wife, son and son's girlfriend hydroplaned in-front of his vehicle. Daniel was the only survivor against all odd. The arriving paramedics thought he was already dead at the scene and did not tend to him. His 3^rd son, Glenn was born. All 3 boys went to Parkers Chapel until high school when they went to El Dorado High School. Mary became a missionary and traveled around the world. When David was in 8^th grade he was on the school counsel. Mary and Daniel divorced, remarried, then divorced again when all sons had left home. Mary moved away and lived near her sister in Arizona. Daniel find a girlfriend at his church named Harriet. In 1984 his first grandson, named Jeremy, was born  to Glenn and his wife. 2 years later his second grandson, John was born. He owned the car dealer ship Carelocks Car lot. His son Danny began working with him.  In 1990, David has a daughter, Marcie. David was working in New York at the time and before he came back to El Dorado Daniel found out and offered to help out her Mother.