hi, thank you very much for your response.
he called alice delilah ford butler, 'mom', when he had enlisted in WWI,1917, he came to see her dressed in his new uniform. alice had married wm francis butler [1900?] and lived in glade,Webster County,WV.
Alice was also called 'mom' by a susanna mullins, no relation, and a mary blankenship, no relation, and a lizzie...?...
alice delilah ford b.1865 wyoming,wv.
[used the name alice 'workman' as her mother married a workman and she and five sisters until adulthood/marriage, were to use the stepdad's surname: Raymond Shanton Workman].