CRISFIELD, Md.- Former President George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday evening at the age of 94.
Many people in Crisfield remember him but for different reasons than most.
Tim Howard tells WBOC what he refers to as Crisfields' best love story featuring George H. W. Bush and his crush at the time, Jackie Sterling. This happened two years before Bush married the love of his life, Barbara Bush in 1945 when Bush was a Navy pilot.
"He was evidently sweet on a Crisfield girl so to impress her he commandeered one of the training planes and flew over Crisfield and he buzzed kind of low down cove street," Howard said.
Howard said this is when things took a turn for the worst.
According to the native's of Crisfield, there was a circus that was held back in 1943 that Bush flew over in his prop plane scaring an elephant causing it to break free from it's chain.
Frank Rhodes, who has lived in Crisfield his entire life, showed WBOC the house where the elephant ended up. Rhodes said his one uncle was outside at the time and the others were inside playing dominoes.
"They seen it through the back window and they locked the door so he couldn't get in and he came banging on the door and he said, 'My God Gord, open the door the Helephant's after me!' and he had a speech impediment so he couldn't speak too well so instead of saying elephant he said helephant so that became the name of the story, the helephant," Rhodes said.
Rhodes said 'The Helephant' has been passed down form generation to generation and he hopes it continues to live on.