Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-05-19
THIB0DAUX LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 49, 1855.
Opposed to Matrimony.
Imily opposed to matrimonys"

"1s your family opposed to matrimony?"
Nal, no, rather guess not seem as how my
mother has had four husbands, an stands pretty
smart chance for havin' another!"
-Four husbands? Is it possible ?"
40 yes. You see my mothers christened name
was Mehetable Sheets an dads name was Jacot
Press. An you see, mother used to be the tarn
alst critter to go to evenin meetins. She used tc
go out pretty late every night and dad was afraid
I'd get in the same habit, go he used to put me to
bed at early candle light, cover me up with pillar
an put me to sleep with bootjack. Wal, dad
had got up every night an let mother in, if he did
not get down and open the door pretty darn quick
when she cum, he'd ketch particular thunder: so
dad used to sleep with his head out of the winder,
SOS to wake up quick an one night he got his
head little too far out, an he slipped out alto
gether an down dad cum cahumix right down
on the pavement, an smashed him in ten thousand
pieces"
"What was he killed by the fall 81
"Wal, no, not exactly killed by the fall. kinder
rather sorter guess it was the sudden fetch up on
the pavement that killed him. But nam she cum
hum, and found him lyin thar, and she had him
swept up together, an put in coffin, and had a
hole dug in the ouryin' ground, and had him put
in an buried up, an had a white oak plank put up
to his head, and had it whitewashed all over for a
tombstone"
"So your mother was poor and lonely widow .
"Wal, yes, but she didn't mind that much
wasn't long before she married Sam Hide; you see
she married Hide because he was just dads size,
and she wanted to wear out dads clothes Wal,
the way old Hide used to hide me was a caution to
my hide Hide had little the toughest hide of
any hide except bull hide, and the way Hide
used to hide away liquor in his hide was caution
to bulls hide. Wal, one cold dav, old Hide got
= do fill nofv 70, xhoN h. ohoI hooI
first into bank, and there he stuck and friz
to death. So man had him pulled out, and had
him laid out, and then she had another hole dug
in the buryn' groun' and had him buried, and then
she had another white oak plank put at his head
and white washed all over, an"
$50 your mother was again widow"
90, yes but guess she didn't lay awake long,
to think about it, for in about three weeks she
married Sam Strong-an' he was the strongest
headed cuss you ever did see. He went fishing
the other day and got drowned, and he was so tar
nal strong headed I'll be darned to darnaton if he
didn't aoat right gin the current and they found
him about thaee miles up the stream, and it took
three yoke O cattle to haul him out. WAL man
had him buried along side O tother two, an had
white oak plank put at his head, and whte-washed
all nice so there's three on 'em all in row."
"And your mother was widow for the third time?
"Yes, but nam didn't seem to mind it tarnal
sight. The next feller she marrid was Jacob Hays
an the way mann does make him haze is caution
now tell ye- fhe does any thing leetle out of
the way, mann makes him take bucket and a
white wash brush, and 60 to the buryin groun' an
whte-wash the three oak planks, jest to let him
know what he may come to when he's planted in
the same row, and she married to the fifth husband
So you see my family arn't tarnal sight opposed
to dose of matrimony.'