The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-06-13
CHAPTER XIV.

Returning the certificates to
Ann. the lawyer asked: ibid you
and your husband, Edward Has
KEEL, continue to reside in Green
vile, Kentucky. after your mar
riage?"
"Not long We didn't. We-uns
moved to Cowley County, Illinois"
"Your sister Grace and her hus-
band, Henry Haskel-did they re-
main in Greenwich"
mo, sir; we-all moved together
worked . farm together in Cow
ley County on shares fer bout two
year. Then we-all moved to Price
County, INSTRUMENTATION part Of
the state hit war. Farm rents
warn't 50 high in Missouri as they'd
got to be in Illinois. We war in
Price County four year-had two
farms thar, but they war only bout
. mile apart, 50 we-uns could be
close neighbors like we'd allus
BEEN"
ANY children?"
"Grace had . girl-baby. Hit
died. didn't have none-not then"
II realize how painful some Of
your memories must be, Mrs. Has
KEEL" said lowering, gently, "but it
is quite necessary for you to relate
them. Your sisters husband died
in Price County, Missouri"
The mountain woman spoke now
In . stony monotone: 1Henry Has
kel war hung fer KILN . man. You
got hit all down in your papers
thar, I reckon. The KILN war over
Z boss deal. Henry he allus war
quarrelsome when he war drinkin,,
which had got to BE- most Of the
time after we went to Missouri. He
warn't like his cousin Ed. Ed he
war sober an steady. He most
allus could manage Henry, too,
when thar war any trouble"
Go on, please"
"After her man war tuck, Grace
she come to live with me an Ed:
We-uns war al the kin she had"
"Yes?"
"Soon's hit war all over bout
Henry, we-uns moved away from
thar; went to west Kansas-away
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tried dry farmin'. But, shucks!
couldn't nobody make . livin' in
SIGH = country, an we come back
to Missouri to keep from starvin'
to death. Barry County hit war this
time-down in the southwest part
nigh the Oklahoma lire. Hit war
in Kansas Grace died."
"Where was your boy, John Her
bert, born, Mrs. Haskell"
"John Herbert he war horned in
Kansas, too"
"How long did you and your hus-
band and the boy remain in Barry
County,"
1--WE war thar bout two year.
Then We come hyear. We settled.
first, over on yon side the river
on Clear Greek. We war a-doin'
right well, mo an Ed an little
Herb. Then tree fell on Ed m
killed him. Thar warn't nobody left
but mo an my boy. Hits like ] tell
you, mister-John Herbert mir the
last Of the Haskels."
The lawyer, in his precise way,
said: "From the available records
ne have established, the marriages
In Greenvills, Kentucky, and The
death Of Henry Haskell In Price
County, Missouri, We have traced
the movements Of the two families
Is you have given them. The death
Of your husband, Edward, IL, Of
course, easily proven. But there j.
no record-no odicial record, ]
mean, Of tho death Of your sister
Grace. And there il no record Of
the birth Of your son, John Herbert.
Please understand, madam, that !
am not doubling the truth Of your
statements, but % . matter Of legal
form-purely ~ = matter Of form
can you 0ubstantiato by living
witnesses what you have told me?"
Ann Haskel's dark eyes were
fixed upon her backwoods COM
panion. Slowly she said: "Nance
Jordan hyear knows oil about hit.
She war livin' with we-uns when my
my sister died an when my boy
war horned"
"Goodl" exclaimed the lawyer,
turning to Names. Il he noticed
the woman's fright, hs attributed
e % her quite evident backwoods
ignorance.
Your name. plaassl"