The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1956-03-01

Iui tdill uIOullu III. one nlSnI
when Jane was first taken sick,
| went into her room and was
allowed to hold a candle while
medicine was given Jane, and
] set fire to the netted curtain.
The day Jane was buried, some
boys came along the street and
laughed and ! laughed with
them, and somebody came and
took me away saying my sister
was dead. l cried when my moth
er cried, but not at any other
time. Some women made
white shroud for Jane and my
mother kept piece of the cloth
in her Bible.
MY father kept general
store and bought and sold
tobacco. When we were living
on the farm had my thirteenth
birthday. l had a little tea-party.
Mary Gill, Matte Rounds and
Alice Bratton. | think her father
was the editor of the newspaper.
1t was the 9Th of June and
had my party in the orchard. |
called this party a tea-party be-
cause Mrs. Gill had given tea
party for Mary's friends. One
thing | remembered at Mary
Gilrs tea-party, we were form
ed into a line, two by two and
we marched around the town.
My mother had made a pound
cake for my party and we had
some sandwiches and candies and
some weak tea.
The first home we lived in at
SarahsVille, | used to be taken
coasting down the long hill with
some OF the older children. |
would come home so cold, Jane
would warm my hands in warm
water. Mother would try to make
me stay in but | always got
away from her.
Inc apple trees were so old
in the orchard on the farm, and
the branches so near the ground
| could just walk up into the
trees, and here had my doll
houses. | used to invite my little
girl friends to come and see me
walk up tree. Johnnie Robin
son, a little boy friend, made me
bedstead, bureau and a little
chest, and little table, all for
my dolls. He was the brother of
Fannie Robinson, children of a
couple of respected citizens of
the town. When he grew up he
married Olive Dilley.
when the playmates came
down from town, they would be
afraid to walk up my tree. Some
of the boys were Philip NichoI-
son, John Taylor, Arthur Whar-
ton, Abe Knights sister was
Katie King, and Philip Enochs-
the girls were Minerva Stats,
who went with my sister, Ada
line. Minerva Stats was a pale
light t-haired blue-eyed little girl,
very bright. All the young boys
were in love with her. Jemima
Collins, Lizzie Taylor, John Nor
val and George-Mary Behmer
and Maggie Hannah (some of
the names l remember)-Wal-
lace Bratton. Some Of the SarahS-
vile families were Luke Dilley,
Jonathan Dilley and Jim Dilley,
with their families, Henry
Rounds (children Matte, Robert,
Will, Sam. A young man named
Doughert was very much in love
with my sister, Adaline, who
was now getting to be a young
lady, about sixteen.
when she was seventeen she
married a man much older than
herself, Dan Mclaughlin, but
this was done in order to save
some property of my father, who
was on the verge of a failure.
She left home to live on a farm.
Her husband had i'll health and
it was very hard on a high-spirit-
ed young girl little more than a
child. She came home and had
a little girl, and her husband
died. She was a mother and a
widow before she was eighteen.
Before this very fine man
named Wallace came from Balti-
more to spend the summer and
fell in love with Adaline but she
was too young and my mother
would not consent to the mar
riage.) Adaline named her baby
Luellen, and lovelier child
never lived. She was the pet of
our household. Adaline was very
fond of her cousin, Louise Nc
Collum McWilliams, and she took
her baby and visited her a great