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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
Back To Around 1900
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... across on the foot log. A family named Merrith lived just across the creek from Mr. Jump’s house. The lady, a nice looking plump woman about 50. Well I took up with her & would help her across the foot log also. The log was several feet above the water. One nite she lost her balance & depended on me to hold her. I got scared - broke & ran. I heard her hit the water just as I hit the bank running at full speed.
The next summer ...
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... Mr. Jump closed his little Sunday School. He took Lee & I to the Baptist church & introduced us. The good Baptists took us in like millionaires. Asked us to sing in the choir & what a discord it must have been. Some of the leaders of the church - most of them now gone - Mr. & Mrs. AB Walliamson, the Morriss families, Grandpa & Grandma Morriss, Miss Patty Morris their daughter (now Mrs. Owen Anderson) of Alney, Texas. The AG Morriss families, Mrs. WH Rawson (Mrs. Carl Morriss’ mother), Mr. & Mrs. ...
[Authors Note: Patty’s last name is actually spelled with double “s” as well.]
