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Sept 7- 1991
Heres a little some thing I though of in the past. So thought I'd jot it down for pass time. A family lived there in Gainesville in the year of 1914 & 1915 in a large two story building right on the Pearl river bank right close to the river bank. This home was built way back in about one hundred and two. One of the Pointevent men had it built for his family. I don't remember which one it was as there were several Pointevents pronounced (Porterman) any way this family never lived there very long but when Willie Hover was a young fellow he used to go to Gainesville on Sunday afternoons to see one of the boys in this family, as they were big buddies. So when Willie would go the sister of this boy would get Willie by the hand and tell him to come with her as she had some thing to show him, so when they'd go into the parlor which old time people used to call what we of today call it the living room. She'd sit down to the organ and proceed to entertain him which he said he could have cared less. Then she'd get the Sears Roebuck Catalog and show him a ring and bracelet she thought was so pretty and wanted so badly but she said her father and mother was not able to buy it for her. Then she'd show him the furniture she wanted when she got married.
Then Willie said to cap it all, her mother and father would come in and serve them coffee and cake or cookies and her daddy would say, just wait till you two get married I'm going to fix you all up like rich folks and they were as poor as Jobs turkey. Willie said he like the girl real well at first but then she disgusted him so until he quite going around them. One Saturday night they had a supper at the W.O.W. Woodman (of the World Lodge) at Napoleon and she was there and she tried every way she could to brake us up, she even told him all kind of lies and he'd come right on and tell me and if some things was so, I'd tell him yes and if not I'd tell him no. So that night at the supper Willie said to me come on less go get something to eat so when we got up to go, she had three or four girls with her and she told them to come on as Willie was going to treat us. So he asked me what I would have and I said chicken gumbo which was 450 a bowl so then they ordered the same thing. Willie said not that he cared, but it looked so nervy. So when she heard Willie and I were going to be married she asked a bachelor if he'd mary her and he said yes so he said when? and she said right away
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