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so they ran away and were married the next day and he worked for Weston Lumber Co, at the times so Weston let them have a nice little house right there in Logtown. Idemia, Willie's sister, and I went to see her when her first son was born. She had two boys, fine looking boys. She left him after the last boy was a few years old. Her husband only had one eye but he wasn't a bad looking man. Then later she married a fellow in Waveland who owned a store. I went to a wake one night and she was there and when she saw me she motioned to me to come there so I went to see what she wanted and she pulled me down on her lap and loved me and said, Pearl you were lucky and that was the last time I ever saw her. She made a fine looking woman. And from all accounts she got all of her wishes granted. When she was single she used to go to Napoleon to Willie's sisters and spend a week and she'd send Willie a note by one of the children every evening asking him to come to see her and take her buggy riding but he never would and I'd shame him and tell it wouldn't hurt him to give her a little pleasure. I'd rather not call any names because there are some of the family still living. The mother of this girl I've been speaking of was a wonderful person, when some one was sick she would go and nurse them as long as the needed her and she'd never ask for a penny. She had a lovely family of boys and girls and I never heard naught against one of them. All nice looking too. When you?d go to their home you wouldn't have asked to have been treated any nicer. Even the father went all out to entertain. Although there was never a dirtier man I don't believe, because I know what I'm talking about. That's the reason his oldest daughter wanted to leave home. I could tell you several little incidents that happened but that's all under the bridge, so its best to ask God to forgive him and forget the whole thing. You'd love to go to their home because all of them were so hospitable. The girls would play the organ and they'd dance and sing and entertain you when you would go to their home. When Willie and I lived at Napoleon and sister Stella got the car, she'd load the whole bunch up and bring them to the house on Saturday night and Stella's two girls and three of these other girls would play the piano and sing and ail would have the time of their lives. That was when Mrs. Hover (my mother-in-law) was living and she'd enjoy it as much as any one.
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