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moved out there for about another year or maybe a little longer and then the last time was when we moved to Mississippi City. That was just a few miles this side of Biloxi. We only stayed there a few months.
We moved into a real large house, two story building. Two bedrooms upstairs and two down stairs. My brother, his wife, daughter and her old uncle had already rented the house and was living there when Jerome found out that Willie was out of a job. So he came over and told him to come on over there and he could go right to work as they needed more men. So we moved just enough stuff to make out with and Jerome and Sarah gave us the bottom floor and they took the up stairs for their sleeping quarters, but they had a large dining room on the left side also a wide kitchen downstairs and then we had two bedrooms, a bathe an kitchen on our side. We had an enormous large living room, big front porch with banisters and large yard, front and back. It was a doctors home close to the beach also stores close by. They were building Edge water Gulf Hotel, but finished it up not too many months after we were there. So then we moved back home again for the last time. Volney was around the age of eleven, so he always stayed with his grandmother but in all of those months while in Miss. City we only missed one weekend that we failed to go home because his (Willies) mother never would go with us anywhere we went. On our way home we'd stop at a store and get his mother a bill of groceries and he had it understood with the owner of the store (which was Jim Miller) that he was to let his mother have groceries anytime she sent out there for anything and then when we'd come home he'd stop and pay the bill. Several weekends Willie would say, we're not going to Napoleon this week and I'd say yes, we've got to go and see about your mother because I'd get home sick to see her. So he'd say well go get ready. Loomis was my baby, she was around the age of three and a half so Sarah would get her bathed and ready. I made a mess of her name, so will write it plainer (Loomis).
At one time when we only had three children Willie worked in N. 0. and boarded with Scott and Gladys, his brother and sister-in-law. He worked in a garage and at that time he said he had towed trucks and cars down Canal Street when there wasn't hardly any homes there then. Then when Willard was born Willie was working in Picayune.
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