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Going and coming every day 28 miles; 56 miles a day, but that was when you were tickled to death to get anything to do to support a family of five children, Mrs. Hover, her old brother, a sister besides Willie and me which altogether made ten he had to support.
His Uncle Wyatt had money in the bank but never knew what it was to offer us a nickel and me doing all of the washing, starching and ironing for all of us. Later years Della helped with the washing and house work and Loomis took over the job of ironing. In those days you had to starch everything except the underwear and sheets. You'd put them through a medium stiff starch, dry, then sprinkle, roll up for awhile, then go to it. (Iron). Then we had what you called flat irons and you'd either have to heat them on a cook stove, a furnace that burned charcoal or at the fireplace and you either had to have hickory or oak wood because if you used fat pine (light wood) the irons would stick to your cloths. You had to rub your iron on beeswax to make them iron smooth. This explanation of things used in the old days is for the younger generation. In case one may read this diary.
We moved from our home in Napoleon twenty two years ago when (Nasa) the government took our land and homes away from us. So we moved to Pearlington. Moved our house and had it all did over, rearranged. It used to be lumber on the outside, but after we moved we had it bricked (red). It cost quite a sum of money to have it all changed. (Done over) As long as Willie lived he never was happy down here or me either. Of course we make the best of it. No need to complain.
When my third child (Loomis) was real small we had been living in the old Hover home so one day Mrs. Hover and I were in the kitchen and Volney and Della were in the yard playing so all of a sudden we heard a terrible cracking sound and couldn't imagine what it was until we walked out on the back porch, then we saw what had happened. The main part of the house had fallen over off from the block, tumbled over to the ground. The main part of the house was separated from the kitchen and dining room. There was a gallery that was about twelve foot wide and fourteen ft. long and you came out of the living room on to that gallery or porch, which ever you'd like to call it, onto another porch the length of the dining room and kitchen. At that time Willie was working
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