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departed from this old world. And my sister who died in the Presbyterian hospital was only twenty eight and so was her second son twenty eight when he passed away. All nine of them are gone now. Counting my mother and father who was seventy seven when he left here. Emma said when my mother died you would have thought she was related to every thing in Logtown, Pearlington and Napoleon. She had only been living here not quite two years but all who knew here loved her to death. I wish I could have inherited some of her easy going sweet ways, but I guess I took after my dad. He was a good man but loud mouthed like my self. When my mother died the folks in Logtown bought a beautiful great big vase for her grave and it was there fifteen or sixteen years when some one stole it! My father always brought it home during the winter months to keep it from getting broken, it was real thin and he'd put it upstairs until the cold weather was over. We had a colored woman by name of Jealine Wingget who used to come to the house to wash for us and we always thought she might have taken it, because one time I sent her upstairs to sweep and clean up and when she came down you would have thought she'd found a pot of gold. She said that was the prettiest vase she'd ever seen. Then after the funeral which may have been some time later, Aunt Laurenca Koch who had made Emma's wedding outfit for her and Aunt Nettie Koch who furnished all the flowers also a great bouquet of tame blue violets for her to hold in her hand while getting married. And then Mrs. Emma Baxter furnished Narcissus or some folks call them Jonquils. Then they had the Napoleon church decorated with sprays of wild cherokee roses in front and the arch way were they stood. Jahue had a lovely little home built for them in Logtown, because that was where he had worked nearly all of his life for the HY. Weston Lumber Co. Before I go any further I want to say that that house which was built in the year 1902 or 1903 was still just as strong and pretty as the day it was built in 1964 when Nasa took over. That would be about 61 years that it stood just as straight and erect as the day it was built. I'm 90 now and it was built when I was six years old. Jahue built a nice little butcher shop a few hundred feet from the house and was doing a good business so then he put up a little fruit stand and had a man working for him in the fruit stand and one day one of the Weston men asked this man how Jahue Murphy was doing with his business and the man told him, not thinking what it would cause, that Mr. Murphy was doing a little better every day so then in two weeks from then they started a meat market and fruit stand. So Jahue had to sell the home and every thing
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