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Brother Jerome brought me a number two A Brownies Kodak when he worked on the Tom Big B. Rivers out from Mobile, Ala and most all of the pictures I have today were made with that Kodak. So last Christmas Scottie Reynolds asked me for it and I told him his mother had one just like it, but he said I don't want that one I want yours so I gave it to him. That was 1986, I had bought six rolls of film and never looked to see if they were no. 116, and when I went to put one in the kodak and it wouldn't fit so then I discovered they were size 120. I never did take them back so I gave them to Scottie. The last pictures I took with it was just as plain and good as any I had taken years before. Jerome and Sarah only had one child, a daughter (Vera). She married a fellow by the name of Max Williams, a fine looking young man, but as soon as he got every dollar she had he left her to root hog or die and left her pregnant. She was born and had lived in N. O. all of her life and she was only a real young girl when she married. So she had a pretty tough time raising her son. His name is Maxie and he's a fine looking fellow and is married and has a boy and a girl and the boy graduated this year. They live in Gulfport not too far from his mother and stepfather. Vera married a boy by the name of Vernon Murphy and they have one daughter, Vernona. That's Vernon, Vera and Vernona. Like in my family. My fathers name was Daniels, his second wife's name was Downing and a man by the name of Downs married one of my sisters. That was Downs, Downing and Daniels. They used to have what they called box suppers. All the young girls would fix up a nice box like the size of a shoe box or any way one that would hold lunches for two people. Then each girl would put two sandwiches, 2 pieces of some kind of fruit, 2 pieces of fried chicken, candy, nuts or what ever you want to put. Fix the box up like you do a Christmas package and then the one that was head of all that would sell to which ever boy would pick the box he thought was his girls, then they'd go eat together. And if they'd get the wrong box they'd still have to eat with that one. Willie guessed the right one for a wonder. Then another time they had a supper at the Woodman Lodge where they always gave their suppers or any kind of entertainment. They had a cake with a hole in the middle of it and they'd put some kind of little article like a dime, thimble, marble or just any little thing like that. Then which ever one guessed what was in there he got the cake. Then too, they had cakes to sell and Willie brought one and gave it to me, so Willies brother J.B. had been teasing Charlie Murphy
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