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hospital three times since I was in there for a month & a half. I was given 7 pints of blood in one week and the next week 3 pints; next two weeks they were going to give me 2 pints, but only got 1 1/2 when my heart acted up so they had to stop it and work with me. I've been home now for 4 or 5 months without having to go back. I thank the good Lord as He has been so good to me. I praise Him every night and day. I don't know what we'd do with out a Savoir.
Mr. Hover (my father-in-law) was one of the best men I ever knew. Willie and I lived with he and Mrs Hover five years before he was taken home to be with the Lord.
I say five years because Willie and I moved to ourselves for a year just before our oldest son (Volney) was born and he, my father in-law would walk through the woods to where we lived which was about a mile nearly every day to see his baby, as he called Volney. He'd hold him and love and talk to Volney as if he understood and he'd tell the baby; I'm going to make your daddy bring you back over to my house where we can be together. He'd stay about an hours and I'd make coffee and give him before he left. Idemia told me one day that she believed her daddy loved me better than he did his own daughters and she said she knew he loved Volney better than he did any of his other grandchildren. I said well, don't you know why? It's because we've been right in the house with your mother and father ever since Willie and I married. One Sunday when Volney was three weeks old the first time I had been out of the house that is to go any where, Willie, Sarah Woods and myself all walked over to his mothers. Sarah was the girl Willie had gotten to stay with me when the baby was born. She stayed two months with me and helped to the work, such as sweeping washing dishes, make beds and other little house work but I thought no one could wash my babies cloths and rinse them as thoroughly as I could so I took over all the cooking, bathing and tending to Volney and of course many other little things. Sarah could have gone home much sooner but she seemed to be happy and satisfied with us so I told her she could stay as long as she wished. So she finally told me one day she guessed she'd better go home and see about her mother and sisters. She stayed with us two months and only charged $8.00. Willie told me after I got up and took charge of the cooking, he said I'm sure glad you are cooking again as I don't believe I've ever eaten as many black-eyed peas in all of my life. He said the thought that was all she knew how to cook outside of frying bacon but
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