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where I was telling about him picking the guitar and singing, all of a sudden a flask of whiskey fell out of his back pocket and my daddy happened to see it, so after everyone was gone my daddy told Charlie he could stay on as long as he wished providing he left the whiskey out. He told him neither of my two sons have never touched a drop as far as I know and so therefore, I shan't allow it in my home. So Charlie went to J.B. Hovers (that was Willies oldest brother) and asked him if he could stay there, so J.B. told him if he'd leave the drinks alone, he could. So he stayed there awhile then moved on to Bay St. Louis where my brother in law owned a small grocery store (Sister Olla & Emile Koch). They didn't live right in the town but out on what was called Jekes Mill road, down close to the river. It was very pretty out there where they lived. So Emile let him stay with them and deliver groceries by horse and wagon. I disremember how long he stayed with them but any way he found him a girl friend and they got married and the last I heard from him they had 3 children, the later I heard he had arthritis so bad in his back and legs until he couldn't walk, he had to crawl. God ?)jty some one like that. Later one, Emile and family moved to a place out from Bay St. Louis called Devils Elbow. He took over a store for an old lady and was doing fairly well but Olla got homesick for her people so he left there then, and moved to Westonia which was about three miles from our old home. She had her horse and double surrey so she could go where ever she liked. But they hadn't been in Westonia very long when she got sick so the doctor told Emile if he'd move out to Jordan River by the river where it was cool and quiet he believed she'd do better. So, here they went again and I was only 15 years old so I cannot remember how long they were at Jordan River but any way it wasn't very long when he had to take her to our home where sister Stella could wait on she and her four children so she was there with us for a few weeks with two doctors coming to see her every day and they finally told Emile they had done every thing they knew to do so they advised him to take her to the Presbyterian hospital in New Orleans, where she only lived a short time when she was brought to the Koch cemetery and laid to rest. She was only 28 years of age when she passed away. They had two boys and two girls, Rasmus, Thomas, Edith & Arnie. Edith is the only one living, she lives in Moss Point, Miss, and has two living sons & one daughter who lives in North Carolina. She teaches the deaf and dumb, her husband is an electrician. Thomas, Olla and Emile's second son died at the age of 28 like his mother. Their oldest son Rasmus committed suicide. He was
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