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Mar. 17-1989
Yesterday, March 16th, Laura Miller and her daughter Scharline came around ten o'clock in the morning and stayed until 10 to 4 in the afternoon and we "thoroughly" enjoyed them. Then about 3 that afternoon in come Forest (Mut) Miller, her youngest brother and his wife (Tut). So they got to see each other for a little while. Laura and Scharline lives in Frankleton, Ms. She brought me a picture of her uncle which brought back many memories of my younger days. He was my sweetheart for 2 years. We never got to see each other too many times as he was an Engineer man on the railroad in Galveston, Texas. We corresponded continually, and the last time he came to Mississippi he begged me to mary him, so I told him I would, but not until I was 18 years of age so he said I'll be waiting for you, so then Willie Hover came in to the scene and I knew I loved him more than any one I had ever seen, so that was it. So I wrote to Georgie and told him I'd found some one else. So he never did reply, only he wrote his sister and told her his heart was broke and that he didn't know my heart was made of stone. Every town he was ever in he was engaged to a girl then drop them like a hot coal. He was engaged to Lola Alsobrooks of Picayune, Miss, when he discarded her for me and it broke her heart because she was foolish about him. I felt sorry for her as I had known her quite awhile and we corresponded till I got married and I have never seen her but once since I married and I thought she was going to hug me to death, she was so proud to see me. She was a nice girl. Had a wonderful reputation. So you see that's what he got for breaking so many girls hearts. His sister told him the last time he was home that she didn't want him to do me as he had done many others and he said Sis; don't you ever worry, because she's the only one I've ever truly loved. I was fifteen years old then and he was a few years older than me. So the last time I saw him he asked me was my promise true? and when I said yes; he grabbed me and kissed me and that was the first time I had ever been kissed by a young man and the last time until Willie and I were engaged. Two years later. I was corresponding with five young men. Only friends. One in Picayune, Miss., one in Napoleonville, La., and N.O., Bay St. Louis, and Willie Hover in Napoleon Miss. That was before he and I were engaged to be married. Oh, I forgot the one in Galveston, Texas. We wrote to each other I guess about a years before he asked be to marry him. I never card for any of them more than a friend except
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