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for leaving him that she did for my father. She admitted to my oldest sister (Emma) the reason she left my daddy was because she said she never loved him but thought he had money. The second man she married had a daughter the same age of Elma and they loved each other and she came to their funeral. I could write many more incidents but I guess I'll stop here as it hurts me when I think of all the good times we sisters used to have together. When we'd all meet at one of the sisters home and the next time at another place. Elma, Irene, Emma, Laura, Stella and myself, we'd have a dinner fit for the King.
One time I left all of my kids home with their grandmother and I said, Emma I left my kids home and here you come with all of yours. She just laughed. Never did get mad at any thing I told her. Going back to my dad and the horses he owned. After old Dandy died my daddy bought a long legged tan colored horse I guess you'd call him, any way he never kept him long when he went over to Jorden River and bought a beautiful black mare. She was kinda nervous animal but minded the minute you spoke to her. Her name was Lady. One day a young man by the name of Randel Snow who lived in Gainesville, Miss, came to the house and wanted my daddy to take him and his intended to Bay St. Louis to get their marriage license so papa told him Ok, they'd leave early next morning as they had to go in the horse & wagon, so they went to the Bay, got the license, ate lunch and started back home and just as they got upon the hill just a few hundred yards from the house Lady dropped dead. Her bladder burst, as my daddy said he forgot to take the harness off from her at luncheon time as her kidneys would never act with the harness on. As luck would have it, Lady had a beautiful Bay colt, a Stallion, so papa broke and trained him to do anything he wanted him to do. I used to drive him to the buggy to Logtown, Gainesville or any where I wanted to go, also rode him horse back and he was always as gentle as a kitten. People used to tell my daddy; you're going to get that girl killed and he'd say, Pearl knows how to handle him. Papa named him Dandy after old Dandy. He told Jahue and Emile his two son-in-laws that when he died he wanted Dandy to take him to the cemetery, so he did just that. So after my father passed away, he had already told my sister Laura she could have Dandy and the buggy for her share of the old house. Laura and her husband Asa Downs was living in Slidell at that time and they had no where to keep the horse so she sold him and the
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