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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
Back To Around 1900
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... still hurting like blazes & where I fell on my back it was so sore & hurt so bad I could not straighten up. I fainted a few times from the pain but was back to normal in a few days. I never would have known what happened or how long I was out if they had not told me.
Mr. JW Jump who showed us how to bud peach trees took a great interest in Lee & I. He was a vegetable peddler. Had a light one-horse spring wagon & went from house to house in town selling fruit & vegetables when in ...
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... in season. He would come out to the farm & buy fruit & vegetables from us. About 1903 or 1904 he made a bargain with Lee & I that if we would grow & sell him water mellons he would see that we got the money for them provided we would buy some decent clothes & come to his Sunday School. He was a Campbellite & held Sunday Services in the old Union Church on Sunday afternoons. The church now across from the city Hall. He was an old school teacher & also an old fashioned singing teacher - teaching do-ra-me etc. His church banned ...