Grandpa's Sister Continues Her Family Saga

" ...as I was telling you about our house on the corner we had a lot of happy days there it was in this house that Louise had scarlet fever. and I thought she would die but the Lord heard my prayers. Gilman got hiss knee cut on glass and was crippled for a long time. in fact they all called him (Crip) for a long time but he got Ok from that. not to mention many more little odds and ends. Oh well as I was saying we had lived there eight years and Dock came home one day and said do you want to sell the house. it shocked me off my feet. and then he told me there is a man from Glen Jean wants to buy our house. he offered me $22.50.00 for it and wanted it in 10. days. so we made up our minds fast. so at that time my mother had bought a strip of land. which contained 5 lots so we bought 2 lots from her for $300.00. we put up a tent on the lots and lived in the tent un-till we got two rooms so we could live in them un-till we could get the house finished we got Mankins and Crouch from Beckley to build our house. it was $1600.00 turn key job. so I said when I moved in here it was my last move un-till they took me out in a box. but we never know what can happen in this old world of ours. we have so many ups and downs it is mostly downs. Dock and I both worked awful hard to have our home. and we were very proud and thankful for it. but then as the years passed his health failed him and the Lord called him away Feb. 3rd 1937. Gilman and his wife Pat were living in Beckley at that time. Mr. Fred Deal was boarding with us and Jencil Wees was staying here with us. at that time we had 3 or 4 cows on leased land and sold milk Jencil helped with them we paid him by the week and boarded him. he was a fine boy to work. he is Madge Walker's first husband and father of her two oldest sons Earlen and Russel Wees. he was killed in a car wreck. Then she married Boob. Walker. Well any way after Dock died Jencel never would come back to help me. so I had to make it the best I could. Mr. Deal was an awful good man. he soon left. Gilman and Pat and Frank came to stay here with me. and then after a year passed Mr. John W. Perry and I were married he was 79. and I was 51. Well he was a real good husband. and his money helped me to keep my home and we were happy to-geather even though he was much older than I. we had one another for companion ship it sure did mean a lot he needed some one and so did I. he lived ten years and he died. but I can say he sure was crazy about me and I miss him a lot. but the Lord knows best so that is that and well do we know it. Well after Mr. Perry and I were married. Gilman and Pat moved up in Green Brier Co. to Charmco. and stayed there for a while then they moved to Oak Hill W.Va. and then Pat was not well and Gilman had to be goone away from home at that time, so they moved over here with Mr. Perry and I. they have been a help to me and I have been a help to them and we are still all living to-geather here at the present time. Mr. Perry has passed on and Frank is married as I said before so I am just plodding along and doing the best I can I dont know how much longer I will plod. the Lord only knows that. Well this is Sunday Feb. 10 1957. this is the day Gilman is supposed to come home from the Hospital sure hope he does. the Sun is shining beautiful today I am so thankful for it. we have been having so much rain. I have been going like a house on fire for several days now. but there is one thing I forgot to mention and as you can tell by all this writing I have done misspelling and such I don't have very much education. but what I have got I got here in Mt. Hope. all except the last three months I went to school. of which I will tell you later as I go along."...