![]() The bone was aected and the leaders* drawn, and we thought her a cripple or lie. At the age o nine she had been thrown against an elm tree that had been tw isted o i n a storm, a nd a sliver ran al most through her ankle and broke o. Jane, the sister between Lucy a nd me, had been a cripple or ve y ears, and had never walked a step without the aid o a crutch. ![]() I was seventeen, and with the help o my sister Lucy, thirteen, and a Negro woman, I did all the cooking. Sam and Billie, my older brothers, went to work at the saw- mill, and as we had the only livable house in town, we took a ew boarders. Within a week he took pneumonia and three days later died, leaving my mother and six c hildren st randed and helpl ess in a str ange country. The Kansas City and Memphis was just being graded through, and trai ns w ere run ning only as ar as the little sawmi ll town o Sedgw ick, so there we stopped t o wait until the road was compl eted into the prair ie country near Jones- boro, where my ather expected to buy a hom e. 1880s my ather brought his amily rom Mis- souri down into the wild co untry o Ark ansas t hat was just b egin- ning to settle up. ![]()
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