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PAGE 34. Buxton. 
about what was discussed but I had another good educated guess. "If you are not married at the appointed time I have set forth I will return to take you home."
Annie took care of Bertha's children: dressing and washing them, cooking and cleaning up every day while Bertha was a Post Office Clerk. After the girls saw that Annie was staying in the house with me; Ruth; Jennie; Minnie; was not around anymore; Frances had returned to colledge; Leona was killed in an Auto. wreck between Butxon and Melcher; Gertrude had gone for the summer to her home at Bedford, Iowa to be permanent for her teaching contract was over, but she did send her sister here to Buxton to find out why I had quit writing. Those Girls scattered like a flock of sheep that had seen an approaching Wolf. Iva was the the only one left and I always went to see her nearly every night as was customary and I usually drove a car and parked it at the gate which was only 20 feet from the porch. It was about 1:30 and time to go home so that I got in the car and Iva was on the porch talking to me and I am talking also and getting ready to say good night. I am not psychotic and I had been there more than 100 times before and I never felt this way before so I reached forward to the cowl board to turn on the lights and somebody said "Dont do it" so I drove home with my back seat passenger. As long as Annie was there I had trouble with Iva's mother for she wanted Annie out of the house. I ask Annie to leave twice but she refuse so we had arrived at a dead end. When I was ready to go off to war I warned Iv to watch her step while I was gone and take good care of yourself and be in good shape when I return; I was gone a year and when I returned she was in good shape alright for she was fat and pregnant and had married my good friend and had seperated. Her parents moved away and she and the baby moved away with them.
I explained to Annie that I might marry if I could double my money so in the four years my investment paid off and now my $5000.00 dollars had multiplied into $30,000.00 dollars and I already had $5000.00 dollars to keep it company. After four years Annie and I got married in Knoxville and Iva would not believe it until I showed her the license and there was no more hostility but she always kept in touch throughout her life which ended in the fall of 1978. Ever since Annie's passing she wrote every week; and she has a beautiful daughter that notified me of her demise while asleep. I never sent flowers but money instead. My marriage to Annie was strange and unusual she wanted to marry me because she did not want to return to Tennessee and make no misconception about it for when her sister Mamie said: "Lets go" she would be well on her wayfor her sister Mamie ruled and controlled Annie as a queen does her subjects. We had no love for each other but married anyhow; yet I believe it was Holly wrong before the laws of God and man to be deceptive and make a mockery of your marriage ceremony. I know she did not love me but I do not think she ever understood my status on love because she had ask me dozens o

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PAGE 34. Buxton. about what was discussed but I had another good educated guess. "If you are not married at the appointed time I have set forth I will return to take you home." Annie took care of Bertha's children: dressing and washing them, cooking and cleaning up every day while Bertha was a Post Office Clerk. After the girls saw that Annie was staying in the house with me; Ruth; Jennie; Minnie; was not around anymore; Frances had returned to colledge; Leona was killed in an Auto. wreck between Butxon and Melcher; Gertrude had gone for the summer to her home at Bedford, Iowa to be permanent for her teaching contract was over, but she did send her sister here to Buxton to find out why I had quit writing. Those Girls scattered like a flock of sheep that had seen an approaching Wolf. Iva was the the only one left and I always went to see her nearly every night as was customary and I usually drove a car and parked it at the gate which was only 20 feet from the porch. It was about 1:30 and time to go home so that I got in the car and Iva was on the porch talking to me and I am talking also and getting ready to say good night. I am not psychotic and I had been there more than 100 times before and I never felt this way before so I reached forward to the cowl board to turn on the lights and somebody said "Dont do it" so I drove home with my back seat passenger. As long as Annie was there I had trouble with Iva's mother for she wanted Annie out of the house. I ask Annie to leave twice but she refuse so we had arrived at a dead end. When I was ready to go off to war I warned Iv to watch her step while I was gone and take good care of yourself and be in good shape when I return; I was gone a year and when I returned she was in good shape alright for she was fat and pregnant and had married my good friend and had seperated. Her parents moved away and she and the baby moved away with them. I explained to Annie that I might marry if I could double my money so in the four years my investment paid off and now my $5000.00 dollars had multiplied into $30,000.00 dollars and I already had $5000.00 dollars to keep it company. After four years Annie and I got married in Knoxville and Iva would not believe it until I showed her the license and there was no more hostility but she always kept in touch throughout her life which ended in the fall of 1978. Ever since Annie's passing she wrote every week; and she has a beautiful daughter that notified me of her demise while asleep. I never sent flowers but money instead. My marriage to Annie was strange and unusual she wanted to marry me because she did not want to return to Tennessee and make no misconception about it for when her sister Mamie said: "Lets go" she would be well on her wayfor her sister Mamie ruled and controlled Annie as a queen does her subjects. We had no love for each other but married anyhow; yet I believe it was Holly wrong before the laws of God and man to be deceptive and make a mockery of your marriage ceremony. I know she did not love me but I do not think she ever understood my status on love because she had ask me dozens o