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PAGE 40 Buxton.
We all sat down for dinner to a long table with extra leaves in it for at times there would be a dozen people to be served at one time. I was on the south side with two people to my right which opened straight through into the kitchen so from where I sat I had complete vision through the kitchen door righ into the pantry door where the press or safe, as it was usually called. The dishes were in the top and in the middle were the knives and forks and the bott was used for storage; as I looked past my two companions on my right I saw my mother in the pantry rearanging the dishes with the two glass doors opened completely and I could not believe it so I stared without lowering the lid of m eyes for I was up and started to that pantry door when she closed the two glass doors to the cupbard and stepped back out of sight and when I looked in, there was nobody there, so then I knew that Halluciation exemplified "A disease of the eye". Even your subconscious mind does queer things while you are asleep. My relatives which had been dead for over a half centry are never dead in my dreams but are always alive. 
The Childs family did an awful lot of lathing which was their professio They were also good poker players, that is the father and two sons; but there wa - also one girl by the name of Maud and she was married to Alf Thomas who was - the son of John Thomas, the pharmasist that owned the drug store Alf retur - home one day and found Dr. Muir in an uncompromizing position so he blew his to or went crazy for a short period of time because it was said by many that he got on the railroad track and ran all the way to White City which was seven mil distance from Buxton. Eventually this did not break up the family. 
Peter Reeves was a security guard at the Monroe Mercantile store and he was a cruel man to his children. One evening Hezikah and Boss came by our hous with a bundle on a stick across their should and are on their way to No. 5 track which was about two miles from home and ofcourse this was to catch a freight train leaving for anywhere. That night I heard Peter Reeves calling Hezikah and Boss for over an hour and he never heard from them any more in life The next to leave was Miss (her name was Charlotte) and she left and went to Colefax and married a fellow by the name of Brown. Maryjane was the next to leave and she went over into Illinois and married. now Sweet was the only one left (his name was (Edward) and he went to Chicago and later got into a confrontation with a fellow that show him and he died almost instantly. Boss came to Buxton eight years later and said that his brother and family of four went out one evening to gather some mushrooms and as a consequence the whole family died from the frog stools that they thought were mushrooms.
In Buxton there were two John Bakers and it made a tangle mess sometime but to discriminate between the two, one was called " One thumb John and the other one was drunken John." with a mixed marriage with two sons; Willie 10 an
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PAGE 40 Buxton. We all sat down for dinner to a long table with extra leaves in it for at times there would be a dozen people to be served at one time. I was on the south side with two people to my right which opened straight through into the kitchen so from where I sat I had complete vision through the kitchen door righ into the pantry door where the press or safe, as it was usually called. The dishes were in the top and in the middle were the knives and forks and the bott was used for storage; as I looked past my two companions on my right I saw my mother in the pantry rearanging the dishes with the two glass doors opened completely and I could not believe it so I stared without lowering the lid of m eyes for I was up and started to that pantry door when she closed the two glass doors to the cupbard and stepped back out of sight and when I looked in, there was nobody there, so then I knew that Halluciation exemplified "A disease of the eye". Even your subconscious mind does queer things while you are asleep. My relatives which had been dead for over a half centry are never dead in my dreams but are always alive. The Childs family did an awful lot of lathing which was their professio They were also good poker players, that is the father and two sons; but there wa - also one girl by the name of Maud and she was married to Alf Thomas who was - the son of John Thomas, the pharmasist that owned the drug store Alf retur - home one day and found Dr. Muir in an uncompromizing position so he blew his to or went crazy for a short period of time because it was said by many that he got on the railroad track and ran all the way to White City which was seven mil distance from Buxton. Eventually this did not break up the family. Peter Reeves was a security guard at the Monroe Mercantile store and he was a cruel man to his children. One evening Hezikah and Boss came by our hous with a bundle on a stick across their should and are on their way to No. 5 track which was about two miles from home and ofcourse this was to catch a freight train leaving for anywhere. That night I heard Peter Reeves calling Hezikah and Boss for over an hour and he never heard from them any more in life The next to leave was Miss (her name was Charlotte) and she left and went to Colefax and married a fellow by the name of Brown. Maryjane was the next to leave and she went over into Illinois and married. now Sweet was the only one left (his name was (Edward) and he went to Chicago and later got into a confrontation with a fellow that show him and he died almost instantly. Boss came to Buxton eight years later and said that his brother and family of four went out one evening to gather some mushrooms and as a consequence the whole family died from the frog stools that they thought were mushrooms. In Buxton there were two John Bakers and it made a tangle mess sometime but to discriminate between the two, one was called " One thumb John and the other one was drunken John." with a mixed marriage with two sons; Willie 10 an 5