Thurs. Clear cold.
I have a cold. I sewed all day. Millard & I went down to Uncle Hops tonite. Guess Aunt Rose is real sick. She is partly paralyzed.
Footnote: Millard is her husband. Uncle Hop is Hop Slemp, the husband of Rose Baker Slemp who is now very sick. Aunt Rose is the half-sister of Lula Baker Reasor, Our grandmother.
My Note: Sally Musick sent me the birthdates and dates of death of our grandmother's brothers and sisters and half-brothers and sisters. It is a long list so I will just list them as Aunt Estelle mentions them.
Uncle Hop was born Charles Hopkins "Hop" Slemp on April 22, 1886 and he died Oct. 2, 1973. Aunt Rose was born Rose Alice Baker on June 1, 1890 and she died Dec. 5, 1966. So she lived 2 years after she was real sick and partly paralyzed.
Aunt Rose was the daughter of Ira Baker(born July 4, 1851 and died Feb. 16, 1923) and his second wife, Julia Ann Wells Baker (born March 24, 1856 and died April 8, 1936.
Ira was the father of fourteen children - first one born in 1874 when he was 23 years old and his first wife Rosanna Huff Baker was born in 1856 so she was 18 years old when she started having these 7 children - 1874, 1876, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1882, 1885 and she died Sept. 25, 1886 when she was just 30 years old. Mother has told me that there was a terrible infection in the family - I think it was something called "flux". 3 children and the mother died in Sept. and Oct. 1886. Mother said some family in the neighborhood took some of the children, including Mamie Reasor away from the home and that is the reason they survived.
So Ira is left with 4 children, the oldest is 12 years old and the youngest being Mamie who was 4 years old. He found another gal same age as his wife that died and she took on the 4 children and proceeded to have 7 more with her. Her name was Julia Ann Wells Baker born March 24, 1856 and died April 8, 1936 - she lived to be 80 years old. Some interesting history - we should write a book.
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