February 23, 1965 Aunt Estelle wrote

Tues.  Fair  Windy  cold at morn.

I kept Smith while Ruth went over to Daughtery's.  Tonite we went to the funeral home.


Footnote:  Smith is the youngest son of Everette and Ruth Reasor, Estelle's brother and sister-in-law.  They live across the road and are all neighbors of the Daughterys.  

My note:  Today I was looking at the information Sally Musick sent me about our grandmother and her Mother and Father and her sisters and brothers.  Mamie Reasor's (Lula Pearl) father was Ira Baker and he was born July 4, 1851.  He married Rosanna Huff ,born 1856, when she was 17.  They had their first child, Madison, in 1874 and Rosanna was 18.  Rosanna died Sept. 25,  1886 when she was 30 years old.  She gave birth to 7 children in 12 years of marriage.
  Their baby, Susannah died on Sept. 22 when she was 15 months old.  Then Rosanna (the mother) died 3 days later on Sept. 25.   Her # 3 son, James, was 8 years old when he died 4 days later on Sept. 29.  Then her first born daughter, Eura died 4 days later on Oct. 3.  She was 7 years old.    I think this is so sad.  Rosanna lost her youngest child and then 3 days later she died.  Then a son and daughter died after that.  All four of them were dead in less than 2 weeks.  My Mother says she always heard that they had "Flux".  She said that some family friend took Lula to their house to get her away from the infection and that is how she survived.  Lula was born July 7, 1882 so she was just 4 years old.  Don't you wonder how they were able to bury them and how did Ira take the deaths.  Who was left to cook and clean and take care of the 4 children that survived. 
Didn't take him long to find someone to do that - he married Julia Ann Wells in about 2 years and their first child was born Jan. 21, 1888.   I think this is strange too - the first son they had they named Edward "Doc" Baker and 14 months later (March, 1889) they had another son and named him Eddie Baker.   I wonder if there is some mistake there.     There are a lot more facts that I find interesting and I will continue with it later.  Don't want to bore you  for too long.