feb26 2006 Deb, I am curious where Larry Axsom fits in with our cousins, Who is his parents, Marie
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sept 19 2006 re: mary axsom beck johnson life story
I sent this on to Janet Boyd (Richman)
Thanks Deb,
Barry
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feb25 2006 Thanks!! Deb for sharing such a delightful story. It was so interesting to me because it was my like exactely until I was 11 and we moved off that farm that Mary is talking about . We moved to Iowa. My parents lived there 18 years and the old house was exactly as Mary described it. We could throw a cat thru the cracks or it seemed like since it was so cold. Three of us kids were born there. . We went to the Moore school and had the box suppers and school plays . We would walk up the same road to Uncle Johnny and Aunt Daisys farm and visit with grandma Axsom and Willie on the corner where we got our mail. Alfred and Pauline moved in when we moved out or right after they got married, I think,. It brought back so many memeries Those were hard times for our paernts and we were poor but everyone else was to, so we didn't know we were missing anything. But I do know one thing, if we hadn't got off that old poor farm, I probnably wouldn't of gone on to High school and be where I am today. The last time we were down there , all the building were gone but the two old Oak treees were still there where My brother Billy asnd I use to play under and spent many hours, When we lived there we had a cellar and mom and us kids spent many a nite in it because mom was so afraid of storms. Dad would stay in bed in the house. Deb, if you will send me your address I will send you a picture taken at Moore school with all us school kids, Pauline, Ralph, Junior, Dean, and Mary Jean , Warren, (my brother) and I, and several other children .I am glad Mary mentioned anout the school system ther, when you got to the 4th grade you skipped to the sixth. My parents made me take the 4th over again so I would hit the year that they taught the 5th. I have told this to so many people anout how they skipped the grades there, they wouldn't believe me and I was beginning to think I was wrong. Marvin also went to school with us but don't think he is in this picture. Thanks so much.
Marie Boyd West
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My mother shared the information about going to see Basil, Harold, and
Emmett Craig in Davis City. Mom has trouble see the keyboard and hits the wrong
letters to make the reading interesting.
Barry West
These two boys are brothers and sons of Clair Craig, they are my 3rd
cousins, they are Uncle Will, moms brothers grandson. It was my first and last train
ride going up to these boys dads house in Davis city when I was about 5 or
6, They lived at the time in the big house my great grandfather Willliam
Filander Craig built in in the late 1800 hundreds and looks just as good now and
some of the Craig families have always lived in it, The last I kne and when we
were back there, Emmett Craigs daughter lived in it. .I didn't realize that
Basil and Harold was that much older than me. I remember the train ride
because when mom and I went there, Harold locked me up in the outside toilet,
Harold has always been a Baptist minister and he conducted his grandma craigs
funeral who was mu aunt Net, Dad and I went and I think I was pregnant with you.
At one time Basil was doing a lot of genealogy work on the Craigs but he
must be getting old, He had a farm west of eagleville after we left down there
and think he is still there. thanks for the picture Love Mom/ Emmett in the
other picture is still alive back in Leon,. Je was sheriff or Marshall at one
time back there,.
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