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Records Contributed by Vicki Bell-Reynolds [email protected]

notary work for her, she was going to give him this not so good farm for his services.  one of her sons was in town looking for his mother and upon learning that she was in my uncle office he rushed off there just as quick as he could, just as he entered the office, his mother was just fixing to sign the very best farm to my uncle instead of the not so good one.  her son hollow at her and she didn't sign, she looked around and saw her son was there, he ask her to let him see just what she was signing.  Her son saw what it was and how my uncle was going to frame her.  the boy told my uncle to pack up and get out of town and to stay out and if he didnt or if he came back to Woodville again that he would kill him, my uncle knew this boy and certainly knew that he meant ever word that he said and he took the boy at his word and left there and never did go back not even to stay all night.

Before my uncle left Woodville or will we say run out of Woodville he tried farming, in the fall he would sell ever ear of corn that he made and hauling his corn to town to sell it he drive his wagon upon the public scales to be weighed, he would stay on the wagon and weigh with the corn and then when he us emptied his wagon take it back to the scales he would stay off the wagon, that would make his corn weigh his weight more and he weighed 246 lbs.  He was arrest for that and fined $50.00.

There was a deaf mute, by the name Alice McDuffee, that lived in the Bell families for 15 years or longer.  she had two brothers.  one name was John McDuffee and the other was Harve McDuffee,  Alice couldnt get slong with the brothers wives, she would say that the sister-in-laws was trying to boss her and that she wouldnt do a thing that they ask of her but you take mother was youger than Alice but Alice figured that my mother was older than she.  she would do anything that my mother would tell her to do.

In the year 1911 there was a deaf mute picnic for them at some town in Okla.  Alice got a invitation to go and while there at this picnic, there was a man that was there and saw her off at a distance but he found out her name and where she lived, in about two or three weeks after she came home she received a letter from this man, wanting to come and see her, she wanted him to come but, didnt know just how to write the letter in answer to his,  she ask moter for help in writing the letter.  They answer it and about 3 or 4 days this man came to see her and he was also a deaf muteneither could hear or talk, after he was there in a few days they had it all arranged to get married and did get married. His name was Fred Bodger.  They lived together until they died.

In my teenage days I was a big hand to go around places and see things.  one sunday night I went to church and after church, my half and a gang of other about my age went to the public well to get us a drink of water we sit down on the side walk and finally lay down acroos the side walk and went to sleep, and we werre still a sleep at sun up the next morning, still laying there on the side walk we were as tired and stiff that we couldnt hardly move.

There was a telphone company that put in a telephone system that they run the line from Texas and my half brother installed the phone there.  he stretched the wire and put in the first phone and talked over it. himself.  he followed the phone line on up through the territory and never did return to Woodville and has never been back since.  He was my father son by his first marriage, when my father and mother got married this boy was sixteen and my mother was only seventeen.  the boy wanted to call her mother and she wouldnt let him, she said because that she was only one year older than he was and it wouldnt look nice for him to call her mother,  I told her that I didnt see why.   that you stepped in took his real mother place, and you shouldnt object to being called mother by him.

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