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Records Contributed by Vicki Bell-Reynolds [email protected]

After Woodville was moved to where it was to be to make room for the dam, we moved our house. that is two rooms of it came, then we built two more rooms to it and moved it all with a windlass. the carpenters that done the work had all the doors and windows out so could repairs to it and shingles was all over the ground around the house. It wasn't very far from the frisco railroad tracks and tramps or bums as we called them would come to our for something to eat, they would come at all hours day or night, we could hear them come up to the house walking over the shingles that was on the ground, one came and mamma was ironing and she had a red hot iron and the tramp came to our house for something to eat and she said that she didn't have anything cooked so he ordered her to cook him something to eat, she refused him and told him to be on his way. that she didn't have time to fool with him and he finally went on his way. She said that if he had tried to force her to cook him something to eat that she was going to hit him in the face with that red iron and believe me she would of done it for she was a very brave woman, wasn't afraid of anything. Our home was the third house moved to new Woodville from old Woodville and it was just out in a cotton patch with the cotton stalks still standing when the town was built. Then other houses were moved in and several houses were condirbeted in the town and then business houses were put in there even as than it was a very town but a good farming town and country. I have seen cotton make a bale to the acre and corn 75 to 180 bushels to the acre and grain would make several bushels to the acre also. Before the Frisco put their track through there the merchandise was hauled in there in wagons from Denison Texas, then after the Frisco put their road through there the merchants would ship all there freight over the frisco, wagons and buggies was the only transporation that the people had to around, there was no automobil there then.

Most all the farmers would sell all their corn and cotton seed that they would make that fall and buy back in the spring,paying about one third more in the spring than they would get in the fall. My father would hold all his corn that he could make, also all his cotton seed. He would store it in his barn, I have seen make a pen out of rails would stack up 15 or 20 feet high laying the rails on top of each other then when he would get the pen full of corn he would throw a wagon sheet over the top of the pen to keep the corn dry, than in the spring he would sell down to what it would take to furnish him through the year and he always had a large amount of horses and cows around to feed and that would require a large amount. When he sold the corn or cotton seed he would get about one third more then he would get at gathering time. I have seen him have 8 to 10 bales of cotton in our back your, he would say that the price was to low to sell and he would hold it until the price would get to where he thought it ought to be and then he would load it on his wagon and haul to market and sell it. But most of the farmers would sell at gathering time.

In the spring of 1907 I took the every day chills and my father bed fast and had ever doctor there in Woodville to wait on him but, they seem to not do him any good, he had a homepath doctor to come over from sherman Texas to doctor him and he come over one week and as usal I was down with my chil he wanted to know what was my ailment I told that I had the chills and he said why don't you get well of them and stated that he would leave me some medicine before he left, when he gave the medicine it was two little bottle of little white pills in some kind of liquid, the bottles was just about the size of my little finger he told me to take 6 at a dose and three times a day, I started in on them I guess that I might have taken about half of one of the bottles. They cured me of my chills and I have never had a chill from that day until now I threw the rest of the medicine away because I didn't need it any more. I weighed at that time about 87 pounds and in about one year after that I weighted 205 pounds and never felt any better in my life.

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