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was really a -'dry hold and they had hauled water andthrown into tpe well to f i l l the oontraot for we hadbought a well of water with the land.

The land looked Tery poor and rough but nj husbandaid not to odnd that he had Intended to sore the house .farther up on a hi l l and build i t and then he would digw a good well t which he did*. He also said! Ton justwait and tee, I will nake this place look eo nioe by thetiae we are ready to sel l that aozae one will give ne aapod priee for i f * And after staying on that place forfire years we did tell for 13,600.00.

*e acred that two room house upon the hi l l and builtthree rooms on to i t* He put out a nice orchard of plums,peaches, apples, apricots, most any fruit you could mentionand they a l l did well} but the ones named did best of e l l .We set. out a vineyard which also did well* We plantedpeanuts'every year and sold a lot* We did not plant nacheotton or wheat but raised enough corr^to fatten a lot ofhogs for we sold hogs* fe always had a lot of cured meatand I just loved to sake ay own soap* then we sold out

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f e e l l i k e I had a r a r y hard t l a e tor there was a lwnyapl e n ty to e a t a n d we a r a n d a n i c e f i re to k e e p wa rm, bu t ,o f o o ur s e , we l i r e d i n th e w ood ed p a r t o f t h e s t a t e u n t i lone oould hare ooal ahipped in for fuel*

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