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Saturday morning - March 12, 1988
Somewhere between the year 45 & 46 a family by the name of Rufus Lee and his family Katy his wife, and three little boys, Jackie, Lonnie & Tony all moved down to Napoleon, Miss. They moved into a house not far from the Pearl River, it was really between the river and our home. I heard that he was sick (ulcerated stomach) and couldn't eat anything hardly except soft foods and milk so on a Sunday I went to see them and carried a big tray of food as I always cooked a big dinner on Sunday's. So Katy told me he was supposed to have mostly milk, so I was milking two Jersey cows and had plenty of milk, buttermilk, cream and butter so I told her to send Jacky, he was the oldest boy over to the house every morning and I'd send milk fresh and some skimmed and she said I don't have any money and I told her she didn't need any money so she sent the boys to get it. So then it wasn't long before I had to stop doing the milking because when I'd start to milk I'd have a terrible pain to hit me in the back of my head so I had to quit milking and that's when Katie told me she'd be glad to do it for me. So then she got sick and the doctor told her she'd have to get her tonsils out that they were poisoning her whole system. So Willie and I took her to a doctor in Bay St. Louis and had them taken out (Local) then Willie rented a room from a lady by the name of Isabell Joiner for one night as the doctor said he'd rather she'd stay in town that night in case she'd go to bleeding so then he came after us the next morning and we took her to our house and kept her for a couple of days and she never has forgotten it. Then it wasn't too long before they moved back up their old home in Leetown, but we've always visited back and forth through the years. They've been "wonderful" neighbors and friends. When ever they'd have sweet potatoes, corn, tomatoes or anything in the line of vegetables they'd write and say, come get some of what ever they had and Willie would try to pay for it and they wouldn't have the money only once in awhile. She made and gave me two lovely quilts, also she has given me dresses and different little things down through the years. They have really been a friend to us. Rufas has been dead about three years now but she still lives on the old place. They had forty something acres and she either rents or leases it out for ($25.00) twenty five dollars an acre. The man who rented or leased it planted soy beans in both big fields and their house was sitting between the two fields and when those soy beans would get up about three feet
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