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While they were there Rasmus, her oldest son and I walked a mile and a half to school at Napoleon. So after Olla was gone Emile and the children continued staying on with us and a year from then Stella, my fourth sister and Emile Koch were married. So they lived on there for some time after they were married. About four years I believe. When Emile took Stella to New Orleans to pick out her engagement ring and when they came back she showed it to me and I said Oh, that old brass thing, I wouldn't have it. So Stella told Emile what I said and he said she's just jealous, so he went back to N. O. and brought me a solid gold ring with an opal stone. Then after my third daughter (Leah) was married and had five children, I gave her the ring because she was the only one that had large hands and fingers like me. So now she's gone. That terrible disease called (cancer) took her away from all who loved her so much. I try not to think of her any more than I can help because when I let my mind dwell on her and think of how brave she was through all of her illness, I fill up so full until it makes me sick. I had seven children and three before they were fully developed which I lost and now I've only lost one daughter out of the seven. I thank the Lord every day of my life for being so good to me.
Mr. Hover died at the age of 80-eighty yrs. We had celebrated our sixtieth wedding anniversary just a year before he passed away. If he had lived till now, we would have been married seventy-one years. Not half long enough. He was a kind loving husband and father to his children. A clean moral man, if there ever was one. Of course, like many other married couples we had our little differences at times but only one time I threatened to leave him and was packing my clothes when I looked at them and said to myself, isn't that silly? I'd be back before night so I hurried and I put all of my cloths back in the drawer and to this day, I don't think Willie Hover ever knew about it. And that was all caused from mother-in-law interference. When we married we lived with his parents one year, and she bossed me and told me when I could go and come and bossed in many other ways and of course I had been my own boss for several years before I married at the age of nineteen. Well not quite, I married on March 6th 1916 and became nineteen on Apr 22nd. I lacked fourteen days of being 19 years. Then when I was carrying my first child, Mrs Hover told me a few days before my time was up to have my baby that Willie would have to find us a place before the baby arrived because
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