Excerpt from Grandson Eldon's telling of his life. Grandpa was a great old guy. He was crippled up, one knee was bent at 90 degrees. He walked with a crutch and a cane. His hands were curled up like claws, he tried every arthritis medicine. They called it rheumatism then. If it was advertised in "Cappers Weekly" or "Cappers Farmer", he tried them all and of course nothing worked. He showed us kids lots of things. He would take a kitchen chair and go outside in the yard and get a scythe and mow weeds with his crippled knee up on the chair. He would hoe in the garden the same way. He couldn't harness the horses but Dad or Uncle Guy would harness the horses and help him on the plow and hang a jug of water on one of the levers and he would plow till noon. Then they would help him off. He couldn't milk so Grandma and Aunt Hazel would do the milking and Grandma taught me to milk probably when I was 5 years old.
Excerpt from Grandson Eldon's telling of his life. Grandpa was a great old guy. He was crippled up, one knee was bent at 90 degrees. He walked with a crutch and a cane. His hands were curled up like claws, he tried every arthritis medicine. They called it rheumatism then. If it was advertised in "Cappers Weekly" or "Cappers Farmer", he tried them all and of course nothing worked. He showed us kids lots of things. He would take a kitchen chair and go outside in the yard and get a scythe and mow weeds with his crippled knee up on the chair. He would hoe in the garden the same way. He couldn't harness the horses but Dad or Uncle Guy would harness the horses and help him on the plow and hang a jug of water on one of the levers and he would plow till noon. Then they would help him off. He couldn't milk so Grandma and Aunt Hazel would do the milking and Grandma taught me to milk probably when I was 5 years old.
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Parents of William Guy born 1880, Andrew Glenn born 1885, Rosamond Hazel born 1888, Joseph Eldon born 1893
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s/w Benjamin & Mary Elder
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