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My Life by Mary Effie Livengood Lemon
". . .then moved about six miles south on Wild Horse Creek on the Garrett place. We lived there one year. Soon after moving there in February we had a very cold spell. It had rained and everything froze over with ice. We children were skating down a sloping hill west of the house, and my sister May and I both fell on the ice hard and hurt ourselves. She was worse than I was and complained for nearly a week and was sore all over. One morning about two o'clock she woke my mother and told her she just had an awful dream. Mother told her to go to sleep, but she insisted on telling the dream. Father scolded her and said to stay covered up so she could stay warm or she would be to the boneyard soon. She called my mother in a little while and mother got up and saw that she was bad sick. Her stomach and bowels were swollen in a strut and her breath seemed short. Mother made a poultice and put on her, but it did not seem to help. In thirty minutes her eyes were set and she was unconscious. She fixed her gaze on the lamp and did not move it nor bat an eye till she died and her eyes began to close. Her breath got shorter until she died Feb. 25, 1903. She never said a word from the time she called mother. Mother called her name but she did not answer. We buried her at Marlow the next day by the side of my baby sister that died in 1902. We almost froze going."
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My Life by Mary Effie Livengood Lemon
". . .then moved about six miles south on Wild Horse Creek on the Garrett place. We lived there one year. Soon after moving there in February we had a very cold spell. It had rained and everything froze over with ice. We children were skating down a sloping hill west of the house, and my sister May and I both fell on the ice hard and hurt ourselves. She was worse than I was and complained for nearly a week and was sore all over. One morning about two o'clock she woke my mother and told her she just had an awful dream. Mother told her to go to sleep, but she insisted on telling the dream. Father scolded her and said to stay covered up so she could stay warm or she would be to the boneyard soon. She called my mother in a little while and mother got up and saw that she was bad sick. Her stomach and bowels were swollen in a strut and her breath seemed short. Mother made a poultice and put on her, but it did not seem to help. In thirty minutes her eyes were set and she was unconscious. She fixed her gaze on the lamp and did not move it nor bat an eye till she died and her eyes began to close. Her breath got shorter until she died Feb. 25, 1903. She never said a word from the time she called mother. Mother called her name but she did not answer. We buried her at Marlow the next day by the side of my baby sister that died in 1902. We almost froze going."
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Ida Pearl Livengood Cast
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Mary Effie Livengood Lemon
1883–1965
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William Franklin Livengood
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Fanada Livengood Proctor
1886–1982
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1888–1985
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1892–1892
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1894–1918
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1897–1979
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1900–1971
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