July 29, 2004 from Jane Montgomery

Tommy, your Mother never did like horses. She was always afraid of them.

I'm not going to get involved in the age thing. I'll let you settle that. Oby, you had many experiences with our horses. Remember when I had just gotten home from the hospital after having Marianne, and you and Mott were riding horses, and your horse threw you and it knocked you out. Mott ran up the hill and burst in the house and said, "Oby is laying in the road dead". I ended up taking you to the hospital in Vicksburg, and the Doctor sent me home when he found out I had a 10 day old baby. That was something else.

Question: What did we children do for entertainment?

Answer: We would see who could run around the house the fastest. Daddy would sit on the front steps, and say, "Ready, get set, go" and away we would go. Am sorry to say that I didn't come in first many times. Of course, I was the smallest and couldn't run as fast as the others.

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