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Show 20 serve the required term, come out and select one wife to live with. Grandma, his first wife, white-washed the walls and waited all day for him to come back to her and their six children. He chose, instead, the third wife, who had no children, but owned land and a nice carriage, and was dressy. Caroline, the second wife, mother of three, was likewise bypassed. Grandma never forgave him for this weak choice while other men were fighting for their principles, fighting to make the courts recognize the ligitimacy of all their wives and children, dodging the marshalls in the underground. In later years, after she had raised their children, he wanted to come back to her, but she would not accept him. I remember him as a very polite man, handsome, with black eyes and curly hair, on the portly side. It was not so much that he was weak as that he couldn't bear strife. Grandma was peppery, a ninety-eight pounds soaking wet little protagonist with definite opinions, and Caroline, who had inherited land from her first husband, was domineering. All three of his wives divorced him and he later married Hulda Stout, a widow with three children, a buxom, pretty woman with black curly hair and red cheeks. By her he had three more children, and they all adored him. "Oh, miserable life to move to a strange place among strange people! " said Mama, on the move to the Sevier River. "The church house at Aurora was school house, amusement hall, and church house, and an old log building at that. The people in town seemed primitive and rude. We went to a dance and so many of the boys were drinking it spoiled everything for us. One bully followed Walter around challenging him to |