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Show got a sound spanking. The next day we moved on to the new town which was just starting. We pitched our camp about one quarter of a mile south of the town on the bank of the creek near Uncle Jimmie Pace and fc:.mily. Here we campe~ in a tent for some time. My father soon built a log cabin. We then moved into this. It was dirt floored, dirt roofed, a quilt hung at the doorway and a piece of white factory stretched over the windows. My parents both were very inaustrious. Father soon made adobes and built a three-room house. Tl1ey soon got a few sheep and a £ew cows. Mother made about all the clothes we had. She would card the wool by fire and canalelight, then spin the yarn, then weave it into cloth. She woula make jeans of wool. Dixie raised some cotton which she got mixed--cotton and wool--for lindsey for dresses, etc . In the spring of 1862, Father cleared the ground and planted a garden ana corn. Not many years until we had from six to ten milk cows, and from twenty to thirty sheep. The grass being plentiful, the livestock did well on the near foothills. The neighbors would put tneir sheep together and take turns herding them . I, geing the oldest at five years of age, had a pony and would take the sheep out to graze. They would be brought in and corraled at night. A day for my parents was from aaylight until dark--all work! 'I'hey produced most of what we had . For the first few years we lived on corn bread, (corn meal mush for night) with plenty of good milk, butter, most Kinds of vegetables, and sorghum. We seemed to thrive and do well. I, the oldest, was the runt of the family. I grew to - 3 - |
