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PAGE 26. Buxton.
used the sledge and we eventually got the steel hopper down but on the forth da a piece of steel struck me in my right eye and everytime I would lower the lid of my eye it would scrape and cut going up or down. I never mentioned it to my family and went to work the next day and this time I was called by a friend of mine and two other men to help them dislodge a box car door that was stuck. We all got in unison and gave a yoheave and it broke loose but I had unfortunately got my little finger on the track where the wheels ran. My friend saw me wince and snatch my hand from under the door and ask me what happened. I said the do cut my little finger off and he wanted me to take off my glove; I told him it was too painful now but just wait a little while until until the pain subsides. It was a pleasant surprise when I removed my glove and still had my little fing but the undercarriage had tore my finger nail completely out by the roots. 
No Doctor in Buxton wanted to assume the responsibility of removing the triangle piece of steel from my eye so a Doctor from Albia said he could remove and he did. These two events changed my whole life for it that much damage could be done on ones physical anatomy in six days I would not work for anyone again as long as I was in control of my mental facalties. The children of our family never interested themselves or were inquisitive as to who their ancestor were. We knew my paternal grand mother and that was as far as we goton my fath side and we knew my maternal grand mother and her husband on my mothers side an that was our last line of ancestors. After our relation with this information had passed on it was much too late to trace anything. Sometime it is better to let well enough alone because if we had probed too far some one may have answer down from a tree limb. My maternal grand mother had ten children and when the names were given to me Aunt Angeline was no. "one" and the forth name on the li was Aunt Tyree and so since these two Aunts were white I figured Grandma must have strayed slightly from the straight and narrow path for all the others were swar and hue in color like their Indian father. This troubled me for quite some tim until a few years later I found out that the list was not given to me in cronological order which should have listed the names according to age so since Aunt Angelina was first and Aunt Tyree was second; I would say that a goo educated guess was: That her first husband must have been a Caucasion. 
After I made this correction I gave Grandma a clean bill of health with my blessings and an over due apology. Aunt Angie as we as we called her for brevity had lost two husbands and at 75 years she was in courtship with a man that resembled a Hawaiian which was on the obese side but not fat and he owned and operated the 10 Street restaurant. After a few months she and Mr. Jackson got Married. In two or three weeks she came to see my mother who was 20 years younger than her oldest sister. My mother wanted to know how the Honeymoon wa progressing and my Aunt said there was not any Honeymoon and there never was a

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PAGE 26. Buxton. used the sledge and we eventually got the steel hopper down but on the forth da a piece of steel struck me in my right eye and everytime I would lower the lid of my eye it would scrape and cut going up or down. I never mentioned it to my family and went to work the next day and this time I was called by a friend of mine and two other men to help them dislodge a box car door that was stuck. We all got in unison and gave a yoheave and it broke loose but I had unfortunately got my little finger on the track where the wheels ran. My friend saw me wince and snatch my hand from under the door and ask me what happened. I said the do cut my little finger off and he wanted me to take off my glove; I told him it was too painful now but just wait a little while until until the pain subsides. It was a pleasant surprise when I removed my glove and still had my little fing but the undercarriage had tore my finger nail completely out by the roots. No Doctor in Buxton wanted to assume the responsibility of removing the triangle piece of steel from my eye so a Doctor from Albia said he could remove and he did. These two events changed my whole life for it that much damage could be done on ones physical anatomy in six days I would not work for anyone again as long as I was in control of my mental facalties. The children of our family never interested themselves or were inquisitive as to who their ancestor were. We knew my paternal grand mother and that was as far as we goton my fath side and we knew my maternal grand mother and her husband on my mothers side an that was our last line of ancestors. After our relation with this information had passed on it was much too late to trace anything. Sometime it is better to let well enough alone because if we had probed too far some one may have answer down from a tree limb. My maternal grand mother had ten children and when the names were given to me Aunt Angeline was no. "one" and the forth name on the li was Aunt Tyree and so since these two Aunts were white I figured Grandma must have strayed slightly from the straight and narrow path for all the others were swar and hue in color like their Indian father. This troubled me for quite some tim until a few years later I found out that the list was not given to me in cronological order which should have listed the names according to age so since Aunt Angelina was first and Aunt Tyree was second; I would say that a goo educated guess was: That her first husband must have been a Caucasion. After I made this correction I gave Grandma a clean bill of health with my blessings and an over due apology. Aunt Angie as we as we called her for brevity had lost two husbands and at 75 years she was in courtship with a man that resembled a Hawaiian which was on the obese side but not fat and he owned and operated the 10 Street restaurant. After a few months she and Mr. Jackson got Married. In two or three weeks she came to see my mother who was 20 years younger than her oldest sister. My mother wanted to know how the Honeymoon wa progressing and my Aunt said there was not any Honeymoon and there never was a