Floyd Luther Blythe

FB: --and of course he helped the baby up and put out the fire, and they said they sold every hog and every [indecipherable] they had and every hog and everything they had. You know, they camped on the creek there for a few days. I don't know how long, now. But they killed every living thing they had. He kept one horse that he traveled a little on. He took it out to the middle of the cornfield and tied it up. Corn was big and tall, you know, old horse was [inaudible] and they didn't tie their hogs.

MM: About whereabout was that, that happened? Whereabouts did that happen?

FB: That happened two miles from here, it's two miles east.

BM: Two miles east from here.

FB: Uh-huh.

MM: Could you hear, were they screaming, everybody--

BM: [inaudible] could you give a pretty good description of where, where it's at--

FB: Well, it's two miles east of Cato (ph), Missouri [indecipherable]

MM: Okay, now about this--

BM: Now then, how, how did you find the cemetery?

MM: What was you doing--

FB: Oh--

BM: What was you doing?

FB: Well, I--I don't know, I was over there one day haying, I think, and this cemetery was growed up in sprouts and bushes pretty thick, all in it, and I got out in there, I don't remember why, but I did. I got out in the brush. I found this marker, this stone that said Blythe on it. And I looked after some questions about it and found out on the [indecipherable] side of the creek there and my grandfather and grandmother.

MM: I thought this was back when--I bet Georgie's (ph) buried there, and Mary (ph).

FB: Well that, that's dad's brother.

MM: Your dad's brother?

FB: Uh-huh.

MM: There's two Georgie's! (ph)

FB: Oh, there is two there.

MM: There's two of them.

FB: But I don't know that thing was--it may have been Uncle George's [indecipherable]. They had about three, I think, buried there.

MM: [Inaudible.]

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BM: This is Floyd telling as much as he can remember on how Aunt Sis or Mary Jane got her hip broke.

FB: Well, the Johns (ph) were on their way to the reunion and she somehow or 00:03:00another, Aunt Sis broke her hip. And they brought her back to the house and left her and went on to the reunion. And that's about all I can say on that.

BM: Okay, that's--that's good enough.

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