HARVEY - married Lillian Jones of Manchester and they have lived in the Manchester area all of their married life. They have no children. BESSIE - married Bill Spivey of Minneapolis and they lived in Ottawa County for many years. In Ottawa County were born two girls, Betty Lee and Jean. Betty lives in Ohio and Jean lives in Topeka. Bill and Bessie now live in Kansas City Kansas. JESSIE - married Sam Fox. They resided for some years on what was known as the old Fox Farm on the Solomon River.. They later improved the place where Dick Scheibler's live. They then moved to the country eight miles east of Bennington where the Bob Boss family live. Here they remodeled a farm home and lived for some years; here Sam passed away and later Jessie moved to Bennington and practically built from scratch the house where the Joe Blaha's live. Jessie married George B. Smith in 1957 and they later built the big brick home, in the new edition, next to the cemetery on Main Street, one of the show places of Bennington.  Besides this new improvement, she has built two other houses in the town which will be lovely homes for some fortunate families. Jessie still resides in the brick home. TED - the youngest, married Marguerite Meyers of Delphos. He took care of his mother until the time he married and looked after the two nephews, Carl and Bud, for several years. Ted took over the home place and has resided here ever since. Ted and Marguerite have one son,. Raymond, who lives in Bennington and married Connie Peterson, also of Bennington. They have three children who are now attending Bennington public schools. Raymond and Connie live on the east side of town, two blocks north of Powell Service Station. Carl lives in California and Bud lives at Canon City, Colorado. Carl and Bud were both graduates of Bennington High School. Nettie lived with Ted for a long while and later went to live with Harvey. When high school became a problem, she moved into town, into the house owned by Eve Stickley; then Carl and Bud heirs of the estate. Here Grandma lived until she was no longer able to live alone. She passed away in 1956, at the age of 84. She was known as Grandma Cherry to a host of people. It has been asked that a few memories relative to the times be related in the narration. It would be very easy to fill up a book with the antics that went along with a family of ten in a rural pioneer-setting. Grandma had ten children, with eight of these being under eight years at one time. She recalls when the twins were born, she had four in diapers and they were still bathed in the tub and laid out on the bed and she recalled what a beautiful sight. These twins were born, June 16, with no refrigeration. I remember Grandma telling how she would go out and milk the old cow  at midnight, right into the bottle to feed those babies. The old cow seemed to know she was needed and would be up to the fence, ready to be milked when Grandma would go out. Grandma made all of the clothing these children wore, including underwear, outer clothes, and knit the socks, stockings, gloves and mittens. They bought the shoes. She recalled, before her death, that she never saw a town for eight years. Papa, as Della refers to her father, did all the buying. Jim recalls that he was taught to cut weeds. Work was a blessing to keep kids out of mischief. The chief cash income came from hogs earlier and later from cream and milk. They raised corn and wheat and once in a while oats. They farmed with horses and Della says they all had to man a corn knife to cut weeds and kid fashion, a lot of fun and foolishness got mixed in and every now and again they would find a skunk hole and poke at it until the vermit stuck his head out and away they would run. l, Virginia, the writer, remember Grandma making soap in the big iron kettle, apple butter and then washed on the board and boiled the clothes in the kettle outdoors. Della tells about feeding this family of ten in those days. They bought apples from the Doom place; Grandma would sit and core a 40 gallon-kettle full. When evening came, due to the fact this kettle was copper, it was not safe to leave overnight so she would dip it all out into big stone jars to cool. The next day she would work this through the collander with her hands and then begin cooking it down into applebutter. They bought sugar 100 lbs. at a time, at the price of $8.00 per hundred. Later on it got a little higher. They would work wild plums over the same way. They did all of their butchering, usually eight hogs at a time, and Papa made sure the hog was good and fat  Della remembers the fat as much as four inches deep on the hams and shoulders and not one bit was trimmed off.  They had two big kettles, one was iron and the other was copper. The iron kettle got a work out for rendering the lard. This meat was preserved in salt - a layer of salt and a layer of meat and so on - then packed in wooden boxes. Grandma would set up until 11 and 12 o'clock at night scraping hair off the head and shanks, getting it RETURN NEXT