Family Stories page 5
Written by Alice (Simpson) Lemons
A little story about
Aunt Harriet:
Noah’s Sister Harriet ( not Mary Jane
Whitten’s sister Harriet, who fell from the horse, this is Mary Jane Whitten’s
daughter) Mary Jane said her daughter Harriet was the most mischievous and
daring child she had. At about tow
years of age, she had dressed her in a beautiful starched white dress and
before they could get started to church, the little tyke ran out and wiped her
pretty dress all over and around the wash pot.
Another time at school, there was a dug-out well that was not yet
finished, and some children lost their ball in the well. Harriet being a daring young girl, climbed
down the walls of the well and brought up the ball, which of course when
Grandma found out frighten her very much.
Aunt Harriet grew
into a beautiful young woman and was so precious to her family. Dad (Noah) said she was leader to all the
children. They always followed her and
at work she was always keeping them with her.
When Noah was about 4 years old, granddad had just put on a new roof and
had not put the tools away. Noah was
playing with the hatchet and cut his left forefinger off to the point that it
was just hanging by a string of skin. Aunt Harriet bandaged it up using
turpentine and sugar and a board to hold it straight, and the finger grew back
perfectly with only a scar to show what happened.
Aunt Harriet married
Jim Kelly from Indiana, and dad (Noah) said he was a wonderful man and dad
loved him like a brother. He died not
long after Granddad did in 1897 ( Thomas C. Simpson). Dad made his home with them until he married but some time with
Uncle burr and Aunt Bettie.