I was raised on Buxton Hill.

The' was nine on us, an' I was the youngest o' the lot.

My father farmed a piece of about forty to fifty acres, an' had a small shop where he done odd times small jobs of tinkerin' fer the neighbors when the' was anythin' to do.

My mother was his second, an' I was the only child of that marriage.

He married agin when I was about two year old, an' how I ever got raised 's more 'n I c'n tell ye.