A-2(2)

WHILE LIVING HERE JANICE HAD THE JOB OF GATHERING EGGS. THE CHICKEN COOP WAS JUST A PART OF A SHED. THERE WERE SOME NESTING PLACES THERE BUT SOME OF THE CHICKENS WOULD FIND OTHER PLACES. JANICE WAS TO HAVE ONE EGG FOR EVERY DOZEN SHE FOUND. ONE TIME SHE DECIDED THAT ONE WAS NOT ENOUGH SO SHE HID SEVERAL UNTIL IT WAS TIME FOR US TO TAKE THEM TO THE STORE. WE USED THEM FOR BARTER AT THE STORE AND GOT CANDY, LICORICE AND POPCORN AND. STARTED HOME. USUALLY WE HAD MOST OF IT EATEN BY THE TIME WE GOT HOME BUT WE HAD SO MUCH THAT WE COULD NOT EAT ALL OF IT. WE HAD TO THROW SOME OF IT AWAY UNDER THE BRIDGE BY A-4 BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN HOW WE HAD SO MUCH. I DO NOT REMEMBER DOING IT AGAIN.(H6)

IN 1923 FRANK WILBUR MOVED A HOUSE TO C-6 FROM STRINGTOWN AND FRANKLIN ROSA AND SARAH ELLEN SUGGESTED THAT THEY LIVE THERE AND FRANK WILBUR AND FAMILY MOVE TO C-8. A-2 THEN BECAME A RENTAL. 

IT WAS HERE (C-6) THAT GRANDPA AND GRANDMA DIED. GRANDPA, (FRANKLIN ROSA BACON) WAS A HARD WORKING MAN WHO WANTED HIS FAMILY TO ENJOY THE GOOD THINGS OF LIFE. HOWEVER ILLNESS PLAGUED HIM THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. THE DAY BEFORE HIS FUNERAL I WANTED TO SEE GRANDPA. BUT FIRST DAD (FRANK WILBUR) SENT ME HOME TO WASH MY FACE AND HANDS AND COMB MY HAIR. I WAS FIVE YEARS OLD. HE LIFTED ME UP IN HIS ARMS TO SEE HIM FOR THE LAST TIME.(VVVVV)

GRANDMA(SARAH ELLEN HESS BACON) SUFFERED A STROKE PRIOR TO HER DEATH. ONE COULD TELL HER TIME IN MORTALITY WAS COMING TO AN END. SHE LAY ON AN OLD BROWN COUCH WHICH CONVERTED INTO A BED. SHE WAS ILL BUT SHE WAS STILL IN COMMAND AND THIS TIME WOULD HAVE NO ONE BUT HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW(GRACE SMART BACON) CARE FOR HER. GRACE LITERALLY BECAME HER MINISTERING ANGEL. (VVVVV) THE FOLLOWING IS THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR SARAH ELLEN HESS BACON:(B)

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PROMINENT GEORGETOWN WOMAN SUCCUMBS
(SARAH ELLEN HESS BACON)

BEFORE A LARGE ASSEMBLAGE OF RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS FUNERAL SERVICES FILLED WITH A DEEP SPIRIT OF LOVE AND SYMPATHY WERE HELD AT 1 P.M. MONDAY IN GEORGETOWN WARD CHAPEL FOR MRS SARAH ELLEN BACON, WIDOW OF LATE FRANKLIN R. BACON. MRS BACON DIED SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 30TH AT HER HOME IN GEORGETOWN AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS ILLNESS FROM PARALYSIS AND RHEUMATISM