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around him -- He readily agreed to board me and my horse
for $15.00 a month-; $7.00 for me, and $8.00 for my horse --
His wife was a quiet, tall, sallow woman, with very black hair
and eyes-; they had a number of children, and had lost a
good many --. Their oldest child was named Robert about 12
or 14 yrs. old -- a year or two previously, he had climbed
up on the horizontal cog wheel of the gin house, when it was
in motion, and had been caught between the revolving cogs
of the main running gear, and his left arm was ground up,
from near the shoulder down -- and the right hand was all
ground up also -- Mr. Gregory was running the gin himself, and
had to back the mules until the poor little fellow dropped
to the ground. He had to send to Quincy, which was 25 miles
distant, to get a physician -- Dr. Shields, who was then
the leading popular doctor there, came down, and removed
the left arm, leaving only a short stump a few inches long-;
and on his mangled right hand only one or two mutilated
fingers were left-; he learned to write a good hand writing
however, and used himself very well -- He grew up though
to be dissipated, and died before he reached his prime --
There were three daughters -- Ida -- Chaffa (abbreviation of Atchafalaya)
on one of his visits to New Orleans, he was so fascinated with
this name then (one of the streets bearing it) that when a
daughter was born soon after his return, he gave it to her --
Ida, when she grew up married a Dr. Flake-; she is dead-;
left a son-; Dr. F. an unsettled, dissipated man -- still
lives I believe -- Dealla grew up to have epileptic fits,
and a tumor within the abdomen-; both of which she had sur-