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    • Jack and Logan County House

      MarkD published on October 4, 2025

      Can you think of anything else about the sojourn in Logan Co.  GM:  You remember about Jack.  The dog that went down there with us.  Dad:  Oh yes aha.  GM:  Do you remember he had laid around like he was wondering what was going to happen when we were getting all packed up to go.  And what did he do but run and jump in the wagon.  And stayed in there until Papa got down to Oklahoma.  Dad:  Well I didn't remember that.  GM:  And then when he let the horses out, the dog got out and was perfectly happy.  Went home with us and stayed there.  Till finally he got something wrong with him I don't know what was the matter.  But aparently he just wondered away.  Something happened to him.  We don't know what happened to him.  We never did know where he went to.  Whether he died or whether something else happened to him.  Dad:  I remember he was acting a little  funny before he went away.  He ate peach skins or something.  GM:  Oh, you remember that.  Yeah.  Ahah. 

       

      Dad:  I remember down on the place down there.  I have since gone back and it seems like things have shrunk up for me.  The road used to be longer and the trees used to be higher.  All that sort of thing.  And I remember that the trees by the driveway looked so tall and it looked so long to the mail box and the house seemed so big.  GM:  You mean when we got down there.  Dad:  When we were down there but since I was back there about 47 Yrs later Why everything has shrunk up.  The trees are short and the driveway is short and the roads are short.  It doesn't seem so  GM:  It seems so strange.  Maybe they wasn't the same at all.  But you know we used to    I remember we had a blueberry patch pretty close to the garden where the mailbox was.  We had awfully nice blueberrys there.  I had the lovelyest garden there.  Even when I was about to give birth to Ruth, I went down there that morning and hoed in my garden a little bit when I still already had pains you know.  I didn't mean to tell all that though.  Dad:  Thats alright.  GM:  And she was born and then I think along about noon thursday..that day.  We had great big old dewberrys.  Awful nice.  Dad:  And  GM:  Oh and Papa raised hogs there.  And we took and killed the hogs and cooked the meat up you know and put it in jars.  We had lots of nice    Oh we just had lovely meat.  All packed in jars.  And lard and everything.  And then we had it down in that old cave.  You remember that old cave.  One night it come a terrible rain and flood or something and caved in on top of all that stuff.  Dad:  I don't remember that.  GM:  We got it out.  Papa dug it out.  Didn't hurt it any.  It was in stone jars and things like that.  And when we left there, I had eggs packed in salt.  Dad:  I remember that.  I remember unpacking those eggs in that salt after we got back up to Enid here for a long time it seemed to me like.  GM:  Aha yeah thats right.  We brought them from down here.  And they kept just fine packed in salt.  And we had a lot of that meat still left there and brought with us.  Sausage.  We packed a lot of sausage and we covered it with the lard you know.  No I guess we covered it with the grease that come out of it and it was cooked.  It was awful good.  I don't know if it was so good for us but it sure was good.  Dad:  Well there's been a lot of water gone over the dam since then as the saying goes.  GM:  That`s right. 

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