Memoir, page 4: move from Rock Spring to Mt. Hope, Uncle Kit, the cowbell on Bub

first — and Mammie thought it was her bounden duty to make me perfect. She never became resigned to my being what I was, until I passed the whipping age.

Dad decided to plant for him self and bought Shoengaussen plantation — He and Mammie had made many plans for living there and leading their own lives — Then out of the blue — Uncle Kit bought Mt. Hope, Oak hurst and Gibbes. Dad was to plant there + Uncle Kit [to] finance them — until they paid for them selves. The brothers were devoted & loyal — Dad gave up moving to Shoengaussen — and went into partnership with Uncle Kit. “Mount Hope” — now known as “Willtown” — had been bought from the Grimballs. “Oak hurst” was the old Barnwell place — and “Rosemont” had belonged to the Gibbes —

Of the move from Rock Spring to Mt. Hope I have only the vaguest memory — confusion — Mammie in a big apron bearing some baskets — and of Bub running around with a cow bell tied around his neck — Mammie was so afraid of his getting into the river that she put the bell on him to keep track of his comings and goings. The idea of never going to the river must have been very deeply impressed on us — for I never