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My brother Cecil was born on a dark dreary day, or the
nd
morning I remember, in 1901, November 2 . We were
I can start remembering when I was not quite 4
proud as could be, now we had a baby brother.
years old. But my mother told me many times,
My father was fixing fence on a fall day (I don’t remember a story about when I was 2 or 2 ½ years of age,
what year, but believe it was sometime in 1902). We almost that I had eaten peanuts, I suppose I couldn’t
chew them very good, so went into convulsions.
lost him, as infection set in, he was taken to Topeka, Kansas
They were very frightened so put warm water
and was in the hospital for some time. I remember it was a
in a wash boiler and dipped me down into
cool cloudy day the day he got hurt by a wire, it snapped in this very warm water. To this day, I remember
two, blew back and hit him in the eye. His eye had to be about being put down into this boiler of water
removed. He tried so hard to wear a glass eye but he said and when I was a small child, one time my
they hurt him so he couldn’t stand to wear one. mother told me about it; to me it was like a
baptism.
nd
I was going to be six years old September 22 , so the folks
wanted to get me in school. We lived 2½ miles from school
Albert Miller Walt many-
years after losing his eye. so they arranged to have me stay with my Aunt Dora Lewel-
ling (my mother’s older sister). I don’t remember if I went
2 or 3 days, but anyway they couldn’t get me to go back to
school, the teacher had called me down for something. So
that ended my schooling for that year.
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