Phoebe Mitchell Day Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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A. He was German and she was Lit-. He just, I guess, just
did o rWmy work, He worked all the th; he was a good worker, you
know, And Ms son was named, I think, Joey Seitz; he just died here
about four months ago, He mked at the mansion with Liggins-for the
State, and he decorated and worked on televisions and thhgs like that,
you krm, Oh, he has another son that's a deputy sheriff out there;
he's Deputy Steve. And Tony, he's In the insurance business. And Wil-
ma Holvey-her husbard used to race out at the fairgrounds-she was
In real estate business, They was all-growed to be In business, you
know, far themselves,
Q, But you baby-sat for than smetLmes?
A. When I--yes. I lived right there, and they was all young aid rrmall.
And I just loved, well, I just loved children a d babies. My youngest
brother, I tried to make hlm a baby. (laughs) He wore-Mama let his hair
pow long, you know. See, how they used to let their hair grow long . . .
Q. Way back there?
A, Yes, yes. (laughter) And sheld make these Uttle Buster Brawn
suits, you know. Wlt when he was a baby, Daddy, in moving-he used
to haul people's flnrmiture, you know, a mover. And. he brought a go-
cart4 1Zttle baby cart-hme, and I'd tie Richard up in that baby
cart, He didn't want to be rolled around, but I just had to have scanethlng-
a doll or samething.
Well, you know they wasn't mddng dolls then much, bQ first llttle
doll come f2an Mrs, Rollins fkm our church, Jessie Rolllm~ mother,