BlairAndCernyFamilie..

After our parents were married they lived at 1042 West l4onroe
street with our motherrs sisterse Antoinette and Louise for
about a year. Their first daughter, Frances l'larie was born
January 2e lJl? and died on February l, 1912.
0n Harch 5, lJl2 our parents moved frorn Springfield to the
Bl ai r farm located northeast of Il I i opol i s.
Our father had to have help with the farming so he hired a man by
the name of Jack Eaton. He lived with us for a good many years.
At this time there were no combines, corn pickers or tractors.
The plowing, cultivating and the planting of crops was done rvith
horses. The wheat crop was harvested with a large steam engine
and the neighbors always helped each other with their cFopS.
Jack Eaton was a phenanenal personr rost congenial and trustful
and our parents liked him inmensely and he was always good to us
children. He was very conscientious and a hard worker and in some
of our fathers old checkbook stubs shows that he was paid only
515.00 a rpnth. Like the saying goesrrThere is many a good man to
be found under a shabby hatrr and this man was certainly of
exceptional quality and character.