Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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We had som good furniture. Ply father was out for good t gs, and it
was a good walnut bedroan set and all that. These thing3 ere storeg
In Un&rfangerls and I let him know that he would have to pay for the
storage. He didn't.
I went on to high school. You see, I'm going to have to t a little
ahead now. I was a sophornre then when this happened in i@ school. But
I was at h o became ~ I had little brother, and sis er had to leave
to go out to Bissell, Illinois, to live because her husb d had a job
out there. So her child--well, she [eventually] had thre boys. The other
two were born out at Bissell and the one was born in Spri field. This
is when I quit school.
Q. She and her husband stayed on and took care of you? '
A. Yes, they did until I was in hi& school. No, they ved out there.
They had to mve out there to work because he was a mine pector tven.
!That was the job. So she took brother then when I had to break up [the
house]. She took little brother, Will, and so . . .
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Q. So that left you all by yourself?
A. No, no. I went to--I1ve forgotten now what home I we t to. But then
I was in high school, you see. Oh, I went to Mr. Magilly 4 . Jk. Magill
was nly sophomore teacher; he was our mathematics teacher.' Hugh StewarSt
Ikgl11 was his nam. His wife was not strong--she was a lovely person--and
I went to their h m to help. A little bog was there, thqir son, Roswell
Magill. He became somthhg in Washington; I can't reme er what it was.
I think he was an attorney first. But Mr. Magill beta senator here
in the . . .
Q. Your math teacher becarre a state senator?
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A. Yes. Then he was national secretary for the Sunday S Association.
They were quite religious which was good.
Q. Did the Lynns and the Magills pay you as well as pmv/de you with board
and room?
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A. Oh, I got about a dollar a week or sorething like tha$. But I had a
lot of things given to m, too. Now for example, the Kre der girls who are
now so lovely to E are the g-anddaughters of Mrs. Pasfie d. The Pasfield
Place, you know, was [named after them]. You how about hat? Their father
the Kreider @rlsl father, was an outstanding surgeon. B t he married a
Pasfield daughter, you see, which was the only daughter. Their pardfather
was a doctor to begin with, but he didn't practice here. He got into real
estate.
Q. That Is Miss Masy Kreider?
A. Maxy and Rma KTeider.
Q. How did they help you? !
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