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people of Cleveland Ohio who are so kind to and done so much for my boy, on 5
day of May 1910 he left home the very picture of health and in just ten months he
was brought back a corpse, it was God's Will that he should die away from home,
He knoweth best, and His Will must be done, all we can do is to bow in gentle
submission to His Holy Will, we grieve over the loss of our loved ones, but those
that are prepared to go are far better off than those they leave behind to grieve for
them, and after our grief is over and we have become reconciled we would not call
them back to earth if it was in our power to do so. Oh how often do we hear people
say, dead troubles we can get over that it is the living Trouble that breaks so many
hearts and brings them to their Graves in Sorrow, we all know of such instances
where the former would be much more preferable than the latter, it is an old saying
but a true one - that we do not no what we are raising our children for they grow up
and leave home and many of their parents never no where they are and what they
are doing - Many Poor Fathers and Mothers live a life of worry and suspense and go
down to their graves and never no what has become of their children, the Bible says
children obey your parents but it is right the reverse in this fast age, it is parents
obey your children even to humoring every little fool whim for Parents to give up to
their children in that way is the ruin of Many of them, when we come to sum it all
up what is this life our sorrows and troubles more than out balance all pleasure we
have, we crave riches but riches does not bring happiness and when our time come
our money does not save us, the rich and the poor all have to go - whenever we are
summoned In the days when there was no Rail Roads everybody to get to Orange
had either to come by water or on horse back at one time the District Judge H. C.
Pedigo who lived in Woodville had to come around by water from Beaumont in a
small Sail Boat, old Jack Cross was aboard of the Boat and he and the others that
were on the Boat decided to have some funm, out of the Judge as he could not swim
so Cross played crazy - and said that he was going to drown himself, he tied a rope
around his neck and climbed up to the top of the mast - and jumped overboard and
turned the boat over and Judge Pedigo liked to have drowned and he said after that
if there was no way to get to Orange only to come by water that he would never
hold court in Orange again - in an early day the Shell Bank used to be quite a trading
point the people from Orange used to go there quite a number of them to do their
trading. there used to be two or three stores there, and there was also several
shingle yards there, among the numbers who kept a store was a old man by the
name of August Pavell, he was living there at the time my father moved to Orange
this is the story that was told on them they amassed quite a little fortune and at that
time there was no bank this side of Galveston, so they had to devise some means to
take care of their wealth, so the wife gave out to her neighbors that she had given44
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). A History of Orange, book, 1998; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth312851/m1/48/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Orange County Historical Society.