[Transcript: Memoir of Cornelia Garner] Page: 3 of 12

                                
believe had killed or at least hurried so many of us into eternity was now our nearest
neighbor. So of course as no one had hinted to us that he was a quack he was at once
summoned, but then there was an old retired Dr. H-- living near us but his health being
too feeble for him to ride out only in good weather he could only prescribe for us but
under his prescription my sister after three days began to improve. While my brother
grew worse and after a few days became delirious it was then that a young man who
was clerking in a store at S-- told my father how we had been imposed upon by the so
called doctor who had been waiting on us. My Father at once started a negro man
twenty-two miles for another Doctor. It was about eleven o'clock pm when he started
he was back with the Dr by four the next morning but we had given my brother up to
die but under the treatment of the new Dr. he soon began to grow better and recovered
and is yet living.
Our First Crop in Texas
By the time and before the sickness abated it was time to begin planting a crop. I
think my father could only get about sixty acres of land to cultivate forty of this he
planted cotton and the balance in corn. The winter had been very mild and from every
appearance it looked like springtime had certainly come corn planting was done in
February generally. The corn had all been worked out and some of it knee high. The
prairies were all carpeted in green waving grass dotted with every hue of countless
flowers when Lo: on the eleventh of April it came a big snow for this state and a freeze
followed the snow and as every one had almost recovered from this freeze and were
planting over crops and on the twenty third of April it came another big frost and killed
all vegetation again. So this caused hard times in Texas; this last killed all the mast I
mean acorns and at that time in Texas hogs were raised in large numbers on the range
and no one ever thought of raising corn to fatten hogs but killed them in the woods. So

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