almost more than I can stand. I did-I lived through it. Heather said to me one day, "I don't know how you lived through it." I said, "You don't? You want me to tell you how?" Because you can't do anything else. You're alive-unless you take your own life-and I didn't want to do that. Well, maybe if you wouldn't mind, I can take a look at a couple of pages of your Journal and we might copy for you history. Well, I won't care. It's very interesting I remember from reading it ten or twelve years ago and I knew what she was going through at the time. All this was going on at the time they wanted me to complete the book, add 20 years to his book (update her father's book-Kerr County Texas 1856-1956). And I said I would. And then all this happened and day after day passed and that was hanging over me and I thought I just can't get my mind on this. And so I finally said, "I don't feel like I can do it." And then she said Clara Watson was dying to, so- She (indicating Sibyl) also has books of people from all over the county and elsewhere, of their families, genealogies Oh, really! She has more of that than anyone I've ever known. Well, maybe we can copy some of that. All right. I am Mormon and that's a big part of our faith is gathering genealogy because we believe that in the hereafter we'll be gathered together as
Supplemental materials to accompany an interview with Kerrville teacher Sibyl Bennett Sutherland, including photographs of family, the boarding house her mother operated (Hill House), materials related to her career as a teacher, an excerpt from a book about Hill Country teachers.
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