Friday, April 13, 2007

I regrettably lost touch with this family member after we grew up:

My cousin Clayton, lived out to the Cape, he had a sister named Bessie, his mother was a religious person, very religious. They lived on the same road that Bette Davis lived on out the Cape, a few houses down on the opposite side, they had a big long house, long like a trailer, but it was a house, they had it divided down the middle with a blanket, and they had an old fashioned water pump to get their water, there used to be hundreds of bumble bees out in their yard, I used to play down at the lily pond catching toads with my cousin Clayton. He lives in Casco today, he has that Down East voice. After his mother died, she killed herself, they moved away to the Casco region, Sebago Lake area, it's up that way somewheres. My Uncle Bud was in the Coast Gaurd. He is still alive, I guess he is over a hundred. Clayton was one of my closest cousins, he went into the Navy, came out of the Navy and became a welder, for Williams Brothers, or McClellans, another company a family member owned. He is my age, he still works, he goes canoeing. I called him a month ago about an island that the family owns.

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