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This story was told to me by Pearl Risner Hopkins, Oct 7th 1994. Pearl was born 1903, and was the daughter of Lee and his first wife Polly Risner. This story is about Lee and Polly Risner.

Paw and Maw Risner went to Oak. by covered wagon. On the trip they had a barrel of
Molasses. Two to six jiblings (Not sure what jiblings means) crawled under the wagon
and kept it out of the water, and they swam in under it and held it up, and the wagon was
drove to the other side of the river. Paw told them who ever has got a bucket, bring it to me
and I will give you something good to eat. Paw said everyone of them hollered I've got a
bucket. Paw told the first one that hollered to bring his bucket and I will pour you out a
bucket of Molasses.
Paw and Maw was back from Oak when I was born in 1903. While they were living in Oak.,
Paw got Yellow Jaundice and they had to come back home on a train. They could not
bring their wagon back. Paw and Maw rode the train to Ivington, Ky and got off and
walked to the Jim Howard farm up on Puncheon.
Maw "Polly died of a fever.
When Paw got remarried to Nina Arnett,and before they moved to Ohio, he would plow
and plant big fields of corn, and Maw "Nina" would plant beans in the corn. It was my
sister and brother and my job to hoe the corn and beans. We sure hoed a lot of corn
while we were growing up.

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