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and a child who did not weigh answers, either gave what 
she considered the correct answer or said that she did not 
know. She has a sister, Mildred, 2 years younger, who has 
an LQ. of 72. The child was doing very poorly in school, 
was dirty and poorly dressed, according to the person doing 
psychological work. The home care received is very poor. 
The father, Rex Booth, earns only $12 a week, with which 
he could not be expected to support a wife and 8 children 
in comfort. 
The third child of the old prostitute who married the 
Burns was an insane idiot according to the evidence given 
by old settlers. He was crazy, could not talk, and was dan- 
gerous to have about as he insisted upon tearing things into 
shreds. He was kept in a pen which was put outdoors in 
summer and moved into the house each winter. Food was 
shoved thru to him on a pie pan. He was a middle-aged man 
when he died. 
Emma, the fourth of the Burns tribe, married Glen Kelley. 
Their children, as far as we know them, are : Polly, who mar- 
ried Charley Walker; Silas, who married Nora Booth, the 
child of Glen Booth ; Arnold, who killed himself ; Irvin, who 
is now in the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane; Mrs. 
Hetty Grey, Forest Kelley, Lola, Russel, and Elmer Kelley. 
Nothing is known of Emma except that she lived to be 105 
years old. Her husband was a brother of the wife of Harmon 
Burns. He died of tuberculosis. 
Polly, the first child of Emma Kelley, married Charley 
Walker, by whom she had 10 children: James, Matt, Sam, 
Oscar, Reuben, Katherine, Alma, Stella, Denis, and Nora. 
James Walker, first child of Polly and Charley, is a re- 
spected farmer of 68 years living in Township 5. He is 
prosperous, quiet and inoffensive in manner, hospitable, and 
an entertaining host, well-informed on current events, says 
that he has the finest neighbors in the world, and worships 
his family. He married Nellie Hazen, a cousin of Mrs. Robert 
Johnson of Township 4, already described as a feeble-minded 
woman. James has 6 children: Olive, Pearl, Rebecca, Claude, 
Norine, and Thomas. 
Olive married George Inman and lives in the West, where 
he is a farm tenant. They have 3 children. 
Pearl married William Booth, a country school-teacher. 
