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Simon, the fifth child of Goldie, is unknown. 
Hazel, the sixth child, is feeble-minded, and like her sister 
is alcoholic and licentious. She first married James Sandy, 
by whom she had 1 child who died in infancy. She has since 
married twice, her last husband being Floyd Payton. He is 
from a better family than that of Hazel, but is a confirmed 
alcoholic. Hazel is at the present time taking treatment for 
a venereal infection. 
Daisy, the seventh child of Goldie Smith Jones, and Nellie, 
the eighth, are both feeble-minded, alcoholic, licentious, and 
syphilitic. They are 21 and 19 years old respectively. They 
live with their mother, and along with her they spend most 
of their time prostituting. They do not commercialize their 
vice, but someone of them washes every day to make enough 
money to keep the wolf from the door. 
Before continuing the story of the Brown family, the 
paternal ancestral history of Goldie Smith’s children will be 
outlined. 
Oscar Smith was the son of Russel Smith Sr., a lazy, alco- 
holic good-for-nothing fellow who is said by those who remem- 
ber him not to have been worth powder and lead to blow 
him up. By his wife, Mary Hudson, he had 7 children : Oscar, 
Russel, Ira, Sarah, May, Lillie, and another daughter whose 
name we do not know. 
Russel, the second child of Russel Sr., born in 1876, is 
a low-grade moron living in Stonetown. He can neither read 
nor write, altho he attended the country school for 2 or 3 
sessions. He has never worked regularly, and the only time 
he has ever lived comfortably was soon after he married 
Bertha, the daughter of Grant Park, and lived on a fifteen- 
acre farm given her by her father. With the farm, went 
2 horses, 1 cow, and 2 pigs. This wealth vanished in about 
a year, and Russel moved to town. He does odd jobs about 
the livery stable, cuts wood, and tries hard to dodge all other 
kinds of work. He probably has never made more than $5 
per week. His wife died July 11, 1913, leaving Russel with 
4 children : Charlie, Frank, Eliza, and Mabel. He took such 
poor care of them that the neighbors complained, and the 
Board of Children’s Guardians investigated. Before he would 
consent to allow the children to be taken to an institution, 
he asked the Board to allow him to keep them on condition 
