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one of the most influential citizens in the county at one time, 
and his family has always been one of the most highly re- 
spected in his community. No one has ever been able to 
understand why he should want to marry a Smith, for she 
had nothing to recommend her but a pretty face. By her, 
Herman had 4 children. These have done well, none of them 
showing the Smith characteristics excepting Isabel, who had 
1 illegitimate child. Elmer, the oldest son, married and had 
2 children. Of these, Emily is the interesting one. She has 
been well reared, is the organist in her church, has a high 
social position in her community, and is probably given more 
spending money than any other girl in her home village. She 
evidently has not succeeded in her school work as well as 
she might have done as she has only in the last year finished 
her high school course at the age of 21. Her mother’s father 
is insane — senile dementia — and he had a brother who for 
the last 10 or 15 years of his life was a menace to the woman- 
hood of his neighborhood. On the paternal side, there is 
nothing bad except the Smith grandmother. 
For a number of years, Emily has been telling other high 
school girls wild tales of illicit sex relations with a large 
number of boys. She even goes so far as to write notes in 
school telling of actions which no normal-minded girl would 
care to put on paper. The field worker saw some of these 
notes which her schoolmates had taken to their homes. The 
boys mentioned do not deny the truth of her statements but 
talk very freely of her about town. The leading physician 
of the town says that she has ruined almost every immature 
boy there, and that everyone knows of it except her parents. 
As they are the wealthy people of a small town, no one cares 
to tell them. She has been classified by the field worker as 
an “unstable moron” altho she is not a clear-cut case of either 
feeble-mindedness or insanity. She has a sister in the graded 
school who was pronounced feeble-minded by the physician. 
It will be remembered that after the death of Sam Wil- 
liams, Margaret Brown Williams married Emmett Jones in 
about 1868. He was probably the best one of the Jones family. 
He could read and write. At one time he owned 40 acres 
of land near Solton and was able to make a good living for 
his family. During his last year he was often the recipient 
of poor relief from the Charity Organization Society. His 
children by Margaret were John, Louis, Daisy, and Albert. 
