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now working for a business man of Stonetown, doing odd jobs 
about his home for which he receives $1 per day. He is a 
high-grade moron. 
Before going further with the Brown history, now that 
all the descendants of Margaret have been mentioned, it will 
be well to give some of the early history of the Jones family, 
since they are so intermarried with the Brown family from 
this point on that one family cannot be discussed separately 
from the other. 
The original Jones, original so far as we have their story, 
came from Kentucky and moved into the hills and hollows on 
the western boundary line of County H near the place now 
called Jones Hollow or Possum Holler. “Old Jimmie Jones” 
married a Hoosier girl by whom he had 8 children, the third 
one of whom was Emmett, who has already been described. 
Jimmie is said to have been haif-Indian. 
Walter was the oldest child of Jimmie. He has been dead 
for about 10 years. According to all evidence, he must have 
been feeble-minded. He is said to have been a strong, healthy 
man who never could learn to handle a horse. In a country 
and at a time when the horse was the only means of traveling 
and where almost every person owned one, it is strange to 
hear of a man who “could not learn to hitch or work one”. 
Another citizen says that Walter was an industrious man 
when working with someone but was not worth a copper when 
working alone; he always depended on being shown what to 
do. Another old man when asked why Walter left his family so 
poor, said that he was not much of a manager and that it 
was all that he could do to keep them when he was a young 
man. Even then the neighbors often gave them things to 
eat. All this looks as tho Walter might not have been even 
a high-grade moron. He married Sadie Brown, the third 
child of William and Sallie Brown, and the sister of Margaret 
Brown Jones. She, too, is feeble-minded. Since the death 
of her son Lloyd’s wife, she lives with him in a tiny log cabin 
on the hill above Possum Holler. She is a tall, skinny woman 
of 78 years with scanty hair and blue eyes. In her young days 
she was considered a woman to be feared, and in her old 
days her actions and talk are those of an insane woman. 
Without provocation, she threatens to kill, burn, or fight. 
When asked by the field worker concerning other members of 
