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she wanted it. For a year before her first commitment to 
the Southeastern Hospital, she was drunk most of the time. 
Sometimes she would refuse to comb her hair for 2 or 3 weeks 
at a time. One day Jim was talking about this in the little 
country store and said : ‘‘I tell Annie to comb hair and come 
home noon and she no comb hair. Next morning I tell her 
to comb hair and she no comb hair. Then I throw him down 
and put knee on him and comb him hair.” Concerning his 
mother-in-law, Jim says, ‘‘When she comes, me no damn stay 
at home — she craz.” Jim knew that Annie was immoral, so 
he would lock her up in the house with a case of beer when 
he started to work in the morning. She was once furloughed 
from the Southeastern Hospital bat fell into her old habits of 
living and had to be returned. She has a positive Wasserman. 
Nothing is known of Glen Buzziard, the illegitimate son of 
Clara Allen, except that his father was Henry Buzziard, one 
of the notorious alcoholics about town. He has been arrested 
53 times for intoxication and peace disturbance since 1905. 
His in-and-out fees and board at the jail for these misde- 
meanors have amounted to $151.70. Since prohibition in In- 
diana he is considered one of the best workmen in the quarry 
district. 
Mary Allen, the child of Dave by his second wife, Jennie 
Brill, married a LeGrande, and all trace of her has been lost. 
For many years she was in Chicago where she did practical 
nursing, according to Clara. Her patients were all men who 
often took her with them to Florida, California, Canada, and 
other places. She is said to be very pretty and formerly was 
extremely immoral. All this looks as if she might still be 
licentious. 
By his third wife, Eliza Sample, James Allen had 5 chil- 
dren. Robert, the first one, is married and lives in X. 
County. Nothing is known of him. Clem, the second child 
of Eliza, died of typhoid fever. Catherine, the third, died in 
infancy. Bessie, the fourth child by Eliza, died in infancy. 
Dewey, the fifth, is married and lives in X. County. 
Robert Allen, the second son of John Allen and Bertha 
Keen, married Goldie Anderson, by whom he had 11 children. 
He is said to have been a good old man. Goldie, the widow 
of Robert, was born in 1860 in Township 9. She was the 
daughter of James Anderson and a Clark woman. The mother 
