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for them, along: with her sisters, eats large quantities of beans, 
cabbage, potatoes, meat of all kinds, and pie. 
Frank, the second member of this strange family, is feeble- 
minded, He is 42 years old and unmarried. One of his pe- 
culiarities is that he will not look at a woman. When he sees 
one coming and finds if impossible to dodge, he will turn his 
back toward her and walk sideways until he has passed her. 
He works on the section where he talks to the men only when 
it is necessary. He has never tried to farm the land left by his 
father but rents the part of it that lies in the creek bottom. 
He has let the bushes grow up about the house until the place 
is a wilderness. 
Emma, the third one of this group, is 39 years old and has 
been in bed for nearly 25 years. When a young girl she 
jumped off a high fence and injured herself slightly according 
to the physicians. Since then she has not left her bed, altho 
according to these same doctors there is no physical reason 
why she should not do so. A very significant fact is that she 
was ''sick'' for 2 or 3 years before the accident and had spent 
a part of that time in bed. When the field worker entered the 
room, she covered her head with the bed clothes. She hides 
her face from the woman who carries the food to her each day. 
Lena is the youngest of the Moffit sisters. She is 28 years 
old. She too is "sick". At one time she had "St. Anthony's 
Dance" but is now free from it. She never attended school, 
but was taught a little by her sister Ada. She is nervous and 
very shy. She would turn away her head whenever ad- 
dressed. 
The Maternal History of Clara Allen 
It will be remembered that James Allen, the father of Clara, 
was married 3 times. His first wife after leaving him was 
also married 2 more times. The second husband was a Moffit, 
by whom she had 4 children of whom nothing is known. She 
then married John Miller, who already had 3 children: 
Simpson, Walter, and Maud. By her John had 5 children: 
Ed, Homer, Susan, Polly, and Matt. 
Ernest Miller, first child of John by his first wife, Clarissa 
Petty, was born in 1843 in Township 12. He married and 
continued to live on the old place. All his life he was known 
as a very queer fellow and on January 23, 1902, he was com- 
