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- Per May Sexton McGlothin: Aunt Hattie married Simeon (Sim) Sexton, acousin of Dad's. They had 5 children. The eldest was born dead. Theother children are Floyd, never married; Flora, married but nochildren; Mattie, married and has 1 daughter, Bettie, Sim married andhad 2 children. Sim is Dead. Uncle Sim was killed accidentally whenlittle Sim was 9 month's old. Uncle Sim and Dad closed GrandpaPotter's store one night and went by the old Lodge Hall when was stillstanding when I went to Huntsville to stay with Harriett Childressafter Aunt Laura and her husband, Rial Millard, and three children,Clark, Louise and Lucille, moved out and went to Dorton, nearCrossville. Two more children were born: Ruth and Kathleen. Lucilleddied when she was about 8 years old; she had a tumor. Her stomach washard as a rock and she looked like she was pregnant. They were livingin Cincinnatti at that time. Anyway, the old lodge hall stood behindthe old Presbyterian church. At thahat time, there was a Mossip schoolfor girls where the new presybterian church now stands. Dad and UncleSim went to a pie supper and while they were there a fight began withshooting. Dad and Uncle Sim ran. In the dark they got separated andDaDad ran down the street towards the jail. Uncle Sim ran down thesidewalk in front of Mossip School. Next morning Aunt Hattie sentFloyd out to the (our) house to ask if Uncle Sim spent the night. Daddressed quickly and started towards the lodgdge hall. He found UncleSim lying on his face on the side walk near the front gate of theMossip School Grounds. A bullet had hit him in his back and wentthrough his heart, lodged in the day book in which he recorded theday's sales at the store. The book, which had a hard back, was in hisinside coat pocket. The bullet had pierced one back, the pages, andlodged against the other back. A man left Huntsville that night, wasgone about 40 years, and came back. He asked about some Phillipsboys, Caldwell and Harrison. There may have been others, but they areall I remember. One man, Caldwell I think it was, bought a pie whichbelonged to his (the man who left) girl. They fought and the shootingbegan. The Phillips boys were taall like Dad and Uncle Sim. Later heasked if any could remembered the pie supper and the fight. He wastold "yes" and that a man, Sim Sexton, was killed by a stray bullet.He had left thinking he killed thie Phillips man, so Dad said. AuntHatter later married L.A. Chambers from Buffalo. They had 3 children.
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