SEGMENT: RECOLLECTIONS & HEALTH
Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 18
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- RECOLLECTIONS
- Mentions building train line to the Gillespie coal mine. Mentions getting birth certificate & wife being delivered by midwife. Story of hunting ducks with grandfather & him moving to TX with Bert's aunt because he had no means of support. Grandfather died in TX. Mentions grandfather's well-kept grave in TX. Talks of wild grapes & enjoyment of getting fruit in TX.
- HEALTH
- Discussion of Dr. Easley delivering babies & caring for sick by making up fever powder. Discusses ague (a form of malaria) & how everyone had chills in the fall. Mentions his mother getting chills so bad she thought she would die. Then got quinine & she recovered. Describes the fever. It was also called the shakes.
