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Uncle Seymour Howard Neff 		Grandmother also helped to nurse the sick, being called out at all hours of the night also assisting at the birth of babies. She often, too, entertained and provided for church authorities when they visited that community. Grandmother was a skilled horse woman and passed the love of horses and horseback riding on to her children. In Grandmother’s later years she drove a fine sorrel horse hitched to a one seated top buggy and would often take those less fortunate to the city to the doctor, to shop, or to attend meetings. One trip she had to make was to take her twenty-seven year old daughter, Alice Amelia, to the hospital for a cancer operation. Alice Amelia died on the operating table.

After her husband Franklin died in 1882, grandmother operated the grist mill for a time with the help of her son-in-law, James Madison Fisher, and her son Seymour, who was twelve years of age at the time of his father’s death. Later, she sold the mill and the old home and moved to a two story frame house on 27th
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