The others in the wagon train had no objection. Xxnx The house was finished in the fall of that year as well as a barn and chicken coup. I was in charge now. Four weeks later, Mama was gone. No one questioned it as I looked older than I was. The day finally came when Mama, Daddy, my younger sister, Mary, my little brother Billy, and myself loaded up the wagon with what possessions we had remaining and left our comfortable life in Baltimore. He came home from the war a different man. She seemed to like it and was always disappointed when he would turn his attention to me. She caught pneumonia after we had been caught in a thunderstorm, leaving us three kids to be taken care of my Daddy. And when his hand would come up under my night gown, it found places
