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The second child of VI 109 died in infancy. The third, VII 124, was slow but steadygoing in school and was careful and attractive. At 18 she married her cousin, VII 117.

The two youngest boys in this family, VII 125 and VII 126, were placed in a Children's Home when young and have been here and there. The older is now with foster parents and is reported as doing well, while the younger is now with his sister, who was accidentally shot by him.

The sixth child of Adelaide, VI III, is a woman of good morals, orderly, and industrious. She has a quiet disposition and has little to do with her neighbors. She is called "queer and eccentric" in many things she does. She married an industrious, capable man and moved away from the Juke region to a nearby city, where they are doing well.

Their oldest child, VII 129, is a careful, quiet-appearing woman of good repute, 27 years of age, who did the grade work in school, married, and now has four children, the oldest of whom is very keen in her school work.

The second child of VI III is a boy with good artistic sense, which is being especially trained in a trade school. While very incapable in other subjects he is being encouraged in the one thing he can do well.

The last child of VI 111 who lived is a neat, well-behaved girl of 14, doing well in school, except in arithmetic.

Adelaide's seventh child died in infancy, while the eighth, VI 114, is an active, energetic fellow who moved away from the Juke region and its associations and went to a large city, where he is sporting editor of a daily newspaper and is doing well. He is married and has one small child, VII 133, who does her school work easily.

The last in this family, VI 116, when a boy of 16 or 17, committed incest with his niece, VII 118, of the same age. When he grew up he became a laborer and is an ignorant, wandering, inefficient fellow. He is married, but has no children.

Annetta, V 37, was the ninth child of Alice and Stillman. She has had little education, but is considered of "fair intelligence," though she has been intemperate. She married Hemid, V 38. He was industrious, but untrained, and so had a hard time to get along financially, and for a short time following their marriage they received poor relief. Hemid was a "good citizen," ignorant, but well-meaning. They had eleven children.

Annetta's first child, VI 119, is an industrious mechanic of good reputation, who has saved his money. He married and had two children, both of whom died at birth. He moved away from the Juke country.

The second child of Annetta died in infancy. The third, VI 121, was chaste, intelligent, and reputable. She married an industrious man much like herself socially and mentally and had four children. These four are all intelligent, active, and of good repute in the community.

The fourth child of Annetta, VI 124, married and had one son, but was deserted soon after marriage. Since then she has supported herself and child at anything she can find to do. She and her son, now 25 years of age, have moved away from the Juke land and are living in a large city. The son is a shiftless fellow and is but semi-skilled.

The fifth child of Annetta died young. The sixth, VI 126, moved away from the Juke region, following his brother's example, and has become a steady, industrious man. At 21 he married a girl of 16 who is now careful, industrious, and capable. They had three children, a well-behaved boy now 12, doing well in school, and two smaller children.

The next child of Annetta, VI 128, did not migrate from the Juke region when his two brothers left, but remained there. He is a laborer and works at whatever comes his way. He married an ignorant and inefficient woman, a harlot, VI 129, and has four children, three of whom are each retarded 3 years in school.

The next three children of Annetta died in infancy.

The last child of this group, VI 133, born in 1871, was of good repute and of fair intelligence. She married, when young, an industrious man, who is a good citizen, and has three children, who are all capable in school and of good repute.

Amalia, V 39, was a sister of Annetta, and last child of Alice and Stillman. She "had brains enough but used them in the wrong way." She was ignorant, for many years a harlot, and intemperate. Her first husband was a cousin, Douglas, IV 131, an ignorant fellow, a teamster, who was killed by his brother in a drunken brawl. Amalia and Douglas received poor relief for many years. After his death she lived with Royal, V 40, a criminal, by whom she had one illegitimate child, VI 144. She is now dead.

Amalia's first child, VI 136, has gone away from the Juke region. He became a locomotive engineer, married, and is a good citizen. He has one girl recently married, but of whom no trace could be found.

The second child died young.

The third, VI 138, is mentally less active than the others, but has always been industrious and reputable, and occupies a responsible position with a manufacturing firm. He is married and has two children. The older, a son, VII 156, now 40, is an industrious, capable man of good repute. He is married and has one child, now 12, orderly, attractive, and capable in school. VII 157, aged 35, is an intelligent and industrious woman of good repute, a seamstress.