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VI 355, male, ignorant, semi-industrious, licentious, is now dead as a result of a drunken brawl.

VI 356, female, mentally slow and incapable in school, semi-efficient, married a man who has another wife and a child living.

VI 358, a feeble-minded prostitute, has been in the reformatory for disordery -sic- conduct.

Two boys, VI 359 and VI 362, are of low mental grade and inefficient.

VI 360, female, mentally inactive but fairly industrious, married and has two small children.

VI 365, female, now 12, does fair work in school.

Len, V 144, a brother of Merlin, has never attended school and can neither read nor write. He married at 19, but 6 months later left his wife. He then lived with a cousin, VI 613, a descendant of Bell, Clara, and Delia Juke, thus producing an offspring having A, B, C, and D blood. She is ignorant, causationless, untrained, inefficient, and dirty, but industrious.

V 144 and VI 613 had: VI 367, a girl, mentally slow in school, a harlot, and now married; VI 368, a boy, 19, good in arithmetic, but very poor in other subjects in school, and now working as a laborer; VI 369, a boy of 13, doing the same work as his brother in school, but anemic, underfed, and neglected; VI 370, a boy slow in school and very neglected; two children still young and neglected; and one child dead, who completes the family. Len is now a farm-hand and works steadily, but makes only a dollar a day and is slightly intemperate. Thus the family lives in want and in filth.

Ida May, V 145, now 44, was incapable of learning at school and was a harlot before marriage. When young she went into service and it is reported she had a bastard child, of whom there is no trace. She married a temperate, industrious, but tuberculous farm-hand, Pompey, V 146, and has two sons. Of these, one, VI 374, is an average child in school; the other, VI 375, is retarded, lazy, and inattentive. Since marriage, Ida May has done housework by the day to help support the family. They live in poor conditions in a tenant house in the country.

Olympia, V 147, very slow and unable to learn in school, married when young an intemperate, shiftless, semi-industrious laborer named Julius, V 148, who, when intoxicated (which is often) is abusive to his wife and sometimes cruel. She has left him at intervals, but each time has returned upon his promises to do better. Some time ago Julius was arrested for stealing chickens and sent to jail. Olympia has always worked hard and earned much money by taking in washings. Besides taking care of the family she has saved enough so that she has purchased a house and lot worth $2,500. A religious and very philanthropic lady of Z, the same who was interested in VI 459, has spent a great deal of time and effort upon this woman and has succeeded to a great extent in inducing her to attend church and to lead a social life.

Olympia and Julius had three children: a son, VI 377, a laborer by occupation, slow in school, lazy, vicious, and always in trouble, now married and with one small child; a son, VI 378, like his brother, except that he is a telegraph operator and unmarried; a daughter, VI 379, a plodder, who made good use of her time in school, and is now a stenographer and reputable.

V 149, brother of Olympia, died young.

Hattie, V 150, now 40, was very slow in school. She went to work young and has always borne herself well. She married an industrious steady man and they have one boy, who at 13 is doing average work in school, and has good social traits.

Samantha, V 152, sister of Hattie, was born in 1878. She is remembered by her teachers as being very slow and incapable in school. She married, when young, a cousin, VI 1015, a descendant of Effie, ignorant and intemperate at times, who, although a steady worker, is able to earn but small wages. Samantha takes in 10 to 12 washings a week. The two older children also work. In spite of all these sources of revenue the family is almost destitute, because the parents are unable to spend intelligently and with foresight.

Samantha had eight legitimate children: VI 381, now 18, as a girl mentally slow and unable to retain facts, a harlot, now employed in a cigar factory; VI 382, a boy, "cranky," indolent, with some mental ability but with little desire to use it, and now working as an errand boy in a store; VI 383, a boy, cross-eyed, trying hard to do fair work in school; a girl, VI 384, now 11, who is a good worker in school, being in grade 4, and who has a quiet disposition; VI 385, a boy, now 10, a thin, pale-faced, anemic child who can not learn to read or to retain well, although he does number work fairly accurately; VI 386, a boy, now 7, doing well in grade 2 in school; and two children under 5, both neglected.

Paul, V 153, the last child of Aba and Lorena, is intemperate, but a steady worker as a farm-hand. He married Irene, V 154, and had two children, but has left his family and does not support them.

Abe's brother Aaron, III 3, a son of Ada, also married a cousin, Daphne, III 38, a descendant of Delia. Aaron, according to Dugdale, was a "farm laborer; at 26, soldier, 1812; somewhat industrious; acquired 14 acres of land; willed it to his children; temperate; father of a bastard before marriage; received a U.S. pension; 1874, outdoor relief, 1 year." Daphne was healthy, industrious, of good repute, and died of old age in the year 1867. They had seven children: Aubrey, Annie, Angeline, Alaric, and three still-born children.