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The first, VI 534, ignorant and untrained, is married to a feeble-minded woman and has two small children. He works at anything that may come his way and is very poor.

The second, VI 535, lives at home with his parents and goes fishing when the mood takes him. He is unmarried and "supports" his parents. He is also mentally deficient.

The third, VI 536, was a mentally defective harlot, but is now married and has two small children.

Vergil, V 204, the last child of Austin and brother to Mick, was reported by Dugdale as being a "very bad boy." After he grew up he seems to have been less vicious. He was a hard worker but never saved anything; was densely ignorant and "amounted to nothing." He first married Leah Maria, V 333, a sister of Libby who married Mick. Leah Maria had been married previously, but was divorced and had since been a harlot. She was very ignorant. She died of consumption, neglect, and abuse at the age of 38. She left two children: VI 538, a rather industrious, steady, but ignorant boy; and a girl, VI 539, who died of childbirth at the age of 16. After Leah Maria's death, Vergil lived for ten years, until his death, with Jane, V 205, an ignorant, talkative, mentally deficient harlot. Jane and Vergil had two girls and a boy, who now range from 18 to 14, are underfed, anemic, and in want. They are also very deficient mentally. The oldest girl, VI 541, has recently sworn out bastardy charges against a certain man who filed a bond for the child's support.

Ada's fourth and last legitimate child was Aleene, III 6, temperate, but lazy, a harlot, and without property. She married a mulatto, who was a slave, Grant, III 7, but had no children.