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VII 74 has four brothers, all of whom are laborers, but of whom little is known further than that they are wanderers.

The fourth child of the consanguineous mating of Alva and Dorothea is VI 71. He was born in 1858, never attended school, works at times as a wood-chopper or as a farm laborer, is intemperate, deceitful, a liar, and is reputed to be a thief but has never been caught. He married an ignorant, slovenly, but semi-industrious woman, VI 72; the pair live in a hovel and are very poor. They had 6 children.

The first, VII 80, can read and write a little. At 19 she became pregnant by a man 20 years older than herself, and married him before the birth of their child. She is as neat in her appearance as her poverty will allow, is a thief, and will steal whatever she can lay her hands on. Her husband, also a thief, does little to support her, spends most of his time hunting and fishing, and is very intemperate. They live in a shack in the mountains.

This pair had five children in all. The oldest, VIII 49, a boy of 12, is feeble-minded, and, consequently, very much retarded in school. He is a thief. His sister, VIII 50, is also feeble-minded and is very much like her brother. The other three children are still young.

The second child of VI 71 is also a girl, VII 82. She is intemperate. While still a child she cohabited with one man and was promiscuous in her sex relations. At 16 she had a bastard child. She has acquired syphilis and has been sent to jail for disorderly conduct and prostitution. When her child was 6 years of age it was placed in a Children's Home and the mother left the Juke country and led an immoral life elsewhere. This bastard child, VIII 54, is "quiet, ill-mannered, fond of dress, and mentally slow." At 6 she was placed in a Children's Home, where it was discovered that she had syphilis. She was sent to a hospital for treatment for six months, and one year after her admission to the Home was placed into a good family in the Middle West, the foster parents not being informed of the child's infectious disease.

The next child of VI 71 was a boy, VII 84, "stupid in school," unindustrious, but with a taste for "tinkering." He is interested in motorcycle racing and has made long trips on his machine. He was arrested recently for using his machine in violation of traffic laws.

The next child of VI 71 died in infancy. The next two, VII 86 and VII 87, both have a low grade of intelligence and are incapable of learning in school. The older one, now 18, has a speech defect. He is a "laborer," but very seldom works.

The fifth child of Alva and Dorothea, VI 73, is called a "bad man," and has been arrested for petit larceny and sent to the penitentiary for 3 months. He is married and has had 5 children; 2 are dead and 3 living. His present address is not known.

The sixth child of Alva, VI 75, is reputed to have left the country and gone to "Texas," merely a Juke name for a distant country.

The last in this family group is VI 76, who married an intemperate but industrious laboring man who has saved a little money, VI 77, brother to VII 63 (page 8), whose father was in the poorhouse for 11 years. Little is known of VI 76. She lived in a large city some distance from the Juke country, and died many years ago, leaving 5 children. The oldest, VII 93, was drowned at the age of 15 in the same accident in which IV 28 and his family lost their lives. The next two girls have married well. The last two, boys, are not mentally active, but are steady, industrious laborers.

The fourth child of Alice and Stillman was Allen, V 26. In Dugdale's chart I, generation 5, Allen is not mentioned or described. He can read and write and at times has been a "pettifog lawyer." He is semi-industrious and a carpenter by trade, but will work also at ice-cutting or as a laborer. He was a soldier in the Civil War and now receives a pension. He owns a small house and lot in one of the poorer sections of Z, is a wanderer, and has traveled over a great part of the United States. Nothing is known of his first consort, Selinda, V 25. Allen had 4 children by Selinda, 3 girls and 1 boy.

The oldest, VI 78, was sent to a Children's Home at the age of 9 after her mother's death. She remained there 2 months. At 19 she was arrested for petit larceny and sent to a Church Home. She soon escaped from this institution and became a prostitute. She can read and write, is now employed at housework, and is immoral.

The next girl, VI 79, was in the Children's Home at the age of 6 for a few months. She married at 18, had two children, and has left the Juke country.

The third child of Allen, VI 81, was married at 16 to a carpenter who is industrious, but mentally slow. He is a steady workman, but is semi-skilled and so receives but low wages, and the family is poor. They have three children, two of whom are now in school and, although in good physical condition, are mentally slow and incapable of acquiring the most primary school knowledge. The older, a girl, VII 102, now 9, is in grade 2 and has great difficulty in learning the pronunciation of words and can not learn to add. The younger, VII 103, a boy of 6, can not recognize figures nor learn to add.