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The fourth child of Allen, VI 83, was sent at 15 to the House of Refuge for stealing. At 20 he was sent to the county jail for 6 months and fined $50 for assault and battery. At 27, he, with two other boys, one 15 and one 18, "unlawfully entered a barn," were arrested, and at this writing are awaiting sentence in jail. VI 83 has had little schooling, is reported to have been a poor pupil, is a wanderer, and works here and there at odd jobs.

After Selinda died, Allen secured his present consort, Salva, V 27, a Polish woman, mentally defective, slow, uncouth, and untrained. Salva had a bastard girl just before she went to live with Allen. Allen and Salva have 4 children, all of whom are boys, mentally 3 to 4 years retarded, lazy, and without ambition to learn in school. The oldest, VI 84, now 22, is a laborer, working at odd jobs. The youngest is 9 years of age. Allen, now 73, is a garrulous man with a love of telling about his wonderful personality. He is poor and lives in filth.

Alice Ella, V 28, the fifth child of Alice and Stillman, was a harlot and cohabited with Selig, V 29, on his canal boat. She became pregnant by him and married him just previous to the birth of the child. He was considered well to do and owned real estate, shares in a powder-mill, and other property. For many years he ran a canal-boat on the Hudson River. Alice Ella and Selig went away from the Juke region and settled in a community some hundred miles distant. He died in 1900 at the age of 70. Alice Ella, as an old woman of 70, was a quiet, rather refined, frugal lady. She died in 1910 as the result of an accident.

The son of Alice Ella and Selig, VI 89, opened a dry-goods store, and has done well financially. He is now reputed to be worth $50,000. His neighbors speak of him as retiring, unwilling to enter into social life with them, and not interested in books. He married a good, intellectual woman, VI 88, and had 3 boys and 1 girl. The daughter, VII 106, was conscientious and plodding in her school work, and later taught in a kindergarten. After some years of teaching she had a nervous breakdown, stopped teaching, and married. She was considered somewhat opinionated. The oldest boy, VII 107, could not learn easily in school, was stubborn and opinionated in his ways, but is now working steadily. The third, VII 108, also backward and stubborn, left school in the first year of high school, started a business of his own, but failed, and is now working under direction and doing well. The last, VII 109, born 1889, is petty in his exactness, the "smartest" of this fraternity, and is now attending college.

Alberta, V 31, the sixth child of Alice, could read but not write. As a young girl she was a harlot. At 17 she married Lincoln, V 30, who seems to have deserted her soon afterwards. She then cohabited with Darius, IV 126, of Delia blood, a mentally defective man, licentious and criminal, but a good worker, who, at the age of 62, died in the poorhouse, where he went following alcoholic debauches. Darius and Alberta received poor relief intermittently. At 32 she was sent to the county jail for 10 days for vagrancy. She was intemperate and at one time ran a brothel. After Darius deserted her, she cohabited with Ray, V 32, until her death from paralysis in 1900.

Alberta had two children, both of whom were girls. The first, VI 92, born in 1850, was in the poorhouse at 15 with her younger sister, then 7 years old. They remained in the poorhouse a year and soon after this the younger sister, VI 93, was accidentally shot to death by a returned soldier while he was cleaning a gun.

The remaining sister, soon after this, married a newspaper man, who was industrious, intelligent, and of good principles. She had three children. She became an alcoholic in middle life and died of the effects of her excesses.

Her oldest child, VII 111, reached the second year in high school, when she stopped to go to work. She always bore a good reputation, is married, and has gone away from the Juke region.

The second child, VII 112, was considered an average child in school. She had good morals as a young girl, but married an inefficient and lazy man, an alcoholic. His habits of intemperance soon led her to drinking, a habit easy for her to acquire when her mother's tendencies in that respect are recalled. She drank more and more, until she finally became paralyzed from the effects and died of neglect. Her father, VI 91, then took her two young boys to rear. One, now 10, is retarded at the present time, while the other, aged 8, has not yet entered school. The father of these has been arrested for the non-support of the mother many times, but, as he would not work, nothing could be done. After the death of his wife he disappeared.

The last child of VI 91 and VI 92 is VII 114, an industrious, capable man holding a responsible position in a printing-office. He is married, but has no children.

The seventh child of Alice is Agnes, V 33. She attended school and reached the first grade in the high school when she stopped. At this time she was a harlot. She was married at 18 to Leo, V 34. Leo was a photographer and did well in his business, but his continued alcoholism ruined him physically, financially, and morally. He became shiftless and lazy, and finally went to a Soldiers' Home, where he recently died.