Boots found us a job in Grannys Neck. It is March 30, 1934 still cold and wet. We are excited about moving and having a place of our own. We have been married two months today. Papa borrowed a wagon and team to move us to our new home. We really don't have very much to move, just our clothes, and a few dishes and pots and pans that people have given us. Mama and Mrs. Moore each gave us a quilt. We have our cotton sacks and we each have a hoe for the cotton fields. Boots also brought his axe so we can cut wood for the wood cook stove.

This house if you can call it that is filthy, a two-room shack you can see thru the walls and the roof. It looks like my work is cut out for me.

Today Boots plowed all day and I scrubbed the floors with lye, but I got them clean. We don't have much to eat. I cooked red beans and cornbread. We carried water up from the creek to drink and take a bath. We found some old toe sacks in the barn, tomorrow I am going to wash them and chink the cracks in the walls. Boots is so tired he fell asleep eating. We will make this place livable.

We have been here a month now. The cracks are plugged up, Boots fixed the roof and it is finally clean. Boots even built us a table and some shelves to store the dishes and groceries. He has worked so hard we both have; now we finally have a Sunday we can relax and go to church. I found out last week that Boots couldn't read or write. I told him I would teach him. He has always had to work, never allowed to go to school. Mr. Moore is an old man, so Boots and Emmett always had to provide for the family. I can't help but worry what will happen to Mrs. Moore and the kids now that Boots is not there.

We finished all the planting today. We have about twenty acres of Cotton and five acres of corn. Boots ploughed up me an acre for a garden and we planted it. We won't be hungry next winter. Our neighbors Mr. & Mrs. Johnston gave us two hens and a rooster, so now we will have a few eggs and raise some baby chicks next year we will have enough chickens to have fried chicken or chicken & dumplings. Boots shoot a rabbit today with Mr. Johnston's gun. We will feast tonight, rabbit stew and cornbread.

I found some wild blackberry vines in the woods today, can't wait to have blackberry cobbler and blackberry jam. We went fishing today and caught three big catfish, Boots cleaned them and I fried them up, nothing ever tasted so good.

We are expecting our first baby in October, Boots is so excited and so am I. Boots and I both have been in the fields, hoeing the cotton and corn we finally finished all of it is growing good. It will be July 4 next week and I want to go visit my Mama, Boots says it is to far for us to walk but I want to go. I ask Mrs. Johnston if we could borrow one of their horses for a few days, she said she would talk to her husband about it and let me know. If we don't go now, I won't get to go before the baby comes.

Mr. Johnston loaned us the horse and we rode bareback all the way to Cooper, we spent the night with Grandma Goodman and went to church with her Sunday morning. After dinner we left to go on to Mama and Papas house. We got there way after dark and we were exhausted. Mama said we should just go to bed and we could visit in the morning. Some time during the night I started cramping and bleeding. Papa and Boots went for the Doctor, he came but he couldn't save our baby. If I hadn't been so hard headed maybe we wouldn't have lost our little boy.

We stayed three weeks with our family and then returned to our house in Grannys Neck. We both stayed busy with the crops and garden. Boots was so sad about the baby and I was so depressed that we decided no matter what else we would have a big family. We picked cotton and made a good crop for the man we were working for, but he cheated us. Probably because we were so young he didn't think he had to pay us. Boots is eighteen now and I am seventeen.