I found a legal pad like this one -- except the one I found "has some age on it" as we like to say in the South. In it are several pages of notes written in pencil. They're in my handwriting so I know I took them, likely in an interview situation.
My memory of doing this is very vague, however. Well, all right, I don't really remember it at all. Nevertheless, here we go:
The heading is "Remembrances MGF"
1. Bale of cotton in front of every store in Salisbury (Now, I would ask "why." Then, it apparently didn't occur to me.)
2. Christmas
8 -- 2 Boxes stick candy 3 boxes horehound candy (2-25¢) 4¢ cap pistol 1¢ caps
Russell's store
10¢
No oranges
Clothes mother made
Jeans cloth--pants--hand
Mother's machine
came to knee
Cards -- spin own yarn
Knitted all socks, wool clothes, dyed ring (?)
1912/11-10
Farm Rothrock -- mill pond -- killed timber -- pond sourced (?) -- chills
quinine capsules -- above 104 degrees (fever?)
Dr. Choate
Dr. Chalmer
Jacob Fisher --
"Rubbing" doctor --
pains, bowels move (That's what I wrote so somebody must have said it.)
Hands like a woman
six foot
--clean shaven
Uncle "used" for bleeding (This means he could stop blood flow with a verse from the Bible.)
-- Peter Wagner --
Grandmother -- Juliann Plyler Wagner
"Liver growed"
Kid squall for life
Horse collar off (horse?) Hot collar
pass child through
said some things
rub under ribs
People came to get her (I assume this meant when they needed help with an inconsolable child and not when they had tarring and feathering in mind.)
"Granny Woman" Liz Palmer
4 miles Whitley -- never delivered no babies
50¢? Cooked breakfast
Jack Palmer made baskets
Slave
Fort Jackson -- 2 P?
Slept in street
13th Depot Brigade
9AM before --
shots, vaccines, uniforms
Greenville/Gun Springfield Enfield
Long Island New York
Camp Upton
Docks
Boat to Camp
No Holland Tunnel -- Sabotage
Infantry 321 81 Division Company D
Trenches Volga Mountains
Verdun
Argonne
Machine Gun
Plyler
Armistice 13 days --
11 months
90 days
-- Lewis Lyerly --
Maggots (This I do know about. He was wounded on the battlefield, medics couldn't get to him, his wound became infested with maggots -- which saved his life.)
Southern Division
81st
42 Rainbow
1st Btn 6-8-10 boys
muster out
Feed you?
Box White
Stanback
Bunked together
Rowed on river
(During the) Depression:
Worked 3 days/short week
$1.00
Velna stayed
Lived at store
No place sacred
Railroad -- creek
road Rt --
Up hill
Rt
Old German tombstones
("Here Lies My Man") ?
Henry Davis Plyler -- Civil War
Petersburg
Captured
barn -- pick up corn, grain fed to horses to eat
counted in German
made horse collars
Doff (Dolph?) Lentz
Juliann (?)
Matton's Grove Methodist Church -- Below Gold Hill
Alabama:
--Davis Plyler's son
--moved down there -- couple months -- 1914-1915
Work in mines --
--Woodard Mine
--Tennessee Mine (boilers)
--Gallon 20¢ beer
--5¢ qt. pitcher
Cotton Mill -- 11 or 12 years old
babies put in boxes while mothers worked
went home to nurse baby
10 hour shifts
Hardest job -- spinning
Swept -- oil/band/twisters
75¢ a day
$9.00 a payday
didn't get to keep any of the money
School:
cut wood
Ern (Ernest), Murray, Norman, Rob (Robert), Erv (Erving), Loran ("Lorn"), Emma (moved to Michigan), Laila ("Lail")
Julianne Plyler
W/Rockwell
Virginia
Petersburg -- Camp Lee
Battlefield
Gun lock
Ship: Walmer Castle
Sea Sickness advice. Old sailor 50 years old: Don't look at anything for very long. Keep your eyes moving.
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That's it. And the moral here? Transcribe your notes while they're still "warm," because 30 years or so later, you won't remember.
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