He wanted to marry Miss Jemima Parr. Felicity says
Jemima is not a romantic name for a heroin of a story but I cant
help it in this case because it is a true story and her name realy
was Jemima. My mothers uncle was named Thomas Taylor. He was
poor at that time and so the father of Miss Jemima Parr did not
want him for a soninlaw and told him he was not to come near the
house or he would set the dog on him. Miss Jemima Parr was very
pretty and my mothers uncle Thomas was just crazy about her and
she wanted him too. She cried almost every night after her father
forbid him to come to the house except the nights she had to sleep
or she would have died. And she was so frightened he might try to
come for all and get tore up by the dog and it was a bull-dog too
that would never let go. But mothers uncle Thomas was too cute
for that. He waited till one day there was preaching in the
Markdale church in the middle of the week because it was sacrament
time and Miss Jemima Parr and her family all went because her
father was an elder. My mothers uncle Thomas went too and set in
the pew just behind Miss Jemima Parrs family. When they all bowed
their heads at prayer time Miss Jemima Parr didnt but set bolt
uprite and my mothers uncle Thomas bent over and wispered in her
ear.
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