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| He came over from Scotland when he was one month old. The craddle he slept in when he came accross on the boat has been slept in by all of his children and grandchildren down through the generations (and still today). Archie Raitt, Marcella Andrews, Dana Andrews, and Sarah Andrews In addition to grade school it is believed that he attended high school and one year of college. He was a businessman in addition to being a farmer. Their are still records of his stocks and accounting books. In his latter years he would spend nine months of the year on the Raitt farm (March to Christmas) and then he spent the other three months in Monrovia, Calif. with aunt Maude. He kept himself busy by doing odd jobs around the farm. For example he chopped prunings off the trees and made fertilizer with it. He would spend hours chopping braches into one inch lengths. - During one of these sessions Marcella chopped off the end of her thumb (it was subsequently sewed back on). Every Sunday morning he and Marcella would go to Sunday school. While Marcella's parents would go to church, they would come home and stop at BEAN's grocery to buy the Sunday paper and jelly beans. On Sundays Marcella recei and great grandchild. He attended High School and attended collage. He taught school for a period of time but went to farming after his wife died and he was left with seven chilren to raise by himself. He did many odd jobs around the farm after he retired from farming. Until the last four years of his life he lived on the farm with us. After that he lived on the farm from March 1 until Jan. 1 then he went to California live with his oldest daughter Maude for 2 months . He did many little jobs such as chopping prunings from the trees into tiny 1 inch pieces to be used for fertilizer in the fields. also keeping the buildings in top repair by painting and doing carpenter repair. One morning Marcella was helping Grandpa chop up aome clippings with her own little ax and chopped the end of her thumb off. It was sewed back on and was okay. Grandpa and Marcella would go to Sunday school while Archie & Alta would attend church later.Then Grandpa and Marcella would go to Beans grocery and buy a Sunday Paper, pipe tobacca, and a bag of jelly beans. When we got home Marcella would fill grandpa's humidor with the tobacca then we would sit in our rocking chairs and Grandpa would read the funny paper to me. Marcella was also given her weekly allowance by Grandpa which was a buffalo nickel. He was a very small man (about five two - one hundred and thirty pounds) and he always had a mustache, -Marcella '91 --Invalid Dates Burial: Rising City Cemetery | ||||||||||||||||||
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