She went back to the president's office, related what had happened. He said she better go to his house until he found another for her. He never tried. She lived there, as a member of his family until she got her first grade certificate. Mama took in fruit and vegetables from the garden, papa sent in meat every time we killed hogs.
Laura taught in Rising Star, TX for two years and was engaged to a young man who later became a president of a state teachers' college and came home for vacation and to get her trousseau ready.
Then she became very sick with a terrible stomach ache. Mama treated her with home cures but unfortunately, this stomach ache was appendicitis. However, when a doctor was finally summoned, he did not know much more than mama did. He thought Laura had appendicitis, but he did not know where the appendix was. He was willing to look, though. He began cutting at the sternum, kept cutting to the public bone, and felt around. He found it, already ruptured. He cut it out; it had a plum seed in it. All this was on the dining room table. Laura did not survive the surgery."
Excerpt from the book, "Who am I?" by Cactus Rachel Browder Willis (Laura Browder's sister) Published 1968
She went back to the president's office, related what had happened. He said she better go to his house until he found another for her. He never tried. She lived there, as a member of his family until she got her first grade certificate. Mama took in fruit and vegetables from the garden, papa sent in meat every time we killed hogs.
Laura taught in Rising Star, TX for two years and was engaged to a young man who later became a president of a state teachers' college and came home for vacation and to get her trousseau ready.
Then she became very sick with a terrible stomach ache. Mama treated her with home cures but unfortunately, this stomach ache was appendicitis. However, when a doctor was finally summoned, he did not know much more than mama did. He thought Laura had appendicitis, but he did not know where the appendix was. He was willing to look, though. He began cutting at the sternum, kept cutting to the public bone, and felt around. He found it, already ruptured. He cut it out; it had a plum seed in it. All this was on the dining room table. Laura did not survive the surgery."
Excerpt from the book, "Who am I?" by Cactus Rachel Browder Willis (Laura Browder's sister) Published 1968
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