Transcribed from a picture of a pencil-written account written by the great granddaughter of Margaret Jaily Bybee, Norma June White (b. Aug 28 1932 d. Mar 29 1998).

"Margaret Jaily (Bybee Pippin) according to family information had no sense of humor and seldom smiled at anything. She had seen many hard times and had several bad experiences during the Civil War as she had repeatedly saved members of the family from death at hands of enemy soldiers.

She was a product of her Indian heritage and her time. She was always up and outside by dawn. She knew the bark, roots and leaves to gather to produce cures for nearly every type of illness known in her time. There was a certain root that when preserved in a solution not known to the descendants was almost an instant cure to headache. She gathered and prepared roots and barks for coughs and various other illnesses.

She was a very strict person in religion. She was the daughter of Levi (Lee) Bybee, Christian minister. She wore no jewelry whatsoever which was unusual, because Indians were especially fond of jewelry. Perhaps this was due to the influence of her father's religion.

Margaret's husband William Pippin was a hunter and trapper and was often away from home. Her daughter, Julia once recalled that while living in Hickory County as a little girl she remembered that a small creek ran through their farm just below the house. There was a large tree at the creek that they used to hang hogs up when they butchered. Julie said she had seen her mother many times start butchering at dawn. She would cut the throats of the hogs and hang them up on the tree limbs, (She said shooting them wasted meat, cutting their throats did not) scald, skin and cut them up by herself and would butcher two in a day. It was Julia's along with her small brothers and sisters to keep the wood gathered and the fire going.

Margaret smoked a clay pipe and in her later years spent many hours smoking and rocking in her chair on the porch. She wore a large heavy shawl and would smoke and rock for hours without saying a word. She and her husband William spent many hours of their declining years in this manner."
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(The Indian heritage hasn't been proven)