Ancestors (2012)
“my grandmother used to say. She could have said, with just as much reason, “All the Maxwells live to a great age.” They did one or the other.
My Grandfather Maxwell was taken ill in Galveston, Texas, where he had gone on business. He wired my father to come immediately. There was a train that night, but it was evening when the telegram was delivered, the banks and stores were closed, and in those days nobody kept a hundred dollars in the house. My father went downtown, to Tim Hardin’s saloon, and showed him the wire, and Tim Hardin, knowing what the Christian church and my Grandfather Maxwell thought of saloonkeepers, nevertheless gave my father the money he needed to get my grandfather home.
In this final stage of his illness, my grandfather suffered excruciating pain whenever he put his feet to the floor and tried to stand. I have been told that it is a classical symptom of a nervous breakdown. My Aunt Maybel was married and living in Omaha, but during the last three months of my gr...andfather’s life she was at home helping my grandmother care for him.MoreLess
My Grandfather Maxwell was taken ill in Galveston, Texas, where he had gone on business. He wired my father to come immediately. There was a train that night, but it was evening when the telegram was delivered, the banks and stores were closed, and in those days nobody kept a hundred dollars in the house. My father went downtown, to Tim Hardin’s saloon, and showed him the wire, and Tim Hardin, knowing what the Christian church and my Grandfather Maxwell thought of saloonkeepers, nevertheless gave my father the money he needed to get my grandfather home.
In this final stage of his illness, my grandfather suffered excruciating pain whenever he put his feet to the floor and tried to stand. I have been told that it is a classical symptom of a nervous breakdown. My Aunt Maybel was married and living in Omaha, but during the last three months of my gr...andfather’s life she was at home helping my grandmother care for him.MoreLess
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