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Buggy Whip Tales Windmills by George Mathison
In a reminiscence titled Buggy Whip Tales Windmills the narrator recalls Clem Hook selling a windmill after Jim Dolan’s death from pumping water. Jim, a distant relative of Aunt Sarah Compton, dies in 1909. a stranger in the back pew is revealed to be a windmill salesman named Clem confirms.
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George Mathison
Clem
Sarah
Jake Gowdy
Jake
Sally French
Jim
Cora Ford
Dan Ford
Charlie Sim
Ford
Mississippi
Dan
Charlie
Clarence Plum
Elizabeth Carrey
George Whistledown
Democrat
Old Jim
Cora