Well Vermon was of course the grandson of Palestine Dennis and Robert C. Parker. This time, he recalled a Parker memory...so I thought some of you Parker researchers might enjoy this. "Grandpappy" is Robert Parker, 1854-1934. Granny is "Tiney" (Palestine) 1858-1933. He is recalling life in Tip Top prior to 1910...and this letter was written some thirty years ago to my dad. -jan "The hill down from our house has some special memories for me. First when I had the whooping cough I went down the hill and as I started back up my cough became so intense I just laid down and coughed and coughed, with that red dirt being brought up in my lungs. Another time Grandpappy had been down in the bottom for some reason. I was down at the foot of the hill, for no reason. Gradpappy picked me up. He was in a wagon with the side boards on. As he approached our house he says to me, "Vermon, get down so your mother can't see you." When we came in front of our house Mama came out and inquired, "Pappy, have you seen Vermon?" He says, "No, Asilee, I have not." When we got to his house he walked up the hill and told Mama I was with him. Great guy he was. One of my fondest memories of him in my early years before we came to Texas, was seeing him sitting in a cane bottom chair in the hallway of their log home. Granny, the impetuous person that she was, as well as being a very fine grandmother, demanded what I thought to be an unusual amount of his attention to minor things. I shall never forget one day I was down there. Granpappy and I were having a good time talking and playing. Granny fills her brush with snuff, goes into the house and in that shrill voice calls out, "Rob E R T". I said, "Granpappy, Granny wants you." His remark was, "Vermon, I have been hearing that for nigh on to 50 years and it does not excite me a bit." He just leaned his chair back against the log wall."