{"id":19672,"date":"2015-05-22T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T00:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=19672"},"modified":"2020-04-13T00:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:08:58","slug":"stapleton-report-march-1932-came-old-jim-couch-veritable-scarecrow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=19672","title":{"rendered":"STAPLETON REPORT &#8211; March 1932 &#8220;Came Old Jim Couch &#8212; a veritable scarecrow &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Pine Mountain Settlement School<br \/>\nSeries 09: Biography &#8211; Staff\/Personnel<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #9f9f9f;\" title=\"Dr. IDA STAPLETON &amp; Rev. ROBERT STAPLETON\" href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=3473\">Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=2992\">Line Fork Settlement<\/a>\u00a01927 \u2013 1947<\/h5>\n<h3><strong>STAPLETON REPORT &#8211; March\u00a01932<br \/>\n&#8220;Came Old Jim Couch &#8212; a veritable scarecrow &#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>TAGS:<\/strong> STAPLETON REPORT &#8211; March 1932 &#8220;Came Old Jim Couch &#8212; a veritable scarecrow &#8230;&#8221; ; Line Fork Settlement ; Dr. Ida Stapleton ; \u00a0Jim Couch ; Arizony Couch ; Cambellite preachers ; Bennet and Lory Hall ; Alec Boggs ; Bish Boggs ; revival meetings ; baptisms ; Dick Smith ; Mrs. John Holcomb ; whiskey stills ; doctor visits ; diphtheria<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>GALLERY:\u00a0STAPLETON REPORT &#8211; March 1932 &#8220;Came Old Jim Couch &#8212; a veritable scarecrow &#8230;&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19672 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=21013'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_32_02_001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21013\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21013'>\n\t\t\t\t001 Stapleton Report, 1932. [If_stap_32_02_001.jpg]\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=21008'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_32_02_002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21008\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21008'>\n\t\t\t\t002 Stapleton Report, 1932. [If_stap_32_02_002.jpg]\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=21009'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_32_02_003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21009\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21009'>\n\t\t\t\t003 Stapleton Report, 1932. [If_stap_32_02_003.jpg]\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=21010'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_32_02_004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21010\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21010'>\n\t\t\t\t004 Stapleton Report, 1932. [If_stap_32_02_004.jpg]\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=21011'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_32_02_005-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21011\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21011'>\n\t\t\t\t005 Stapleton Report, 1932. [If_stap_32_02_005.jpg]\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=21012'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_32_02_006-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21012\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21012'>\n\t\t\t\t006 Stapleton Report, 1932. [If_stap_32_02_006.jpg]\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3>TRANSCRIPTION*:\u00a0<strong>STAPLETON REPORT &#8211; March\u00a01932<br \/>\n&#8220;Came Old Jim Couch &#8212; a veritable scarecrow &#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>LINE FORK SETTLEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Gilley P O Kentucky March \u201832<\/p>\n<p>February Facts &amp; Fancies<\/p>\n<p>Dear Friends:-<\/p>\n<p>Came old Jim Couch \u2013 a veritable scarecrow as his coat looked as tho it had served.\u00a0 There were traces of crude mending but hopeless for any more repairs.\u00a0 He said he had aimed to come since last Summer.\u00a0 He had a misery in his neck, meaning his throat, something went up and down nearly choking him.\u00a0 Could I do anything about it?\u00a0 He was gaunt and undernourished so the best all round treatment was a generous bottle of cod liver oil.\u00a0 We chatted of various things.\u00a0 He reckoned he was seventy years old but did not know when his birthday was nor had he kept track of his daughter Arizony\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 I had visited them at their cabin in the forest of Lynn Fork once and had been scandalized to know that this Arizony named by a midwife of that name had married her father\u2019s brother.\u00a0 Her mother had said she never would have another chance so she had better take the uncle.\u00a0 They were married but had no child.\u00a0 A granddaughter Maggie was also along.\u00a0 They needed soap terribly so I was glad to add that to the C L O.\u00a0 As D D [Robert] had ordered himself a new suit that was arriving the next day I ventured to exchange the scarecrow coat for one warmer and more presentable and put the trousers in with the soap adding to the bundle thread, needles, thimble and patches.\u00a0 Arizony had never learned to sew with a thimble but she could learn.\u00a0 A piece of gingham suggested that Maggie too might make herself a dress.\u00a0 They heard the radio for the first time.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t ask for anything but Jim said his old woman was puny and had no shoes on her feet.\u00a0 They had made a little crop of corn last year which he reckoned was enough to last them.\u00a0 When they take \u201ca turn\u201d of the hand shelled corn to the mill a portion is left for the miller.\u00a0 There are some water mills but others are run by gasoline engines.<\/p>\n<p>Young Bett had her fifth baby last Christmas.\u00a0 She has had a little crib since the second one and she has learned to leave the baby in the crib between nursings.\u00a0 As I sat there the baby just cried a little and then went off to sleep.\u00a0 She even remarked she like to see the baby clean and if \u201chit\u201d was handled hit would soon be dirty.\u00a0 The two-year-old had fallen asleep on the floor and was put to bed with all the dirt that had accumulated since breakfast, for fears it would waken him if she attempted to wash it off.<\/p>\n<p>The same at Nancy Jane\u2019s.\u00a0 Little Robert was in bed with his jacket and sturdy little boots.\u00a0 Nancy has a mortal fear of a child getting burned up so she tried to have stuff or woollen dresses for the young-uns in the Winter.\u00a0 She had made over some old coats for Bobbie and Ruth.\u00a0 It was impossible to tell what it had been it was so tattered.\u00a0 She hadn\u2019t been able to buy any cloth this winter.\u00a0 There was a question about the illness of the little nephew who died last month.\u00a0 Fearing it was diphtheria she asked me to give the four little children the toxin anti-toxin treatment.\u00a0 This required a visit to the house on Bear Branch once a week for three weeks.\u00a0 Once a day was given to helping her with the mending.\u00a0 Frank is grubbing out an acre of Company land to enlarge their garden lot.\u00a0 A chicken was offered me for the service.\u00a0 She knew that it would cost $1.50 at the doctor\u2019s in Cumberland for each injection.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambellite preachers have been having meetings from house to house and three of our neighbors Bennet and Lory Hall with Alec Boggs were immersed in a pool at the head of Big Laurel at the home of Bish Boggs.\u00a0 Marthy, Lory\u2019s\u00a0 sister-in-law came to the Cabin the day before the event to get a white gown for Lory as she, Marthy, couldn\u2019t think of Lory being baptized in anything but white.\u00a0 Could she have a square of muslin to tie over her hair and some bands to keep her skirts down.\u00a0 Later Lory came herself to ask for a Bible as Bennet wanted me to buy some of their canned huckleberries to pay for one.\u00a0 I was more than glad to give him a Bible tho\u2019 he cannot read.\u00a0 Lory can read a little.\u00a0 Marthy too wanted a Bible and there was one for her also.\u00a0 One of her sons can read a little too.\u00a0 But she needed shoes and was there \u201cery a one\u201d that she could have?<\/p>\n<p>Lory said, \u201cHit\u2019s a sight how Melville\u201d \u2013 their one and only child \u2013\u201ccan read and Bennet makes him read everything aloud more than he wants to\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another sect the Holiness a bit jealous of the new additions to the Campbellites came to hold revival meetings at Bear Branch and in the adjoining homes.\u00a0 The preaching was sincere according to their understanding of the Bible and in the course of the meetings six young people were able to make a confession of repentance and even made public request to be forgiven.\u00a0 These six were baptized in the Fork near Manon\u2019s house.\u00a0 Four of the six, three boys and one girl, are joining the Bible study that Mr. S has been carrying on.\u00a0 During the revival the preachers were invited to Dick Smith\u2019s.\u00a0 Dick had attended the meetings at the school house so Marthy and Manon with several others went over the ridge to Jake\u2019s Creek.\u00a0 An accident to one of the children called for a visit from me which happened to be on the day of this home meeting.\u00a0 For a wonder all the grandchildren present were well scrubbed and in fairly clean clothes.\u00a0 At my arrival they were wandering about the yard but gathered around me as I sat me down on a turned over bee-gum.\u00a0 The six little ones came to look at some picture books carried by me for such a purpose.\u00a0 While reading the rhymes I came to the lines \u201cPlease little Miss, Will you give me a kiss?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tho little Verie would talk and said, \u201cThere are bees in this gum, won\u2019t they sting you?\u201d yet she and Helen refused to kiss me.\u00a0 But at last upon asking who would give a kiss for this book, six-year-old Bethel promptly said, \u201cI will\u201d.\u00a0 He planted a soft little smack on my cheek.\u00a0 Then Verie followed his lead for another book.\u00a0 Little Mavie now sidled up to me and said shyly \u201cI will\u201d.\u00a0 Eleven-year-old Carlos came over to look at the book and pictures and when asked what a certain object was replied \u201cThat\u2019s the Sun-Ball just up\u201d.\u00a0 Verie noticed that a drop stood at the end of my nose and called attention to it.\u00a0 Upon my saying \u201cI need a handkerchief I guess\u201d.\u00a0 The one found in my pocket had a border of pink tatting and the color made it \u201ca pretty\u201d in Verie\u2019s eye who asked me for it.\u00a0 Carlos who had gallantly offered me his clean folded handkerchief realized that Veery was not quite polite so tucked his handkerchief in her hand and said that would do for her as she had a book also.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping in the house for a minute to greet the guest people who asked me to stop, I saw that the upper house had been scrubbed and some planks propped on blocks awaited the meeting.\u00a0 The mother-women were getting dinner for as many as might choose to eat.\u00a0 Not having planned to stay I excused myself and went back down stony Jake\u2019s Creek then up Line Fork to the Cabin.\u00a0 Just a few days before Dick\u2019s still had been raided but as word had been passed along to his sons Sam and Charley they had spirited away the still and all the officers found were a few boxes of fruit jars.<\/p>\n<p>A week or so later one of the mother women, Florence, brought little Bethel to the Cabin for his first visit to have \u201ca treatment\u201d on an injured wrist.\u00a0 He quite forgot the pain looking round at the pretties in the Cabin and climbing the stairs to see the upper rooms.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on the same morning that Bascoil (as he spells \u201cBasil\u201d) McDaniel&#8217;s brother-in-law to Florence made his first visit to the Cabin on behalf of his family which I had visited several times on distant Beech Fork.\u00a0 I had found them all sick, mother Olly, baby and oldest daughter in one bed and the four-in-betweens huddled around the rusty old stove.\u00a0 I washed their sooty hands and faces then later sent them medicine along with some sheets and clothing.\u00a0 Now at this time they were in desperate need again.\u00a0 Basil said, \u201cWhen you visited us before we were all sinners but now we are trusting in the Lord and mean to do what is right.\u00a0 We thank you for your help and want you to visit us again\u201d.\u00a0 It made us glad to be able to pass on a medley of garments and soap that would make it possible for them all to strip and get cleaned again after weeks of illness.\u00a0\u00a0 Since the lumbering in that section closed a year ago the people haven\u2019t been able to earn any money and that means no clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. John Holcomb came with her daughter Lena from Beehive.\u00a0 Some months before she had asked for baby clothes and she was told to bring her early in March so that I could advise her a bit about how to take care of herself and the baby.\u00a0 Upon seeing her it seemed a pity she had been asked to come so far.\u00a0 She had walked down the hills while her mother rode.\u00a0 Her mother had walked up the hills and almost all the rest of the way, some sixteen miles.\u00a0 They had started at sun up and would not get back until the \u201csun-ball\u201d had disappeared behind the hills.\u00a0 While urging her to be sure and boil all her old rags, she, like Liza of Clover Fork said \u201cain\u2019t you-all got ery a sheet to wrap me round\u201d.\u00a0 Yes I had ery a sheet and some bedgowns to add to the baby outfit.\u00a0 Her canvas shoes were held on her feet with multicolored rags.\u00a0 I had a pair much too large.\u00a0 Would she like to exchange?\u00a0 With apologies for her ragged stockings she put them on and offered to dispose of the old ones.\u00a0\u00a0 But I assured her I never liked to see old shoes strewn along the roads so would she please drop them in the fireplace and remember also to burn every old rag and poke and shoe under her wash kettle.<\/p>\n<p>Neely was just in to see if there was any milk she could have also to return a half gallon jar she had received here full of fruit a grateful neighbor had brought as thanks for some kindness.\u00a0 Speaking of fruit jars she said her stepson had been sneaking them off to fill with whiskey he had been making with a cousin who runs a still, somewhere up the Fork.\u00a0 He never brought her anything for the jars and she couldn\u2019t see that he\u2019d got ery a thing for himself but a suit of jeans and a pair of slippers meaning oxfords.\u00a0 So since she wouldn\u2019t presently have any jars she didn\u2019t mean to have them used to carry licker in and she took them all out on to a rock and smashed them.\u00a0 In the course of the conversation she told me the following story that used to amuse her in her childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo young fellers war courting at the same house.\u00a0\u00a0 One was a big eater and the other was a small eater.\u00a0 They agreed together that when the small eater had enough he would step on the toes of the big eater and they would leave the table together that being a nicer thing to do.\u00a0 When they were called to the table one sot on this side and one sot on that.\u00a0 The big eater had only taken three bites when he felt something on his toes and he reckoned the little eater was done and it was the sign to leave the table.\u00a0 So he got up.\u00a0 But the little eater continued for some time while his pal looked on hungry and making up his mind to get even with him for playing a trick on him.\u00a0 The small eater denied that he had stepped on his toes.\u00a0 On the table had been a pitcher of pickled beet and the big eater aimed to get one.\u00a0 He was already in bed and he asked his pal to bring him some as he was about starved to death.\u00a0 The small eater grabbed a fist full but couldn\u2019t get it out of the pitcher.\u00a0 Not having the wit to open his hand he didn\u2019t know what to do and his pal could think of nothing but sending him out to break the pitcher on a rock which he went out to do.\u00a0 In the dusky dark he thought he saw a stump and whacked the pitcher on that.\u00a0 Instead of the stump it appeared to be the old granny of the house and she cried out, \u201cI\u2019m murdered. I\u2019m murdered\u201d as she was rescued from broken pitcher, beets and vinegar.\u00a0 The laugh was on the sillies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some three weeks after our visit to the house of mourning an urgent request came from Fannie to go and see the twins Romie and Remie as they were smothering.\u00a0 I made out to go and found them with grippy colds but they were really growing some and were not so bad off as I expected to find them.\u00a0 She had managed to get a clock and was nursing them according to Hoyle some of the time.\u00a0 She had obtained rubber nipples and was supplementing the nurse.\u00a0 But since this new sickness came upon them they would not take it.\u00a0 They were instinctively trying to get better.\u00a0 The bottles lay\u00a0on a chair unwashed since morning.\u00a0 A cup of herb tea was also at hand.\u00a0 The floors had not yet been scrubbed so I went over the whole lesson again and added to \u201chit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Uncle Ira with his mule hitched to a wooden box sled was hauling a few bushels of coal from a bank a mile or so below his house \u2013 so he stopped at Rob\u2019s for dinner.\u00a0 He and a neighbor were grubbing a new piece of land and had been served so Fannie made some fresh biscuits and bade Ruby search the hens nests for a couple of eggs to fry.\u00a0 Just then the door opened and in walked a proud old hen who came every day to lay her egg in the chimney closet.\u00a0 After dinner in the kitchen we sat for a time by the fire and I read a portion of Scripture for Uncle Ira \u2013 his eyes are too dim to read any more \u2013 but he lays great store by his Bible that Fannie had borrowed and was finding much comfort from reading about the heavenly home where little Junior has gone.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely Yours<\/p>\n<p>Stapletons<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">**Transcription by Gretchen Rasch.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Back To <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=8315\">GUIDE TO DR. IDA STAPLETON AND REV. ROBERT STAPLETON REPORTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0See Also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=3473\">DR. IDA STAPLETON AND REV. ROBERT STAPLETON<\/a>\u00a0Biographies<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pine Mountain Settlement School Series 09: Biography &#8211; Staff\/Personnel Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. 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