{"id":4326,"date":"2014-02-18T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T21:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=4326"},"modified":"2020-01-07T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:59:42","slug":"stapleton-report-september-1927-poor-n-got-desperate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=4326","title":{"rendered":"STAPLETON REPORT 1927 &#8211; September &#8220;Poor N____ got desperate &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><a title=\"Dr. IDA STAPLETON &amp; Rev. ROBERT STAPLETON\" href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=3473\">Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"LINE FORK SETTLEMENT\" href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=2992\">Line Fork <\/a>1927 &#8211; 1947<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>STAPLETON REPORT &#8211; September 1927<br \/>\n&#8220;Poor N_____ got desperate &#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/h5>\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-4326 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=7088'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lf_stap_27_11_001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7088\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7088'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Report, Sept 1927 &#8211; page 01. lf_stap_27_11_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=7093'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lf_stap_27_11_002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7093\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7093'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Report, Sept 1927 &#8211; page 02. lf_stap_27_11_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=7089'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lf_stap_27_11_003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7089\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7089'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Report, Sept 1927 &#8211; page 03. lf_stap_27_11_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=7090'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lf_stap_27_11_004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7090\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7090'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Report, Sept 1927 &#8211; page 04. lf_stap_27_11_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=7091'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lf_stap_27_11_005-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7091\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7091'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Report, Sept 1927 &#8211; page 05. lf_stap_27_11_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=7092'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lf_stap_27_11_006-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7092\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7092'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Report, Sept 1927 &#8211; page 06. lf_stap_27_11_006.jpg\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h5>TRANSCRIPTION courtesy of Gretchen Hasch, great-granddaughter of the Stapletons:<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">From Line Fork Settlement<br \/>\nIn September 1927.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Poor Nancy Ann Holbrook got desperate again for the Dr so she borrowed a mule and came again to the Cabin \u2013 and rec\u2019d medicine for her sore eyes and another \u201cTreatment\u201d for her Old Man. She said they had been moved down from the head of Stone Coal Creek to Beech Fork, so I should look for them there when I could go again.<\/p>\n<p>The second time I went up there \u2013 three sons and two daughters-in-law \u2013 and three grands were present and it seemed a good opportunity for a little talk about spitting and tobacco using in general as Nancy Ann was making a little puddle at the back of the chair \u2013 right at the foot of the bed \u2013 and the fourteen year old grand had a lump in her cheek and was expectorating thru the door. Old Arch said he no wise liked it but She (Nancy Ann) wouldn\u2019t listen to him. I suggested that Nancy had been so pert in getting the Dr she surely had grit enough to spit in the fireplace rather than\u00a0on the floor- and I had several tales to tell about old people who had given it up by the grace of God. On the way down to Clover Fork, Rose \u2013 wife of Hiram who is a semi-invalid with an inoperable double hernia \u2013 walked down with me and told me about the fire that had burned their cabin \u2013 and how they barely escaped being burned up with the young\u2019uns \u2013 and saved nary a thing.<\/p>\n<p>I promised to go and see them sometime so I made the head of Clover Creek my objective\u00a0at the next visit and as it was a case of loss by fire [I] thot\u00a0<em>[sic]\u00a0<\/em>it quite a legitimate bit of neighboring to take them some clothes.<\/p>\n<p>There were two boys of twelve and fourteen by Rose\u2019s first husband \u2013 a daughter by Hiram\u2019s first wife and four little tots: of eight years, Essie \u2013 six, Willie who has fits \u2013 four, Hanse and Amy two \u2013 and another expected in Jan. With that memoranda in mind I had something for each and when I finally reached the cabin at the end of a mile trail over a ridge \u2013 I wished I could have taken a wash tub \u2013 a fine comb \u2013 a broom and a few other things that would assist in cleanliness.<\/p>\n<p>Rose welcomed me with open arms and willy-nilly I submitted to an embrace. She eagerly offered to [feed] my horse and sent Essie to get a bundle of corn fodder for her. I was invited\u00a0in, and a heap of beans in front of the rude fireplace showed what she had been doing, as she prepared them for drying.<\/p>\n<p>She had been brot<em> [sic]<\/em>\u00a0up in this same house that had been built\u00a0by her father &#8211; a Mr Shepherd \u2013 but it had been used\u00a0only as a stable for some years. Forced to find some shelter they had taken refuge there and relatives had given them a few things but everything was most pitiable \u2013 and the very dirty babies the most so \u2013 however Rose had the grace to apologize for that and went on to tell me how sick little Willie had been and how she had waited for me at the branch for three hours on Sun[day] when she thot that I might come.<\/p>\n<p>Hiram had been convinced\u00a0that to save his soul he should be\u00a0baptised, so she had borrowed clothes for the young\u2019uns and had taken them to some place where such a service was being held, and indeed Hiram had given up cussing. He had strained his back while trying to build a pig pen and had come to the Dr to find out whether it was appendicitis or not, but he had no money so was ashamed\u00a0to ask for any treatment for it \u2013 and they could not do what the Dr had suggested about a hot sitz bath because they had no wash tub, but \u201cThank God\u201d \u2013 Rose\u2019s brother had loaned them a cow so now she had milk for the little children&#8230;and was it really dirt that caused children to have worms? Well, she would try to have them clean when they were eating \u2013 \u201cYou are looking at the nits in my hair \u2013 I haven\u2019t had a fine tooth comb since the fire\u2026Yes, it must have been set\u00a0by someone who had a grudge against us \u2013 and I didn\u2019t even get the little money we had saved up.\u201d \u201cYes, Hiram is reading that little Gospel you gave him and I am reading it too. My first husband taught me and my two sisters to read after I was married \u2013 and I mean to have my children learn to read.\u201d \u201cI do wish you would let me get you something to eat. It won\u2019t be much but I\u2019m not stingy!\u201d \u201cNo thank you, I have some with me and you have already fed my horse\u201d said the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>We sat out in the sunshine as it was a chilly day, and she shivered having nothing on much and she said \u2013 \u201cI\u2019ve stopped smoking since you gave us that talk, and I don\u2019t chew anymore except when my teeth ache\u201d, and she showed me the miserable snags. And Rose can\u2019t be more than thirty years old!<\/p>\n<p>She was so grateful for the clothes. She said, \u201cOh see here chilluns. It\u2019s a great big Christmas present, you will be clean after this if I have to put you to bed to wash your clothes, and I\u2019ve got nothing but a lard bucket in which to wash them.\u201d To the doctor \u2013 \u201cMany\u2019s the time I\u2019ve put them in bed naked while I washed their rags\u201d \u2013 and at that moment there was no other name that described them.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I got away, leading Swallow down thru the tangle of blackberry canes \u2013 again to the trail back to Big Leatherwood, eating my little lunch with thankfulness as I rode thru the still forest \u2013 but pondering in my soul how to help Rose and Hiram and all the little chilluns to some more abundant life.<\/p>\n<p>On Beech Fork I found the old people in an old cabin not far from son\u00a0John\u2019s. Nancy Ann\u2019s eyes were better but old Arch was having a bad spell and \u201cneeded some heart tablets\u201d so he said. He was huddled\u00a0under the covers; a nasty old cap protected his head from the flies. Nancy Ann had cobbled up some sort of a\u00a0stool for a commode and strewed sand on the floor in front of the bed. She said she cleaned it out every day but the day was far spent and it was enough to make a well person sick to sit there. Nancy Ann began to complain about not having anything but Arch hushed her up and said, the Shepherds shared their buttermilk with him and as long as Nancy Ann could go and bring it he could live on that. John\u2019s wife came over with\u00a0four children and thrusting a pale five year\u00a0old forward said, \u201cWhat makes that one so ill favoured?\u201d A little questioning elicited the fact that\u00a0she had worms, and when I mentioned it she said, \u201cYes, my chilluns are all wormy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It seems they had heard from the runaway daughter who had written for Nancy Ann to come and wait on her when she was confined, indeed she wanted to be\u00a0brought back to her mother for that event, tho\u2019 her sister Lucindy\u2019s husband would be arrested for bigamy should he come back, but he had good work in the mine at Appalachia and could send them money. The Dr urged Nancy Ann to attend to her old man and leave the daughter in Appalachia to be taken care of in the hospital belonging to the Coal Company.<\/p>\n<p>On the way down I had seen two of Lucindy\u2019s children, Sally and Judy. They had four lard pails full of <strong>pawpaws<\/strong>.* Wouldn\u2019t I have some? said Sally. And how is the Least One, said the Dr. \u201cOh, he\u2019s pretty puny\u201d, said Sally rather cheerfully, \u201chis guts are out\u201d and \u201cJohn got bitten six times by a copperhead\u00a0and his leg swelled up as tho it would bust but he got better\u201d. \u201cHave you got your quilt top done\u201d said the Dr who had taken them some quilt pieces the month before. \u201cNo not quite \u2013 but a right smart bit.\u201d When she goes again the Dr must take some batting and a back for the quilt \u2013 Poor Lucindy!<\/p>\n<p>One gorgeous moonlight night came Bertha and Everett to get the doctor for their sister. They had been down the creek for John\u2019s mother and sister, and John\u2019s brother had gone for Grannie\u00a0Shepherd, but the women were afraid so hurried them up the creek\u00a0for the doctor. Getting ready as quickly as possible while Mr S got Swallow ready, I wondered what he and Margaret would have for breakfast if I did not get back, as there was no bread. But the bread set out the night before was up and hastily pinching out a pan of rolls and molding the remainder\u00a0into loaves left it for Darby to bake \u2013 and accompanied the children down to Coyle Branch, a half mile up which lived Mrs Martha in the tiniest cabin perched high up on the side of the very narrow valley and not far from her mother\u2019s cabin which they had built not twenty years before, clearing the forest from the few steep fields. The party was well\u00a0attended by relatives and well advanced so it was not very long before a beautiful baby girl was born\u00a0and everything went off as it should, although it was a surprise party to them all as they had not expected it for a month. Simply a missed calculation as it was quite normal in every respect. Martha had prepared a change of little garments herself and had the money in reserve to pay the doctor\u2019s fee of $10; the first time this has happened so she was somewhat elated as she returned about 9 o\u2019clock. A breakfast had been served in the tiny lean-to of a kitchen. The usual fried chicken and gravy, fried potatoes and biscuits, and coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Martha is proving a good nurse to baby Gertrude. \u201cI can just see her grow from day to day,\u201d said Martha. \u201cI aim to get a basket for her tho\u2019 we hain\u2019t never had a separate bed for any of our young\u2019uns.\u201d This is her third and her mother has eight. She is still very young and her \u201cleast one\u201d is such a wee thing.<\/p>\n<p>Bertha has stayed by and cared for Martha and two year old Bethel, so she has had a proper convalescing period and, \u201cBaby just sleeps all the time\u201d, nursing only three or four times in 24 hours as a proper baby should.<\/p>\n<p>Other incidents of the month have been interesting but I fear your patience has already been exhausted by this long scrawl.<\/p>\n<p>I pray you all, to think love and joy to all \u201cthe least of these Little Ones\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sincerely Yours<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ida S Stapleton<br \/>\nThe Doctor<\/p>\n<p>[*pawpaw &#8211; the fruit from a &#8220;pawpaw&#8221; tree. <em>Asimina triloba\u00a0<\/em>or &#8220;pawpaw&#8221; tree is a small tree native to eastern North America. Its edible fruit is very fragrant and pungent in taste.]<\/p>\n<p>[Date of transcription: 2014-02-14]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0Return to<\/strong> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=8315&amp;action=edit\"><b>Dr. IDA STAPLETON &amp; Rev. ROBERT STAPLETON Guide to Reports<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"85%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" bgcolor=\"#fdebc6\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"72\" \/>\n<col width=\"184\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Title<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>STAPLETON REPORT 1927 &#8211; September<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Alt. Title<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Line Fork 1927 &#8211; 1947<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Identifier<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Permalink:\u00a0http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=4326<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Creator<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Alt. Creator<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Ann Angel Eberhardt\u00a0; Helen Hayes Wykle ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Subject Keyword<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Dr. Ida Stapleton ; Rev. Robert Stapleton ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; Line Fork Settlement ;\u00a0Cabin ; Stone Coal Creek ; tobacco ; spitting ; Clover Fork ; horses ; mules ; baptisms ; Big Leatherwood\u00a0; Beech Fork ; worms ; hospitals ; Coal company ; pawpaws\u00a0; copperheads ; Coyle Branch ;\u00a0Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Line Fork, KY ; Gilley, KY ; Letcher County, KY ;\u00a0Appalachia, KY ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Subject LCSH<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Stapleton, Dr. Ida S., &#8212; 1871 &#8211; 1946.<br \/>\nStapleton, Rev. Robert, &#8212; 1866 &#8211; 1945.<br \/>\nPine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) &#8212; History.<br \/>\nLine Fork Medical Settlement (Gilley, Ky.) &#8212; History.<br \/>\nHarlan County (Ky.) &#8212; History.<br \/>\nEducation &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; Harlan County.<br \/>\nRural medicine &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; Letcher County.<br \/>\nRural schools &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; History.<br \/>\nSchools &#8212; Appalachian Region, Southern.<br \/>\nRural health services \u2014 Appalachian Region \u2014 History.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Date<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">2014-02-18<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Publisher<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Contributor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Gretchen Rasch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Type<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Collections ; text ; image ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Format<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Source<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written) ;\u00a0Series 14: Built Environment &#8211; Line Fork Settlement ; Series 09: Biography &#8211; Ruth Dennis, Katherine Pettit ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Language<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">English<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Relation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written) ; Series 14: Built Environment &#8211; Line Fork Settlement ; Series 09: Biography &#8211; Ruth Dennis, Katherine Pettit ;\u00a0Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/\">http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/<\/a>\u00a0; Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) Library, Ida Stapleton Letters to Friends SC 462 <a href=\"http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347<\/a> ; Morris, Glyn. <em>Less Traveled Roads<\/em>, New York: Vantage Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Coverage Temporal<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">September 1927<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Coverage Spatial<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Line Fork, KY ; Gilley, KY ; Letcher County, KY ;\u00a0Appalachia, KY ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Rights<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Donor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">n\/a<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Description<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Core documents, correspondence, writings, and administrative papers of Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton ; clippings, photographs, books by or about Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Acquisition<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">n\/d<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Citation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Line Fork Settlement School &#8211; Dr. Ida S. Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton.\u00a0Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Processed By<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Helen Hayes Wykle\u00a0; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Last Updated<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">2014-02-18 hhw\u00a0; 2014-03-06 aae ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Bibliography<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain\u00a0Settlement School Collections, Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written),\u00a0Series 14: Built Environment &#8211; Line Fork Settlement, and Series 09: Biography &#8211; Ruth Dennis, Katherine Pettit.\u00a0Pine Mountain, KY. Archival material.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Bibliography<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/\">http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/<\/a> (accessed 2014-01-06). Internet resource.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) Library, Ida Stapleton Letters to Friends SC 462 <a href=\"http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347\">http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347<\/a> (accessed 2014-01-06). Internet resource.<\/p>\n<p>Morris, Glyn. <em>Less Traveled Roads.<\/em> New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Print.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton Line Fork 1927 &#8211; 1947 STAPLETON REPORT &#8211; September 1927 &#8220;Poor N_____ got desperate &#8230;&#8221; TRANSCRIPTION courtesy of Gretchen Hasch, great-granddaughter of the Stapletons: From Line Fork Settlement In September 1927. 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