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Show COLLEEN GARY SCOTT ILENE Family home evenings included games and other activities with Archie playing the fiddle and singing the old songs he had learned from his dad. The evening us¬ually ended with goodies which Hester showing off her cooking and baking talents. On March 23, 1956, while working at the sawmill, Archie became ill. He was rushed to the house and died a few hours later. Less than six months later Hester died. Both are buried in an Ogden Cemetery. —Max T. Robinson, Helen R. Morgan, Colleen R. Rapp ARCHIE AND THE CHICKEN HAWK Berneice Robinson Day remembered a hair-raising episode involving her and her brother, Archie. He was about five and she was four. A neighbor boy, Hugh Ford, came to play and the three were romping in a bedroom. A fully loaded 22 rifle was sitting in the corner of the room. Through the window Archie spied a chicken hawk raiding his mother' s vegetable garden. "No old chicken hawk is going to eat my mother's peas," the little boy de¬clared. Hauling the rifle to the window he hoisted it to the sill. Berneice fled to the safety of a bed, piled high with blankets. She buried her face in the blankets and threw her arm up over her face. Archie took aim and pulled the trigger. The bullet struck a hard object which caused it to ricochet across the room, grazing the flesh on the little girl's elbow. Hearing the gunshot and the child¬ren's screaming, their mother rushed to the room. Berneice was in hysterics. Archie stood in the middle of the room, clutching the rifle and screaming, "I killed my little sister! I killed my little sister." "When calm was restored it was found that the shot had not even broken the skin on Berneice's arm. 299 |