from Ellen Dawson:

Also on PAGE 171, next to the last paragraph, last sentence:

"then he reached out and knuckled the red head, hard,"

This is underlined and in the margin is writtten a single word. 'Tom.'

Chapter 19, Page 195

At the top of this page is written

'Tom was hired by Buck as "water boy" at 5 cents a week.'

PAGE 196

In the center of the page where the dialog reads:

"Had it Long?"

"Ten Years,"

In the margin is written Martin Hotel

PAGE 202

5th Paragraph

"Tobe? I didn't ...."

Tobe is underlined and written 'Dominque' over his name.

PAGE 204, last paragraph

"I'm Lota Kyle,"

In the margin reads:

'Lota was the name of one of Buck's nieces, Lota B. Cheek'

 

More excerpts:

Chapter 6, PAGE 59, 1st paragraph 4th line. "the block of land"

In the margin is written N. Foster, Newton, N St. Andrews, Powell

PAGE 64

8th paragraph, the whole paragraph is in parenthesis and it begins with "She's a schoolteacher," and beside it in the margin is written 'Music Teacher'

PAGE 73, right above the INTERLUDE is written: ' The teachers name was Ida and Ghastie was named Ida after her and christened later when she was 2 - 3, she was renamed Ghastie.

It is not until Chapter 16 that more is written in the margins.

PAGE 171, this page is about my grandfather, Thomas Eugen Buntin Sr., Buck's Nephew.

3rd Paragraph -"He (Buck) was near the door when a small boy came slowly down the hall. Syrup dripped from a soffy hole in a biscuit held just above his mouth and the boy licked gravely at the bottom. He had bright red curly hair and his noe looked like allthe Bannons'.

In the Margins reads 'Tom Sr.'

It goes on to the last sentence

Ernestine's (Eugenia)

 

 

As Requested, I have thumbed through the book my father has and has pulled excerpts written in the margins by my grandmother.

page 11

third paragraph. 'His mother' is under lined and in the margin reads Jane Baker.

PAGE 13

last paragraph 'Coke" is underlined in in the margin is written:

Uncle Coley whom I remember and fave me 1/2 stick of juicy fruit gum which he would cut with his pocket knife.

PAGE 14, 5th paragraph, 3rd sentence: 'Jeff and Hearn'

In the margin reads:Uncle Dan and Doug Baker

7th paragraph: Joe Bannon

In the Margin, Grandfather Joe Baker

Lat ssentence:

You Kin see the McPherson stock...

Underlined McPherson and in the margin is written 'Sanders'

Page 50, last paragraph "Myrt and Nance,"

Written in the margin 'Maggie and nanny?' There is a question mark after nanny.

 

from Sharman:

 

You simply must share that book with us. I NEED to borrow that book so that we can identify the characters. I will add your name to our Baker genealogy page as well.

I was talking with Betty Faulk Peters tonight and she tels me that the character Charlie Factor (p. 99 in the 1989 edition with the foreward by Dr. Belsches) is her grandfather (Dothan Eagle Editor Nat Faulk's father.

"Charlie Factor was smaller than Stylish George and already his face was settling into an approach to old age, although he was little older than Buck. He sold furniture, and when it was necessary in the community, he made coffins."

Betty said her grandfather had been given the money by his mother to go to Tulane to medical school but attended only a year before he gambled away his tuition and had to come home. However, he'd learned enough medicine to embalm bodies and so he became the town undertaker. (At least that is my understanding.)

Keep posting. You've got lots of info.