Sadies recollection of the past
                                            
                           Of things I remember
  
  Dad's father was a hostler for someone. They had a big dog chained near 
  the barn and as a boy dad used to play with the dog, such play consisted 
  of jumping at the dog and the dog would throw him and pummel him around.
  
       Newtonards seems to be sort of far away, and not to easy to get to.  
  Ballywalter was spoken of.  He could only find one thing to do as a 
  young man, this was to go out in the fish boats.  He did not like this 
  as the salt water made sores on his legs, he had very fine skin.
  
  Since Ballywalter is a shore place it would seem that he lived near 
  there.
  
  He spoke of taking the things that the women folks had made to Belfast 
  on Saturday  morning to get a few cents.   That it was 12 miles away and 
  they had to start early to get there.
  
  There was a large family, I believe 10 children.  There was at one time 
  a picture of Dad's mother holding her first grandchild.  She looked 
  terribly aged to me but the tintype is gone.
  
  Uncle Will came to this country first.  When he had $60.00 ahead he 
  would send it for another of the boys to come.  That is what dad had and 
  I assume the others also.
  
  Dad seemed to be the youngest. Uncle Will who lived in Oregon died the 
  same year that father did.  Uncle Will was about 90 and Dad was 73 or 
  something like that and Aunt Ellen was 80 or thereabouts.  Aunt Ellen 
  was married and lived in a sod shanty in Nebraska somewhere.
  
  The place  where Uncle Wm worked was with a farmer in Indiana.  The 
  farmer was a sort of understanding man and helped some to get to this 
  country.
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  Then there was Aunt Jane Dunnon who lived in Poweshiek County, she had a 
  large family.
  
  The oldest girl married a man by the name of Gailbraith in Ireland.  The 
  eldest boy too, married and had children, his son John come to our place 
  after Dad had sent him money about 1903.  He did not stay long with us.
  
  I have heard of leases but nothing that I would care to repeat.  I 
  imagine that the lease had expired or else why would four sons and two 
  daughters come to America.
  
  Of the ones that came to the United States, none of them did so well or 
  so it seemed to me.
  
  Of the location of this branch of Morrison's, I would say that were very 
  poor even for Irish people.  They had a large family and with Uncle Wm. 
  sending money to all of them to come to this country it would seem that 
  he knew there was no lease hold in the old place.
  
  What of Greyabbey?  Was this the name of someone in sort of control of 
  the situation and of the destiny of the young folks at that time?  I 
  would place the old home near Greyabbey as Balleywalter is near 
  Donaghadee which I have heard spoken of.
  
  Ballywalter port is likely where he went fishing on the fishing boats.
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