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- "Jay" contracted polio when he was young.His Aunt Bernice used to carry him around on her bac k and loved him dearly. she and her daughter were with him when he died. He had a home busine ss selling candies and ointments.People loved him and his kind nature endeared him to all those who kne w him. Folks would drive the bumpy road to the WAtson home to buy from "Jay". When he died they save d his leather change purse to give to Robert, as he looked so much like him when they were ba bies. "Jay" sat in a large wood chair with wide arms. He was served his meals on a board that fit a cross the chair arms, and he ate WELL! His mother, Clara, wrote to President Roosevelt to ask for help to get him a wheelchair. No t only did he answer her letter, but got a wheelchair for "Jay". Richard mentions the leather straps hanging upstairs; for a long time the wheelchair was up t here, too. When I got old enough to sleep upstairs or go up there, I was afraid his ghost was there. No t I know if it had been he was so kind we wouldn't have been afraid of him. All the young cousins fel t the same way when we spent the night. Richard also mentions Jay and his sister laying in wake in the Watson living room, so di d Grandpa Watson.
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1924 - 1945 (20 years)
