Sunday, September 5, 1926
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The Jordan reunion was held today at Turkey Run . The Smiths were not there. Gilbert said I could have gone but I would have to go alone with the kids on the train and bus and it would have been a bad trip. It was a miserable day for it. We found out what the medicine is Gilbert took and I had to go to Brookshire after Sunday school and get some as Gilbert was out completely and had a terrible attack of asthma last night. He felt he couldn’t breathe any position so he came down and took a morphine tablet so as he could get a little sleep.
(How times have changed regarding drugs, to think they had morphine on hand.
Aunt Marjorie wrote regarding the reunion, "Grandmother Campbell was originally a Jordan, so her four brothers' families and usually all of Grandmother's family congregated together on Labor Day weekend for a picnic and business meeting regarding Great-Grandpa Jordan's farm, originally about 1,000 acres near Gibson City, IL, which was to be sold after all his five children died. Grandmother outlived all of her brothers by many years. During the recession years when property prices were low, I used to hear many relatives say, "Aunt Lizzie hang on!" and Grandmother accomodated them. She was about 91 when she died."
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I remember going to the Jordan reunion but it was held on a relative's farm in Rensselaer In. The farm in Illinois had a non-productive area which 2 of the brothers bought, to the surprise of the rest of the family. As it turned out, that 'non-productive' piece was a gravel pit, which made those 2 brothers fairly rich.
ReplyDeleteI guess they didn't know back then that morphine is a respiratory depressant -- probably not a good drug of choice for someone who can't breath!
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