Biographiks

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Beside unpublished records, email and interviews, the sources include the 1911 History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther, the 1891 Origin and History of the Magennis Family by John Meginness, Seven Pines: Its Occupants and Letters by Camilla Davis Trammell, Vermilion Parish History by the Vermilion Parish Historical Society, Our McGinnis Family by Irma McGinnis Dotson, Rebecca Nurse: Saint but Witch Victim , Scissortails Still Return to Schoenau, Burke's Peerage , and other books.

He married Ruth O'Bryan in 1917. The next year he suffered a serious knee injury which kept him off the job and gave him time to write little nonsense rhymes for his wife ("With a merry laugh and song, she tats all day long.") Ruth had to start the car for him, getting out in the mud to crank it. If the mud was deep, she had to turn the crank through the mud. He never completely recovered from his accident. Even in 1930, he wrote,"My bum leg improves slowly," noting that his knee had stayed in place for a year.

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