"In 1819, I heard mother say, 18 of them lived in 1 room & loft. Mother & Aunt Hannah were alone & the baby quite sick. They took a lighted candle & started to a neighbors ½ mile away. They heard crackling of sticks but knew wolves were afraid of a light. About 200 yards from the door the light went out and immediately a whole pack of wolves set up a howl. They ran as women can in danger and good old Mrs. Cunningham soon had the baby doctored. At another time the dog & cat were quarreling under the table and mother lit the last piece of candle to see what they had and the dog swallowed the candle & left her in the dark. They used a lamp made from a hollowed turnup or a dip candle. I remember the well. It had a hollow sycamore or gum curb & a forked mulberry post with a poll hung in on a pin in the center to draw water with a grape vine fastened to the dipper end of the pole and also to the oaken bucket. It was the calculation to get another field or clearing into corn every spring. Chop & grub in winter, in early spring deadened the large timber & in May roll the logs together & burn. Goose quill pens. School books."