Person:Samuel Douglas (7)

                                             Mattie's Folks        8-8-95
           
                                           Ted Barricklow

  One morning Mom asked me if I thought that my dad was an only

child and didn't have anybody to play with. I said I had always thought that was so. She then started to tell me that no, he had some cousins, Garner and Dorothy that he played with. He even told mom before they were married that he never loved anyone like he loved Dorothy. She became an actress when she grew up. She was in a play that Roy wanted to go see but they never did.

  Later, Mom started telling me about Mattie Lin's parents and her

brothers and sisters. Samuel Alexander Douglas and his wife Cassandra Jane Bunch had four boys and three girls.

  The brothers were: 
   Gene(Benjamin Eugene) who married Vida, Boyd Franklin, Will (William Alexander) and Henry(Samuel Henry) who married Dora

from Eastern Oklahoma (Aunt Dode). All of the other brothers married women from Lockhart Texas.

  Two of  Matie's sisters, (Cary (Ella Clyde Douglas...according to Kay

Douglas Barricklow) and another whose name is unknown) died while giving birth to their last children. Baby Cary went to live with Roy and Mattie. She died as a child however.

  One of Cary's(Ella Clyde Douglas) sons was blind. He was sent to

an institution for the blind where they taught him to be a pianist and piano tuner so that he could support himself.

  Dorothy was the daughter of Mattie's brother Boyd and his wife

Cary. Garner was the son of Mattie's brother Will. Doug Kelly, the son of the other sister who died, was sent to live on his uncle Gene's farm, where he was worked like a slave, according to mother.

  Garner Douglas became a professional dancer, the kind that throws

the girl around like Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers. Roy never was allowed to dance. Mattie was against it. One Wednesday night, Roy had some friends over while Mattie was at prayer meeting. Roy had a new wind-up Victrola that they danced to. Mattie was so mad at him when she got home that she made him clean and wax the floor. It took him almost all night. He never danced after that. When Ruby Neher, a distant relative of Mr. Shield heard about it, she said she could well imagine that happening. Roy and his mother fought like cats and dogs.