Show faulty memory keeps feehs him poor poplar bluff mo his Ills memory blotted out by the expanse of years lie he has lived uncle ben hodge county dependent cannot remember facts that might establish his bis claim to the major portion of a estate relatives Be lathes in new england are convinced he be Is the keynote of an english estate but uncle ben has been beba unable to supply the facts which would support his contention ive tried and tried to remember the things that might help settle the estate affair but I 1 just cant hodge says tile the past that far back Is blank to me ue ile has bern been unable to recall the given name of ills his grandfather and ills his fathers middle n name ame nor can lie he remember the name of the boat on which lie he and ills his fathers family came from england lla lie recalls that lie he came from england at tile the age of eight or nine one of thirteen children but you know lie he said bald 1 I just cant remember how many children I 1 have had I 1 know I 1 was married three times and outlived all my wives I 1 just guess how many children we had because you know im getting old hodge served in the civil war but as lie he was not wounded he never applied aphis for a pension lie ile lost tits his discharge papers in a fire and now cannot got a pension until hodge was in good booi gooi health lie ile made ties plowed corn built fences and hunted you know some of 0 them say the first hundred years are the hardest they are just plain nuts ill take the first Il hundred undred years any time I 1 was able to work until I 1 was around one hundred find fifteen and then I 1 started getting feeble id late hate to think what the second hundred bundred years would be like lvang I as a recluse for a number of 0 years neighbors took him food gave him money until they learned he be was heir to the estate recently the aged roan man whose ey eyesight Is falls falling suffered a leg lee injury and apie 1011 to the county court tor for admittance to the county home later he agreed to ti accept a 5 a month al lovance from the county and remain at home af it I 1 cn can make enough to feed myself I 1 will be happy regardless of the fortune which they say Is due me but which I 1 never expect to get hodge said uncle cen ben smokes chews and admits that lie he drank whisky lots of it during tile the early years of ills his life and until prohibition |