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Memories of a Long Life                                            31

          In the year 1919, Henry L. Mansfield, my nephew, came to Pittsboro on Monday morning before Christmas to see me.  Well, as I was expecting to go to another nephew who lived near Haywood in Chatham County, I had gone to Pittsboro.  I saw Mr. Joseph Moore and wife.  As my friends they told me to bring him to their house.  I had heard he was in town.  I went and found him and carried him to Mr. Moore’s, introduced him.  Mrs. Moore fixed him a room and bed, he spent the night and seemed to enjoy it.  They said any of my people, if I said they were all right, would have a welcome at their house.  Tuesday we went first to Pete Gunter’s.  He wanted him to spend one night and day with them.  He told Henry they had both worked under him in Durham Hosiery Mill and they had a room and bed prepared, thinking he would surely stay, but Henry told them as his valise, etc., were at Mr. Moore’s he would spend part of the day with them and then go back to Mr. Moore’s at night.  Wednesday he offered to pay them but they refused and told him if he ever came to Pittsboro again to come to see them.  He came back to Durham Christmas Eve, spent a few days and had the second stroke of paralysis.  He was put on his bed.  For three years and twenty days he lay there, then God called him home. (30 Jan 1923) I was at my old home and did not get the word to go.  I came some time after.  Lillie (Henry's wife: LILLIAN "LILLIE" M. SHAW) said I could stay and if anything happened I would know about it.  Well, as her son, Henry, (HENRY LEE MANSFIELD, b. 08 Sep 1900) was off at work and sent hr a money order, she had to go up to the post office to get it cashed, and I could be with or near if he needed anything.  I was glad to do just a little something.  I was glad, yet my heart was sad to see him lie there so helpless.  I would look at him and try to pray, but it seemed my prayer was almost as naught.  I tried to be as little trouble as I could and not be in the way, but as I am almost helpless I feel in he way, not at Mollie Johnson’s, for I’ve put enough here to support me.  (HENRY LEE MANSFIELD, b. 19 Sep 1867, NC; d. 30 Jan 1923)

 

          I spent awhile, kept house in Pittsboro. One of my nephews, P.H. Johnson, and wife, with four children, came down one Sunday and took dinner with me.  Well, I had rented living quarters in an office belonging to Mr. Arthur London.  It was once the office of Lawyer John Manning.  I heard that it had been built nearly a hundred years.  My nephew and his wife had me come up and stay with them.  They were then living on a farm ten or twelve miles south of Durham, near the Chatham line.  I had some of my furniture, a bed room to myself.  My youngest nephew had given me a cook stove with biscuit oven, pot and griddle, a heater with two tops.  I could make coffee and cook bread, and one of the children came and slept with me.  They were all good to me, but they found they could not live on a farm and keep