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...finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read it to find out what happened to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It is a more orderly and down-to-earth book than its predecessors, its characters more credible, its melodrama more restrained. But it is oddly less interesting for being more plausible, and less convincing for being closer to a recognizable environment. Part of the difficulty is that the plot...
Four days after his death, in the shed-1'ke white church at the end of a rutted whiteclay road, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren gathered to funeralize Uncle Row. Outside, the men stood in farm clothes or funeral-black town clothes. Inside, the preacher's voice was solemn, thin and reedy. The congregation murmured, its responses gathering resonance and urgency. Intoned the preacher: "We got a race to run for God, running to beat the devil who is trying to defeat us. Have faith in God, run on." The congregation chanted: "Run on. That...
Grandma Moses has other distractions: eleven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. "When I had my children and grandchildren," she remembers, "I was about as busy as they were. I never had much good of them. I have more time now for my great-grandchildren." But with it all she keeps sending her pictures to Manhattan galleries: "If they wait long enough I get up a big batch of 20 or so, but they're apt to phone before then and ask what I've got done...
...wind-bitten old woman, her brow furrowed beneath her black kerchief, kept her eyes on her hands as she knitted. "I go," said Mrs. Helen Hildebrand, "because most of my family is going." At 75 she was leaving Canada, with six of her eight children, 51 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Last week, in Winnipeg, they joined 1,608 other Mennonites (total in Canada: 111,380) who were bound for sparsely populated Paraguay, where Mennonites from Europe have already settled to lead their strict way of life...
...Daniel Rupert Pitsenbarger, 89, of East Rainelle, W. Va., died leaving 182 direct descendants-five sons, five daughters, 64 grandchildren, 108 great-grandchildren...