I remember when I was 4-5 years old in San Diego, Calif. (El Cajon), my mom, Julie Jean, was talking to our neighbor across the fence when I started jumping up and down and screaming.
While my mom was talking and holding my hand, I was standing on a large ant hill. There must have been thousands of ants. To my shock my mom immediately pulled my pants down and was brushing all of the ants off of me. What a shock.
Mike Layman [James Andrew Hewitt descendant]
In the 1930s, we rented a room to a couple who were in Vaudeville, who also had a St. Bernard. My sister Yvonne was abut two yrs. old. Yvonne had a bad habit (if you can call it that at her age) of running out in the road. Mother had run after her many times. The day she ran out no one was around except her Sis (me, Frances, – 5 1/2 years old) and the St. Bernard. The dog saw her run out into the street (which was a gravelled road) and al of a sudden the St. Bernard practically flew through the air and grabbed her by the seat of the pants. If it weren’t for the St. Bernard, I wouldn’t have had a little sister all these years. The car would never been able to stop on a gravel road.
Frances Gilchrist [Isaiah Hewitt descendant]
Arnie Young’s family, William S. Cooper descendants, have brought a piñata for the kids each year since 2010 in recognition of Jasper and Elizabeth Matheny’s life on the plantation in Mexico. However, they will not be able to attend in 2016. We will look forward to seeing another of their especially beautiful pinatas at the Reunion in 2017.