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From Truett- I noticed this picture in the old family photo album. It's the Laughridge kids and I believe the boy is Ray, Jimmy's father. When I made the video of Aunt Azilee looking through the album, she told one of the most poignant stories I've ever heard. The three girls were her playmates and they all died of diphtheria in a matter of days. Aunt Az said she watched from the hill as a horse-drawn wagon carried the coffin of one of the girls to Abee's Grove for burial. None of the Berry's could go near them as the disease was contagious. When the family returned from the funeral, another of girls had died. I recall her getting misty. The graves of the three lie in the next row where the Berry's lie at Abee's Grove.
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