Traditions: Ohio Heritage Fellows; 102; Edwin George interview, part 5 of 10

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Edwin: Oh I just uh... one time I took the... grandma to his mother early morning, they wanted to go (inaudible) to go see their roots they all lived. I had to take ‘em up there. Then the grandpa (inaudible), he always come down and eat every day... every day. He was coming down and I said where you goin’? And the way one goes said let’s go to Knoxville. But we know where the Knoxville. We—we forgot to tell his family. Boy, when they got home eleven o’clock, I see all the light... all the rescue squad all over the mountain with lights. He said, what happened? He said lost Will Tomlin-um, Will... Will uh, Will Thompson, they said, they lost him today, they can’t find him nowhere. They...they think he’s dead. Uh... he’s sitting beside me. It was dark in the car. I didn’t say nothing I punched him, (inaudible) I’m the one’s gonna get it. Oh, I did. And then he... he’s daughter didn’t speak to him for one year. I didn’t go up there one year to see my o—my daddy-in-law (laughing) he said they gonna shoot me if I come up there. Well, I didn’t. I finally got it straightened that out, (inaudible) a year and a half later they finally forgive me. Said—I should’ve told his daughter I wanna take his daddy to Knoxville. They didn’t know I picked him up.