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Note: According to Lura Hall, August 1996, Vicie and her husband Cecil Holmes lived in Akron, Ohio for a while. The following are several stories told about Vicie during a visit with her daughter Glenda Holmes Arther, 15 October 1999..... Vicie, Cecil and their two oldest boys were living in Akron, Ohio. One day Vicie was in the apartment and heard one of her boys scream. One of the neighbor women had slammed one of the boys into a wall. Vicie went after the other woman and sometime during the melee the other woman's finger ended up in Vicie's mouth and she bit her finger quite hard. The next day the police came and arrested Vicie. She appeared before a judge who fined her $15.00. Neither she nor Cecil had $15.00 with them so Cecil left to somehow get the money. Meanwhile the judge told Vicie to go ahead an go, just to make sure she paid the fine. She was walking home when Cecil came upon her. He thought she had had it out with the judge and was running away from the jail. The Holmes family was back in Alabama and Cecil and Vicie had rented some land to grow produce, particularly melons, to make extra money for their family. A neighboring woman, who had a reputation as a bully, kept letting her chickens roam and the chickens kept picking holes in the melons, making them unsaleable. Vicie had asked the woman several times to keep her chickens penned. After finding her melons with holes in them once again she and the boys picked the melons and stacked them all in the doorway of the woman's home. The woman came to Vicie's and a fight ensued, with Vicie winning the battle. Years later Vicie and Glenda were in the car and had a flat tire. A fellow stopped to help them and kept looking at Vicie. He finally asked who she was and he said he thought he knew her. After learning her name the fellow thanked her for thumping his sister a good one and said she was a changed woman after the melon incident. Glenda also related a story of when quite a number of the Hall family was headed to Ohio in wagons with mules pulling them. They had baked a ham for the trip and everyone got food poisoning, with several of them nearly dying.
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