Sue Cook and Johnnie Ruth Hunt spent Monday-Wednesday in Pigeon Forge. They visited some interesting places.
Visitors of Kim and Mark Violet and Spencer Stanfield were Jason Judkins, Zachery Vincent, Seth Stanley, Rebecca Ervin, Angie Meadows and Stephanie Rackley.
Visitors of Billie Simpson on Saturday were Dallas and Thomas and  Michael Braswell. Then Anita and Cloie Braswell ate supper with her that evening.
Billie Simpson attended the DCHS graduation Friday evening. Her granddaughter Kelley Walker was one of the graduates. I hope they all have much success.
Sympathy to the family of Phillip Vaughn in his death. He was a friendly person and will be missed. He would call me about something I wrote in the Smithville Review and we would reminince about the past. I had planned on talking to him Friday and one of my friends called me telling me about his death.
Sympathy to the family of Joan Bailey in her passing away. I remember her from N.H.C. She was nice and kind to the patients. My mother was there and it meant a lot to me.
Visitors of Betty Wilson were Ralph and June Vaughn of Murfreesboro, JoAnn Pittman, Betty Byford and Douglas, Barbara Ann and Rebecca Ervin.
Artie, Regenia and Nicklas Daw spent the weekend in Gatlinburg.
Faye Adkins’ family all gathered at Greenbrook Park Monday for a get-together. Allie Cook was celebrating her third birthday. Everyone enjoyed the good food and fellowship.
Recent visitors of Lu Autry Malone were Wanda Tramel and Ellie Vaughn, who spent three nights; Joyce Wright and Madelyn Weens spent Sunday night; and Sunday dinner guests were Rita and Sydney Robinson, Spencer Prichard, Randy,  Natasha and Ellie Vaughn and Rawlin, Jessie and Jeff Vanatta.
Well, spring is almost over and summer is not far away. As I think about summer and recall our life on the farm, my mind goes back to about 1953 when my husband, J.D., made a living for us by picking up farm jobs here and there for $2 a day. 
He and my Uncle Claude White also dug graves by hand for Conger Funeral Home for $10 a grave. While the grave digging was hard work, the $5 that J.D. got looked pretty good when compared to the $2 he would earn in farm labor.
One day Herbert Vickers came to see us. A man had rented a tobacco path on Herbert’s farm but was not living up to his part of the deal. Herbert asked J.D. if he would take over and get the tobacco crop set. That was the beginning of our friendship with Herbert and Bertha Vickers, and our sharecropping partnership that lasted almost 20 years.
Herbert had a lot of property. He provided the land, the machinery, seed and the fertilizer. We provided the labor and the sweat. When the growing season was over, we divided the crops 50-50. 
J.D. and I, together with Ralph when he was not in school, had to have extra help. There was one couple in the New Home community who helped us for over 15 years, Willie and Annie Ferrell. There were others who also worked for us, but Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell could always be counted on. They were kind of like an extended family because of their friendship.
I have many wonderful memories of those years when we were sharecropping.