Eli and Adaline Manfull lived in the square where the post office is
now located. The post office annex was not on the house when
Eli and Ad lived there. He was a retired farmer and I thought
he was very, very rich. He wheeled Ad out on the porch on nice
summer days for she was a cripple and she died when I was very
young. I never knew her but Eli I did. He lived, and he
lived and he drummed and he drummed (not on a drum but on a chair or
a wall or anything around him) and he always had a warm spot in his
heart for women no matter how old he got. The couple was
Ollie Thompson's parents. Substantial citizens of Augusta.
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