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She told one story of how she helped one family plagued with illness and hunger:

“I recall one family in particular during this time when there was so much pellagra….I found the mother and daddy sick and in bed with lots of little children just sitting around.  The older children were in town working….I opened their lard stand and all I found was a little bit of grits, a small piece of fat meat and a third of a bag of flour…I headed straight home to Weldon and shared my story with the Health Director.  It was late in the evening then, so the next morning I went to the A&P store.  I gave the manager two dollars of my own money, told him I wanted him to add about seven dollars from the store to it, and filled a box full of food for that family.  They were the happiest people you’ve ever seen.  There were a lot of hungry people back in those days.”