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A V inter. G F & H F -28-
7/7/72
Tape 24

let us walk around the cars and the boys said, no mother I'll crawl under the cars and meet you when you come around while he was under the car they ran a car down from the breaker and they hit this train of cars and it moved just about that much and one wheel rested on his leg and on on his arm now my father was a first-aid man and they called for my father now the pont that I'm going to make is that I'm going to tell you the complete story involving Mrs. Coxe he carried him in his shoeing apron now that was a leather apron, carried him up to the first-aid and the hand was hanging and it was just hanging by a piece of tissue and he snipped it and gave it his mother, but the point is he was hospitalized now Mrs. Coxe was interested in him she paid for his hospitalization bought him an artificial hand and an artificial leg and it so happened that he got back to school and he was wearing the artificial arm and the artificial leg Mrs. Coxe came to visit the school I was in his class and at an appropriate time during her visit he got up came out of the seat and it was really a dramatic moment and he walked up the aisle with some difficulty he wasn't used to the artificial leg and he thanked Mrs. Coxe for what she did. I'll never forget what she said "My young man if I could spend every cent of money that I have to restore that leg and that arm that I would do for you," and tears rolled down her cheeks she took him and she saw to it that he went to the Miner's Mechanical and there was no tuition or anything else and then to Lehigh University and paid for all his schooling and saw to it that he had a life time job at the Institute in Freeland where he taught for about 40 years/ and my son whose love for mathematics is very great starts with this man Steffon, he was a great teacher a crude fellow in many respects in the classroom but you got it, you had to get it

HF: And he always appreciated what she done for him, he never forgets on Thanksgiving Day a group of boys from Miners goes down to her grave and puts at wreath on

GF: Oh she was a remarkable person but there was so many people took advantage of her, with lies, people with means with money in the bank would plead poverty