She received the same as anyone else. Wieghbourne, my oldest brother, borrowed Lucys' part of her inheritance to buy that land where George & Buddy were born. Mama only got a minor part. The 80 acres homestead. She could not sell, so she would always have a home as long as she lived. Dad cleared all the land and split rails to fence it in. Mama had to sell the rest of the land because, Weighbourne and Cecil would not pay her rent or move out of the house after she married Jim Finch, who was Graces's father in law.
Mama built the big house with her part of the inheritance then married Mr. Finch. Because the boys wouldn't let him move into the house, she had to move away with him. He was a tenant farmer on her land, renting land every year and made a crop to live on. He borrowed money from my mother to finance the crops. He was the father of 11 children. When they married, he had at home then, John, Ernest, Oreal, Allen and Rubyhell.(?) Mama took Gay, Forun, Leo and me with her and left. Weighbourne, Windfield, Effie and Amy stayed at home in our new house. Grace, Cecil and Novice were married. She divided up the furniture and some of the stock, giving one to every one, a horse or cow. One they had claimed as babies, as Dad bred horses, mules and cattle. We always claimed the one we wanted. Gay got a gray mule, which she took with her when she moved away from our home with Mr. Finch. When Gay reached his 16th birthday, she bought him a saddle. He went back home then. Mr. Finch tried to keep the mule. Gay saddled the mule up and as he took him through the horse lot gate, Mr. Finch yelled at Mama "Lou make him bring that mule back! Gay yelled, "you go to hell he is mine-. Then he jumped on the mule and rode away as fast as he could go. We were all afraid of the old man.
I remember we lived in a community called Mount Olive at that time. That year I was 6 years old. My mother bought some small goslings and I had to take them out in the field to eat the grass out of the cotton patch.