Notes for Otto Eugene Poole

GAYLE AND MARTY GALBRAITH GENEALOGY

Notes for Otto Eugene Poole

I have only three memories of Otto. I remember once when he was kicked by a horse, he had a terrible huge bruise on his thigh. When I was about three or four, I remember Otto coming home from work and sitting me on the edge of the kitchen table. He then gave me a big ice cream bar and watched me eat it. My mother said he would do this every day when he came home from work at the blacksmith shop. At about the same age, I remember seeing grandpa sleeping in the rocking chair by the pot-bellied stove. His head was thrown back and he was snoring vigorously. I was fascinated by his wide-open mouth and thought it would be a good place to put one of the unshelled peanuts I was eating. I dropped the peanut into his mouth and ran. I heard an abrupt snort and then quiet. He never came looking for me and never mentioned it later. I wonder if he knew I did it. Probably did.

Otto set his sisters Bess and Jess up in business in Mt Vernon, Ill. Bess in a millinery shop and Jess in a florist shop named "Johnson the Florist". Otto and Cora lost most of their money, which was inherited from Martin Poole , in the market crash and bank failures of 1929.

BG Galbraith