Maude Elizabeth Caudle

She was the only one out of 7 girls who completed high school. High School was a boarding school for girls run by the Episcopla Church. After she finished at the local ladies school, she began working for 2 attorneys and later did her husband's typing until his death. Her only means of transportation was a bicycle which she rode 2 1/2 miles to work from the Ellis Farm. This was about the time she met Thomas because they worked near each other. When Wayne was born she had some kind of spells. She also had low blood anemia. She continued to have this anemia all through her life. She had the flu that killed many during WW I. She almost died. To keep her feet warm, she put an electric iron in bed with her. Wayne turned it on high and set the bed on fire; she sat up in bed and slapped the fire with damp rags to put it out. Thomas brought a mattress from upstairs to replace the burned one. (copied by Barbara Ellis)

I have visited in the home of Thomas and Maude Ellis Caudle on several occasions and Mude Ellis Caudle was one of mu loviest and most loved cousins and I had a few more than 50 cousins when I was growing up. (Foster Harmon)