Skip A Row...



Jimmy told me the story a good while back about the adage

"Skip a row, one in your family will go". The meaning is that, 

when planting a crop, if one misses planting a row someone in 

the family will die.

Evidently Uncle Maxey (Jimmy's father) was obsessed with this 

as being a gospel truth.

The example is my grandfather Gilbert, Uncle Maxey's half brother.

Grandpa Gilbert died in 1940 at the age of 66 reportedly from

a "stroke of paralysis"

According to Uncle Maxey, they had planted the field behind 

the house in a corn crop and Daddy had missed seeding some rows. 

Grandpa Gilbert was out doing those missed rows when he died.



Scary, huh?