think of sister as belonging to her.  She did not like to be corrected by the Schmyths.  When the

opportunity was right to move into town, Rozene did.  After she moved into the rooming house

with the Greehaws, she saw the Schmyths driving to church in a new buggy bought with her

inheritance money.

The Greenhaws were kind people.  Mrs. Greenhaw was a part Cherokee Indian who had an easy

temperament.  She had come from Northern Alabama with her husband.  They had many friends

and relatives to visit their home.  The Greenhaw's home became a place of lodging for men who

rode the mail route to New Orleans.  Rozene liked working for and with Mrs. Greenhaw.  Rozene

cleaned rooms in the large white frame house.

During the day they were always busy but in the evening Mrs. Greenhaw would play on the most

wonderful instrument called a harpscord.  Sometimes they sang songs that the black people

sang.

On a hot August afternoon, a young halfbreed Cherokee Indian carried the mail from the north

part of the state.  He rode a roan horse, with a mail pouch hung over his horse's neck.  He wore

deer skin moccasins and a brown leather jacket.  This rugged handsome young man was called

Willis Maxwell.  He met Rozene Conrad at the Greenhaws and married her.  Rozene and Willis

made their home near Decatur, Alabama.  In Decatur, Rozene gave birth to two children.  The

first was a girl named Rozene Sarah Maxwell and the second a boy, named Willis, after his

father.