Scope and Content Note Photocopy of a nineteen-page typescript of childhood reminiscences of Lillian May Combs Idle. The narrative contains details of their journey from Centralia, Illinois, by train, steamboat, and coach to take up farming; of the daily life of a large extended family on a succession of farmsteads in the eastern part of the county; of the deaths of many children and some adults to sickness and accidents. Appended to her narrative are genealogical lists of the Combs family and their antecedents...