1 Jan 1937 Jahr - Ida Mae's husband was falsie charged for stilling turkeys

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Another Important Event is when Ida Mae's husband was falsie charged for stilling turkeys and he was beaten and throwed in jail. Wilkerson said "He had a reputa-tion for taking things that weren't his. She said she hadn't seen him. "Joe Lee is in there. And we want him outta there." "What'd he do?" "That's alright, we want him outta there." They had searched the other sharecropper cabins. Somebody said they saw Joe Lee escape to her house. Willie Jim was getting agitated, thought she was ornery, disputing them like she was, and raised up his chain and drew it back to hurl at her. Mr. Edd stepped forward and told him not to. He liked George and Ida Mae, and he needed that cotton out of the field. "Don't you hit her," Mr. Edd said. "That's alright. Let 'em hit me," Ida said, stiffening herself. "No, he ain't gon' hit you now," he told her. Willie Jim stepped back, reminded of what they had come for. The men fanned out, their heavy boots clomping the old wood boards on the porch. They surrounded the house and ran toward the back door of the kitchen, the cabin's only other way out, and caught Joe Lee trying to get away. He had fled into the house as Ida Mae slept. He had darted past Indiana as she lay in bed in the front room. But Indiana was too afraid to tell anybody"(Wilkerson 126).

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