My mother put him on a blanket, on the kitchen table, put his right elbow to his left leg, then reversed it, to stretch his muscles. After that he was fine. Nan Cole bought a cedar chest for Chuck, after Grandpa Dan told her I had the new baby's clothes stored in a laundry basket, with a towel over them.

When Doris was born in November, 1926, it was Eddie who named her. Eddie had been a stagehand, and "right hand man", for Harry and Doris Bond, at the old Hudson Theater, on College St.. When Harry Bond and his friend, Ted Brackett were killed in a tragic accident, (their new car was stuck on the tracks, and hit by a trolley), Eddie handled all the details for Harry's wife, Doris, and he asked for the baby to be named after her. She later gave her namesake a silver teething ring. Doris and Chuck were both born at Ellis Hospital.

(A month later, Doris Jean Hatch was also born at Ellis Hospital, ... and after marrying Chuck, created some confusion, with two Doris Coles' in the family.) DJC

Dick was born at my mother's house ... he was in a hurry! Sometime before he was born, we were visiting friends who had a new baby, and we liked the way they took care of him. He was so nice and clean and happy. Out of the blue, Stanley said, "That's Richard", and so we had the name for our new baby, with a middle name of Daniel, for Grandpa Dan. When Dick was about 2 years old, we were living with my mother across the street from Knowlton's Blacksmith Shop. Dick was near the window watching the horses, when a 2 horse wagon, with only one horse, got loose and ran across the street. The empty shaft went through the front of the house, right where Dick had been on the rocker, watching. He had just gone to the front door, to go to the store with Grandma. This accident damaged the cedar chest given to us for Chuck's baby clothes.

Carol was also born at my mother's, and I wanted to name her after Uncle Platt's wife, Rena, (Serena). She was always so nice to me, we were good friends. Rena suggested we name her Carol, because she was born two days before Christmas, and was so beautiful with curly hair and dimples. She was a good baby . She had polio as a very small child, but recovered quite well.

Uncle Platt Carman and his wife, Rena, were both so good to us and our children. He was Stanley's uncle, and the Carmans and Coles were close because they all came from Coxsackie, and two children, from each family, married each other. Nancy Carman married Daniel Cole, and Clara Carman married Morgan Cole. There was a big family reunion one time in Coxsackie. They were all well known there.