Monday: the 5th. Up at 5:15 to be at Wolfe Eye Clinic by
6:00. We actually had to wait a couple
of minutes for them to unlock the door before we could get in. As it was, we were the second people to check
in. Since this was the second eye, they
already had all the information and just needed our co-pay. They immediately took us back to a preop
room. Ella got a wristband, a gown and a
mark over her left eye and some drops in her eye. Another nurse came in and started an I.V.
line and added more drops to her eye. The
anesthesiologist came in and discussed the procedure with Ella. Since she had just gone through this with the
right eye, he knew that she would not have any problems with the medications. The surgeon came in and talked to her and
made another mark over her left eye.
Several more drops were added to her eye. Eventually she was moved to a wheel chair and
given a warm blanket. Soon she was
wheeled away to surgery and I went to the waiting room. I only waited about twenty minutes before
they called me back in … the surgery was over.
By now it was about 8:00.
We waited in the post-op area for a
while. A nurse came and explained how
Ella was to care for her eye over the next couple of weeks and what not to do. A while later and the surgeon came out and
examined the eye and repeated what the nurse had said about caring for her
eye. We left there about 8:45.
We stopped
at Cracker Barrel for breakfast. Ella
had sweet potato pancakes with eggs, bacon and coffee. I had pancakes, eggs, smoked sausage and ice
tea. I was not impressed with the
pancakes which seemed rather greasy. The
sausage was very good. Ella said the
sweet potato pancakes were “okay”.
Altogether I was disappointed by the food at a restaurant that I really
like.
When I was
checking out, I realized that the cashier was one of our neighbors, Linda, from
Cutty’s Campground. Ella was browsing in
the store, so Linda went over to chat with her.
From there
we went home. Ella rested and I took
advantage of the good weather to refill the fresh water holding tank on the
Hitch Hiker.
I spent a
good share of the day on Ancestory.com filling in information about my family
tree. What I am really trying to find is
information about my father’s biological father. My grandmother, Nancy J. Lamkin, had two
children in Evansville , Indiana
before marring Robert D. Williams in Oklahoma
My mother,
shortly before she died in 1994, told me that Dad’s name was actually
Ousley. Over the years I have
occasionally tried to find some information about this mysterious
grandfather. My sister, Maryann, has
also done some looking but we never have gotten anywhere. Maryann said that she had heard from a
‘shirttail cousin’ that she had found out that Nancy and this unknown Ousley
were cousins. (yeah, this was in
southern Indiana and northern Kentucky
In my
digging though census records I found where my father’s name was listed as
Clarence Edgar Ausley Williams.
Ah! Ausley not Ousley!
I started
looking for Ausley in Evansville
Douglas Ansley
(a.k.a. Ausley) age 42
Birth Year: 1868
Address: Evansville
Ward 7, Vanderburgh , Indiana
Race: Mulatto
Gender: Male
Marital
Status: Married
Spouses
Name: Mary E. Ansley (Ausley) age 39
Race: Black
Father’s
Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother’s
Birthplace: Kentucky
Also in
household: Renter: George P. Williams
age 36
Race: White
Curiouser and curiouser!
Unfortunately I have not been able to find any further information about
Douglas .
He would have been 36 when my father was born. Nancy Indiana to search through records
at the courthouse in Evansville
