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Jacob H. Gale was born September 16, 1901. He grew up living with his father who was a priest in Mt. Vernon Missouri. During the first 2 years of his life he also had his mother who was a nurse in a nearby town. When Jacob was 2 years old his mother was sick with an unknown disease and later died. Jacob and his older sister Betty lived by Williams Creek and often played in the water. During the spring when it would rain the river would flood and rise so high that it became up to 8 feet deep. On April 9, 1907 Jacob went to the creek to fish and fell in the river and drowned. He wasn't found until 2 days later when his body washed up at the end of the creek. Crazy with despair Betty made Jacob his own head stone and laid it on a bank in the river. She lived at home with her father and for almost 6 months she was in a depression from her loss. Later she went back to the grave and made her own head stone, made a cross out of sticks and drowned herself. Jacob and Betty's father moved away from Mount Vernon and lived the rest of his life in the small town in which his wife worked in. Later he shot himself.