(c) 2001 Barb Wise (wisebarb@home.com) EXHIBIT "E" DEPOSITION TAKEN BEFORE A FIELD EXAMINER OF THE VETERANS AMDINISTRATION DATE: 17 MARCH 1954 DEPOSED BY: A. W. HENDRICKS PERSON DEPOSED: SARAH E. HOLLAND Sarah HOLLAND: I am white, female, age 58, widow, reside at R. R. 2, English, Indiana, with my youngest son, Howard HOLLAND. I am the widow of Sam HOLLAND, who was the uncle of Woodrow HOLLEN. Q: How long did you know Woodrow? A: All his life. He was born not far from here. His father was Corder HOLLEN, my husband's brother-in-law. My husband was his mother's brother. Q: How old was Woodrow when James DAVIS married his mother? A: I don't know. He was a pretty big boy. Q: Was he in school? A: Yes, but he quit school pretty young to work for various farmers around here. Q: Did he work for you and your husband? A: Yes. He helped around the farm, plowing and such. Q: How long was he with you? A: He was with us several times. I think he stayed about all summer one time. Then he worked for us several times off and on. At harvest times he came and stayed several days at a time. Q: Did Mr. DAVIS ever support him at all? A: Oh yes, Woodrow made his home over there when he wasn't working somewhere. Q: Did DAVIS provide for the family? A: Yes, just like they were his own. He always acted good to them, whenever I was around, though I wasn't around him too much. Q: Whose home did the family live in? A: It belonged to Inice's mother. Later after the mother died, Jim and Inice bought the others out. Q: Did they ever live anywhere else? A: As best I remember, when they first married they moved into our old house, 2 or 3 miles away from us, for a while. They didn't pay any rent but Jim worked over here a lot, maybe he worked the rent out. Q: Was Jim a worker and an ambitious person or was he rather shiftless? A: I think he worked all right. I have seen people who did better, but he did pretty good. Q: Have you ever heard anything about the differences between Jim and Inice? A: I guess they're divorced. I heard he was getting some money from the government and she took it away from him claiming he didn't provide for Woodrow when he was a boy. Q: Did he provide for Woodrow as far as you know? A: Yes, I think so. As I said he was always working when he could get a job. I reckon he did. At least he worked for us a right smart. Q: Did he spend his money on the family? A: Yes. You could go down here to Mrs. LAND's grocery and ask her. He used to pack some awful big loads in a sack. He got his groceries there and carried them home. Q: Did he and Woodrow get along all right? A: He got along good with all the kids. After Woodrow's brother, Clovie, came back from the Army, they had a spat. That was about the time Jim left. I heard that Jim was hit by Clovie and they chased him off. But he never had any trouble with Woodrow, that I heard of. Woodrow and he worked together over here for us sometimes. I never ever heard Woodrow say a harm word about Jim. Q: Did Woodrow ever work over in Illinois? A: Yes, he used to go up there with the whole family. But that was when Corder, his father used to go, all before he and Inice separated. Q: Was Woodrow away, over in Illinois for as long as 3 years, right before he went into the Army, between 1935 and 1938? A: It didn't seem like he was ever gone from around here that long. It seems that he was always one place or another around here, right up to the time he went into the Army. I can't remember him being gone from Jim's and Inice's very long at a time. Q: Would you say that Woodrow entirely or mostly supported himself after his mother married Jim DAVIS? A: No more than he worked, I don't see how he could have supported himself all that time. Q: Do you have any books or records showing exactly when Woodrow worked for you? A: Sam never kept any such records. Q: When they were first married, whose furniture was used by Inice and Jim? A: Inice's I reckon; I don't know if he fetched any or not. Q: I have no further questions. Do you have anything to add? A: No, except that Sam and I spelled our names HOLLAND instead of HOLLEN. I am the same Sarah HOLLAND who filed a pension claim against the VA in the case of Samuel Wilbur HOLLAND who served from 1909 to 1912 and who got a pension from the VA until he died in 1949. I did not receive any pension as a result of my claim. I don't know the claim number. I certify that I have read the foregoing and my answers are true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. /signature of Sarah E. HOLLAND/ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17 day of March 1954; and I hereby certify that the foregoing statement was read by affiant before signing. /signature of A. W. Hendricks/ Field Examiner (c) 2001 Barb Wise (wisebarb@home.com)