(c) 2001 Barb Wise (wisebarb@home.com) EXHIBIT "K" DEPOSITION TAKEN BEFORE A FIELD EXAMINER OF THE VETERANS AMDINISTRATION DATE: 17 MARCH 1954 DEPOSED BY: A. W. HENDRICKS PERSON DEPOSED: CLARENCE PEARSON Clarence PEARSON: I am white, male, married, age 49, occupation, farmer, reside on my 114 acre farm on R. R. 2, English, Ind. I am not related to, nor do I have any interest in the parties in this case. Q: How long have you known Jim DAVIS and Inice HOLLEN? A: I met them before they were married. Inice was married to Corder HOLLEN but was separated from him. Q: When DAVIS and Inice were first married, where did they live? A: I believe they stayed with her half-sister, Stella Lowe, now dead, at the Freeman Hotel, now gone. Stella managed the hotel. Then they moved into a house owned by Sam HOLLAND. I don't know whose furniture they used. After that they moved to the Spears property then to a house about a mile from me. That's where they lived the longest. Q: Who supported the family? A: I would say Jim DAVIS did. Q: Did any of the children work to help out? Particularly Woodrow? A: When he was younger, he was in school I think. He helped out around home with chores. The others were too young. Q: Did he live very long with Sam HOLLAND or any other farmer as a hand? A: I don't think he would be up there over a month or six weeks or a few days. None of us farmers in this country around here made enough to keep a man steady. Sam had a big family of his own. He was never gone too long at a time until he went into service. I know one spring for awhile he'd work for Harrison APPLE, dead now. That was after we moved here in 1937. I don't know of him working for APPLE before that. Q: Would you say that Woodrow was furnished his support by DAVIS 1/10, 1/4, 1/2, 2/3, or 3/4 of the time between 1929 and 1940? A: Picking one of those figures, I would estimate it to be at least 1/2 and possibly 2/3 of the time in those years. He got more self supporting the older he got, of course. Q: Did Woodrow and Jim treat each other as son and father? A: I would say yes. Jim would tell him to do something and he usually did. They never expressed any feeling against each other. Q: In your opinion was there actually a father and son relationship existing between them? A: I would say yes. Q: I have no further questions. Do you have anything to add? A: No. I certify that I have read the foregoing and my statements are true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. /signature of Clarence PEARSON/ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17 day of March 1954; and I hereby certify that the foregoing statement was read by the affiant before signing. /signature of A. W. Hendricks/ Field Examiner (c) 2001 Barb Wise (wisebarb@home.com)