Part Forty-Three: Ten Thousand Dollars

I did the arithmetic in the February because I am a billing coder and because I needed to know whether the number made sense, and it does, and it took me about five hours and two evenings.

My grandfather had a life insurance policy through the plant in Mansfield where he worked for twenty-six years.

It paid ten thousand dollars.

Thomas Henderson died on the ninth of March 1994 and the policy paid out in the April, and on the nineteenth of April 1994 my grandmother opened an account at First State Bank with ten thousand dollars and then put five dollars in it eleven days later.