George Bailey is the husband of Jay's sister Jessie.
Jessie Bailey is the sister of Jay and Ralph.
When he is traveling to LaFollette in the middle of the night, Jay Follet has to wake a Ferryman, whose job is to ride cars across the river on his flat ferryboat. The Ferryman is prepared to charge Jay a double rate but, finding a horse-drawn wagon of people going toward town and paying for the boat's return trip, can only fairly charge the single rate.
The young daughter of the Follet family, Catherine is frequently unaware of what is going on around her. She does not understand the full implications of her father's death and expects.....
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