Lillian has always been up for things - races, holidays, climbing trees, keeping secrets - which is perhaps why she wound up married at just barely eighteen with a baby following not long enough after. God took that child - little Samantha - home to Heaven during a visit to her cousins' that happened to cross paths with the great plague of Spanish 'Flu in '18, but the other four are fairly healthy. Her marriage is always going wonderfully or terribly, depending on the day and how much liquor Bill Clarke has been able to scrounge up in what proximity to certain women.