Dottie: This is my mother's mom and we always called her Ma! She lived in Vincennes, Indiana , out of city limits and up on a hill which was called Bunker Hill. There is a history about a battle i think that was fought there many years ago. Anyway , we would go to her home every Sunday it seemed to have dinner with her. While the adults set around and talked we kids would play or just listen to them tell of the happenings of the week or the latest gossip. I remember Fred who was a relative that lived there and remember that he had this can that he spit chewing tobacco in, i thought it nasty looking. Had fond memories of going to ma's though. For one , she was a great cook and there was always the smell of something cooking in her kitchen. She had a feather bed which we kids loved sleeping in when we stayed overnight. It was wonderful as i remember waking up to the wonderful smell of gravy and biscuits, the aroma filled the house. At my home you didn't get that. Mom was nothing like her mother, had her good side but ma well, her whole life centered around her home. My mom on the other hand wasn't happy being at home. I don't know what all my mother had to deal with in her life but its sad to me that she was unhappy for the most part. I think life was hard for my mom and also the role of motherhood. I take after my grandmother in the fact that my home is my heaven on earth. I love being a homemaker. I remember Ma would cook on a old wood burning stove which is unheard of today. ha. Ma's life was pretty much a routine which she followed day in and day out. I put my glasses on first thing in morning and ma well she put on her apron. ha. Life is certainly different today than those of yesterdays. I doubt that ma even went out very often, perhaps now and then just to purchase food or necessities.
My sister Sarah /has this to say of Ma! -She was a great lady. I never wanted to go home when I was at her house. She would walk me to bus stop on Willow Street and put me on the bus and I would tell her I was never coming back I was hurt so much because she was sending me home.
But I would go back the very next chance I got. I loved having her braid my hair. She would wash it in rain water and then braid it. I had long hair at that time.
My sister Donna / Liked Ma's cooking and playing with all the kids on the Sunday afternoons when we visited there. But I stayed with our Aunt Lillie the most! I think she thought of me as the child she was never able to have.
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