Grandpa died about 6 months before I was born, so I never knew him.
He had the ability to blow fire out, and take most of the burn out.
He would
blow on a burn and say a Bible verse to himself. He could also
stop nose
bleeds by saying a verse from the Bible. He used to have this saying
whenever he was working on something and it didn't turn out just right,
he would say 'oh well, that's ok, we'll just set the teapot over that'.
Grandma was in her 90's when she died. I grew up living beside of her. At our Family Reunion in 1996 they told how Grandma was hired by the state to teach people how to can. She would take one or two of her children or grchildren with her to help. The would wash out the pans down at the creek. I'm not sure, but this was probably in the 30's. She used to do washing and ironing for people. Mom said she carried her money in a cloth bag that smoking tobacco was sold in. She had land where they used to mine coal on. There were lots of berry vines on the land. We would go up every summer and pick berries. I remember her in her 70's and she was still going up on the hill to pick berries with us. We would come off the hill with water buckets full.
We used to make apple butter in an iron kettle out in the yard. She used to wrap up a silver dollar and put it in the kettle to keep it from burning. She always kept a bucket of well water in the kitchen with a dipper in it, that water was so good. I remember going in the back door to her kitchen and her giving me a piece of applesauce stack cake when I was little. She made those all the time, I loved them. And I loved her, I miss her still.
Grandma and Grandpa are buried at Eden's Cemetery at Tuppers Creek.
Their children Oley, Ora, Joseph, and Gordon are also buried
there. I wish I had started researching our family tree when she
was still alive. There would of been so much she could of told me.
But I waited too late.