'Old Family Stories' Category
Credit on Daddy’s Account
When my brother Wayne and I were small children we were very poor and times were hard. We had a credit account at Sally & Loren’s grocery store. Wayne and I would stop by on our way home from school and get candy and pop. One month the grocery bill was very high […]
Snack for poor folk
When we didn’t have anything sweet to eat, we would take a cup of coffee, hot or cold, and put sugar, milk and crumbled up cold biscuits in it. It doesn’t sound so good now but we loved it back then.
$2.55 per day
Some years we didn’t get enough rain to make a good garden. My dad Charley had a steady job with the Kansas City Southern railroad as a section hand. His job was the hottest place to work in the summer and the coldest in the winter. He was a very strong young man […]
Shoebox note holder
We had a spring at the foot of the hill and a few houses on the opposite hill. A girl named Dorothy lived in one of the houses that used the same spring. One day we nailed a shoe box on a big tree near the spring. Every time we went to […]
Chicken Graveyard
When we were kids in the 30’s we had a chicken graveyard. Me and Jewell, Golda and Georgia were the oldest grandkids that lived around granny Cagle’s at that time.
When one of granny’s little chickens died we would bury it. We would get a match box for the casket and dig a grave. […]Expression of Appreciation from the book
I wish to express my sincere thanks to all of the family members who donated recipes, stories and pictures. I had so much fun with this project. I admit it was work. At times I laughed so hard, especially at Don. At times I cried, thinking about family members that have passed away whom I […]
Family Stories
Several years ago I asked my Gram (Grandma) and her brothers, sisters and cousins to relay to me stories and recipes from their childhood. Word passed quickly and I was getting letters from family members from all over. At the time I could only type 32 WPM but I managed to type a Family Cookbook […]
