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From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <>
Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Re:Your Grandmother's Hard Work...Peggy
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 05:59:14 -0400
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Hi Peggy,


Your grandmother makes me tired, just reading about her! Can you imagine
removing your doors to wash them down? I know that those folks knew what
hard work really was. I admire them and all that they lived through. I
know how proud of your grandmother you must be!

What was her name again? These folks in Baxter County seem to be related
to my MAYFIELDS there, in some round-a-bout way.

Thanks,

Jean


At 12:16 PM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
>My mother would prepare a new pillow ticking and remove the feathers from the
>old pillow into the new ticking (white background with blue striping).
>
>Another thing I remember is that a couple times a year she took the bed
>springs outdoors and painted them with kerosene to prevent bedbugs. Yes,
>people could really get those little critters, too. I remember she loaned a
>baby bed to one of our cousins and when she brought it back, it had bedbugs
>on it.
>
>There was also the itch that people had to avoid catching. I believe some
>sort of sulphur was used to repel it. And, when we were all writing about
>ticks and chiggers, we bathed in homemade soap to repel or prevent their
>staying with us.
>
>I've been told that while raising her family in Baxter County, my Grandmother
>King would take all the doors off their hinges, take them outside and they
>were scrubbed down. Her hygiene methods must have worked because she gave
>birth to eleven children and they were all living when she died in 1964 at
>age 94.
>
>Most likely your ancestors had paling fences around their yards, which were
>swept--no grass. Rail fences were used for boundaries and pastures.
>
>Peggy King Truesdell
>
>
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