Category: Memoirs

We didn’t trim a tree at home; we didn’t have any trimming

The kids oohed at the sparkling rope & the red balls. Then they all approached the bare, green, beautiful tree. For a moment it was quiet.

When all the white boys and girls would be away “Miss Beckie” would gather the little negro children around the fire and talk with us.

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President and Union general-in-chief during the Civil War, grew up the son of an Ohio tanner.

Often the sanctuary was unpresentable on meeting days…. Men used to bring their saddles into the church and pile them down in the rear.

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