A lot of times they sat on the front porch snapping beans and husking corn for the fall harvest. ... My wife and I planted an oak tree in the back yard after Will died. You can hear an old hoot owl calling from that tree at the same time every night. ...
The painting is a white house with a red roof surrounded by trees, grass, a path, and a beautiful lake. ... Granny often cooked dried beans on top of the wood stove and we could smell the aroma in the house all day. Whenever she cooked dried beans, we always knew she would make hot cornbread. ...
MY LIFE STORY By Margaret Christia Newberry Herbert My Mother, Margaret Lular Bass Newberry, told me this following things as I grew up. I asked her questions about my grandmother, as I never saw any of my grandparents. My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. They owned a lot of slaves. After the slaves were freed, my grandfather was out of work, so he and Uncle Ashley Rhodes, my grandmothers' brother, went to Arkansas and homesteaded some land. ...
