When I was very young, in the days when the house was dark and adults were loud, there was visiting and discussions and a new word in our kitchen with its sloping roof. That new word was auction.
The word followed a lot of visitors, Aunt Effie and Aunt Edna -- Aunt Edna reminded me of a full-breasted bird, like a robin, only not red and brown.
Anyway, after these visits and these discussions and these words --"auction", whatever that was -- after all that, we got new (to us) furniture in our house.
I don't remember all of what we got, but one piece stands out in my memory. A dresser, a long, heavy dresser with carved legs and shiny dangly drawer pulls, and best of all, this humongous swinging mirror, hanging between carved curvy shiny pieces of wood.
I loved that mirror.
For all of its life and most of mine, I loved that mirror. It had to be taken off whenever the dresser was moved, and sometimes it couldn't be put back on the dresser. Our ceilings were too low, except in certain rooms and in certain spots.
The dresser was Aunt Hat's dresser.
I sorta knew who Aunt Hat was.Aunt Hattie. Sometimes, when we would walk uptown with Mamma, we would stop in and visit her. I don't remember much about her, but her home and her furniture were so well taken care of that it always almost felt like going into a church. It smelled so good, and things gleamed and there was light.
But, starting genealogy, it's been kind of tough figuring out who Aunt Hat was. There were Henriettas and Harriets and several possible prospects. No one (not surprisingly) was listed as Hat or Hattie.
Someone mentioned her house as being the Woods house, these many generations later. So -- one of our lines did have a daughter married to a Woods. That line also had her having a sister who could have been Hattie. Following that lead, we even found her as Hattie.
But Hattie's married name, as we had it, was not Woods. It was Ulrey.
But, we found her, eventually, and she was a Woods.
She had been married to that other person, and was divorced and remarried someone with the same last name as her sister's husband. He looks to be much older, and we haven't really placed him yet, but
We have found Aunt Hat!She was our grandfather's mother's sister, and lived right up the street from us.
And we found her by looking for her mother, who was known, officially, as both Anna and Dora Hayes, and we continue in search of any history on her. Her mother's name was Redman, and that's as far back as we can get.
The word followed a lot of visitors, Aunt Effie and Aunt Edna -- Aunt Edna reminded me of a full-breasted bird, like a robin, only not red and brown.
Anyway, after these visits and these discussions and these words --"auction", whatever that was -- after all that, we got new (to us) furniture in our house.
I don't remember all of what we got, but one piece stands out in my memory. A dresser, a long, heavy dresser with carved legs and shiny dangly drawer pulls, and best of all, this humongous swinging mirror, hanging between carved curvy shiny pieces of wood.
I loved that mirror.
For all of its life and most of mine, I loved that mirror. It had to be taken off whenever the dresser was moved, and sometimes it couldn't be put back on the dresser. Our ceilings were too low, except in certain rooms and in certain spots.
The dresser was Aunt Hat's dresser.
I sorta knew who Aunt Hat was.Aunt Hattie. Sometimes, when we would walk uptown with Mamma, we would stop in and visit her. I don't remember much about her, but her home and her furniture were so well taken care of that it always almost felt like going into a church. It smelled so good, and things gleamed and there was light.
But, starting genealogy, it's been kind of tough figuring out who Aunt Hat was. There were Henriettas and Harriets and several possible prospects. No one (not surprisingly) was listed as Hat or Hattie.
Someone mentioned her house as being the Woods house, these many generations later. So -- one of our lines did have a daughter married to a Woods. That line also had her having a sister who could have been Hattie. Following that lead, we even found her as Hattie.
But Hattie's married name, as we had it, was not Woods. It was Ulrey.
But, we found her, eventually, and she was a Woods.
She had been married to that other person, and was divorced and remarried someone with the same last name as her sister's husband. He looks to be much older, and we haven't really placed him yet, but
We have found Aunt Hat!She was our grandfather's mother's sister, and lived right up the street from us.
And we found her by looking for her mother, who was known, officially, as both Anna and Dora Hayes, and we continue in search of any history on her. Her mother's name was Redman, and that's as far back as we can get.
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