Shep's Place Family Tree

She became senile and was looked after by Goldie and Aunt Mary's boys. A Mrs. Brown from Crown City stayed with her. She quilted--stayed a winter or so.

Mec was big-boned and fair.

They crates and crates of eggs to sell.

She had a dandy garden. She called raspberries "rahs burries."

Mamie: I remember going to one of those Associations. We all took our food and went there. They invite a crowd. Somebody would kill a cow or a calf. People would come from everyplace to the church. I loved to see Grandma up in front. Once she did washing of the feet.

Blaine: For Association meetings they had a 24 foot long table just full of grub. They would kill a fat lamb every morning. Just be oodles of people coming in there for dinner and to church. Grandpa had all kinds of eats. The biggest hogs--he'd smoke them in the smoke house. Ham & eggs & gravy & biscuits!

Mamie: They were immaculate housekeepers and good cooks. Everybody wore long dresses to the floor in those days. You could trust everybody in those days. We were raised on beans.

The staples they had to buy were sugar, Arbuckle coffee and salt & pepper.

"What we had for Christmas. We would set the table on Christmas morning, and Mom & Dad would put candy on our plates, and that was Christmas."

She was super-clean. She would rub and rub her milk crocks. It always smelled sweet in her cellar. She had shelves of thing she had canned during the summer. She stuffed sausage into homemade muslin casings. As for the laundry, she boiled the clothes in copper boilers.

Anything Grandma Burnett did was right.

BIRTHDAY BIOGRAPHIES by Harry R. Hurn
Monday, Nov. 7, the oldest person in Crown City, Mrs. Louvenia Brown, widow of Andy Brown of Gallipolis, quietly celebrated her 77th birthday.
She came to the village with her parents, the late David E. and Elizabeth Chase Spurlock Creek in Cabell County, W.Va., at the tender age of eight years. Her father was the village blacksmith in Crown City for 50 years. Of a family of 11 children she and a brother, Asa C. Spurlock of Huntington, are the only survivors.
Her first husband was William J. Rankin, whom she married in 1891, and she has an only son, Chuncey E. Rankin of Huntington.
Early in life Mrs. Brown became a seamstress, and almost continuously has since engaged in that avocation from morning until night. Within a period of seven years at her present home she has completed 68 quilts and comforts and hooked countless rugs and other woven articles in addition to myriads of pieces of wearing apparel.

Gallipolis--Mrs. America F. Burdette, widow of R. W. Burdette, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Goldie Niday, Monday evening, where she had been brough‎[t]‎ from her own home near Mercerville three weeks ago to be cared for by her daughter. She was born on Oct. 21, 1863, and had been a life-long resident of Guyan Township.

Surviving children, in addition to Mrs. Niday, are: Mrs. W.W. Fife and Mrs. Frank Stevers, of Columbus; Ralph Burnette, Middleport; Truman F. Burnmette, Kanauga; Guy M. Burnette, U.S. Navy; and Mrs. Stanley Thornton, Crown City. There are twenty-two grandchildren of whom five are in the armed forces, and seven great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock in the Mercerville Church by Rev. Jennings Cremeens, with burial in Mound Hill Cemetery.

‎[There are so many mistakes in this article, most significantly America's name!]‎

Rites Thursday Mercerville; Burial At Mound Hill

Mrs. America F. Burnette, widow of R.W. Burnette, died at 4:50 p.m. Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Goldie Niday, on Garfield Ave.

After suffering a stroke three weeks ago, Mrs. Burnette was brought from her own home west of Mercerville to the Niday home, and was tenderly cared for by her loved ones. Her death was the result of subsequent strokes. She was in her 81st year, having been born Oct. 21, 1863, and had been a life-long resident of Guyan Twp.

Mrs. Burnette was a daughter of Gory W. and Eliza Mart Sheets. She was one of 10 children, five of whom survive: Eura Sheets, Crown City; Herbert Sheets, Gallipolis; Mrs. Bertha McComas and James Sheets, Huntington, and Mrs. Joe Garlic, Platform.

Mrs. Burnette's children, in addition to Mrs. Niday, are Mrs. W. W. Fite and Mrs. Frank Stevers, Columbus; Ralph Burnette, Middleport; Truman F. Burnette, near Kanauga; Gory M. Burnette, U.S. Navy; Mrs. Stanley Thornton, Crown City. There are 22 grandchildren, of whom five are in the armed services, and seven great-grandchildren.

Funeral will be held at 2 o'clock ‎(slow time)‎ Thursday at the Mercerville Church, with burial in Mound Hill Cemetery by C. R. Halley. Rev. Jennings Cremeens will officiate. The body will be brought by Mr. Halley to the Niday home at 6 o'clock this evening.