Re: The Greatest Generation

Posted by Oldmax on January 29, 2007 at 05:23:30 from (24.154.143.101):

In Reply to: The Greatest Generation posted by Glenn FitzGerald on January 28, 2007 at 17:11:47:

Don't only listen to him "Write it down" 5 five years after he is gone you will try to remember things he told you but just can't get it right . My mother wrote family history down 20 years before passing & I still go back to her papers & read them . Here is poem she wrote about her mother

Mama’s Mama, on a winter’s day,
Milked the cows and fed them hay,
Slopped the hogs, saddled the mule
And got the children off to school,
Did the washing, mopped the floors,
Washed the windows and did some chores,
Cooked a dish of home –dried fruit,
Pressed her husbands Sunday suit,
Swept the parlor, made the bed,
Baked a dozen loaves of bread,
Split some wood and lugged it in,
Enough to fill the kitchen bin,
Cleaned the lamps and put oil in,
Stewed some apples she thought might spoil,
Churned the butter, baked a cake,
Then exclaimed, “for mercies sake”,
The cows and calves have got out of the pen.
Went out and chased them in again,
Gathered the eggs and locked the stable,
Returned to the house and set the table,
Cooked a supper that was delicious,
And afterward washed all the dishes,
Fed the cat sprinkled the clothes.
Mended a basket full of clothes.
Then opened the Organ and began to play,
Then you come to the end of a perfect day.

This is in remembrance of my Mother (Rosa Harless Keesee), Who passed away May 6 1982.
She was so precious to me. I can remember how she hard she labored for us. The poem is so true as to what she did.
She got up early in the morning and went about her work while singing many songs “ Amazing Grace – I’ll Meet You in the Morning “ and many other songs. She played the Organ. Often we gathered on Sunday afternoon and Mother would play and the neighbors and mom would sing the beautiful old songs. She reminded me of Dorcas in the Bible. She sewed for all the neighbors and their children. Carried Baskets of food to neighbors that were sick. She would put the food in the Baskets and would put them in her arms along with her baby (Bessie) while Homer and I would walk and follow her. She
Would go several miles.

This is some thing I will cherish all my life and I hill pass on to grand children . Her Daughter
Tessie Keesee Pratt

Re – typed by Dale Pratt Jan 2005

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