RWB: My father was always he was sick ever since that I can remember. He had a stroke, sunstroke in 1911 and he was putting up alfalfa and ever since then he had real high blood pressure and so forth so he couldn't do the work in the fields so he was always around the house. He was very strict and made us kids...eight of us kids in the family so he made us all really tow the line and we couldn't do…had to go along with what he said. He was real ... he really liked sports and so forth and he always took us to baseball games and had little teams around that played baseball and he always came to all the football games that grandpa played in when he was goin' to high school. He always said if anything was worth doing, it was worth doing right. And if he sent you out to fix a fence and you didn't fix it right he was right behind you and you went back and you fixed the fence and you fixed it right. So he was real strict, but he always said if any thing was if you want anything you done do it right and good. And my mother she was a lot younger than my father and she always was there for us kids when we come home from school. She used to bake pancakes every morning about a stack about 12 inches high for all of us to eat after we come in from in from milking the cows and we had pancakes pretty near every morning and then she would bake six loaves of bread three times a week and every time that she baked bread when it was in the winter time and we were going to school she would make a pan of cinnamon rolls so we could have cinnamon rolls to eat when we came home from school and then uh my Grandfather Hubbard he and my Grandmother Hubbard which was my step-grandmother was... uh.. she Grandma Hubbard was the post mistress in the county post office for about pretty near 40 years and we uh us kids used to go over and get the mail in summertime and my grandfather Hubbard used to come out and any time we were butchering calf or a pig he'd come over and help us butcher it. And my father always gave him some of the meat and stuff so he would have fresh meat. And my Grandmother and Grandfather Bieber I never even knew him because he died in 1911 a long time before Grandpa was born and Grandmother always lived by herself and she was known by everybody around the whole part of the country as Aunt Mollie even though her name was Mary Bieber she was know as Aunt Mollie to all of her friends and she used to work in the garden and work to take care of her chickens and so forth. We both lived real close together she lived...we lived about a hundred yards up on the hill the side hill to the south of her. We used to after we got through milking the cows every morning she had a separator in her kitchen so we'd have to take the milk down there to get it separated from the cream. And we uh cows and that's about all I can think of about [inaudible]
RCL: Well, Grandma,
EB: Well, I hate to so say so, but I'm going to start with my grandparents. Well there isn't very much that I know about them. There're very strict people. They didn't have much love to show to us grandchildren and the only thing I remember about my Grandma and Grandpa Bair , we used to go down and see them but we never had eaten in their home we I never slept in their house. But we'd go down and visit for a Sunday and my Grandpa would say, “Come over here and I'll give you a dime”. He had real long coin purse that took him at least 30 minutes to get his finger down there to get you a dime. But when he did he'd say, “Don't spend it all in one place”. Now that's all I can tell you about them. But they wasn't the friendliest people in the world OK, I'll go to my Grandma and Grandpa Anderson. He was a very strict person and so was she. But we did get to go over there. We never slept there though. But we used to go over there and maybe give you a little bit of coffee in a cup fill it with milk and put sugar in it and have a cheese sandwich. And that was extent of our eating with there. Then my mother's real mother Grandma McDonald we used to go to her house once in a while. We never slept there we never ate there, but she had a real high bed in her bedroom that had 2 or three mattresses on it If you're real small and you look up it looks awful high, but uh it probably wasn't that high but being short it looked high to me But that's about all I can say about my grandparents I mean [inaudible]
JKL: Yeah, why was she called Grandma McDonald? She didn't keep your um
RWB: She got married
EB: As far as I know she didn't.
JKL: Why is she called McDonald?
RWB: [inaudible]
EB: That was her maiden name. OK, I'll go to Grandma and Grandpa Bair which is my mother and father. I can tell you a lot about my mother. I mean she was a person that would help everybody she always had lots of time and bake bread and can fruit and she did the washing but every Monday Grandpa done the cooking while Grandma while Grandma was doing the washing. He always helped Grandma. And she worked in the garden and stuff and she made homemade bread. My Grandpa he was sick a lot. He couldn't work. So when I was a little girl I used to go sit on his lap and uh and comb his hair, put it up in curlers, [inaudible] pin curls, put lipstick on him. Color his fingernails. He just sit there. He just let me do it and oh it was so nice. But when I got all through then I had to clean up the mess. I had to take all the polish off had to take the curlers out of his hair. But he loved little children, so he liked that. He couldn't go out and work and stuff for a long time so that was a fun thing I got to do with him.
JKL: That was your father
EB: My father, yes.
