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My information comes from my mother, Betty Ann Jamerson, who was Eliza Alemedia Cauble's granddaughter. She seemed to be very tall but it was because she always stood so straight. She remembers her carrying water from the spring to the house in two galvanized buckets, one in each hand and standing perfectly straight. She once knew someone that had 12 names, 10 middle names. She lived with her daughter and didn't visit my mother's family that often. One time she visited and my mother was very excited. But she didn't go to church with them which disappointed my mother because she would have been given a white flower in a pot to take home for being the oldest grandparent at church. She kept money in a purse that was pinned in the folds of her petticoat (held in place by pins). She once hugged my mother so hard that it scared her. She had white hair with some reddish hair at the nape of her neck. Her first set of twins were born out of wedlock and one died young. Her husband died when her next set of twins were still in school. She couldn't afford to keep sending them to school and took them out. It was a cold winter and one night they had to take the animals on their farm into the house to keep them from freezing. Several men from the community came to plead with her to put her kids back in school because they were so smart, but she couldn't afford it and needed them to work. It embarrassed them that they had visitors when animals were in the house.

"Did I tell you she wore gold hoop earrings. I think she was buried wearing them. She did not want to be buried in black. I think she was buried in a purple dress." BAJ 2022

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Floyd A. Reed, December 30, 2019 – October 16, 2022

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