MEMORIES: Sarah Ellen Eldridge DeMoss, 1995 Submitted by: Maria Troutman My daughter had a school project in September 1995 to gather childhood memories of her grandparents. She had to gather at least a half page of memories. They were asking for memories from the grandparents childhood to early teenage years. The reason for the assignment I believe was to tie in some way with the Old Settlers Reunion they held every year in Buffalo Gap, Taylor County, Texas where we were living at the time. I had let everyone know about it to give them time to think, and then we made phone calls on Sept 12, 1995 to get this memories. I've asked Nancy about this to ok it with her first. I hope some of you enjoy it or get a chuckle out of it. Granted they aren't long, they tried to tell the story as simple as possible for a 3rd grader to understand. Sarah Ellen Eldridge DeMoss- great grandmother to Laken Troutman. Granny-as she told me on Sept. 12, 1995 My mom was a very clean person and did not like one speck of dirt in the house. We had a stove that used coal. Well one day for some reason, me and my sister Nell decided to play in the coal bucket and play with the coal. We got covered in coal soot and dust. Momma was furious with us and decided as punishment that we had to stay filthy until Daddy got home, so he could see the mess we had made. Well Daddy wasn't too happy with us when he got home. In the summertime I spent many hours outside playing under a great big cherry tree. Momma would take my toy dishes, dolls, clothes and cradle and put it all under the tree for me to sit and play. Me and my kitty cat would sit there all day long under that tree, with me dressing the cat in my doll clothes, but she let me do it. In the wintertime when Daddy wasn't out in the fields, he would put on a white gown and pretend that he was a ghost and chase us around the house. We would run from room to room, screaming because we were "scared" of the ghost. We knew it was only a Daddy "ghost", but we were having fun playing with him. When it would snow, Momma would wrap us up real good. After she had us in long underwear, coats, mittens, hats, and scarves, then when we would go outside. Then once we were outside, Daddy would take us and roll us up in a blanket and roll us like a barrel across the yard. There wasn't much snow left unrolled on by the time we went back inside, but it was fun to me. (Another personal note from me--though this is a childhood memory for her, it isn't my favorite one of the ones we collected) Sarah Eldridge was born Dec. 1919 in Hopkins Co., KY, her memories are from Hopkins Co., KY. Maria DeMoss Troutman, Schopp, Germany granddaughter of Sarah DeMoss ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. Commercial entities must ask for and receive permission from submittor before downloading.