All I can say to that is: 'You go, Girl!!!!' ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim and Terri Tait <jtait@HiWAAY.net> To: <ALBARBOU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:11 PM Subject: [ALBARBOU] Martha Stewart - move over! : This is not exactly an obit, but I found it very interesting. : : Source: Confederate Veteran, Vol XXI, may 1913, No. 5, page 237 : : Made a Uniform in One Day : : C.O. Spencer of 694 Beale Avenue, Memphis Tenn, writes: "My mother was a : Southern woman, Mrs. W. A. Ayres, who lived a mile from Salem, Miss. One : day during the war there came to our house a Confederate soldier who was : badly in need of a uniform and who had only time to stay with us overnight. : My mother sent a negro man six miles to the house of a relative and had two : sheep driven up from the pasture and sheared, one black and one white to : make the gray mixture. The wool was then picked, washed, carded, spun, : woven, cut out, and sewed into garments, and by nine o'clock the next : morning was on Captain Marr's back instead of of the backs of the sheep, a : beautiful gray uniform!" : : : ==== ALBARBOU Mailing List ==== : This is a closed list and only subscribers will be allowed to post. NO FLAMING, OBSCENE LANGUAGE OR DISRESPECT OF ANY KIND WILL BE TOLERATED. No virus postings will be allowed. Got a complaint then contact me not the list margie@majorinternet.com Good luck in your searches. : :