I haven't thought of coffee milk in forever! Grandpa always said a baby didn't start growin' good til it had its first sip of coffee milk! Ramona ----- Original Message ----- From: Jan Craven <jcraven@usunwired.net> To: <KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [KYL&F] newspaper > Not at all wierd. Newspaper is a good insulator and it probably made the > house warmer. They may have been poor, but they were pretty smart and > very resourceful! > My Gramma used to cover up with the paper sometimes in the > fall or spring to take her afternoon nap. > Did all ya'lls old folks take naps in the afternoon too? > We had to be SOOOO quiet while they slept. Then when they woke up, everyone > would have coffee. Kids had coffee milk..Still have my coffee that way!! > > BTW, I DO have at least one ancestress who came from KY. Her name was > Dicy. She was either an Anderson or a Webster...not sure, but in the > 1836 (first Texas) Census she was 44 years old. Then in the 1850 fed > census she was 45. I like to think that I inherited her anti aging genes! > She was married to Peter Whetstone who founded the town of Marshall TX. > If there are any Anderson's out there, let me know. They were closely > associated (living next to) Bailey Anderson in that first TX Census > and named a child Anderson, so I really feel like she was an Anderson. > Jan > > At 10:00 AM 9/18/1999 -0500, Leona Crist wrote: > >Ok, maybe I will be throwing this out there and nobody elses's home did > that, but I'll give it a try anyhow. My grandparents were so poor that on > all of their walls in their house, instead of wallpaper, paint, they hung > newspaper or magazines on the wall.. I revisited this home after about 20 > years (long after they had passed away) and the funny thing was that they > same paper was on the walls. They house was just about to fall in, but for > memories sake I picked some off the walls and have it put away. That > probably sounds pretty weird to everyone, but its a neat memory. Leona > > > > > > > >