When I was a small child, women in our neighborhood would gather to help with quilting. Since I am/was a depression child, we did not have a lot of toys etc. We played with whatever we could think up. While the ladies were quilting at "our" house, we would play under the frame and quilt. We had shoe boxes, Sears Roebuck catalogs and scissors. We would cut out the furniture, people (no paper dolls) and whatever and paste them into the shoe boxes which was the home of our make believe families. I must tell my grandchildren this story. Mary June Foulk

When my mother was growing up in Macon County TN she had corn cob dolls and only got on real doll the :Christmas before her mother died in March of 1928. She talks of how her mother would sew clothes for the corn cob dolls out of scraps. She said her daddy took the tobacco off and left it their. It did not bring enough to pay the floor bill. She said they grew everything they ate except for what the eggs brought at the community store and that is how they got special stuff for cooking at home. She remembers fixing the berries, fruit and veggies for her mother to can. There was 6 girls and one poor boy. She said her dad love to dance and would go to Red Boiling Springs to Square dancing and he taught all his children to dance and she said they woukld pratice at home a lot. The boy had a horse and they would all take turns riding withhim. They had dogs that went everywhere they went. She talked of Quilting, corn husking, pea sheliing and bean shelling and other things. They would gather and have bring a dish and they would have a dance and eat and either quilt, corn husk, pea bean shelling and one time she said they had a barn raising and their was some left over wood and her dad whittled out some anmials and other stuff for them to play with. When she was 6 and she was the youngest of 7 they took a wagon ride from Macon County Tn to Logan County Ky to visit her grandparents. They got to see their first Train. Their grandfather was the train station ticket, mail, etc in Auburn KY. She talked of they taking small rocks and building a town and small roads and used the carved anmials and corn cob dolls with they town. Well must go now. will write again sometime. By the way her grandfathers sister was Amanda Climer Burton Butler Carter and her son Littleton Burton setted in Barren County with his Wife of the last name of Cross. Anyone wanting information of the family can contact me I will only give out the non living line They had a half sister that married into the Soyars family and one of the children married Fulkchers family line. Taking the name from census they came out of Barren and Cumberland County KY Amanda Climer married Howard Burton, Robert Lee Butler and Andrew Andy Carter. Jeannie in KY On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I was a small child, women in our neighborhood would gather to help > with quilting. Since I am/was a depression child, we did not have a lot of > toys etc. We played with whatever we could think up. While the ladies > were quilting at "our" house, we would play under the frame and quilt. We > had shoe boxes, Sears Roebuck catalogs and scissors. We would cut out the > furniture, people (no paper dolls) and whatever and paste them into the > shoe boxes which was the home of our make believe families. I must tell my > grandchildren this story. > > Mary June Foulk > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >