Grandpa died in May 1925, still in office as Sheriff. He was a Mason as were his brothers and father. He was buried with alll lthe Masonic honors from his Lodge and a marble slab with the Masonic emblem , name and dates covers his grave. Several of his kin are in the same little churchyard.Many years before 1925, his ancestors had given the land and a sum of money to build the little First Baptist Church in that small Community. Soon after he died rheuncle, wife and daughter moved into their own little house not very far away from the big house. One of the cooks went to work for another family nearby. Not so many folks coming and going. Grandma and my mother had little to do about the house so they sewed and sewed and shopped and shopped. My mother made many of her own clothes , made dresses with matching bloomers for me and little coats with matching tams which I hated. I still dislike anything on my head. She loved hats and often made her own if she couldn't find a suitable one in the few shops around. Those were the days when she and other ladies wouldn't leave the house without their hats, purses/handbags and gloves. On one shopping trip she went into a millenery shop, sat down at one of the vanities, removed her hat and gloves, leaving them on the vanity with her purse, walked around the shop for sometime checking out what was available. She went back to thevanity, the purse and gloves were stillthere but her hat (one she had made)was not there. She looked all over the shop but couldn't find it, finnally a clerk came up asking what was the problem. When told she started shaking and crying and said she was so sorry but she had sold my mother's hat. Grandma sewed and sewed, sometimes clothes for the household help but mostly on quilts. She made many in the 'log cabin' pattern. I have one unquilted top that she made about 1900. Her brother was a salesnam for a mercantile company selling yard goods to stores. He gave Grandma some of his sample books which had good sized swatches of materials inthem. She used the material samples in her quilts. Enough for now, Best regards to all, Belle