How did your mother spend her day?

Housekeeping in the 1920's was not easy. There was no electricity in our town until about 1928.

On Mondays, Daddy carried Mother, Virginia Nell, & me to the "Big Spring" (down the hill from the Methodist Church). He filled the wash pots with water and built a fire under them. He filled the wash tubs with water. Several ladies with families were there. Laundry was done when Daddy completed the mail route. We took the clothes home and hung them out on the clothes line.

We always had a garden to work, vegetables to eat, and can.

We had a cow so we had our own source of milk & butter. We kept hens -- sometimes had butter & eggs to sell.

We ironed on the end of the dining table, using a "flat iron" -- which was heated on the stove or at the fireplace.

Mother was active in the PTA; she taught Sunday School classes. She served as Daddy's Substitute on the mail route.

During World War II she taught on an "Emergency Certificate."