“I can remember a little about my Great Grandma. I remember when she died. I remember seeing the casket in the living room. I don’t remember when she came to live with us. It seemed a natural thing for her to live with us. But I wondere now if she was happy living with all the “commotion.” She was a wonderful woman, never seen her angry or mad. She had a very loveable personality. One thing I’ll say for Daddy (Benjamin Harrison Hall), I never heard him get cross with Grandma.
“She was a hard worker. Grandma was “kinda” a midwie. She stayed with people when they had their babies. Everyone called her “Aunt Lee.”
In 1921 Grandma came to California on the train to visit her son Arthur Paden, Mom’s half brother. I remember Dad packing her feather bed in a big box. She stayed bout a year.
Ralph was borned while she was out here.
Her sister, Aunt Ira stayed with us.
The only family I remember were Martin Kissing Grandma’s Brother, Walter, Kissinger, Lucy Kissinger (Tadlock), Grandma’s Sister,
and Ira Soward.
There was an Uncle Chris, but I don’t remember much about him.
Grandma was keeping Don and Gloanna when she fell.
We never knew if she tripped or had a stroke.
The doctor though she had a stroke.
She broke her hip.
She stayed in the hospital until they set the hip.
We brought her home.
She took pneumonia.
She died at home.
We thought she was old.
But she wasn’t that old. 75 I think.
We all loved her so much.
She was real close to Vena.
Vena always slept with her.
We could hear her saying her prayers
after she went to bed at night.
That’s about all I know."
