Granny Daniels-- She told me she came in a wagon train from Tennessee to Texas.
She watched things change to cars and then planes, and radios, then TV. Said
she had her hair cut once-- as a child she had gotten head lice and they shaved
your heads back then. When she was in Oklahoma-- we went to see her and I
begged and she begged my mom to let me live with her but my mom said no. But I
would sleep with her when she visited or vice versa-- I remember her telling me
of the night she had a heart attack she died and she had a life death
experience-- she talked of a tunnel and a beautiful light and a beautiful man
in white and when she realized it was Jesus he told her she had to go back--
that it wasn't her time-- and she said after that she was never afraid anymore
of dying -- and that she was ready. She was very tender headed but she would
let me take her hair that went to the floor ,down out of her bun and brush it
because I was so gentle with her. She dipped snuff-- and smoked a corn Cobb
pipe every now and then. And some times a cigar which she called a stoggy. She
always had an apron on. SHe loved telling me about the past because I would sit
still and listen. I was amazed at the things she had seen and been through--
she told me of the depression--- she told me of a cousin who married a Indian
girl and he would beat her -- and she told the family if he beat her again
she'd cut his head off. Grandma said she was found sitting on the porch and he
was swinging from a rope with his throat slashed. and no one took her to jail
because they knew how mean he was. (I don't remember his name). I will tell you
more later if I stay to long writing I get kicked of the net and then I have
wrote for nothing. -- Your Cuz Pam  

 

also In Januaery of 1971 grannie was going out to get her mail
and there was ice all over her porch and steps-- well she slipped, fell and
broke her hip-- she was placed in a convelesant home to recover--- well in June
of the year the family had to tell her she wouldn't be able to go home and live
in her little house alone any more and that she would have to stay in the
convelesant home --- she told them that she would go on and die than --- and
she willed her self to death by August. I believe had she not feell she would
have lived on untill her early 100's she was that healthy.--- Your cuz Pam