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Note: Lucreshie Spurlock Callahan
I look back on the time I had with my Granny in Kentucky as I would call her. I was a young child and she asked me if I would like to call her MeMa like her other grand children. I told her no ma'am that didn't sound right could I just call her Granny. She smiled and said yes. Her looks to me was of a woman who had worked hard. She was dark complected and had a mole on one side of her face. I had and still do have a mole on my chin. I felt as though we had that in common. She had hands that had worked hard and were wrinkled but soft. She always spoke with kindness when she talked with me then and in the future. When I was about 17years of age and was helping in her kitchen in London, Ky. We had just had just had a huge dinner. All of Lucreshie's children and grand children were there and that meant 9 children and their children and so on.. It was really nice. Most of us lived all across the country of the USA and it was always hard to get together. Granny asked me several times why I either wasn't married or didn't have a man or any chil'len. I loved her and respected her. I asked my mother if I could say the say same thing I say to the people in Tx. My mother said she would love it. So when she asked me again and I thought we were alone in the kitchen I told her"The heat of my butt has not over powered my brain.:" My grandmother sat down at the dinner table and slapped it with the dish towel and continued to laugh. She laughed really hard. When she got controll of herself she started to get up and gave me a hug. She said,"That was really good." My Granny had a great sense of humor. _____________________________
Biography by Catherine Jean Hudson
Lucreshie Spurlock Callahan
Lucreshie "Creshie" Spurlock was the daughter of Speed Spurlock and Nancy Day. Lucreshie married Dennis "Dent" Callahan. They had ten children. The oldest child was a blond headed baby girl that was sick and died as a baby. Her name was Helen Ruth Callahan. Lucreshie was pregnant with her next child. She had a hard life. Her family was her job. She taught her family to work hard and that they could pay their bills and buy things for their own families when they grow up. Her oldest was Edna Callahan, then the following children would follow: Willie Ray Callahan, Helen Callahan, Wilma Callahan, Jean Callahan (my mother), Ann Callahan, Robert Callahan, Wanda Faye Callahan and David Callahan. Lucreshie was a farmer; kept care of cattle, pigs, chicken, garden tiller and greeat with cooking fish. When Lucreshie came home from the hospital with Uncle David she had friends who told her about Dennis (Grandpa) had been seen over at Dopha Madden's house. Lucreshie told Dennis to go and live with her. He did. She(Lucreshie) basically raised nine children with the help of Granny Nancy and Grandpa Taylor Sizemore. She also had the help of Granny Polly Ann and Grandpa Lewis. This was good for Lucreshie as well as the children. Nancy had several children with Taylor Sizemore and these children were very kind and caring to Lucreshie. They treated her as though she was a whole and not a half sister. They were just one big happy family. Lucreshie encouraged her childdren to attend school. As children were growing up each were given chores or jobs to do. Clothes had to be washed in a big wash pot. The clothes had to be washed in a number three tub. Then the clothes needed to be hung out on the clothes line. They had to be brought in and folded, ironed, and put away. Several children slept in one bed. They were supposed to put up the bed clothes and straighten their rooms. ____________________________________________________
Newspaper Obit Lucreshie Spurlock Callahan
The funeral will be held at 1pm today in the Bowling Funeral Home Chapel for Lucreshie Callahan, 88, of Eubank in Pulaski County. Callahan whose brother and two sisters live in Laurel Co., Ky died in Somerset's Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital Saturday Sept 11, 1983. Born August 22, 1905 in Leslie County--She was the daughter of the late Speed Spurlock and Nancy Day Spurlock. A homemaker and a member of the Oak Hill Baptist Church --she was preceeded in Death by her husband Dennis Callahan and one daughter Ruth Callahan. Survivors included her six daughters, Edna Cowan of Lexington; Helen Southerland of Muncy In; Jean Hudson of Greenville, Texas; Anne Whitworth of Mesquite, Texas; Wilma Williams of Eubank, Ky and Wanda Fay Mills of Florence, Ky. Three sons, Willie Callahan of Hyden, Robert Callahan of Indepence, and David Callahan of Somerset Ky. Two sisters Bessie Young of Keavy KY and Edna Thorpe and one Brother Bentley Sizemore of London Ky, 28 Grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. The Rev Dr. Harold Brown will officiate at the funeral today. Burial will follow in the Laurel County's Slate HIll Cemetery.
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