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Note: Aunt Mae said when she was young they lived at a place she calls the Bowens place. It was a big house up a cove. There was a big smokehouse with two levels. She said her and Lakie and others I presume would play store there. Some of the kids would be on the top level and the ones underneath would cut items out of the catalogs and tie them to strings and send their orders by letting the upper level crew haul them up on a string. Then I guess they would ship the "items" down on the string.
Mae said she always seemed to get into trouble. Once when she was holding baby James and rocking and walking him on the front porch trying to calm him a bee landed on his head and stung him over the eye. Needless to say he started balling. When Grandpa Welch came out to see what she had done he took his felt hat off and hit her over the head with it.
When Mae was about seven years old Grandma Welch needed some sugar for something she was cooking. She gave Mae a dime and some eggs and told her to go to the store and buy and trade for all the sugar she could get. Mae being full of excitment about the world hopped and skipped her way to the store only to find when she got there she had lost her dime. She looked and fretted but never found the dime. In her desperation she just traded the eggs and brought that back hoping Grandma Welch wouldn't know the difference. If she did she didn't let on.
I asked aunt Mae what brought Lizzie and Uncle Mil came to Greensboro, she replied with a story: " When she was a teenager Uncle Mil came to Greensboro to work at the "Print Works". She was at that time dating a fellow by the name of Arnold Pruitt, a rough fellow that carried a gun. Mil was living in a boarding house and Lizzie and kids were living with Grandma Welch. Lizzie asked Mae if she wanted to come to Greensboro and live with them, that way Lizzie would have a friendly face. Aunt Mae asked Grandma Welch if she could go, being excited about going into the big city, Grandma Welch told her that if she would leave Arnold alone that she would have her permission to go with Lizzie to live in Greensboro. She rode in a truck with the fellows carring Mil and Lizzies furniture. When she got to Greensboro they moved into the boarding house for a short period of time it just so happened that her future husband J.W. Snead was staying there too. He had recently gotten out of the Army and was working at "Print Works" also.
From the Boarding House they moved to "Old Hill" in the mill village where they rented an old house for about $1.50 a week. They attended Pilgrim Holliness Church somewhere near Phillips Avenue. While in "Old Hill" John Wesley (J.W.) Snead came over regularly to play Rook and soon Mae and He started dating and got married. Aunt Mae said later on when she and Snead were living on Walnut Street that Mil and Alice came to stay with them.
Aunt Mae and Uncle Snead first bought land on Colby Street. Then Sold Aunt Natalie and Uncle Luke the adjoining lot. Later on, they sold Mil and Lizzie the lot above Aunt Natalie.
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