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Note: Aunt Pete told me a story that will make you cry or at least misty-eyed. She related: "When I was about 8 years old your grandpa and grandma were just newly married and your grandma was always so afraid of storms. We all had to go to the storm cellar one evening and she was frightened and it was very warm in there. She was such a pretty young women with beautiful black hair. She laid her head on your grandpa's shoulder and he was fanning her to cool her off. Now I was as green as grass and had no idea what young married people really did. But from then on when my friends/cousins and I played at "house," we fanned one another because we thought that was what young folks did."
When Grandma gave birth to her first child, James Leroe Hale, she went into a comma for three weeks. During that time, her sister-in-law Verla Hale nursed Uncle Leroe as she had just given birth to her first child Ellis Hale. While Grandma was in the comma, her mother Myrtle Pullen and her father-in-law Jethro "Roe" Hale took turns nursing her. Great Grandma Myrtle Pullen Jones named Uncle Leroe by combining Grandma's middle name Lee and Great Grandpa Jethro's "Roe" name into Leroe. I would venture to say that this is probably a unique, "one of a kind" name.
When I was about to turn seven years old, Grandma was making a beautiful red and green silk doll quilt on her Singer treadle machine, which I wanted more than I could say. She told me it was for a little girl down the road whose parents hadn't much money for presents. When I got back home for my birthday, of course, it was in the mail for me! I wonder, how did she know I was going to get a beautiful new doll with a doll bed just perfect for the red and green silk doll quilt?
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