Memories of her mother, Ella May Wood Smith, by Carlee Smith Munoz:
My mom, Ella May Wood [Smith], told her children that her family always had fun.
Mom didn't care much for cooking, but, when Grandpa Wood (Charles Henry Wood) fell and broke his hip and grandma had to work--my mother had to learn to cook. Grandma Mary Jane Graves Wood (Ella's mother) did housekeeping and cared for people.
When the older girls were ready to go on dates--one of the girls heated the curling iron too hot and burned a sister's ear.
Mom said they always bathed in wash tubs. She dropped her belt in the bath
water and her belt turned ivory.
Mom never had a car so she was stuck at home all the time. She never got out because she had so many kids until Friday nights when the school bus would come and get them [probably for a movie]. It was a dime a piece.
Bob (Robert Charles Smith) would buy mom a rough candy bar with a cherry in the middle. She would put them in a little bucket at the head of the bed and the kids didn't know they were there.
Mom wanted white things white. Bob would carry water from the irrigation canal. Bob would put the tin tub on the fire and fill it with water and heat it until it would get hot. They would put lye in it and skim it off. She would put the white things in and boil it then put them in the washing machine.
The winter was so cold that the diapers would be washed that way. In the summer she would bring everything out to boil. They would drape the clothes over everything to dry.
We would use the hems of the skirt for colored dishtowels to dry pots and pans. Mom didn't want to use the white ones.
Mom tried so hard to grow flowers that she used the rinse water to water the flowers. She had day lillies and some purple flowers.
My dad (Carl LeRoy Smith) married my mother, (Ella May Wood) on 1 April 1920, in Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico. She was his one and only sweetheart and wife. They were happily married until his death.
My mom, Ella May Wood [Smith], told her children that her family always had fun.
Mom didn't care much for cooking, but, when Grandpa Wood (Charles Henry Wood) fell and broke his hip and grandma had to work--my mother had to learn to cook. Grandma Mary Jane Graves Wood (Ella's mother) did housekeeping and cared for people.
When the older girls were ready to go on dates--one of the girls heated the curling iron too hot and burned a sister's ear.
Mom said they always bathed in wash tubs. She dropped her belt in the bath
water and her belt turned ivory.
Mom never had a car so she was stuck at home all the time. She never got out because she had so many kids until Friday nights when the school bus would come and get them [probably for a movie]. It was a dime a piece.
Bob (Robert Charles Smith) would buy mom a rough candy bar with a cherry in the middle. She would put them in a little bucket at the head of the bed and the kids didn't know they were there.
Mom wanted white things white. Bob would carry water from the irrigation canal. Bob would put the tin tub on the fire and fill it with water and heat it until it would get hot. They would put lye in it and skim it off. She would put the white things in and boil it then put them in the washing machine.
The winter was so cold that the diapers would be washed that way. In the summer she would bring everything out to boil. They would drape the clothes over everything to dry.
We would use the hems of the skirt for colored dishtowels to dry pots and pans. Mom didn't want to use the white ones.
Mom tried so hard to grow flowers that she used the rinse water to water the flowers. She had day lillies and some purple flowers.
My dad (Carl LeRoy Smith) married my mother, (Ella May Wood) on 1 April 1920, in Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico. She was his one and only sweetheart and wife. They were happily married until his death.
Memories of her mother, Ella May Wood Smith, by Carlee Smith Munoz:
My mom, Ella May Wood [Smith], told her children that her family always had fun.
Mom didn't care much for cooking, but, when Grandpa Wood (Charles Henry Wood) fell and broke his hip and grandma had to work--my mother had to learn to cook. Grandma Mary Jane Graves Wood (Ella's mother) did housekeeping and cared for people.
When the older girls were ready to go on dates--one of the girls heated the curling iron too hot and burned a sister's ear.
Mom said they always bathed in wash tubs. She dropped her belt in the bath
water and her belt turned ivory.
Mom never had a car so she was stuck at home all the time. She never got out because she had so many kids until Friday nights when the school bus would come and get them [probably for a movie]. It was a dime a piece.
Bob (Robert Charles Smith) would buy mom a rough candy bar with a cherry in the middle. She would put them in a little bucket at the head of the bed and the kids didn't know they were there.
Mom wanted white things white. Bob would carry water from the irrigation canal. Bob would put the tin tub on the fire and fill it with water and heat it until it would get hot. They would put lye in it and skim it off. She would put the white things in and boil it then put them in the washing machine.
The winter was so cold that the diapers would be washed that way. In the summer she would bring everything out to boil. They would drape the clothes over everything to dry.
We would use the hems of the skirt for colored dishtowels to dry pots and pans. Mom didn't want to use the white ones.
Mom tried so hard to grow flowers that she used the rinse water to water the flowers. She had day lillies and some purple flowers.
My dad (Carl LeRoy Smith) married my mother, (Ella May Wood) on 1 April 1920, in Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico. She was his one and only sweetheart and wife. They were happily married until his death.
My mom, Ella May Wood [Smith], told her children that her family always had fun.
Mom didn't care much for cooking, but, when Grandpa Wood (Charles Henry Wood) fell and broke his hip and grandma had to work--my mother had to learn to cook. Grandma Mary Jane Graves Wood (Ella's mother) did housekeeping and cared for people.
When the older girls were ready to go on dates--one of the girls heated the curling iron too hot and burned a sister's ear.
Mom said they always bathed in wash tubs. She dropped her belt in the bath
water and her belt turned ivory.
Mom never had a car so she was stuck at home all the time. She never got out because she had so many kids until Friday nights when the school bus would come and get them [probably for a movie]. It was a dime a piece.
Bob (Robert Charles Smith) would buy mom a rough candy bar with a cherry in the middle. She would put them in a little bucket at the head of the bed and the kids didn't know they were there.
Mom wanted white things white. Bob would carry water from the irrigation canal. Bob would put the tin tub on the fire and fill it with water and heat it until it would get hot. They would put lye in it and skim it off. She would put the white things in and boil it then put them in the washing machine.
The winter was so cold that the diapers would be washed that way. In the summer she would bring everything out to boil. They would drape the clothes over everything to dry.
We would use the hems of the skirt for colored dishtowels to dry pots and pans. Mom didn't want to use the white ones.
Mom tried so hard to grow flowers that she used the rinse water to water the flowers. She had day lillies and some purple flowers.
My dad (Carl LeRoy Smith) married my mother, (Ella May Wood) on 1 April 1920, in Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico. She was his one and only sweetheart and wife. They were happily married until his death.
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