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Mae Viola <I>Doss</I> Hollingsworth

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Mae Viola Doss Hollingsworth

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21 Dec 1969 (aged 77)
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Bamford, Shelby County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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Born in Hillsborough, moved to Edgwater for awhile, then to Generys Gap. They raised crops for their food and canned it for the winter time. Wess had a blacksmith shop, and traped and sold his furs to Sears Roebuck. They had several barns for storage such as corn and fodder for the animals. All of the old barns were burned. It was like a pioneer homestead and I guess it was. They used an ox named Rowdy to plow with.
On each 4th of July we would load up and head to the Cahaba River at Elvira with our picknick lunches and join a lot of the other nabors there for a day of swimming and fishing.
I can remember as a kid when setting in the church at Generys and seeing smoke coming up from the barns burning and our family running back down the hill to the house. We would all get buckets of water and pass it to the next one in line to put the fires out. This happened at different times for each barn. We never could put any of the fires out, so they all burned.
Grandmaw finally sold the old house and property and built a small house next to our house at the bottom of Shades Mountian.
Grandmaw was a very special person and helped her kids and grandkids until she passed away.
Born in Hillsborough, moved to Edgwater for awhile, then to Generys Gap. They raised crops for their food and canned it for the winter time. Wess had a blacksmith shop, and traped and sold his furs to Sears Roebuck. They had several barns for storage such as corn and fodder for the animals. All of the old barns were burned. It was like a pioneer homestead and I guess it was. They used an ox named Rowdy to plow with.
On each 4th of July we would load up and head to the Cahaba River at Elvira with our picknick lunches and join a lot of the other nabors there for a day of swimming and fishing.
I can remember as a kid when setting in the church at Generys and seeing smoke coming up from the barns burning and our family running back down the hill to the house. We would all get buckets of water and pass it to the next one in line to put the fires out. This happened at different times for each barn. We never could put any of the fires out, so they all burned.
Grandmaw finally sold the old house and property and built a small house next to our house at the bottom of Shades Mountian.
Grandmaw was a very special person and helped her kids and grandkids until she passed away.

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