Emma Duck Trawick said there was a time when her grandfather Tom Quinley got sick, and Grandma Catherine had to take over plowing the fields and the other farm work. Emma's mother Elvie was the oldest living daughter and practically raised her younger siblings. One day Grandma Catherine was going to take Andrew over to the neighbors house to visit. Elvie told her "Mama, your going to get over there and forget about him! I'm the one who raised him!" Catherine took him anyway. She and the adults engaged in conversation and Andrew wondered off and Catherine forgot all about him! After some searching, they found Andrew perfectly fine.

The following is a little story that was told by Judy Burgett Davis. Judy's mother was Fronie Brown Davis, a granddaughter of Catherine Johnson Quinley:

"Mama said, after she got a little older, her mother [Delia Quinley Brown] would trust her to go a short way through a trail to her grandmother's house. Her grandmother would always have plenty of homemade butter and good old baked sweet potatoes. The biscuits were made from cow's milk and the jam from her own ripe berries from her garden. She said it was hard to keep away from her grandma's house. Mother said she would like to help Grandma Catherine with her chores in the evenings: feeding the pigs and chickens and putting the cows in their pen. They would build a bonfire to keep the files and mosquitoes from biting them. On sundays her grandparents would have a big watermelon cutting. Everyone would bring their children. While her father was showing everyone around the farm, the children would climb into the trees and swing. Afterwards they would have ice cream. One day while Mama was running around the house, there sat a puppy on some feed sacks. It ran after her, when she was going to her grandmother. She said the only thing that saved her was Grandma Catherine wrapping her long dress around her. From then own she didn't like going to her grandma's alone."

Judy remembers when she would go visit her grandmother, Delia Quinley Brown , there was a old house foundation and wash tubs across from Delia‘s house. This was the Old Quinley Homestead where Tom and Catherine lived. A hurricane in 1926 came into the area and destroyed the house. This area is known today was the "Brown Settlement."

Emma Duck Trawick said she only had one clear memory of her grandmother, Catherine Johnson Quinley. Emma said that her parents Elvie and A. D. Duck and the children had just moved from Brady to Crossroads in 1923 and her grandmother walked through the woods all the way from the Brown Settlement to come visit them. Catherine had bought Emma a little yellow kitten, which she carried in a old burlap potato sack.