Notes for William C, Goolsby: Aaron Lewis -- A single memory of my great grandmother , wife of William C Goolsby, Sarah Plumly Ward Goolsby, on her death bed about 1941 in their home in the Lake , Mississippi community on a stormy night when my parents took us to visit her. We were living on the Bassett farm about 1 mile south of the Steel community. The Bassett farm was run by the elder Mrs. Bassett and her daughter, Marian Sanders. Marian was the wife of Paul Sanders and they had two boys. The older of the boys was named Walter CLAY Sanders, but I cannot remember the name of his younger brother. His grandfather, Clay Bassett,had died in 1941. I do recall that the family gave the Sunday paper to my mother after they had finished reading it, and my mother would read the comics to my sister, Sara, and me. It was in 1942 that three Tucker families, lived on the Bassett farm, our family, and mothers brothers, Floyd and Wafer and I recall that her sister's family living in Gleason,Tennessee came by train to visit us. The neighbor farm south of us was owned by Mr. Frank Shaw and he owned a school bus. In those days school buses were built with wood with bench style seating. One bench on each side and a double bench in the middle and girls were required to sit on one side and boys on the opposite side. On the next farm next door to Mr Shaw lived Mr Milton Sharp who owned the school bus that Sara, Otis and I were carried to the school located in Harpervill, Mississippi. After WWII was begun in December 1941 the economy of our country changed so that many products were available only with government issued coupons. Families were issued these coupon to be used when certain products were needed. Because of the lack of money our family could not use the coupons so we children had fun playing with the coupons, pretending that they were our money. When we moved to the Bassett farm our water supply was a small spring by the side of the road and mother used a spring branch for water to do the family washing. The branch was located about 1000 feet from our house. Our mother was a young 31 year old woman and worked very hard to raise her children. We had no store bought toys but with her help we made our own. Our food supply was from the garden and wild animals such as squirrels, rabbits, opossum. coons and fish along with wild fruits like plums, grapes, persumans,blackberries, blueberries, and milk from the two cows we owned. Mother always had chickens that produced eggs that she used with her preparations of our meals. I recall my school lunch was a left over biscuit raped in a piece of newspaper and tied with a string my mother has saved from the fertilize sack from the previous summer farm crop. We were not alone in this lifestyle because it was common among the sharecropper families.
More About William C, Goolsby and Sarah Plumly Ward: Marriage: September 06, 1871
Children of William C, Goolsby and Sarah Plumly Ward are:
+Delanie Ann Goolsby, b. August 08, 1879, d. November 11, 1963, Scott County, Mississippi.
William C, Goolsby (b. 1852)
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