By: Patsy Box Johnson My mama, Ada McCollum Box, was born 12 November 1919 on Barn Creek in Fayette County, AL. It was close to where Uncle John Box had his store. Aunt Jennie and Uncle Frank Box lived between my Grandpa Tom McCollum and Uncle John Box’s store. Mama had a hard life after [...]
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My Mama
Posted in Patsy Box Johnson, tagged box, childhood, memories on December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Papa and Mama Box’s Visit
Posted in Patsy Box Johnson, tagged box, childhood, memories on September 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By: Patsy Box Johnson When I was growing up we lived across the creek from where Mama Effie, Papa and Freddie lived. Sometimes they would come spend the night with us. Since not many owned cars back then we would walk from where ever we had to go. Papa lived about a mile from Morris [...]
Mama’s Wash Day
Posted in Patsy Box Johnson, tagged box, childhood, memories on September 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By: Patsy Box Johnson I remember back when I was a little girl mama would have to go to the spring to wash our clothes. She had a certain day a week to do the wash if it wasn’t raining. It would be an all day job. We would carry the dirty clothes down to [...]
Aunt Faye Box Thompson
Posted in Wayne T. McDonald, tagged box, memories, thompson on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By: Wayne T. McDonald I have great memories of Aunt Faye Thompson. She would come to visit Pa and Granny and she would always bring Granny something every time that she came. Aunt Faye and Granny were very close the way I guess that sisters should be. I would really enjoy visiting with Aunt Faye [...]
Little Reedie Box
Posted in Wayne T. McDonald, tagged box, morris cemetery on January 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By: Wayne T. McDonald At the Morris Cemetery in northern Fayette County there beside the road that passes by the cemetery is a little grave. The little grave of one of the Box family who died at an early age. It is the grave of little Reedie Box the infant of Joe and Martha Box. [...]
