Grandmom Miles

Here is some family history from Aunt Wilda.

I remember Grandmom Miles telling me this about when she was a little girl: When Grandmom was little, they had no way of getting help like we do now. When she was eight years old someone told whoever took care of Child Care then,that her mother had several children in the house, and they were hungry, with no father to take care of them. One day a lady came to the house and took some of the children and put them out on farms to work, and the farmers housed them. Grandmom's Dad was away a lot because he was a traveling Insurance Man, but they didn't have that information. While she was on the farm she would get up about 4:AM to start breakfast for the farmer and the hands. Breakfast was The big meal of the day, so they had things like Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables, Home baked Bread,etc.to start the day, and all of the hands were fed. For lunch they had a regular lunch, and the last meal of the day was like our Breakfast. She said that was because the farmers worked hard all day and worked off the food and in the evening they didn't have to have all that energy. After she finished with the cleaning up, she went to school, but after a while they put more work on her, so they took her out of school. She only had a third grade education. She said she would run away every so often, because she missed her Mother, and they would come get her and take her back to the farm and give her a hard beating,and give her more work. she said she was always so tired, but they piled more and more on her and told her she wasn't tired, but lazy. She ran away one day and got lost. She said she felt the life going out of her,but she kept going.She saw a little white house with a picket fence and some flowers in the yard. She said she was thinking (this is heaven) and she hurried to the fence and passed out. The next thing she knew was she was in a clean bed and there was an old man setting on a chair next to the bed, and an old lady standing next to him. They asked her where she came from, and she told them her story. They kept her with them for a couple of days and then somehow they sent her back.