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GRANDMA CAROLINE SCHAFFERS STORIES (As told by her granddaughter Martha M. Helm Salway) My grandma Schaffer was short, round, jolly and witty. She always had a comeback for everything. She laughed a lot and people liked to be around her. As kids we knew she liked us, she played like...
Grandma’s Dearing was a very different kind of grandma. She lived across the railroad tracks in Irvine. She was bossy and very strict. I knew she didn’t like me and always wondered why. She treated the boys well, but was always after me for little things. (Later I found out...
When I was fourteen years old I found a lump under my tongue. Grandma Deering was going to burn it out. She put a piece of tissue paper in some coal oil , and lit the paper with a lamp, then she put the burning paper in my mouth and...