Anna Elizabeth Pinson

   Cause of her death was cancer.

   Other names for Anna were Elizabeth, Great Mother and Liz.

  General Notes:

I don't know that I remember this as vividly as I would if they hadn't talked about it so much for years but we were still living in the first house in Cheap Hill. I don't know how old I was but I started to school when we lived at that house. Daddy had a horse and Hester said "Let's go sheer old Dan." I remember being with Hester and I remember going with her. I guess Dan ran away from us so she sheered me instead. Anyway, we both got a spanking. Hester for doing it and me for letting her do it. They said I looked really bad.

I had a schoolteacher who was real sweet. She and her son would go to the school in the buggy. Our house was no more than 100 yards from the school and she would stop and pick me up in the morning. I guess I got out in the road and waited there for her. Our school was a country school, 1st to 8th grade. It had two rooms, I guess first to fourth grade in one and fifth to eighth grade in the other. Then we all went on to high school in Ashland City. Daddy let Hester drive and when I got a little older I drove too. We didn't have a driver's license. We gave a ride to a couple of girls whose folks lived in Chapmansboro. Daddy taught us how to change a tire. When it was cold it was sometimes hard to start so he taught us that we could pour hot water all over the motor and that is what we would do. The road was longer than it is now because it wound around down by the river to get to Chapmansboro. If the water got up out of it's banks then we couldn't go.

One time it got to snowing real bad and it was about two feet deep so Daddy hitched up the wagon and took Hester and me to Ashland City to stay with friends. They lived by the courthouse and there was a big hill in back of them. After school all the kids would climb up there and skate down that hill. Would you know this man, he was Daddy's good friend, so he told him about us being out there on that hillside.

We always had our chores around the farm but when school was open Hester and I had to make the beds before we went to school. Of course, that was the only thing we did then. I used to like to help in the kitchen and Hester did not like to do that at all. I do think she would help Granny milk the cows. Therefore, she didn't learn to cook. When she got married she didn't know how to cook.

I went to Andrew Jackson Business College after high school. I stayed with Aunt Dolly and Uncle Al. They lived in West Nashville. They had a funeral home, Burkett and Owen, on Charlotte and they lived on Park Avenue right behind it. After I finished school - I think it was a two-year program - my first job was with Luke Lee. I don't really remember the name of the company. They were a real prominent family in Nashville. His dad was in the penitentiary and I would take letters that he dictated to his dad and I would type them. They had a wholesale operation as I remember but finally they couldn't make a go of it.

I met Elton through the funeral home. Sometimes he would ride in the ambulance. We were married in Franklin but Elton and I lived in Nashville. His father was a legislator. Oh, sometimes he worked as a parking lot attendant but he really didn't do anything. That's the reason we didn't live together. He wouldn't work. Jack wasn't a year old when we left.

I then worked for a lawyer in Ashland City and I was going home in the afternoon. Daddy didn't want me to run back and forth so I stayed with these friends of theirs. Their house was either the first or second door from the law office. The ladies who ran it had other boarders and Charlie and another man came there. It was really cold weather and we all played canasta at night.

Charlie and this friend traveled. They sold these things to farmers… like a stamp for cattle. They were selling branding irons amongst other things. He had been in all kinds of things. He had worked in Longmont, Colorado with a brother and he had lived with another brother in Camdenton, Missouri, working in his commissary there. I also remember he had a restaurant one time because he once told me there was a woman working there and he threw a black iron skillet at her.

After Charlie and I got married we had this house where Doctor Pitt used to live. It wasn't long after we married that we went to Clarksville where I worked for the Land Acquisition Office at Fort Campbell. That winter Charlie worked in a service station there. One time his brother Leo came to visit us when we lived in Clarksville. He was in the Army and was on furlough. He stayed with us for three weeks or so. His first wife was killed in an auto accident.

Then we went to Clinton, Indiana. By then the war came along and he had a better offer to work. We never lived in Vincennes. Charles was born there but we lived out closer to what they were building. We lived on a farm that had a windmill and we lived in a trailer. Charlie had never pulled a trailer in his life. The morning we were all loaded up he didn't want Jack and me to open our mouths. We had to be quiet and finally Jack said, "what's wrong with dad?" "Oh, he just never pulled a wagon with a car before."

Then we moved from out there and Jack went to school. He was close enough that he could come home for lunch each day. They had the best cracked wheat bread you ever tasted. Every day we'd have peanut butter on cracked wheat bread with orange marmalade. That was all he wanted and we had it every day. We stayed there until after Charles was born.

Just before that Daddy got blood poisoning in one hand and he was just real sick. They called us and I said, "I want to go home." Charlie didn't say anything, he just got us ready to go home. Well, Daddy didn't want Charlie to take Jack and me back up there but we had to go. Later, when the job was finished and Charles was born, the doctor said, "you can travel with him but be careful. Always have the one window open part way." Charlie took us back home and later he and Daddy went back to get the trailer. He wouldn't drive it anymore.

That was when we stayed in Dr. Pitt's house, it was right near to the farm. Then we had a chance to buy this house in Pleasantview. The Mamie Biddle place - and Mamie Biddle lived in the house with us. Charles was more than a year old when we moved to Knoxville.

We got there in the fall. Charlie was working at Oak Ridge. The first thing they built was a little church. I don't know why he got this place in Knoxville. One night Charlie and his friend from Clarksville went out to look at a place. There was no light in the apartment and they looked at it with flashlights! So they had this truck loaded with our things and we drove to Knoxville. We got there at night and they set up the beds and furniture. We had to go out for supper and then came back and went to bed. The next morning we got up and got ready to take Jack to the school across the street. Well, I got back from the school and sat down in a platform rocker and just cried and cried and cried. It took all morning just to clean up the cabinets to try to get anything in them. There were bugs everywhere! Charlie went across the street to the drug store and talked the pharmacist into selling him strychnine. Every night he would put that on newspapers and in the morning he would fold up the papers full of bugs and throw them away. When we finally got the place cleaned up it was pretty comfortable. Sissy was born there.

One night I had to go over to the grocery store. I had Charles with me and when I stepped off the curb with my arms full of groceries I fell. I remember this old boy who sacked groceries ran out there and helped me gather it all up, except for the eggs that broke. I think it was Saturday and Charlie was working.

Anyway, when I started to feeling so bad that night Charlie had to go across the street to use the phone in the drug store because we didn't have one. He called the doctor and told him that I had fallen that morning. He said, "well, get her to the hospital." We went to St. Mary's Hospital and the doctor was waiting out front with a wheel chair. Sissy was early, about a month, she only weighed 5 lbs. 3 oz.

The sister who was my nurse was so neat. Charlie brought Charles up there the next day and she brought him in. Charles loved Sissy so much he would fill her bassinet with toy soldiers. She was pretty little and we fed her every three hours. Then at night at 9:00 o'clock we didn't feed her again until morning. She slept through the night. Jack and Charles got the measles and they just got over them when Margaret died.

That day A. J. [Shores] had taken Melinda to school and when he got back Margaret was dead. Daddy always thought there had been a real bad crack of thunder and it startled her. She had an ingrown goiter operated on and removed that summer. You know I had just had a letter from her that week saying she was doing all right. We went home for Margaret's funeral. When we got there Ruth took Charles because she had stayed with us when we lived in Pleasantview. She took care of him and Aunt Dolly took care of Sissy. They had this old stove in the dining room and they would put her bassinet behind the stove in the corner.

I made fried pies when I worked at the Cordell Hull Building. I made mostly peach and apricot. Once in a while I made apple but the other two sold best. I had a 5-gallon tin and I would fill it with pastry flour that I made. Then when I needed dough all I had to do was add ice water. I would make them and put them in the refrigerator on waxed paper. Then I would put them in the fryer and when they cooled I would sprinkle them with powdered sugar. I also made little tarts… chess and pecan. And meringues - lemon, chocolate and coconut. And German chocolate cakes too. I couldn't get into the building with them! People would be waiting for me to get there. They would be sold by the time it was necessary to go to work.

The year after I had my heart attack we started catering. We cooked 250 chicken dinners - on a small stove with one burner and a deep well cooker! It's a wonder the stove ever survived it. I had this big skillet which was like one Charlie had for the restaurant and I liked it so much I had him get one for home. I could put a lot of chicken in it.

Then I worked as a cashier at Cross-Keys so I could sit down. I still worked for them part time when I worked for the State. I worked at St. Clare's' restaurant - I think it was a Memphis chain - it closed and then they opened The silver Wings Restaurant at the airport. Jimmy worked as a busboy. That was where I met Dean.

I was a typist at the Cordell Hull Building. Later I became a junior accounting clerk. After a promotion I did bankruptcies and partial payments. That was the last thing I was doing when I retired from the State, but I was already working for Home Interiors for 4 or 5 years by then. I just received my 25-year pin for Home Interiors so I guess I didn't really retire. ³

  Research Notes:

Notes withdrawn: See Master Record ^{4 5 6}

  Medical Notes:

Cancer of the bladder spread to the lungs and health was complicated by congestive heart failure and cardiomyopathy ⁷

  Noted events in her life were:

• Occupation: clerk in the Land Acquisition Office, 1943-1944, Fort Campbell, Christian, Kentucky, USA. ⁸

• Education: the Watkins Institute, Home Economics (Watkins Institute College Of Art And Design), 1949-1953, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ⁸
Unit I Children's Sewing (17 weeks)
Unit II Children's Sewing (16 weeks)
Adult Sewing (2 years)

• Residence: 113 Lincoln Ct, 1955-1970, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ⁸

• Award: 15 Years' Service Award from the State of Tennessee Department of Employment Security, 05 May 1976, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ⁸
In Appreciation and Recognition for Continuous
and Loyal Service we present this certificate
and Emblem of Award for
FIFTEEN YEARS' SERVICE
to
ELIZABETH P. DAUGHERTY
on the 1st day of March 1976

/s/ Dan W Scates
/s/ JP Wallace

• Retirement: from Tennessee Employment Security, 15 Nov 1976, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ⁹
Daugherty Ends Career

Elizabeth Daugherty, 15 year worker in the Employment Security force retired in mid-November. Daugherty a Senior Account Clerk had one of the largest retirement celebrations of the month.

Approximately 200 people attended her retirement party, which was held on the third floor of the Cordell Hull Building.

Daugherty's children were by her side as she received the well wishes and gifts of her many co-workers.

For those of you who would like to keep in touch with Elizabeth he address is: 8207 Sawyer Brown Road, Nashville, Tennessee 37221

• Interview: by Geoff Schultz for a school project, 29 Jun 1999, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. ¹⁰
Do you remember your first TV?

I remember when we didn't have one. We lived on Essex Avenue when we got our first TV. I believe it was for Sissy's birthday party. It had a giant, beautiful cabinet but the screen was about 13 inches. It was black and white - we didn't have color then. I don't believe we had but one station - WSM. I remember the Grand Ol' Opry and I remember the children liked the comedies… Bugs Bunny and those.

Did you have a refrigerator when you were little?

No, we had a box that they put big blocks of ice and a man came around in a truck and brought it like twice a week. We kept butter and milk and whatever else it would hold. It had a pan underneath and when the ice melted the water would go into that pan and we would have to empty it.


What was your house like?

I had already been in first grade so it was about 1920. When you went in there was a front porch and to the right was a living room which had a big fireplace. Then if you went into the hallway and to the left there was a bedroom. If you went upstairs there was another hallway and it had a little porch up there. The house had an aluminum roof - not sheets but in squares and that was the original roof. When it rained on that roof… that was the most relaxing thing you ever heard. You would go to bed and the rain came peppering down on that roof. From the time it was built my father kept it painted with aluminum paint.

The house had a real odd thing about it. There were three stairways. One was behind a door in the parlor and you would go up, make a turn and go up again into a bedroom. Then there was one in the hallway that went up into a bedroom. The third one was in the hallway from the main entrance and it went up to the hallway with the porch on the second floor.

We later learned that the man who built the house had boys and girls so he didn't want them to have one stairway where the doors would open into the hallway. He wanted the boys to be private and the girls to be private.


How long did you live there?

How long? Until I married and left. I was 23 years old. Maybe 17 years?


Do you remember your first toaster?

Toaster for bread? No, my mother never had one. You had to move away from Tennessee to have toast bread. Even when I stayed with Aunt Dolly and went to business school they never had toast. I guess somebody did but we sure didn't. We had biscuits, whole-wheat biscuits, and waffles and pancakes. We had this big stove in the kitchen and you burned coal in it. You took a metal lifter and took the caps off. They were made of cast iron. You'd take the waffle iron and set it in where the cap was. When the waffle was brown you just flipped it over. They looked just like a waffle does. Doe you know what a black skillet looks like? Well, they looked like that. You had to keep watch over it and put your hand over it to test the heat.

One time mother and daddy went away for the weekend - I was already married - so we went to stay with them. There was Martha and Ruth and Kenneth. On Sunday morning we were going to have waffles and Martha was going to look after them. Well, she wasn't doing to good of a job and we were all waiting for waffles. Ruth said to her, "I'll just look after them." She got up and made up her fire so it would be hotter. And all of a sudden she had waffles coming out of that kitchen so fast you couldn't eat quickly enough.

What did you do for fun?

We first played with our dollies. We would make paper dolls. We would take a catalog, like a Spiegel or Sears and we would cut the dolls out and then we would cut out clothes and put them on the dolls. In summer time we would climb the trees and play in the yard. Sometimes we went to the creek and wadded. We made playhouses outside and made mud pies out of the mud and put them in jar tops.

Did you have a hangout place like the Mall?

The Mall! Ha! Are you kidding? We would walk two miles to school. We didn't have a mall back then. The Parish's lived there close and they had three daughters. Ruby and Lois were mine and Hester's age and we were with them more. When we went to their house we'd go and spend the night.

Did you hang out at the church?

No, you had Church and Sunday school, that's all they had. Occasionally they had dinner on the grounds. They had real tall windows with no air conditioning in the church - well, no conditioning anywhere. It was hot and everyone had fans. Sometimes a funeral home would bring over a great big box of fans. Maybe with a bible verse or a picture of Jesus. My mother always took gladiolas from her garden on Saturday and took them over to the church. The church was very close to the house.

When daddy died in 1957 he still had a Model A Ford. He first had a Model T. The car had big running boards on it. It was the oldest car in town at the time.

• Interview: by Lindsay Schultz for a school project, May 2001, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ¹¹
1. How did you celebrate your birthday?

I don't remember ever having a party, but mother always made a cake.

2. What kinds of things did the whole family do together--play games, listen to the radio, etc.?

We played inside and outside games. Some inside games were Chinese checkers, dominoes, jacks, and cards. The card games we played were Rook or Old Maid. Some outside games we played were Hopscotch and Jump Rope. We also made roads and different houses in the dirt and climbed trees.

3. Did you have an older brother or sister to take care of you? Did you have to take care of a younger brother or sister?

My older sister was just two years older than me. I took care of my two younger siblings, Ruth, 13 years younger, and Kenneth, 19 years younger.

4. What's the favorite thing you remember about your mother when you were a child? About your father?

What I liked most about Mother is that she always worked hard getting ready for Christmas to make it special and what I liked most about Daddy is that he always worked on jigsaw puzzles with us. He used to tease us by hiding some of the pieces.

5. Do you remember your grandparents? What were they like?

Mother's mother, Mary Elizabeth McClanahan Tyree, lived with us. She taught me to embroider and crochet.

6. Were you in the military? Which war? Where were you stationed?

No, I was not in the military.

7. What was the first thing you used to do on Christmas morning?

We were always up early. Daddy would make a big fire in the fireplace and then he would go back to bed while we played with our new toys.

8. How did you decorate your Christmas tree?

We never had lights on our tree. Daddy cut a big cedar tree right from our farm. We always had a big one.

9. What kind of tricks did you play for Halloween?

We drew pictures of pumpkins and cats for our windows and we always had a jack-o-lantern. I don't remember playing any tricks.

10. What did you dress up as for Halloween?

We never dressed up. We had dress up clothes for playing. We had high heeled, lace-up shoes and dresses.

11. What did you have for Thanksgiving dinner?

We had chicken and dressing. I don't remember ever having turkey. We always had good country ham from the pigs on our farm. We also had sweet potatoes, green beans, mashed potatoes, and cooked cranberries for Thanksgiving.

12. Where did you usually eat Thanksgiving dinner--at whose home? Who was usually there?

We always ate at home. Aunt Dolly, Uncle Allen, Granny, my sisters, my brother, and my cousins Anna and Mildred usually came.

13. Did you dye Easter eggs? Did you have an Easter egg hunt or roll?

Yes, we loved to dye eggs. We used bluing for blue eggs and Aunt Dolly would do drawings on wax paper that we could transfer to the eggs. We always had an egg hunt in our big yard. We sometimes had hunts at church or school. We only had eggs; never candy until I was much older.

14. Did you have a Fourth of July parade? Fireworks?

We did not have a parade. My uncle from Phoenix (Maneese Shardt) would bring sparklers and roman candles every year.

15. What church did you go to?

I went to Clifton Methodist Church.

16. What was your favorite toy?

My favorite toy was my Bye-Lo Baby. It had a china head, feet, and arms. It looked exactly like a baby. My sister Hester broke it the same day I got it.

17. What was your favorite food? What foods did you not like?

Mother used to make this fruit salad for Christmas with bananas, grapes and other fruits. I really liked that. I don't remember anything I didn't like.

18. Did you have a favorite place to go to be alone?

I used to climb up in this big apple tree in our yard.

19. Did you have a place where you and your friends met----tree house, the corner drug store, etc.?

We lived way out in the country so I didn't meet my friends anywhere.

20. What was your first car like?

My first car was a Model T Ford. It had no glass on the sides. It was black.

21. What was the best present you ever received? From whom?

My Bye-Lo Baby from Santa Claus.

22. What was your favorite vacation?

Every summer we went to Dickson County to a homecoming at a church (Mount Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church). J. D. and Nancy Fambrough took us to the Glendale Zoo in Nashville. That was a lot of fun.

23. Tell me about dances and dates when you were a teenager. Where did you go?

Once in a while we would go to Clarksville to a movie but most of the time we went to church with our dates.

24. Did you live in a city or in the country?

We lived on a farm in the country.

25. What was your house like (how many rooms, floors, etc.)?

Our house had two floors with seven rooms (four bedrooms) and two hallways.

26. Did you have your own bedroom?

No, I shared a room with Hester and Granny. We used to catch lightning bugs and put them on the windowsill to bug Granny.

27. What chores did you have to do at home?

Inside we made beds, swept the floors, and dusted. Outside we fed the chickens, picked vegetables, and gathered eggs. We also had to pick worms off the tobacco. The chore we hated most was having to pick up rocks out of the field.

28. Did you have a TV, radio, record player?

We never had a TV. We got a radio when I was in high school.

29. Did you live in the same house very long? How long?

Yes, I think I was in the 2nd grade when we moved to the farm and lived there until I married and left home.

30. What was your school building like?

It was just a long, straight white building. It had two rooms and an outdoor toilet.

31. How many people were in a class?

A class had 8 or 10 children in it.

32. What was your favorite subject? Least favorite?

My favorite subject was history and my least favorite was spelling.

33. What did you like least about school?

I had to walk a mile to school.

34. Did you ever get in trouble in school? For what? How were you punished?

I didn't get into trouble very often but when I did I got in trouble for talking and the punishment was you had to stay in when they went to recess.

35. Did you have a favorite teacher? What was her name? Why was she your favorite?

Yes, her name was Mrs. Floyd Swan. She took time with me and also took me to school.

36. What games did you play at recess?

I played ball and jump rope at recess.

37. What was the name of your best friend? What kind of things did you do together?

Johnnie Jarrill was my first best friend. We played with our dolls at lunch. Then we had secrets from the other kids.

38. Did you have any pets? What kind? What were their names? What happened to them?

We always had baby bunnies that Daddy found when he was cultivating the ground in the spring. They would always run away after getting up to large size. I only remember one name. He was Casper.

39. What was your first Job? How much were you paid?

My first job was working in a tearoom with a friend of my Mom. My pay was $15.00 a week.

40. What occupation did you have for most of your life? Did you enjoy it? Why or why not?

Much of my life I did office work. I worked for the government when Fort Campbell was built. Later I worked for the State of Tennessee.

41. When did you retire? What have you done to keep busy since your retirement?

I retired in 1976. I have been busy; I work in the gift shop at Cracker Barrel.

42. When were you born? Married?

I was born Nov 4, 1913 and I was married June 7, 1934.

43. How many brothers and sisters do you have? Children? Grandchildren?

I had one brother, four sisters, four children and nine grandchildren.

44. What was your wedding day like? Did you have a honeymoon? Where?

It was a nice sunny day. We didn't have a honeymoon.

45. How long have you been married?

I was married for sixty-six years.

• Obituary: genealogy files maintained by Liz Dunn Schuck, 26 Nov 2003, Lakewood, Pierce, Washington, USA. ¹²
Elizabeth (Liz) Daugherty died early in the morning Wednesday, November 26 at the home of her son Charles in Murfreesboro.

Anna Elizabeth (Liz) Pinson Daugherty was born at home at the lockmaster's house at Lock 7 near Carthage, TN on 4 November, 1913. She was the second of eight children born to Toney Lowe and Sarah (Sallie) Tyree Pinson. Shortly after she was born the family was transferred to Neptune, TN where Toney later turned to farming and raising his family near Ashland City.

After completing business school in Nashville she began a long, varied career in many fields. Initially she worked in the law office of Jack Boyd of Ashland City, TN. During the early years of World War II she worked at the Land Acquisition Office at Fort Campbell, KY. Later she and her husband opened Packer's Lunch by the Neuhoff Packing Plant and then the Log Cabin Restaurant across the street from Centennial Park in Nashville.

Liz then worked for the State of Tennessee in the Employment Security Office until she retired… and began other careers. Not able to relax after finishing her employment with the state, she launched a new field as a saleswoman for Home Interiors and took justifiable pride in being awarded a 25 year pin from the company four years ago. By the time she was 85 she felt she could no longer do all the traveling that Home Interiors required. Thus her last career began as she assumed duties as an associate in the gift shop at Cracker Barrel where she has worked for the past five years.

Elizabeth was preceded in death by two brothers, William and Tyree, who died in infancy; and her sisters Margaret and Hester Pinson Hewitt. Her husband, Charles H. Dunn, passed away 17 May 1964, and her husband, C. Dean Daugherty, passed away 28 Jul 1995. Her eldest son, Jack Travis Dunn, succumbed to heart failure in 1983.

She is survived by her brother Kenneth A. Pinson of Clarksville, TN; two sisters, Martha Ann Lay of Knoxville, TN and Mary Ruth Hogan of Taylorville, IL; sons Charles Harold Dunn Jr. of Murfreesboro, TN and James Ernest Dunn of Beechgrove, TN; and daughter Elizabeth Dunn Schuck of Lakewood, WA. Elizabeth had 8 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.

A Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 AM, 5 Dec 2003 at the Old Hickory Church of the Nazarene. Internment will follow at the Hermitage Memorial Gardens.

• Obituary: in the Nashville Tennessean, 30 Nov 2003, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ¹³
Elizabeth Pinson DAUGHERTY
Old Hickory
Age 90
November 26, 2003
November 26, 2003. Survived by three children. Memorial Service 11 a.m. December 5, 2003, at Old Hickory Church of Nazarene. In lieu of flowers donation may be made to your favorite charity in Elizabeth Daugherty name. HERMITAGE FUNERAL HOME, 889-0361. A Dignity Memorial Provider.

• Eulogy: by her long time friend, Erna Smith, at the Old Hickory Church of the Nazarene, 05 Dec 2003, Old Hickory, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ¹⁴
ELIZABETH DAUGHERTY, A REAL SPECIAL FRIEND

She was really special to me. I met Elizabeth I guess in 1983.And you know you meet some people and you fall for them right away. That is what we did to each other. We got close to each other. She was with Home Interiors and my daughter-in-law, Charlene; we kept her busy quite a while.

If anybody here has eaten her waffles… they are delicious. Every year she would have my husband and I and another couple over to eat waffles. And by the time she would serve all of it the first one would be ready for another. We kept her busy. We looked forward to that invitation.

In 1993 I had surgery. So my husband was with me and she came in and said, "You go home, I will stay with her." So she stayed with me and I asked her, "Elizabeth, I think you missed your calling. You should have been a nurse." She helped feed me, she bathed me, she stayed right with me. You know, people like that you don't see too often but Elizabeth was one of them.

Then in July 1995 we lost our husbands, two days apart. We had a lot to go through. We would call each other and cry, we'd laugh, and we just shared things with each other.

Then I was invited to go to Springfield, Missouri to go to Evangeline University. I called her and said, "Elizabeth, would you mind going with me?" "Oh no, I'd be glad to." Well, we went and had a real, real good time. We went to the ladies luncheon. Of course, Elizabeth was always fortunate or lucky. She won the door prize and I said, "Elizabeth, I brought you all the way to Springfield, Missouri to win this door prize." And that wasn't the last one. Each time we went anyplace and they had one she won it.

We would talk about everything. We called each other every day. When she started to work for Cracker Barrel - or she was going to start - she called ma and said, "I've got a new job!" I said, "Well, aren't you ever going to retire?" And she said, "No!" She enjoyed working and I think everybody enjoyed having her out there. If you were around her you would have enjoyed it, she kept everyone laughing.

Two or three years ago the church had several people going to Branson and Elizabeth was the one everybody wanted to joke with, they kidded her all the time. But she would give it back too. So we had a real, real good time then.

Sunday night, before she went to the doctor the last time, she called me and we talked a while. When we got through I said, "Elizabeth, I love you." She said, "I love you too." Then Gwen called me Wednesday morning to tell me about it. I felt the Lord said, "Elizabeth, you have been through enough. I'm taking you home with Me."

You know, if we live a life that our Lord wishes you would live, I feel we will be with Him one day.

• Eulogy: by John M Bledsoe, Pastor of the Old Hickory Church of the Nazarene, 05 Dec 2003, Old Hickory, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ¹⁴
Our Senior Center has monthly get-togethers and although I am not a senior citizen, I do have a special invitation to attend these gatherings. We have a special meal at the end and I like it because it's just like home - all that good food over there.

Well, it must have been Christmas because we were asking people to tell some memories that they had of Christmas when they were children. And we had a microphone they were passing around and people were telling of what Christmas was like when they were a child.

Sister Daugherty asked for the microphone and stood up and she began to talk. You know how soft spoken she was and she was holding her microphone so low that it was not helping at all. She continued to talk and people were straining to hear her talk so finally someone said, "Elizabeth, pick up your microphone - hold it up." So she stopped what she was doing, she looked at the microphone and thought for a minute --- and she immediately proceeded to hold the microphone… right to her ear.

We all laughed and when she realized what she had done she laughed too.

• Cemetery: Hermitage Memorial Gardens, 05 Dec 2003, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ¹⁵

Anna married Elton McElyea on 07 Aug 1936 in Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA.¹

  Marriage Notes:

Marriage Bonds, State of Tennessee, Williamson County

Know all men that we, Elton McElyea, of said County and State of Tennessee are held and firmly bound unto the State of Tennessee in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind our heirs, executors, and administrators, and each and every one of us and them, both jointly and severally wholly by these presents. The conditions of the above obligation is such that whereas Elton McElyea, Age ------- had prayed and obtained license to marry Miss Elizabeth Pinson, age -------. If there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause by the said above named parties should not be joined together in Holy Matrimony as husband and wife, then the obligation to be void and of no effect; otherwise of full force and virtue.

Witness our hands and seals this 7th Day of August 1936.

/s/ Elton McElyea

I solemnize the rites of Matrimony between the within named parties this 7th day of August 1936.

/s/ F. G. Richardson, J. P.


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State of Tennessee
Williamson County
Marriage License

To any Minister of the Gospel having the care of souls, Jewish Rabbi, Justice of the Peace of said County, Judge or Chancellor.

Greetings: You or either of you are hereby Authorized to Solemnize The Rite Of Matrimony Between ELTON McELYEA AND MISS ELIZABETH PINSON of your County agreeably to the direction of the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided. Provided always, that the Rite of Matrimony be solemnized in this County, otherwise these shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any license or authority to you, or either of you, for the purpose aforesaid, more than though the same had never been prayed or granted, etc.

Given at the Clerks Office of said County this 7 Day of Aug 1936
L. E. Lausil, Clerk
/s/ Elizabeth Ragsdale, D. C. ^{16 17}

Anna next married Charles Harold Dunn, son of James Dunn and Mary Ann Dunn, on 07 Jun 1941 in Clarksville, Montgomery, Tennessee, USA.² (Charles Harold Dunn was born on 15 Jun 1892 in Spring Grove Twp, Linn, Iowa, USA,^{18 19 20} died on 17 May 1964 in Springville, Linn, Iowa, USA ^{21 20 22} and was buried on 19 May 1964 in Central City, Linn, Iowa, USA ^{20 23}.) The cause of his death was Acute urinary infection due to urinary retention.

  Marriage Notes:

Kenneth had Jack swim the river. Jack wasn't older than anything. Kenneth and some other boys had Jack swim across the Cumberland River. I think he was about 12 and I know I was just beside myself when Mother told me. Jack used to go out to the farm in the summers. When Jack got old enough to have a shotgun we got one for him. Charles thought that was the best thing he ever heard of. Well, we decided that was the wrong thing so we told Jack he would have to take the gun to his granddaddy. When he went out to the farm he could hunt. Jack and some of his friends from the Civil Air Patrol would hunt squirrel and that way Daddy could supervise them.

Sissy also loved to go to the farm in the summer and I guess Charles would have tried too but he just had Daddy's tools all the time. Then when Daddy got ready to use them he couldn't find them. He was always on to Charles about that so we just couldn't let him go to the farm.

We owned the Packer's Lunch, which was over in west Nashville by the Neuhoff Packing Company. It was only open for breakfast and for lunch. We served beef stew and chili and a plate lunch… I know when it burned he had gone off and left a ham or a roast in the oven. It was teeny place, maybe no more than 20 people could fit in. Neuhoff's was a big place and those workers would come in hungry. Charles and Sissy went to McNeely Day Home, it was a place for working mothers to leave their children. Long before you knew about Day Care for children.

After the Packer's Lunch we had the Log Cabin, it was in Centennial Park. We loved the place but the owner sold it to an insurance company and they tore it down to put up a new building. I wish I had a picture of old Harry building the fire… and Queen, she worked there. We lived there about three years. Right after we leased it Jack went to the Coast Guard Academy. We use to go to the B&W for dinner and they'd take Sissy and wander around. We used to go there Wednesday night when our restaurant was closed. We used to eat out that night.

Aunt Sarah Cooper was there sometimes. She took care of Jimmy. She would do things I didn't even have to tell her to do. She would get so mad at Sissy. Sissy had a way of putting her underwear in one of the dresser drawers and Sarah would have to look for it. When Lydia was three and Sissy lived in Nashville she would go pick Sarah up because she wouldn't let her ride the bus. There was no direct route for Sarah to take. Sissy would get her hair done that day and she would make her doctor's appointments for that day. And when she was taking classes at Watkins she would come home and make supper for Sarah because she didn't always eat right. Then she would make enough for Sarah to take some home with her. All Sissy needed her for was to have her baby-sit Lydia but she would be over there ironing your socks.

When we lost the lease on The Log Cabin restaurant we opened the Salad Bowl on Elliston Place. We didn't have that long. After that it was a disaster. Right after that I went to work doing a split shift at The Cross-Keys restaurant. Sarah would stay with Jimmy. People who have never had good help working for them don't know how much of help that is. I would pick her up every morning and then I would go to work. Charlie would go to work at a filling station on Harding Place. Then he let this guy who bought The Packer's Lunch from him talk him into going in with him but that didn't work out ³

Anna next married Clarence Dean Daugherty on 10 Dec 1970 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. (Clarence Dean Daugherty was born on 03 Feb 1927, died on 28 Jul 1995 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA and was buried on 02 Aug 1995 in Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA ²⁴.) The cause of his death was cancer.