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[wmHarrell.FTW] Biography of Theresa Bane Harrell Bond Browning Wing Short taken from herdiary which was found upon the death of her daughter, our grandmother,Carrie Augusta Browning Goodwin. To my children whom I hope & pray GOD will be as good to as HE has beento me. I was born in Montgomery County, GA, April 7 1874, on a farm just 9years after close of Civil War. And when I was just one year old myparents moved to Dodge Co., GA on a farm. I grew to the age of 8 yearsold on that farm and then my parents sent me to my uncle Berry Burch togo to school. I attended school there 2 years. Our schools opened each morning with reading a chapter in the Bibleand prayer by teacher. It was my first stay away from my parents and Ilonged to go back home and be with my parents so didn't learn much firstyear. Only had one book that was the old blue book speller of the early70's. I only got about a quarter thru it 1st year. Then it went betterand it was my only spelling book till I was 12 years old. Then my parents gave up the farm and moved to a little mill towncalled Godwinsville where we lived on another farm. My 2 brothers, Benand Arthur Harrell, were Ben-9 yrs and, Arthur-6. We had only 3 monthsof school each year. If we could have gone to school the whole term, itwould have been good, but father went to work in (the) saw mill and wechildren and mother had to work the farm as best we could, so didn't getto go to school but 6 weeks in (the) year. Then Ben and I had to taketurns with horse and plow and break the land and prepare the land andprepare it for planting and the crop put in. We only had to wait 3 weeksbefore we had to chop cotten and hoe the corn. Mother helped us on thework with the hoe but she couldn't plow, so we only got 6 weeks ofschooling each year. On that farm our 2 sisters, Carrie and Augusta, were born, and ourbaby brother, Artemas, was born there, too. And the neighborhood men all got together and built the first churchthere. The church service, up to that time, was held in the littleschool house. So after we got the new church, we had church servicetwice a month and Sunday School every Sunday. And when I was 14 yearsold, my mother came down sick and I had to stop school, Sunday School,and church, and keep house for the family untill she was up and aroundagain, which was a little over a month. And believe me I felt like itwas awful hard work as we cooked on an elevated fire place with ovens andpots set up on brick or rocks and fired separately. And the washing wasall done on an old wooden wash board by hand. Machines wasn't heard ofin them days. After mother got over that sickness, I started back to Sunday Schooland the first verse I memorized in the Bible was MATT 5:16 "Let yourlight so shine before men that they may see your good work and glorifyyour Father which is in Heaven." I didn't get the real true meaning ofthat verse for several years later. It was then almost as impressive tome as the 5th Commandment in EPHESIANS 6:2 and EXODUS 20: "Honor thyfather and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which theLord Thy GOD giveth thee." This is the First Commandment with promis andoh, "What a promis". And some people ridicule the Bible. When it is themost educational of any book we ever studied in our lives. And mybrothers and sisters and me got more out of the study of the Bible thanwe ever got out of our school days. I only went to school one whole termand it was only 3 months in each year. My 15th yr was my last year inschool. My 16th year in life I began to do odd jobs in the post office andwhen I was 18 yrs the post office was going to be discontinued and thepeople petitioned it (to be) continued with me as postmistress. There iswhere I really did begin in geography and postal guide. I stayed withthat 4 years, and got married and went to FLA. to live. My husband, Charlie Bond, was (a) woodsman at a turpentine still runby his brother-in-law, Henry Ryals, in Sampson City. We lived there ayear and half and his health got bad and we moved back to Chauncey, DodgeCo., GA. Ruth was 2 OR 3 months old at that time. Charlie's health grewworse. We lived right in town in (a) rented home. I did sewing for theMullins girls to pay the rent. My parents brought us vegetables from thefarm every week. And I did house work for cousin Maggie Clark. She paidme well and we got along fairly good, but Charlie's health got nobetter. Finally so bad I had to set up with (him) so much at night Icouldn't hold out any longer and my oldest sister come and set up atnight and waited on him. We went on that way for a couple of weeks andmy father came out and moved us with our household goods in to his homeon the farm. He had two houses joined together. We lived in the oldest,father and mother and my two young sisters and 3 brothers lived in thenew one. But we had a good place, rent free, and people close who lovedus and we could all take care of Charlie. And we stayed there untill 2weeks before Charlie died and his father sent the horse and buggy overafter him but Charlie wouldn't go unless I went with him and his brotherinsisted that I go, which I did. He lived only two weeks and the goodLord took him out of his suffering. He was buried at the family buryingground at Godwinsville, GA. And I went back to my father's to live with1 child to care for, and it was kind of hard life on the farm, as I hadto work a lot in the field as well as the house. My half sister was awidow and lived there, too. But she married in about 6 months after Iwent back home to live and that made it better for us all. And then I settled down for 2 long years of taking care of my babywhich was eleven months old when her father past away. And when she wasthree years old I met George Franklin Browning, who was a widower with 7children of his own, and one adopted daughter who was 14 years old. Wewere soon married and I took over household affairs and a family of 4young children beside my own who were in sore need of clothes to keepthem as clean and warm as they should be. Me being a dress maker, I soonmade a list of what was needed and Geo F. made a trip to town and I madethe children new under clothes and top clothes, too. In the eveningswhen their bath and bed time came, I bathed them and put their cleanunder clothes on them to sleep in. And the baby boy came up and wantedme to take him in my lap and he said, "Oh, momie that feels so good".That sealed their father and me closer than ever and we had 6 years of avery happy life together. We had 3 children born to us. With my 4children, I had to work hard but it paid off and we got along good forawhile. I bought a hundred acres of ground just below my mother's place,rented it, and with 3 cows to give milk and 6 hogs fattening for bacon,and rent from our place supplied our living. We got along fine on thatfor awhile. Then my father and brother's took over to manage and I hadnothing any more. MY OLDEST BROTHER HELPED ME GET THE RENTZ HOTELL A LITTLE TOWN JUST13 MILES FROM DUBLIN. RENTZ WAS A SAW MILL TOWN. WE GOT ALONG THEREFINE FOR 2 YEARS, THEN THE SAW MILL WAS MOVING TO FLA. THE HOTELL WASSOLD AND I HAD TO MOVE. I EITHER HAD HAD TO GO BACK TO MY MOTHER ANDFATHERS HOME OR GET MARRIED TO THE SAW FILER, L. S. WING, OF THE MILL,AND GO TO FLA. WITH THE MILL. YOU KIDS WERE TOO SMALL TO REMEMBER MUCHABOUT IT THEN, BUT WE STAYED IN FLA. 2 YEARS AND MOVED BACK TO GA, BOUGHTTHE CROP ON MY PLACE FROM THE RENTER AND MOVED IN TO MY HOME. IT WASNOTHING BUT A LOG HOUSE WITH A SHED ROOM ON BACK & SIDE OF (THE) HOUSEAND A PORCH ON (THE) FRONT. BUT IT HAD A GOOD ROOF ON IT AND IT WAS AHOME. NOBODY COULD PUSH US OUT OF OR TAKE WHAT WE EARNED AWAY FROM US.AND THERE WE LIVED UNTILL RUTH WAS MARRIED. SHE (RUTH) MARRIED JAMES P. WILLIAMS AND MOVED TO MISSISSIPPI TO ASAW MILL TOWN CALLED HOWISON, MISS. WE STAYED ON (THE) FARM A YEAR AFTERRUTH MARRIED AND I DECIDED TO SELL THE FARM AND MOVE TO MISS. WHERE ICOULD GET A BOARDING HOUSE AND MAKE A LIVING EASIER THAN PLOWING ANDPLANTING CORN AND COTTEN. SO WE MOVED TO HOWISON, MISS. AND I SOON TOOKOVER THE HOWISON HOTELL. AND MR. WING GOT THE SAW FILER'S JOB IN THEMILL. WE STAYED THERE 2 YEARS. MR WING WAS SENT TO A LITTLE SAW MILL INALABAMA TO FILE AND HAMMER SOME SAWS, AND HE SOON RETURNED. I CONTINUED IN THE HOTELL AT HOWISON, HIRED SOME HELP AND KEPTEVERYTHING GOING IN GOOD SHAPE. I COULD ONLY KEEP SAW MILL PEOPLE INHOWISON, AS IT WAS A SMALL HOTELL. AND ONE DAY THERE WAS A COUPLE MENCAME UP FROM YARAYAN PLANT JUST OUT OF (THE) CITY LIMITS OF GULF PORT,MISS, HAD DINNER AT OUR TABLE AND WAS SURPRISED AT SO MUCH GOOD FOOD ANDTHE CLEAN SURROUNDING, AND COMPLIMENTED US VERY HIGHLY FOR THE WAY WETOOK CARE OF THINGS. AND A FEW DAY(S) LATER A MR. LOCKWOOD COME TODINNER AT OUR HOTELL AGAIN AND WE RECOGNIZED HIM AS ONE OF THE 2 MEN(THAT) WAS THERE A FEW DAYS EARLIER. AND HE WAS ONE OF THE MANAGERS OFTHE YARAYAN PLANT AT GULF PORT. HE WANTED US TO GO DOWN AND RUN THEYARAYAN PLANT HOTELL NORTH OF (THE) CITY LIMITS OF GULF PORT WHERE WEWOULD HAVE 30 BOARDERS ALL THE TIME AND ALL THE TRANSIENTS THAT WE COULDHANDLE. SO WE SOON MOVED TO THAT HOTELL AND WE HAD A BIG ROOMY HALL FORREST AND RECREATION WHERE THE MEN COULD RELAX AND REST. SOME OF THEM HADTHEIR WIVES THERE WITH THEM. WE STAYED THERE TWO YEARS AND I WAS TIREDOUT WORKING SO HARD AND WE GAVE IT UP AND MOVED TO BOND, MISS., JUS(T) 35MILES SOUTH OF HATTIESBURG. BUT IT WAS A PLACE WHERE I COULD SEND MYCHILDREN TO SCHOOL SO I BOUGHT A SMALL HOME THERE AND PUT MY CHILDREN INSCHOOL. THEY GOT ALONG FINE IN SCHOOL AND I GOT A JOB OF DRESSMAKING INDANTZLER & COWENS DRY GOOD STORE. I ALSO ALTERED THE SUITS THEY SOLD ATTHE STORE AND OTHERS THAT NEED THE ALTERATION. MR. WING'S EYE SIGHT GOT BAD AND HE COULDN'T FILE SAWS ANY MORE. ANDBEGAN MAKING HEAVEY COATS FOR WOMEN, TOO. DIDN'T GET MUCH FOR WORK INTHEM DAYS, BUT DID MANAGE TO MAKE A LIVING AND KEEP MY CHILDREN INSCHOOL, AND GIVING THEM (THE) BEST EDUCATION THAT I COULD GET WAS MY AIMIN LIFE. AND DID GET BOTH BOYS HALF THRU HIGH SCHOOL. AND MR. WING DIEDIN NOV 8TH AFTER WORLD (WAR I) BROK(E) OUT IN MARCH OF 1914. THEN FRANKHAD TO STOP SCHOOL AND GO TO WORK BUT PERRY WAS YET TOO YOUNG TO WORK IN(THE) MILL SO HE KEPT GOING TO SCHOOL. THE DIARY OF GREAT GRANDMA SHORT IS IN THE POSSESSION OF HERGRANDDAUGHTER, MARY CROSSEN.
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