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Notes for Lela Ross Tompkins
Lela Tompkins Glasgow was a teacher prior to her marriage. She took the State Examination, was
awarded a teaching certificate and taught for a short time before her marriage. After her marriage to
Kemper T. Glasgow, Sr., she became a mother of 11 children and a home maker. She taught adult
education at Mt. Home Church during the 1930's. When the teacher shortage occurred in the early 1950's she, along with her husband, taught school for three years at Hurricane School west of Vina, Alabama. She was a census taker for the 1940 census. Raising her ten children she stressed education until all of her children were college educated.
Robert S. Glasgow, Jr. and Ann Glasgow. Glasgow Genealogy.
My earliest memories of visiting my grandmother Glasgow was seeing her short thin frame at the wash-pot outside the house where she was boiling the family clothes. Her long black hair was tied in a bun at the back of her neck as she stired the clothes with a long stick. When Mama Glasgow finally got a ringer type washing machine, she caught her little finger in the ringer of the washer. Her little finger was always bent after that episode. The washing was still a chore even with a ringer type washer and was usually done once a week.
A well was located just outside the kitchen door and from there water was drawn for family use. Eventually water was pumped into the kitchen and later a bathroom was installed with a big iron enameled claw foot tub.
When all the family would meet at the Glasgow house, a big meal would be prepared. Early in the
morning Mama Glasgow would ring a chicken neck or two and start preparing it along with fresh
vegetables that she gathered from her garden. The men would be the first to sit and eat at the table
and the the women would eat next. The children would always be last to eat. Occassionally a Mother would sneak a bit of chicken to one of her children but rarely.
Since the chickens had the 'run of the place' they often got hit by a car on the road that passed in front of the Glasgow house. When this happened, and as nothing could be wasted, chicken was served at the next meal.
Hog killing time was a big event at the Glasgow house and some of the family would always come to
help with the chore. On a very cold day a hog would be killed and hung up to expel the blood. As the butchering began the brains of the hog would be brought into the house to be cooked with eggs. Most of the hog meat would be hung in the smoke house for curing. But fresh hog meat was on the menu for that days meal. Killing, butchering and preparing the meat was an all day job for the family but it provided social contact and fellowship of a day working together and some of the meat was shared by all who helped.
Spending many hours with my Grandmother Glasgow and before I had my driver's license, I would drive her over the graveled country roads to visit her sister-in-law, Ada Glasgow Dempsey and to Church at Mountain Home. Occassionally she would ask me to drive her to Belgreen for necessary items at Petree's country store.
My Grandmother Glasgow was a very pleasant lady who enjoyed life to it's fullest.
Ann Glasgow. Memories of my Grandmother, Lela Tompkins Glasgow.
Dickerson DeLoach. I could have his middle name incorrect, but that is what
all the family has. I have known all along he married Ruth Nix.z Welch.
Born: 22 JUL 1915 at: Geneva Co., AL.
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