Callie Lynch was my maternal great grandmother who lived her entire life in the same community in central Virginia where she died in 1949. She was a mother and homemaker and had a husband who adored her. They had four sons and three daughters.
My memory of her is how thin and slight she was as an elder. I do not remember her cooking but am told she could set a fine table. In that day and time there was no fast food, so whatever she prepared got made from 'scratch'. I am told she did love to cook and did not spare the salt, butter and sugar from her recipes and that her fried apples were the best.
One characteristic of hers that I have inherited, she loved to go barefoot. In fact the story goes that my grandmother Martha Susan on her wedding day was nervous that her mother would not be properly dressed for the occasion! Grandma, as she was known, was her own person.
In later life she did become diabetic and needed insulin every day, which she received from my grandmother, who walked a half mile each way to her home for that purpose and later took her into her own home for care.
