Memories From My Mother

I have recently been exploring my ancestry. I have always been aware of the people who were before me, but I discovered things online that I had no idea of and passed photos and stories on to my mother and my sister. My mother answered with some emails that I will copy and paste here.
She will be referring to my great grandparents, Asa Walter Hart and Eugenia (Genie Pearl Youngblood) Hart.
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When your dad and I went to see his grandmother right after he got home from the war we had only been married about 4 months and still considered it a honeymoon phase. We made the trip on a train from Houston to ? It had a big statue of Popeye and was spinach country in south Texas .  I will look at a map and see the name.  Grandmother and his grandfather owned a hotel and we got a room and it had no lock and Grandmother Hart would pop in at will and it was embarrasing to me.  But when we arrived amd got off the train she and I were walkinjg behind the 2 men and she was saying how much they love Charles and I made the comment that I was so glad he was mine.  She very huffily replied he was theirs too!!~!!!. I felt about 2 ft. high!!  She was so tiny and really ruled the roost.  She disowned one daughter who married someone she did not like and Grandaddy used to meet the daughter and give her money.  He was a very fine man and I loved him.  When he was on Harts back screened room and about to die I went over to see him and when I walked in he smiled and said “There is that beautiful doll Charles married!! He could hardly catch a breath and died a couple of months later, I think.  So sweet to be a Hart.  Ha!  Oh, it was Aunt Blanche who found grandmothers, displeasure.  She also had cancer at a later date and had both breast removed and lived to a ripe age which is amazing considered the time span so long ago. Hope this gives you a peek into that time span.  We only stayed a week but we went down to Mexico, picked bluebonnets on the way down and bought silk stockings which we could not get in the US>the services used all the silk for parachutes, etc.  in the war.  

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thanks for reminding me of the names and it was Crystal City .  I hate that my memory is so bad at times.  I cannot think of Blanches last name but it is in the book.  Oh, my father and grandfather and my sister Doris;s baby are  in Hollywood cemetary in Houston . It was so sad when my dad died.  Of course he was an alcoholic from the day we lost our house in the depression.  He died from the effects of liquor and when he was buried in Hollywood the cemetary keepers had tied back huge bushes and there was his plot.  No arrangements were made ahead of time and the next day when we went back they had cut the cords and his grave was covered.  Heart breaking for my mother.  Frankie and I drove out there a few years ago and the bushes were gone but he was by a street.  I must have been about 8.  When Frankie and I went to the hospital before he died they said I could not go up to see him as I was too young and Frankie grabbed my hand and told them I WAS going up and off we went!  Amazing how many memories are in this mind of mine.  Ha!. 

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My mother is 85. My father passed away in 1986. He was buried with honors at Mount Olive Cemetery, Stockman Texas... interestingly he was born in Stockman, which no longer exists short of the old church and graveyard and a small private lake where Dad used to fish, and some rural farmhouses.

My friend Cara offered to dig up stuff from Ancestry.com for me, and has pulled up some treasure!Here is a tribute to Matilda E. Youngblood written by her granddaughter.

I was afraid this was a post-mortem photo but then I learned that she had received the Easter lilies for being the oldest mother in the church.