Richard
Grandma was Welsh. Five foot tall five foot wide. We ate pasties at least
twice every week when she was with us, ate saffron cookies drank tea and sang
hymns on Sunday. She grew sassafras (sp?) and had an herb garden around her
home. Rubarb was a staple at her house. It seems like horehound drops and
casteroil was the cure for everything from warts cough to measles. She came
to America as a mail order bride some time in the 1880's as an adult and
lived in Colorado, Washington, California, Mexico and came to Arizona before
1912. Her husband, one son and a grandsone died in 1919 from the influenza.
She died in 1960 while I was in college. The family name was Mason. I got
in fight in the first grade because someone had called me a "cousin Jack."
Grandma said I should have been upset because she was Welsh and not Cornish.
Mason
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