Mattie Lea Roseman:
Mattie Lea Roseman was my grandmother. She grew up on her Grandfather's farm near Smackover, Union County, Arkansas. Her father also worked at the timber mills around the area. She was one of seven children. There were 5 girls and 2 boys. The oldest boy was born about 1888 and died about the age of 10 in a logging accident along with his father in 1899. She married early in her life to Walter Samuel Golden in about 1905.
Since I never knew my grandpa Walt, as Grandmother called him, these stories below are ones that were told to me by my mother and/or mother's sisters and brothers. Mattie and Walter are buried in Pinecrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Mena, Arkansas along with a number of their children.
Grandpa Walt and Grandmother Mattie met while he worked as a lumber mill laborer near grandmother's father's farm in Quachita Co, AR. She was 16 at the time of their marriage. Although nine of their eleven children were born in Arkansas, the last two daughters were born in Galena, MO. They had moved there for my grandmother's health. While living in Missouri, Grandma and Grandpa and children were share croppers and farmed tomatoes. Mother once said that they had more tomatoes than they could eat, but only the over-ripe ones. They made catsup and canned tomatoes so that none went to waste. During that period they lived in a hotel and ran a cafe for a short period. Grandpa was also a deputy sheriff, but when he arrested the sheriff's son for something, grandpa was arrested and spent 6 months in jail. Most of that time was spent as a trustee and not an inmate.
Later they moved back to AR and lived in a yellow house near the foot of Rich Mountain. Grandpa raised chickens and probably farmed some. In the fall of 1931, grandpa and uncle Oscar went up the mountain to spray the chicken house for chicken mites. After doing some cleaning grandpa wouldn't let Oscar help with the spraying. Grandpa went into the chicken house and closed the door and beginning spraying with "Black Flag" (not sure what type of poison that was) for the chicken mites. When he emerged from the chicken house, uncle Oscar said he was very pale and coughing. He got sick immediately and had to be helped back home where he went to bed. He was treated for pneumonia, and also had his lungs drained but it was too late. He died several weeks later.
After the death of her husband, Walter, Mattie bought a two-story home in 1935 and opened a boarding house. During the 1940's and early 1950's when her children and grandchildren would come home many fun times were spent together. At times there was jelly or preserve making. When that happened it would get to be very hot in the kitchen as she had a very large wood stove to cook on which heated the kitchen up even with all of the windows open. She would also get the grand-daughters to wash and dry all of the dishes, and would stand over them to make sure they were as clean as she wanted them, otherwise she would put them back in the dishwater until she was satisfied. Many happy family hours were spent in her kitchen visiting and having family fellowship.
Mattie was also a very religious person, a member of the First Baptist Church in Mena, AR, and believed firmly in Jesus as her Savior. She felt that everyone should believe and would quote Scripture and argue about how to interpret the Bible. She and my father spent many late nights arguing and discussing who knew more about the Bible. She loved all of her family, but she did expect them to behave properly. Also, from my first memory, she had very long gray hair that hung below her waist when she let you brush it out. She kept it braided and/or in a bun until her late sixties, at which time she had it cut and got a permanent. Grandmother Mattie was about 5-feet tall and of small frame but she could split wood for her wood stoves as quick as lightening. She could cut a cord of wood for the kitchen wood stove and others in the living areas faster than we could stack it up or carry it to the house.
Mattie Lea Roseman was my grandmother. She grew up on her Grandfather's farm near Smackover, Union County, Arkansas. Her father also worked at the timber mills around the area. She was one of seven children. There were 5 girls and 2 boys. The oldest boy was born about 1888 and died about the age of 10 in a logging accident along with his father in 1899. She married early in her life to Walter Samuel Golden in about 1905.
Since I never knew my grandpa Walt, as Grandmother called him, these stories below are ones that were told to me by my mother and/or mother's sisters and brothers. Mattie and Walter are buried in Pinecrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Mena, Arkansas along with a number of their children.
Grandpa Walt and Grandmother Mattie met while he worked as a lumber mill laborer near grandmother's father's farm in Quachita Co, AR. She was 16 at the time of their marriage. Although nine of their eleven children were born in Arkansas, the last two daughters were born in Galena, MO. They had moved there for my grandmother's health. While living in Missouri, Grandma and Grandpa and children were share croppers and farmed tomatoes. Mother once said that they had more tomatoes than they could eat, but only the over-ripe ones. They made catsup and canned tomatoes so that none went to waste. During that period they lived in a hotel and ran a cafe for a short period. Grandpa was also a deputy sheriff, but when he arrested the sheriff's son for something, grandpa was arrested and spent 6 months in jail. Most of that time was spent as a trustee and not an inmate.
Later they moved back to AR and lived in a yellow house near the foot of Rich Mountain. Grandpa raised chickens and probably farmed some. In the fall of 1931, grandpa and uncle Oscar went up the mountain to spray the chicken house for chicken mites. After doing some cleaning grandpa wouldn't let Oscar help with the spraying. Grandpa went into the chicken house and closed the door and beginning spraying with "Black Flag" (not sure what type of poison that was) for the chicken mites. When he emerged from the chicken house, uncle Oscar said he was very pale and coughing. He got sick immediately and had to be helped back home where he went to bed. He was treated for pneumonia, and also had his lungs drained but it was too late. He died several weeks later.
After the death of her husband, Walter, Mattie bought a two-story home in 1935 and opened a boarding house. During the 1940's and early 1950's when her children and grandchildren would come home many fun times were spent together. At times there was jelly or preserve making. When that happened it would get to be very hot in the kitchen as she had a very large wood stove to cook on which heated the kitchen up even with all of the windows open. She would also get the grand-daughters to wash and dry all of the dishes, and would stand over them to make sure they were as clean as she wanted them, otherwise she would put them back in the dishwater until she was satisfied. Many happy family hours were spent in her kitchen visiting and having family fellowship.
Mattie was also a very religious person, a member of the First Baptist Church in Mena, AR, and believed firmly in Jesus as her Savior. She felt that everyone should believe and would quote Scripture and argue about how to interpret the Bible. She and my father spent many late nights arguing and discussing who knew more about the Bible. She loved all of her family, but she did expect them to behave properly. Also, from my first memory, she had very long gray hair that hung below her waist when she let you brush it out. She kept it braided and/or in a bun until her late sixties, at which time she had it cut and got a permanent. Grandmother Mattie was about 5-feet tall and of small frame but she could split wood for her wood stoves as quick as lightening. She could cut a cord of wood for the kitchen wood stove and others in the living areas faster than we could stack it up or carry it to the house.
Mattie Lea Roseman:
Mattie Lea Roseman was my grandmother. She grew up on her Grandfather's farm near Smackover, Union County, Arkansas. Her father also worked at the timber mills around the area. She was one of seven children. There were 5 girls and 2 boys. The oldest boy was born about 1888 and died about the age of 10 in a logging accident along with his father in 1899. She married early in her life to Walter Samuel Golden in about 1905.
Since I never knew my grandpa Walt, as Grandmother called him, these stories below are ones that were told to me by my mother and/or mother's sisters and brothers. Mattie and Walter are buried in Pinecrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Mena, Arkansas along with a number of their children.
Grandpa Walt and Grandmother Mattie met while he worked as a lumber mill laborer near grandmother's father's farm in Quachita Co, AR. She was 16 at the time of their marriage. Although nine of their eleven children were born in Arkansas, the last two daughters were born in Galena, MO. They had moved there for my grandmother's health. While living in Missouri, Grandma and Grandpa and children were share croppers and farmed tomatoes. Mother once said that they had more tomatoes than they could eat, but only the over-ripe ones. They made catsup and canned tomatoes so that none went to waste. During that period they lived in a hotel and ran a cafe for a short period. Grandpa was also a deputy sheriff, but when he arrested the sheriff's son for something, grandpa was arrested and spent 6 months in jail. Most of that time was spent as a trustee and not an inmate.
Later they moved back to AR and lived in a yellow house near the foot of Rich Mountain. Grandpa raised chickens and probably farmed some. In the fall of 1931, grandpa and uncle Oscar went up the mountain to spray the chicken house for chicken mites. After doing some cleaning grandpa wouldn't let Oscar help with the spraying. Grandpa went into the chicken house and closed the door and beginning spraying with "Black Flag" (not sure what type of poison that was) for the chicken mites. When he emerged from the chicken house, uncle Oscar said he was very pale and coughing. He got sick immediately and had to be helped back home where he went to bed. He was treated for pneumonia, and also had his lungs drained but it was too late. He died several weeks later.
After the death of her husband, Walter, Mattie bought a two-story home in 1935 and opened a boarding house. During the 1940's and early 1950's when her children and grandchildren would come home many fun times were spent together. At times there was jelly or preserve making. When that happened it would get to be very hot in the kitchen as she had a very large wood stove to cook on which heated the kitchen up even with all of the windows open. She would also get the grand-daughters to wash and dry all of the dishes, and would stand over them to make sure they were as clean as she wanted them, otherwise she would put them back in the dishwater until she was satisfied. Many happy family hours were spent in her kitchen visiting and having family fellowship.
Mattie was also a very religious person, a member of the First Baptist Church in Mena, AR, and believed firmly in Jesus as her Savior. She felt that everyone should believe and would quote Scripture and argue about how to interpret the Bible. She and my father spent many late nights arguing and discussing who knew more about the Bible. She loved all of her family, but she did expect them to behave properly. Also, from my first memory, she had very long gray hair that hung below her waist when she let you brush it out. She kept it braided and/or in a bun until her late sixties, at which time she had it cut and got a permanent. Grandmother Mattie was about 5-feet tall and of small frame but she could split wood for her wood stoves as quick as lightening. She could cut a cord of wood for the kitchen wood stove and others in the living areas faster than we could stack it up or carry it to the house.
Mattie Lea Roseman was my grandmother. She grew up on her Grandfather's farm near Smackover, Union County, Arkansas. Her father also worked at the timber mills around the area. She was one of seven children. There were 5 girls and 2 boys. The oldest boy was born about 1888 and died about the age of 10 in a logging accident along with his father in 1899. She married early in her life to Walter Samuel Golden in about 1905.
Since I never knew my grandpa Walt, as Grandmother called him, these stories below are ones that were told to me by my mother and/or mother's sisters and brothers. Mattie and Walter are buried in Pinecrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Mena, Arkansas along with a number of their children.
Grandpa Walt and Grandmother Mattie met while he worked as a lumber mill laborer near grandmother's father's farm in Quachita Co, AR. She was 16 at the time of their marriage. Although nine of their eleven children were born in Arkansas, the last two daughters were born in Galena, MO. They had moved there for my grandmother's health. While living in Missouri, Grandma and Grandpa and children were share croppers and farmed tomatoes. Mother once said that they had more tomatoes than they could eat, but only the over-ripe ones. They made catsup and canned tomatoes so that none went to waste. During that period they lived in a hotel and ran a cafe for a short period. Grandpa was also a deputy sheriff, but when he arrested the sheriff's son for something, grandpa was arrested and spent 6 months in jail. Most of that time was spent as a trustee and not an inmate.
Later they moved back to AR and lived in a yellow house near the foot of Rich Mountain. Grandpa raised chickens and probably farmed some. In the fall of 1931, grandpa and uncle Oscar went up the mountain to spray the chicken house for chicken mites. After doing some cleaning grandpa wouldn't let Oscar help with the spraying. Grandpa went into the chicken house and closed the door and beginning spraying with "Black Flag" (not sure what type of poison that was) for the chicken mites. When he emerged from the chicken house, uncle Oscar said he was very pale and coughing. He got sick immediately and had to be helped back home where he went to bed. He was treated for pneumonia, and also had his lungs drained but it was too late. He died several weeks later.
After the death of her husband, Walter, Mattie bought a two-story home in 1935 and opened a boarding house. During the 1940's and early 1950's when her children and grandchildren would come home many fun times were spent together. At times there was jelly or preserve making. When that happened it would get to be very hot in the kitchen as she had a very large wood stove to cook on which heated the kitchen up even with all of the windows open. She would also get the grand-daughters to wash and dry all of the dishes, and would stand over them to make sure they were as clean as she wanted them, otherwise she would put them back in the dishwater until she was satisfied. Many happy family hours were spent in her kitchen visiting and having family fellowship.
Mattie was also a very religious person, a member of the First Baptist Church in Mena, AR, and believed firmly in Jesus as her Savior. She felt that everyone should believe and would quote Scripture and argue about how to interpret the Bible. She and my father spent many late nights arguing and discussing who knew more about the Bible. She loved all of her family, but she did expect them to behave properly. Also, from my first memory, she had very long gray hair that hung below her waist when she let you brush it out. She kept it braided and/or in a bun until her late sixties, at which time she had it cut and got a permanent. Grandmother Mattie was about 5-feet tall and of small frame but she could split wood for her wood stoves as quick as lightening. She could cut a cord of wood for the kitchen wood stove and others in the living areas faster than we could stack it up or carry it to the house.
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