Pinkie BeAvis Stewart was born the ninth child of William Calvin and Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie B" Stewart of the Tanner community in Limestone County, Alabama. She married Alford Whitten "Whitten" Moyers in 1906 at the age of 19. She and Whitten raised seven of the eight children born to them, the youngest, a boy, was stillborn.
Pinkie and Whitten raised their children in the Tanner Methodist Church where they are along with some of their children, buried in the ajoining cemetery. Pinkie's parents and some cousins are buried there as well. Their two oldest sons both lost wives less than a week after giving birth to their babies and Pinkie took the babies in to help raise them for her son while they worked. Leroy took his daughter at age 6 and moved to Oak Ridge, TN after he married his second wife. Rufus, was out in California working and was killed in a gas explosion and his daughter lived with Pinkie and Whitten until she married. Pinkie and Whitten loved throwing big get togethers at their farm and when one of their sons, the youngest, Woodrow was coming home from the Navy, Whitten killed some hogs and cooked over a fire in the barn yard and invited the whole community to join them in celebrating their son's return from the war. Whitten became ill with cancer and after suffering a long illness he gave up the fight in 1949. Pinkie continued to run the farm, her daughter Vivian was divorced and had a child, moved in with her mother. Vivian was a school teacher so when school was out she would take her mother and daughter and drive to Jacksonville, Fla to visit with one of the granddaughter's that she had raised from a baby who was married and living there with her husband and her two children. For years Pinkie spent her Christmas in Fla. Pinkie love to go fishing, we spent alot of our warmer days wetting a hook, she didn't want one of those new fang dangled rod and reels as she called them, give her a cane pole and she was happy. One time after she got up in years she was sitting in a fold up chair fishing off the bank at her nieces pond and she had a fish on her line, she got so excited that she turned over in her chair and fell into the edge of the water, Vivian was trying to grab her to get her out of the water and she was yelling at Vivian to let her go and grab the pole, she'd better not let her fish get away. After we got grandma back into her chair and made sure she was ok my mom spent the next 30 minutes or so trying to get that cane pole with the fish on it out of the pond, when she did it had a pretty good sized catfish on it. Pinkie grew older and needed someone to stay with her while Vivian worked so her daughter-in-laws, wives of her sons William and A.W. took turns staying with her until they finally hired a lady by the name of Louise Sweeney to sit with Pinkie and watch Vivian's small daughter who absolutely adored Louise, I know because I am that little girl. Pinkie liked staying up late at night watching tv, they were the first family who lived in the area to own one, Vivian won it at the fair. Pinkie's granddaughter would sit up with her and watch the midnight movie, it was called that because it came on at exactly midnight. Pinkie loved westerns but her favorite movie was Black Beauty.
I don't remember much about my grandma, I was only 10 when she passed away but I do remember that she was very superstitious, we couldn't have a black cat, any other color was ok, she wouldn't walk under a ladder and she had a weeping willow cut down from in the woods behind their house because she said that when it was tall enough for it's shadow to cover a grave someone she loved deeply would die, another thing I remember was that she had these cute little sayings...one was if you asked her how she felt she would hold up her fingers and rubbing her thumb and fore finger together she would say "why, with my fingers, darling", another one that I have tried to live by and taught my children the same ...she hated gossip, she would say "if you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all" That is a very hard thing to live by but she did it everyday.
Pinkie and Whitten raised their children in the Tanner Methodist Church where they are along with some of their children, buried in the ajoining cemetery. Pinkie's parents and some cousins are buried there as well. Their two oldest sons both lost wives less than a week after giving birth to their babies and Pinkie took the babies in to help raise them for her son while they worked. Leroy took his daughter at age 6 and moved to Oak Ridge, TN after he married his second wife. Rufus, was out in California working and was killed in a gas explosion and his daughter lived with Pinkie and Whitten until she married. Pinkie and Whitten loved throwing big get togethers at their farm and when one of their sons, the youngest, Woodrow was coming home from the Navy, Whitten killed some hogs and cooked over a fire in the barn yard and invited the whole community to join them in celebrating their son's return from the war. Whitten became ill with cancer and after suffering a long illness he gave up the fight in 1949. Pinkie continued to run the farm, her daughter Vivian was divorced and had a child, moved in with her mother. Vivian was a school teacher so when school was out she would take her mother and daughter and drive to Jacksonville, Fla to visit with one of the granddaughter's that she had raised from a baby who was married and living there with her husband and her two children. For years Pinkie spent her Christmas in Fla. Pinkie love to go fishing, we spent alot of our warmer days wetting a hook, she didn't want one of those new fang dangled rod and reels as she called them, give her a cane pole and she was happy. One time after she got up in years she was sitting in a fold up chair fishing off the bank at her nieces pond and she had a fish on her line, she got so excited that she turned over in her chair and fell into the edge of the water, Vivian was trying to grab her to get her out of the water and she was yelling at Vivian to let her go and grab the pole, she'd better not let her fish get away. After we got grandma back into her chair and made sure she was ok my mom spent the next 30 minutes or so trying to get that cane pole with the fish on it out of the pond, when she did it had a pretty good sized catfish on it. Pinkie grew older and needed someone to stay with her while Vivian worked so her daughter-in-laws, wives of her sons William and A.W. took turns staying with her until they finally hired a lady by the name of Louise Sweeney to sit with Pinkie and watch Vivian's small daughter who absolutely adored Louise, I know because I am that little girl. Pinkie liked staying up late at night watching tv, they were the first family who lived in the area to own one, Vivian won it at the fair. Pinkie's granddaughter would sit up with her and watch the midnight movie, it was called that because it came on at exactly midnight. Pinkie loved westerns but her favorite movie was Black Beauty.
I don't remember much about my grandma, I was only 10 when she passed away but I do remember that she was very superstitious, we couldn't have a black cat, any other color was ok, she wouldn't walk under a ladder and she had a weeping willow cut down from in the woods behind their house because she said that when it was tall enough for it's shadow to cover a grave someone she loved deeply would die, another thing I remember was that she had these cute little sayings...one was if you asked her how she felt she would hold up her fingers and rubbing her thumb and fore finger together she would say "why, with my fingers, darling", another one that I have tried to live by and taught my children the same ...she hated gossip, she would say "if you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all" That is a very hard thing to live by but she did it everyday.
Pinkie BeAvis Stewart was born the ninth child of William Calvin and Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie B" Stewart of the Tanner community in Limestone County, Alabama. She married Alford Whitten "Whitten" Moyers in 1906 at the age of 19. She and Whitten raised seven of the eight children born to them, the youngest, a boy, was stillborn.
Pinkie and Whitten raised their children in the Tanner Methodist Church where they are along with some of their children, buried in the ajoining cemetery. Pinkie's parents and some cousins are buried there as well. Their two oldest sons both lost wives less than a week after giving birth to their babies and Pinkie took the babies in to help raise them for her son while they worked. Leroy took his daughter at age 6 and moved to Oak Ridge, TN after he married his second wife. Rufus, was out in California working and was killed in a gas explosion and his daughter lived with Pinkie and Whitten until she married. Pinkie and Whitten loved throwing big get togethers at their farm and when one of their sons, the youngest, Woodrow was coming home from the Navy, Whitten killed some hogs and cooked over a fire in the barn yard and invited the whole community to join them in celebrating their son's return from the war. Whitten became ill with cancer and after suffering a long illness he gave up the fight in 1949. Pinkie continued to run the farm, her daughter Vivian was divorced and had a child, moved in with her mother. Vivian was a school teacher so when school was out she would take her mother and daughter and drive to Jacksonville, Fla to visit with one of the granddaughter's that she had raised from a baby who was married and living there with her husband and her two children. For years Pinkie spent her Christmas in Fla. Pinkie love to go fishing, we spent alot of our warmer days wetting a hook, she didn't want one of those new fang dangled rod and reels as she called them, give her a cane pole and she was happy. One time after she got up in years she was sitting in a fold up chair fishing off the bank at her nieces pond and she had a fish on her line, she got so excited that she turned over in her chair and fell into the edge of the water, Vivian was trying to grab her to get her out of the water and she was yelling at Vivian to let her go and grab the pole, she'd better not let her fish get away. After we got grandma back into her chair and made sure she was ok my mom spent the next 30 minutes or so trying to get that cane pole with the fish on it out of the pond, when she did it had a pretty good sized catfish on it. Pinkie grew older and needed someone to stay with her while Vivian worked so her daughter-in-laws, wives of her sons William and A.W. took turns staying with her until they finally hired a lady by the name of Louise Sweeney to sit with Pinkie and watch Vivian's small daughter who absolutely adored Louise, I know because I am that little girl. Pinkie liked staying up late at night watching tv, they were the first family who lived in the area to own one, Vivian won it at the fair. Pinkie's granddaughter would sit up with her and watch the midnight movie, it was called that because it came on at exactly midnight. Pinkie loved westerns but her favorite movie was Black Beauty.
I don't remember much about my grandma, I was only 10 when she passed away but I do remember that she was very superstitious, we couldn't have a black cat, any other color was ok, she wouldn't walk under a ladder and she had a weeping willow cut down from in the woods behind their house because she said that when it was tall enough for it's shadow to cover a grave someone she loved deeply would die, another thing I remember was that she had these cute little sayings...one was if you asked her how she felt she would hold up her fingers and rubbing her thumb and fore finger together she would say "why, with my fingers, darling", another one that I have tried to live by and taught my children the same ...she hated gossip, she would say "if you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all" That is a very hard thing to live by but she did it everyday.
Pinkie and Whitten raised their children in the Tanner Methodist Church where they are along with some of their children, buried in the ajoining cemetery. Pinkie's parents and some cousins are buried there as well. Their two oldest sons both lost wives less than a week after giving birth to their babies and Pinkie took the babies in to help raise them for her son while they worked. Leroy took his daughter at age 6 and moved to Oak Ridge, TN after he married his second wife. Rufus, was out in California working and was killed in a gas explosion and his daughter lived with Pinkie and Whitten until she married. Pinkie and Whitten loved throwing big get togethers at their farm and when one of their sons, the youngest, Woodrow was coming home from the Navy, Whitten killed some hogs and cooked over a fire in the barn yard and invited the whole community to join them in celebrating their son's return from the war. Whitten became ill with cancer and after suffering a long illness he gave up the fight in 1949. Pinkie continued to run the farm, her daughter Vivian was divorced and had a child, moved in with her mother. Vivian was a school teacher so when school was out she would take her mother and daughter and drive to Jacksonville, Fla to visit with one of the granddaughter's that she had raised from a baby who was married and living there with her husband and her two children. For years Pinkie spent her Christmas in Fla. Pinkie love to go fishing, we spent alot of our warmer days wetting a hook, she didn't want one of those new fang dangled rod and reels as she called them, give her a cane pole and she was happy. One time after she got up in years she was sitting in a fold up chair fishing off the bank at her nieces pond and she had a fish on her line, she got so excited that she turned over in her chair and fell into the edge of the water, Vivian was trying to grab her to get her out of the water and she was yelling at Vivian to let her go and grab the pole, she'd better not let her fish get away. After we got grandma back into her chair and made sure she was ok my mom spent the next 30 minutes or so trying to get that cane pole with the fish on it out of the pond, when she did it had a pretty good sized catfish on it. Pinkie grew older and needed someone to stay with her while Vivian worked so her daughter-in-laws, wives of her sons William and A.W. took turns staying with her until they finally hired a lady by the name of Louise Sweeney to sit with Pinkie and watch Vivian's small daughter who absolutely adored Louise, I know because I am that little girl. Pinkie liked staying up late at night watching tv, they were the first family who lived in the area to own one, Vivian won it at the fair. Pinkie's granddaughter would sit up with her and watch the midnight movie, it was called that because it came on at exactly midnight. Pinkie loved westerns but her favorite movie was Black Beauty.
I don't remember much about my grandma, I was only 10 when she passed away but I do remember that she was very superstitious, we couldn't have a black cat, any other color was ok, she wouldn't walk under a ladder and she had a weeping willow cut down from in the woods behind their house because she said that when it was tall enough for it's shadow to cover a grave someone she loved deeply would die, another thing I remember was that she had these cute little sayings...one was if you asked her how she felt she would hold up her fingers and rubbing her thumb and fore finger together she would say "why, with my fingers, darling", another one that I have tried to live by and taught my children the same ...she hated gossip, she would say "if you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all" That is a very hard thing to live by but she did it everyday.
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