(The following came from "Some Ancestors And Descendants of William Knight And Amanda Jane Wattenbarger" compiled by Beverly and F Norman Pottle)
Minnie was a strong-willed chubby woman, 5'4" tall, who dipped snuff. Carl bought her a special black leather chair which he shellacked so the spit wouldn't hurt it. The spit can was always close to her chair, and frequently a little dribble of snuff ran from the corner of her mouth. The grandchildren remember that she smelled like snuff when they kissed her.
Minnie had parakeets, a canary named Krieger, two or three cats, and a dog, usually a chow that she kept on a chain by the back door. She kept chickens in the back yard and was an expert at snapping their necks for Sunday dinner. The grandchildren watched as she swung them around by the neck and then waited for them to flop around in the dust before they died.
She "choked her biscuits" (instead of rolling them)--"best biscuits of anywhere in the world." She made them in a special large oblong bowl chiseled from the hollowed-out trunk of a tree.
She retained a good sense of humor even while bedridden from a stroke in her 70's. When her granddaughter said "See you later, alligator," she'd answer "After while, crocodile." She died October 20, 1956 in Sherman, Texas.
Minnie was a strong-willed chubby woman, 5'4" tall, who dipped snuff. Carl bought her a special black leather chair which he shellacked so the spit wouldn't hurt it. The spit can was always close to her chair, and frequently a little dribble of snuff ran from the corner of her mouth. The grandchildren remember that she smelled like snuff when they kissed her.
Minnie had parakeets, a canary named Krieger, two or three cats, and a dog, usually a chow that she kept on a chain by the back door. She kept chickens in the back yard and was an expert at snapping their necks for Sunday dinner. The grandchildren watched as she swung them around by the neck and then waited for them to flop around in the dust before they died.
She "choked her biscuits" (instead of rolling them)--"best biscuits of anywhere in the world." She made them in a special large oblong bowl chiseled from the hollowed-out trunk of a tree.
She retained a good sense of humor even while bedridden from a stroke in her 70's. When her granddaughter said "See you later, alligator," she'd answer "After while, crocodile." She died October 20, 1956 in Sherman, Texas.
(The following came from "Some Ancestors And Descendants of William Knight And Amanda Jane Wattenbarger" compiled by Beverly and F Norman Pottle)
Minnie was a strong-willed chubby woman, 5'4" tall, who dipped snuff. Carl bought her a special black leather chair which he shellacked so the spit wouldn't hurt it. The spit can was always close to her chair, and frequently a little dribble of snuff ran from the corner of her mouth. The grandchildren remember that she smelled like snuff when they kissed her.
Minnie had parakeets, a canary named Krieger, two or three cats, and a dog, usually a chow that she kept on a chain by the back door. She kept chickens in the back yard and was an expert at snapping their necks for Sunday dinner. The grandchildren watched as she swung them around by the neck and then waited for them to flop around in the dust before they died.
She "choked her biscuits" (instead of rolling them)--"best biscuits of anywhere in the world." She made them in a special large oblong bowl chiseled from the hollowed-out trunk of a tree.
She retained a good sense of humor even while bedridden from a stroke in her 70's. When her granddaughter said "See you later, alligator," she'd answer "After while, crocodile." She died October 20, 1956 in Sherman, Texas.
Minnie was a strong-willed chubby woman, 5'4" tall, who dipped snuff. Carl bought her a special black leather chair which he shellacked so the spit wouldn't hurt it. The spit can was always close to her chair, and frequently a little dribble of snuff ran from the corner of her mouth. The grandchildren remember that she smelled like snuff when they kissed her.
Minnie had parakeets, a canary named Krieger, two or three cats, and a dog, usually a chow that she kept on a chain by the back door. She kept chickens in the back yard and was an expert at snapping their necks for Sunday dinner. The grandchildren watched as she swung them around by the neck and then waited for them to flop around in the dust before they died.
She "choked her biscuits" (instead of rolling them)--"best biscuits of anywhere in the world." She made them in a special large oblong bowl chiseled from the hollowed-out trunk of a tree.
She retained a good sense of humor even while bedridden from a stroke in her 70's. When her granddaughter said "See you later, alligator," she'd answer "After while, crocodile." She died October 20, 1956 in Sherman, Texas.
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