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This is an excerpt from my 97 year old aunt's Lucy Lois (Cloyd) Smith's book about growing up in rural, KY. "Beyond the Mountains". (At 97 she is beginning another book. What does that say for the staying power of Cloyds. ha)
"We always had others to share our Christmas dinner. The adults had the first "setting," at the turkey and trimmings unless there was room for the children. Then we joined them at the big table.
At Christmas the men would have Bourbon but there were not any of them that became pixilated. A toast was about as far as they went. After Christmas dinner, the men sat in one room talking or playing Whist; the ladies in another room and the children all over the place playing with their toys or outside with sleds or having a snowball throw, or playing Tug O'War.
At dusk, Daddy would shoot off Roman candles and it seemed they went right up into Heaven. The day was not complete until we went to church for the festivities.
The church was at the end of the lane. There was always a good attendance because of the Christmas Pageant... "
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty & Del Meischen" <meischen(a)industryinet.com>
To: <CLOYD-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Cloyd] Christmas Greeting
> My best rememberance is when I was a little girl 50 years ago on a cold,
> winter day in Cochran (Raccoon Bend), Austin County, Texas. My
> grandparents Raymond and Maud Cloyd took us to a little Baptist church
> Christmas party in a very old building that has been torn down for many
> years now. Each child was given a bag that contained an apple, an orange,
> a candy cane and some nuts. That's all, yet back then it was so special.
>
> Fifty years ago, just coming out of the Great Depression and a 4 year war,
> children did not receive the instant gratification of every want & wish as
> they do today. A gift really did mean something back then. I can still
> remember the smell of that orange and the bright lights on the simply
> decorated cedar tree.
>
> Isn't it time we begin to make "gifts" special again? What are our
> children learning by never having to wait for something good?
>
> My grandfather Cloyd, a sharecropper, whose great-grandfather James Bell
> had once owned a plantation of thousands of acres, knew hardships. Quite
> possibly, a time of hardships is still coming upon us...and a time when
> gifts again will be "something special."
>
> God bless you all this Christmas,
> Betty Meischen
> www.bettystrails.com
>
> PS My new book Virginia: The Cradle of America will be available from my
> publisher www.iuniverse.com in about two weeks. It is loaded with the
> history of the Cloyd family in early America.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Doiefamily(a)aol.com>
> To: <CLOYD-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:45 AM
> Subject: [Cloyd] Christmas Greeting
>
>
>> Today is Dec 6 of the and i thought anyone with Christmas memory could
>> post
>> your's to the list .I known several lists that do this and it will get
>> more
>> activity to our mailing list.It would be nice if your memory is of the
>> Cloyd
>> family
>>
>> Jerri
>> List mom
>>
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Today is Dec 6 of the and i thought anyone with Christmas memory could post
your's to the list .I known several lists that do this and it will get more
activity to our mailing list.It would be nice if your memory is of the Cloyd
family
Jerri
List mom