Saturday, June 16, 2012

June 16, 1979, Saturday Aunt Estelle wrote

Cloudy, rain.  Cool at morning, cloudy and light rain by night.  Janice & Wendi come this evening and we went down to Pearl's a bit.  Rained all night. 



Footnote by Pat.  Janice is her daughter and Wendi is Janice's daughter.  Pearl is Pearl  Reasor Barkley.    When I was visiting with Mother last week, Janice and Stephen Reasor came to visit on Sunday and we had a conversation about Pearl.  If I remember this right, Pearl is a first cousin to Aunt Estelle.    Pearl's mother was Rebecca Reasor who was a sister to Martin (Pappy) Reasor, Aunt Estelle's daddy.  Pearl and her husband W.L. lived with Rebecca in a big house on a hill about halfway between Deep Springs and Woodway.  Those are two very small villages in Southwest Virginia.  W. L. was a business man and ran a business out of the house, we can't remember just what the business was but he was successful.   I remember the land  had beautiful grape vines but don't remember if they made wine.    Also don't know how Pearl meet him as he was from Pennsylvania, I think.  The house was big and had a library and an office.  There was a china cabinet full of beautiful dishes.  Outside there was a spring house where they kept the milk and butter.  The spring house was made of concrete and had water running thru it.   That kept everyting very cold.   It was a lovely home. 

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