Grandma Laverty couldn't print just learned to write- she told me while doing corn. Grandma was member of Presbyterian Church and joined Laurel United Methodist when she was President of Women's Society ( a must at this time.) Member of Tuesday Study Club. And in Gilman, Order of Easter Star.
She couldn't drive so grandpa drove her. He waited up at tavern outside in nice weather and would give Sammy(close friend) and I (Doris)money if we walked by. Grandma tore material and made cotton balls that went to make carpet rags. She read Kitchen Klatterand and listened to Aunt Leann Duftmeier for years.
She liked to cook and had Oyster soup for February birthdays. A lunch was two kinds of potatoes and 2-3 kinds of vegetables. An orange salad she made a lot. Meat on bread or buns, cake, pie, and then tea at 4pm or so with cake, pie, etc.
I stayed with Grandma when mom and daddy went to Rochester and Denver.(after he got sick.) Slept on hard couch on north porch. Don't remember what we ate though, except her peanut butter cookies-always had these. Grandma always liked to dress up and always did for church where she spent a lot of time. Ladies Aid was twice a month in the 1930's and 1940's. She was on the Church Board also. Secretary for a while. She had a sense of humor.
Grandma, her mother Jane, and brother Sam came to the U.S. from Ballymena, North Ireland, and arrived in 1908 in Boston. Her brother, James, sponsored them to come here. Rachel, grandma's sister. and brother-in-law, Bob Thompson, in Gilman, Iowa were the ones they came to and stayed with.
Grandma worked for some people north of Laurel for a time as domestic help and for some people by the name of Parker north of Newburg, Iowa. Grandpa Laverty courted her by riding the hand car (railroad) to Newburg from Laurel. (info from Alan Laverty-grandson of T. A. Laverty and son of Paul and Mary Laverty)
They were married in Marshalltown by Presbyterian minister. Aunt Tillie was a witness and a John Coleman-possibly a boyfriend of Aunt Tillie. They were married on February 10, 1910 per their marriage certificate.
Grandma broke her nose in Ireland after falling off a bicycle going to work in the linen mills. She was probably the sole bread winner after her father died. (Doris couldn't find where he was buried when in Ireland in 1994.)
Grandma quilted a lot at home and at church. Put up quilt frame in living room in winter.
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