With little money and a husband with the disposition of a cheetah in tight shoes, my former mother-in-law qualified for sainthood long before she met her Maker.  Lillian Masters Massey came from, “Coon’s Creek”, the home farm of Charity and Sylvanus Masters.  As a child, she walked the four miles to old Reunion School in Pickens County and rarely took more than an over the counter drug for a cold.

“Some people enjoy poor health and that’s why they stay sick. It’s the attitude ‘dahhlink’ (darling)–the attitude!” She loved to dabble in a German accent for fun. Read More→