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Spiers Robert Beverly [Male] b. 28 MAY 1906 Vaughn, NC - d. 05 SEP 1985 Richmond, Henrico Co., Virginia, USA

Source
Author: Ancestry.com
Title: Public Member Trees
Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:
2006;

Residence: 1930

Source
Author: Ancestry.com
Title: Public Member Trees
Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:
2006;

Residence: 1920

Source
Author: Ancestry.com
Title: Public Member Trees
Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:
2006;

Well folks we have Frances Phillips for putting my mind to rest. She was talking to an old retired Railroad man, who was with her. She and her husband are in charge of the Rescue Squad in south side. Anyway the man said that the word is pots and in the old days before electricity, the switches were run by kerosene oil. Refilling, trimming the wicks etc was a back breaking job. That is why Daddy was sick every time he had to do the job.
Thanks Frances.
When Robert and Alva Lee came from Georgia they were burned out completely, they did not have clothes even. So Grandma scurried around and got the family clothes from the children that were their sizes. One night Grandma had a party to welcome back her son and his wife and children.
All the children were in bed, except Conway, he was the baby. He had on a little white night shirt and he was red head. He sat in Alva Lees lap and Mary or Kathryn made him a card. He would take his card and go visit his kin that were all sitting in a circle. They would take him on their lap and talk to him, and he would get tired and go back to his Mother. Then he would decide to visit another Aunt or Uncle and he would go to someone else. That is the way Conway got acquainted with his kin and they got to love him also.
We did not get paid baby sitting, we were thankful to have somewhere to sleep and food when we baby sat. My first job was Dale. He had two hernias one on each side of his leg. You had to put these pressure things on his hernias when you changed his diapers. Not only that you could not let him cry too much as it would pop out the hernias. They operated but he had to be a certain age before they did that. I slept in the spare room and they put his crib next to my bed. When he woke and got hungry he would crawl over to me and indicate that he wanted to be nursed. For a teenager that was embarrassing.
Then I would go to Mary's room and knock on the door and call her. The first night she told me to be sure I knocked on the door as Blair slept naked and she did want me to be embarrassed. So I knocked loud and clear.
Helen baby sat for the little girl that lived behind us and for Frances. In our day we did not have air conditioned, so the only way to get the baby cool and sleepy was to get on the bus and ride the route and back to your house, and by the time you got there, the baby was asleep, and so were you. She was so proud of keeping Frances, and when someone asked her if it was her child she would smile and say nothing. Frances was a beautiful child. Grandma would keep her while Florence worked and weekends she would go home and then come back the next week, if Florence was working. Private nursing is just a while then you could sign off and rest if you wanted too.
My first job was secretary for the Nel-Mar corporation. It was Mr Rosenthal's corporation, named after his two girls. That is the Standard Drug, Mr Rosenthal. I made a good 10.00 a week, good money.
Then the WWII got bad so I went to work for the C&O and was paid $2.15 a day and time and a half on Saturday. That was good money. I had to pay Mother room and board and for the telephone. Helen went to work for the Railroad and after two days she quit, She told Mr Philpotts that he worked his girls too hard, and quit, and so he came down the isle and gave me hell.
Then she went to work for a law firm, Hunton, Williams, Anderson, Gay and Moore. She did nothing but deliver messages up and down Main St. She paid mother room and board, and before the week was over she would borrow it back, and buy tuna fish sandwiches from Chicken that had a lunch counter at the State Building.
Lucy got a job for the Federal Bank Building and worked there for about a month and they let her go as they said she was too weak to work. That has been her life.
Lucy used to baby sit for Forest and Robert Tomes, and every time we would ask her about it she would say ugh and that was the end of that. They lived in a big house and seemed to have a good time, but everytime we said anything about it Lucy said ugh.

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