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1910 Census Marshall Co., Alabama (12232):(12233)ED 96-22 :
Iona (Erma?) 7 AL in hh of James M. Culpepper.
1920 Census: Etowah Co., Alabama (12234) V29 ED40-1:24:
Erma daughter 17 AL in hh of Monroe J. Culpepper
RFN: 34610
When Erma and Scott's children were small, they lived in New Merkle out by Cahaba. At the time it was undeveloped, and just woods. Scott was a lineman for the telephone company. One day he fell from a pole and hurt his back so he couldn't work. Erma told me that every other morning she would go to the door and find food for her family, that had been put there by the Moonshiners, she
believed, but she never saw them to thank them. She said they ate better after Scott fell than before, .. fresh eggs, fresh milk, etc.
(Martha Cross Herron Mordecai
Erma was a beautiful woman and her children were beautiful also. Scott
was a stricking man in appearance with brilliant blue eyes. I met them in their
later years and they were still nice to look at. Erma had very deep dimples and when she laughed her eyes sparkled. She said that her grandmother, on her mother's side, was of indian blood, and I believed it because she had almost black hair and very dark brown eyes until her mid 70s. Half of her children had dark brown eyes and hair, and the others had blue eyes and light hair.
She was a wonderful human being who was very creative and always
joking and laughing. She was always very spirited.
(Martha Cross Herron Mordecai)
She told me that when she was a little girl, her Dad would go to town & even though they were poor, he would bring candy back for her and her siblings.
She saved hers to bribe them to do her part of the cotton picking, while she played under the big tree in the field. She made mud pies and daydreamed about what she wanted her life to be like when she grew up. She designed houses in her dreaming, as well.
(Source: Page Herron Barker, Erma's granddaughter)
When she was in her late 70's, she lived with her daughter, Sarah. She told me that she became tired of living with Sarah because she felt she didn't have her independence. So, she rented one side of a duplex apartment and moved in. She went into the wooded area in the back yard, cut down 7 pine trees, cut them up, carried them to the road and made herself a patio in the shade.
(Martha Cross Herron Mordecai)
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1902 - 1991 (89 years)
