Just to throw out a genealogical crumb, today I found the entry in the marriage register for my aunt Blanche Eva Lovelace to Christopher Clyde Biggerstaff in Rutherford County. They actually got married in Gaffney, SC. Blanche was 24 when they married on 2 January 1930. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99V6-ZCTR
The entry is about halfway down the page, written between the lines for Weldon Biggerstaff and Robert James Baber.
Clyde and Blanche lived in Morganton, Burke County, NC when I was a little kid. We lived in Valdese, Burke County, and I spent summers with them before I started school. My mom, I think, was working in Morganton and needed daycare. Blanche and Clyde gladly provided it. Blanche was my favorite aunt. I remember sitting with her and shaking mason jars full of whole milk to churn the butter out of the milk. I remember she had a pair of old Scotty Dog magnets (remember them?https://www.vermontcountrystore.com/tricky-dogs/product/44598) that I could play with. I remember sitting on the front porch with her at night listening to the insects and the toads (or as I called them at 3 years old, “throgs”) calling. I remember going to with her to the spring and seeing it swarming with tadpoles. And I remember Uncle Clyde’s dire warnings to me when he felt I was misbehaving: “I’ll take you to the hooraw bush!” I didn’t know what a hooraw was, and I still don’t. All I knew back then was that I didn’t want to go to the bush to find out!
Clyde and Blanche Lovelace Biggerstaff
