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Notes for Mary Francis Pennington:
Story told by Granbobby (Robert Turner Drummond) on 25 June 2000:
She was said to be a "hell cat on wheels."
They were very poor.
After her husband died, she moved to near Lovington, New Mexico and homesteaded some property they had there. It was very rare for a woman to go by herself and homestead property. She stayed there for three years to improve the land. She was a very strong woman!
Mary Francis was a "mean old woman" and lived with Thomas Henry & Martha Maranda Galloway Randolph (Granbobby's grandparents) after her husband died. She thought that they were trying to starve her and would hide biscuits in her chair!
Fannie Randolph Drummond (Granbobby's mother) would have to give Mary Francis a bath. One time, Mary Francis was mean to Martha Maranda and so when Fannie gave her a bath, she had Mary Francis stand up in the wash basin and dumped cold water on her!
She bought land for 5 cents an acre by Gaines Co., Texas and eventualy sold it to Clifford and Dolly Randolph (her son and daughter-in-law). Somewhere in Gramma's things, there is a picture of a round-up cook-off with Mary Francis Pennington Randolph there.
During a blizzard, some cows piled up against a fence and froze to death at the farm (then owned by Clifford Randolph).
When Mary Francis died, at the burial, Don Harold (who was four years old at the time), said, "Reckon she'll scratch out?"
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