{"id":5397,"date":"2020-07-28T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:52:06","slug":"my-grandmother-louisa-avaline-morrison-troutman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=5397","title":{"rendered":"My grandmother, Louisa Avaline Morrison Troutman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to tell you about my grandmother, Louisa Avaline Morrison Troutman (1863-1942). She is from the James line. Her father, Alfred (Oph) Morrison. She grew up dirt poor on the Morrison land in Alexander County, near Iredell. Her parents are buried in New Sterling Cemetery in Iredell County, NC.<\/p>\n

When Louisa\u2019s father died, her cousin, Molly Sherrill Barkley, asked her to move to Statesville to help with cooking and children. Molly\u2019s husband, Mr. J.A.W. Barkley ran a distillery in Statesville and Louisa was to help out there. She met and married my grandfather, Henry Allison Troutman, in 1892. They lived an old house known among Troutman family members as the \u201cold place\u201d.<\/p>\n

Louisa had practically no formal education. She remembered sitting with her mother outside with the Bible, as her mother was determined to teach her to read and write. The ground was her blackboard but hoeing corn took precedence. Still, she was smart and earned her nickname \u201cWise\u201d or \u201cWisey\u201d. Her husband Henry was known to consult with her for any business deal. \u201cI\u2019ll need to talk with Wisey,\u201d he\u2019d say. When he died in 1926, she kept the farm through some smart sacrifices.<\/p>\n

In 1942, our family lived at the old place, my father dying of cancer. Grandmother (Wisey) was wringing cottage cheese on the back porch, she fell and broke her leg, eventually dying in August.<\/p>\n

Growing up, I felt I lived with my grandmother\u2019s presence, my mother and my sister so often calling forth her wisdom, her fortitude, her outspokenness. The stories they told about her survival and ingenuity in hard times make me proud of my Morrison heritage.<\/p>\n

I’m sharing a bit of a letter written by my grandmother in 1935. I typed it up with her spelling and punctuation, not as a badge of shame but as a badge of honor. In spite of receiving no formal education and living a life of poverty, hard work, and sorrow, she would not be stopped from expressing her love for the cousin Molly, whose husband had just died.<\/p>\n

i want to go up to see aunt sis she has bin righting for me to come she said fany was giving her troubly and they would heft to be something dun you no she isn\u2019t rite she married a man about in the same line I think they are about a like. well come over to see us if you can Vera [my mother]said she sent her sympathy to youall and would love to go to see you<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Moly I no they is a blacke cloud ovr you but I hope it will pass away soon but I no it is one ov the hardest tryels ever aney one had to pass one we heft to looke to hier power to help to pass them by<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

love to youall<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

from your cosin<\/em><\/span>
\nLouisa A Troutman<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Joyce Diann Compton Brown (Q93)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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