Evelyn Belle we always called my grandmother “mammy”. She never was Evelyn to us, she would have boxed our jaws and if we wouldn’t call her “mammy”. She was really the matriarch of the family she kept everybody together. Anytime there is a squabble between people everybody had to go and see mammy and she’d take you in the back bedroom and she’d straighten you out. I don’t know exactly what she told people when they went back there but when they came out of that room, they got along and that’s all there was to it. She believed that there was nothing in the world stronger than family. She helped raise a bunch of us kids and we always spend a lot of time with her. I can remember sitting in the kitchen table and she was teaching me my multiplication tables when I was in the first grade and I thought I was going to go crazy learning them from the teachers, but my grandmother made it fun. She always made everything a game, she always made everything interesting. She wasn’t formally an educated lady but she was darn smart, she was well read and I think that all of us kids were smarter kids and better kids because of her.
By: Perry Belcher
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