daughter of George Bunch & Elizabeth Wild; Cornelius S. Wooden and Armilda Bunch were married on 28 Apr 1861 in Carroll County, Missouri, Book B Page 205
The following is from THE BUNCH FAMILY written by Aunt Fawnie (Minnis) Williams 1985 and typed by her daughter cousin, Jo Ann (Williams) Casner.
"Armilda (Bunch) Wooden, daughter of George Bunch and Elizabeth Wild, married Neal Wooden. Aunt Armilda, my Mother's aunt and my great aunt had several grandnieces and nephews. Some of them called her Nannie. My Mother called her Aunt Minnie and I called her that too. She was my favorite great aunt and I always wanted to think I was her favorite great niece.
Her husband, Neal Wooden, was well liked by the family and we all called him Big Daddy. When as a child, my Uncle Neal who was good as gold, but quite jovial called my Aunt Armilda "The Old Squaw." They had one daughterwho was some older than my Mother. She used to laugh and say her name was Bettie Rebecca Palmary Wooden Shields. Bettie married Hyram Shields and was the mother of Mansure and Ziva Shields, but the marriage failed and she lived with her parents and reared her son and daughter.
I think Aunt Armilda was more like a grandmother to me than anyon else, as my grandmothers had both died before I was old enough to know them very well.
When I was a child I would go to Auht Minnies and visit. In the summertime they would rise before dawn to get the outside chores done. Big Daddy would feed and harness the horses by lantern light then come to the house and eat his breakfast before going to the field. Maybe he would work in the field until one o'clock when he would bring the teams of horses or mules to the barn and water and feed them. Then he would come to the house where he would eat his noon meal. He and Aunt Armilda would sit in the living room and read and rest until about four o'clock when he would go back to the field and work until dark. I remember the round magnifing glass Aunt Armilda would use to read with. Big Daddy always kept a gallon jug of whiskey under his bed and he would take a swig of it once in awhile. I don't suppose he ever drank enough to get drunk.
Aunt Armilda and Bettie raised lots of chickens and ducks. They would pick the feathers from the ducks to make pillows and feather beds. I think they would pick them about every six week in the summer. Aunt Armilda was very kind but witty. She was tall slender with dark hair and eyes. She had a dark complexion. Her grandaughter, sent by her, for some face powder. The merchangt ask her what color she wanted. She said, "Just white or black whichever you think it will take the least of.' One year she raised one hundred thirty-six ducks. The newspaper man ask her how many ducks she had raised and she said one hundred and three dozen so that is how it was printed in the paper.
Her face was always tanned from her work outside in the garden. She and Bettie would hatch as many as a thousand chickens by setting the eggs under chicken hens. Then they would make wooden coops and put them with the mother hen to raise. they would crack the corn in a mill and moisten it and feed the chicks. Their fried chicken was delicious.
Aunt Armilda gave me a setting of duck eggs. I set them under a chicken hen. From the setting of eggs I raised enough ducks to sell and buy a gold locket and chain at Sears Roebuck. I still have the locket.
I remember seeing her coming to our house driving a horse hitched to a buggy. She brought us a sack of roasting ears. We were so glad to see her and the corn was so good. I could write a page on the kind acts and deeds she, Bettie and Big Daddy did for my Mother and her family and I don't remember them all. They were such good folks.
The following is from THE BUNCH FAMILY written by Aunt Fawnie (Minnis) Williams 1985 and typed by her daughter cousin, Jo Ann (Williams) Casner.
"Armilda (Bunch) Wooden, daughter of George Bunch and Elizabeth Wild, married Neal Wooden. Aunt Armilda, my Mother's aunt and my great aunt had several grandnieces and nephews. Some of them called her Nannie. My Mother called her Aunt Minnie and I called her that too. She was my favorite great aunt and I always wanted to think I was her favorite great niece.
Her husband, Neal Wooden, was well liked by the family and we all called him Big Daddy. When as a child, my Uncle Neal who was good as gold, but quite jovial called my Aunt Armilda "The Old Squaw." They had one daughterwho was some older than my Mother. She used to laugh and say her name was Bettie Rebecca Palmary Wooden Shields. Bettie married Hyram Shields and was the mother of Mansure and Ziva Shields, but the marriage failed and she lived with her parents and reared her son and daughter.
I think Aunt Armilda was more like a grandmother to me than anyon else, as my grandmothers had both died before I was old enough to know them very well.
When I was a child I would go to Auht Minnies and visit. In the summertime they would rise before dawn to get the outside chores done. Big Daddy would feed and harness the horses by lantern light then come to the house and eat his breakfast before going to the field. Maybe he would work in the field until one o'clock when he would bring the teams of horses or mules to the barn and water and feed them. Then he would come to the house where he would eat his noon meal. He and Aunt Armilda would sit in the living room and read and rest until about four o'clock when he would go back to the field and work until dark. I remember the round magnifing glass Aunt Armilda would use to read with. Big Daddy always kept a gallon jug of whiskey under his bed and he would take a swig of it once in awhile. I don't suppose he ever drank enough to get drunk.
Aunt Armilda and Bettie raised lots of chickens and ducks. They would pick the feathers from the ducks to make pillows and feather beds. I think they would pick them about every six week in the summer. Aunt Armilda was very kind but witty. She was tall slender with dark hair and eyes. She had a dark complexion. Her grandaughter, sent by her, for some face powder. The merchangt ask her what color she wanted. She said, "Just white or black whichever you think it will take the least of.' One year she raised one hundred thirty-six ducks. The newspaper man ask her how many ducks she had raised and she said one hundred and three dozen so that is how it was printed in the paper.
Her face was always tanned from her work outside in the garden. She and Bettie would hatch as many as a thousand chickens by setting the eggs under chicken hens. Then they would make wooden coops and put them with the mother hen to raise. they would crack the corn in a mill and moisten it and feed the chicks. Their fried chicken was delicious.
Aunt Armilda gave me a setting of duck eggs. I set them under a chicken hen. From the setting of eggs I raised enough ducks to sell and buy a gold locket and chain at Sears Roebuck. I still have the locket.
I remember seeing her coming to our house driving a horse hitched to a buggy. She brought us a sack of roasting ears. We were so glad to see her and the corn was so good. I could write a page on the kind acts and deeds she, Bettie and Big Daddy did for my Mother and her family and I don't remember them all. They were such good folks.
daughter of George Bunch & Elizabeth Wild; Cornelius S. Wooden and Armilda Bunch were married on 28 Apr 1861 in Carroll County, Missouri, Book B Page 205
The following is from THE BUNCH FAMILY written by Aunt Fawnie (Minnis) Williams 1985 and typed by her daughter cousin, Jo Ann (Williams) Casner.
"Armilda (Bunch) Wooden, daughter of George Bunch and Elizabeth Wild, married Neal Wooden. Aunt Armilda, my Mother's aunt and my great aunt had several grandnieces and nephews. Some of them called her Nannie. My Mother called her Aunt Minnie and I called her that too. She was my favorite great aunt and I always wanted to think I was her favorite great niece.
Her husband, Neal Wooden, was well liked by the family and we all called him Big Daddy. When as a child, my Uncle Neal who was good as gold, but quite jovial called my Aunt Armilda "The Old Squaw." They had one daughterwho was some older than my Mother. She used to laugh and say her name was Bettie Rebecca Palmary Wooden Shields. Bettie married Hyram Shields and was the mother of Mansure and Ziva Shields, but the marriage failed and she lived with her parents and reared her son and daughter.
I think Aunt Armilda was more like a grandmother to me than anyon else, as my grandmothers had both died before I was old enough to know them very well.
When I was a child I would go to Auht Minnies and visit. In the summertime they would rise before dawn to get the outside chores done. Big Daddy would feed and harness the horses by lantern light then come to the house and eat his breakfast before going to the field. Maybe he would work in the field until one o'clock when he would bring the teams of horses or mules to the barn and water and feed them. Then he would come to the house where he would eat his noon meal. He and Aunt Armilda would sit in the living room and read and rest until about four o'clock when he would go back to the field and work until dark. I remember the round magnifing glass Aunt Armilda would use to read with. Big Daddy always kept a gallon jug of whiskey under his bed and he would take a swig of it once in awhile. I don't suppose he ever drank enough to get drunk.
Aunt Armilda and Bettie raised lots of chickens and ducks. They would pick the feathers from the ducks to make pillows and feather beds. I think they would pick them about every six week in the summer. Aunt Armilda was very kind but witty. She was tall slender with dark hair and eyes. She had a dark complexion. Her grandaughter, sent by her, for some face powder. The merchangt ask her what color she wanted. She said, "Just white or black whichever you think it will take the least of.' One year she raised one hundred thirty-six ducks. The newspaper man ask her how many ducks she had raised and she said one hundred and three dozen so that is how it was printed in the paper.
Her face was always tanned from her work outside in the garden. She and Bettie would hatch as many as a thousand chickens by setting the eggs under chicken hens. Then they would make wooden coops and put them with the mother hen to raise. they would crack the corn in a mill and moisten it and feed the chicks. Their fried chicken was delicious.
Aunt Armilda gave me a setting of duck eggs. I set them under a chicken hen. From the setting of eggs I raised enough ducks to sell and buy a gold locket and chain at Sears Roebuck. I still have the locket.
I remember seeing her coming to our house driving a horse hitched to a buggy. She brought us a sack of roasting ears. We were so glad to see her and the corn was so good. I could write a page on the kind acts and deeds she, Bettie and Big Daddy did for my Mother and her family and I don't remember them all. They were such good folks.
The following is from THE BUNCH FAMILY written by Aunt Fawnie (Minnis) Williams 1985 and typed by her daughter cousin, Jo Ann (Williams) Casner.
"Armilda (Bunch) Wooden, daughter of George Bunch and Elizabeth Wild, married Neal Wooden. Aunt Armilda, my Mother's aunt and my great aunt had several grandnieces and nephews. Some of them called her Nannie. My Mother called her Aunt Minnie and I called her that too. She was my favorite great aunt and I always wanted to think I was her favorite great niece.
Her husband, Neal Wooden, was well liked by the family and we all called him Big Daddy. When as a child, my Uncle Neal who was good as gold, but quite jovial called my Aunt Armilda "The Old Squaw." They had one daughterwho was some older than my Mother. She used to laugh and say her name was Bettie Rebecca Palmary Wooden Shields. Bettie married Hyram Shields and was the mother of Mansure and Ziva Shields, but the marriage failed and she lived with her parents and reared her son and daughter.
I think Aunt Armilda was more like a grandmother to me than anyon else, as my grandmothers had both died before I was old enough to know them very well.
When I was a child I would go to Auht Minnies and visit. In the summertime they would rise before dawn to get the outside chores done. Big Daddy would feed and harness the horses by lantern light then come to the house and eat his breakfast before going to the field. Maybe he would work in the field until one o'clock when he would bring the teams of horses or mules to the barn and water and feed them. Then he would come to the house where he would eat his noon meal. He and Aunt Armilda would sit in the living room and read and rest until about four o'clock when he would go back to the field and work until dark. I remember the round magnifing glass Aunt Armilda would use to read with. Big Daddy always kept a gallon jug of whiskey under his bed and he would take a swig of it once in awhile. I don't suppose he ever drank enough to get drunk.
Aunt Armilda and Bettie raised lots of chickens and ducks. They would pick the feathers from the ducks to make pillows and feather beds. I think they would pick them about every six week in the summer. Aunt Armilda was very kind but witty. She was tall slender with dark hair and eyes. She had a dark complexion. Her grandaughter, sent by her, for some face powder. The merchangt ask her what color she wanted. She said, "Just white or black whichever you think it will take the least of.' One year she raised one hundred thirty-six ducks. The newspaper man ask her how many ducks she had raised and she said one hundred and three dozen so that is how it was printed in the paper.
Her face was always tanned from her work outside in the garden. She and Bettie would hatch as many as a thousand chickens by setting the eggs under chicken hens. Then they would make wooden coops and put them with the mother hen to raise. they would crack the corn in a mill and moisten it and feed the chicks. Their fried chicken was delicious.
Aunt Armilda gave me a setting of duck eggs. I set them under a chicken hen. From the setting of eggs I raised enough ducks to sell and buy a gold locket and chain at Sears Roebuck. I still have the locket.
I remember seeing her coming to our house driving a horse hitched to a buggy. She brought us a sack of roasting ears. We were so glad to see her and the corn was so good. I could write a page on the kind acts and deeds she, Bettie and Big Daddy did for my Mother and her family and I don't remember them all. They were such good folks.
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