Ada was a very small woman, weighing less than 100 pounds. She wore her hair pulled back and tied in a bun on the back of her head. She was stoop shouldered and wore dresses which nearly went all the way to the ground.
The following story about Ada's death was told by her granddaughter, Falsom: "She died of consumption ...I'll never forget...the morning that we went to her bed and found her lying there dead. Pa (Stephen)...Pa woke us up. He awoke in night and she was dead, and he came and woke us up and we went in there and she was lying there in the bed...dead! She had died in her sleep. She had been sick ages and ages ... they said in those days she had consumption (that was TB) but there was never any medical proof of it. Ma (Ada) was a frail woman...always frail. She fell and broke her hip and she never did get up. She was only sixty-six years old. I can remember when she was well, she would go to the kitchen and get a leftover biscuit from breakfast, punch a hole in it with her finger and fill the hole with syrup and sugar or butter and sugar."
The following story about Ada's death was told by her granddaughter, Falsom: "She died of consumption ...I'll never forget...the morning that we went to her bed and found her lying there dead. Pa (Stephen)...Pa woke us up. He awoke in night and she was dead, and he came and woke us up and we went in there and she was lying there in the bed...dead! She had died in her sleep. She had been sick ages and ages ... they said in those days she had consumption (that was TB) but there was never any medical proof of it. Ma (Ada) was a frail woman...always frail. She fell and broke her hip and she never did get up. She was only sixty-six years old. I can remember when she was well, she would go to the kitchen and get a leftover biscuit from breakfast, punch a hole in it with her finger and fill the hole with syrup and sugar or butter and sugar."
Ada was a very small woman, weighing less than 100 pounds. She wore her hair pulled back and tied in a bun on the back of her head. She was stoop shouldered and wore dresses which nearly went all the way to the ground.
The following story about Ada's death was told by her granddaughter, Falsom: "She died of consumption ...I'll never forget...the morning that we went to her bed and found her lying there dead. Pa (Stephen)...Pa woke us up. He awoke in night and she was dead, and he came and woke us up and we went in there and she was lying there in the bed...dead! She had died in her sleep. She had been sick ages and ages ... they said in those days she had consumption (that was TB) but there was never any medical proof of it. Ma (Ada) was a frail woman...always frail. She fell and broke her hip and she never did get up. She was only sixty-six years old. I can remember when she was well, she would go to the kitchen and get a leftover biscuit from breakfast, punch a hole in it with her finger and fill the hole with syrup and sugar or butter and sugar."
The following story about Ada's death was told by her granddaughter, Falsom: "She died of consumption ...I'll never forget...the morning that we went to her bed and found her lying there dead. Pa (Stephen)...Pa woke us up. He awoke in night and she was dead, and he came and woke us up and we went in there and she was lying there in the bed...dead! She had died in her sleep. She had been sick ages and ages ... they said in those days she had consumption (that was TB) but there was never any medical proof of it. Ma (Ada) was a frail woman...always frail. She fell and broke her hip and she never did get up. She was only sixty-six years old. I can remember when she was well, she would go to the kitchen and get a leftover biscuit from breakfast, punch a hole in it with her finger and fill the hole with syrup and sugar or butter and sugar."
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