I was just on the phone with my grandmother, getting stories about her mother. My great-grandmother, who the family calls Pie, just sounds like the coolest person ever and I wish I could have met her. From what I hear, we would've gotten along famously.
She was born in 1902 in a small town in Mississippi, and grew up to be the first female in town to wear socks instead of stockings - they told her to put on her stockings like a lady, she refused because it was too hot, and she spent a couple hours in jail for indecency (but by the end of the summer, all the women in town were wearing socks). At 15 she decided to join the Army and go fight in World War I, so she lied about her age and went into the recruiter's office, only to find that her mother had beaten her there, so she got dragged home. She fancied herself a flapper, not a "young lady," and nobody ever told her what to do. Much later when she had grandchildren, she found two of them smoking weed and decided to share the joint with them to see whether it was really all that bad. When she died, in her 80's, she was still living on her own and taking care of herself just fine, she just never woke up from a nap one day. I was a baby then so unfortunately I don't remember her at all, but I never get tired of the stories.
Who's your coolest ancestor or other influential person you never met but wish you could've?


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. I guess they had memorials and a parade and everything for him. I was in tears hearing her tell me about him. And I'm so sad that I never got to meet him...



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