[Granville-Hough] 24 Jan 2010 - Remembering Cousin Lillian

[Trustees for Granville W. Hough]

Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:47:53 -0800
From: Granville W Hough <gwhough at oakapple.net>
Subject: Remembering Cousin Lillian -24 Jan 2010

    LEONARD J. SULLIVAN AND LILLIAN (SULLIVAN), GEN 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6
 
    One of my faithful correspondents is Mitchell Sullivan, who descends 
from Pappy Tom at least six ways.  His parents were Leonard and Lillian..

    I remember Lillian very well from my first school days.  I started 
to school in January, 1928, when I was just past 6 years old.  My 
brother, Harold, was the school bus driver, and a Senior in High 
School.  I would go with him as he picked up all the children between 
the railroad and the old Mize-Magee Road from the Simpson County line to 
Mize.  Our first stop was the Henderson Sullivan home on the county 
line, where we picked up Lillian, Chapman, and Clemmie.  I would get to 
sit between Lillian and Clemmie, and on cold mornings, Lillian would 
cuddle me up and keep me warm.  That was most comforting.  Our school 
bus was a T-Model truck to which my father had attached a home-built 
body with seats down the sides, and a row down the middle.  The school 
bus route was bid for annually, and I suppose the lowest bidder got the 
route.  Our T-model truck wore out, and we never bid for the school 
route again.
My brother Harold Hough, the driver, was a handsome six-footer whom the 
Sullivan girls loved to tease.  I recall the name they mentioned as his 
girl friend as something like Gertrude Glisson.  Amidst all this giggly 
banter, we would pick up McAlpins, Walkers, Yelvertons, Lacks, Toneys, 
Allens, Austins, Hughes, Byrds, and Owens, and finally get to Mize 
Grammer School, where the grade school kids debarked, then the big kids 
were taken up the long hill to the Smith County Agricultural High School. 
It was not in the contract to pick up any children within two miles of 
school, but I remember that most bus drivers would pick up the children 
on cold or rainy days.  It was just the neighborly thing to do.
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