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and share with everyone she encountered over the next century. Another treasure she would share throughout the rest of her life


is the story of her cruise: “My daddy was born in Russell County. Well, he ended up mar-


rying the pretty Owens girl across the road and working for the Bradley’s next door. He worked for the W.C. Bradley Company his whole life. Mr. Bradley had boats that he would ship cotton and supplies down the river.” Her father would take Caroline along on the boat and drop her


off with his aunt and uncle who lived in Eufaula. She would stay with them until he got back from the Florida coast. “I guess I was about five-years old,” she says of her first trip


downriver. Te detail to which Miss Caroline recalls her journeys down


river—each stop, each family along the route, the supplies dropped off, the excitement of her and her siblings’ anticipation of the fog- horn blowing as the riverboat docked at Bradley Landing—is astonishing, showcasing a mind as sharp as ever. The look of grati- tude on her face as she thanks her father for a memory now nearly a century past would warm the coldest heart. Miss Caroline picks up one of the photo albums from the stand


Caroline and Richard on their 30th anniversary


cooking from her mother. The act of preparing, cooking, and serv- ing food to another with one’s own hands is one of the most inti- mate gifts a person can offer, and Sarah spent hours with Caroline in the family’s kitchen frying pork chops and baking cakes and preparing jams and jellies. It was a joy she would carry with her


next to her chair and begins leafing through it. “There. There he is.” It was a photo of her and her husband Richard on their wed- ding day. “He was 42 and I was 21, can you believe it? But we were the happiest folks in the country. We had the sweetest little boys. Their mother died when they were 4 and 6 and we married five years after that.” So it was she came to Fort Mitchell, 83 years ago as a bride.


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Columbus and the Valley


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