General Notes

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(Medical):brain tumor
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 6, Socia l Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: May 29, 1999 , Internal Ref. #1.111.6.27934.94]
Individual: Brady, James
Social Security #: 348-01-8019
Issued in: Illinois
Birth date: Sep 29, 1881
Death date: Oct 1962
Residence code: Illinois

Family gatherings at Grandma and Grandpa Brady



  By Judy Allen - Dec 14, 1999

We used to all get together at my grandparents home, Jame s Garfield and Mary Louise Wagner Brady, during the holiday s. Grandma would cook the turkey in the oven that was fire d up by coal. The bird was delicious. We would all sit in t he parlor and open gifts and just visit. It was the most wo nderful time of the year. Much love was in the atmosphere . Would be nice to go back and live some of those memorie s all over again, but we all know that will not happen.




James Garfield Brady & Mary Louise Wagner Brady-My Grandpar ents




  By Judy Allen - Oct 4, 1999

I can remember going to my grandparents home and stayin g a lot. Grandpa would always get up in the middle of the n ight to fire up the coal furnace so the house would be war m for Grandma and me. He banged his head a lot on the cella r doorway and that might be one of the reasons why he ha d a brain tumor. Any way that's what my mother,Grace Lucill e Brady Eden, always said. Grandma was a very good cook, Sh e had a gas stove but never used it. She preferred to coo k on the old coal stove. She had an oven in her coal stove , and she used to cook the most delicious Turkey and Stuffi ng at Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Everyone would b ring something and Grandma always let me help her prepare e verything for those meals. She was a very loving person. Sh e used to sew on one of those old Singer treadle sewing mac hines and did crotcheting with starching everything that sh e crotcheted.She always heated the bath water on the coal s tove and filled the bathtub so everyone could take a bath a nd be clean. She never used tap water to wash her hair. I t had to be rain water and nothing else. Grandma like to pl ant Pansies every spring. That was her favorite thing to d o in the yard. They had a front porch and side porch. On th at front porch was a swing and Grandma and I would sit on i t and swing and watch the cars and people go by. I would sp end most of my summers with her after dad passed away. I ac tually felt close to dad by staying at Grandma"s because h e had spent a lot of time taking care of them and the homes tead.