I had eleven children myself, and I made all their clothes on a sewing machine. I still got the sewing machine in there, an antique Singer. And I used to wash all their clothes. I only had a big galvanized tub, and a wash board.

I baked our bread and pies. I used to make wedding cakes for people.

I was pretty poor off until I started to get my baby bonus. I used to do all that work for ten dollars, on a case like that. Ten dollars to work there for five days' work. It came to nothing. I worked hard all my lifetime. I'll never forget it.

The hardest part was getting up all hours of the night. I'd be so tired of working all day, out in the garden. But I loved the job, though.