Audrey Mae SpencerSpencer Historical CemeteryHenry Straight / William Spencer Family Cemetery
Vaughn Historical CemeterySpencers of East Greenwich, RI
Conversations
21 August 2004

Heather: Hello, Mother, what are your reading today?

Audrey: I don’t know. I have a hard time remembering everything.

21 August 2004

Heather: Well, you only have ninety-two years of everything to remember. (laughter)

Audrey: The trees are so pretty. There is just enough wind blowing to make the tree so pretty.

21 August 2004

Heather: That reminds me of the song “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree”.

Audrey: Yes, I sang that in school. Beatrice and I must have sung that many times.

21 August 2004

Heather: Tell me something about each of your great grandchildren.

Audrey: Meagan, she is a very pretty little girl and she is a good little girl. Mathew, he’s jolly. There is always a big smile on his face. Brian, he is working all the time. He is very busy, he is in college. Kelsey and Kaitlyn are so darling and Kenya is such a helpful big sister. They are the cutest kids. Mark will be so happy to get a boy now that he has his girls. Jessica, she a jolly little girl, always dancing around and always full of life. She is very cute also. Ian. I’m so happy they have a boy as they already have their girls. Emma, she and Hannah are darling. Hannah is getting older now. I haven’t seen Stephanie’s baby yet. She will get here sooner or later. She will bring him to see me.

 

28 August 2004

Heather: Hello, Mother. How are you today?

Audrey: It is a beautiful day today out here. It is nice and warm. Doug visited and he looks good. He and Vaughn are going (to Nova Scotia) because Doug is looking up the geneology of the MacDonalds. Of course, we had aunt Mandy write all about the Spencers before she died.

28 August 2004

Heather: Did aunt Mandy (Esther Amanda [née Spencer] Briggs) write this geneology when she was older?

Audrey: I don’t know how old she was when she started or whether someone before her had started this. I know she kept it going.

28 August 2004

Heather: Didn’t aunt Mandy live with Grandma when she was aged?

Audrey: Yes, Mother took care of a lot of persons. She took care of Grandpa’s mother, Anna Maria, (when Anna Maria was aging.) Anna Maria had (a medical condition) where liquid would run off her legs because of all the years she stood in front of that hot old fashion stove, cooking and canning every summer. She would can every summer all summer. She would can all of the crops that Richard grew in the garden and send them all to Richard.  …  and Grandma (Mary Jane [née Vaughn] Spencer) bandaged Anna Maria’s (pronounced Mar-eye-ah’s) legs daily and took care of her.

 

28 August 2004

Heather: That was when you lived on the homestead?

Audrey:  Yes, I was just a little girl when my grandmother died. I would stand there in front of that big box thing and I knew it was my grandmother.

28 August 2004

Heather: What did you know about your aunt Lottie?

Audrey: She married Rich. All she had to do was bring her money over here. She had a lot of money, but she had to leave the money in England.

28 August 2004

Heather: I wonder why. Why did the money have to stay in England?

Audrey: I don’t know.