MEMORIES OF A GRANDDAUGHTER by Roda Cowley
Things that I remember of my grandmother Fanny.
She was a very, lovable person, full of jokes and humor.  One time when I and my husband were visiting her, after a day of travel, we needed a bath of shower to clean us and cool us as well.  The only way that they had to heat water was on a coal stove.  This means of heat made the home very warm, so she had put a large tub of water in the sun to take her shower as she always did in the afternoon when she was uncomfortably warm.  Instead of using it (herself) she insisted on us having that pleasure.  She gave us some old dresses and told us to go in the shed and put them on and play like children do.  She insisted in staying there to watch us.  At first we were a bit shy, but she soon took that out of us with her pranks and we really enjoyed our shower.  She rinsed us off with the hose and said skute (scoot) and get dressed so she could visit with us.
Another time when I was there visiting, she insisted on taking me over to Logan for lunch and to meet some of my Cowley relatives.  She was of a goodly age then, but she was very active and alert.  The first Coke I ever tasted was that day.  I certainly did enjoy the visit with our relatives.  I learned a good deal about my Pioneer ancestors that I never had another chance to hear from them as they passed away before I had a chance to visit in Logan City again.  When we got back to Millville, she sat down at the piano, played and sang for some time, then she insisted on us telling her of ourselves and especially my mother, Sarah Vilate, her daughter that she didn’t get to see much after Sarah went to Sevier County, married and raised her family of eleven children: I was the third child in Sarah Vilate’s family.
Grandmother shed tears as I related the news of the family and my parents.  It was late in the night before she would let us retire, because she wanted to get as much news as she could in her old age, of her children in Sevier County.  I will always love her.  I am so glad that I had a chance to see what a wonderful character she was in her last years in this life.