The Bed Frame

In the dictionary under redundant.....

" The double bed belonged to my great-grandmother, Nancy Theodosia Jones Strother Compton.  Mother always thought it was pretty and her gransmother gave it to her.  After she died in 1951, mother and daddy got it from the house in Teague and took it to Stewards Mill where it was placed upstairs at Granny's and Granddaddys house.  It stayed there until about 1958 when I painted the middle bedroom at Fairfield and moved into it so that Andy and I no longer shared a bedroom.  Mother had the bed refinished with Walnut stain, I think its probably Oak.  The footboard had been cut down.  It was taller but mothers grandmother though it blocked too much air off her in the summertime and had her son, Lewis B Compton, take out some panels to shorten it.  When Mother died, I took the bed as it was always been mine in my bedroom

DD