MY GRANDPARENTS
James Harvey Boozer
and
Eoline Eloise Lake
in loving memory
of their
children
grandchildren
great-grandchildren
great-great-grandchildren
EOLINE ELOISE LAKE (Oct 23,1907 - Mar 1,1962) married JAMES HARVEY BOOZER (Jan 26,1907 - Sept 13,1969). They had two children:
  1. JAMES EDWIN BOOZER (June 7,1925 - July 19,1990) married Lois Wilson. They had one son:
    • James Wilson Boozer (May 1951 - 1992). We called him "Buzz".
  2. CONNIE ELIZABETH BOOZER (July 2,1932 - Dec 22, 2010) married William Luther Kinard born Aug 13,1929.**Mama and Daddy have their own page.
**NOTES**They lived in the house with Eoline's parents, Bessie Day Nichols and Edwin Orlanda Lake. Of course Uncle Clyde Lake also lived there. He never married. So this was a house of generations. This is where they raised their two children.
Grandmama Boozer was a short woman of about 5 feet tall. Her hair was gray from the time that I knew her, and she always wore it in a bun on the back of her head. Once I saw her combing it out and it touched the floor. She was always cheerful and glad to see us whenever we would come to visit. Of course she spent most of her time in the kitchen. This was where the long table was and it always had condiments on it covered with a checkered table cloth. Of course off of the kitchen was a pantry and grandmama always thought that we were hungry. It gave her pleasure to feed her grandchildren.
Granddaddy Boozer was about 5 ft. 9 in. tall or so. Maybe taller. He was a balding man with grey hair on the sides of his head. He always wore a hat. Granddaddy was a guard on the chain gang in Newberry County,SC. His nickname was "Pie", because he liked to eat pies. He was a much respected and fair man of the community. When he died even some of the prisoners that had been on the chain gang attended. That is a truly respected man.
I remember going to visit and eating the pecans out in the front yard. There was a big pecan tree, with a cement bench under it. The bench we used to crack the pecans.
For some reason Grandmama Boozer took on the feat of raising my cousin "Buzz". I was never sure why he lived there instead of with his dad. But "Buzz" was real good with sling shots and BB-guns. The bird cementery under the front porch was proof of that. He would always give them a proper burial and mark the graves.
Grandmama Boozer died in this house that she had been born in and grew up her whole life. She had been sick. But the stubborn and independent woman that she was would not go to the doctor. She had a goarter on her neck, that grew and grew and grew. Mama said she could have probably had it removed, but Grandmama didn't like doctors. On Mar 1,1962 she lay in her bed talking to her mama, Bessie Day Nichols. Bessie had been doing the ironing and they had been talking. When Bessie went to take the clothes down the hall and put them away, Grandmama Boozer passed away. This was in a matter of 5 minutes. When Bessie returned to the room she first thought that she was just sleeping. On a closer look she knew she was gone.
Granddaddy Boozer took up drinking after that. He had a stroke within a year and lost partial movement on his left side. Once this occured he quit drinking and started his therapy. He would squeeze that ball religiously and did up until his death in 1969.
Granddaddy Boozer married Cleo Sanders. They had known each other for years and she was a widow.
Both Grandmama and Granddaddy Boozer are buried together in St. Luke's Lutheran Cementery. Cleo is buried in Rosemont Cemetery, with 2 of her children Libby and Bobby who passed away in the Silverstreet Bus/Train Accident.
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