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"If you are walking in Charleston, you are walking on someone's grave."--Sue Bennett, Charleston tour guide

Monday, March 25, 2019

Learn about my great grandmother great grandmother

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Beaufort, South Carolina

  


Beaufort, South Carolina is where my great 
grandmother, Leila Stallworth was born.
 This is where she raised her 3 kids. She
 is my mothers' grandmother.






Background:
She was born in 1929, in Beaufort, SC. She has 2 brothers
and 1 sister. She was the youngest of her siblings. She lived
in the rural area of Beaufort on the water.


Personality: She was always filled with joy. I never saw her in a bad mood or sad. She always was laughing and having fun seeing her 4 grand kids. She made it to almost all of my baseball games even all the way up to a month before she passed.


Family:
She lived in Beaufort her entire life. She raised 3 children including my grandmother. her husband worked as a mechanic. He worked on model T cars and fixed them up and sold them. She worked as a waitress at a local restaurant.


Later life: After she was not able to take care of herself she would have to be taken care of by her children. She would spend 1 month at a time at her children's home while she was getting taken care of. She could not eat or walk without some help her last 5 months of her life


Her passing: On February 27, 2018 she passed away in Beaufort South Carolina. Her funeral was held in a small local church that she went to.



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