Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
had to heat the water on the stove, a little cookstove.
Q. A little wood stove?
A. No, it was coal. Now when mther was no longer
father could cook. He really cooked well. I remlrber
he would bring horn. J3e didnft shoot them himself. I
father ever went hunting. I know he didn't; he di&n1t
had a revolver all locked up In his trunk. We'd get to
while. On the Fourth of July he Id fire it off, that's
father--I'm getting back to hh now--he clabed that
War. He was born in 1850. His father was head of a li
a musician. And even when he was over here--I don't h at he was before-I
guess he was [a musician] over h Germany. See,
I tell you, fk.om the provLnce of Saxony?
I
Q. Yes. I
A. I told you. So I think rry father was a drunmr boy
I often thought I would write to Washington and find out
in the Amly. We didn
blue suit wlth the
Q. You man like an Army mifarm? 1
A. Yes. So he wore that when he dressed up, cleaned up, :you know. Q)f course
a tinner gets very dirty. Now some mre about nly father clams to nly mhd
about when I was nine years old I remmber this. You
younpr then. I think later he didn't have work
be clb-bing around. But he always had the job
be done to the dam of the State House.
got. He worked for Henson Robiinsonfs,
a swing with big heavy ropes. And
could lift that seat down and he
rope when he neededto be mved.
beforehand, when he had to go
tance from the State House,
ner over in his ther
so hi@. And he had
in; no thems bottles those days. ,
Weld put the hot coffee in that and everythhg for a six owe dinn$r,
(chuckles) somthing of that sort. I would camy it over 9 to the Sta e
House, go up the elevator to the winding stairs, go up thdt and come r out
where it was all Hat. It was dark on that stairway. Aiad where the stairway
was banging, a hanging stalruuay , really--I donf t it 's like
now, I suppose it still is that way--I walked up
&Inner pail
up to the top of the dom. And qy father had his
w-&it and take it horn again.
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