Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
Now I remrher rrg mther1 s f'un~ral very well. We ' s see I +as just
six. We all went.
Q. You were six years old?
A. Yes. And the Grace Lutheran Church then was
and Madison. It was on the nort;hwest corner and there
neiabors at the funeral, very few little carriages
was buried in Oak Ridge and I will be buried beside her.
lot, rry brother bowt a lot. I was just a little girl.
wtherfs grave] was and I could find it now because
her grave and went out and watered them so often.
chmh was do dark.
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So we got along, but I can -st say that I h m support nyself since I
was twelve years old because in order to go back to schoo -you see, n-f~
father allowed ~IE to do that. He said, tfDonft you think ou owt to stay
in school?ff I could twiddle w father around rqy finger, u know, because
I was the youngest @rl.
Q. You were six you say when your mother died?
A. Yes. t
Q. So you stayed in school until you were twelve?
A. Oh yes, I went to the sixth pad^. Until the sixth grlade and thqtts when
I was eleven yeam old and I quit. I *aft quit without py father1$ consent
though. But the school didn t do anything about it, you I ha@ gone
[to work] one s m r to the Reverend LJrlzn, who was OLE to their home
which was back of the F'irst Christian Church, which was
the YWCA
[Young Wmnf s Christian Association] building is now.
YWCA] I go every Tuesday mrning. So I don't see Mss
m3erl so rmch. Shef s been around lately on accomt
mrtS3emhip drive.
Q. What did you do at Reverend Lynnls?
A. Well, I took care of their child, EZnerson Lynn.
ter too, Rachael. Mr. Lynn's balth failed so they
I thlnZc later, California. But Eherson when he
a pwr over in Iowa somwhere. Ifve forgotten
old. So well,
book. The book was
it at the city
they let m have them anyhow.
Q. m, there was an age lirriit on gtting books?
A. Well, you had to be old enough to be responsible to the book4 back
and all, that sort of thing. qese
%y were really for adults.
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