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Earl, Bill, Clyde Braden, and Minnie Lee Foster Davison

Remembering Mom’s final Days and her Biscuits

“The thing I most remember about my mother was that she was laying in bed unconscious or on morphine most
of the time. She had breast cancer. There was a few times she would get up and we would have our pictures
made on the roof of the Chinese Laundry. Cause in our apartment building our windows were just about the level

of the Chinese laundry roof and we would go back there and have our pictures made. I just remember her sewing
at a treadle sewing machine. Mending our clothes I think. In the house we lived in we didn’t have no electricity.
We just had gaslights. And we basically lived on the second floor except we had one room on the first floor. She
had a wooden bowl that she kept flour in and she would add buttermilk and mix it all up in the wooden bowl. Roll

them out and make biscuits.” Earl Davison (from a recorded interview in 2003)