Hattie McCoy

My grandmother, Hattie McCoy, died at age 97 leaving little in wealth.  But she gave us a more valuable gift.  On 3 pages, entitled ‘The Abundant Life of Hattie McCoy’ she listed 125 ‘some things I have done or helped to do.’That list is simple, yet simply impressive.  Farm work, plowing grubbing, cutting grain by hand.  breaking and training young horses and mules  sawing down trees and helping splitting rails, posts, boards, and shingles,making spokes and ax handles,hauling rails and building miles ofrail, and other kinds of fencesincluding stone fence; digging post holes, making gates,  Raising poultry; beekeeping, assistant P.M.

clerk in a department store, housework,nursing the sick and washing and dressing the dead.

She lived God’s instruction to work humbly.

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