I loved traveling with my Mom. We talked and laughed so much. She loved all of us kids. She always defending her kids no matter what we did in our lives.  We talked about how she grow up. She picked cotton in the Post, Noodle areas of Texas.  When her parents divorced she lived with her mother and step father Jahue Jackson Parsons.  One story she told was when she was in the field picking cotton and Jahue pushed her, Granny Harper yelled at Jahue for pushing her down. Jahue only pushed Mom because Mom was about to pick cotton and there was a snake.  She talked of when she lived in Noodle and her and the other kids from her church, skipped Wednesday evening church and went to the movies.  The next Sunday at church the pastor called them out on it.