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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Mr Lilly woke me up this mornin to tell me that His Granny that was 102 years old, had passed away durin the night.
They called about 7:30am, and said she went peacefully in her sleep.

She will be missed very much in our family.

But WOW she lived a full life, I loved hearin her tell stories of things they'd done and seen in all her many years of livin.
 

Julie

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Always hard to lose them --no matter what age. But what a life she must have had --- just imagine how different things were for her 100 years ago!!
Treasure the stories Lilly-as I know you do--they are the best hand me downs you can give your kids!
 

Turkey Track Bar

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Lilly...

Sorry to hear of the passing of Mr. Lilly's Grandmother. You're right, she lived a full life, and is lucky to have passed peacefully in her sleep.

You're all in our thought and prayers.

TTB :wink:
 

JF Ranch

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'Sorry for the loss of this wonderful lady.

If you haven't recorded or written down any of her stories, you should do it before the details are forgotten. It's a shame when we lose this "first hand history". I speak from experience and regret that much of what my Grandmother told me has been forgotten. I think it is important for us to get something written down about important people and events that only these old people know. When they are gone, that piece of history is gone.

This past year our community lost a sweetheart of a lady who lived to be 101. Yes, of course she lived a very full and wonderful life, but at that age we keep rooting for one more year!
 

Maple Leaf Angus

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So sorry to hear of her passing. It sure would be a good idea to do as some have said here and write down her stories, because you will forget many of them.

We had a neighbour pass away some years ago and he took with him a wonderful collection of interesting history about our respective grandfather's development of this area. It is now mostly lost and cannot be replaced as he told it.
 

Kato

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Sorry to hear your news. :cry: Grandmothers are priceless.

It's hard to imagine just how much change she must have seen. One of my grandmothers was born in 1897, and sitting with her and asking her to tell me all about what life was like when she was small is one of the things I am most thankful that I ever did. Her stories helped set me on a path of tracing my family roots that has gone on for over twenty years now.

She told me stories that she had heard first hand from her grandfather about the homesteading days. Of the old wagon trail that went by here, and the oxcarts travelling on it. About the prairie grass fire that started forty miles away and burned out a lot of local farmers. About how he came here before the train even made it this far west, and how many people walked the last fifty miles to get here.

To compare our grandmothers' childhoods with those of our children is absolutely mind boggling. When they were little, if you told them that someday man would walk on the moon, or for that matter, that people would fly anywhere in the world, just as routinely as riding a train, they probably wouldn't believe it. Computers, microwave ovens, and the Internet were not even science fiction to them. If you told a homesteaders wife that she could put supper in a box, push a button, and take it out fully cooked in two minutes and you would have been laughed at like you were crazy.

I wonder how much things will change by the time we reach 100?
 

Faster horses

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I'm thinking of you and your family, Jersey Lilly.
I'm sure you will keep her stories alive and well.

I remember being fascinated hearing of Mr. FH grandmother
riding the mail stage from Nebraska to Wyoming. And then
to think she was very much alive when the first man walked
on the moon. What changes these folks have lived through!
 

DJL

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Sorry to hear of of her passing. When I was a kid, old people were just old, but my, how one's perspective changes with a little age! Now when I see an elderly couple (particularly ranchers), I would just love to sit down and ask them all about their lives. Dad always talked about Aunt Molina, who lived to see the railroad come into their area of Saskatchewan, and to see it taken out again (or at least become unused, but of course I didn't write it down, so now can't remember!), and the many changes in between.
 

Mrs.Greg

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Oh Lilly,what a wonderful age she lived to be.Great you could hear her stories,write them down and keep her in your heart...Mairi
 

Judith

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Sounds like you we very blessed to have known such a great lady :) I agree to writing down her stories before they are lost to your family :)
 

Jassy

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So sorry Lilly to hear about G-ma...It's good though that she left this world while she was at rest...that's how I want to go. I remember a picture you sent me not to long ago and she looked great then. I'm sure she has left a great family legacy that'll you'll all cherish. My thoughts are with you all...
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Thanks for all your kind words. It really means alot to me, and Mr Lilly as well. She was an awesome lady. Was so neat when I met her for the first time. I remember it like it was yesterday. November 1983 Thanksgiving. I came with Mr Lilly and his family down here to spend the holiday with her and Pa. (we weren't married yet) She was a lil spunkier than my own grandma, but loved alot of the same thangs. Even shared the same Birthday as my grandma. I knew right then, she'd be a very special part of my life. (LOL and he hadn't even asked me to marry him yet) but I just "knew".
It wasn't long until I was hooked on family history. I started way back when you actually had to go to the libray LOL and have continued...with my family and his as well. I wrote down stories all along. Still some I'm sure I haven't written down, but plan on sittin down and makin a point to go thru her huge box of pictures and write a few more down. Pictures are a wonderful way of getting them to talk/tell stories and I sat with her many an evenin goin thru them with her, putting names and dates on the back of them. Along with gettin to hear the stories. They'll be a reminder and help me remember things I should write.
I sat with her, thru many winter weeks, piecin quilts. Some of the same things I did with my own grandma growin up.
She taught me how to make jelly, and can vegetables. Somethin I'll treasure from now on.
My Mother In Law works at the funeral home that's taking care of the arrangements. Today she called me and asked if I'd write a paragraph to be included in her Obituary, about all her hobbies. At first I was kinda at a loss.....but just sittin down and thinkin about all the things she done while I had the privilage to know her, it quickly became easy. Then I had to put it all into such a short paragraph. And I was honored to have been asked to do that.
WOW!!!!! What a lady!
Ya know....even tho we'll miss her terribly, you can't be sad at the passing of someone that lived as long as she has. She's done her duties here on earth. And done em WELL!!!!! Her work was done. The way I see it, it just gives us another reason to celebrate life. And to live by her examples. I'm so glad that both our kids had the chance to know her, and love her, and be loved by her. ......................
 

flrooster

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sorry for your loss,i agree about writing down the stories. maybe when your up to it you could post a few for us,i have learned more about all yalls part of the country here than in any of my schoolin.my great.......granddaddy came to fl in the early 1840s,family history reads entirely different from most "official versions.
 

Soapweed

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Jersey Lilly, we send condolences and prayers to you and your family. That wonderful lady left a mighty impact and influence. You were blessed to get to know her so well, and to have her as part of your family. You are also a very special lady who will carry on her ideals and traditions. The torch is being passed to Lil Lilly as well. Your husband and son are also running the race of life carrying the baton of her influence. This is all the way that it should be. Keep the flame burning. :)
 
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