Yet another giant donation from the Woodruff Foundation

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

I wish she were still here to ask, long gone now.... but I remember hearing as a child that my grandmother went to school with Robert W. Woodruff. Checked his Wikipedia article, they were both born in 1989, so plausible. He was born in Columbus, she in Cherokee County, but her family moved to East Atlanta (the old house is still standing on Flora Avenue just a block or two east of the new Edgewood Retail District). The Wikipedia article doesn't say what year his family would have moved to Atlanta, but everything about him is connected to Atlanta. I think it was middle school years, 6th grade if my memory serves me right.

My little connection to Atlanta history. All of you were itching to know this I am sure....

Interesting, Saintmarks. Could have been!

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Interesting, Saintmarks. Could have been!

Thanks, you and Ansley are true examples of Southern Hospitality on this forum. I did just now notice my typo; both Woodruff and my grandmother were born in 1889, not 1989. My grandmother was quite a character, a working woman in those days, I'm sure her family thought she would be a spinster. She said she would never marry a widower or a preacher, but at the ripe old age of 31 she married my grandfather who was both. He became the pastor at Edgewood Baptist Church after his first wife died (of pellagra... common in southerners in that day) and met her there.

She told stories of riding the street car to work, worked as a bookkeeper and stenographer for a firm in the Hurt Building, watched the great fire of Atlanta from her office window. She died in 1990 at age 101. What a treasure of Atlanta history she had, wish I had paid more attention.