Mary Lynn remembers Papa Lancaster sitting either on the front porch on the homemade willow furniture or in the winter time inside by the fire place. She remembers Mama Lancaster with her ever smiling face. Mama Lancaster was always happy to see anyone who came to see her.
Mary Lynn remembers while a group of cousins were together playing, we got permission to go across the corn field to visit Uncle Curry and Aunt Betty. Before we reached our destination, we missed my little sister Melba. All of us went back to find her and she had fell asleep in a corn middle holding a baby doll.
excerpted from The Lancaster Descendants, Patricia Ann Maners
prepared for the Lancaster Reunion, July 4, 1991