Audrey Mae SpencerSpencer Historical CemeteryHenry Straight / William Spencer Family Cemetery
Vaughn Historical CemeterySpencers of East Greenwich, RI
Life in Anthony (Coventry)
15 August 2004

Heather: Did you want one of the kids on a farm?

Audrey: No, it’s hard work. Except if you own the farm, (then it would be worth it).

4 September 2004

Heather: Hey, Mother, if you say you had pretty kids, then that meant that you were pretty, because ugly people do not have pretty kids!

Audrey: Well, Edith, she was always looking in the mirror and fixing herself up. She was always dressing up and going dancing. But I was just a plain old kid. I never stopped to think about it (fixing myself up). Edith didn’t care about study, but I liked it (studying).

4 September 2004

Heather: Did your parents like Uncle Frank?

Audrey: Yes, we all fell in love with Uncle Frank. He was so tall and had such beautiful thick hair.

4 September 2004

Heather: Did your parents ever say anything about whom you should marry?

Audrey:  No. Nothing was ever said. My mother or father never said anything about that. I think they liked Frank very much.

4 September 2004

Heather: What did they think about Dad?

Audrey: Dad, he was so quiet that he passed (the in-law test). He always helped Grandpa. One time Dad almost got heat stroke helping Grandpa with the hay. We had a barn in the back yard and the barn needed to be filled with hay. Dad always helped (Grandpa).

Dad always had his job. He worked at the mill and then at the submarine place. My father liked Milton. He was quiet, he didn’t have much to say. Dad said that my mother was “as near to an angel as anyone could be” or “as near to an angel as anything on earth”. That’s something to say about a mother-in-law! Grandma was good to him. She smiled and was such a good woman.

24 October 2004

Heather: What did you like most in your life?

As a child? Playing with my doll.  I adopted Edith’s dolls. I had them after Edith. Then Anna Jane got the dolls. They probably all broke with her.  She was reckless. She didn’t sit and hold them.  She was running around and throwing them up in the air.

I’m very alert today.  I’m reading books.

Vaughn (was here).

Everything around here (Alpine Nursing Home) looks so nice. I’m lucky. I don’t have any pain at all.

24 October 2004

Heather: Tell me something about your grandfather, John Johnson Spencer.

He had a beard. He was all right.  I didn’t talk with him.  (In those days) “Children should be seen but not heard.”

24 October 2004

Heather: What work did you do in the home when you were a child?

Didn’t like washing dishes.  Didn’t have to do it too much. Don’t remember ever having to do any chores, outside of feeding the dog.

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