Callie Myrtle Crafton Dodson

I was studying the stats on a grandmother that I never met.  She was born in 1889 in a rural farming community in South Georgia.  

Her father died sometime before April 1910, leaving 5 daughters, all under 20 and a wife. They could read and write, but never attended school. The 1910 Census says they were farm workers and hired out.  They worked in other folks fields  

The story goes that she and my grandfather corresponded and met up in Atlanta. They ate a meal, then got married, October 15, 1910. They were living in Atlanta until at least 1911.  He was a newspaper vendor, meaning he sold them on the street.

The next record I have is a Draft Registration in 1917 and they were back in South Georgia. In the 1920 Census they were living in South Georgia with my uncle, age 16 from his first marriage and two more children  Two more children were born, the last in 1923.  

My grandmother died May 16, 1925. The saddest thing it was noted, that after a hard days work, she collapsed and died 6 hours later. She was 35.   The Death Certificate also said buried by friends.