Ancestor project

I'm doing my research project on my great grandma Virginia Watts Richardson.  She is from Prosperity South Carolina which is a small town right outside of Newberry South Carolina. She was 96 years old when she passed away.  She was born on April fifth nineteen fourteen. And she passed away on March twenty second two thousand  eleven.  And when she passed away she had Demetria and died of old age.  She was buried at the church she went to her whole life, Saint Paul Lutheran Church Cemetery.

This is her grave marker.  It is a grass flush with a cross on it to symbolize her religion. 


 When she was active in the community she worked at  Kendal company Oakland plant in Newberry South Carolina.  Which is a textile mill.  She was a quilter and made all of her great grandchildren a quilt when they where born.  She hand one child which is my grandma  Shelby Sheely.  She was apart of the Newberry RSVP which is retired senior volunteer service that do community projects.  They volunteer at schools, day cares, police departments, hospitals and other nonprofit public organizations.  She was a Sunday School teacher for over twenty years at Saint Paul Lutheran Church. Her husband worked at home because they had a large farm.  When she retired she was a gardener and grew there own vegetables and sold them at there general store.  The store sold everything from gas, snacks, some tools, drinks and a few grocery items.  After the grocery store closed they opened up a small women's clothing store with two of her nieces.  She also helped her husband butcher the animals that they raised and sold at there grocery store. She was a cook at a restaurant when she retired. She would cook for the church after every Sunday with the things that she got from her garden or the meat that they had.  And then after that she would host a family dinner every other weekend when everyone from our family would go and have a cook out at her house.  My grandma keep that tradition going by cooking for our family every Sunday after church. 
 
I got my information through my grandma which lives in my great grandmas old house, my mom which spent a lot of time with my great grandma and also through Find a grave.  I got the information about her church from Saint Paul Lutheran church website.