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■elf to another. Even m her teens, •when someone commented upon her soft, hazel eyes, she’d quickly boast upon the beauty of one of her sister*.
Miss Lizzie looks much the same now as she did many years ago when she attended Miss Annie Power’s one-room school. Her hair now grey and wavy, was thick and dark brown' in her youth. It was. long enough to reach to her ahkles, and she wore it then as she does now, in Cornet. style with two braids around her head.
She has so much vivacity now that it is not hard -to imagine her in her teens** Can’t you see her enthusiasm as she packed fried chicken and cakes and helped get the other children ready to go to an all-day Camp Meeting? No doubt her eyes were serious when the preachers took turns exnostulating upon God’s goodness and Man’s need for repentance; but how they must have snapped when they looked out under the trees and saw long tables full of hams and pies > piled two feet high! - * , . At harvest, when a neighbor built a platform ou* in bis field for square dancing in the moon-' light, Miss Lizzie was invited. She was too friendly to be shy, but too independent to be coy.
In 1896, Mr. Smoot built a tannery in North Wilkesboro, and he and his family moved here from Virginia. At the death of her father of whom she was so proud, Miss Lizzie came to live permanently with her dear friends, the
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