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Thanksgiving and Christmas, that I knew my Granddaddy was coming. Being the last of a long line of kids, I only knew one grandparent, and that was Granddaddy Jim Lillard. To tell you the bare bones truth, he didn’t show a lot of interest in me, but, he was a respected individual and was still special and interesting to me.
He was, in the best sense of the word, a craftsman. He was a carpenter, a furniture maker of the first order, and, shall we say, pretty particular about how things were to be done. He was from a family of craftsmen. His brother, my Uncle Wilbert, was a marvelous stone mason and blacksmith.
Before Granddaddy moved to Rappahannock, he lived in Madison County, where, I am told, all the folks around there wanted to be buried in one of his black walnut coffins. I suppose, if you had to go, you might as well go in style.
I could tell you exactly how the butchering was done, but, not wanting to get too graphic
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