Hattie McCoy 1
March 6, 2024
My grandmother, Hattie McCoy, died at age 97 leaving little in wealth. But she gave us a more valuable gift. On 3 pages, entitled ‘The Abundant Life of Hattie McCoy’ she listed 125 ‘some things I have done or helped to do.’
That list is simple, yet simply impressive. Farm work; plowing, grubbing, cutting grain by hand. Breaking and training young horses and mules. Sawing down trees and helping split rails, posts, boards, and shingles. Making spokes and ax handles. Hauling rails and building miles of
rail and other kinds of fences including stone fence. Digging post holes, making gates, raising poultry, beekeeping, assistant P.M. clerk in a department store, housework, nursing the sick and washing and dressing the dead.
She lived God’s instruction to work humbly.