Day-Day's Dream

By Doris Tanner Ross

As the owner of Doris Tanners Flowers, Inc., at the age of eighty-eight years old, Doris Tanner Ross decided to fulfill the request of her many friends and family over the past years to tell her story. The story begins in 1924 in Sullivans Hollow. She had many struggles during the depression era as a war widow with a baby to raise. With God as her guide and her mother as her support, Doris made many decisions that would adversely affect her future and the future of her daughter.
Doris is currently still working and running her own business. She opened her shop in 1965 and relocated her business in 1996. Doris still strives to please her wonderful customers. She attributes her success to treating people the right way, just as God would want her to.
Although her customers appreciate her for her talent, her grandchildren and great grandchildren love her as their Day Day! In their eyes, she is most famous for her Sweet Potato Pie! No matter what path one has crossed with Doris Tanner Ross, she will be remembered as someone special.
Philipians 4:12-13 I know how to be poor and I know how to be rich, too. I have been through my initiation and now I am ready for anything anywhere: full stomach or empty stomach, poverty or plenty. There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the One who gives me strength. (New English American Translation)

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481707015

Doris Tanner Ross

As the owner of Doris Tanner’s Flowers, Inc., at the age of eighty-eight years old, Doris Tanner Ross decided to fulfill the request of her many friends and family over the past years to tell her story. The story begins in 1924 in Sullivan’s Hollow. She had many struggles during the depression era as a war widow with a baby to raise. With God as her guide and her mother as her support, Doris made many decisions that would adversely affect her future and the future of her daughter. Doris is currently still working and running her own business. She opened her shop in 1965 and relocated her business in 1996. Doris still strives to please her wonderful customers. She attributes her success to treating people the right way, just as God would want her to. Although her customers appreciate her for her talent, her grandchildren and great grandchildren love her as their “Day Day!” In their eyes, she is most famous for her Sweet Potato Pie! No matter what path one has crossed with Doris Tanner Ross, she will be remembered as someone special. Philipians 4:12-13 “I know how to be poor and I know how to be rich, too. I have been through my initiation and now I am ready for anything anywhere: full stomach or empty stomach, poverty or plenty. There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the One who gives me strength. (New English American Translation)

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Day-Day’s Dream

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Doris Tanner Ross

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/23/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-0059-7 (sc)

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Preface

Although we did the best we could, my parents, siblings, and other family members learned to make ends meet by working very hard. I am so happy that my daughter and her family do not have to struggle financially just to feed themselves. The world, however, was a much safer place then, and we had a much simpler way of life. I feel that God blessed me by bringing me through the Depression Era, and now I can live comfortably and appreciate some of the finer things of life. From Sullivan’s Hollow in Smith County to Sharon Road in Jones County, Mississippi, I am so proud of my history and leave my legacy with all who read my book.

Delia Doris Byrd-Tanner-Ross

Philippians 4:12–13 New International Version (NIV)

¹² I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. ¹³ I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

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Sullivan’s Hollow

I was born on April 23, 1924, in Smith County, Mississippi, on a rural route between Mt. Olive and Mize. My parents, Mollie Robinson Byrd and Artha James Byrd, made our home right in the middle of Sullivan’s Hollow. My father walked to our mailbox in the rain, took pneumonia, and died when I was two years old and my sister, Bertha Byrd (Lewis), was nine days old. I can’t even remember my father. My mother was left with a great responsibility to rear us and support us, and she did a good job. She continued working in the fields to help us survive. My daddy had bought a Model T car before he died. Grandpaw, Orlando Jack Byrd, my dad’s father, came to our house and put a lock on the car so that we couldn’t use it. Grandpaw had given my daddy two mules to farm the land, but he tried to take them back when Daddy died. My mama wouldn’t allow him to take the mules, though. That was our only way to travel, by mule and wagon. It was a constant struggle between Grandpaw and Mama. He wouldn’t have much to do with Mama after my daddy died.

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DORIS AS BABY

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MAMA & DADDY

Aunt Cammye’s Desk

My very first day of school, at the approximate age of six, was at New Haven in Smith County, located between Mize and Mt. Olive. This was a block building, and it still stands today. The first day of school, and all week for that matter, I would not go into my own classroom! Instead, I would sneak in my Aunt Cammye Byrd’s classroom and hide under her desk. My own teacher would come looking for me and take me back where I was supposed to be. Finally, my mother took me out of school. She enrolled me again the following year at Taylorsville School after we moved to the area. That’s where I spent all twelve years of school until I graduated from high school in 1943.

Cotton Pickin’ and Cucumber Stings

Several years after my daddy died, my mama married my stepdad, Charlie Wood, who knew only farming as a way to make a living. My mother sold the house that my daddy had built when they first married to her father-in-law, Grandpaw Byrd. When I was about six or eight years old, my mother used the money to purchase a very small and very old house and eighty acres from her mother, my grandmaw, Elizabeth Betty Robinson. We moved from Mt. Olive to Taylorsville, about two miles north, after her husband, my grandpaw, D. N. Dan Robinson died. Grandmaw couldn’t afford to