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The author graduated high school from Lumberton, Mississippi; finished a BS degree in education at Mississippi College; and earned a MS from the University of Southern Mississippi with an emphasis in reading. Jean has two grown children, Jeffrey and Daphne, and one granddaughter, Presley. The author taught school for thirty-five years in Louisiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Illinois, and Mississippi, the last for the past nineteen years. For the past twenty-five years, Jean has lived in Columbia, Mississippi, with her husband, Bobby. She is the pianist for East Columbia Baptist Church, teaches an adult ladies’ Sunday school class, and plays in the handbell choir.

The stories in this book take place in the 1920s, during the childhood of the eldest five of the nine siblings as they remembered them and then retold to the grandchildren as the author remembers them. Some were softened as the aunts and uncles related the tales, and occasionally they became somewhat different for the younger generation. Nonetheless, the stories are a part of Jean Sauls’ history. This is a book for people who also remember that time and for children who never knew such a history existed.