27.Who was the oldest relative you remember as a child? What do you remember about them?

My mother's dad, Art Gilmore was born in 1890, my dad's mother, Rebecca Ramey Dobson Williams was born in 1891. So you could say they were about the same age. 

Grandpa Gilmore was old beyond his years. He had "hardening of the arteries" ( Arteriosclerosis). I think that that effected him a lot. He also had been a hard working, hard drinking man for most of his life. He was a street fighter when he was young and in one of his fights, someone hit him in the side of the head with a board. His hearing was damaged and he was almost completely deaf when I was a kid.  

He used to read the "funny papers" as we called the Sunday comics then. But he only went to the 3rd grade and  it wasn't long before I could read better than he could. One time we, reading the comics and I corrected him. That was the last time he read to me.  

He liked to read western paperback novels. Louis Lamour was one of his favorite writers.