Vinnie's story: Twin mothers

These are my grandparents, Hap and Vinnie Stewart.

Here is Vinnie's family when she was a girl.  Her mother, Susan McCleve Gardner, her father George Franklin Gardner.  Vinnie is on the left, little brother Harald in the middle, sister Georgia on the right.

Susan had an identical twin sister, Margaret McCleve Kartchner, who lived just down the street, so the sisters were often together.

I remember my Grandma Vinnie telling this story of one of her earliest memories.

Vinnie remembered being a very small girl, and when she was hurt she ran crying and buried her face in what she thought was her mother's long skirt.   She remembered being so surprised when her aunt Maggie said, "Bless your heart, child, I'm not your mother!"