The Grandmothers’ Magic
… was an expression of who they were!
Alma LeMaster
Samantha’s Grandmother
As Recollected by Samantha
My grandmother, Alma Lloyd LeMaster (née Alma Lloyd Chatham) arrived in Batesville, Mississippi by train in the year 1925, stepping onto the platform wearing a lavender dress with matching lavender hose and high-top shoes. She was twenty-five years old and traveling alone, and her arrival ignited gossip that spread across Panola county. Talk about her intensified when she took a job clerking in a local dry goods