... Ella (Mary Ellen) called Ell by all the family. Whether a new baby or some other reason, she had taken Charlie and I home to Williamston with her for a short time. Why, I am not sure. What I remember is her giving each of us two eggs in our hands to go up to town to the store and trade for some candy. We later complained because of the scant number of pieces. Aunt Ell than gave us two more eggs in our hands, with a lesson about goods and values. Our first choice had been chocolate. The last time we came home with more the wintergreens and a never forgotten lesson. Around the age of four to five years, I can truthfully say this is the only clear memory I have kept of this aunt. I knew more of her children better.
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[from Joyce Matthews Bowers: I am related to Drivers through the marriage of Mary Ellen Driver (daughter of John Wesley Driver) and Frederick Henry Matthews. Their son, Albert Ellsworth Matthews, was my grandfather, though I never knew him as he died when my father, Frederick Matthews, was only five years old. I have a copy of "Driver Memoirs" written by daughters of Byron and Nellie Driver. It is about 30 typewritten pages containing a lot of interesting little stories and descriptions. ]
