OK, Darlene, She was born in SW Texas, Carrizo Springs, c. 1912. Her bro and sis: David and Azubah Burnett. Her parents: Edna Owen Burnett and William Ward Burnett, both from Texas.
She was a master at mathematics but did not have any advanced education (high school only, and probably didn't finish that). She was a born researcher, and so became an autodidact, but only in her interest areas: astrology, astronomy. She read well and much. She introduced me to reading early in my life. She and my father didn't travel, so her understandings were centered on her reading.
She was a caring if distracted mom (distracted by her interests in her efforts to fact find). She was kind in her teaching me those skills.
She kept contact with her birth family and introduced me to them. I did not make efforts to connect with her father. (I'm sorry about that.) Her brother David was a tease (I avoided him.) and her sister Azubah was. . . well, the mother of my cousin Gwen, whom I loved in childhood. (Gwen had two siblings.) The three seemed to me then and now to be "ordinary people." They didn't read well or educate themselves past high school, that I'm aware of.
In our deeper family [ usually] Some details male lines are Dixon, Tootle, Weeks, Slaughter and of the women's family names are Covington, Owen, Bolton, and probably more. A place name for several : Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
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Many Covingtons are buried in Caney Creek Cemetery, in the place name in the above sentence.
My maternal GF was a Burnett and he scared me as a child.
