Wilma Nieman

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Wilma Nieman

• By Whitney Rosenberger

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Biography
My Great Grandma Wilma was born on March17,1932.
Her birth place was in Kingwood, WV. She had 5
kids total. Her kids names are Raymond, Skip,
Rodney, Terry, Richard, and Roger. Her Mothers
name is Mary Pearl Galloway. Her Fathers name is
Noble Galloway. She had 11 brothers and sisters
and 1 mom and dad. Her brothers and sisters
names are Delbert, Darwin, Phyllis, Lee is dead,
Kermit, Larry, Keith, Twyla, Rex ,and then there
was another sister that died at 9 months old. She
burned in a house fire.
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Major events in history

• These major events happened from when Wilma was
  born until now. 1924 campaign was keep cool with
  Coolidge. On July 10,1925 Journalists from all
  over the country converged on the small town of
  Dayton Tennessee for the trail of Coolidge's term
  ended early in 1929 seven months before the Stock
  Market Crashed and the Great Depression began.
  The Harlem Renaissance faded in the 1930s during
  the hard times of the Depression . In March 1932
  Americans were shocked that Charles Lindbergh and
  his wife Anne had been kidnapped. The baby was
  found by the Lindbergh home. During the
  Depression first transatlantic flight of the
  Yankee clipper in 1939,22 passengers were served
  six-course dinners by a crew of twelve people. On
  December 27,1941 the government announced a
  rationing of rubber tires. In just 5 years
  1940-1945 United States factories produced
  almost three hundred thousand aircraft seventy
  one thousand naval ships and five thousand cargo
  ships. In 1946 a new type of swim wear called a
  bikini was introduced In 1947 the Truman Doctrine
  is issued. In 1949 NATO is formed. 1969 Apollo 11
  astronauts landed on the moon. 1972 congress
  passes education ferorms. 1974 President Nixon
  resigns. 1975 the Vietnam war ends . 1981 Ronald
  becomes President. 1991 the Persian Gulf War
  ended. 1995 NATO forces end fighting in Bosnia.
  In 2000 George W Bush was elected as president.
  In 2001 Terrorists attack sites in the US.

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High School

• Wilma remembered when she started
  High School they had no program when she started
  High School. They carried milk, eggs, home canned
  vegetables, bags of potatoes that they traded for
  their lunch. They carried half gallon jars of
  home grown vegetables that her Mother canned them
  in the jars and they would bring the empty jars
  back and trade them the next year. All the food
  they used practically in the lunch program was
  brought in by people that wanted their lunch and
  then they traded for their lunch. Then whenever
  she started to she worked in the lunch room she
  would get her lunch free. Wilma worked every noon
  hour, and she would get her lunch free. Wilma had
  to milk the cows of a morning before she went to
  school, and then she would come home and milk the
  cows in the evening. Wilmas sister would do the
  housework, and Wilma would help with the outside
  work. She lived on a farm. On the weekends she
  would walk two miles, worked for 4 hours, and got
  a quarter and then finally walked home.

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Dads Car

• At one time Wilmas Dad bought a car, and
  it had a rumble seat in it. A rumble seat is a
  seat back where the trunk is now, and it opened
  up for them to sit in. All the kids would ride in
  it. Of course you were out in the weather.

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Pete Burgers.

• Her, her brothers, and her sisters walked to
  school two miles and carried that food too. They
  walked down a path through the woods and down
  over the hill and came out down at the Milk Plant
  at that time. When Wilma was in High School she
  worked at Pete Burgers. It was down where the
  church is and the Clover Farm is now. It was a
  restaurant and a little store. She said we
  flipped burgers and waited on people and stalked
  shelves and things. She didnt remember what she
  made but it wasnt a lot, but she bought all of
  her school supplies with it at that time.

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My Thanks

• Thank you Mrs. Kent for letting me do
  the project. I really enjoyed doing it, and
  thanks for letting me use your supplies. Also
  thank you Mom for taking me, helping me, and
  driving me up to her house. Thank you
  Great-Grandma Wilma for letting me interview you .