Grettle Owen Hansen remembers watching her grandmother, Elizabeth Gollaher Benson, comb her hair, parting it and twisting it into a bun at the back of her head.
Elizabeth had a cedar bed and dresser, and this bed and dresser are now in the Lion House in a bedroom on the main floor so anyone can go and see it.
Grandmother Elizabeth wore a pale blue sunbonnet and Grettle wore a white one. Lizzie Benson Owen would cold starch them and iron them on the breezeway, then the bonnets were hung in the sun.