Black eyed peas

My grandfather, Arthur J Edgar Eury (the dam keeper at Eury Dam), and grandmother, Ida Haywood Eury, had eight daughters and three sons. The oldest daughter, Bessie, and the next oldest, Bertie, went to school at the Parker School House. Like most children they carried their lunch to school in a pail, usually a lard bucket. One day they were seated under an oak tree having lunch when another student, a boy, walked by and said, "Look what a delicious lunch Bessie and Bertie brought today: blackberries!" Aunt Bessie and Aunt Bertie never corrected the boy. What they were actually having was black eyed peas.