Prompt 7

If you could meet anyone past or present, who would it be and why?

If I could meet anyone past or present I would like to meet my great grandmother, Hazel Ruth Morris or (GG). She was a wonderful woman from what I'm told, strong willed and hard headed and I guess I'm just like her, she died from a massive heart attack exactly two months before I turned two, she died January 26 1997, I turned two on march 26. She was getting ready to brush her teeth, tooth brush in hand when it happened. 

When she was twenty four she adopted my grandfather (her brother) and their other siblings, not only that she also had a daughter of her own. She adopted her siblings because their father had died from committing suicide, and the death of their mother who died from tuberculosis. 

She was a full blooded Cherokee Indian although it can never be proven. She tried her hardest to prove that she was on paper, and even hired a private investigator but the trail always ended because our family was some of the Indians that ran and hid in the hills of Tennessee and burned their documents during the trail of tears trying to escape from the government and to be put on a reservation. 

One of the things I would ask her was how she took the burns out of a sun burn. My mom told me that when she would get a sun burn my GG would rub her hands together and then rub the sunburn and some how it took the burn out. When she was all done it would be transferred into her hands;; they would be beat red and would sit with her hands under cold water, my mom said she told her that her grandmother taught her how to do it.