Henry Smith Shuff - WikiTree Profile

Henry Smith Shuff - WikiTree Profile

My Aunt, Palmaneda Baker Smith, told me that she loved staying the night with Grandpa and Grandma Shuff. She said he was a wonderful grandpa.
He loved to tell jokes. They would sit in front of the fireplace and Grandpa Shuff would get his popcorn popper with the long handle and pop corn in the fireplace while he entertained them.
Maybe later, he would take a big bowl and go out to the cellar, and bring it back full of apples. He'd sit down and peel them all apples. He always peeled the pealing off in one big piece. They were amazed by that.
Grandma Shuff was real quiet. Sometimes she'd say, "Smith, doesn't your tongue ever get tired?"
One joke Aunt Palmaneda remembered him telling went something like this: An Irishman had a big rope. One day, someone weaved the ends of his rope together. When the Irishman wanted to use his rope, he couldn't find the end. He said 'Faith and me jamber, sone cut off both ends of me rope.'

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