Her brother had a little too much of it one day and was sleeping. Her father had blackberries, and wine for communion was made out of it. Those birds were cleaned, cooked and eaten, and the kitchen cleaned, before their parents got home. She cleaned the birds and got them ready to cook. Her brother, though, had concocted a popgun - so they shot some of the plentiful robins. Groover recalled the workers going to hunt on the last of hunting season for their only chance to shoot quail. "They had me telling them about Christmas in July," she said. At times, that meant reading them nursery rhymes, such as "Mother Goose," but often, the little ones had their own requests. Groover belonged to the girls voice club as a youngster, and when the women's voice club met, she was in charge of the older children. I had all these little brothers and sisters under me. "That means I have to do everything mother and daddy says, respect them and all old people. "And it stuck with me, as a little girl," she said. When the family went to a fair in Cairo, Groover was asked to sing the 10 Commandments. "We had a Bible study and we had to learn verses from the Bible and one of them was the 10 Commandments. "When I was growing up, 9 or 10 years old, and we had a vacation Bible school," she said. It was the lessons she learned as a young girl that has carried through a century of living. Several years later, the family moved to Pebble Hill Plantation, where her father King Dennis Hadley worked. Her family moved to Thomasville when she was a toddler. Groover was born in a part of Grady County then known as Duncansville. As the oldest of 15 children, her role, from an early age, was that of "second mama," she said, whenever her mother went somewhere.