Goodness Gracious, Miss Agnes: Patchwork of Country Living

Lera Knox was born Lera Margaret Ussery on June 7, 1896, in Columbia, Tennessee. She grew up in the Victorian South, learned to teach, and became a farm wife and a mother during the Great Depression. She early established her skill with words, earning a life-long press-pass that took her “backstage” to events great and small. She was a popular columnist for the Nashville (TN) Banner and the Columbia (TN) Daily Herald & Democrat from 1933 through 1965, and her work could be found in many other fashionable publications of the period.