gran'daddy

He crawled under the fence and ran across the cotton field and there in the door of the cabin was his gran'daddy with a lantern.

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

He lived along with his gran'mammy and his gran'daddy in a li'l 'one-storey log cabin that was set right down in

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

Before they could ask him to light the kitchen fire, or fill the tea-kettle, or mix the hoecake, or dust the hearth, or feed the turkeys, or chop any wood, or go to the store, or pick any cotton, he had made up his mind that he was not going to work for his gran'mammy and his gran'daddy any longer.

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

And from morning until night Li'l 'Hannibal's gran'daddy kept him doin' things too.

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

"Why, Li'l 'Hannibal, where you been all day?" asked his gran'daddy.

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

"Oh, Li'l 'Hannibal," his gran'daddy would say, "fetch the corn and feed the turkeys."

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

My gran'mammy and my gran'daddy kep 'me totin', totin 'for them all the time.

The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

I always feel sorry for a man who's got nothing to be proud of but a dead gran'daddy, for it appears to be a law of nature that there shall be but one great man to a tribe -- that the lightning of genius shall not twice strike the same family tree.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

Folks lack yo 'gran'daddy and yo' gran'mammy -- an 'all de Frenches -- dey don' none er _dem_ come back, fer dey wuz all good people an 'is all gone ter hebben.

The Colonel's Dream 1895

Mill'cent is gran'daddy an 'gran'mam-my, sons an' daughters, uncles an 'aunts, cousins, nieces, an' nephews, all in one.

The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886