Keepsake - More Than Just An Egg

Joe keeps this egg on his dresser as a connection with his beloved Grandfather Trapper, Alonzo Solon Neely.

It's an "ordinary" hand-painted plastic egg. But it has quite a story. Elizabeth Gilmore Neely, Alonzo's wife, gave Ray Pepper and Joe the egg to take to Alonzo at the hospital in Urbana, Ohio. Joe gave the egg to his grandfather. 

For years Joe thought this was the egg Trapper was holding when he died. Then Joe remembered that egg was cracked in Trapper's hand at the time of death. Now he thinks his Grandmother Neely, Mamaw, painted two eggs; one was given to Trapper and this is the second egg.