Elizabeth R. Herbert recounts her childhood in Sumter, South Carolina during the early twentieth century and her memories of married life in Charlotte, North Carolina as the wife of a Methodist minister. She describes delivering water to soldiers practicing drills as a child during World War I and taking soup to sick soldiers during the 1918 flu pandemic. She also shares details about her Methodist faith, her husband's career, and the history of Methodism and Methodist churches in the region.
