I need your help to tell her story.
Give me 3 “facts” about her; anything at all in the comments section. Her name? Where she’s from? How many kids? A personality trait? What kind of home? Was she from money? Did she immigrate? You get the idea.
The person whose “facts” I pick to write her story will win a picture frame made out of a vintage home or building. You have until next Sunday, April 18, at 12 midnight.
Here’s what I know about her: nothing. This picture was purchased for $4 at a dealer’s booth in an antique store in Georgia. Incidentally, it is way more than I would usually pay for a print, but she spoke to me. It was in a box with many other large portraits the same size. There is nothing written on it so there are no clues to the year, her name, where she was from or her age, which is the real secret I want to know. I know she has beautiful eyes, a sweet lace collar and she might look like every great, great grandmother.
So, maybe the dead people are talking to you, too. Even if they aren’t, give me some info about her and we’ll see where the story takes us.
Win this! A frame (holds 4×6 pic) created out of a vintage home or building.
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Her name was Lillian Beard and she lived in Omaha, NE all of her life on her family’s farm.
She sewed the wedding dresses of her three younger sisters, but she never married.
Her companion throughout most of her life was a wild dog that she called Gabby and left food out for each evening before she went to bed.
1) She’s worried that these glasses made her look old. She doesn’t think of herself as old yet. 83 years is nothing these days…
2) She wonders if she could still swing from the rope over the pond before diving in like she did in the her teens, well after her Pa told her such behavior was “unbecoming in a young lady”.
3) In the morning she will tell her Great Niece to “Live life to the fullest. Even if that means turning a few heads.” Then they will laugh at the things she did as a girl.
1. Kathryn Marie (“Kate”) Brennan (nee Dooley), one of 7 children, who arrived in the U.S. from Ireland with her parents and 3 sisters in 1858, when she was 6 years old.
2. Her family settled in northeastern Pennsylvania, where her father worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad as a track laborer, while she and her 3 sisters worked in a Wilkes-Barre silk mill.
3. In 1878 she married James Brennan, a textile salesman, and had three children: Lawrence, Francis, and Julia. The photo was taken on the event of her 80th birthday in 1928.
You don’t know how much I wish dead ppl didn’t talk to me.
Her name is Abigail. She is not from money, she is from German, English or Scottish immigrants. She may have been born in the old country as well. She spent her early years on her family’s farm. She had 3-4 sisters, but her 2 brothers were the oldest & youngest. She married another farmer and had 8 children, only 6 of whom survived.
Her name is Etta Mae Johnson. She’s from Red Oak, IA born and raised. The daughter of a farmer, she was the intellectual in the family. She worked hard at her school work, read voraciously, and eventually became a teacher. A deep thinker with a keen sense of justice, she spent her later years as a Suffragette.
Hope you’re inspired! That’s all I’ve got.
(ps not that I would win, but you could keep the frame, if I did.. that was fun!)