"Dear DeVere: Am sending some clothes & a clock. Hope you are fine. Aunt Stella called to say Grandma Brown passed away yesterday. Her funeral will be at Columbus tomorrow....Barbara is going to a freshman skating party to-night if it doesn't rain too much. When will we be seeing you?
"Love Mother"
-- Letter from my grandmother to my father, Wednesday, October 22, 1941. My great-grandfather had died in 1936. His second wife, with whom he had no children, had died on October 21, 1941. I am descended from his first wife, who died in 1896, when the youngest of her eight surviving children was 9 months old and her oldest child, Aunt Stella, was 17. Aunt Stella took on a great role in helping her father raise her seven younger siblings, and she did not marry until she was 41.
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