Fearless Females #14…Newsmakers We all know how difficult it was being a woman in the 1880s. You couldn’t travel alone, you couldn’t vote, and in most places in the world you were seen as second class. What would your experience be if you were a female and alone in America? That’s what happened to my…
Category: About My Ancestors
A Mother’s Strength: Dealing With Injuries
[52 weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Prompt: Illness & Injuries…This doubles as my Fearless Females post for 13th of March, A Moment of Strength] I wasn’t injured very often as a child. At least, most of injuries were mostly due to my siblings rather than my own stupidity. Always blame the siblings! This prompt…
Winifred (Kelly) Small’s Individual Summary
I do not know much about Winifred. I have yet to find her marriage date. She died at the age of 31 just after giving birth to her only child. After she died, her daughter ended up with relatives. I am not sure what happened to her husbands. Perhaps he felt he could not raise…
My Great Grandmother Became an Adult at 11
[Fearless Females: Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 11th–Female ancestor who died young…this is a repeat from last year] (Reposting this one from last year. My Great Grandmother was an incredible woman!) My Great Great Grandmother was Margaret (Kelly) Jones. Margaret lived next door to a young man named, Thomas Augustine Jones. They married in…
My Grandma Shellabarger
Fearless Females #2…a photo of my ancestor My Grandma Shellabarger, aka Anna Jackson. This was taken in 6th grade, 1924, when she was 12. She pregnant with her first child 5 years later. That was 5 months before she married my Grandfather, just days before the Stock Market Crash of 1929. I selected this…