Category Archives: Women’s History Month

Six Word Memoirs

[Fearless Females, Prompts for Women's History Month, March 15th--Write a sex-word memoir tribute to one of your female ancestors. Did you know that I have already written a six-word memoir?  It was published in the book "Not Quite What I was Planning"--a book filled with six word memoirs. Today's task is to write a six …

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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 …

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My Grandma Made the Best Toast

[Fearless Females, Prompts for Women's History Month, March 7th: Share a recipe...this is a repeat from last year] Oh, I know what you were expecting.  My Grandma’s secret recipe for pound cake or corned beef.  My Grandma Shellabarger was hospitalized when I was in 4th grade.  She had a brain tumor and was partially paralyzed.  …

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