Category: Strong women
-
Betty Gaines and her sisters
Elizabeth Wilhelmina Gaines was born in 1876 in Wilson County, Kansas. She and her sisters were born about two years apart beginning in 1872. Their mother was a German immigrant, and her grandson LeRoy Morgan remembered her being quite religious, proud and strict. The girls’ father and both grandfathers were ministers, so it would seem…
-
Mary Ada Bothwell
(Mary) Ada Bothwell was my great-grandmother Violet Elizabeth Myers’s first cousin. Ada’s mother, Mary C. Myers, was sister to Violet’s father, Alfred Palmer Myers. Their parents were Jacob Myers and Eleanor Gorham. Jacob was born Jacob Miars, but switched to using the more common spelling sometime in the 1860s. Mary was born in Ohio, and…
-
Jane Beardwood
Jane Beardwood was born in Lancashire, England in 1838. Her father had been a weaver, but by 1851, his wife had died and the census lists him as a laborer at a paint works. He still had 7 children living at home. The family ended up emigrating to Philadelphia on the ship Tuscarora in 1856.…