SEGMENT: RECOLLECTIONS & FAMILY BACKGROUND
Jessie Ruth Saiter>UIS Collection S>UIS Collection S, Segment 4
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- RECOLLECTIONS
- Mrs. Saiter gives her feelings towards 19th Amendment & Woman's Suffrage Movement, which she believes were mainly of concern to city-people, not rural people. She voted as soon as she got the right to do so. Did not bother father or husband about women getting right to vote. "We just took it as a natural thing."
- FAMILY BACKGROUND
- Discussion of family genealogy referring to a written family history. Listing of family names. Family originally came from New Hampshire via England. May be related to Sir Humphrey Gilbert an English explorer. She reads about Sir Humphrey's life & setting up colony in Newfoundland. Discussion of Samuel Slaughter Gilbert from OH. Reading of names of Samuel Slaughter Gilbert descendants. Reading of John Wendall Gilbert descendants including Mrs. Saiter.
