SEGMENT: FAMILY
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- Brother Ben would come home with her to grandmother's for lunch. She never spent the night at her mother's after father died. Speaks of aunt who sewed. Aunt taught her to sew. Discussion of grandparent's golden wedding celebration. Stories of Civil War as related to her from her grandparents, including that of a vigilante. Discussion of family cemetery. Her grandfather was postmaster for Company C in Civil War. Notes lack of hatred in Civil War.
Sangamon
1980s
90s
Recalls family and farm life in southern Illinois, early 1900s