(This is such a banal letter from my great grandfather when he was convalescing at the seashore from an illness. One wonders why it ended up being saved over the years to find its way to me. His sister’s letter’s written ten years later from Germany where she was studying — see 1989 timeline– are […]
This essay was written when my great great grandmother was in her teens. Fifty Years Hence Judging the future by the past, the imagination can scarcely conceive the great changes that will pass over the country in the course of fifty years. For the last half century improvements have been constantly progressing […]
Eliza Riley was born May 26, 1804. She is my great great great grandmother. When she was a young girl she wore a dress of a dark blue material. I have a piece of that dress. As the Civil War came to an end Eliza and her husband Ebenezer Wightman received a letter from C. […]
