Childhood Memorial Day Memories
I remember Memorial Days from when I was in elementary school, in Lebanon Indiana. School had just gotten out for the summer and so it was a day of celebration as well as remembering. This was in the days before …
I remember Memorial Days from when I was in elementary school, in Lebanon Indiana. School had just gotten out for the summer and so it was a day of celebration as well as remembering. This was in the days before …
The first teaching job Laura was offered was in Homer, Licking county, Ohio. The typed transcript I have of Laura’s memoir says it was Horner, but that was undoubtedly a misreading of her handwriting. The very small community (an unincorporated …
Having been freed from taking care of her sister and young nephew, Laura was ready for other employment. She was fairly quickly able to find a job teaching, first the summer term at a school district in one near-by place …
Ann Denman had married Dr. William Tell Parker who was from the southwestern part of Ohio, and gone there to live. When he left for the gold mines of California she was left living with some of his relatives in …
As Laura described herself: “At home it was my one delight to get hold of a book or paper, both of which were limited in our family library. … A bachelor uncle lived in our family and took great interest …