Much of the care of me fell on my sister Sadie for another baby came very soon. There was only twenty months between my sister […] Read More
Category: Estella’s Autobiography
My Mother’s sister Aunt Lulu Thornburgh had been living with [my gradmother]. She had been a complete invalid for several years. She was stricken with […] Read More
Another very early memory is Sunday school. How I loved for Sunday to come for then I could dress in my prettiest dress, and I […] Read More
I have gotten away ahead of my story and shall have to go back to the year 1895 when I was six years old. A […] Read More
My brother Frederick Edwin was born July 30, 1898, the twelfth child in our family. I was nine years old when Fred was born. He […] Read More
Before going on with my story of life on the farm I must include my school days at Patterson. I started to school at six […] Read More
I was going on eleven years old when the great catastrophe came, that of going to the farm and leaving our wonderful home and friends. […] Read More
In December of 1902 my mother gave birth to her thirteenth and last baby. In the fall before the baby’s birth my brother Fred got […] Read More
[One of my teachers at Camp Creek School was] Anna McAllister. She was a cousin of our first teacher James Wilkinson and lived in the […] Read More
Pictured Above: Home in Marine, IL The year 1904 was the year of the World’s Fair in Sf. Louis. It was to be the most […] Read More
Image Above: Estella’s Teaching Certificate In the spring of 1905, there was a teachers’ training school at Brunot. It was taught by a Mr. Pogue, […] Read More
Our first home was a log house. It was one and a half stories high with a bedroom upstairs, living room, bedroom and kitchen downstairs. […] Read More