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describe these two people in your own words. use your imagination: what their personalities were like, their lives, anything. |
The man was proud of his achievements in life, the woman proud of her family. Both appear serious, but always made time for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The man died four years after the photo was taken in the late 1880s, but his wife lived on for another 24 years. how's that? |
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all will be revealed later. |
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I'm imagining a Matthew-and-Marilla-Cuthbert situation, two bachelor and bachelorette farmers working that hardscrabble land until they wear out their lives. Or until they adopt a plucky orphan. The lady's self-conscious about the calluses on her palms from holding the plow for all these many years. The gentleman's secretely proud of his ability to grow a beard. |
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I know there's no Mc Donalds or Burger King or no 7-11 or White Hen in their times. |
the women had at least 8 children, 6 of which never made it past infancy. of the 3 who survived the oldest - a girl - was probably retarded. they were certainly very religious, as much as pretty much everybody else at that time, but were never really part of an established church. the first church in the area of texas they lived in wasn't built until some 40 years after they died. church services in their area were held in schools, under brush arbors, or sometimes somebody's house. the first sunday school was held in a blacksmith shop. there was no resident preacher: services were done by methodist circuit riders, traveling presbyterian or baptist priests. you never knew. |
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