Kathryn Leisbensperger lived in Lebanon, the city of central Pennsylvania that was a center of the steel industry and of food production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon,_Pennsylvania
In November of 1909, Kathryn received a Thanksgiving postcard from Priscilla Schropp.
Priscilla mailed the postcard from Lebanon, and rendered the street address for Kathryn with a street number and the word, “City”.
(Currently, there is no structure at 1028 Cumberland Street – one of the principal streets through the city.)
The face of the postcard is a drawing of a very large turkey pecking at an ear of corn.
A banner above the bird proclaims “Thanksgiving Greetings”.
I believe that the postcard was printed in the United States, although I do not recognize the publisher’s mark -which is a horseshoe.
On the reverse, Priscilla has not written a message apart from identifying herself as the sender.
Kathryn seems to have been pleased by the Thanksgiving remembrance as she preserved the postcard throughout her life.
One hopes that Priscilla and Kathryn enjoyed a wonderful harvest feast and that they remained friends and correspondents for many years.
Genealogical Note:
Priscilla Christ Shropp (Records contain spellings of “Schrapp” and “Shropp” within the same family.)
On July 31, 1895, Priscilla was born in Lebanon, PA.
She was the daughter of Jacob G. Schrapp (1857-1911) and Priscilla Catherine Reinoehl (1856-1921).
Priscilla was the youngest child; she had one sister and two brothers.
In 1900 and 1910, Priscilla lived in the same precinct in Lebanon.
Unfortunately, Priscilla died in April of 1918 – she was 23 years old.
This was the height of the great Influenza epidemic, but I have not found a cause of death.
There are several “Leibensperger” and “Leibensberger” families in neighboring Berks County (PA), but I have not been able to find a Kathryn Liebensperger in Lebanon, PA.
