Mrs. Jesse Wilkinson lived in Center Ossipee, a census-designated place within the town of Ossipee in Carroll County of east-central New Hampshire.
The community is about 27 miles south of North Conway within the White Mountains National Forest, and about 53 miles west of Portland, Maine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_Ossipee,_New_Hampshire
In August of 1934, Mrs. Wilkinson received a postcard from her sister, Winona.
The postcard was mailed from Sanbornville, a census-designated place within the town of Wakefield in Carroll County, NH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanbornville,_New_Hampshire
Early settlers found the ground “stubborn”, but achieved success in lumbering and a variety of mills were erected on nearby rivers and streams.
Wakefield became a stage and sledge stop for transporting produce from the White Mountains in the north.
Today, the picturesque hillside town of Wakefield attracts visitors who enjoy outdoor recreation and historic architecture.
Ossipee is ten miles north of Sanbornville (Wakefield).
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The face of the postcard displays a delightful drawing below a placard containing a message.
The artwork shows a restful scene of a vehicle moving along a lovely wooded lane.
It appears to be summer, as the trees and foliage are lush and green.
Above, the message contains a plea:
“This Place is Grand / But I’m lonesome,
Won’t you come to see me ?”
Printed in the United States, the postcard is from the series of “Landscape Message Cards”.
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On the reverse, Winona addresses her sister as “Dear Ladie”.
The writer continues, “Just a line to let you know we are all O.K.”
Winona hopes “that this finds you all the same.”
The message concludes with a query about Billy, and the expression of “lots of Love”.
One hopes that all family members were well, that they enjoyed a pleasant summer, and that the sisters exchanged many more postcards.
RESEARCH NOTE
The sisters in this postcard story are Lydia (“Ladie”) Clover Karcher Wilkinson (1909-1987) and Winona H. Karcher Ouellette (1917-1994).
The sisters were daughters of William Alexander Karcher (1888-1959) and Martha May Wilfert (1887-1973),
William and Martha had eleven daughters and two sons – although there are no adult records of one daughter.
All the other children survived into adulthood, some living well into the 21st century.
Lydia was the oldest child; Winona was the sixth daughter.
I have not found a marriage record for Lydia; she was married to Jesse Melvin Wilkinson (1890-1966) at some time before this postcard was mailed.
Jesse had been married in 1916 (in Center Ossipee, NH) to another woman, but this marriage dissolved before 1923 when the woman married again.
Jesse was 19 years older than Lydia.
On January 13, 1966, Jesse died in Carroll County and was buried in the David Meeting House Cemetery.
His obituary notes that he and Lydia had one daughter (born in 1948) and three grandchildren.
Twenty-one years later (1987), Lydia died in Carroll County and was buried with her husband.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49277077/lydia_clover-wilkinson
Sometime in 1934, Winona married Roland J. Ouellette (1909-2005) in Carroll County, NH.
This postcard appears to be mailed soon after Winona’s marriage, and she may have been a bit homesick.
In 1941, Roland and Winona had one son who died in 2019,
In September of 1994, Winona died at the age of 77.
She was buried in the Lovell Lake Cemetery in Sanbornville.
Roland died 11 years later (2005) at the age of 96.
Roland and Winona, and their son are buried in Sanbornville.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129882949/winona-k-ouellette
