Sometime around 1920, Anna Witmer attended school near Manheim.
She gave a postcard, a hand-colored drawing of flowers, to her “schoolmate”, Anna Ober.
The postcard was not mailed, suggesting that it was hand-delivered.
It was a nice thing to do, and it would be churlish to note that the sender could improve her spelling.
It is, of course, quite possible that she was raised in a home in which Pennsylvania “Dutch” was her first language.
Since the early 19th century, steamboats were the workhorses of the Mississippi River – carrying agricultural goods, manufactured products, and passengers throughout the middle of
Mrs. Ella Kinney lived in Taylorville, a city in Christian County of central Illinois. Taylorville is south of Springfield, and about 80 miles southwest of
Mrs. Charles Davis lived in Middletown, the largest city in Orange County of southeast New York State. (We recently saw a reference to Middletown in
Miss Verdna Keperling lived on a rural delivery route outside the historic city of Lancaster, PA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania In September of 1912, Verdna received a lovely
Tellings stories from the past.