Miss Carrie A. Frost lived in Center Tuftonboro, a village incorporated within the town of Tuftonboro – on Lake Winnipesauke in central New Hampshire.
This rural area of Carroll County was first settled around 1750 by farmers who pastured cattle and sheep on the hillsides, but the area later supported grist mills, a carriage factory, a saw mill, and door and sill makers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuftonboro,_New_Hampshire
Sometime around 1917, Carrie received a Thanksgiving postcard from K. E. Brown.
The postcard was not mailed, so we may assume that the sender was a nearby friend or neighbor.
On the face of the postcard is a simple sketch of three cows standing in a stream or pond beside a green meadow.
The view was published by the Owen Card Publishing Company of Elmira, New York, but the scene may have reminded the sender and Carrie of familiar scenes around Tuftonboro.
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Beside the bucolic view, a printed title announces, “A Thanksgiving Wish”.
The following verse invokes continued joy:
“May you have lots
Of joy all thru (sic)
Thanksgiving Day –
And after – too.”
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GENEALOGICAL NOTE
On July 30, 1880, Carrie A. Frost was born in Carroll County, New Hampshire.
(Carrie would have been about 35 years old when she received the Thanksgiving postcard.)
She was the daughter of Herbert W. Frost (1854-1931) and Annie Elizabeth Burleigh (1853-1931) who had married in Providence, Rhode Island in 1879.
Carrie was the oldest of five children; she had two brothers and two sisters.
One of her younger brother died in infancy.
(Carrie’s youngest sister, “Addie” (who was married in 1917) became divorced in 1922 and she immigrated to Brazil – there are no further US records of her life and death.)
In September of 1922, Carrie married Asa Beacham Thompson (1850-1925) in Carroll County, NH.
The bridegroom was 72 years old; Carrie was 42.
The couple had no children, and resided in Carroll County.
Asa died in 1925, at the age of 75 – three years after his marriage to Carrie.
Carrie remained in the same place until her death in 1966 at age 85 -she was a widow for 41 years.
She is buried with Asa in the cemetery of the Melvin Community Church in Tuftonboro.
