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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: Getting OT was RE: [TMG] Thoughts on adding a wife
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:32:22 -0500
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That reminds me of once we were photographing a family cemetery. One couple
had 6 children who had all died as infants. There in the cemetery it was
hard to ignore, since mom was buried on one side, with 6 tiny graves between
her and the father on the other end. No parent should have to bury one
child, much less 6. I often wondered how she handled the grief as each
child was born and then died. And how over protective was she of the 8 that
did live to adulthood?

Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then add

Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above

TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html

Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm


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Subject: [TMG] Thoughts on adding a wife

What I think about most is the death of the children. I have a flag for
children who died before marriage age and the record is accented so I can
see it easily. There are times when I see over half of the children dying,
probably of an epidemic. One mother gave birth on the same day the 2 year
old died. It's easy to imagine that grief drove her to early labor. There
is one family I have that had 7 children on one day and I am sure a house
full of noise and less than a month later the family consisted of the
husband, a baby and a 9 year old. Can you imagine what it was like in that
house? One of the most heart wrenching records I have seen in the census
was a household that had an 86 year old grandfather the head of the
household of 6 children, the youngest an infant, the oldest a girl who was
12. She was listed as "keeping house" and she wasn't going to school.
There was certainly a sad story behind that record.

The records, especially the census are not dull and dry, they tell an
incredible story. I'm gratefull for TMG which allows me to set flags and
accents to help me see the pattern more easily.

Anne Hawn Smith


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