The
Old Family Letters
Many moons ago before the internet, cell phones and no
long distance charges, people would write letters to each other to keep in
touch. There are several large totes
full of letters and notes between
members of our family – our grandmother, great-grandfather, great aunts and
uncles and our mother. Even found some
letters from me to my grandmother and mother.
There are some surprises, too including letters from relatives in Ohio
that we may not have recognized if it weren’t for all the old family pictures
that our grandmother and mother had saved.
One of the most precious booklet we found was the
Memorial Record of Bertha Northcutt Weisenauer, our great-grandmother. She had died in 1938 so my brother, sister
and I never knew her. Here is a picture
of our great-grandfather and great-grandmother, I believe is their wedding
picture around the year, 1900.
Bertha Northcutt Weisenauer was born on August 30, 1884
in Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana and died on March 6, 1938 in Greentown
(Plevna), Howard County, Indiana at home.
Included in the Memorial Record booklet are the newspaper obituaries of
her death.
Our great-grandparents, Ed
and Bertha Weisenauer, had been married for almost 38 years and had five
children including our grandmother.
There are many saved letters between the five children, their dad and my
mother to read – a lifetime of memories.
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