Ella writes to her brother on May 5th, 1902, just days after their mother’s passing. Ella is clearly distraught by her mother’s death. She relays a gold mine’s worth of genealogical detail in this letter, leading me to think that perhaps Edward has been tasked with preparing on obituary and has asked Ella to provide […]
A final word from Ann Campbell Frasier, 1902
This is the last letter we have from Ann. It was written on March 4, 1902. She died the following month on April 29. Here’s a photo of Ann that may have been taken around this time. She’s holding a young child on her lap – maybe it’s her grandson Clarence, the “little man” she […]
Two letters from Ann Campbell Frasier, January 1902
Ann sent two letters on the same day on January 18, 1902 – one to her son Edward and the other to her grandson Roscoe. I don’t have many photos of Roscoe as a child, but one that I do have was taken just a few years after the time of these letters. Here he […]
Ann Campbell to Edward Frasier, 1901
In November 1901, Ann is 73 years old and living in Lincoln with her daughter Ella. It seems that Ann is still a woman of independent means. In this letter, she is seeking her son’s advice on purchasing an 80-acre farm, but a farm offered by Mr. Watson is too expensive. She seems anxious to […]
Margarette Pierce to her brother Edward, 1900
Last time we read a letter from Edward’s youngest sister, Ella. Now we fast-forward six years and we have a letter from Edward’s other sister Margarette. Margarette married Schuyler Pierce in 1879 and they had one son, Winfield, who would have been 19 years old at the time of this letter. At the time of […]
