My own special Christmas gift just arrived! My historical fiction book, The Scattering of Stones, comes out in early February, 2018. I confess, working on this book, along with one in the wings and one in the works, has curtailed my genealogy investigations a bit. I’ll get back to that addiction soon.
Until then, and in honor of the season, I am posting some wonderful postcards my mother, Hattie Beatrice Schulz Croy, gave to me. Her mother, Susannah Johanna Meyer, saved them as a teenager[i] in the early 20th century when postcards were the equivalent of Facebook.
So what can we learn from a postcard? Let’s take a look.
- Susie was thirteen years old.
- She lived in Millston, Wisconsin as of November 15, 1909
- Postage was one cent for a postcard
- It had rained in early November 1909
- Susie’s friend was Hattie S. (Check out my mother’s name!)
[i] Susie was born on July 12, 1896 in Shelby, La Crosse, Wisconsin to John Meyer and Mary Herman Ancestry.com. Wisconsin, Births and Christenings Index, 1801-1928 [accessed December 2017]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
I had forgotten that your mom had connections to La Crosse! Me too… our family doctored there, shopped there, met my relatives from Minneapolis there n near there, and was hospitalized there for 3 weeks when I was 10. Beautiful along the Mississippi River!
Memories!!!!
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I had no idea! So glad it jarred a memory or two, but three weeks in the hospital at ten years old? Wow!