Here is the postcard that Margarette mentioned in her letter to Edward. It was written by Sija Lawson, who signed her name as Mrs. George Lawson. We have the letter that George sent to Edward back in 1877. I speculated that George was a childhood friend of Edward’s. I dug around a bit in the […]

I should have looked ahead – Margarette wrote this letter to Edward and mentions that she is enclosing the letter from Louise Campbell which I wrote about in the last post. Margarette is divorced from Schuyler and is living in Lincoln. She is evidently close with her son Winford, her daughter-in-law Bertha (who is Ida’s niece), […]

There’s a big gap in the archive – no letters between 1910 and 1928. During this period, I know that Margarette and her husband Schuyler Pierce were divorced.  Two of Ed and Ida’s children were married and several grandchildren were born. This letter is from Louise Keeler Campbell, the wife Margarette’s first cousin Will Campbell. […]

Edward’s wife, Ida Black Frasier, was the youngest child of Benjamin F. Black and Louisa Matthews. Her mother died in childbirth when Ida was two years old.  Ida had an older sister, Elinor (“Ellen”), who married John Dirom Gilchrist. John and Ellen had five children. John and Ellen died within a year of each other. […]