Minnie Louis Lois Gardner was first cousin to Charles Walter Gardner, the father of Author Erle Stanley Gardner of Perry Mason Fame, by virtue of their fathers, Amos and Walter Gardner Jr. being brothers.
MELISSA (GARDNER) SPRATT attended several country schools and at her future husband's suggestion, went to Maine Central Institute. She taught in the schools around Palermo, Maine with remarkable success.
After her marriage to Chesman Chadwick Spratt, she and her husband moved first to Richmond, Maine and then to N. Bridgton, Maine where their children, Esther and Stanley were born - Esther in 1895 and Stanley in 1896.
The two children were taught their basic studies at home by the mother, and the three were inseparable companions until the children started school about age 8-9.
The family attended the Congregational Church at the foot of the hill by their home, but Melissa joined the Baptist Church later while living in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
When her husband died suddenly in 1923 she was for a year companion to an elderly woman, but after that returned to the home she had shared with her husband in N. Bridgton, the home now owned by her daughter, Esther.
About 1932 she was the patient of the prominent orthopedist, D. Danforth for she was hospitalized for six months for arthritis in the Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. In a few years she found it necessary to resort to crutches but lived alone in her N. Bridgton home for 15 years.
She was a firm minded woman who never really approved the modern conveniences as they came along, tho she would tolerate them as she did her electric refrigerator so long as it was not in her kitchen making its'racket'- its place was the enclosed back porch next to the kitchen.
Her avid interest in reading habits are evidenced by the books in the home, and the innumerable clippings from the papers. Mrs. Spratt's was a saver of jokes, as cut from papers, and also took great pride in family memorabilia. Many of her possessions are still held by her daughter- her doll and carriage, doll high chair and other small toys. Her proudest possession was a strand of gold beads (pure gold mined in the gold rush of ' 49) which was given her by a relative believed to be of the Gardner branch)
She spent her last years in N. Bridgton enjoying the woods and birds on her property just down the hill from the Academy where she vigorously shooed the cats and squirrels that endangered her birds . She died Rhode Island Hospital after a six weeks stay; her son, her only grandson and her husband having gone before her. (bio by daughter Esther)
MELISSA (GARDNER) SPRATT attended several country schools and at her future husband's suggestion, went to Maine Central Institute. She taught in the schools around Palermo, Maine with remarkable success.
After her marriage to Chesman Chadwick Spratt, she and her husband moved first to Richmond, Maine and then to N. Bridgton, Maine where their children, Esther and Stanley were born - Esther in 1895 and Stanley in 1896.
The two children were taught their basic studies at home by the mother, and the three were inseparable companions until the children started school about age 8-9.
The family attended the Congregational Church at the foot of the hill by their home, but Melissa joined the Baptist Church later while living in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
When her husband died suddenly in 1923 she was for a year companion to an elderly woman, but after that returned to the home she had shared with her husband in N. Bridgton, the home now owned by her daughter, Esther.
About 1932 she was the patient of the prominent orthopedist, D. Danforth for she was hospitalized for six months for arthritis in the Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. In a few years she found it necessary to resort to crutches but lived alone in her N. Bridgton home for 15 years.
She was a firm minded woman who never really approved the modern conveniences as they came along, tho she would tolerate them as she did her electric refrigerator so long as it was not in her kitchen making its'racket'- its place was the enclosed back porch next to the kitchen.
Her avid interest in reading habits are evidenced by the books in the home, and the innumerable clippings from the papers. Mrs. Spratt's was a saver of jokes, as cut from papers, and also took great pride in family memorabilia. Many of her possessions are still held by her daughter- her doll and carriage, doll high chair and other small toys. Her proudest possession was a strand of gold beads (pure gold mined in the gold rush of ' 49) which was given her by a relative believed to be of the Gardner branch)
She spent her last years in N. Bridgton enjoying the woods and birds on her property just down the hill from the Academy where she vigorously shooed the cats and squirrels that endangered her birds . She died Rhode Island Hospital after a six weeks stay; her son, her only grandson and her husband having gone before her. (bio by daughter Esther)
Minnie Louis Lois Gardner was first cousin to Charles Walter Gardner, the father of Author Erle Stanley Gardner of Perry Mason Fame, by virtue of their fathers, Amos and Walter Gardner Jr. being brothers.
MELISSA (GARDNER) SPRATT attended several country schools and at her future husband's suggestion, went to Maine Central Institute. She taught in the schools around Palermo, Maine with remarkable success.
After her marriage to Chesman Chadwick Spratt, she and her husband moved first to Richmond, Maine and then to N. Bridgton, Maine where their children, Esther and Stanley were born - Esther in 1895 and Stanley in 1896.
The two children were taught their basic studies at home by the mother, and the three were inseparable companions until the children started school about age 8-9.
The family attended the Congregational Church at the foot of the hill by their home, but Melissa joined the Baptist Church later while living in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
When her husband died suddenly in 1923 she was for a year companion to an elderly woman, but after that returned to the home she had shared with her husband in N. Bridgton, the home now owned by her daughter, Esther.
About 1932 she was the patient of the prominent orthopedist, D. Danforth for she was hospitalized for six months for arthritis in the Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. In a few years she found it necessary to resort to crutches but lived alone in her N. Bridgton home for 15 years.
She was a firm minded woman who never really approved the modern conveniences as they came along, tho she would tolerate them as she did her electric refrigerator so long as it was not in her kitchen making its'racket'- its place was the enclosed back porch next to the kitchen.
Her avid interest in reading habits are evidenced by the books in the home, and the innumerable clippings from the papers. Mrs. Spratt's was a saver of jokes, as cut from papers, and also took great pride in family memorabilia. Many of her possessions are still held by her daughter- her doll and carriage, doll high chair and other small toys. Her proudest possession was a strand of gold beads (pure gold mined in the gold rush of ' 49) which was given her by a relative believed to be of the Gardner branch)
She spent her last years in N. Bridgton enjoying the woods and birds on her property just down the hill from the Academy where she vigorously shooed the cats and squirrels that endangered her birds . She died Rhode Island Hospital after a six weeks stay; her son, her only grandson and her husband having gone before her. (bio by daughter Esther)
MELISSA (GARDNER) SPRATT attended several country schools and at her future husband's suggestion, went to Maine Central Institute. She taught in the schools around Palermo, Maine with remarkable success.
After her marriage to Chesman Chadwick Spratt, she and her husband moved first to Richmond, Maine and then to N. Bridgton, Maine where their children, Esther and Stanley were born - Esther in 1895 and Stanley in 1896.
The two children were taught their basic studies at home by the mother, and the three were inseparable companions until the children started school about age 8-9.
The family attended the Congregational Church at the foot of the hill by their home, but Melissa joined the Baptist Church later while living in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
When her husband died suddenly in 1923 she was for a year companion to an elderly woman, but after that returned to the home she had shared with her husband in N. Bridgton, the home now owned by her daughter, Esther.
About 1932 she was the patient of the prominent orthopedist, D. Danforth for she was hospitalized for six months for arthritis in the Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. In a few years she found it necessary to resort to crutches but lived alone in her N. Bridgton home for 15 years.
She was a firm minded woman who never really approved the modern conveniences as they came along, tho she would tolerate them as she did her electric refrigerator so long as it was not in her kitchen making its'racket'- its place was the enclosed back porch next to the kitchen.
Her avid interest in reading habits are evidenced by the books in the home, and the innumerable clippings from the papers. Mrs. Spratt's was a saver of jokes, as cut from papers, and also took great pride in family memorabilia. Many of her possessions are still held by her daughter- her doll and carriage, doll high chair and other small toys. Her proudest possession was a strand of gold beads (pure gold mined in the gold rush of ' 49) which was given her by a relative believed to be of the Gardner branch)
She spent her last years in N. Bridgton enjoying the woods and birds on her property just down the hill from the Academy where she vigorously shooed the cats and squirrels that endangered her birds . She died Rhode Island Hospital after a six weeks stay; her son, her only grandson and her husband having gone before her. (bio by daughter Esther)
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