Teress, who was called Tressa as a child, was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1874 (though her headstone shows 1877--sorry, Teress!). She and her family were living in Wichita, Kansas by the time her little brother was born a few years later. At the time they moved there, Wichita was still a raw frontier town and the ending point of some of the big cattle drives of the era.
Tressa was impulsive, dramatic and a romantic dreamer all at the same time, shaped by growing up in a rough unsettled era and a tumultuous home that broke apart when her father went to jail for domestic violence. This type of arrest was almost unheard of back then so it shows how bad the violence was.
Her flair for the dramatic was encouraged by her doting mother, who let Tressa give numerous literary society and church performances we know about and others we probably don't.
All of this combined to shape Tressa into someone who wanted to turn her own life into the happy, romantic visions she read about and hoped could become hers.
At 19, her impulsive, dreamy nature led her to marry an older man against her mother's wishes. He was outdoorsy and rugged yet refined at the same time, and she probably saw him as the father figure she always wanted but felt she never had. Together they might have thought they could make their lives into the romantic dreams they shared, though dreams alone are never enough.
They had nothing else in common, so the ending to their marriage was obvious. After several years and two children and having to live away from her doting mother, Teress projected her feelings about her father onto her husband and left him for a man her own age. This man lived in Seattle and so did her mother by then, so Teress had a brand new husband to try to make her dreams come true with and her mother back in her life again as well.
The man Teress left her husband for had been widowed twice and had no children of his own. The romantic in Teress probably felt she could make his life into the happy, romance filled dream she knew life was supposed to be. They had a child together and spent time in Alaska as well as Seattle, but none of this could cure the unhappiness in him and he committed suicide a few years later.
Dreams die as hard as romantic natures do, and Teress's were no exception. A couple of years after being widowed she fell for and married a younger man. There were too many obstacles to make this marriage work either and after the couple apparently separated, he passed away and Teress found herself widowed again. This was to be her last marriage and she went on through life alone, doting on her children and running the family business for a while.
She lived in Seattle, Alaska, and the Santa Cruz, California area after that. Her final years were spent in Santa Cruz and then nearby Aptos, where she passed away in 1952.
Tressa was impulsive, dramatic and a romantic dreamer all at the same time, shaped by growing up in a rough unsettled era and a tumultuous home that broke apart when her father went to jail for domestic violence. This type of arrest was almost unheard of back then so it shows how bad the violence was.
Her flair for the dramatic was encouraged by her doting mother, who let Tressa give numerous literary society and church performances we know about and others we probably don't.
All of this combined to shape Tressa into someone who wanted to turn her own life into the happy, romantic visions she read about and hoped could become hers.
At 19, her impulsive, dreamy nature led her to marry an older man against her mother's wishes. He was outdoorsy and rugged yet refined at the same time, and she probably saw him as the father figure she always wanted but felt she never had. Together they might have thought they could make their lives into the romantic dreams they shared, though dreams alone are never enough.
They had nothing else in common, so the ending to their marriage was obvious. After several years and two children and having to live away from her doting mother, Teress projected her feelings about her father onto her husband and left him for a man her own age. This man lived in Seattle and so did her mother by then, so Teress had a brand new husband to try to make her dreams come true with and her mother back in her life again as well.
The man Teress left her husband for had been widowed twice and had no children of his own. The romantic in Teress probably felt she could make his life into the happy, romance filled dream she knew life was supposed to be. They had a child together and spent time in Alaska as well as Seattle, but none of this could cure the unhappiness in him and he committed suicide a few years later.
Dreams die as hard as romantic natures do, and Teress's were no exception. A couple of years after being widowed she fell for and married a younger man. There were too many obstacles to make this marriage work either and after the couple apparently separated, he passed away and Teress found herself widowed again. This was to be her last marriage and she went on through life alone, doting on her children and running the family business for a while.
She lived in Seattle, Alaska, and the Santa Cruz, California area after that. Her final years were spent in Santa Cruz and then nearby Aptos, where she passed away in 1952.
Teress, who was called Tressa as a child, was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1874 (though her headstone shows 1877--sorry, Teress!). She and her family were living in Wichita, Kansas by the time her little brother was born a few years later. At the time they moved there, Wichita was still a raw frontier town and the ending point of some of the big cattle drives of the era.
Tressa was impulsive, dramatic and a romantic dreamer all at the same time, shaped by growing up in a rough unsettled era and a tumultuous home that broke apart when her father went to jail for domestic violence. This type of arrest was almost unheard of back then so it shows how bad the violence was.
Her flair for the dramatic was encouraged by her doting mother, who let Tressa give numerous literary society and church performances we know about and others we probably don't.
All of this combined to shape Tressa into someone who wanted to turn her own life into the happy, romantic visions she read about and hoped could become hers.
At 19, her impulsive, dreamy nature led her to marry an older man against her mother's wishes. He was outdoorsy and rugged yet refined at the same time, and she probably saw him as the father figure she always wanted but felt she never had. Together they might have thought they could make their lives into the romantic dreams they shared, though dreams alone are never enough.
They had nothing else in common, so the ending to their marriage was obvious. After several years and two children and having to live away from her doting mother, Teress projected her feelings about her father onto her husband and left him for a man her own age. This man lived in Seattle and so did her mother by then, so Teress had a brand new husband to try to make her dreams come true with and her mother back in her life again as well.
The man Teress left her husband for had been widowed twice and had no children of his own. The romantic in Teress probably felt she could make his life into the happy, romance filled dream she knew life was supposed to be. They had a child together and spent time in Alaska as well as Seattle, but none of this could cure the unhappiness in him and he committed suicide a few years later.
Dreams die as hard as romantic natures do, and Teress's were no exception. A couple of years after being widowed she fell for and married a younger man. There were too many obstacles to make this marriage work either and after the couple apparently separated, he passed away and Teress found herself widowed again. This was to be her last marriage and she went on through life alone, doting on her children and running the family business for a while.
She lived in Seattle, Alaska, and the Santa Cruz, California area after that. Her final years were spent in Santa Cruz and then nearby Aptos, where she passed away in 1952.
Tressa was impulsive, dramatic and a romantic dreamer all at the same time, shaped by growing up in a rough unsettled era and a tumultuous home that broke apart when her father went to jail for domestic violence. This type of arrest was almost unheard of back then so it shows how bad the violence was.
Her flair for the dramatic was encouraged by her doting mother, who let Tressa give numerous literary society and church performances we know about and others we probably don't.
All of this combined to shape Tressa into someone who wanted to turn her own life into the happy, romantic visions she read about and hoped could become hers.
At 19, her impulsive, dreamy nature led her to marry an older man against her mother's wishes. He was outdoorsy and rugged yet refined at the same time, and she probably saw him as the father figure she always wanted but felt she never had. Together they might have thought they could make their lives into the romantic dreams they shared, though dreams alone are never enough.
They had nothing else in common, so the ending to their marriage was obvious. After several years and two children and having to live away from her doting mother, Teress projected her feelings about her father onto her husband and left him for a man her own age. This man lived in Seattle and so did her mother by then, so Teress had a brand new husband to try to make her dreams come true with and her mother back in her life again as well.
The man Teress left her husband for had been widowed twice and had no children of his own. The romantic in Teress probably felt she could make his life into the happy, romance filled dream she knew life was supposed to be. They had a child together and spent time in Alaska as well as Seattle, but none of this could cure the unhappiness in him and he committed suicide a few years later.
Dreams die as hard as romantic natures do, and Teress's were no exception. A couple of years after being widowed she fell for and married a younger man. There were too many obstacles to make this marriage work either and after the couple apparently separated, he passed away and Teress found herself widowed again. This was to be her last marriage and she went on through life alone, doting on her children and running the family business for a while.
She lived in Seattle, Alaska, and the Santa Cruz, California area after that. Her final years were spent in Santa Cruz and then nearby Aptos, where she passed away in 1952.
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