I heard a lot about my Great Grandmother from my Grandmother, Marian Louise Simpson Oberly when I was growing up. She was very hard working and industruous. I realize that all of the census records show her as having no occupation, but actually she had many. Here are the ones I heard about.
1. Selling butter and eggs to local grocers from the chickens she kept and cows in the barn. I think my grandmother churned a lot of butter.
2. Taking in summer borders.Two brothers came every summer from Massachusetts. One of them married her daughter Bertha. In the 1920 Census there is a record of another boarder living with the Simpsons.
3. Husking corn. There was a corn canning factory in Winthrop in those days. Farm women were hired to husk the corn to be canned. My grandmother described long tables set up outdoors where the women sat and husked the corn. This lasted until the harvesting of corn was over.
Who knows what else she did. She had a large garden where she grow,among other things, peanuts and cantaloupe. My great grandfather thought she should turn her money over to him but she never did. She used this money for table linens and it was said that "she liked to set a nice table".
She had a daughter Alice sometime in the 1880s who died young. I cannot find any records about this child. I only know her name because my grandmother once told my brother the little that she know which was that her name was Alice and that she was the oldest. If anyone reading this knows anything I would love to hear it.
Mary Simpson died unexpectedly of a stoke in 1920 when my mother was 6 months old. It was a terrible shock to my grandmother who was visiting her parents when this happened. She was reaching into a chest for a sweater she had made my mother and pitched forward and was unconscious until her death 12 hours later. She was 57 years old.
1. Selling butter and eggs to local grocers from the chickens she kept and cows in the barn. I think my grandmother churned a lot of butter.
2. Taking in summer borders.Two brothers came every summer from Massachusetts. One of them married her daughter Bertha. In the 1920 Census there is a record of another boarder living with the Simpsons.
3. Husking corn. There was a corn canning factory in Winthrop in those days. Farm women were hired to husk the corn to be canned. My grandmother described long tables set up outdoors where the women sat and husked the corn. This lasted until the harvesting of corn was over.
Who knows what else she did. She had a large garden where she grow,among other things, peanuts and cantaloupe. My great grandfather thought she should turn her money over to him but she never did. She used this money for table linens and it was said that "she liked to set a nice table".
She had a daughter Alice sometime in the 1880s who died young. I cannot find any records about this child. I only know her name because my grandmother once told my brother the little that she know which was that her name was Alice and that she was the oldest. If anyone reading this knows anything I would love to hear it.
Mary Simpson died unexpectedly of a stoke in 1920 when my mother was 6 months old. It was a terrible shock to my grandmother who was visiting her parents when this happened. She was reaching into a chest for a sweater she had made my mother and pitched forward and was unconscious until her death 12 hours later. She was 57 years old.
I heard a lot about my Great Grandmother from my Grandmother, Marian Louise Simpson Oberly when I was growing up. She was very hard working and industruous. I realize that all of the census records show her as having no occupation, but actually she had many. Here are the ones I heard about.
1. Selling butter and eggs to local grocers from the chickens she kept and cows in the barn. I think my grandmother churned a lot of butter.
2. Taking in summer borders.Two brothers came every summer from Massachusetts. One of them married her daughter Bertha. In the 1920 Census there is a record of another boarder living with the Simpsons.
3. Husking corn. There was a corn canning factory in Winthrop in those days. Farm women were hired to husk the corn to be canned. My grandmother described long tables set up outdoors where the women sat and husked the corn. This lasted until the harvesting of corn was over.
Who knows what else she did. She had a large garden where she grow,among other things, peanuts and cantaloupe. My great grandfather thought she should turn her money over to him but she never did. She used this money for table linens and it was said that "she liked to set a nice table".
She had a daughter Alice sometime in the 1880s who died young. I cannot find any records about this child. I only know her name because my grandmother once told my brother the little that she know which was that her name was Alice and that she was the oldest. If anyone reading this knows anything I would love to hear it.
Mary Simpson died unexpectedly of a stoke in 1920 when my mother was 6 months old. It was a terrible shock to my grandmother who was visiting her parents when this happened. She was reaching into a chest for a sweater she had made my mother and pitched forward and was unconscious until her death 12 hours later. She was 57 years old.
1. Selling butter and eggs to local grocers from the chickens she kept and cows in the barn. I think my grandmother churned a lot of butter.
2. Taking in summer borders.Two brothers came every summer from Massachusetts. One of them married her daughter Bertha. In the 1920 Census there is a record of another boarder living with the Simpsons.
3. Husking corn. There was a corn canning factory in Winthrop in those days. Farm women were hired to husk the corn to be canned. My grandmother described long tables set up outdoors where the women sat and husked the corn. This lasted until the harvesting of corn was over.
Who knows what else she did. She had a large garden where she grow,among other things, peanuts and cantaloupe. My great grandfather thought she should turn her money over to him but she never did. She used this money for table linens and it was said that "she liked to set a nice table".
She had a daughter Alice sometime in the 1880s who died young. I cannot find any records about this child. I only know her name because my grandmother once told my brother the little that she know which was that her name was Alice and that she was the oldest. If anyone reading this knows anything I would love to hear it.
Mary Simpson died unexpectedly of a stoke in 1920 when my mother was 6 months old. It was a terrible shock to my grandmother who was visiting her parents when this happened. She was reaching into a chest for a sweater she had made my mother and pitched forward and was unconscious until her death 12 hours later. She was 57 years old.
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