Adah was the fourth of six children born to her parents. She was named after her grandmothers, Adah Collins Sprout and Elizabeth Murphy Gardner.
She loved her place in the family as "the youngest of the first four."
Aunt Adah was quite the character. She appreciated a good practical joke. One Halloween she borrowed an overcoat and hat from her brother-in-law, Mort (Eldon) Hunt, and walked to her parents' house which was just down a bit from her home on Colby Road in Stanton. She pulled the hat down over her eyes and knocked on their door. When her dad answered, she disguised her voice and told him she was hungry and could she have a sandwich? Her dad called to her mother: "Florence, this man needs something to eat!" Florence jumped right up and headed to the kitchen. That's when Aunt Adah revealed herself, and everyone had a great laugh.
She had the Irish knack for telling a story, and she made everything very mysterious -- fairies doing naughty little tricks, and nurses who weren't very nice, and murderers! She elaborated details to no end and kept everybody hanging on the edge of their seats.
She enjoyed reciting "Thanatopsis," which she had committed to memory, and when she "wrapped the draperies of her couch about her," it was with great flourish.
She has now lain down to pleasant dreams.
She loved her place in the family as "the youngest of the first four."
Aunt Adah was quite the character. She appreciated a good practical joke. One Halloween she borrowed an overcoat and hat from her brother-in-law, Mort (Eldon) Hunt, and walked to her parents' house which was just down a bit from her home on Colby Road in Stanton. She pulled the hat down over her eyes and knocked on their door. When her dad answered, she disguised her voice and told him she was hungry and could she have a sandwich? Her dad called to her mother: "Florence, this man needs something to eat!" Florence jumped right up and headed to the kitchen. That's when Aunt Adah revealed herself, and everyone had a great laugh.
She had the Irish knack for telling a story, and she made everything very mysterious -- fairies doing naughty little tricks, and nurses who weren't very nice, and murderers! She elaborated details to no end and kept everybody hanging on the edge of their seats.
She enjoyed reciting "Thanatopsis," which she had committed to memory, and when she "wrapped the draperies of her couch about her," it was with great flourish.
She has now lain down to pleasant dreams.
Adah was the fourth of six children born to her parents. She was named after her grandmothers, Adah Collins Sprout and Elizabeth Murphy Gardner.
She loved her place in the family as "the youngest of the first four."
Aunt Adah was quite the character. She appreciated a good practical joke. One Halloween she borrowed an overcoat and hat from her brother-in-law, Mort (Eldon) Hunt, and walked to her parents' house which was just down a bit from her home on Colby Road in Stanton. She pulled the hat down over her eyes and knocked on their door. When her dad answered, she disguised her voice and told him she was hungry and could she have a sandwich? Her dad called to her mother: "Florence, this man needs something to eat!" Florence jumped right up and headed to the kitchen. That's when Aunt Adah revealed herself, and everyone had a great laugh.
She had the Irish knack for telling a story, and she made everything very mysterious -- fairies doing naughty little tricks, and nurses who weren't very nice, and murderers! She elaborated details to no end and kept everybody hanging on the edge of their seats.
She enjoyed reciting "Thanatopsis," which she had committed to memory, and when she "wrapped the draperies of her couch about her," it was with great flourish.
She has now lain down to pleasant dreams.
She loved her place in the family as "the youngest of the first four."
Aunt Adah was quite the character. She appreciated a good practical joke. One Halloween she borrowed an overcoat and hat from her brother-in-law, Mort (Eldon) Hunt, and walked to her parents' house which was just down a bit from her home on Colby Road in Stanton. She pulled the hat down over her eyes and knocked on their door. When her dad answered, she disguised her voice and told him she was hungry and could she have a sandwich? Her dad called to her mother: "Florence, this man needs something to eat!" Florence jumped right up and headed to the kitchen. That's when Aunt Adah revealed herself, and everyone had a great laugh.
She had the Irish knack for telling a story, and she made everything very mysterious -- fairies doing naughty little tricks, and nurses who weren't very nice, and murderers! She elaborated details to no end and kept everybody hanging on the edge of their seats.
She enjoyed reciting "Thanatopsis," which she had committed to memory, and when she "wrapped the draperies of her couch about her," it was with great flourish.
She has now lain down to pleasant dreams.
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