Mary Elisabeth Brooks, b. 3/6/1851 Fisherville, TN. m. Andrew Jackson Fletcher "AJ" (d. 12/30/1881). She d. 9/1/1920, Memphis. Parents: James M. Brooks (1818-1876) b. NC and Mary Ann Kingston (Nov 1824), b. England. Issue: Kingston, Mattie Daisy, Maggie, Patrick, Andrew Jay.
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in Eads, Shelby Co County, Tennessee USA
Sue Keeley Hicks I didn't for a long time there was any other way. When I was around eight years old I'd help out by doing my younger sisters hair at night
I am thinking she rolled her damp hair in scraps of fabric and slept in them. My mom rolled my Shirley Temple curls like that for years until there were too many kids to put to bed. Curls held all day no spray needed. She also may have used a curling iron heated on the cook stove.
My mom used to heat up a curling iron on the stove. Whenever my sister and I saw her coming at us with that curling iron, we would start to cry because we knew that she was going to burn us. And she did! Such torture. This was in the late 40's, early 50's.
I'm sure they used a metal rod. Whoever did her hair would've had to heat it on a stove and hold the rod with a towel while curling the hair. To get her hair that precise, maybe one or two hours.
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Um, I'm pretty sure those are done with a curling iron. They had curling irons you heated in the fireplace or on a hot stove, basically a poker for hair. My hair wouldn't do that without product and heat.
And people then washed their hair once a week in general, on Saturday night before church.
My mother used to do this to our hair as children. They were called "pin curls". She would put some "Dippity Do" (now called styling gel) on our wet hair and then wrap each bunch of hair with tissue paper, then twist each "tube" of hair into a spiral and pin it to our heads. We slept with it in and then she unrolled it the next morning.
I remember this, too! And we later used mini beer cans to help smooth and straighten our hair. Following that we ironed our hair with a scarf on top of it.
I think they did have non electric curling wands in the late 1800s early 1900s; they put on a heat source. But before then, I also read they used strips of cloth and then twisted and rolled their hair up that way. You can see it sometimes in historical movie dramas.
The kitchen stove, heat your iron or curling iron.
Saw a girl use one to iron her hair, very interesting cause her hair was na turally curling and she hated it.
Yep. If you've read Little Women there's a part where Jo is curling Meg's hair with an iron and she leaves it too long and scorches her hair. The book was set in the 1860s.
As a young girl, my mother would have to sit while my grandmother wrapped her hair in rags; she did that a few times to my hair when I was young to show me what it was like. Time consuming and tedious but the curls were gorgeous and they lasted a long time.
Ladies,,,curling before Bedtime! Tear pieces of material into 6"by 2",,,wrap a piece of paper,,usually brown sack paper,, around each String! Pick up the end of a of strand hair, dampen it a bit with water,, roll to where you want curls to start!, Tie the string...go to bed..curls will be ready when you get UP, ladies went to a lot of effort to look good!, wonder what they would say,,,looking at all these awful heads of methsusa no styles today's world!
They had curling irons, they just weren't electric......you heated them on the stove just like you did the iron for pressing clothes (which weren't wrinkle-free, either)....haha
They could be papillote curls, hair would be rolled in low pin~curls and tissue paper would be folded over them a special heated iron would be clamped on for a few seconds when cooled you would pull the tissue off and you would have tight long lasting coils.
They did have curling irons. They were long metal rods that they put in a fire to heat up. I saw one during a tour of a Georgia plantation house. I'm guessing it did take a good while to do it and that all methods mentioned were used.
There was a "Marcel" curling iron even back then. Curling irons have apparently been around since Babylonian times (that history lesson was for free😬). Where there's a will there's a way...
Also curling irons that look very much like the electric ones we have now, they were heated by placing the blades down the neck of an oil lamp. They got the hair a little smoky but did the trick.
She probably tried to sleep with iron rods of hair wrapped around them every night to achieve this look. Women have suffered far too long in the name of beauty. I have always loved a clean, natural look.
The inventor of the curling iron remains unknown, but the first known patent for the improvement of the design was given to Sir Hiram Maxim on August 21, 1866 (Mottelay). While the curling iron was first patented in the 19th Century, the practice of hairstyling has been dated back to 2,000 BC ....(Stevenson 138). I had no idea :P
As personal service (servants and slaves) became more expensive, personal care became more simplified. Women were frequently required to dress and coif themselves without help.
Mary Elizabeth (Fletcher) Brooks was born on March 6, 1851, and died at age 69 years old on September 1, 1920. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Elizabeth "Molly" (Fletcher) Brooks.
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