Mrs. Whites Boarding House
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Mrs. Whites Boarding House
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Cynthia Long
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10/15/2014
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Beverly Collins
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I love it. When you try to imagine that they posed for it, paused for it and moved on. Never would've they thought its going to be so beautifully admired by random strangers in the future :) Its just so wonderful :)
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Kushal Jain that's always my thought when i see photos like this. 'what did they do next? where did they move on to? what happened to them?'
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U r so right. They just went on their merry way and never gave it a thought that it'll be posted yrs n yrs later. Very well said Kushal Jain :)
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i always think that, too. never would they think "someday, in 2014, a woman will be lying across her bed in springfield, missouri, (me), looking at our picture on a contraption called a laptop. makes you wonder about pictures of us in a hundred years.
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When I visit my ancestors' graves I think the same~in 100 years will my great, great grandchild come to place flowers on my grave? The thought makes me smile! :)
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My great grandmother took in boarders. it was a way to make income during tough times. Benefitted those who needed a room & the one making a little money. It was like having rental homes or apartments to let out today.
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I remember one of my grandmothers having boarders through the 1970s at least, to augment her limited "fixed income".
Also, such things remind me of Hesse's "Steppenwolf", some of which I recall describes the protagonist's living in a room at a boarding house, as his way of dealing with his limited income.
Also, such things remind me of Hesse's "Steppenwolf", some of which I recall describes the protagonist's living in a room at a boarding house, as his way of dealing with his limited income.
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both my grandmother and an aunt had boarding houses........
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My Great Great Grandmother LIVED IN boarding houses between 1839 and 1863 in Joliet IL, in Wyoming PA., in Newark NJ, and in Boston MA.
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I wish we all had pics to share of our grandmother's boarders & house. It sounds to me like it was a very popular , commonly done thing . And notice it was the women who often ran them!My grandmother's house was a red brick home in what was near downtown Nashville, TN.
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Paula...my family, too...tho I have no idea how they had room to do that! They lived in a 2 suite house in Collinwood that was divided up into bedrooms, kitchen and common rooms...my Mom and her sis slept in the ATTIC...no heat! Yikes!
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My grandma "took on boarders" both when her husband was alive and after he died. My mom remembers them having boarders when she was a child and a former boarder walked her down the aisle when she got married. Her grandma did this as well.
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Same thing with my great grand parents. I only found out about it through a census. They name everyone living in the household and there was a border in 1920. There were no family stories about this, but there he was in the census.
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You can also find adult children still living with parents listed as a boarder. My grandmother was 17/18 and going to nursing school just before she married my grandfather and she is listed as a boarder in her parent's home.
Debbie Poore
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10/22/2014
I love this picture. There is a branch of White's in our Family Tree that I have not researched yet. I will have to do some research and see if this picture is a part of the family
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Here is another "Mrs. White's Boarding House".
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They didn't have many windows those days did they ? Two tall brick chimneys stand out. Period late 1800's ? Which country are these photographs taken ?
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I enjoy seeing these pictures, thank you for sharing
Jen Crighton
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My aunt used to tell me about her Mother-in-Law's home being a boarding house for travelers. She would offer them a meal & a bed for the night before they continued on their travels. Boarding Homes were common in rural areas because the journey between towns might take two or more days. Her home was located close to the White River Trace in Rural Dent County, Missouri.
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Ah Ha! A mystery to solve! I, on the other hand, am searching for a picture of the original owners of the 1896 farmhouse we live in in Ohio. It was owned by Orange Barrows. I would love to find a picture of Orange and Marietta Barrows, folks.
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My father and his sister were forever telling stories and would say "Oh that's when we boarded with so-and-so". It seems that before they each got married and owned their own homes they boarded on-and-off with several people - some they knew or friend of a friend. And they didn't think a thing of it. My aunt (who is 103 now) talks about cousins "down in the country" who would call her and say they had just gotten a job in our town and could they board with her for a while. And of course they did and she didn't think a thing about it. Didn't bother her. Different times.
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Women were expected to stay at home and wages for them were ludicrous. It could be a good little business for some women. It depended on the type of boarders you had. Also it enabled a woman to own property without being married (a lot were though).
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When I was researching my family tree, I noticed the large number of boarding houses in Cincinnati. Many of them were filled with people with German names and then you would find an Irish name among all the Germans. My family took in borders in Monroe, OH. People used to travel on I25, which was replaced by I75.
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Cynthia Long
I'm a writer of stories and poems and was a published author writing the book, Memories of My Grandfather. Writing with my grandfather, John Walker "Weird Mystery" that is in the Bloomington, Indiana University library stacks in the history of Indiana section. This book cannot be checked out because it's part of Indiana history.
I love researching my family genealogy and, transcribing and scanning in old handwritten letters, and making up web pages of genealogy so others could enjoy reading them.
In 1988, I was interviewed by Maurice Endwright, the owner of the Ellettsville, Indiana newspaper, (The Ellettsville Journal) for the story "Writer recalls childhood experience in cemetery" this is the same story as "Weird Mystery" named above.
I've been published for her stories and poems in the Readers Digest, IVY TECH Literary Magazine, The Kentucky Explorer, Connersville News Examiner, and the Ellettsville Journal. Her story "Thanksgiving" was "Editors Choice" one year on the site, SALON.COM, a site that has now closed down.
I've also had poems and stories published in the Bloomington, Indiana newspaper Herald Times telling stories of Thanksgiving, Ghosts, and Genealogy about my family.
In 1978 I witnessed the excavation to locate the where abouts of of former President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet member, Caleb Blood Smith. The story named above "WEIRD MYSTERY" tells about the excavations findings.
I hold a copyright at the Library of Congress, and has donated many historical items to local, and state, museums and libraries, including the Library Of Congress. There is also a donation of "Weird Mystery" to Crownhill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
In 2007 I met with local actor Andrew Robert "Bob" Woolery who starred in Breaking Away in 1979. Bob turned over all his family genealogy and I prepared it and turned it over to the Monroe County public library.
I've also spent long hours at cemeteries cleaning off the stones of the early settlers of Bloomington, Indiana. I have a Revolutionary War vet in my family his name is John Combs, his findagrave Memorial# 73293597 It has links to most of my family members.
My grandfather is John Walker he is at findagrave # 99976835
My other love is to repupose furniture and other items to give it a new use.
My mothers family the Combs/Walkers came from England and Scotland (Ulster Scots) and settled around Virginia after Revolutionary War, later making a permanent settlement in Hazard, Ky and my fathers family Long/Lang came from Germany to Yadkin, North Carolina and later settled in Indiana.
My mothers family the Combs/Walkers came from England and Scotland (Ulster Scots) and settled around Virginia after Revolutionary War, later making a permanent settlement in Hazard, Ky and my fathers family Long/Lang came from Germany to Yadkin, North Carolina and later settled in Indiana.
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My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
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