{"id":10312,"date":"2023-11-21T19:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2023-11-21T21:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T03:02:39","slug":"seven-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/seven-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Women Who Made Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 50px; padding-bottom: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<p class=\"\">When I think of homebodies, I could write about many people, but what mostly comes to mind are all the women who were homemakers and focused on the roles of wife, mother, and homemaker.&nbsp; I chose to write mini-bios about my mother, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers &#8211; the seven women in my ancestral lines most closely tied to my DNA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row color3-background-color color-3-text-contrast bg-background-color\" style=\"padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Elma (Pellett) McCracken<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10320\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10320 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-768x784.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-250x255.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-550x561.jpg 550w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-800x817.jpg 800w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-176x180.jpg 176w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328-490x500.jpg 490w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/File0017-e1700538742328.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elma (Pellett) McCracken &amp; Me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding: 10px 0;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Years a Homemaker: 45<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Children: 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Extra children: Several of Dad&#8217;s nieces and nephews stayed with us, especially in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooking:&nbsp; Cherry pie, mashed strawberry shortcake, mac &amp; cheese, round steak, glazed ham.&nbsp; And, she never could cook enough when the&nbsp; male teenage cousins were staying with the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sewing:&nbsp; A button maybe.&nbsp; Anything more, not unless her life depended on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Special skill:&nbsp; She was amazing at collecting family history and history of people &amp; places we knew.&nbsp; She would record a person&#8217;s entire family history back multiple generations on the back of photos. <em>(This comes in really handy!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Special Memory:&nbsp; She loved pretty things and cute things.&nbsp; And, each one was a treasure to her. Additionally, she could find a place for them no matter how crowded the cabinet was.&nbsp; After she passed, I kept seeing things and thinking I should tell her about the items because she would like them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Famous phrase: &#8220;You aren&#8217;t getting into my bed with those dirty feet!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Survived:&nbsp; Not having an indoor bathroom until her oldest was 6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row color2-background-color color-2-text-contrast bg-background-color\" style=\"padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Grandma<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Nellie (peelle) McCracken<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10319\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10319\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-1024x744.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-1536x1116.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-2048x1488.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-250x182.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-550x400.jpg 550w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-800x581.jpg 800w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-248x180.jpg 248w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-413x300.jpg 413w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCracken-Family-Photo-688x500.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe &amp; Nellie (Peelle) McCracken Family; Photo by Rennett&#8217;s Studio; Copyright owned by L. Thomson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding: 10px 0;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Years a Homemaker: 66<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Children: 11 (10 lived to adulthood)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Extra children:&nbsp;&nbsp; The Bailey kids when they traded places in the night with the McCracken kids.&nbsp; She put them to work.&nbsp; Dad said that they had extra people more often than not, but not necessarily kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooking:&nbsp; My favorite memory was the smell of her house when she made pork roast wrapped in bacon with potatoes and carrots.&nbsp; Dad always worked hard to replicate her cinnamon rolls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sewing:&nbsp; Preferred to sew over cook.&nbsp; When old enough, her daughter Ester did much of the cooking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Special Memory:&nbsp; Playing her little electric organ &#8211; even back when she lived on Pine. <em>(I got it when she was getting rid of things &amp; I still have it).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Doctoring: While chopping wood on Easter 1945, she almost chopped her thumb completely off.&nbsp; She just stuck it back in place and grandpa took her to the doctor.&nbsp; The doc said that she did a good job and he wasn&#8217;t going to mess with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Famous phrase: &#8220;My head is made up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Survived:&nbsp; Losing a baby at one month of age and having a son MIA in WWII.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row color1-background-color color-1-text-contrast bg-background-color\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Grandma<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Dessie May (Thomas) Pellett<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10317\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10317\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Pellett-Dessie-Ruby-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Pellett-Dessie-Ruby-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Pellett-Dessie-Ruby-250x296.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Pellett-Dessie-Ruby-152x180.jpg 152w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Pellett-Dessie-Ruby-423x500.jpg 423w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Pellett-Dessie-Ruby.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dessie (Thomas) Pellett and her daughter Ruby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding: 10px 0;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Years a Homemaker: 66 + 4.5&nbsp; (Caring for siblings and the house after her mom died)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Children: 5 (4 lived to adulthood)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooking:&nbsp; I remember most her pecan cinnamon roll sticky buns, hot rolls, doughnuts,&nbsp; and divinity.&nbsp; I watched and at times helped her cook. Her key role in the kitchen for Sunday dinner was deciding who got to cook each item.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sewing:&nbsp; She made dresses and quilts, including dresses for my sister and me.&nbsp; Taught me to sew on a 1920 Singer treadle sewing machine.<em> (I still have it.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Special Memory:&nbsp; Taking care of her after she had cataract surgery.&nbsp; In those days, you had to have your eyes covered for two weeks&nbsp; after surgery and she couldn&#8217;t see anything.&nbsp; So, I was her eyes while my aunts worked.&nbsp; I was only 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Strange Rule:&nbsp; You could only eat in the living room if the Lawrence Welk Show was on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Famous phrase: &#8220;What if the preacher comes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Survived: Losing her mother as a teenager, taking over running her parent&#8217;s household, her first child being stillborn, and raising her children mostly on her own as her husband spent much of his adult life in a VA hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row color3-background-color color-3-text-contrast bg-background-color\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Great-Grandma<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosa Isabella (ellis)<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">McCracken Apt<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2757\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2757 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-773x1024.jpg 773w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-768x1018.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-250x331.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-550x729.jpg 550w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-800x1060.jpg 800w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-136x180.jpg 136w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis-377x500.jpg 377w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rose-Ellis.jpg 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa (Ellis) McCracken Apt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding: 10px 0;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Years a Homemaker: 52<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Children: 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Grandchildren:&nbsp; 37 (34 grew to adulthood)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooking:&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know what she cooked, but Dad told me about red and white dishes (china) that she had.&nbsp; Cousin Ava told me a about a soup tureen that she said that her mom said had been &#8220;Grandma&#8217;s.&#8221;&nbsp; Ava thought it was her grandma&#8217;s (I.E. Nellie (Peelle) McCracken&#8217;s).&nbsp; Turns out it had belonged to Rosa and was part of the set Dad mentioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Daring Adventure:&nbsp; Rose went to Indian Territory by herself in a buggy to see family (likely her brother Sam who lived in Oklahoma).&nbsp; She never made it to her destination as she was forced to turn back by people in the area.&nbsp; I am not sure if they were Native Americans or people who were claiming land there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">1929 Thanksgiving Diary Entry:&nbsp; &#8220;Thanksgiven so many things to Thank our God for. we did not all get to Chester. Cynthia &amp; her family and Ernest &amp; Dewey was not thare. but thare was 31 thare. had a good time and a nice dinner.&nbsp; Will Ray &amp; I went to the show to night at Grard.&#8221; <em>(As written &#8211; Chester was her daughter Oella&#8217;s husband.&nbsp; Ernest, Dewey, and Ray were sons.&nbsp; Will was her second husband).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WWII: Had 2 sons and grandsons serving in the military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Survived:&nbsp; Losing her husband when she was 49.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row color2-background-color color-2-text-contrast bg-background-color\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Great-Grandma<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Matilda (Jury) Peelle<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7914\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7914\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-250x376.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-550x827.jpg 550w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-800x1202.jpg 800w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-120x180.jpg 120w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jury-Matilda-mod.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matilda (Jury) Peelle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding: 10px 0;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Years a Homemaker: 55<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Children: 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Grandchildren: 10<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Moving Around: She was born in Ontario, Canada.&nbsp; Moved when she was very young to Kansas.&nbsp; Then to Missouri.&nbsp; Back to Kansas.&nbsp; To Michigan, and finally back to Kansas.&nbsp; After her return to Kansas, she lived in at least 6 homes around Hiattville, a house in Farlington, and another in Wichita. Thus, she set up house keeping quite a few times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooking &amp; Sewing: She likely began learning cooking and sewing with her paternal grandmother who lived with them and likely refined those skills by learning from her father&#8217;s sister Eleanor &#8220;Ellen&#8221; (Jury) Hartnett, whom she lived with after her grandmother died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Religion:&nbsp; Very religious late in life.&nbsp; Became a member of the Seventh Day Adventists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Survived:&nbsp; Growing up without her mother as she was only 2 1\/2 when her mother died. Losing her husband when she was 46.&nbsp; He died only two days after her father died.&nbsp; She later lost a grandson in a very tragic car-bicycle accident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row color1-background-color color-1-text-contrast bg-background-color\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Great-Grandma<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Della (Conner) Pellett<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1588\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1588\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-PellettHenryDella-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-PellettHenryDella-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-PellettHenryDella-250x182.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-PellettHenryDella-550x401.jpg 550w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-PellettHenryDella-247x180.jpg 247w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-PellettHenryDella-412x300.jpg 412w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-PellettHenryDella-687x500.jpg 687w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-PellettHenryDella.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry &amp; Della (Conner) Pellett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding: 10px 0;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Years a Homemaker: 15<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Children: 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Grandchildren: 13 (12 lived to adulthood)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Survived:&nbsp; Death of her daughter Nina, who died at age 6 of scarlet fever. Nina had recovered enough to return to school when she had a sudden relapse and died within a few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On her deathbed:&nbsp; She said that she had made preparations for death and that all was well with her soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Died: Died the same night as her sister-in-law (her husband&#8217;s brother&#8217;s wife).&nbsp; They died at their respective homes.&nbsp; She after a short illness and her sister-in-law after a long-term illness.&nbsp;&nbsp; The family held a double funeral.&nbsp; She was only 33 and her sister-in-law was 27.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row color3-background-color color-3-text-contrast bg-background-color\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Great-Grandma<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Sarah Ellen &#8220;Sadie Ella&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">(Ashby) Thomas<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1584\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1584\" src=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-AshbyElla-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-AshbyElla-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-AshbyElla-250x352.jpg 250w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-AshbyElla-128x180.jpg 128w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-AshbyElla-355x500.jpg 355w, https:\/\/itsallinthesynapse.net\/Family_History\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-AshbyElla.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadie Ella (Ashby) Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding: 10px 0;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Years a Homemaker: 16<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Children: 9 (6 lived to adulthood)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Grandchildren: 16 (14 lived to adulthood)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooking &amp; Sewing:&nbsp; She died when Grandma Dessie Pellett was 15.&nbsp; It is assumed that Dessie learned to cook and sew from her mother as she could do both quite well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Survived:&nbsp; The loss of two children at birth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Died:&nbsp; She did not survive the loss of her 3rd child.&nbsp; The baby died at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott&nbsp; She died two days later from complications of childbirth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of homebodies, I could write about many people, but what mostly comes to mind are all the women who were homemakers and focused on the roles of wife, mother, and homemaker.&nbsp; I chose to write mini-bios about my mother, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers &#8211; the seven women in my ancestral lines most closely tied to my DNA. 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