My mother remembered her grandmother Anderson, Mary Veolia Brink Anderson Kline and liked everything about her except the “V” middle name. My mother’s parents, following a long tradition in the family, named her for her two grandmothers. Mother inherited Harriette and her nickname ‘Hattie’ from her maternal grandmother, Harriet (Hattie) Morgan Stout . But she […]
I struggle from time to time with putting cousins in their proper place—in the family tree,that is. In earlier times it was not uncommon for siblings in one family to marry siblings in another family. After all, their social world was small, confined mostly to the county,town, church and school that made up their neighborhood. […]
DORCAS MIDDAUGH (1826-1904) HERstory EDITED September, 2024, with additional family information. It would be great to be able to tell some new stories about Dorcas Middaugh Brink, my great-great grandmother. However, I already told you the major stories of that family when I wrote about Abraham Brink (1828). That’s the story of women in […]