Eunice A. Allyn daughter of Jonthan Allyn and Roxanne Lamb was married to Almon C. Miner May 27, 1848 in Johnson Twp., Trumbull Co., Ohio, to this union 4 children were born, Mary Elmira Miner, Ephigene "Eve" Effie J. Miner, Charles A. Miner,Chester Warren Miner. Almon, had forsaken Eunice and her four babies, going off with one Harriett Taft, who was one of his school day sweet hearts, to marry. She wasted no life over her unworthy husband, but bravely took up the farm work in addition to the housework, and raised her four children to be respectable men and women. On March 11, 1867 in Center Twp., Fayette Co., Iowa she married John A. Sherwood, and to this union 3 children were born, Clara Bell Sherwood,Jessie L. Sherwood, Augustus "Guy" Sherwood.
One thing people criticized Aunt Eunice for was reading the New York Ledger, in those days a vender of continued stories of lawless love and blood and thunder, which Aunt Eunice would read. Aunt had a hungry mind , reading, no doubt whatever she could get her busy hands on. After doing the hardest day's work she often in the evening saddled the best horse in the stable and rode at break neck speed 7 miles to Fayette to get the "Ledger," and sit up till day-light to read the continued stories. But was ready to do her day's work in the field the next morning. And it is a notorious fact among the ancient neighbors of Center Township, that she could and did, bind on the ground, swath for swath with the best of the men, laying sometimes her baby Chester in the shade of a grain shock; nursing him at proper times; and that she would get dinner for the harvesting crew she bound with, and wash up the dishes while they smoked their pipes, and be one of the foremost in the field, every day, in all busy seasons.
Her life was a hard one; her heart was a generous one; her strength was or had been unlimited; and her hand never closed to those who were in need. But her youth and beauty, if she had had any, were gone. It was she who cared for old granddad Lamb.
One thing people criticized Aunt Eunice for was reading the New York Ledger, in those days a vender of continued stories of lawless love and blood and thunder, which Aunt Eunice would read. Aunt had a hungry mind , reading, no doubt whatever she could get her busy hands on. After doing the hardest day's work she often in the evening saddled the best horse in the stable and rode at break neck speed 7 miles to Fayette to get the "Ledger," and sit up till day-light to read the continued stories. But was ready to do her day's work in the field the next morning. And it is a notorious fact among the ancient neighbors of Center Township, that she could and did, bind on the ground, swath for swath with the best of the men, laying sometimes her baby Chester in the shade of a grain shock; nursing him at proper times; and that she would get dinner for the harvesting crew she bound with, and wash up the dishes while they smoked their pipes, and be one of the foremost in the field, every day, in all busy seasons.
Her life was a hard one; her heart was a generous one; her strength was or had been unlimited; and her hand never closed to those who were in need. But her youth and beauty, if she had had any, were gone. It was she who cared for old granddad Lamb.
Eunice A. Allyn daughter of Jonthan Allyn and Roxanne Lamb was married to Almon C. Miner May 27, 1848 in Johnson Twp., Trumbull Co., Ohio, to this union 4 children were born, Mary Elmira Miner, Ephigene "Eve" Effie J. Miner, Charles A. Miner,Chester Warren Miner. Almon, had forsaken Eunice and her four babies, going off with one Harriett Taft, who was one of his school day sweet hearts, to marry. She wasted no life over her unworthy husband, but bravely took up the farm work in addition to the housework, and raised her four children to be respectable men and women. On March 11, 1867 in Center Twp., Fayette Co., Iowa she married John A. Sherwood, and to this union 3 children were born, Clara Bell Sherwood,Jessie L. Sherwood, Augustus "Guy" Sherwood.
One thing people criticized Aunt Eunice for was reading the New York Ledger, in those days a vender of continued stories of lawless love and blood and thunder, which Aunt Eunice would read. Aunt had a hungry mind , reading, no doubt whatever she could get her busy hands on. After doing the hardest day's work she often in the evening saddled the best horse in the stable and rode at break neck speed 7 miles to Fayette to get the "Ledger," and sit up till day-light to read the continued stories. But was ready to do her day's work in the field the next morning. And it is a notorious fact among the ancient neighbors of Center Township, that she could and did, bind on the ground, swath for swath with the best of the men, laying sometimes her baby Chester in the shade of a grain shock; nursing him at proper times; and that she would get dinner for the harvesting crew she bound with, and wash up the dishes while they smoked their pipes, and be one of the foremost in the field, every day, in all busy seasons.
Her life was a hard one; her heart was a generous one; her strength was or had been unlimited; and her hand never closed to those who were in need. But her youth and beauty, if she had had any, were gone. It was she who cared for old granddad Lamb.
One thing people criticized Aunt Eunice for was reading the New York Ledger, in those days a vender of continued stories of lawless love and blood and thunder, which Aunt Eunice would read. Aunt had a hungry mind , reading, no doubt whatever she could get her busy hands on. After doing the hardest day's work she often in the evening saddled the best horse in the stable and rode at break neck speed 7 miles to Fayette to get the "Ledger," and sit up till day-light to read the continued stories. But was ready to do her day's work in the field the next morning. And it is a notorious fact among the ancient neighbors of Center Township, that she could and did, bind on the ground, swath for swath with the best of the men, laying sometimes her baby Chester in the shade of a grain shock; nursing him at proper times; and that she would get dinner for the harvesting crew she bound with, and wash up the dishes while they smoked their pipes, and be one of the foremost in the field, every day, in all busy seasons.
Her life was a hard one; her heart was a generous one; her strength was or had been unlimited; and her hand never closed to those who were in need. But her youth and beauty, if she had had any, were gone. It was she who cared for old granddad Lamb.
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