Stories told by Harry Baldwin in 2005:
Our Aunt Edna had a bad knee. She and her mother {Nellie O'Connor Smith} went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on the train to have it looked at, but the doctors could not help her, whether because of the cost or the complexity is unknown. She never married and finally spent her last years in a Catholic home for the aged in Savannah.
Edna lived on Lawton Street not far from our {her sister Nellie Baldwin's} home. We children had to pass her house on their walk to and from Peeples Street Elementary school. We always tried to avoid Aunt Edna, as she was sometimes eccentric. For instance, she would grab my (Harry's) two cheeks and pinch them, and tell me they jiggled up and down when I ran.
Story told by Doug Baldwin in 2005:
Another day, Douglas, about age 8, and Tom Baldwin were at her house. Tom, about age 6, complained of being thirsty. Edna quickly removed some flowers from the nearest vase and gave the contents of the vase to Tom for drinking.
Our Aunt Edna had a bad knee. She and her mother {Nellie O'Connor Smith} went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on the train to have it looked at, but the doctors could not help her, whether because of the cost or the complexity is unknown. She never married and finally spent her last years in a Catholic home for the aged in Savannah.
Edna lived on Lawton Street not far from our {her sister Nellie Baldwin's} home. We children had to pass her house on their walk to and from Peeples Street Elementary school. We always tried to avoid Aunt Edna, as she was sometimes eccentric. For instance, she would grab my (Harry's) two cheeks and pinch them, and tell me they jiggled up and down when I ran.
Story told by Doug Baldwin in 2005:
Another day, Douglas, about age 8, and Tom Baldwin were at her house. Tom, about age 6, complained of being thirsty. Edna quickly removed some flowers from the nearest vase and gave the contents of the vase to Tom for drinking.
Stories told by Harry Baldwin in 2005:
Our Aunt Edna had a bad knee. She and her mother {Nellie O'Connor Smith} went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on the train to have it looked at, but the doctors could not help her, whether because of the cost or the complexity is unknown. She never married and finally spent her last years in a Catholic home for the aged in Savannah.
Edna lived on Lawton Street not far from our {her sister Nellie Baldwin's} home. We children had to pass her house on their walk to and from Peeples Street Elementary school. We always tried to avoid Aunt Edna, as she was sometimes eccentric. For instance, she would grab my (Harry's) two cheeks and pinch them, and tell me they jiggled up and down when I ran.
Story told by Doug Baldwin in 2005:
Another day, Douglas, about age 8, and Tom Baldwin were at her house. Tom, about age 6, complained of being thirsty. Edna quickly removed some flowers from the nearest vase and gave the contents of the vase to Tom for drinking.
Our Aunt Edna had a bad knee. She and her mother {Nellie O'Connor Smith} went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on the train to have it looked at, but the doctors could not help her, whether because of the cost or the complexity is unknown. She never married and finally spent her last years in a Catholic home for the aged in Savannah.
Edna lived on Lawton Street not far from our {her sister Nellie Baldwin's} home. We children had to pass her house on their walk to and from Peeples Street Elementary school. We always tried to avoid Aunt Edna, as she was sometimes eccentric. For instance, she would grab my (Harry's) two cheeks and pinch them, and tell me they jiggled up and down when I ran.
Story told by Doug Baldwin in 2005:
Another day, Douglas, about age 8, and Tom Baldwin were at her house. Tom, about age 6, complained of being thirsty. Edna quickly removed some flowers from the nearest vase and gave the contents of the vase to Tom for drinking.
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