H. E., R.E., Nancy Rosetta "Rosetty" Hogan Cunningham
Some people may not have warm memories of Rosetty Hogan, but she was a heck of a woman.
She came to Texas from Arkansas on a covered wagon, and when the man driving the wagon was shot, Rosetty drove the wagon the rest of the way.
Her father was murdered, leaving her to assist with the parenting of her much younger sisters.
She had five children with Mack Cunningham (m. 1879) but by 1900, he was living somewhere else. She claimed however that she was a widow, but Mack was plenty alive, also claiming to be a widow.
Still, she farmed on, listing her occupation on the census as farmer.
She also was a midwife delivering babies while raising her own four (son Lee is on her lap in picture).
Then when Lee was murdered in 1923 and his wife was institutionalized shortly thereafter, she raised his four children. The youngest was two-years old.
I spoke to people who knew Granny Hogan. Some said she was "mean." She may have been. But she had to have some grit to survive.
(A Recollection--M.E. McWilliams, her great great granddaughter)
Some people may not have warm memories of Rosetty Hogan, but she was a heck of a woman.
She came to Texas from Arkansas on a covered wagon, and when the man driving the wagon was shot, Rosetty drove the wagon the rest of the way.
Her father was murdered, leaving her to assist with the parenting of her much younger sisters.
She had five children with Mack Cunningham (m. 1879) but by 1900, he was living somewhere else. She claimed however that she was a widow, but Mack was plenty alive, also claiming to be a widow.
Still, she farmed on, listing her occupation on the census as farmer.
She also was a midwife delivering babies while raising her own four (son Lee is on her lap in picture).
Then when Lee was murdered in 1923 and his wife was institutionalized shortly thereafter, she raised his four children. The youngest was two-years old.
I spoke to people who knew Granny Hogan. Some said she was "mean." She may have been. But she had to have some grit to survive.
(A Recollection--M.E. McWilliams, her great great granddaughter)
H. E., R.E., Nancy Rosetta "Rosetty" Hogan Cunningham
Some people may not have warm memories of Rosetty Hogan, but she was a heck of a woman.
She came to Texas from Arkansas on a covered wagon, and when the man driving the wagon was shot, Rosetty drove the wagon the rest of the way.
Her father was murdered, leaving her to assist with the parenting of her much younger sisters.
She had five children with Mack Cunningham (m. 1879) but by 1900, he was living somewhere else. She claimed however that she was a widow, but Mack was plenty alive, also claiming to be a widow.
Still, she farmed on, listing her occupation on the census as farmer.
She also was a midwife delivering babies while raising her own four (son Lee is on her lap in picture).
Then when Lee was murdered in 1923 and his wife was institutionalized shortly thereafter, she raised his four children. The youngest was two-years old.
I spoke to people who knew Granny Hogan. Some said she was "mean." She may have been. But she had to have some grit to survive.
(A Recollection--M.E. McWilliams, her great great granddaughter)
Some people may not have warm memories of Rosetty Hogan, but she was a heck of a woman.
She came to Texas from Arkansas on a covered wagon, and when the man driving the wagon was shot, Rosetty drove the wagon the rest of the way.
Her father was murdered, leaving her to assist with the parenting of her much younger sisters.
She had five children with Mack Cunningham (m. 1879) but by 1900, he was living somewhere else. She claimed however that she was a widow, but Mack was plenty alive, also claiming to be a widow.
Still, she farmed on, listing her occupation on the census as farmer.
She also was a midwife delivering babies while raising her own four (son Lee is on her lap in picture).
Then when Lee was murdered in 1923 and his wife was institutionalized shortly thereafter, she raised his four children. The youngest was two-years old.
I spoke to people who knew Granny Hogan. Some said she was "mean." She may have been. But she had to have some grit to survive.
(A Recollection--M.E. McWilliams, her great great granddaughter)
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