Miriam davis colt biography
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Miriam davis colt biography
Miriam lost her husband William and her son Willie to malaria in an ill-fated trip to live out a futuristic dream in Kansas in 1856.Five years later she was home in northern New York, trying to manage a little real estate and a farm but times were difficult.
She could not afford to pay for her cow's pasturage or a hired "lad's" work when produce prices were depressed. "Every thread of hope was cut off," she wrote a friend, "Leaving no way for us to obtain a livelihood.
...It is but little sewing I can do, for here in the country people generally do their own sewing."
Memories of teaching, sewing and quilting as a young woman.
Miriam and her husband had been caught up in the mid-1850s mania for communal living, selling their land to buy stock in a colony based on a veg