No letters written by Minnie were found. However, there is
one letter written to her by her aunt Hannah Taylor/Mosher, a number of
letters written to her and her family by her son Richard Taylor Tanner
from England during World War I, and one from her future
daughter-in-law Elsie Pattie Sadd. Also, there is a letter to her
husband from his employer, which appears in Chapter 5.
While we have some of her high school compositions as shown in Chapter
2, it is unfortunate that we have no letters written by Minnie. Also, I
suspect she may have kept a personal journal, but none was found. There
are some newspaper/magazine clippings in a scrapbook, and have not gone
through those as yet: a project to be added here later.
Background:
Hannah M. Taylor was born 1837 May 6 in Roxbury, Oxford Co.,
Maine. She married, first, farmer Joseph S. Ramsdell and they had
two children, George P. and Adella B. Ramsdell. He died at an
unknown date and she remarried Samuel F. Mosher, a widower. In
the letter she makes reference that she is at "George R." That would be
her son George P. Ramsdell. He is listed in the 1910, 1920, and 1930
census at Weld, Franklin Co., Maine. She indicates she is
mending clothes for the men. She seems to feel that she is just
used to work for others and can't have anything for herself.
Letters from Richard
Taylor Tanner
Minnie's son Richard Taylor Tanner was in France during World War I and
injured in 1917 and sent to England. A series of his letters from
1917 to 1919
written
from England survive and appear here. One includes a description
of celebrations in Piccadilly Circus at the time of the
Armistice. Also included is a letter from his future wife, Elsie
Pattie Sadd.
