Aunt Effie

I appreciate all your interest when I show

you some of the pictures of my ancestors I inherited

and the stories of their lives.

I told you last week about 3 of my Aunts

that I am so intrigued with.

So today I want to introduce your to

Effie Lenora Wilson Larabee

born 1869 and died 1937 at what I 

consider a young age of 68.

She was only four years old when her Mother passed away.

I wonder if she remembered her Mother?

She was very close with her sister my Great Grandmother

Here is her family

Aunt Effie is on the left and my Great Grandmother on the right

with their father and 2 brothers

She married the local school teacher 

Robert Larabee

she was 22 and he was 30

1891

They lived near my Great Grandparents

This is there home, with them working out in the yard of their new home.

Aunt Effie and Uncle Robert never had any children.

But they so loved their nieces and nephews.

They traveled with my Great Grandparents

Here they are in Colorado

Niagara Falls August 1911

Aunt Effie, Uncle Robert, Great Grandparents James and Catherine

Wawona California

They seem happy in the company of each other

How cute, she is tempting him with an apple.

They were such a handsome couple.

Times were so happy, then the depression came then

illness came.

Uncle Robert became ill in 1934

I have the letters she wrote when he was away in the hospital

and she was visiting him. The pain in her letters for her 

beloved Robert. I even have trouble reading them,

the sadness in her words just leap off the page at you.

She would live 3 more years after his death.

Days spent with my Grandmother and her sister.

I am sure this was the only Christmas they were not together.

I found this only last week in a box.

They lived in Ashmore and Charleston is only 10 miles away but it might as well

of been an ocean away that Christmas.

1934 Christmas present to her sister was their Mothers bible.

I am now finding poetry she has written.

This is was sent to her brother John.

He must of given it back to her for now I have it.

I also now realize the bookcase that was always

in my Grandparents dining room, that my 

brother now has belonged to Aunt Effie.

All these things I learn by reading

                                            Aunt Annie's (her niece) diaries about our family.

This is the last picture I have of Aunt Effie

she was coming thorough Union Station in 

St. Louis and had it made.

10 Mar 1937

She died in November and 

was laid next to her beloved Robert.

Before I knew her through Aunt Annie diaries, she and

Uncle Robert were mythical to me.

I would see all those travel pictures and postcards from them

and think what an interesting couple.

I think they were......