"My mother, God bless her, was everything and everybody, at least to me and the rest of the family; a stout strong robust determined energetic woman, nice looking, with a florid complexion, blue eyes and always wore a cap with a "front" of ringlets: always at work from morn till night; when sitting she would mend various articles and had my sisters alongside repairing or making also."

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