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The Folks in the Woods: A Memoir of Brown Hollow, Missouri, 1874-1991

The Folks in the Woods: A Memoir of Brown Hollow, Missouri, 1874-1991

Boyer, Mark G.

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Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures20th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $11.00

ISBN13: 9798385238286
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Published: Mar 18 2025
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Folks in the Woods focuses on Mary Ann Ackerson, 1904-91, in an isolated French village located in southeast Missouri. When she was seven years old, her parents--Daly and Sarah Ackeson--died of typhoid fever on successive days in 1911. Because Missouri was not yet a state, there were no adoption procedures for Mary Ann and her two brothers and one sister. The author's maternal great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Zeno and Sarah Osia, took Mary Ann to live with them. She grew up with their son--Joseph, who died at the age of seventeen two years later--and their daughter, Margaret--the author's maternal grandmother--who was a few years older than Mary Ann. Mary Ann became a feminist before feminism was invented. At her time in history, she entered a man's world and adopted it instead of maintaining the customs of a woman's world. This is her story and the stories of other folks who lived near her in the woods.

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