tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281798505305352117.post4135099114164841329..comments2024-03-28T22:11:05.593-05:00Comments on Civil War Quilts: Antebellum Album #2: Lend & BorrowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281798505305352117.post-81106914999765804202022-05-23T13:23:50.745-05:002022-05-23T13:23:50.745-05:00I'd like to include some information about Sar...I'd like to include some information about Sarah Jane (Foster) Rhea! The other night I came across a couple of letters from her to Reverend Justin Perkins as I was doing a deep dive on some family history. She and her husband, Samuel Audley Rhea, lived in a tiny village called "Memikan" which is located in the Hakkari mountains in SE Turkey. The mission station was based in Oorumiah, Persia (present-day Iran). One of the letters was a condolence letter to Reverend Perkins who had lost his beloved daughter Judith. The other letter discussed the weather and its effect on all their health, amongst other things. But they're written in her handwriting which is super cool! There is a biography about her husband called "A Tennessean in Persia." There was also some correspondence from Emily Dickinson to either Samuel Rhea or Justin Perkins. Can't remember which but I know I saw it a couple of nights ago. In the Amherst Collection (here: https://acdc.amherst.edu/browse/partOf/Justin+Perkins+(AC+1829)+Papers)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281798505305352117.post-7102992122964612592018-02-28T09:04:28.167-06:002018-02-28T09:04:28.167-06:00You say ". . . schools aiming to turn out cul...You say ". . . schools aiming to turn out cultured wives". Perfect. I haven't heard it put that way before. "Cultured wife" should have been an occupational listing on the census pages. That was still the ideal through the 1950's. Suzanne Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08387297696390711279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281798505305352117.post-77271743718798575882018-02-28T08:08:28.911-06:002018-02-28T08:08:28.911-06:00Thanks for the wonderful history lesson. And, plea...Thanks for the wonderful history lesson. And, please tell Mark I'd love to send him some neon scraps and see a glimpse of his stash!Wendy Caton Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18122151466664580872noreply@blogger.com