Laura Ingalls Wilder
November 12, 2023 No Comments
Laura Ingalls Wilder was a remarkable storyteller. She started writing 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘦 after publishing her first book at the age of 65. Her cousin William Harrison Ingalls was a close friend of my 3rd great-grandfather Rev. William Maynard. In 1891, Rev. Maynard moved to Todd county, Minnesota. He purchased 80 acres in […]
Sadie Crider
November 1, 2023 No Comments
The first image is a photograph taken some time in the late 1930s or early ‘40s of my great-great-grandfather, Marion Crider, and his second child, my great-grandaunt, 𝗦𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗲, standing in front of what appears to be a storefront on Main Street in downtown Sumner. Sadie moved from Eagle Bend, Minnesota to Sumner, Washington in 1905, […]
Bonney Lake’s Plateau
October 31, 2023 No Comments
While researching my great-grandaunt, Sadie Crider, I came across a book, published in 2011, titled 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦’𝘴 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘶. I found a used copy at a bookstore and purchased it for two dollars. The book mentions Sadie and her maternal grandfather, Reverend William Maynard, his son, Mark Maynard, and granddaughter, Evelyn Maynard. Reverend William Maynard moved […]