Ella Vivette, called "Vettie" was the oldest
daughter of Jim and Cynthia Lorain (Rainie)
Bozeman.
In her girlhood days she and her sister Jane were said to be the prettiest girls anywhere in their community. Vettie was the jolliest of the two.
They had a good time even though the family was only moderate means. They had to help on the farm, do some house work and help care for the smaller children as most farmers daughters had to do. All that did not dampen, their spirit, the few short years were single and stayed at home. They went to parties and square dances far and near. They rode horses as far as twenty miles to weddings and dances. Of course, they were chaperoned by one of their brothers. They had numerous beauxs and good looking ones.
Vettie wanted an education.She went to Mansfield,.La.,to room with a cousin Miss Virginia Gibbons, and entered
Mansfield Female College, but her health was not good, as she had had an attack of measles earlier in life that had impaired her health and she was forced to quit school in a short time.
At the age of 19 she married her second cousin,Attorney Thomas Crittenden Armstrong of Pleasant Hill, La., about the year 1901. He was 23 years, her senior.
Vettie died at a young age of 43.
Copied from: Sketches of the Bozeman Family
By: Loraine Bozeman Walker
daughter of Jim and Cynthia Lorain (Rainie)
Bozeman.
In her girlhood days she and her sister Jane were said to be the prettiest girls anywhere in their community. Vettie was the jolliest of the two.
They had a good time even though the family was only moderate means. They had to help on the farm, do some house work and help care for the smaller children as most farmers daughters had to do. All that did not dampen, their spirit, the few short years were single and stayed at home. They went to parties and square dances far and near. They rode horses as far as twenty miles to weddings and dances. Of course, they were chaperoned by one of their brothers. They had numerous beauxs and good looking ones.
Vettie wanted an education.She went to Mansfield,.La.,to room with a cousin Miss Virginia Gibbons, and entered
Mansfield Female College, but her health was not good, as she had had an attack of measles earlier in life that had impaired her health and she was forced to quit school in a short time.
At the age of 19 she married her second cousin,Attorney Thomas Crittenden Armstrong of Pleasant Hill, La., about the year 1901. He was 23 years, her senior.
Vettie died at a young age of 43.
Copied from: Sketches of the Bozeman Family
By: Loraine Bozeman Walker
Ella Vivette, called "Vettie" was the oldest
daughter of Jim and Cynthia Lorain (Rainie)
Bozeman.
In her girlhood days she and her sister Jane were said to be the prettiest girls anywhere in their community. Vettie was the jolliest of the two.
They had a good time even though the family was only moderate means. They had to help on the farm, do some house work and help care for the smaller children as most farmers daughters had to do. All that did not dampen, their spirit, the few short years were single and stayed at home. They went to parties and square dances far and near. They rode horses as far as twenty miles to weddings and dances. Of course, they were chaperoned by one of their brothers. They had numerous beauxs and good looking ones.
Vettie wanted an education.She went to Mansfield,.La.,to room with a cousin Miss Virginia Gibbons, and entered
Mansfield Female College, but her health was not good, as she had had an attack of measles earlier in life that had impaired her health and she was forced to quit school in a short time.
At the age of 19 she married her second cousin,Attorney Thomas Crittenden Armstrong of Pleasant Hill, La., about the year 1901. He was 23 years, her senior.
Vettie died at a young age of 43.
Copied from: Sketches of the Bozeman Family
By: Loraine Bozeman Walker
daughter of Jim and Cynthia Lorain (Rainie)
Bozeman.
In her girlhood days she and her sister Jane were said to be the prettiest girls anywhere in their community. Vettie was the jolliest of the two.
They had a good time even though the family was only moderate means. They had to help on the farm, do some house work and help care for the smaller children as most farmers daughters had to do. All that did not dampen, their spirit, the few short years were single and stayed at home. They went to parties and square dances far and near. They rode horses as far as twenty miles to weddings and dances. Of course, they were chaperoned by one of their brothers. They had numerous beauxs and good looking ones.
Vettie wanted an education.She went to Mansfield,.La.,to room with a cousin Miss Virginia Gibbons, and entered
Mansfield Female College, but her health was not good, as she had had an attack of measles earlier in life that had impaired her health and she was forced to quit school in a short time.
At the age of 19 she married her second cousin,Attorney Thomas Crittenden Armstrong of Pleasant Hill, La., about the year 1901. He was 23 years, her senior.
Vettie died at a young age of 43.
Copied from: Sketches of the Bozeman Family
By: Loraine Bozeman Walker
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