d/o Eliza Drake
w/o Isaac Slenker
This is the gravesite of the woman known as Elmina Slenker, a Free Thinker and radical. The children of Graysontown were told by their parents that she was a witch to prevent the children from being corrupted by her influence.
Article Radford News Journal 18 Mar 1981
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Bluefield Evening Leader, Bluefield, West Virginia
Tuesday, February 4, 1908, page 1
Radford, Va, Feb 4. - Mrs Elmina Drake Slenker died at Snowville early Saturday morning of grip, at the age of 81 years, and was buried yesterday at Graysontown, a neighboring village.
Mrs Slenker was one of the oldest inhabitants of the little village in which she passed the last thirty-five years of her life, and was loved by a wide circle of friends, throughout the country, who knew her personally or merely by her writings, over the nom de plume of "Aunt Elmina."
Mrs Slenker was Miss Elmina Drake, the daughter of a Quaker preacher of New York state, and married Mr Isaac Slenker, also a New Yorker. They afterwards went to live in Pennsylvania, but came to Snowville in the early seventies, where Mr Slenker established and operated a woolen factory.
Mrs Slenker wrote for many northern papers and magazines, and published several books, "John's Way," a novel, and "Little Stories from Science" for children, being among the number.
d/o Eliza Drake
w/o Isaac Slenker
This is the gravesite of the woman known as Elmina Slenker, a Free Thinker and radical. The children of Graysontown were told by their parents that she was a witch to prevent the children from being corrupted by her influence.
Article Radford News Journal 18 Mar 1981
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Bluefield Evening Leader, Bluefield, West Virginia
Tuesday, February 4, 1908, page 1
Radford, Va, Feb 4. - Mrs Elmina Drake Slenker died at Snowville early Saturday morning of grip, at the age of 81 years, and was buried yesterday at Graysontown, a neighboring village.
Mrs Slenker was one of the oldest inhabitants of the little village in which she passed the last thirty-five years of her life, and was loved by a wide circle of friends, throughout the country, who knew her personally or merely by her writings, over the nom de plume of "Aunt Elmina."
Mrs Slenker was Miss Elmina Drake, the daughter of a Quaker preacher of New York state, and married Mr Isaac Slenker, also a New Yorker. They afterwards went to live in Pennsylvania, but came to Snowville in the early seventies, where Mr Slenker established and operated a woolen factory.
Mrs Slenker wrote for many northern papers and magazines, and published several books, "John's Way," a novel, and "Little Stories from Science" for children, being among the number.
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