Both Grandma, and Grandpa Ainsworth are very familiar to me. Family oral history is a great thing, and should be recorded as soon as possible. My Grandmother Sheldon spoke of her mother in a very affectionate way. Ever the devoted mother, and wife, her life was centered on her family, and the Methodist Church.
There were stories of baking in a wrought iron stove. Oven temperature was gauged by sticking an arm in the oven. Cold storage took place in the Ice Box, and in the spring cellar. Apparently, no matter how clean an Ice Box was kept, it smelled terrible. Once Grandpa Ainsworth bought an electric refrigerator, the Oak Ice Box was thrown out the back door, and buried somewhere on the farm. Cooking, sewing, ironing with a fire heated iron, canning fruit, vegetables, meat, and churning butter were her full time job.
My mother told me that Grandma Ainsworth was a very devout Christian, and carried her bible much of the time. She was an old school Methodist. No drinking, smoking, dancing, card playing, or unescorted young people. There were tent revivals in the church field. She joined DAR with her daughter Hazel, and attended meetings.
Grandpa Ainsworth suffered with Congestive Heart Failure, suffered a heart attack, and lingering effects of a hit and run accident from his youth. Grandma Ainsworth spent increasing time caring for her husband until his death in 1941. She left the farm, rotating among her daughters for 20 years, until her death in 1963.
**Both Mom, and her dearest friend and cousin, (Phyllis) Jean Scully Fox, spent their summers up through college, on the family homestead.
The photographs are from the collection of Edith Hazel Ainsworth Sheldon
Copyright © Laurie MacTaggart
There were stories of baking in a wrought iron stove. Oven temperature was gauged by sticking an arm in the oven. Cold storage took place in the Ice Box, and in the spring cellar. Apparently, no matter how clean an Ice Box was kept, it smelled terrible. Once Grandpa Ainsworth bought an electric refrigerator, the Oak Ice Box was thrown out the back door, and buried somewhere on the farm. Cooking, sewing, ironing with a fire heated iron, canning fruit, vegetables, meat, and churning butter were her full time job.
My mother told me that Grandma Ainsworth was a very devout Christian, and carried her bible much of the time. She was an old school Methodist. No drinking, smoking, dancing, card playing, or unescorted young people. There were tent revivals in the church field. She joined DAR with her daughter Hazel, and attended meetings.
Grandpa Ainsworth suffered with Congestive Heart Failure, suffered a heart attack, and lingering effects of a hit and run accident from his youth. Grandma Ainsworth spent increasing time caring for her husband until his death in 1941. She left the farm, rotating among her daughters for 20 years, until her death in 1963.
**Both Mom, and her dearest friend and cousin, (Phyllis) Jean Scully Fox, spent their summers up through college, on the family homestead.
The photographs are from the collection of Edith Hazel Ainsworth Sheldon
Copyright © Laurie MacTaggart
Both Grandma, and Grandpa Ainsworth are very familiar to me. Family oral history is a great thing, and should be recorded as soon as possible. My Grandmother Sheldon spoke of her mother in a very affectionate way. Ever the devoted mother, and wife, her life was centered on her family, and the Methodist Church.
There were stories of baking in a wrought iron stove. Oven temperature was gauged by sticking an arm in the oven. Cold storage took place in the Ice Box, and in the spring cellar. Apparently, no matter how clean an Ice Box was kept, it smelled terrible. Once Grandpa Ainsworth bought an electric refrigerator, the Oak Ice Box was thrown out the back door, and buried somewhere on the farm. Cooking, sewing, ironing with a fire heated iron, canning fruit, vegetables, meat, and churning butter were her full time job.
My mother told me that Grandma Ainsworth was a very devout Christian, and carried her bible much of the time. She was an old school Methodist. No drinking, smoking, dancing, card playing, or unescorted young people. There were tent revivals in the church field. She joined DAR with her daughter Hazel, and attended meetings.
Grandpa Ainsworth suffered with Congestive Heart Failure, suffered a heart attack, and lingering effects of a hit and run accident from his youth. Grandma Ainsworth spent increasing time caring for her husband until his death in 1941. She left the farm, rotating among her daughters for 20 years, until her death in 1963.
**Both Mom, and her dearest friend and cousin, (Phyllis) Jean Scully Fox, spent their summers up through college, on the family homestead.
The photographs are from the collection of Edith Hazel Ainsworth Sheldon
Copyright © Laurie MacTaggart
There were stories of baking in a wrought iron stove. Oven temperature was gauged by sticking an arm in the oven. Cold storage took place in the Ice Box, and in the spring cellar. Apparently, no matter how clean an Ice Box was kept, it smelled terrible. Once Grandpa Ainsworth bought an electric refrigerator, the Oak Ice Box was thrown out the back door, and buried somewhere on the farm. Cooking, sewing, ironing with a fire heated iron, canning fruit, vegetables, meat, and churning butter were her full time job.
My mother told me that Grandma Ainsworth was a very devout Christian, and carried her bible much of the time. She was an old school Methodist. No drinking, smoking, dancing, card playing, or unescorted young people. There were tent revivals in the church field. She joined DAR with her daughter Hazel, and attended meetings.
Grandpa Ainsworth suffered with Congestive Heart Failure, suffered a heart attack, and lingering effects of a hit and run accident from his youth. Grandma Ainsworth spent increasing time caring for her husband until his death in 1941. She left the farm, rotating among her daughters for 20 years, until her death in 1963.
**Both Mom, and her dearest friend and cousin, (Phyllis) Jean Scully Fox, spent their summers up through college, on the family homestead.
The photographs are from the collection of Edith Hazel Ainsworth Sheldon
Copyright © Laurie MacTaggart
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