Choosing Daisy
  • Home
  • Stories
  • Letters
  • Pictures
  • Book

Grandpa was a Bible Thumper

12/15/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Daisy's mother Endemial Josephine Drane Burch Polk, like her father Willis Webb Polk, came from a family who could trace their colonial roots back to Maryland in the 1600's. James Anthony Drane arrived with the Baltimore party on "The Ark and Dove" from England, landing on the St. Mary's River, Maryland, March 25th, 1634. Lord Baltimore's wife was also a Drane. ​


Read More
0 Comments

Mother: The Missouri Compromise 1835-1906

12/14/2019

1 Comment

 
The best protection any woman can have … is courage     
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
​

Picture
Daisy's mother, Endemial Josephine Drane Polk was no wilting southern belle, and although she was a daughter of the south she held no allegiance to any of the rules or tenets of that society. Known to family and friends as Endie or EJ, she was born in St. Louis on April 13, 1835, the daughter of Reverend TJ Drane and Susan Keith.

In 1854, at 19 she married her first husband Ferdinand Leonard Burch. On the heels of this marriage, at 25 the war of the states began. And by her 30th birthday she was a war widow with 3 children (only one surviving to adulthood). By the end of the civil war at age 32, she remarried Willis Webb Polk a fellow widower and father to 2 children, only William survived to adulthood. 


Read More
1 Comment
    Some stories that couldn't make the book in full ... but need to be told! Editors welcomed - sign up below.

    Topics

    All
    Aviation
    Besancon
    Children
    Crossing The Channel
    Endemial Josephine Polk
    Film
    Henry Clay
    Herbert Hoover
    League Of Women Voters
    Poste De Secours
    Prevenatoriums
    Reverend TJ Drane
    San Francisco
    Suffrage
    Susan Keith
    Travel In 1900's
    Victorians
    War Relief Work
    Willis Webb Polk
    World War I
    WTF

    RSS Feed

NEWS & UPDATES

    EDITORS WELCOME: If you want to help EDIT the book! Sign up. You must promise to be brutally honest, even if it's rubbish. Probably a good idea that you are a reader who enjoys Historical Fiction, too. :)

Submit
Site powered by Good Ink
  • Home
  • Stories
  • Letters
  • Pictures
  • Book