Vera before she was an aunt and great-aunt

These were originally part of a strip of five snapshots.

My grandfather’s sister Vera provided some delightful commentary early in my genealogical research, and she’d already given Floyd enough to help give us a foundation of our project. The big lament, though, was the loss of her childhood correspondence from her grandparents, Pleasant and Eunice, in North Carolina. Their letters disappeared in her move to a smaller residence shortly before we launched in our research.

They show sides of Vera Hodson I’d not expected.

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