Nannie Doss was born on November 4th 1905, she lived in Blue Mountain, Alabama with an abusive father. She was one of the five siblings in the family and she had one brother and three sisters. She had an unhappy childhood because James would always force his children to work in the family farm rather than letting them go to school. Because James would keep them at home to work in the farm she was not a very good student. When Nannie was 7 she was on a train to visit some of her relatives in southern Alabama when the train stopped suddenly and Nannie hit her head on a metal bar. Years after that she would have severe headaches and suffer depression. She would blame this incident for her mental instability. During Childhood her favorite hobby …show more content…
Charley worked at the Linen Thread factory which is where they both worked at and met. Only after 4 months of dating Nannie’s father James gave approval to her marrying Charley. Charley’s mother would always be taking his attention rather than letting Nannie be with him which limited their activities with each other. They later had four daughters within 1923-1927. Nannie became a stressed out young mother and started to drink alcohol and smoke and later it became a heavy addiction. The marriage between them became a unhealthy relationship for both sides. Charley would often be gone from home and be gone for more than just one day leaving Nannie and the four daughters. In 1927 two of the middle daughters died from food poisoning. No one suspected that Nannie had to do anything with their deaths. Charley suspected that Nannie killed them and took his first born daughter Melvina and fled. He left the last child Florine behind with Nannie. Soon after Charley’s mother passed away and Nannie had to get a job in a cotton mill so she could support Florine and herself. Soon after in 1928 Charley came back and brought back Melvina so he could divorce Nannie and Nannie eventually got possession of the 2 girls. The reason of Charley leaving Nannie was because he was afraid of
Jane was born Jane Wilkinson on July 23, 1798, in Charles County, Maryland.She was the tenth child of Captain William Mackall and Anne Herbert Wilkinson. When Jane was less than a year old her father died. In 1811 her mother moved them to Mississippi Territory. The following year her mother died and she became an orphan at the age of 14. She moved in with her older sister,Barbara,and her husband,Alexander, on their plantation near Natchez. She met her soon to be husband James Long while she was there. They ended up married to each other on May 14, 1815.For the next four years they lived in vicinity and soon became a merchant in Natchez, In 1816, when Jane was 18, she gave birth to her first child Ann on November 26. Later she had another daughter, Rebecca, on June 16, 1819. Twelve days after Rebecca was born Jane wanted to join her husband in Nacogdoches, so she left with her two children and slave, Kian.She left them at the Calvit’s. Jane became ill, but she kept on with the trip and didn’t reach Nacogdoches till August.After a short amount of time she was staying there she had to move with other families to the Sabine to run away from the Spanish troops from San Antonio. She later returned to the Calvit’s to find out that her youngest daughter,Rebecca, had died. James and her
In the young life of Essie Mae, she had a rough childhood. She went through beatings from her cousin, George Lee, and was blamed for burning down her house. Finally Essie Mae got the nerve to stand up for herself and her baby sister, Adline as her parents were coming in from their work. Her dad put a stop to the mistreatment by having her and her sister watched by their Uncle Ed. One day while Essie Mae's parents were having an argument, she noticed that her mothers belly was getting bigger and bigger and her mom kept crying more and more. Then her mother had a baby, Junior, while the kids were out with their Uncle Ed. Her uncle took her to meet her other two uncles and she was stunned to learn that they were white. She was confused by this but when she asked her mom, Toosweet, about it her mom would not give her an answer one way or the other. Once her mom had the baby, her father started staying out late more often. Toosweet found out that her dad was seeing a woman named Florence. Not long after this, her mother was left to support her and her siblings when her father left. Her mother ended up having to move in with family until she could obtain a better paying job in the city. As her childhood went on she started school and was very good at her studies. When she was in the fourth grade, her mom started seeing a soldier named Raymond. Not too long after this, her mother got pregnant and had James. Her mother and Raymond had a rocky relationship. When James was born, Raymond's mother came and took the baby to raise because she said that raising four children was too much of a burden for a single parent to handle. Raymond went back to the service for a while but then when he came back he and Toosweet had another baby. Raymond's brothers helped him build a new house for them to live in and they brought James back to live with them. During this time Essie Mae was working for the Claiborne family and she was starting to see a different point of view on a lot of things in life. The Claiborne's treated her almost as an equal and encouraged her to better herself.
Imagine a time where there is a ''Man's job'' and a ''Women's job'', well that's how it was for Phyllis Lose, the first female equine veterinarian, in 1957. (First) Though she faced many difficulties entering this field she didn't give up and that's what allowed her to reach her goals. Phyllis Lose's work is inspirational because she changed the world of veterinary medicine, empowered girls to enter a ''man's field'' of work, and showed great strength by not giving up in order to reach her goals.
A struggle that Eudora Welty faced was the lose of family members. The first member of the family that died was her brother. The brother was born before all the other brothers and Eudora. The baby's name was Christian Welty, the same name of his father, and he lived only fifteen months. In 1924, the next family member who died was Eudoras sister who was stillborn. To be stillborn is to be born dead. In 1931, Christian Welty dies of leukemia. Eudora saw her father die during a blood transfution as her mother layed beside him. In 1957, her brother Walter dies at the...
With a name like 'Weatherall,' one can only imagine what she has been though. Forty years earlier, Granny Weatherall became ill from not only milk leg but also double pneumonia, which she recuperated from. Granny Weatherall also had a tough time when her youngest and most favorable child died. Her daughter, Hapsy, passed away while giving birth to her child. Another tough time in Granny Weatherall's life was when her first love, George, left her on her wedding day. After getting married, having kids, and keeping the farm on a stable basis, Granny?s husband, John, passed away. With him gone Granny Weatherall had to raise their kids by herself, and she also had to keep the farm going, such a...
In the 1840’s, the Perkins’ family worked in the brick-making factory, and they were wealthy for a short period of time. Many businesses collapsed and were bought out, so the wealth didn’t last long. In 1870, the Perkins’ turned to dairy farming to get their money. Shortly after, Frances’ father, Frederick married a woman by the name of Susan Bean. On April 10th, 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts Fannie Coralie Perkins was born. In 1884, when Fannie was four years old, Frederick and Susan had a second child, Ethel (Downey 7). Fannie was very close to her family her entire life. She often spoke of ancestors, she adored and their ways of thinking helped her when she had to make big decisions later on in her life.
Curley's wife was killed and left all alone in the cow stable on saturday night. Lennie the murderer left the stable with a dead puppy on his hand, Curley's wife always wanted to be an actress but she couldn't make it from school.
The Rev. Dinah Dutta was elected to the churchwide executive board of Women of the ELCA in July 2014. She is reelected to the board at the convention in July 2017.
Florida, Tennessee, LAX, Hawaii, the Bahamas, Michigan, and Kentucky. Visiting different states and chilling on the beaches with her family, is what Jacey Lynn Breeden does every year. Fourteen years ago on April, 26, 2003, a baby girl who was destined to travel and do greatness was born at Norton’s in Louisville at 4:27.
After their dad was killed, their house was reposed. Corrine called her mother, who allowed them to come live with them. Corrine told the children how rich their grandparents were, and they would never need anything again. She told them their new home would be the grandest they ever lived in, but they would have to be locked up in one room till she won her fathers heart back.
She suffered long-term physical, emotional, sexual, and verbal abuse from her parents; symptoms from her personal oppression were depressive and withdrawn attitude. Often she was very quiet and appeared unengaged and inattentive in class. The family lives in a public housing subsidy tenement and received public assistance from the State. Her first child, who she called "Mongo", because she was born with a disease called Down syndrome, lived with her grandmother, but on days the social worker would visit the grandmother would bring the child by to visit. Though the grandmother was very aware of the abuse that was taking place in the home, she turned a blind eye.
If someone decided to make a list of ordinary teenage girls in the world, Hannah Jones would have to be in there. Just like every average teenagers, Hannah had a family, friends, and she was happy (Well, most of the time). Hannah was living in California when her family decided to move to New York for some personal reasons.
Her parents meet at a social gathering in town and where married shortly thereafter. Marie’s name was chosen by her grandmother and mother, “because they loved to read the list was quite long with much debate over each name.” If she was a boy her name would have been Francis, so she is very happy to have born a girl. Marie’s great uncle was a physician and delivered her in the local hospital. Her mother, was a housewife, as was the norm in those days and her father ran his own business. Her mother was very close with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters. When her grandmother was diagnosed with asthma the family had to move. In those days a warm and dry climate was recommended, Arizona was the chosen state. Because her grandma could never quite leave home, KY, the family made many trips between the states. These trips back and forth dominated Marie’s childhood with her uncles and aunts being her childhood playmates.
The Bragg family grew up with virtually nothing. The father left the family a number of times, offering no financial assistance and stealing whatever he could before he left. When he was there, he was usually drunk and physically abusive to the mother. He rarely went after the children, but when he did the mother was always there to offer protection. Mr. Bragg's mother's life consisted of working herself to exhaustion and using whatever money she had on the children.
Elizabeth Dalloway represents the beauty of youth that comes from the freedom of choice that the previous generation did not seem to have. While the previous generation was able to make choices, they were highly affected by the views of the society they were a part of. Elizabeth’s generation seems to have the ability to make their choices without as much of an influence by their society, and that results in many different reactions from the people around them, which can be seen through other character’s reactions to Elizabeth.