Oorzaak: pneumonia
She is married to Orlando Gage.
They got married on May 5, 1886 at Duanesburgh, Schenectady County, New York, she was 26 years old.
Child(ren):
EDITH GALLUP taught Junior grades at Quaker Street Academy, est. 1878, in the early 1880s. Quaker Street is in the Town of Duanesburg and not far from Gallupville.
Edith refused to join her family when they came out west in 1880's. In 1876, Custer had died by the hands of the Indians and she was afraid of them. She had a bad fall about a year before she died. She was unable to walk and was in a great deal of pain.
Transcription of a letter written by Edith Gallup Gage to her mother, Phebe Montanye Gallup.
October 23, 1907
Dear Mother:
My twins are 13 years old today and a great deal of help to me. Monday
night after school the girls washed a large washing besides getting
supper. (I don't pretend to do anything only what I can do sitting down.)
Tuesday morning they rinsed and starch the clothes done, did the morning
work even to making beds and mopping and got things ready for dinner.
They backed (2 apple pies) and got to school in time they were up at half
past four. Orlando killed 5 pigs yesterday, 4 for market. They only
dressed 102 lbs. a price. We kept one, sold them at Esperance and got 9
cents a lbs. They were late pigs, the last of April and only skim milk,
so it was not so bad. He thrashed in the afternoon, earning $5 and moved
his machine today. He is digging potatoes for us. He won't have any
nuts to send to send you as the squirrels and friends of ours are taking
them when the children are gone. Orlando is away thrashing and I can't
stop them. I can only teeter backward and forward when I try to walk so
I don't try much any more, the sides, back, and belly burns like fire
when I try although the flesh feels ice cold, Orlando says, when you
touch it. I do not feel heat nor cold just comfortable when I lay still
that is something to be thankful and I do not worry. It will be and is
all for the best.
I hope you are better. Here is a slip of a pretty red geranium. It
is near time for the mail so I must quit with love to all.
Edith
Edith Phoebe Gallup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1886 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Orlando Gage |