Who Was Mrs. G.E. Keese?
aka: Edith Stilson Keese
Biography
Why would this farm wife in rural Vermont want the right to vote?
Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-grandmother
Excerpts from Edith Stilson Keese diaries.
"washed + ironed, made a pie for Town Meeting dinner"
Tuesday: November 8, 1932
"Town Meeting. Caroleen came around this way, Mama came and we did her washing, after dinner we all went up to the street cloudy and cold, Edith can walk now"
Wednesday: November 9, 1932
"a beautiful day, Henry and Phebe came out to dinner and we had a good visit, and we got a Democrat President. Rov (Roosevelt)"
Tuesday: March 7, 1933
"Town meeting day. Cloudy, but warm 20 above am. Mabel Goss husband buried today, Banks closed all over the state."
Monday: March 2, 1936
"did my washing + ironing + made pie for town meeting dinner, some day"."
Tuesday: March 3, 1936
"Geo + Mr. Lowell went to town meeting, done some baking"
Monday: January 21, 1955
" we did the washing at Caroleens then went up and got Mrs. Halpin to watch the Inaugural of President Eisenhower. Mr and Mrs Walsh came down also."
1930
September 20, 1937
"Mother died early in the morning. Sunday Urana died one year later 1937. Monday morning."
September 21, 1937
"We have Urana's baby Phyllis. 6 months old."
1950s
February 5, 1946: "Tuesday; Caroleen + I went up to Grace Minilk (sp?) I paid Carrol Landon for my place."
Late 1950s
"April 19, 1960 My dear Mother died."
Excerpt diary entry Caroleen Keese Smith