EDGOOSE, Elizabeth

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• Name	EDGOOSE, Elizabeth
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I4314	Edgoose
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2026

  
  

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  EDGOOSE, Elizabeth now STROHMEIER (1852-1944) A Letter to her sister HARRIETT RIGGALLon the letterheading of the Aberdeen Greenhouse undated but written between October and 28 December 1898: "My Dear Sister It was a great pleasure to recive yours also the letter with the Children they do look lovely I wish you could see mine thay are so strong and well the baby was two months old last tuesday she is so big and looks more like four months than two sshe is good only in a morning she wants to get up every morning a bout 3 OClock it maks me tired she is very dark and looks like RICHARD her hair is dark his is a very light brown his skin is yellow his was very pretty when he was a baby but thihis climat is hard on the complexion he tans like I do CLARA dose not get so brown she is said to be the handsomeist child in the neighbourhood a Mrs SLOTER that lives near us dresses her very pretty and takes her out with her, she has not a girl of her own she has two boys 1 twenty the other ten so she would be so pleased if we would let them have CLARA but I could not spaire her if I had a dozen they are so sweet to me it is the fashon in this Country for people to take Children to bring them up as tharr own this was three well to do women told me thay would take the baby and keep her for thair own, I told them I could not spair her thay had the tools thay should use them and have one for them selves all the money in America would not take one of them I do take so much comfort with them lots of people say thay are such nice children CLARA is delighted to be dressed nice I do not think it is a good thing to dress young children in expensive clothes (2) I was glad to hear you go to see Aunt CRAFT I am sure it is a pleasure to her I hope you will be able to see her once in a wile as long as lives I am pleased to know you have found out so much a bout the folks it will be so nice for our children to know where there Mother came from so many dont know any thing a bout thair ansestors we had thought of calling our little datling ALICE ANNIE STHROHMEIER has a sister named ANNIE I think the name Grace is pretty I always liked my name aand was glad that thay had given me that old fashoned name RICHARD does not like the name ELIZABETH on acount of it being so long I wish we had called CLARA Harriett (underlined) all the time insted of Clara her head is shaped just like yours and she yells the same as you did when you where her age there is one thing she tels such awful lies she is always playing that she is someone else and will ask me to play that I am some one else her mind is so quick I think she dose not realize what she is saying I do hope thay will be truthfull and honest I do try to make them so but it is hard for a bad Tree to bear good fruit so thre is no telling what thay will be I should liked to have seen your little boy in the sute he wore for the wedding he must look like a fairy sweet It dose seem strange you and I should have such yong children at our age I do hope we may be spared to see them grown up I am very thin but feel strong and well except my side it aches a little nearly aall the time I have the same medeicin that made it all right before but I am so busy that I neglect it I started to make buns dough nuts and pies when I sold my Celery last fall people likid them so well that I have kept it up in a small way all the time Well my sister it is nearly two months since I comenced this letter to you I know it is awful mean of me to treat you in this way I have being going to get this off day after until there drir(?) not be any more time lost for it is verry inporten(?) a bout you intrest I could not get the money that I had been promised to me on the first of this month the woman that was to have let us hav it has decided to buy property she said that would take all she could spair I did not want to ask you for I thought after I got through through my sickeniss I could make our living and what RICHARD could earn would pay the taxes there was so many thing to get and to pay we had to have warm under clothes shoes(?) it costs quite a little to live I was four months that I could not do any thing to count any thing I scalded my feet in May and it was July before thay got well, the coffee pot handle fell off and a full coffiee pot boiling from the stove fel on my feet I had stockings on but no shoes the right fout the skin came of with the stocking on the in step the left was not so bad it was five oclock in the morning most every body was in bed so that it was a couple of howers before I could milk for them milk and starch is what I have used with success before (3) Now a bout the taxes thay were due November the first and our last chance to pay them is the first of Febury thay give ninty days for to give people to pay them the woman told me all summer she would have twelve hundred dollars to invest annnd I could just as well have it as not or I should have had RICHARD to you a long time ago I went to Mr NOBLE to see if he would not let me have some of the rent to pay the taxes he said he could he gave me a statement of what has be colected and paid out it is a shame the way thay have had repairs Charged they went to Mr NOBLE and he did alow them to have these unnecessary expences the water also the gas and sewer were all on the lot and I used them for years thay have had them charged to the the (sic) St Croix against the bulding I think Mr NOBLE did wrong wrong in alowing them to have these improvements without seeing me then there is not a bulding on Main street that size that dose not rent from 45 to 80 per month acording to how thay are finished thay have charged for pant what would hav panted it twice if thay had said an thing to us R. could hav don that just as well without half that expence when I spoke to Mr NOBLE a bout it he said why Mrs STROHMEIER you ddo not expect to redeem that property with a smile on his face I said certainly I do because I have been a few years without making any thing that is not say it will always be so, then I thought he ought to rais the rent as I did not think it wawas doing Justice to you to let it go this way, well I think RICHARD as told you all a bout this and I am very sorry I have don so bad with your money but I belive it will all come back in a a (sic) few years if I can be spaired and you this will come back quick when it dose come surely I shall not finish my days in this miserable way not paying my way but I canot think it will be the same I feel sure I shall be honist (4) yet although I am so far from it it has allways been my wish to be I know it is hard on you I hope I shall make it all up to you yet I feel I have a great deal to be thankfull for there has been what we might call epidemic in Town dozens of famileys have been sick with a severe cold we all had it except papa my little black eyed darling was the worst she could not cry or make the least noise it was seemed to be the bronchial tubes I used onions fried in lard for poltices, lard annd turpentine to gether, with lots of warm dry flannels and castor oil and Hve(?) syrup and talue(?) this to vomit them as soon as thay seemed to struggle for thair breath I kept them warm then as soon as thay got a little better i gave them eggg shell medicen I think I sent it I mean told you how to make it it is a wonderfull thing for children with any disorder of the stomach, I take the shells from fresh eggs dry them pulverise them in a morter & one teaspoon of the pulverised shell I use one third of a teaspoon full of Turkish Rhubab one half teaspoon of pulverised shuggar mixt to gether I used it for myself I did not have any doctor and we are all well, there were seven babys died in a week of it there has been many deaaths since the cold weather set in we had very dry hot weather in a few days it changed to 24 below zero then we had several days of cloudy foggy weather the doctors say it was the fog that caused this sickness people were not use to the damp the summer was very hot, well JIM is married and he rented the big house it is fixed up down stairs lovely JIM seems so happy and looks so well thay went to see the Episcopal Church Sunday morning JIM has been a member a many years EFFIEs folks arre Methodists but thay were married at EFFIEs home by the Episcopal minister we were invited R. had sprained his ancle he could not walk for a time it is better we are all better CLARA coughs a little yit I think it will wear a way, we are livining in the small house we are very warme and comfortable, I have not being doing any baking for nearly three weeks all being well I shall start Monday I have been fixing some things for the children for Santy Clause to bring to them a gain I keeeep theire things so that when thay get Old enough thay will keep them them selves I can get a tree from six to ten foot high for 15 fifteen cts so we have always got one, I wish I could get a few good recepts from Aunt AGUSTA a bout baking thers is three bakers in Town one stated a bout a week a go thay say thay are glad to know I will soon bake a gain I made 17 plum puddings for X Mas and if I had been baking right a long I could have sold 75 or more people say thay are lovely, we recived your very kind letters with the cardes yesterday Dec 28 thank you the book you spok of did not come yet thank you god bless you and yours I am sure thay are a great joy to you I am glad to hear from MAME I hope she will do well thank you ffor all the news, now about those dreadfull taxes I aught to have written you months a go so how I hate to have to do it I canot helpe it I am a constant care to you surely things will change if it is possible pay them maybe we can pay them next year, your greatfull sister BETSY