{"id":10261,"date":"2022-04-30T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T02:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2022-04-30T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T02:41:26","slug":"abby-julia-and-mary-ann-1870-and-1871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=10261","title":{"rendered":"Abby, Julia, and Mary Ann, 1870 and 1871"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10262\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_10262\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 1210px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3b51118u.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3b51118u.gif\" alt=\"Early autumn: Salmon Branch, Granby, Connecticut. Artist: Aaron Draper Shattuck; Chromolithograph published by Currier &amp; Ives, 1869. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: 04805\/3b51118. Granby was 21 miles north and a bit west of Glastonbury, Connecticut.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10262\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_10262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early autumn: Salmon Branch, Granby, Connecticut. Artist: Aaron Draper Shattuck; Chromolithograph published by Currier &#038; Ives, 1869. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: 04805\/3b51118. Granby was 21 miles north and a bit west of Glastonbury, Connecticut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Challenging, but quite different, times were ahead for both Abby and Julia Smith and their second cousin Mary Ann Eldred Austin, during the 1870s. The decade began and ended with a death in each family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Austins <\/strong><br \/>\nThe 1870s were difficult years for Henry and Mary Ann Eldred Austin. In December 1870 Randolph Laing Austin, their youngest child, died. Not yet two years old, Randolph was their second child to die.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hancy Zephina Smith, 1787\u20131871 <\/strong><br \/>\nOn the last day of June 1871, the oldest Smith sister Hancy Zephina Smith died. Julia wrote that Zephina was \u201cthe life of the house, who had a keen sense of injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abby and Julia were left to care for their large two-story home and farm with the help of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg. Julia spent time in her study with a view of her beloved cows. Abby occupied her days caring for her cherished flowers. <\/p>\n<p>The sisters could not possibly foresee the trouble their beloved home and Glastonbury property would cause in the fall of 1872.<br \/>\n\u2014Excerpt from <em>Abby, Laurilla, and Mary Ann<\/em>, pp. 205\u2013207.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenging, but quite different, times were ahead for both Abby and Julia Smith and their second cousin Mary Ann Eldred Austin, during the 1870s. The decade began and ended with a death in each family. The Austins The 1870s were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=10261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10276,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions\/10276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}