Hello, After reading the postings this morning, I was reminded of my great-grandmother and her sister. I would invite my gr-grandmother, Mrs. Louise Wellington (RICE) KIDDER (1876-1958) and her sister, Miss Edith Crosby RICE (1878-1943) (never married). Of the 2 sisters (only children of Charles and Adelaide (HUTCHINSON) RICE), I'm told that Edith was the pretty one and Louise was the plain one. And, Louise probably didn't pursue education but Edith did and became a Children's Librarian. I'm told that Louise had a good sense of humor and loved to travel. I don't know about Edith's personality. Louise and Edith were probably visiting their father's extended RICE family in Lubec, Maine, when they met George "Sanford" KIDDER, who was then living in the next town, Eastport, Maine. Sanford and "Lou" were married in his home-town of Princeton, Maine (west of Calais) in 1898. But, they came down to Louise's home-town of Winchester, MA, to live. They had a daughter, who became my grandmother, and then 2 sons. * But, when the kids were school-age, Sanford decided he wanted to spend more time in Maine and then moved back up there ~1915. In ~1938, his adult daughter and son had to drive up there and "take" their father to the Bangor State Hospital. He died there in 1943. (Would like to know hs version of the "separation.") Edith might have gone to high school, and I don't know whether she would have needed some college education during the 1890's in order to become a Librarian. I've read that she was a popular lady in the next town, Arlington, MA, where she was a Librarian. She was liked so much that a lady friend of hers who had moved out of state, "left" a large collection of important children's books to the University of Maine, and it was named, "the Edith C. RICE Collection." Edith lived with her (divorced?) mother in Arlington until Adelaide's death in 1928. Then Edith suffered a serious "bone disease" and became bedridden during her last few years of life, dying in 1943. Adelaide and her daughter, Edith, became active in church and in the Arlington Historical Society. And, Edith wrote a few articles for the Society, mostly about the long-standing "HUTCHINSON Farm" in Winchester. Louise and Edith (and cousins) inherited one of the 2, adjoining HUTCHINSON Farms during the 1930's. Louise, as a "separated" woman, had been the live-in caretaker of her mother's cousins, siblings, Thomas and Mary HUTCHINSON. We were told growing up that that was the reason that our "Grandma KIDDER" had inherited the farm. But, I recently went to the Registry of Deeds and found out that several, related HUTCHINSON's inherited the farm in the 1930's. The 2nd Farm across the street was sold out of the family ~1900. I'll continue with another part of this story in another posting. But, I'll say that my parents moved into the HUTCHINSON farmhouse in ~1946 when my father got out of the military. So, I lived with my father's grandmother until I was 9 years old, and knew her until I was a young teen. ** But Edith died shortly before I was born. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator * Clarissa was named after both of her grandmothers. "Sanford, Jr." was an unruly teen and didn't spend much time at home, possibly living in NH for a while. But, he spent his last 10-20 years in California. Clinton was hit by a truck while standing in a street in Winchester, and lost one leg as a result. So, he was "disabled" for most of his life. And, Clarissa had a sledding accident as a young teen in Winchester and lost partial sight - because her mother couldn't afford to call a doctor. So, their mother was a "single parent" from ~1910-~1920, and all 3 children did not do so well because of it. Additionally, Clarissa was probably pregnant when she and her boyfriend "eloped" to Vermont when she was 17. She had 2 stillborns and then had a daughter. This was a bad marriage and they divorced in 1935. In 1936 both she and her estranged husband had remarried and Clarissa was pregnant, again, before marriage. ** My gr-grandmother, Louise, had Psoriasis, and she died in 1958 never knowing what her terrible skin disease was. I found out I had it when I was 50, and I tell people that .. My gr-grandmother left me something in her will.