Hi everybody. My name
is Viola Forrester and I’ve been asked to tell you a bit about myself and my
husband, Charles.
Let me start with a few words about my ma and pa, Mary and
Ezra Benton. Ma is the one that made
wedding quilts for all her grandchildren.
Have you heard about that?
Anyway, because of pa’s health we had to move from Ohio to a
warmer place. It was our plan to go to
Texas. We were camped along the Missouri
River outside of Boonville, Missouri, when pa took a turn for the worse. It was a few days later that he went to meet
his maker. I was ten years old.
The folks in Boonville were kind to our family so Ma, my
sister, brother, and I moved into a cabin that ma bought with the money she had
from the sale of our farm.
One day there was a knock on our door. A big man, holding a young boy, asked for
help. The boy had fallen off his horse
and hurt his leg. That was the day my
second pa and new brother came into our lives.
Ma and Edward Palmer were married in 1845.
When I was nineteen I was able to secure employment in
Columbia. I kissed my family goodbye and started a new life, working in
admissions at The Columbia School of Medicine.
I had been working there a short time when I met my future
husband, Charles Forrester. He was in
his last year of medical school. Charles
was born in 1828 in Mossy Creek, Missouri.
His mother, Elizabeth, helped to heal the sick, near and far, with home remedies she had learned from her mother. Charles would go with her as she traveled from place to place and this is where he became interested in medicine.
His mother, Elizabeth, helped to heal the sick, near and far, with home remedies she had learned from her mother. Charles would go with her as she traveled from place to place and this is where he became interested in medicine.
It didn’t take long for me to fall hopelessly in love with him. We were married right after he graduated and
moved to Des Moines, Iowa where he opened his practice.
Charles and I had four children: Georgie, Josephine, Ione, and
Chase. The rest of our stories can be
found at……..
Check out all the stories about Grandma's Wedding Quilts at - https://www.amazon.com/Grandmas-Wedding-Quilts/e/B01N0SW5XR
This is so great getting a bit of back story for these amazing books
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