Th picture at the top of the blog is my maternal great great grandmother ..Sarah Saunders Smith taken 1900.....let me tell you she was no joke....she believed in women's rights and ruled the family with an iron fist...... just look at her...scary biscuits....
she was also a very smart woman that did intensive research on my family and wrote a book published in 1897 called..." Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony".....
I had heard about the book as a child, but only an Aunt had a copy and this seemed to be misplaced after she died....so I contacted a publishing house called Higginson Book Company in Salem Mass and they did a reprint for me hardbound...It is fascinating...the books copyright is Sarah's and at the Library of Congress in Wash DC...she dedicates the book to the National Society of Dames...
it is world filled with my crazy ancestors...this explains a lot about me...lol way too much....
And wouldn't you know with all the family crests that I have painted in needlepoint....I have only the ugliest family crest...please...who knows what that animal is...butt ugly for sure...lol
anyway...everyone loves tidbits of history and especially your own...
Sarah was able to trace our family back to 1124 or thereabouts...in Germany.....yikes...
I do love her portrait...the dress alone looks like it might just be so impressive and heavy....she was not a beauty but made her presence felt, according to my great grandmother Esther her daughter...the stories she told me about Sarah were so funny...servants would literally hide if they heard her approaching...shit, me too if I had been there....lol
I see a lot of her in me ...that stiff neck resolve...fearless and stubborn....but she was also kind and believed in equal rights of all women ....a true kindred spirit...and you would never ever call her granny !
that's all for today...I have to paint some ffs...lol
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