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[11] Marjorie (McA.) Waggoner wrote: “I think we will never know for sure when Mariah wrote the Journal. I think she wrote it while she was in Kansas. |
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(pg. 67) “And as now was the first time that I had time to think my life over, I would write such ....” |
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(pg. 47) “I do think I ought to take a trip.” [and] (pg. 48) |
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After the three weddings, Cyrus decided to go to Kansas and take Ebon. That left Mariah with Faye at home. She always seemed to be left with all the work. She felt that everyone but her got to travel to new places (pg. 48 indicates her frustration). After Mariah got to Kansas she was free of work, a guest, and that is when I think she completed her writing. |
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Mariah may have written her Journal after she returned to Iowa, but I think she wrote while she was in Kansas (pg. 67). I do not think she was confused about dates or things she saw. There was so much vivid and exact description of sights that I can verify from reprints of past events in the local Neodesha paper |
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[a] ... the dates for the glass factory operation were 1904 to 1910 (pg. 63). |
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[b] The cement plant operated between 1905 and 1911 (pg. 71). |
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[c] The Episcopal Church was the only rock church in town and the cornerstone was laid in 1903 (pg. 51, rock church). |
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[d] Oil and gas were discovered there in 1893. That was the first oil well west of the Mississippi and that started the refinery -- Standard Oil of Kansas. This explains Mariah’s wonder at the gas lights around town (pg. 57). Iowa did not have gas, they used wood, etc. ... |
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[e] (pg. 71) Mariah and Cyrus walked from the cement plant along the railroad track back to town. The tracks ran from Wichita to Joplin. The tracks ran northwest of town past the refinery, [past] the cement plant at Little Bear’s Mound where the chief of the Osages was buried. The railroad went past their son Joseph’s and Zella’s farm on the way to Wichita. |
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[f] (pg. 73) “And now (as) our last day is all most spent for our trip for this time. We will have to go back to our old home in Mount Ayr.” |
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I do not think she wrote anything after she left Kansas because of the final paragraph, |
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“This ends my visit in Kansas ...” Marjorie (McA.) Waggoner |
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Journal of Mariah Case McAninch (6 of 6), transcribed by Marjorie Waggoner and Betty Jo Barker |
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McAninch Family History NL, VII-3 July 1999 Copyright Frank McAninch page 1999-24 |
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