by Sears Homes | Aug 31, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Days after we moved into our dream home here in Bromley’s section of Norfolk, our aged central air system burped a couple times, shuddered hard, squealed loudly and then fell over dead. It wasn’t pretty. My husband didn’t take it well, exclaiming,...
by Sears Homes | Aug 31, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Thirty days before Addie died, she successfully organized a Lake Mills chapter of the “Daughters of The American Revolution.” This newspaper article (quoted below) originally appeared in the Waukesha Freeman on May 30, 1901. The piece quotes an earlier...
by Sears Homes | Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In a few days, I’ll be visiting Lake Mills, Wisconsin, and giving a talk about Aunt Addie. To learn more about Aunt Addie, click here. Here’s the super short version: On June 19, 1901 Addie Hoyt Fargo – a 29-year-old socialite in the prime of her...
by Sears Homes | Aug 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In a handful of days, I’m headed to Lake Mills, and yet I still don’t know where Dr. Oatway lived in the early 1900s! There’s a reason that this is so very important. My great Aunt (Addie Hoyt Fargo) died on June 19, 1901, allegedly from a gunshot...
by Sears Homes | Aug 22, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Where did Dr. Oatway live in the early 1900s? There’s a reason that this is so very important. First, a brief synopsis. According to local lore and two published reports, my Aunt (Addie Hoyt Fargo) didn’t really die of diphtheria, as is stated in her death...
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