Tag Archives: Aurora

Left Behind When a Parent Dies

Posted on April 21, 2014 by mulberrygrrl

You can see Chapters 1 and 2 of this story here and here. I wrote a few days ago about typhoid fever’s sad visit to the Eggleston home in 1864. Two of the family’s five members died, my great-grandmother, Abigail … Continue reading →

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Francis Otto Eggleston, “A Poetic and Romantic Boy”

Posted on April 16, 2014 by admin

F.O.E. CHAPTER 1: I never met my great-grandfather, Francis Otto Eggleston, a distinguished-looking gentleman with enormous, liquid eyes who, even at 89, stood as straight as the ladder-back chair of his that I inherited. His nose was prominent, but matched … Continue reading →

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Typhoid Falls on the Eggleston Home

Posted on April 9, 2014 by mulberrygrrl

In the summer of 1865 a typhoid epidemic swept small towns throughout America. Every member of my great-great grandfather Clinton Eggleston’s family in Aurora, Ohio, came down with the fever. It’s impossible to tell where it came from, though the … Continue reading →

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