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Show An unobstructed view of the mountains surrounding the hills, with their daily display of shading, and the magnificence of sunrise and sunset coloring never failed to inspire her. Standing in the dew of meadow grasses she would tune her ears to the low, soft-crying tones of wild life while she breathed her being full of the moist and mixed fragrances of the meadows. The tiny purple blossoming ground-cover plants and the tall, grey-green thistle plants with lovely blossoms in pink to purple shades dressed the landscape and touched her life with beauty in their season. And at dawn she often watched the gulls circling above raw furrows while glints of the rising sun silvered their wings. Such experiences helped soothe the pain and loneliness of separation from her parents, and her brother and sisters. YOUNGER CHILDREN Ephraim August, born to Wilhelmina on 2 October 1881, was her eighth child (sixth living). Her youngest daughter, Annie Mina Louise, was born 21 April 1884, and her youngest son, Edgar Richard, on 10 September 1886. Giving birth to ten children and nursing eight of them to maturity in spite of illness and accidents of childhood, while living under the burden of poverty, required fortitude and an abiding faith in one's Maker- A woman of less courage and spiritual strength would easily have broken under life's demands on her and her 37 |
