I had asked her if she knew anything about the flowers planted back on the Farm in Pennsylvania, since I was curious about what blooms caught the eye of the women in my family long ago. I'd also asked her for a photograph of her to place on the Ancestors Page, so those reading could connect a face with the stories. They were taken in in the mid-1920s. One of Ellen's favorite sisters, Laura. Ellen and her youngest sister, Alice.
Roses climb the fence behind, while wild phlox grow up to the right of the girls.
Ellen writes about her brothers and sisters throughout the story of the Farm on the Ancestors Page . I. Every Sunday we had free, we would start out to explore the woods and fields beyond our farm to see what we could find. Once we found and old abandoned sawmill, or where one had been. We enjoyed playing in the large sawdust pile. Another day we came to a small barn in one of the cleared fields.