For the past several days I have, in what little spare time has been mine, been working my way through a 'journal' written by Ann Branson, who was born in Ohio in 1808; she died in 1891, also in Ohio. She would have been a cousin to one of my ancestors.
From her journal entries she was apparently far more devout in her faith than any of us that I know of or have heard of to date. Or maybe it's just that she recorded that part of her self more thoroughly than any other ... it's impossible to say.
Her cousin Asa Branson gets credit for getting her words put together, and the Friends of Ohio get credit for preserving them, to the best of my knowledge.
At any rate, I have been wishing that the women of our family in generations past would have written journals, so that we could 'get to know them' ... and now here IS one! Maybe there are more and we just haven't found them yet. One can hope.
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