Saturday, March 10, 2012
Chapter 2: Clover
In this chapter it backtracks to Henrietta's life as a child. She was born in Roanoke, Virginia on August 1, 1920 and her mother was Loretta Pleasant. Henrietta had 8 other siblings and during her mothers pregnancy with her tenth child she died. Her father wasn't really the type of man who had the patience to raise children so after her mother passed he sent his children away to his family in Clover, Virginia. The siblings were all split up; Henrietta ended up living with her grandparents. There she met her cousin, and future husband, David Pleasant. She and all of her cousins worked the tobacco farms that their family owned to earn enough money during crop season to feed the family for the year. Eventually Henrietta and David, also called Day, started having children and got married in April of 1941. Soon after, their cousin Fred came back to visit from Baltimore where he worked at a steel company in Sparrow's Point. He convinced Day to come with him and earn enough to move Henrietta and the children there. Finally, when Fred was drafted overseas he gave Day all the money he had saved and Henrietta and her two children left Clover to start a new life.
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It seems like Henreitta had a hard life. And from reading other blog posts, it doesn't get easier. I can't even imagine if I had to go through all of that! However it seems like she did have some luck with starting a new life, even if it didn't end so well.
ReplyDeleteThats so sad when she went through as a child and knowing what her children will be going through due to everything thats happened in her life and what the future holds for them!
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