Gettyburg Address

My great-great-grandfather had died in the Civil War a year before the battle of Gettysburg, leaving behind a 2 year-old daughter and her mother.

That daughter, born in 1860, went on to midwife over 300 babies, have six children of her own by the time she was 40, bury three husbands and lived to see her 95th year, although she had been blind for some years before she died. Sarah Isabelle Langford was maybe 5' tall, and is the chief reason why, when I hear women rerferred to as "the weaker sex," I just smile and shake my head...