I wonder if the adults weren’t more resistant to germs once they survived childhood - people certainly didn’t die of cancer back then.
My great-great-great grandmother wrote down the names of the 14 children she had from 1825-1845, only four of whom survived past age eight. Even my great-great grandfather barely made it as he was a very sickly child. I’m lucky to be here!
I have a letter from ggg-grandma to gg-grandpa asking him if he was still a Republican. We have deep roots in the US.
I want Mrs. Schiewe’s dress!
Nice story! How nice to have a letter from gggg-ma! I’ve got my grandpa’s memoirs and and that’s it. But they are very exciting — he was a German POW in Russia in WW I.
Watch the John Adams TV show. Toward the end, his adult daughter gets breast cancer and the doctors do all they can do — which is hardly anything. Very chilling episode.