Seeley – Daveno Historica

Mildred Lucille Carpenter Begins

I was born at noon on September 25, 1908, and arrived before the doctor did. I think my mother was angry at me all of her life for that…

My next memory was of us living in a tiny house with a dirt floor… with kerosene lamps, and baths in a washtub placed near the wood-fueled cookstove.