Tuesday, April 10, 2018
10/ Another Susie
Born in 1879, Susie Keill lived in this house and died 33 years before I came here. I felt a connection to her because of her name and because we were both flower gardeners. I was told she was deaf, killed at age 62 by a train while walking on the railroad tracks. When I read her death certificate online I was sad to learn she lingered 13 days with multiple fractures.
This is one of Susie Keill's irises.
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Oh, poor Susie.
ReplyDeleteI like that you're connected through flowers, and that her irises still live on.
ReplyDeletePoor Susie. How lovely that you have her irises.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that you know the history of your house.
ReplyDeleteI do and I don't. When we moved here we were told the first black family in the county lived in this house--which we thought was somewhat interesting until we learned they were from India, and stayed her a short time. I keep meaning to go to the courthouse and look up the record of the house. We believe it was built around 1850.
DeleteIt always comes as a shock (not the right term) to remember that there were people who lived full lives, had complicated stories, and then disappeared only to be forgotten.For this woman, it is the enduringness (likely not a real word) of her flowers, not the tragedy of her death, that kept her memory alive.
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