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Notes from Anne Harvey - atwharvey @ verizon.net : Moore-Jacobs
House. The “Dear Little House” -- Now I have to tell you about
this. Margaret Moore Jacobs was a friend of my grandparents and
a member of the Presbyterian church where my grandfather was
pastor and where my grandmother grew up. Mrs. Jacobs was quite a
character, quite eccentric, quite different from the rest of her
family. She authored one or more books. When her husband died,
she talked about him as if he were still alive, carried on
conversations with him, and went out every Sunday to the
cemetery to read the Wall Street Journal to him. I love
the picture with all the hat boxes, as she loved hats,
especially large-rimmed ones. I was only in the house once or
twice, mainly seeing her at church or at my grandparents. Of
course, Clarendon was filled with eccentric people when I was
young! That’s one of the things that made it so interesting for
a child.
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