Edna's Diaries: 1897 Snow Homestead, 1/4 mi west of Rio, IL

Friday, March 18, 2011

1897 Snow Homestead, 1/4 mi west of Rio, IL

Edna sits atop her white horse, her father Gilbert Spencer Snow holding the reins, and her mother Martha Melinda (Sperry) Snow stands a little to the left. I would venture a guess the woman in the carriage is Edna's sister Celia Lurena (Snow) Mead with her baby Howard LeRoy Mead. Sister Celia born in 1863 was 15 years older than her sister Edna

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Edna's Diaries, 1902 - 1957

Edna Irene Snow was my great grandmother. She was born April 6, 1878 in Rio, Illinois.

I was six years old when grandma Edna passed away in October 1957. I remember visiting her for the last time in the nursing home. I reached up to touch her hand, and looked at her face and she smiled back at me. I remember bits and pieces of her voice, but I do not remember her speaking to me that day.

How wonderful to get to know Edna through her diaries. I invited two more people who knew her well--her grandchildren Mary Jane and Gale (my father and his sister) to write about grandma Edna. While areas of the diaries are confusing to me, Mary Jane and Gale will have explainations and details.

There are many years of Edna's diaries to share with you, wonderful photographs, history of Sperry, Snow, Harriman, and Mead families, as well as world and local events during those years.

Her diaries begin in 1902, just 4 years after her marriage to James Howard Harriman. Please be patient with her brief entries duing those first years of her diaries. Her diaries start out rather routine, but over the years her daily posts become longer, complex, and reveal the life of a determined woman.