Introducing Hannah Duston...

[T.Lex]

At some point they got along, otherwise there wouldn't be a you!

That wasn't until after the turn of the century - the 18th century.

 

[indiucky]

That's some grip Mr. Clark has there.

LOL....

He was over 100 years old when that pic was taken...It was 101 degrees that day in the shade and when I met him and he was signing my book I said, "Mr. Clark, with the weather being what it is I was kind of surprised you would be here today.." He looked up at me and said, "Son I am over 100 years old...To be honest with you I am kind of surprised I am still anywhere..."

And then gave me a big old grin...Sharp as a tack to the very end.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Clark

 

[Ddillard]

Thank you for sharing. The inner struggles she must have endured. She was a survivor.

 

[T.Lex]

Thank you for sharing. The inner struggles she must have endured. She was a survivor.

They all were, back then.

I remember doing some ancestry stuff a few years ago, and people nowadays act like a "blended" family is somehow a new concept. As puritan as we think the Puritans were, women died in childbirth, men died in war, disease killed almost anybody - there were plenty of marriages between widows/widowers that involved step- and half-siblings.

Such is life.

 

[RustyHornet]

Fascinating story! Thanks for sharing! So it sounds like some of the girls in today's world could use a little time with some natives.