Wilhelmina Plath BoockThis wedding portrait was taken during her Golden Birthday Year. She was 16 on January 16, 1871, the year she married Christian Frederick Boock, on whose shoulder she rests her left hand.
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The following observations in an e-mail that I enjoyed from Marilyn:
Wilhelmine was elderly when family photos were taken and some of her children look nearly as old as she: she had all of them between age 16 and 33 plus raising her husband's earlier family of 4 plus supporting and raising them by herself when she became a widow at 33! And she spent her first winter in Minnesota at age 5 living under the wagon that brought the family to their homestead I do hope that the wagon was merely the porch to their sod house - and we complain about winter! Yet she lived to 84, dying while on a trip to Milwaukee from New Ulm.
My, we come from hearty stock!
Perhaps in three generations family will write about our difficult circumstances in the early 2000's. I did have a root canal this morning which could become a good topic of torture, though it was painless and the whole thing was most up-to-date: The dentist stood tall through the whole procedure, looking through a microscope which somehow was filming the tooth on a large screen where he looked while doing the work. (All this thanks to Spencer's Dr. Koehler's shoddy dentistry in the '50's.)
Marilyn
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