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The Tree of Life
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781984520623
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: Apr 7 2018
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Reading through my family archives, I found the following post, In her youth, John Crenshaw gave an army sergeant a five-dollar gold piece to release her to him. I was intrigued. I wanted to know what had happened to this couple--John Crenshaw and the Cherokee Indian maiden. What did this five-dollar gold piece play in the story as I read about their lives set in those before and after years of the Civil War?
I became fascinated with the information that I could piece together to tell the story of two Cheyenne Indian women and their chosen lives through diversity, the Civil War, and their family--my ancestors. While I created some parts in fiction to embellish the story, the written actions of each resilient woman were true, bonded together with the telling of their lives. I was proud to write their stories of love and dedication, and I began to know them as actual women, creating my own tree of life. These two women were my great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. I was intrigued to read of their lives and connected them to my own life.
My father had always told me stories of his Indian grandmother, LeAnna Crenshaw Stone, and now I had actually found her story. Through the archives, I enabled her life to be told again.
Go now to your dwellings to enter into the days of your life together (Elliot Arnold, 1947).
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