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Mary Ann Walworth Booth - Coggle Diagram
Mary Ann Walworth Booth
Background
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She met Edmund Booth (her husband) at the American School for the deaf in 1831. He was her classics teacher
She was the fifth of nine children in her family. She was four when she became deaf from scarlet fever
She had 4 children, one died (Harriet). All of the Booth children could hear
American deaf women. Lived from February 23, 1817-January 25,1898 (almost 81 years)
Anamosa
Surrounded by wilderness and lacked a transportation infrastructure such as railroads or government-maintained roads
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This location was extremely remote, far from the civilization to which they were accustomed
Mary Ann's brothers went to the Iowa territory in 1839 and constructed a saw and grist mill along the Buffalo forks of the Wapsipinicon River
Edmund Booth's departure
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Mary Ann felt keen loneliness and isolation. She experienced long periods of not knowing of Edmund's welfare
Edmund's absence in California from 1849 to 1854 was a difficult period in Mary Ann's life. He was in California prospecting for gold
Letters
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She used $90 that Edmund sent her from California to buy land in Anamosa from a J.H. Fisher. She wrote about this purchase
Wrote of problems she was having with Edmund's brother, Henry Booth. Financial dealings
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