Autobiography of Elizabeth H. Coale: Written for Her Children, 1903. E-book. Formato PDF Elizabeth Hildeburn Coale   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In the summer of 1833 while living in Salem, mother and Aunt Rachel nursed during a severely fatal visitation of cholera, but never contracted the disease. When allowed to suggest a rem edy, they always used the Thomsonian medicines, which generally proved efficacious. Part of the time while living there mother kept house for a widowed brother-in-law, Edmund N ewby, who had one child, Sarah Jane, not far from my own age, making a pleasant little playmate for me. His second marriage rendered it necessary for her to obtain another home, which she did, continu ing her trade of bonnet making, — Aunt Rachel sometimes staying with her. I remember a bonnet made for myself to wear to meet ing, very much like the bonnets now worn by the Dunkers, and which I thought very pretty. When mother had been in the west about four years, she took brother Joseph and myself, and went back to Grandfather Ed wards', owing to their continued solicitations for her to come where her children could have better educational facilities than were then afforded in the west.

The Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters: The Famous Hunter and Traper of White Top Mountain. E-book. Formato PDF Charles B. Coale   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

With no further apology or explanation this little volume of multifarious small things is thrown into the tide of current literature, not without hope that it may afford a few hours' pleasant pastime at the fireside of the moun taineer, and some of its facts form the nucleus of a much more comprehensive work by an abler pen, embodying the history of our own beauti ful Southwestern Virginia.