Gretchen

by:

Alice Marie Yax (Author)

ISBN: 0-7414-4065-2 ©2007
Price: $14.95
Book Size: 5.5'' x 8.5'' , 223 pages
Category/Subject: FICTION / General

When childless seventy six year old Gretchen takes in three small orphaned children in 1857, it completely changes her lonely life. Living on a remote farm in the Ohio Valley, her main concern was to live long enough to see them grown.

Abstract:
Gretchen is a story of the trials and sorrows of a woman who loved only one man whom she married in 1796 at the age of fifteen. They homesteaded in the Ohio Valley and had over forty years together. When he died, her life was empty and without meaning, but she struggled on all alone for twenty years until three little children came into her life. She did not want to leave them alone without care, she was seventy-six years old, but she wanted to live long enough to see them grown.

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