Manuscript/Mixed Material Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," 1934
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Image 1 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … CLARA BARTON FAMILY PAPERS King, George and Edith Riccius "Childhood Memories," 1934
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 2 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … CHILDHOOD MEMORIES. by Saturday, Oct. 20, 1934. [Edith Riccius King] When old people begin to prattle of the days and doings of their youth they are generally accused of being feeble minded…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 3 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … Peitz, August 11, 1856. Adolph Riccius. The following will be needed for the journey on the ship. Bacon and ham, bread, baked, cut in slices, or biscuit, 3m sugar, 3m coffee, ground,…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 4 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #5. we children used to take the silk hat and gloves out of a box in the attic and dress up in them and play getting married. My father took my mother…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 5 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #7. He never gave her cause to worry and he was always a little father to us all as he grew up and had to assume the responsibilities of the head of…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 6 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #9. To this very day, when any of us want to get Sade's goat all we have to do is mention in the presence of others the fact that she used to…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 7 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #11 and I became panic stricken when I realized my mother did not know where we were and would be worried to death. Instead of staying quietly on the porch until the…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 8 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #13. Riccius, his esteemed son, decided to try them out and see how far he could wade into the water without going over the top of them. Alas and alack, careful as…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 9 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #15. Tracy, a young widow, and she not only made life miserable for him, but for every member of the family and all friends of the family, for she was, without any…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 10 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #16. Josie Clark, who was mother's twin sister's daughter, was a great favorite of mine, and as far back as I can remember I spent my vacations with her - part of…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 11 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #18. Josie worked sometimes, in Dobbie's Dry Goods Store and I used to go and meet her and knew all the girls in the store who made a great fuss over me…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 12 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #20. Mr. Everett Eugene Wood and Mary Bates Wood, his wife, and their son, Owen Eugene Wood, always called "Genie", lived upstairs, over us, in my father's house. Mr. Wood, or Gene…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 13 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #22. one day when he did this Hermann fell and cut himself badly over the eye as he hit a sharp corner of the stove. Hermann bears this scar to this day.…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 14 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #24 When Mrs. Wood's nieces, Mabel Scott, Jennie and Mamie Bates and Gertie and Irma Bates would come to see her, we had great fun and sometimes we would sleep in the…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 15 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #26. They dug a deep grave, but before the grave was quite finished the Dr. came out again and began to cut the horse open to ascertain the cause of it's illness,…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 16 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #28. John and Maria Rich lived in the fifth house from ours, up the road, toward Bramanville, in a dilapidated two and a half story white house. Mr. Wood's store was on…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 17 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #30. assisted each other in these studies every day. Florence would allow me to copy her arithmetic problems on to my paper, which was fine except when the teacher asked me to…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 18 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #32. Genie and Florence and Clara and some of the O'Leary kids were there so we made a double runner of our sleds and walked over to Maloney's hill to make the…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 19 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #34. When Harold was a baby I used to rock him to sleep by throwing myself across the cradle and with my feet on one side and my hands on the other…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 20 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #36. Aunt Fannie had been married before she married Uncle Willie and had a daughter by the first marriage whose name was Ida. She was so small when her own father died…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 21 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #38. When Aunt Ada and Uncle Charlie Clark were first married - in 1869 - they lived on the old farm with my grandpa and grandma Barton but after a number of…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 22 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #40. us all to the old North Oxford Station to get the train for Worcester. We were all packed into the sleigh like sardines and my father stood on a step in…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 23 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #42. A tub of water was placed in the barn and I was stripped and washed several times before I looked human again, and then Aunt May had the job of washing…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 24 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #44. having one, but we never had one in our room and wouldn't sleep with the light in the room. Agitated as poor little Gert was, she finally fell asleep from pure…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 25 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #48. I used to dance with Spooner and also with my dear father, who danced well. At the Unitarian Church suppers, held in the town hall before the Church was built, there…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 26 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #50. My father worked in Worcester as a loom repair man, in Crompton and Knowles Loom Works, and he left for his work very early in the morning and did not return…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 27 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #52. There were tidies on the backs of every chair and over the corners of some of the pictures. About a dozen colored and blown egg shells strung on different colored ribbons,…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 28 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #54. in the house. We always had a case or two of chilblains every winter, and would cry and cry because our poor hands and feet ached and stung so. Mother was…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 29 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #56. Madam York was a French lady who had a millinery shop down town and mother, Mrs. Wood and Mary Baker always bought their hats or had them made at her establishment.…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 30 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … #58. There seems to be no end to the silly little things I remember that we did, but this will have to come to a close sometime. Memories of the faces of…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 31 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … [*1938*] Tales told by Ida Barton Riccius about her grandmother, Sarah Stone Barton, wife of Stephen Barton. ***** Sarah was changing feathers from one tick to another one day, in an upstairs…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 32 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … So little do any of us know about Dolly Barton, daughter and oldest child of Sarah Stone Barton and Stephen Barton, that often the memory of little things my mother told me…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 33 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … 2/
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 34 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … PLAN OF A. RICCIUS 4 FAMILY HOUSE [*EAST*] [*SOUTH*] BACK PORCH STAIRS CLOSET BACK PORCH BACK ROOM BED UPPER BED BACK ROOM OR ENTRY ROOM HALL ROOM OR ENTRY LANDING PANTRY STAIRS…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 35 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … 1. Every so often my father would take me to Worcester with him on a shopping expedition. Mother undoubtedly was too busy to go along and trusted father to get the things…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 36 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … 3. We played with the big dog and wandered in the woods back of the house and picked vegetables in the garden with Begota and went up to Vira Stone's for the…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 37 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … 5. We continued to live in the same house after father died, and it must have been pretty hard sledding for mother to make both ends meet. She carried on very bravely,…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 38 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … 7. Florence's brother Johnny Rich, who was much older than Florence and was married to Mary Small and lived in the house belonging to the Riches, next door to their own, helped…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 39 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … Dear Hermy, I used to get such a kick out of Sade when she washed the dishes on a broiling, hot night - the rigs she got into - such a big…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
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Image 40 of Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," … By Edith Riccius King. GREAT AUNT CLARA BARTON. The visits Aunt Clara Barton made at our house in Millbury I have recorded, and they must have been made when we were all…
- Contributor: King, George
- Date: 1934
About this Item
Title
- Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: King, George and Edith Riccius (grandniece); "Childhood Memories," 1934
Names
- King, George
Created / Published
- 1934
Headings
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care
- - Andersonville Prison
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
- - Women--Suffrage--United States
- - Women's rights--United States
- - Social problems--United States
- - Barton family--Correspondence
- - Hubbell family. Julian B. Hubbell family papers
- - American National Red Cross
- - Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army. Office of Correspondence
- - International Committee of the Red Cross
- - National First Aid Association of America
- - Geneva Convention (1864 August 22)
- - Ambulance service
- - Disaster relief
- - First aid in illness and injury
- - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Civilian relief
- - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Medical care
- - Humanitarianism
- - Military nursing
- - Prisoners of war--Georgia--Andersonville
- - Spanish-American War, 1898--Civilian relief
- - Temperance--United States
- - War relief
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civilian relief
- - Manuscripts
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Family Papers, 1805-1958
- MSS11973, box: 12; Microfilm reel: 9
Source Collection
- Clara Barton papers, 1805-1958
Repository
- Manuscript Division
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Online Format
- online text
- image
IIIF Presentation Manifest
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Contributor
Dates
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Subject
- Ambulance Service
- American National Red Cross
- Andersonville
- Andersonville Prison
- Barton Family
- Civil War
- Civilian Relief
- Correspondence
- Disaster Relief
- First Aid in Illness and Injury
- Franco-Prussian War
- Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army. Office of Correspondence
- Geneva Convention (1864 August 22)
- Georgia
- History
- Hubbell Family. Julian B. Hubbell Family Papers
- Humanitarianism
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Manuscripts
- Medical Care
- Military Nursing
- National First Aid Association of America
- Prisoners and Prisons
- Prisoners of War
- Social Problems
- Spanish-American War
- Suffrage
- Temperance
- United States
- War Relief
- Women
- Women's Rights