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Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.
When Martha Moll's little sister, Paula, got around to signing Lena's album, she didn't offer any sentimental stuff about green leaves upon the pine, but rather some practical advice about what to do when you are old and in harm(?). And she took a rather casual approach to how she got the words onto paper. Not your typical 13-year-old schoolgirl.
This undated portrait of Paula may have been made to commemorate her confirmation, so perhaps it was taken a year or two after she wrote about boots.
Per the Indiana Marriage Collection, Paula married Herbert Shearer in October 1917. The 1920 Census finds the young couple living in Hobart, he working at a brickyard, she staying home to care for their toddler daughter. All I know about Herbert is that he was not one of the Ainsworth Shearers.
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