Our Wisconsin cousin, Joyce Schulte, remembers our great grandmother well. After she saw the posting below, she kindly sent this note:--------------
Dear Stan,
I really enjoyed the articles and pictures that you put in the blog. I well remember Great-Grandmother Mary. She visited several times in the Black Hills with Grandfather and Grandmother Brown. She was a sweet "lady" who always had time for Phyllis and me.
The last time our family saw Grandmother Mary was in Minneapolis early in 1950. We took her out for dinner and later she sent Dad a nice "thank you" letter.
Some of the papers that Dad kept said that Mary was named Lincoln because her parents expected a boy and were going to call a boy Lincoln.
Of course I have no proof that this story is true. We have copies of the note and an early picture of Grandmother Mary taken in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Thanks,
Joyce
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Stan writes:
Thank you Joyce. Great-grandmother was indeed a note writer. Sosie sent us a photograph of the note she wrote to Mrs. Gough that was mentioned in her article. We posted it above. Such beautiful handwriting. You can click to enlarge it and study the detail.
It would be very nice to get a copy of an earlier picture of Mary Lincoln Manley Brown. We have been examining mother's wonderfully detailed scrapbooks. Here's a picture we found this morning of great grandma. That's her son Paul picking her up at the train station and we think that would be Grandma with him.
