Chris Thiessen of Bolivar, Missouri writes:
I also have a story very similar to yours of Miranda. My mother had a small doll with a bisque head that had been given to her when she was eight years old by the Minister at her church. It was always kept in a trunk and I was not allowed to touch it. She would take it out and show it to me when I requested. It had no clothes either except for one small bootie that my Grandmother had crocheted for her. My mother always said it would be mine when she was gone. After she passed away, I did get the doll and I made a nice dress for her so she would not be naked! She sits in a place of honor in one of my glassed china cabinets. I never did give her a name.
Special doll, owned by Chris Thiessen
Chris added this family story:
My mother was born in 1908 in Oklahoma. Her parents were married in Missouri in 1893 and traveled to the Oklahoma Territory by covered wagon shortly after their marriage. Her father was a US Marshall for a time. My mother used to tell a particular story of when my Grandfather had been up for three days without sleep capturing a man who had committed murder. He was so tired and had to have rest to continue on with the prisoner to some place that had a jail. (I should have listened closer in those days). He brought the prisoner to their home, tied him in a kitchen chair and my Grandmother stayed up all night with a shotgun, guarding the man while my grandfather slept. I have always been interested in genealogy and have traced my mother’s family back to the 1600’s in Southeast Virginia.
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Thanks so much for writing to us, Chris. We love to hear from readers. Your doll is precious!
Patricia and James Cummings
Quilter’s Muse Publications, See our new file about a doll named “Miranda,” that inspired this e-mail response. A link is located on the front page of our site.
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