It feels as much as a short story as a news article – a beautiful read. Must have been a brave girl to set out across the ocean at 15 without the language.
I hope she found her way to Pittsburgh, learned English and lived a full life.
That’s harrowing: 15, a shillin’, having no English and arriving in New York 😐 the family must have saved for months for her passage and that shillin’.
What a life we had little over a 100 years ago to make a child cross an ocean to assist her family.
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It feels as much as a short story as a news article – a beautiful read. Must have been a brave girl to set out across the ocean at 15 without the language.
I hope she found her way to Pittsburgh, learned English and lived a full life.
That’s harrowing: 15, a shillin’, having no English and arriving in New York 😐 the family must have saved for months for her passage and that shillin’.
What a life we had little over a 100 years ago to make a child cross an ocean to assist her family.