As I wrote about Sarah, she came to life...I got to know her as a person. I came to know what she would say next, what she would do. As I wrote her voice, I heard it in my head. Listening to it, I realized it was the voices of her great-great-granddaughters, who grew up in the county she made home...Nana (Bessie), Aunt Eva, Aunt Anna, Aunt Helena, Aunt Connie. The voices I grew up hearing, telling stories of their lives. (see Rushton Pedigree Chart, Sarah Hall & Jeremiah Rushton Descendant Chart, Revolutionary Cowboy in New York ~ Jeremiah Rushton Stole for King and Country Parts One and Two) The Story of the Cordwainer’s Wife….a fictional look Westchester, Nova Scotia, about 1827 “This is my favorite spot on all of our land grant.” Sarah Rushton spread her arms across the small peninsula fashioned by the U-curve of the meadow brook. 1 She looked at her daughter Elizabeth, walking the path beside her as the children 2 played hide-and-go-seek b...
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