International Book Of Love Talks about Great Aunt Clara 65

My whole family would come it was so  neat to go to a activity where your whole family showed up .

This reunion was always held at Shiloh in Hamden Ohio what a cool place had a small school and a small church . I even remember coming down and attending the church before the reunion a time or to .

Shiloh is the home of a lot of family reunions .For families all over Vinton County they are held today in covered shelters . Which are open people years ago liked that .

Aunt Clara came every year in her wheel chair she lived outside of town in a small house . She was one of to of my great grandpa Elmore C. Wortman's children she had married a Tripp. Clara had a Sears and Robuck house that was brought as a kit and assembled their .

Clara was not will she was in a wheel chair the whole time I knew her .She didn't weight much and wasn't very tall either .

She had been sick since her youth she had had tuberculous as a young women her younger sister Mary had died of it but Clara had lived . In Claras day and age probaly 1920's or before if you had it they sent you to a place to live out of doors in a tent . Clara actually got better using this method and lived to be 80 years old .

Clara lived a rich life and never had children probaly the tuberculolis . But she had lots of nieces and nephew and her nephew Harold Wortman was the one who took care of her the most . Without this good care from family I am convinced she would not have lived as long .

I have a picture of Clara when she was young with her sister Bertha it is a human picture not a doll picture I am going to try to load it .