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469<p>Today, June 14, 2016, is Evelina Gilmore Ames&#8217;s 207th birthday.</p>
470<p>While Evelina herself wouldn&#8217;t approve of any friends or relatives lifting an alcoholic toast in her honor, she would surely indulge in some cake.  She might even bake it herself, if that big old brick oven were still standing.</p>
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558<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Evelina Orville Gilmore Ames </em></p>
559<p style="text-align:center;">(1809 &#8211; 1882)</p>
560<p><em>Thursday Dec 31st  This the last day of the year</em></p>
561<p><em>and the last that I shall write in this </em></p>
562<p><em>book  Mrs Witherell Emily Mrs Ames</em></p>
563<p><em>&amp; Oliver &amp; wife dined here &amp; spent the</em></p>
564<p><em>afternoon  father is not well and did</em></p>
565<p><em>not come  This evening we have all</em></p>
566<p><em>been to the lecture at the meeting house</em></p>
567<p><em>Mr Pierpont recited a poem  The Scholars hope</em></p>
568<p><em>and it was very fine  We have a box from Burlington</em></p>
569<p><em>filled with presents I had a basket</em></p>
570<p><em>of moss in a leather frame from Mrs</em></p>
571<p><em>Mills &amp; a ribbon from cousin Harriet</em></p>
572<p><em>Susan an emery and she is disappointed</em></p>
573<p><em>says they always send an emery</em></p>
574<p><em>Thus ends the second year</em></p>
575<p><em>that I have written in this book of nonsense</em></p>
576<p>&nbsp;</p>
577<p>This <span style="text-decoration:underline;">is</span> the last day of Evelina&#8217;s diary, and aren&#8217;t we sorry! No more sifting through the pages and peeking through the keyhole at the domestic life of the Ames family in the 1850&#8217;s. Although we know that Evelina kept other diaries in other years, specifically during the 1860&#8217;s, we don&#8217;t know if she wrote steadily. No other diaries by her are extant.</p>
578<p>We do know something about the remaining trajectory of Evelina&#8217;s life, however. After she closed the cover on her so-called &#8220;book of nonsense,&#8221; she lived another thirty years. By the end of the 1850&#8217;s, her sons Oakes Angier and Frank Morton had married and begun to have children (see below). Frank would move to Canton (and Boston) but would stay in close contact with his brothers, who stayed in North Easton. Middle son Oliver (3), the last of her sons to leave home, would marry in the spring of 1860, build a home nearby (since razed) and raise a large family. Daughter Susan would marry wool merchant Henry W. French in January 1861, but the couple would have no issue. That must have been a disappointment to them and to Evelina.</p>
579<p>Over the years left to them, Evelina and Oakes would enjoy the arrival of and periodic proximity to 19 grandchildren (<em>three of whom</em> would not survive childhood). In birth order, those grandchildren were:</p>
580<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020848.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7212"><img data-attachment-id="7212" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020848/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020848.jpg" data-orig-size="384,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Maria Hobart Ames Harte" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1856 &amp;#8211; 1918&lt;br /&gt;
581Eldest daughter of Oakes Angier Ames and Catherine Hobart Ames&lt;br /&gt;
582Married Richard Hickman Harte, 1888&lt;/p&gt;
583" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020848.jpg?w=384" class="size-medium wp-image-7212 alignleft" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020848.jpg?w=230&#038;h=300" alt="Maria Hobart Ames Harte" width="230" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020848.jpg?w=230 230w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020848.jpg?w=115 115w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020848.jpg 384w" sizes="(max-width: 230px) 100v
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584<p>&nbsp;</p>
585<p>&nbsp;</p>
586<p>&nbsp;</p>
587<p>&nbsp;</p>
588<p>&nbsp;</p>
589<p>&nbsp;</p>
590<p>&nbsp;</p>
591<p>&nbsp;</p>
592<p>&nbsp;</p>
593<p>&nbsp;</p>
594<p><strong>Maria Hobart Ames</strong> (Mrs. Richard Hickman Harte, 1856 &#8211; 1918), first daughter of Oakes Angier and Catharine Hobart Ames</p>
595<p>&nbsp;</p>
596<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020823.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7098"><img data-attachment-id="7098" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020823/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020823.jpg" data-orig-size="333,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Frank Angier Ames" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020823.jpg?w=333" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7098" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020823.jpg?w=200&#038;h=300" alt="Frank Angier Ames" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020823.jpg?w=200 200w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020823.jpg?w=100 100w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020823.jpg 333w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></a></p>
597<p><strong>Frank Angier Ames</strong> (1857 &#8211; 1918), first son of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames</p>
598<p>&nbsp;</p>
599<p><em>No image available</em></p>
600<p><em><strong>Oakes Ames</strong> (1858 &#8211; 1859), first son of Oakes Angier and Catharine Hobart Ames</em></p>
601<p>&nbsp;</p>
602<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020825.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7174"><img data-attachment-id="7174" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020825/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020825.jpg" data-orig-size="346,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Alice Lurana Ames" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1859 &amp;#8211; 1934&lt;br /&gt;
603eldest daughter of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames&lt;/p&gt;
604" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020825.jpg?w=346" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7174" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020825.jpg?w=208&#038;h=300" alt="Alice Lurana Ames" width="208" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020825.jpg?w=208 208w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020825.jpg?w=104 104w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020825.jpg 346w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px" /></a></p>
605<p><strong>Alice Lurana Ames</strong> (Mrs. Edward Crosby Morris, Mrs. George Frederick Chapman, 1859 &#8211; 1934), first daughter of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames</p>
606<p>&nbsp;</p>
607<p><em>No image available</em></p>
608<p><em><strong>Oakes Angier Ames</strong> (1861 &#8211; 1862), second son of Oakes Angier and Catharine Hobart Ames</em></p>
609<p>&nbsp;</p>
610<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020827.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7173"><img data-attachment-id="7173" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020827/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020827.jpg" data-orig-size="353,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Charlie Oakes Ames" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1861 &amp;#8211; 1864&lt;br /&gt;
6112nd son of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames&lt;/p&gt;
612" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020827.jpg?w=353" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7173" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020827.jpg?w=212&#038;h=300" alt="Charlie Oakes Ames" width="212" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020827.jpg?w=212 212w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020827.jpg?w=106 106w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020827.jpg 353w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px" /></a></p>
613<p><em><strong>Charles Oakes Ames</strong> (1861 &#8211; 1864), second son of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames</em></p>
614<p>&nbsp;</p>
615<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020835.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7183"><img data-attachment-id="7183" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020835/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020835.jpg" data-orig-size="348,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="William Hadwen Ames" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1861 &amp;#8211; 1918&lt;br /&gt;
616first child of Gov. Oliver and Anna C. Ames&lt;/p&gt;
617" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020835.jpg?w=348" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7183" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020835.jpg?w=209&#038;h=300" alt="William Hadwen Ames" width="209" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020835.jpg?w=209 209w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020835.jpg?w=104 104w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020835.jpg 348w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px" /></a></p>
618<p><strong>William Hadwen Ames</strong> (1861 &#8211; 1918), first son of Oliver Third and Anna C. Ray Ames</p>
619<p>&nbsp;</p>
620<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020830.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7182"><img data-attachment-id="7182" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020830/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020830.jpg" data-orig-size="358,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Oakes Ames" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;?1863 &amp;#8211; 1914&lt;br /&gt;
621Son of Frank Morton Ames and Catherine Hayward Copeland Ames &lt;/p&gt;
622" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020830.jpg?w=358" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7182" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020830.jpg?w=215&#038;h=300" alt="Oakes Ames" width="215" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020830.jpg?w=215 215w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020830.jpg?w=107 107w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020830.jpg 358w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 215px) 100v
622w, 215px" /></a></p>
623<p><strong>Oakes Ames</strong> (1863 &#8211; 1914), third son of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames</p>
624<p>&nbsp;</p>
625<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/p1020856.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7368"><img data-attachment-id="7368" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020856/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/p1020856.jpg" data-orig-size="352,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Evelina &amp;#8220;Lena&amp;#8221; Orville Ames Hall" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1863 &amp;#8211; 1940&lt;br /&gt;
626also written as &amp;#8220;Evelyn&amp;#8221;&lt;br /&gt;
627Eldest daughter of Oliver Ames (3) and Anna C. Ray Ames&lt;/p&gt;
628" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/p1020856.jpg?w=352" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7368" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/p1020856.jpg?w=211&#038;h=300" alt="Evelina &quot;Lena&quot; Orville Ames Hall" width="211" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/p1020856.jpg?w=211 211w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/p1020856.jpg?w=106 106w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/p1020856.jpg 352w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px" /></a></p>
629<p><strong>Evelina Orville Ames</strong> (Mrs. Frederick Garrison Hall, 1863 &#8211; 1940), first daughter of Oliver Third and Anna C. Ray Ames</p>
630<p>&nbsp;</p>
631<p><em>No image available</em></p>
632<p><strong>Anna Lee Ames</strong> (Mrs. George Manning Nowell, 1864 &#8211; 1934), second daughter of Oliver Third and Anna C. Ray Ames</p>
633<p>&nbsp;</p>
634<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p10208491.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7218"><img data-attachment-id="7218" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020849-2/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p10208491.jpg" data-orig-size="373,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Hobart Ames" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1865 &amp;#8211; 1945&lt;/p&gt;
635" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p10208491.jpg?w=373" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7218" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p10208491.jpg?w=224&#038;h=300" alt="Hobart Ames" width="224" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p10208491.jpg?w=224 224w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p10208491.jpg?w=112 112w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p10208491.jpg 373w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px" /></a></p>
636<p><strong>Hobart Ames</strong> (1865 &#8211; 1945), third son of Oakes Angier and Catharine Hobart Ames</p>
637<p>&nbsp;</p>
638<p><em>No image available</em></p>
639<p><strong>Susan Evelyn Ames</strong> (Mrs. Thomas Taylor, 1867 &#8211; 1949), third daughter of Oliver Third and Anna C. Ray Ames</p>
640<p>&nbsp;</p>
641<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020836.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7175"><img data-attachment-id="7175" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020836/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020836.jpg" data-orig-size="354,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Lilian Ames Chatman" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1870 &amp;#8211; 1925&lt;br /&gt;
6424th daughter of Oliver and Anna C. Ray Ames&lt;br /&gt;
643Mrs. Harry Lorenzo Chatman&lt;/p&gt;
644" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020836.jpg?w=354" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7175" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020836.jpg?w=212&#038;h=300" alt="Lilian Ames Chatman" width="212" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020836.jpg?w=212 212w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020836.jpg?w=106 106w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020836.jpg 354w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px" /></a></p>
645<p><strong>Lilian Ames</strong> (Mrs. Harry Lorenzo Chapman, 1870 &#8211; 1925), fourth daughter of Oliver Third and Anna C. Ray Ames</p>
646<p>&nbsp;</p>
647<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020845.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7209"><img data-attachment-id="7209" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020845/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020845.jpg" data-orig-size="380,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Winthrop Ames" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1870 &amp;#8211; 1937&lt;br /&gt;
648Younger son of Oakes Angier and Catherine Hobart Ames&lt;/p&gt;
649" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020845.jpg?w=380" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7209" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020845.jpg?w=228&#038;h=300" alt="Winthrop Ames" width="228" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020845.jpg?w=228 228w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020845.jpg?w=114 114w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020845.jpg 380w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px" /></a></p>
650<p><strong>Winthrop Ames</strong> (1870 &#8211; 1937), fourth son of Oakes Angier and Catharine Hobart Ames</p>
651<p>&nbsp;</p>
652<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020840.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7190"><img data-attachment-id="7190" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020840/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020840.jpg" data-orig-size="362,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Anna Copeland Ames Hall" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1870 &amp;#8211; 1908&lt;br /&gt;
653Second daughter of Frank Morton and Catherine Hayward Copeland Ames&lt;/p&gt;
654" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020840.jpg?w=362" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7190" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020840.jpg?w=217&#038;h=300" alt="Anna Copeland Ames Hall" width="217" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020840.jpg?w=217 217w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020840.jpg?w=109 109w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020840.jpg 362w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 217px) 100v
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655<p><strong>Anna Copeland Ames </strong>(Mrs. George Edward Hall, 1870 &#8211; 1908), second daughter of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames</p>
656<p>&nbsp;</p>
657<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020841.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7176"><img data-attachment-id="7176" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020841/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020841.jpg" data-orig-size="333,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Katie Eveline &amp;#8220;Eva&amp;#8221; Ames Royce" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1872 &amp;#8211; 1944&lt;br /&gt;
658Third daughter of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames&lt;br /&gt;
659Mrs. Frederick Page Royce&lt;/p&gt;
660" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020841.jpg?w=333" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7176" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020841.jpg?w=200&#038;h=300" alt="Katie Eveline &quot;Eva&quot; Ames Royce" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020841.jpg?w=200 200w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020841.jpg?w=100 100w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020841.jpg 333w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></a></p>
661<p><strong>Katie Evelyn Ames </strong>(Mrs. Frederick Page Royce, 1872 &#8211; 1944), third daughter of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames</p>
662<p>&nbsp;</p>
663<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020831.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7180"><img data-attachment-id="7180" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020831/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020831.jpg" data-orig-size="344,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Harriet Elizabeth Ames Hall" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;(1873 &amp;#8211; 1948)&lt;br /&gt;
6644th daughter of Frank Morton and  Catherine Heyward Copeland Ames&lt;/p&gt;
665" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020831.jpg?w=344" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7180" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020831.jpg?w=206&#038;h=300" alt="Harriet Elizabeth Ames Hall" width="206" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020831.jpg?w=206 206w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020831.jpg?w=103 103w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020831.jpg 344w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px" /></a></p>
666<p><strong>Harriet Elizabeth Ames</strong> (Mrs. George Edward Hall, 1873 &#8211; 1948), fourth daughter of Frank Morton and Catherine Copeland Ames</p>
667<p>&nbsp;</p>
668<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020844.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7185"><img data-attachment-id="7185" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020844/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020844.jpg" data-orig-size="345,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Katharine &amp;#8220;Kitty&amp;#8221; Hobart Ames Spalding" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1874 &amp;#8211; 1949&lt;br /&gt;
669Second daughter of Oakes Angier and Catherine Hobart Ames&lt;/p&gt;
670" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020844.jpg?w=345" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7185" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020844.jpg?w=207&#038;h=300" alt="Katharine &quot;Kitty&quot; Hobart Ames Spalding" width="207" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020844.jpg?w=207 207w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020844.jpg?w=104 104w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020844.jpg 345w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px" /></a></p>
671<p><strong>Katharine &#8220;Kitty&#8221; Hobart Ames</strong> (Mrs. Philip Leffingwell Spalding, 1874 &#8211; 1949), second daughter of Oakes Angier and Catharine Hobart Ames</p>
672<p>&nbsp;</p>
673<p><a href="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020837.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-7184"><img data-attachment-id="7184" data-permalink="https://evelinaames.com/2015/12/31/december-31-1852/p1020837/#main" data-orig-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020837.jpg" data-orig-size="348,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-title="Oakes Ames" data-image-description="&lt;p&gt;1874 &amp;#8211; 1950&lt;br /&gt;
674second son of Gov. Oliver and Anna C. Ames&lt;/p&gt;
675" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020837.jpg?w=348" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7184" src="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020837.jpg?w=209&#038;h=300" alt="Oakes Ames" width="209" height="300" srcset="https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020837.jpg?w=209 209w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020837.jpg?w=104 104w, https://evelinaames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/p1020837.jpg 348w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px" /></a></p>
676<p><strong>Oakes Ames</strong> (1874 &#8211; 1950), second son of Oliver Third and Anna C. Ray Ames^</p>
677<p>&nbsp;</p>
678<p>In 1863, Oakes Ames was elected to the U.S. Congress as Representative for Massachusetts Second District. He would serve five consecutive terms, much of it effectively and actively, being especially involved in the building of the transcontinental railroad. He served during the critical era of the Civil War and the ensuing Reconstruction, and voted in favor of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. He lived much of the time in Washington, D.C. in modest quarters. Evelina also spent at least some of her time with him, keeping house and attending appropriate social functions. During her time in the capitol, she would have gone to the White House for at least some of the many receptions there, and met the Lincolns, the Andrew Johnsons, and perhaps the Grants. When her brother-in-law Oliver Jr visited, as he had occasion to do on railroad business, they would attend church together.</p>
679<p>Yet Evelina also maintained the family residence in North Easton, which Susan and Henry French moved into on an undetermined date. Matters changed when, in 1870, Evelina suffered a stroke while in Washington. She was partially paralyzed, and in July of that year Oakes brought her back home on the train where her brother-in-law noted that Evelina &#8220;has had a Paralytic Shock which has crippled her very much walking with great difficulty.&#8221;**</p>
680<p>Trouble with paralysis would hinder Evelina&#8217;s mobility for the remainder of her days, and probably prevented her returning to Washington for the remainder of Oakes&#8217;s service there. She wasn&#8217;t with him when he went through the great difficulties spawned by his work on the Union Pacific and the ensuing<em> Credit Mobilier</em> scandal. The two corresponded, however, and one intimate letter from Oakes to Evelina was saved. On January 18, 1873, he wrote:</p>
681<p><em>Dear Wife:</em></p>
682<p><em>I sent you a telegram today that all will come out right. Don&#8217;t feel uneasy on my account, as there will be no stain on my reputation, whatever others may do. Am sorry that you feel so badly. Remember the scriptures say that &#8220;whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.&#8221; You must see by that passage that I am in high favor in the right quarter. The committee are in session this evening, and I must close. Good night! Borrow no trouble on my account. My health is good. &#8211; Yours, Oakes***</em></p>
683<p>Family lore has it that Evelina waited for the arrival of that telegram &#8211; and others, possibly &#8211;
683 by sitting at the window in her corner bedroom watching out for the telegraph boy. When Oakes finally returned to North Easton for good in February 1873, he only lived for a few more months.</p>
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685<p>After Oakes died, Evelina continued to live in the old family house, built by Old Oliver back in the day, and made additional, modernizing improvements to it. Sarah and Emily Witherell had departed their part of the house some years earlier and were living at the Hotel Hamilton in Boston, but daughter Susan and her husband Henry lived in the house with her. Evelina continued to see all her children and grandchildren, giving and receiving gifts on birthdays and (finally won over to the holiday) at Christmas. Her health declined, however.</p>
686<p>The very last we hear of Evelina is via a memory of her youngest grandchild, botanist Oakes Ames:</p>
687<p><em>I remember my grandmother (paternal) in connection with a birthday afternoon when I was led, half afraid, to the driveway end of our verandah to receive from her hand a box of peppermints and a silver dollar. My grandmother died when I was eight years old. As I see her now in my mind&#8217;s eye, she was very much like her portrait. I am sure that at this time, except for a white cap and a white lace at her wrists and throat, she wore no other color than black.***</em></p>
688<p>That Evelina suffered ill health in the decade-plus after her stroke is underscored by her grandson&#8217;s second memory of her:</p>
689<p><em>I have only two mental pictures of my grandmother. One, when she was in her phaeton and handed to me my birthday gift. The other when she was in the large livingroom at Martha&#8217;s Vineyard where we used to spend the summers. At this time she was in her rocking chair stamping her feet violently on the floor. She was suffering from a nervous tantrum or from pain, I know not which, but I remember being hastily removed from the room by one of my elders. All this must have been before I was eight years old.****</em></p>
690<p>On July 20, 1882, Evelina died at home of &#8220;paralysis.&#8221; She was buried in the Village Cemetery next to her husband.</p>
691<p>&nbsp;</p>
692<p>&nbsp;</p>
693<p>*<em>Genealogy of the Ames Family of North Easton, Massachusetts, ed. Chilton Moseley Ames and William Motley Ames, 1998</em></p>
694<p>**<em>Oliver Ames, Jr., Journal, July 17, 1870, Private collection.</em></p>
695<p>***<i>Ames Papers, Frank Morton Ames scrapbook, Baker Library, Harvard University</i></p>
696<p>****<em>Oakes Ames: Jottings of a Harvard Botanist, ed. Pauline Ames Plimpton, Cambridge, 1979, </em><em>pp. 37-38</em></p>
697<p>^<em>Photographs of grandchildren courtesy of Stonehill College Archives</em></p>
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792<p><em>Thursday Dec 30th  Mrs A A &amp; Mrs Edwin Gilmore &amp; Abby</em></p>
793<p><em>&amp; self have passed the day at mothers.  We</em></p>
794<p><em>got there at 1/4 past 10 Oclock very early I </em></p>
795<p><em>call that.  Abby has a very bad boil on her</em></p>
796<p><em>shoulder  After I got home this evening</em></p>
797<p><em>went into Olivers &amp; Mrs A L Ames came</em></p>
798<p><em>in and we stopt untill nearly ten Oclock</em></p>
799<p><em>Miss Alger has given her 20th lesson</em></p>
800<p><em>dined in the other part of the house</em></p>
801<p>&nbsp;</p>
802<p>Evelina spent the day with her mother, eighty-year-old Hannah Lothrop Gilmore. Other Gilmore women were present, too: Hannah Lincoln Gilmore, Augusta Pool Gilmore, and Abigail Williams Torrey (a Gilmore niece). They assembled at the family farm for what appears to have been simply a sociable gathering. We might imagine, however, that at least one of the women held a piece of sewing or mending in her lap as they sat and talked. Back at the house in North Easton, meanwhile, Sarah Witherell had the responsibility of overseeing the girls&#8217; piano lesson and hosting the piano teacher for dinner.</p>
803<p>The year was drawing to a close, and this entry is the next-to-last one that Evelina will make in her diary. A sad closure &#8211; not for Evelina, but for us readers. Over the two years of posting Evelina&#8217;s diary, a virtual community has gathered in its own sociable way to watch life pass in North Easton in a time long gone. In addition to hundreds of readers from across the U.S., readers from around the globe &#8211; most notably Australia, Brazil, Germany, South Korea, the UK, Italy and Canada &#8211; have stopped in regularly to see how Evelina was faring. Not a few of you are direct descendants of Evelina and Oakes, or Old Oliver and Susannah. In the course of writing this blog, it has been clear that you and others, whatever your address, feel a strong bond with the early &#8220;Shovel Ameses&#8221; of North Easton, and with the town itself.</p>
804<p>As she made her daily entries, Evelina could have had no way of knowing that hundreds of us &#8211; strangers to her &#8211; would one day read her diary. She couldn&#8217;t have imagined it, which is a good thing, for then she might have written for an audie
804nce instead of for herself. We would find more craft and less honesty in the daily dispatches. As it has happened, we&#8217;ve been allowed to interpret and imagine &#8211; but not invent &#8211; her life. We hope we&#8217;ve done it right. Perhaps in the future, the missing diaries will come to light and we&#8217;ll be able to learn more about the family. We might be able to clarify or enhance or even contradict the inferences we might have made. History is a fluid thing.</p>
805<p>Thank you, readers, for following along and contributing to our understanding of Evelina and her time. Please join Evelina one more time tomorrow as we take a look at how the rest of her life unfolded.</p>
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899<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Emma Snodgrass </em></p>
900<p>&nbsp;</p>
901<p><em>Wednesday Dec 29th  Julia here to day &amp; cut the</em></p>
902<p><em>waist to Susans raw silk &amp; partly cut the</em></p>
903<p><em>waist to my 12 1/2 cts Delaine  My family</em></p>
904<p><em>&amp; Fathers all dined to Olivers  Mr &amp; Mrs</em></p>
905<p><em>Whitwell called.  We were all invited to </em></p>
906<p><em>Mr Swains this afternoon  I did not go untill</em></p>
907<p><em>past five Oclock  Mr Ames &amp; Oliver Jr came</em></p>
908<p><em>there to tea</em></p>
909<p>&nbsp;</p>
910<p>In North Easton, Evelina and her dressmaker, Julia Mahoney, spent the day cutting up cloth for some new dresses &#8211; probably one of Evelina&#8217;s favorite tasks. Evelina also entertained a visit from Rev. Whitwell and his wife, Eliza. She ended up staying indoors for most of the day, only venturing out after dark for tea at the home of John and Ann Swain.</p>
911<p>In Boston on this day, a very different woman on a very different path ended up getting herself arrested, and not for the first time. The petite young perpetrator was Emma Snodgrass, a native of New York City. According to newspaper accounts of the day, her crime was &#8220;donning the breeches.&#8221; She was dressed in pants and a frock coat, trying to pass herself off as a man.</p>
912<p>Her alias was George Green, and she was earning her living, at least for a time, as a sales clerk at John Simmons &amp; Co., a clothier in the city. Newspapers as far away as California seized on the novelty of this aberrant behavior, and published various accounts of Miss Snodgrass&#8217;s conduct. What sources they might have used for their stories goes uncited, but nonetheless they delighted in reciting such tidbits as: &#8220;<em>Snodgrass used to circulate in all the drinking houses, made several violent attempts to talk &#8216;horse&#8217; and do other things for which &#8216;fast boys&#8217; are noted.&#8221;*</em></p>
913<p>The shock that Emma Snodgrass&#8217;s behavior generated in 1852 demonstrates how times have changed. In 2015, we might see Snodgrass&#8217;s cross-dressing as suggestive of what we now call gender identity disorder. Then, it was more likely understood as willful rebellion against the strict division of the roles of the sexes. Snodgrass and others &#8211; and there were others &#8211; had an impossible time being taken seriously. Many people probably believed that Emma Snodgrass&#8217;s parents hadn&#8217;t raised her properly.</p>
914<p>What did Evelina think?</p>
915<p>&nbsp;</p>
916<p>*<em>New York Daily Times, November 30, 1852</em></p>
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1011<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Federico Mialhe, Album Pinteresco de la Isla de Cuba </em>and <i>The Gates of Montserratte, Havana, Cuba, ca. 1850*</i></p>
1012<p>&nbsp;</p>
1013<p><em>Tuesday Dec 28th  Catharine &amp; self have been to work on</em></p>
1014<p><em>our dresses  Have cut &amp; made the sleeves &amp; got</em></p>
1015<p><em>the skirts made &amp;c  This afternoon have spent</em></p>
1016<p><em>in the other part of the house   Mr Ames</em></p>
1017<p><em>there to tea  Oliver &amp; wife dined there</em></p>
1018<p><em>on Turkey  Received another letter from</em></p>
1019<p><em>Oakes Angier  He was to leave for Havana</em></p>
1020<p><em>last Wednesday</em></p>
1021<p>&nbsp;</p>
1022<p>A letter from Oakes Angier arrived today, evidently at least the second one he had written since departing two weeks earlier. If, as he wrote, he was leaving Charleston on Dec. 22, then by this date, he was just about landing in Havana. He may have continued to sail south on the Steamship <em>James Adger</em> or he may have boarded the Steamship <em>Isabel</em> which, at that time and for at least a decade more, ran regularly between Charleston and Havana, with stops in Savannah, Georgia and Key West, Florida. The <em>Isabel</em> carried mail as well as passengers. The year before, it had even carried the famous Jenny Lind to the island for a concert.</p>
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1025<p>While Evelina was dress-making and Oliver Ames Jr and Sarah Lothrop Ames were dining on turkey at Sarah Witherell&#8217;s, Oakes Angier was shaking off the damp of his sea voyage and stepping into the soft humidity of Cuba. Did he, like others before and after, settle into a North-American section of Havana called Cardenas, and look out on the beautiful Cardenas Bay? Did he gaze at the mountains across the bay? And did he look at &#8211; surely, he looked at &#8211; the miles and miles of sugar cane, palm trees and estancias? Did he ride in a volant, a conveyance whose rear wheels were six feet high? Did he make friends?</p>
1026<p>Most of all, did Oakes Angier get better? Was the change of climate good for him? He did, and it was. Many readers of this blog &#8211; some of whom are his descendants &#8211; already know that Oakes Angier did, in fact, return home safely, cured of his pulmonary ailment. We don&#8217;t yet know exactly when and how he returned, but by the summer of 1855, he would be back in North Easton, married to Catharine Hobart and building his home, Queset House. He would recover.</p>
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1125<p><em>Monday Dec 27  Catharine &amp; Ann washed and I have</em></p>
1126<p><em>commenced my dresses early for Julia</em></p>
1127<p><em>Mr &amp; Mrs Swain &amp;
1127 his sister came unexpectedly</em></p>
1128<p><em>into the other part of the house this afternoon</em></p>
1129<p><em>and the evening I have been there  Mrs A L</em></p>
1130<p><em>&amp; Mrs S Ames have been to Sharon this afternoon</em></p>
1131<p><em>Mrs Ames says all the reports about Mr Clarke</em></p>
1132<p><em>abusing his wife are true and he has broken her jaw</em></p>
1133<p><em>in three places  He is in the house of correction</em></p>
1134<p>&nbsp;</p>
1135<p>Almira Ames and Sarah Lothrop Ames rode to neighboring Sharon and back today and returned with a tale of domestic violence. A Mr. Clarke had been put in jail for beating his wife. Evelina listened closely to the news, lingering over the specifics of the injuries he inflicted on poor Mrs. Clarke, whose jaw was broken in three places. That&#8217;s a serious injury in any period, but in 1852 the capacity for proper repair of such breakage was limited at best. Orthopedic surgery was in its infancy and wouldn&#8217;t improve until doctors learned more about bone breakage during the Civil War.</p>
1136<p>The &#8220;house of correction&#8221; which housed the abusive Mr. Clarke was, simply put, the local jail. In Massachusetts the terms &#8220;jail&#8221; and &#8220;house of correction&#8221; were and are used interchangeably. Elsewhere the term &#8220;house of correction&#8221; was more narrowly defined to mean a holding place for people who were awaiting trial, or for vagrants &#8211; not a residential prison, in other words. However it may be defined, it meant at least temporary detention behind bars for Mr. Clarke.</p>
1137<p>Historians differ on society&#8217;s treatment of domestic violence in the nineteenth century. Most people believed that the government &#8211; even the local government &#8211; had no role in domestic concerns. But people also believed strongly in the moral authority of women and were loathe to tolerate physical transgressions against the weaker sex. Thus was Mr. Clarke put behind bars.</p>
1138<p>Other than this news, life at the Ames compound was trotting along as usual. It was laundry day &#8211; the last one that we shall read of &#8211; and the Irish servants were busy at their wash tubs, hot water boiling on the stove. Evelina sewed, of course, and got some pieces ready for Julia Mahoney, the dressmaker. Old Oliver noted that &#8220;in the evening there was a little snow.&#8221;</p>
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1232<p><em>Sunday Dec 26  It was very stormy this morning</em></p>
1233<p><em>and I did not decide to go to church untill</em></p>
1234<p><em>it was to late to dress myself &amp; Susan all the</em></p>
1235<p><em>rest went from the three families except father</em></p>
1236<p><em>Elijah Robinson in the other part of the house</em></p>
1237<p><em>came Friday night  It was cleared off very pleasant</em></p>
1238<p><em>Mr, Mrs &amp; Miss Swain Augustus &amp; wife &amp; E Robinson</em></p>
1239<p><em>called this evening</em></p>
1240<p>Once again, we see Evelina and her father-in-law differ on their descriptions of the weather. While Evelina found it &#8220;very stormy this morning,&#8221; Old Oliver wrote: &#8221; it snod a verry little last night and there was a little rain this morning + the snow is all gone there was not rain + snow enough to make more than ¼ inch of water it was fair in the afternoon wind north west&#8221;* It was proving to be what New Englanders call an &#8220;open&#8221; winter &#8211; at least so far. It was nearly January, and there was no snow on the ground.</p>
1241<p>There was no Evelina in church, either, as she just couldn&#8217;t bear to go out in the rain. Her daughter also managed not to dress in time. So the two females stayed at home while the males rode off to church. This is our last glimpse of Evelina on the Sabbath Day, as the year will soon draw to a close, obviously, whereupon Evelina&#8217;s diary stops. So our final Sunday post is not Evelina listening with rapt attention to Mr. Whitwell&#8217;s sermons, or being aware of her husband as he nodded off in the pew, or visiting with the other Unitarian ladies during the midday intermission. It&#8217;s Sunday at home.</p>
1242<p>The next few years at the Unitarian Church in Easton would be much the same as this one. By 1857, however, Rev. Whitwell would not be invited to extend his service there** &#8211; we don&#8217;t know why. He would be called to serve as minister at the Unitarian Church in Chestnut Hill, outside of Boston, but would remain in touch with the Ames family &#8211; even borrowing money from Oliver Jr. at one point (a loan which Oliver Jr. forgave). According to historian William Chaffin, Whitwell&#8217;
1242s departure initiated the period when part of the congregation moved its service to North Easton proper:</p>
1243<p><em>At the conclusion of Mr. Whitwell’s ministry the Ames family discontinued attendance upon the First Parish Church, as a Unitarian Society had been formed at North Easton village, where they resided. A proposition was made to unite with the latter society in the support of a minister who should supply both pulpits, but the proposition was not carried into effect.***</em></p>
1244<p>It&#8217;s generally acknowledged that Old Oliver played a leading role in establishing a new Unitarian association in North Easton in a tiny church in the middle of the village (since moved to make room for the Rockery).  Did he also play a role in ending Reverend Whitwell&#8217;s tenure?</p>
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1246<p>*<em>Oliver Ames, Journal, Stonehill College Archives, Arnold Tofias Collection</em></p>
1247<p>**<em>Oliver Ames (3) Journal, Stonehill College Archives, David Ames Collection</em></p>
1248<p>***<em>William Chaffin, History of Easton, Massachusetts, 1886, p. 362</em></p>
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1341<p><em>Sat Dec 25th Christmas. Have had to do the</em></p>
1342<p><em>housework and have had a busy time of it</em></p>
1343<p><em>
1343Henrietta called in for an hour or two</em></p>
1344<p><em>and then Miss Alger came and was here</em></p>
1345<p><em>to dinner  Alson &amp; wife &amp; Edwin &amp; wife here</em></p>
1346<p><em>to tea.  The girls came in the stage</em></p>
1347<p><em>My feet trouble me so much that I can</em></p>
1348<p><em>scarcely go about house  Sent Mrs Whitwell a delaine dress</em></p>
1349<p>&nbsp;</p>
1350<p>Christmas Day was pretty much a non-event at the Ames compound. Like last year, the household followed a fairly normal routine. Old Oliver grumped about the poor weather and &#8220;bad carting.&#8221;* At Evelina&#8217;s, the servants were in Canton, at church presumably, with family and friends. They returned via stagecoach late in the day. Before they came back, Eveline &#8220;had a busy time&#8221; with the meals and cleaning, balancing the latter with a social call from her sister-in-law Henrietta Williams Gilmore. She also must have facilitated another piano lesson &#8211; the 19th one &#8211; for her daughter Susan and niece Emily. The indefatigable Miss M. J. Alger arrived to teach and stayed for dinner.</p>
1351<p>Outside of puritanical New England, the celebration of Christmas was on the ascendant. Periodicals like <em>Godey&#8217;s</em> and <em>Gleason&#8217;s</em> referred to the holiday with poems, stories, and illustrations. Families and friends exchanged gifts, although with much less commercial goading than today. And the following Christmas, 1853, President-elect Franklin Pierce would put up the first-ever Christmas tree in the White House.**</p>
1352<p>For all their disinterest in what they saw as a Catholic holiday, members of the Ames family did show small signs of acknowledging the occasion. Here and there, they exchanged gifts; we saw it last year and see it again. Evelina made a gift to the minister&#8217;s wife, Eliza Whitwell, of a wool dress. As the years would go by and the generation of Fred, Oakes Angier and the others gained primacy, Christmas would come to resemble the holiday that we know, replete with gifts and church pageants and family dinners &#8211; but not while Old Oliver was alive.</p>
1353<p>*<em>Oliver Ames, Journal, Stonehill College Archives, Arnold Tofias Collection</em></p>
1354<p>**<i>Credit for the first Christmas tree at the White House is disputed by historians. Some say Benjamin Harrison was the first president to put one up, in the late 1880s.</i></p>
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1449<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Yule Log, English illustration, ca. 1870</em></p>
1450<p><em>Friday Dec 24th  Have finished the sack for Susan</em></p>
1451<p><em>and I feel that I have a good job done</em></p>
1452<p><em>Catharine has basted the lining &amp; outside</em></p>
1453<p><em>of my dress together  Ann &amp; Catharine</em></p>
1454<p><em>went to Canton this afternoon. Alson &amp;</em></p>
1455<p><em>wife came up this morning to go to the lecture</em></p>
1456<p><em>they stopt at Augustus &amp; Henrietta &amp; Helen came</em></p>
1457<p><em>here   Malvina here to tea.  Mr Ames went to Boston</em></p>
1458<p><em>lecture by J C Parks</em></p>
1459<p><em>on the dignity of labour</em></p>
1460<p>Some people were preparing for Christmas, but Evelina wasn&#8217;t one of them. As we saw last December, the Ames family didn&#8217;
1460t celebrate Christmas, certainly not the way we celebrate it in 2015. Nor did other Unitarians and fellow Protestants in New England. Catholics celebrated it, however, and this afternoon, Irish servants Catharine Murphy and Ann Shinkwin departed for Canton where they must have had family or friends to meet. They wouldn&#8217;t return until late the next day. In one sense, Christmas to the Ameses meant a lack of servants and no work &#8211; or reduced production, perhaps &#8211; at the shovel shop. It was a holiday with a negative impact.</p>
1461<p>So in the Ames compound, life went on as usual, even on Christmas Eve. Evelina sewed and Oakes Ames went into Boston. A few Gilmore relatives, including Evelina&#8217;s youngest nieces, Henrietta Hall Gilmore and Helen Jane Gilmore, came by. There was a lecture in town which Evelina&#8217;s brother Alson and his wife Henrietta Williams Gilmore attended in which Mr. J.C. Parks spoke on &#8220;the dignity of labour.&#8221; An interesting theme for a day when much of the work force was so-called idle. Surely the quiet at the factory got under Old Oliver&#8217;s skin, but with his usual understatement, he only mentioned the weather in his journal:  &#8220;[I]t raind ¾ of an inch last night it was cloudy in the forenoon + fair in the afternoon wind south west and it took the snow + ice all off.&#8221;*</p>
1462<p>*<em>Oliver Ames, Journal, Stonehill College Archives, Arnold Tofias Collection</em></p>
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1556<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Thursday Dec 23d  Have been at work part of the</em></p>
1557<p><em>time on Susans sack &amp; part of the time</em></p>
1558<p><em>fixing work for Catharine  She has got Susans</em></p>
1559<p><em>skirt ready for gathering and run the breadths</em></p>
1560<p><em>of my raw silk  Helen came home in</em></p>
1561<p><em>the stage to night Heard Susan practice</em></p>
1562<p><em>an hour this evening she does not take as</em></p>
1563<p><em>much interest as I could wish</em></p>
1564<p>&nbsp;</p>
1565<p>Orville L. Holley, editor of the<em>Troy</em> [N.Y.] <em>Sentinel</em>, didn&#8217;t know who had written the poem. It had been sent in by a friend of the anonymous author. But Holley was looking for good Christmas copy, so on this date in 1823, he published <em>A Visit from St. Nicholas,</em>* with &#8220;cordial thanks to whoever had sent him these Christmas verses.&#8221;* He knew the piece was good, but he couldn&#8217;t have imagined the lasting fame it would receive. He couldn&#8217;t have foretold how iconic <i>Twas the Night Before Christmas</i> would become.</p>
1566<p>It would be another fourteen years, more or less, until the public discovered the name of the author. He was Clement Clarke Moore, a professor of oriental and Greek literature at General Theological Seminary in New York City and author of several academic works such as <i>Compendious Lexicon of the Hebrew Language. </i>He was also a poet, and the father of nine children. He had written <em>A Visit from St. Nicholas</em> for his older children and read it to them on Christmas Eve, 1822. A friend of the family had heard the poem, copied it, and sent it to the newspaper. Aren&#8217;t we lucky she saved it? Professor Moore, by the way, was born in 1779 and died in 1863 &#8211; the same life span as Old Oliver Ames.</p>
1567<p>Did Evelina know this poem? Was she familiar with St. Nicholas, Santa Claus and other Christmas lore that immigrated from the Old World to the New? Reader that she was, she was bound to know about Christmas. But so far in her life, it was a holiday that others, and not she, celebrated.</p>
1568<p>Her grandchildren would one day know the poem by heart. Dash away, dash away, dash away all!</p>
1569<p>&nbsp;</p>
1570<p>*<i>Information on Clement Clarke Moore and A Visit from St. Nicholas can be found at <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.poetryfoundation.org</a></i></p>
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