Briefly I want to tell you about your Great Aunt Jessie. She was our spinster aunt and in those far off days was indispensable to the whole family. When anyone needed her she could always be depended on to serve them. After grandfather died she moved to Plattsville where she tenderly looked after her mother till she died.
After her mother had passed on the brothers and sisters decided that she should inherit all of Grandmother's estate as she would need whatever money that was left to live on. Aunt Jessie must have been in her sixties and hadn't been trained to do anything outside her home. Well she protested. She didn't want their charity. The will said that the money was to be divided among them all They insisted; she put it in the bank and never spent a cent of it;
She went out and got herself a job. Her job was to be the housekeeper and companion to the local doctor's two spinster daughters and she stayed with them till she died. to our surprise we received a notice after her death that we would all be receiving $250 (about $5000 equiv. in 2012) from her estate (by all I mean all her nephews and nieces)
I admired her proud independent spirit. I hope I am like her. I think I am and don't want any financial help ever from my children. I'd feel like Aunt Jessie that I was accepting charity.
After her mother had passed on the brothers and sisters decided that she should inherit all of Grandmother's estate as she would need whatever money that was left to live on. Aunt Jessie must have been in her sixties and hadn't been trained to do anything outside her home. Well she protested. She didn't want their charity. The will said that the money was to be divided among them all They insisted; she put it in the bank and never spent a cent of it;
She went out and got herself a job. Her job was to be the housekeeper and companion to the local doctor's two spinster daughters and she stayed with them till she died. to our surprise we received a notice after her death that we would all be receiving $250 (about $5000 equiv. in 2012) from her estate (by all I mean all her nephews and nieces)
I admired her proud independent spirit. I hope I am like her. I think I am and don't want any financial help ever from my children. I'd feel like Aunt Jessie that I was accepting charity.
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