![]() She was headed home from a dance in her escort's wagon when one of the Burdow boys fired a weapon meant to scare the team. Daughter Mary Ellen's death is of major importance in the story. He also has the love of 14-year-old Jenny Creighton, and wants a marriage, which her father disapproves due to her youth. Shadrach Yale is the schoolmaster from Pennsylvania that has noted the potential of young Jethro. Three of their children died within four days in July 1852 of “Childhood Paralysis.” The deaths of the “three little boys” led Ellen to be more lenient on youngest son Jethro (main character) than with her older children. ![]() Matthew's orphaned nephew Ebenezer Carron also lives at the homestead. Four remain living at home (Bill, Tom, Jenny and Jethro) John lives nearby with his wife Nancy and their two boys. Matthew and Ellen Creighton have borne 12 children. Like Jethro, the book's protagonist, her grandfather was only nine when the Civil War erupted, so Hunt used him as a vehicle through which to imagine what a family must have gone through at that time. The Creighton family was documented in those stories and in letters and records. She researched the historical facts and integrated stories that were told to her by her grandfather. Hunt published her first book, Across Five Aprils, at age 57. Children of Matthew and Ellen Creighton. ![]()
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