
He lived away from home for a couple of years to earn money to care for his family.įanny kept things going at home and worked as an assistant to a Hope Mills doctor, Joseph Claude Gilbert. They raised their own chickens, turkeys and hogs.ĭuring the Depression, when the mills closed, Sam Hodges went with the Northerners to Pennsylvania to work. The family gathered and sold flowers and picked up cotton that had blown off the trains between railroad stations to make a little money. The Hodges family milked cows and delivered the milk to people in the mill village. We encourage you to research and examine. How do we create a person’s profile We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person’s profile.
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They rememeber making the same walk on Sunday to Snow Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. Historical Person Search Search Results Gertrude Fanny Mills (1888 - 1936) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days.
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(When not writing steamy historicals, she also writes short, steamy contemporary romance as Nina Dawn) 'The Infernalis Club' Series is about a debauched secret society of rakes and aristocrats: 1. The Hodges children walked 10 miles to school at Snow Hill. Fanny Mills loves scorchingly hot historical romance- lusty libertine lords, luscious ladies, and LOTS of licentiousness.

Fanny made cakes in an iron mold and baked them in the ashes of a fire. He loved to make oyster stew and homemade ice cream. Sam Hodges would bring home fruits and fish. But the family moved out to the country after one of the children, Robert, drowned in the pond. The Hodges family lived in a house behind the superintendent's house on present-day Brower's Hill. Their oldest child, Alice Gadsby Hodges, born in 1892, was named after a white woman who worked in the mill office. She was an excellent cook and she would prepare meals for the men and women who worked in the office at the mill. Their marriage was a successful one and there were 12 children - six boys and six girls.įanny loved nature and grew flowers and a vegetable garden.

The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. In 1948, at the age of 55 years old, Fanny was alive when on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. It was the beginning of the Panic of 1893.

In 1893, in the year that Fanny Mills was born, on May 5th, a crash on the New York Stock Exchange started a depression that lasted 4 years. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Fanny's lifetime.
