Transcribers Log #004 - ELIZABETH RIDGELY JACKSON of Winchester, Virginia
Welcome to... My Darling Emma 1857 If you are NEW HERE be sure to read the beginning of the journey I am on transcribing my family's 19th century letter collection! S ometimes I wonder how (and WHY ) these letters survived a century, spending decades basking in a dusty barn and eventually ending up in my basement closet sitting decades more... Well, I don’t have an exact answer, but I do know for many years they were safe guarded by one of Emma’s 5 daughters, Elizabeth Ridgely Jackson (1897-1983) and she is who I want to write about. I wouldn't be writing this here today if Miss Jackson didn't safe guard these letters! Ridgely as she preferred carried on the family historian torch from her mother Emma and not only kept these family heirloom treasures, but she gathered & recorded family genealogy really earning her that historian title. I now have her hand-written family tree charts along with some notes and photos she compiled back in...