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Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 9:24 AM Subject:
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I talked to Pebbel yesterday, and she can't recall much about her Dad's (Phillip Aaron Winder) family.
She remembers her mom talking about Uncle Joe and Uncle Louis and Aunt Lizzie (I'm assuming the one daughter's middle name was Elizabeth and they called her Lizzie), who were Phillip Winder's siblings. Other than that, there is no more information. Pebbel, even though she is 81 years old, is sharp as a tack and has a great memory. But her Dad was only around till she was about 2 years old. When he abandoned the family at that time, my grandmother (Missouri Christina Simmons) really had a tough time of it. It was the mid-1920's and they were very poor. She had two small children. Her mother was living with them (her husband had been a "railroad man" also, and abandoned his family) and she also had taken in her sister's two orphaned children when her sister died, so there were 4 small children in the household. I'm sure it was a strain on the relationship. When Phillip Aaron abandoned the family, they moved to Colorado to start a new life. My grandmother always remembered Phillip Aaron fondly, though, and I remember when I was a tiny kid, she would look out the window in her place in Oregon (the railroad tracks were about 200 feet from her front door) and tell me he was going to come and see her. [snip]
Sincerely, Toni Harding
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1901 - 1963 (61 years)
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