Godwin Archives, Volume 7b: Messages from Mildred in Tennessee

Godwin Archives, Volume 7b: Messages from Mildred in TennesseeThese letters were discovered in the home of Edward and Tiana Godwin Smith about 70 years after they were written. A third cousin, Mildred Case, wrote more than 100 letters to Minnie Albatiana 'Tiana' Godwin, beginning when both girls were about age 17 and continuing for the duration of their youth and beyond. Letters in this first volume were written in Texas before the Great Depression forced the family to move back to their ancestral home in

These letters were discovered in the home of Edward and Tiana Godwin Smith about 70 years after they were written. A third cousin, Mildred Case, wrote more than 100 letters to Minnie Albatiana 'Tiana' Godwin, beginning when both girls were about age 17 and continuing for the duration of their youth and beyond. Letters in this first volume were written in Texas before the Great Depression forced the family to move back to their ancestral home in McNairy County, Tennessee. Mildred and Tiana continued to write for many years, even as time and distance separated them. The author still remembers her mother joyfully dancing in from the mailbox waving a letter and exclaiming ÒI got a letter from Mildred!Ó
Tiana stored these letters from 85 years ago. She gave them to her daughter, Peggy Smith Wolfe...