A REAL PIONEER WOMAN IN BOONVILLE

 I have shared several posts about a town

 west of Columbia called Boonville and

 a town east of here called Fulton.

Today my husband and I went over to

Boonville to the Visitors Center.  The

town along the Missouri River

 is now 200 years old. 

When we ride over to Boonville , I usually take photos of the old Victorian and Edwardian homes and their gardens. 

 I have posted some of these before here on

my blog but today the with the colors of

the leaves - everything was aglow:

I took these photos from in

inside of our car.

I always admire this Bed and Breakfast:

It looks like it has a new name 

and a fresh new look.

What I want to share about now

is the fascinating story about the

real life pioneer woman who

first settled there.  Her name was

Hannah Cole.  I have read all the

documents I could find about her on

line and I am in awe about her

personal quality of endurance.

Hannah was actually originally from Virginia as I also am.  Here is her story if you would 

like to read all the many details about her.  I would not have made a very good pioneer woman myself because I don't like to be cold.  How this woman raised 9 children

without a husband is absolutely amazing.

A few weeks ago I was on a crafting roll

and created some Ephemera for a few of the history centers in nearby towns for them to sell.   Here are the ones I made about

 Hannah

Cole for Boonville:

No photo was ever taken of photo but that

is a photo of her youngest son,

Samuel, when he

was old.  

I have visited Roslyn Heights before

and taken photos so I made these

for them:

These were for our Boone County

History and Culture Center and depict 

one of the first families who built

 Maplewood House here

in 1877, the Lenoir's.  their

daughter, Lavinia married Dr. Frank

Nifong who founded the local

Boone Hospital.

And lastly this was one of the ones

I did for the

Churchill Museum in Fulton:

It always feels good when

 something

is done.