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Happy Mother's Day

Across
This less-than-conventional, extrovert “pub performer” had four children and was the life of the ball. Though she reluctantly gave two away she loved them all. She was her son’s loving, musical muse buying him his first guitar. “Judy” taught him banjo and ukulele before she was tragically hit by a car.
A mother and housewife until her kids went to college. This strong woman became a volunteer counselor for incarcerated women. She has recently partnered with “Friends Outside” nonprofit. One moving story is that she freed a wrongly accused woman after 20 years in prison. This mother taught her daughter to shoot for the moon.
Ardent “Kate” did most of her own work, despite having servants. To cut down on costs, she raised her own vegetables, fruit and livestock, made her own butter, lard, bacon and ham. Her first daughter made it through a deathly illness to become a child of “the silent night.” Kate fought for and with her child, often with little hope, but still she would hear nothing of the idea of institutionalization. A Dickens novel, a brail typewriter and her persistently fierce love, finally exposed the path to a wider world for her amazing child. It was said that she raised the most beautiful roses that people had ever seen outside of a greenhouse.
The greek mother of earth
This heart-guided woman had an affair with a land-surveyor, who she continued to see despite signs of danger. Around eight months in prison she had to stay, when her jealous husband pressed charges for her adulterous ways. Separation from her first husband freed her to start life anew, two sons were born to the second husband who eventually left her too. Abandoned, she ran a store by herself to support her two sons, when they were about 13, to yellow fever she did succumb. She taught them to work hard and fueled their ambition, had it not been for her example of resilience our country might have had very different federal treasury traditions.
A devoted teacher until she married. A Graduate of Hampton University. Her life revolved around Ebenezer Baptist Church in many ways. Her husband was a minister. She led the Womens Conference. Sadly she and her two youngest fell victim to hate.
My organic Market
Recognized as a bright and curious child, one who saw the big picture. She was always on the path to higher education and was nurtured and supported by her parents from day one. She was aware of the tendency for young girls to leave school and never come back and saw how it was linked to a lack of birth control and education about reproduction. She hated how it cut short so many young womens’ future careers. Her professional career aims to spread the knowledge she lived and learned from her upbringing; early development in crucial, attachments matter and all families disserve support. This mother went to therapy three times a week for several years and believes deeply in the power of productive and structured reflection.
Down
A reporter and editor, this woman was no stranger to sexism and was often denied jobs due to her sex. She stared a paper and taught math at the University of Toledo. She raised her kids and worked while her husband was away. Not long after her divorce, and after moving in with her uncle there is an infamous tale about a swarm of rats coming after her and her youngest following the collapse of a building.
A novelist and mother with the pen name “Vanne,” wrote a book or two about the origin of man. She encouraged her children’s pursuit of knowledge always, and taught them, that “if you work hard… and never give up you will find a way”. Even when her daughter brought handful of earthworms worms to bed, this compassionate mother supported her curious head.
This oldest child of 6, later mother of six, was known to be popular, intelligent and a bit of a daddy’s girl. “Sukey” married the third son of her father’s close friend and it is thought that it is her strong moral conscious that imprinted itself on her youngest son. She was the light of the household and her husband Robert never quite recovered from her passing, leaving a stern and often cold environment behind. Marianne, Caroline, Susan, Erasmus III, Charles and Catherine loved their mother deeply and spoke so little of her after her death that her youngest too, remarkably remember very little of her, despite being about seven and eight years old respectively.
All elephant herds have one
A descendent of Georgia free slaves who moved to Chicago during the great migration, this mother fed confidence and independence to her children without limitation. She taught them to attribute their success to both hard work and their privileged circumstance, pointing out how those who were less fortunate often had no opportunity to advance. Her daughter took these lessons to heart and future doctors would approve, of all the doors she opened while also inspiring the youth to get out and move. A most important live-in grandma for eight years, thank goodness for this independent mama, who taught her daughter to persist through her fears.
Born in Manhattan of Austrian immigrants, this intelligent woman made her daughter an impressive presence. When this women was 15 she worked to help pay for her brothers college education, then sadly years later, she died of cancer the day before her daughter’s high school graduation. Her daughter strives to be everything that her mother was not given the chance to become, thank goodness for them both for staying the swinging pendulum.
Earth