Cynthia pearl maus biography samples
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In many ways, the personal story of Cynthia Pearl Maus sums up the social circumstances of the Disciples of Christ in our first century.
She was born in 1878 to a farming family, her father a wounded veteran of the Civil War, which then took on homesteading in Colorado, living in a sod house for two years before crop failures drove them back to the Midwest where her parents worked a mix of trades and manual labor as they sought middle-class respectability for their children.
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Maus had a veteran’s pension which clearly kept the wolf from the door at many times, not enough to live on but enough to allow the family to survive under some truly appalling conditions at times. You can read about all this in more detail in Cynthia Pearl Maus’s autobiography “Time to Remember,” written at age 84 and finally published in 1964: https://archive.org/details/timetoremember0000unse_k5t1/
You will find some familiar stories of pioneer hardship; you will also, it must be said,