VOICE OF EDYTHE BELLE LINT

I was born Edythe Ilah Belle Lint whose father left Wales, met and married my mother, finally settling in both Ohio and Indiana where I was born. 

 

My earliest memories, begging my mother a story as she lay on the cot as she was very tired and ill, as she was always was in those days. She told me this day that I was 5 years old and big enough to wash my feet as she didn't want me to "meet my maker with dirty feet."

 

"My lovey," she said, "you were born a year after the war ended on March 5, 1866 and your Daddy died of wounds suffered in that war when you were just a baby. I married his cousin who you know as your stepfather, George Cross."

GEORGE UNROE &
EDYTHE BELLE LINT CROSS

With 4 children, the oldest 14 years old (Verna Bell), I married his friend and our neighbor, Otis Jay Paul, in 1905 who had several children all grown and married with children. Your stepfather was always called Jay. We moved to Detroit after my 4 children married and Jay worked in one of the large factories there, moving back down to a farm around Coldwater Lake after World War I ended. Leaving the farm in 1919, Jay got a job with Pratt's Manufacturing Company and as you know, one year after you (Maxine) were born, your parents divorced in 1921."

 

LEE LUELLA EDITH MILLER

My Mom in the 1930's.

EDITH & MINERVA CROSS - 1882

Mom's grandmother & her half-sister.

After my mother died, I lived with his relatives until I met and married George Unroe, who told me his parents, Jorg Unroeaux, had come to this country just before he was born and no one knew how to pronounce his name as they came from France and it was a French name so he dropped the last 3 letters and he became George Carl Unroe and his mother's name was Laurette, who was also French.

We married in 1887 and had 5 children, the first born November 1888 and died still born. George worked for the Ohio Railroad as a brakeman and in March 1903 he was crushed between 2 freight cars.

OTIS JAY PAUL &
EDYTHE UNROE

AFTERWORD BY LEE LUELLA

"After our grandmother Paul's death, which we did not hear about until months later, I compared the dates she told us with the dates on the obituary. I guestioned it and was told that friends and neighbors gave the dates as close as they knew them so on the obituary and tombstone, the actual dates are incorrect. She would've been 101 years old if she had lived 2 months longer.

I have copied the facts as she told them to my sister and me while I lived with her and my step-grandfather after my parents divorced in 1921. This is the story of my mother, Verna Belle Unroe Miller Tabor's mother, Edythe Belle Lint Cross Unroe Paul."