Mathilda’s Scrapbook

Many of our ancestors traveled, not for enjoyment or personal enrichment, but to achieve better lives for themselves and their families. The period of western expansion in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s was a time of rapid change in many areas of life and society. Developments in agriculture, industry, communications, and transportation happened at a dizzying pace, and the world was shaken by the first World War and an epidemic never before seen by those living at the time. 

The book THIS WAS MY WORLD, LITTLE DEAR ONE – Mathilda’s Scrapbook is a story I wrote for my grandchildren, to help them come to know some of the history of their ancestors, specifically the life and times of their great-great grandmother Mathilda, who died in the Spanish Flu at age 27.