History

 Grandma Driver's Quilt

 She was always called Grandma Driver. It was a puzzlement as to why she was even a part of my family on my mom's side. She didn't have any of our family names. Actually she married to a man named Charles Brown. She was Carrie Rosella Maxsom Brown. They lived in Illinois. Charley was my great grandfather. He was the father of two sons, Ira and Leroy. When Leroy, my grandfather, was three years old, Charley died. 

 My grandfather Leroy Martin Brown is shown in the photo with a niece. He grew up after loosing his father at the age of three. The mystery about Grandma Driver is that Grandma Carrie Rosella Maxsom Brown remarried. Her husband was called Thomas Jefferson Driver. 

The mystery of Grandma Driver was solved later in my adult life. To confuse things though, which my mom couldn't or wouldn't explain, is that she had five more children with her second husband. The two girls and three boys would be half relatives to us all in the Brown family.  That makes the family tree branch out immensely as the two girls married and had many children.The five kids would be half great uncles and great aunts to me. The one more unusual thing is the three males never married. My mom would call all those five  her uncle or aunts, because they were, but I only met one of them. She called her Aunt Ida and she lived near main street in Osceola, Iowa. 

 I inherited the two quilts that were made by Grandma Driver. They were kept by mom as precious items. Who knows if my sons will treat them as precious or not. 

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