Whalin, Inez Ely

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Whalin, Inez Ely

Jones-Eddy, Julie

Inez Whalin tells her experiences through her daughter, Ethelyn Crawford. When she was twenty-three years old, Inez married her husband at her home in rural Illinois, a much more settled area than northwestern Colorado in 1912. At that time he was the foreman on the James ranch in Moffat County. Inez cooked for all the ranch hands. They soon moved to Mr. Whalin's homestead on Thornburg near Meeker, a one room log cabin, which she describes. Inez had eight children, but lost one who was eight months old to pneumonia. The doctor usually missed the births. She talks about: birth control, childless women, home remedies, and poetry. She was sorry that she didn't go to college; her parents thought her too frail. Instead, she worked in a knitting factory before her marriage. Her neighbors asked her to teach, but her husband said she couldn't. Inez died in 1989.

Oral history

Homesteading

Frontier and pioneer life

History

Women

Women pioneers

Plains to Peaks Collective

English

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Plains to Peaks Collective

Oral history

Homesteading

Frontier and pioneer life

History

Women

Women pioneers