The History of Ketchums Corners An Vicinity
An amusing anecdote of the coming of the Barber family was often gleefully recounted
by Mrs. Lewis T. Perkins, who was a participant in the moving and in the novel scheme
adopted. It seems there were several young women in the family, but unfortunately
only one bonnet. It was evident that the lone bonnet could be worn by but one at
a time, and it being equally evident that each was fully determined to wear that
particular bonnet when coming to her new home, feminine ingenuity solved the problem
in the following manner:
One young woman accompanied the first load, proudly wearing the coveted bonnet.
There were many loads to follow, so the bonnet was returned by team to the
starting place, when it was as proudly worn by the next daughter of the house and
by the next and the next, until all had experienced the satisfaction, so dear to the
feminine heart, of knowing that she had journeyed to the new residence appropriately
and fashionably costumed.
For more on this and other families, see: The History of Ketchums Corners And
Vicinity  Please place in the Subject Line: WEBPAGE-HISTORY 
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