Fan CastingHousekeeping in Old Virginia
Marion Cabell Tyree story
by Tanner Studios, Duda Studios
Story added by jakubduda on September 27, 2021
Jim bought Book by Mrs. Tyree and became the narrator of this story when he began to tell it to his children to prove to his daughter that being a housewife is not a bad thing.
Marion Cabell Tyree was Afroamerican housekeeping wife, who lived in Virginia. She married Samuel Tyree of Lynchburg, a successful businessman, and the couple had a beautiful and comfortable home in which they dispensed in the most gracious and genial manner that hospitality for which old Virginia was famous. During the Civil War, Tyree cared for the Confederate sick and wounded who were far from home and family, managing to provide them with food and medical remed...read more
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