Written by Anna Mary French Johnson. Published in New York by D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1939. Copyright 1933-4-5, Christian Herald Association. Permission to reprint requested.

The author was the daughter of John Noah French and Sarah Seely Jessup, both born in Orange County, NY. Each came from long lines of pioneer New England ancestry. Anna's life story is fascinating, with its details about the everyday life of a woman born just after the Civil War who went on to raise her family as the wife of a farmer/minister with posts at churches in Illinois, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. Anna grew up in Knoxville, TN, and always considered it "home." Some information not related to Knoxville has been included here because of the social and cultural detail it provides.