My Family Tree

Emily’s parents died when she was a young girl and she was left in the care of her mother’s cousin. On Jan 1, 1864, (this was during the Civil War), 13 year-old Emily was enrolled in the Wheeling Female Academy, a Catholic boarding school in Wheeling, West Virginia. Devoting herself to God, she became the first Catholic in the family. In her senior year, she asked her older brothers’ permission to become a nun; they immediately unenrolled her. Removing to Kansas she was soon married to a philanderer and not long after, (shortly after leaving him), had her first child. She then married Finley Chamberlin, a train conductor and recent Civil War veteran, and six more children followed, my grandmother Nellie being the eldest of that brood. Emily passed her strong Catholic beliefs to Nellie; she also passed on her insistence of strict obedience, family duty, moral rectitude, and the ability to make it on her own.

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