From "Patience McGuire" (1820)

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[1820]
One day that October, Annie was late coming home from school. As the afternoon wore on toward evening, I began to feel concerned. Then I could not help but recall how my mother must have worried just like this the evening I met Mrs. Annie Smith and stayed out after dark. But I was sixteen then, practically a woman. My Annie was too young yet

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Annie is Patience's eighth child and fourth daughter. In this excerpt she's 13. Her oldest sister Mary is 25.

Annie McGuire is my great-great-great-grandmother.

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When Annie grew up, she had a daughter named Bridget McDermitt, who married Black Mike Wills, the great-grandson of Sarah Collins, in 1862. Bridget and Black Mike were my grandmother's grandparents. Annie's son Michael McDermitt gave his life for his country at Antietam in 1862.

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Annie, Patty, Mark, Johnny, Bridget, Mary, Bart, and Mike are all Patience's children. Mary, here at age 25, is the firstborn.

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Maggie McGuire is Patience's sister-in-law and best friend, née Maggie O'Hara from Baltimore.