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Woman Born in 1847 Talks About the Pregnancy No One Was Supposed to Know About

Woman Born in 1847 Talks About the Pregnancy No One Was Supposed to Know About Nora Vane (1847–1939) was born in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, the eldest daughter of a farming family on the Erie Canal, and grew up in a Presbyterian community where conduct was watched and steadiness was the highest praise a woman could earn. She married Edward Vane in 1867 and raised six children on a farmhouse in Williamson, and was known in both townships as reliable, capable, and not given to scenes. In this account, set down in her ninety-first year in the back room of her daughter Clara's house in February of 1938, Mrs. Vane describes a pregnancy in 1864 that no one living still knows about, the five months she spent concealed in a neighboring township, and the morning in March of 1865 when she gave her daughter to a couple from Ontario County and kept only the cap she had sewn for her by lamplight the previous November. The seventy-three years of silence that followed — the marriage, the children, the two distant sightings, the name Frances learned from a dying woman's lips — and the hand-stitched cap with the blue ribbon, still folded in the cedar box under the window, are set down here together for the first time. #1800s #19thcentury