Lydia Whaley - a story about an Appalachian woman.
Lydia Kear Whaley (1840 –1926) was an American basket weaver. While her primary income was farming, the Civil War widow also worked as a healer, midwife, teacher and undertaker.
Whaley née Kear was born on May 24, 1840, in Sevier County, Tennessee. In 1860, she married John Whaley, with whom she had three children, two survived infancies. John Whaley died in 1864, while fighting for the Union army in the American Civil War. Whaley supported her family by farming
She was a talented basket weaver and the namesake of the Aunt Lydia basket sold in Gatlinburg TN.
Learn more through the video.
Many of my Rogers ancestors also lived in Sevier County TN at the time she did - so I'm always interested in learning how they lived. I had a few ancestors who were farmers, and others lived in the town of Sevierville. Then some of them moved to Texas, where a few generations later, I was born.
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