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View Tree for Harriet Jeanette TarrHarriet Jeanette Tarr (b. 14 Oct 1882, d. 07 Jan 1974)

Harriet Jeanette Tarr (daughter of LeRoy Sutherland Tarr and Clara Jeanette Wilson)8 was born 14 Oct 18828, and died 07 Jan 1974 in Oshkosh, Wi.8.

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"Harriet" Jeanette Tarr Hebard by daughter Grace

My mother was a small woman, just under five feet tall. She was a little taller than her one sister, Myrtle, Mom weighed about 90 pounds when she got married and never weighed more than 100 pounds. She was like many of the Tarrs, not sociable. I rememer she told me once that her mother had told her the best way to get along with your neighbors was not to be too friendly with them. When I was growing up there were three or four families that we visited with, going there for holidays or Sundays, or they were at our house. Later when we moved away, mom never went to anyone else's home. She didn't like going to the stores. Either my dad or I did all the shopping for groceries, etc. It is one of the first things that I remember, going to the store for Mom. Mom told of working for a neighbor when she was growing up and also about working for someone at the Soldiers Home. She loved skating and when I was learning to skate she would come with me to skate on a pond in our pasture. She was not a reader, but she always read stories from the "Youth's Companion" to my brother and me. My Dad read to me a lot, but I don't think she ever read a book, only a little in a magazine or newspaper. I never knew anyone who could remember poetry as she did. I think she recited to me every poem that she ever learned in school. I did not inherit that ability. She told of the singing she and her sisters did at school and in church. She played the organ and later we had a piano. She tried to teach me how to play, but I was more interested in outdoor things, and I could never do more than play with one hand. She played the organ at church in Eckman. Mom wrote a lot of poetry and liked "Musical Recitation" and she wrote quite a long one at one time. she didn't exactly compose the music for it, but used parts of songs or hymns that she knew. She never recited it for anyone but me. I have only one poem that she wrote and she composed that when I was teaching and she wanted me to use it at school, which I did. I don't know what happened to any of the rest of her poetry. I guess she just destroyed it. She never kept scrapbooks or things like that.
My mother liked to sew and made most of my clothes, and hers. As I was growing up, she made her own patterns out of Newspaper and could copy any dress in the catalongs we had. She never liked to crochet or knit, but she taught me how to do both, and I still do a lot of handwork. She used to cut cloth into pieces about 1 1/2" by 3", and some way knit these strips in with yard to make a shaggy rug sort of covering for the footstools. I never learned to do that.
We never had much money, but my mother could always make something good to eat out of whatever we had. She was an excellent pie maker, but she nenver could teach me to make tender, flaky pie crust like hers. She went "by feel".
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