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Margaret Sophia Margaret was one of 12 children and was born in Isabella county near Clare, Michigan. She always attended the Methodist church while growing up, but she remembers playing on the steps of the Congregational church and getting in trouble for this. Her parents scolded her not because they had anything against the Congregationalists, but because nice little girls did not play on the church steps. While she was a child, Henry Ford had a farm near Clare and word went around that he would be driving by one day in his original 1 cylinder automobile. She and her family walked over to a road near their house to see this sight. She remembers her feelings were "NO HORSES!" and that seemed so impossible at that time.
Helen, their oldest daughter, was diagnosed with Leukemia during the second week of December, 1933 at age 15. She passed away just two weeks later on Christmas Eve. Margaret could fix anything. She had an arsenal of glues in the upper cupboard of her kitchen and would repair any and all toys broken by her grandchildren. Her most famous fix-it was her son Don's toy motorcycle. She repaired this many, many times and in the end it didn't look too pretty, but it did work.
When it came time for guests to go home Margaret would give each visiting child several pink candies with X's on them for the ride home. She said that her father used to keep these candies in his shirt pocket and his grandchildren would always ask him for them; she was carrying on the tradition.
Margaret enjoyed a very long life. She drove her car until the age of 99 and lived at her home until age 100. A couple of falls forced her to move in with her son Don. Then she moved to her other son Bob's house and finally on to the Greenbriar Nursing Home in Sterling, Michigan. She passed away on November 17, 1995, just short of her 103rd birthday. Even though this is not said much anymore, I believe that she, in fact, died of old age. She was a fine lady. ~Written by Margaret's grandson, Wayne EASTMAN, with help from Margaret's youngest son, Donald. |
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Margaret
Sophia ARCHAMBOULT
While
growing, up Margaret lost two brothers (Will & Joe) when they
were 19 & 17 years old. Another brother, 
She
never did make it all the way back home to Harrison because she met 
Margaret
had several eating traditions around her house. One was that most
Sunday dinners with the family would include homemade noodles and
tomato sauce for her Italian husband. Flour was obtained from and
sifted by the built-in 25 pound hopper in the cupboard. The pasta was
made, rolled out, and sliced on the her linoleum-covered kitchen
table. Another tradition was keeping a small sponge with a few drops
of water taped to the lid of the cookie container in the kitchen. She
said this kept the cookies moist and fresh. Yet another was the
ever-present jar of "sugared" honey to spread on the fresh
Spatz's bread. When grandchildren became thirsty, they could choose
from ice water in the green glass container in the refrigerator, O-So-Grape
pop, or Vernor's ginger ale that they could sniff, cough, and giggle
over. One unusual tradition was wild rabbit with Polenta. The Rabbit
was initially cooked and then set in a pan, covered with a mixture of
corn meal and pasta sauce and baked into a loaf. Olive oil and Romano
cheese were applied at the time of serving.
After
her husband passed away, Margaret decided to build the vacation
cottage that she and 
