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Surname: Thorn, Bundy
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Gulaelma Maria Thorn
This was my grandmother Thorn.
Born June 17, 1815 (Daughter of DAVID BUNDY)
Died April 2, 1886
She was before her marriage GULAEMA MARIA BUNDY. She was married to TAYLOR
A. THORN in Guilford County, North Carolina, in 1832. She lived 70 years,
9 months, 15 days. Died of pneumonia. She died just a few days of my brother
John's birth. (Incorrect?) I never remember her without a cap on her head,
black for day wear white for night, and also she wore a cape of dark material.
She may have dressed otherwise in her younger days.
I remember as a small child I loved to follow her to some secluded spot
where she would get out tobacco from a pocket (sewed in a seam of her gown).
It was what you called (long green tobacco). She would press this tobacco,
place it in a long stem clay pipe, and then she would sit very contentedly
and smoke until the pipe would finally go out. I watched this procedure
with much interest. She never smoked in public.
She was a very gentle and kind woman. She was that round face and must
have been a very good looking young woman. I now have an old bonnet made
of dark brown calico that has paper strips placed in the crown that can
be taken out when the bonnet is to be washed. It comes way out over the
face and has a long straight tail that covers the shoulders. Surely no
one ought to get tanned with it on their head. When ready to launder it
lay flat. She made and wore this bonnet. Anyone in those days of good breeding
was supposed not to be tanned.
She was a very soft spoken and gentle woman. Must have had many hardships.
She was a good cook. I have heard (from a friend who visited her) that
she could get a meal ready quicker than anyone that they ever knew. She
always baked biscuits, (as almost everyone did in those days), quickly
she would roll and mix the dough, then with her hands she would pinch off
a small amount of the dough, give it a pat, place it in the pan, and it
was done before you could get ready to eat it.
I well remember going to their house when young, running to the back of
their lot and watch the train go by. That was when the railroad was new
to Lynn.
She was a faithful member of the Christian Church and talked often of the
Church, and I have an Old Testament that was read by them. The back is
gone,and some of the leaves. At one time they lived in a small house in
the corner of ground known as the Y north of Arba. I have two small books
(advertisements of the early wheat binder) that have leaves you can write
on, on these plain places she kept a diary. Many names are written there
of people who have passed on, of their life and dates of their death, also
of her children and their help to them. Those early settlers, their ways
were crude, but to me very interesting in their ways and at this time they
seem impossible. But I sure that off my Hat to Them. They trod the trails
we the roads.
She was buried in the cemetery at Mt. Gilead beside her husband.
Great-great-greatgrandmother of Robert M. Sharp