Anna Blanche (Campbell) Harclerode (1881 - 1975)

Born 1881 in Burnt Cabins, Fulton County

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Died 1975 at about age 94 in Everett, PA 15537

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Biography

Blanche was a seamstress, home/helper to other women, after she left her husband, Walter, and was one of the first women in Bedford County to drive a car. She once walked from Fulton County to Bedford County, which would take 1/2 hour to drive today. She loved to make quilts and to cook, but especially to work in her flower garden. She was very tiny, with a size 3 shoe, red hair and freckles like a stereotypical Scottish woman. She raised my father, Charles Billy Clark, and he said she was a force to contend with when angry. She made fun clothes for me when I was little, and took me and my brother to the Methodist church with her in Tatesville, PA, when I was a child. We loved her cookies, and to drink water from the stream in her yard with a tin cup. She also had a pet spider. She was a very strong woman.

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