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- In a letter to Joanne GONSALVES, Marjorie COLLINS wrote:
Dear Joanie,
Thanks for all the nice things you send to me. Wish I could help you more, but you seem to be doing fine.
Grandma [Wilhelmina WILSON] came from Sweden and went to Newport, RI. She worked as a cook. One of the sailors got her pregnant, thus my mother [Ellen Christine OLIVER] was born. Grandma's brother Gustaf WILSON came over later and stayed with her - then he got some kind of job. Grandma didn't have any sisters - just 3 brothers. I don't know the names of her other brothers.
There isn't much else I can tell you except she married a man - last name OLIVER. Had Aunt Edith with him.
Grandma was a wonderful cook and fed us good as Mama had to go to work to pay the bills and feed us.
I'm sorry I'm not very good any more, I'll be 84 in August and living alone and bored stiff.
Keep up the good work and write me now and then. I get so lonesome.
Love, Aunt Marjorie.
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