THE EARLY PINKERTONS

by

Margaret Pinkerton Fitchett

At the time of my grandfather's death, my mother was 18 years old.

Her youngest sister Clarice was 18 months old.

Clarice in later years, would ask my mother about their father. I would be sitting on a stool at the fireside.

The following story is my memory of those days.

Margaret Pinkerton Fitchett, 1940

Note to readers: Geoff Pinkerton scanned the original manuscript as supplied by Barbara Cummings. He used optical character recognition software and then proofread the document. Some obvious spelling mistakes were corrected. Contact has been made with the son of Margaret Pinkerton Fitchett and permission has been granted to publish this manuscript on the Pinkerton Resource Page. The pictures were not contained in the orginal manuscript, but added by Geoff to help illustrate the story.