Pictured are Clinton’s brother Frank (the diary-keeper), Clinton’s wife Lavinia (the Avon librarian), and Jane Hadsell (Frank and Clinton’s mother)... Show morePictured are Clinton’s brother Frank (the diary-keeper), Clinton’s wife Lavinia (the Avon librarian), and Jane Hadsell (Frank and Clinton’s mother). Clinton and Lavinia’s mothers were an important part of their lives. Lavinia’s mother was Mrs. Julius Keyes Miller (1852-1938). Her given name was Maria, pronounced “Mariah,” and in 1920 she was a widow living with Clinton and Lavinia. Jane Hadsell lived directly across the street. Frank wrote about neglected mothers. “How often young people fail to realize, until too late, the strains and trials of mothers, wives and sisters. Suddenly they are gone from us - and we might so easily have helped them to a longer and sweeter life.” Frank described Thanksgiving 1919 at his mother’s home. “This was Thanksgiving time and …we had long ceased to expect either Clinton or Will to come. Their homes were run in more modern and expensive ways than ours and the old home ties no longer appealed to them - so I suppose.” Original title in CBH’s list for photograph #134:“Frank Mother Vin Dining Room.” Original title on his paper sleeve: “Frank Mother Vin Dining Room March 1911.” Source: In the U.S. Census Bureau , 1920, Maria Miller was listed as a widow living with daughter Lavinia Miller Hadsell, and her son in law, Clinton; Frank Hadsell Diary, August 1905, Volume 19, p. 94. Photograph # 152 is the same room. Thanksgiving in Frank Hadsell Diary, Volume 26, 1919, pp. 5-6.) Caption by Nora O. Howard, Avon Town Historian, 2017. Show less