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(My grandfather, who was a miner and engineer in the Sierra, once told me an incredible story about a mother living near the gold-mining camp of Fair Play on the Cosumnes River in El Dorado County. I was able to piece together this story using grandpa’s information and some details uncovered from a 19th Century newspaper, I accidentally came across while doing research for a book.)
A widow named Mary Stewart was having a very hard time making a go of it after her husband had been killed in a mine explosion. She worked long hours washing miners’ clothes to put food on the table for her two small kids. Life was especially tough and discouraging with the approach of the first Christmas without her husband. Read the rest of this heart-warming, true tale.
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