Recalled by Fannie Giddings Norris on her 90th birthday
It’s the Story
“The first of May, 1858, we started west,” Fannie Giddings Norris told her son-in-law Gaylord, who wrote down the story that followed. “We” referred to Charles W. Giddings, his wife Clarissa, and their four daughters — Fannie, who was 17, Lydia 15, Sarah 13 and Mary 4. C. W. and Clarissa had been married for 23 years, and had lost three other children, at ages 18, at 5 and at birth.
The Giddings fa…