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The Communicatoe Chippwa-Luce Mackinac Community Action Publication, December 1978 Trout Lake In 1903 Put Her Off "Let´s go back!" Emma Schimmelpenny said to her husband, William, in 1903 as they stepped off the train in Trout Lake. The farmlands she had called home in Wisconsin seemed a long way off, and the destination seemed questionable in character. There were drunk lumberjacks in the streets and on the train itself. "The conductor had to hold his nose and go around opening windows," she said, recalling and making a face. But they stuck it out and stayed because there was plenty of work then for a woodsman such as William. They settled in Moran and had 17 children - eight of whom are still living. Since her husband died in 1967 Emma has been living at the Medical Care Facility in St. Ignace. At the age of 97 she has 165 or so living descendents, some of whom she still corresponds with regularly. At least one of those is a great-great-great grandchild. It´s getting more difficult to keep track of them all, but Emma sends them all birthday cards. Although her memory is excellent, she doesn´t trust it well enough to remember all the names and dates without having a list. Up until a few years ago she crocheted a great deal. All her children received lace bedspreads she had made. But arthritis put a stop to that activity. Emma must limber her hands with hot water in the morning now. "That helps a lot," she said, rubbing the stiffened joints in her hands. The arthritis doesn´t stop her reading, though, "I do an awful lot of that," she added. Despite the arthritis, she hand wrote over a hundred Christmas cards last year and manages to pick out her own clothing from the mail order catalog. Mrs. John Schimmelpenny, her daughter-in-law, said that Emma enjoys whatever independence she can manage. "She does her own hair," she said. "She won´t let anyone do it for her."
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