November 07, 2024
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Comments for: Gram Jenks’ long-lost husband surfaces

For more than 25 years, I presumed that Mary “Gram” Jenks, my great-great-great grandmother, had been widowed a second time before she became the first women’s police matron in Rhode Island in 1893. In the little book she published a decade later, “Behind the Bars,”… Read More

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