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Sarah Tibbetts' son, Eddie Tibbetts, stole money from their family while her husband, Captain John M. Tibbetts, was at sea. Coping was both spiritual and practical for Sarah, because they were a family of very limited economic means.

She also spoke of a neighbor who died, Isabella Hodgdon (1818-1895).

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• Title: Sarah Tibbetts on coping with son's theft, Westport Island, 1895
• Creator: Sarah A Tibbetts
• Creation Date: 1895
• Subject Date: 1895
• Location: Westport Island, Lincoln County, ME
• Media: Ink on paper
• Dimensions: 20.3 cm x 12.7 cm
• Collection: John M. Tibbetts Collection
• Object Type: Text

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Standardized Subject Headings

• Husbands
• Mothers
• Sarah McKown Tibbetts (1840-1910)--Correspondence
• Wives

People

• Hodgdon, Isabella J
• Tibbetts, Eddie W
• Tibbetts, John Fremont
• Tibbetts, John M
• Tibbetts, Sarah A

Other Keywords

• letters
• letters from home
• Sea captains
• seafaring
• Thefts

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