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Prudence Person's Scrapbook

An Annotated Digital Edition

Ashley Reed, Jimmy Zhang, Meagan Keziah, Authors

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Pages 90 through 99

Page 90:  This page includes the obituaries of two of Prudence's siblings:  Joseph and Martha.  There is also the obituary of a Joseph Mason, though he is not directly related to the Person family.  

Page 91:  Contrasting with the many obituaries appearing in the last twenty pages or so of Prudence's scrapbook, this page has two illustrations of birds along with an article stressing the importance of and advocating for the preservation of birds.

Page 92:  This page has the rest of the bird article from the previous page, along with a few illustrations and cutouts of birds.

Page 93:  This page includes an article about a religious card player from Scotland, though no author is credited with writing the piece.  Prudence also included an image, a poem, and some aphorisms on this page, much like several other pages throughout the scrapbook.

Page 94:  Prudence included an article about eternal life on this page, along with another illustration and a large number of aphorisms.

Page 95:  This page has several flower cutouts on it, but also has two poems, one of which is about the end of one's life, while the other is about finding the silver linings in life.

Page 96:  Like the previous page, Page 96 also has flower cutouts surrounding a poem in the middle of the page; the poem on this page is by American poet and journalist John Luckey McCreery.

Page 97:  This page contains an extensive article on the history of the Lousiburg Female College, which Prudence, her siblings, and her mother all attended.

Page 98:  All of this page is dedicated to Judge Charles Mather Cooke, a prominent North Carolinian politician and judge.  Cooke and his wife were very close to the Person family:  Prudence's husband studied law in his office, and Judge Cooke himself wrote an obituary for Prudence's mother, Abiah, when she passed away in 1893.  One of the obituaries included on this page was written by either a former slave of Cooke's or a descendant of a former slave.

Page 99:  The illustration that covers this page was by little-known New York illustrator Gene Pressler.
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