At nineteen, Madeleine Tosh met a tugboat captain working on the Pagan river. She married him to spite her father for an undelivered gift four months later, bearing nine children. Madeline raised six to adulhood.
Madeleine left her husband after the children were grown, moving to a brownstone in Washington D.C. off 14th Street. For money Madeleine worked packing and unpacking crystal lamps and shades at Woodard and Lothrop’s department store in D.C.
Madeleine later moved to a prefabricated quonset hut in Claremont, purchasing an oak loom on which she wove linen and and handspun cotton fabrics for pocket money.
Madeleine never traveled outside the Virginia, D.C. area. She died in 1984.
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