Little Rose Girl : Janaway Publishing, Inc. : 9781596412507 : 159641250X : 01 Nov 2011 : The stories acquired from researching family genealogy haven taken on deep meaning during the last three decades. This is a story of one little girl, who grew into a woman and became a grandmother with wisdom and gray hair. It is a story of survival and determination. This is a story about a woman and her family, and so many kinds of love. In 1921, a baby girl was born in simple and humble circumstances. Blanche Rose was a woman, who really did live. Her mother really did lose her life in childbirth, decades before the terms NICU, airlift and lifesaving IV drugs were a common part of our vocabulary. Her younger, premature infant sister, Melba, really was kept warm by making her a tiny bed in a shoebox, and keeping her as close to the wood-burning stove as possible. The historical events that surrounded their lives and affected them, in very specific ways, are too numerous to be able to tell them al