IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK..... (post #2)
Quick Note: Copies of these beautiful Easter Cards have been made by Koester House Museum Foundation and are available for sale at both the museum and The Marysville Advocate for $4 each.
On to Our Main Feature --
I know that I promised to chat more about me, but next Sunday is Easter, and I am reminded of Easter here in April, 1885. Charles’ wife, Sylvia, had died two years earlier, but Charles carried on Easter traditions with his three young children ages 3 to 7. He surprised each of them with Easter cards. He tucked the cards in his diary so that Tinnie, Jennie, and Charles would one day have something by which to remember this day.
It was a busy day. The children were up early in anticipation of the Easter rabbit laying some Easter eggs in the lawn. As Charles tells it, “Aunt Jane (Schmidt) sent a nice Easter card and Cousins Jennie and Ludo have prepared a nice little basket with nicely ornamented eggs for Papa and his three little ones. Cousins Phillip, Muth, and Sylvis come, then the joyful hunt for the Easter eggs begins; all have little baskets. Papa comes a little later after them with a clothes basket, but finds only one egg—all laugh.” Charles took a bouquet to the cemetery to remember his late wife, Sylvia. They then went to see his sister Jane Schmidt who had the genuine Easter hen that had laid the decorated eggs. It was a white hen with a red tail and blue wings, “a wonder to the little folks,” as Charles put it. They enjoyed another hunt for Easter eggs after lunch.
