Jemima is remembered as a tall, quiet woman of immaculate dress and fair hair, a skilled seamstress, and her mother’s main help. Her diary provides delightful details about sewing a silk dress and frilled apron, piecing a quilt, starching clothes, and refining her parental home with flower wreaths and “whimsies.”  She even mentions washing the dishes and wringing out the clothes, activities that others rarely record. See her brother’s diary for the same years. 

The Ripley Farm. Thadeus Leavitt, History of Leeds and Grenville, 1879