Enid Grimes

Marble Springs 2.0 screenshot of Enid Grimes

What we know

née Bashor
1863 -?
From Kentucky. Married Dickon who promised her wealth in the gold fields of California. Followed him through California to Marble Springs and left after three years.

Strength

A man like that, her mother had said,
never amounts to much.
Just look at his weak blue eyes,
she’d go on, the stove lids¹
rattling her hate.

To marry Dickon, to pretend
to believe his boasts of
next week, next year,
was Enid’s final act of weakness.

He repaid her only
with a defective child
and a stillborn son.

The land was good, he said.
Their claim would come, he said.
His next child… a new life.
In her one moment of strength,
Enid Grimes left.

Footnotes

1. If the stove is cracked, a good cement should be applied as follows: Wood ashes and salt in equal proportions, reduce to a paste with cold water, and fill in the cracks when the stove is cool. It will soon harden.Everyday Cook Book

Connections

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Sources

Pomeroy, Henry R.Prospector’s Pocket Manual: Where and How to Find Gold and Silver Mines. St Louis: self-published, 1881. Available at the Western History Department, Denver Public Library.

Portal caption and links

A picture of cast iron stove, likely wood or coal burning.
Edith Gaylor
Alvina Heollstar

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