My Life in Time

Today I am an old women. My life is nearly over I am 95 life was hard as a youngster in my days but in the end I always made it out of the hard times. I have gone through a lot in my life I have seen my parents pass and my friends but I will never forgot the times we spent together because it always made us stronger. When I was a little girl my momma would always tell me. Love never fails and that is true no matter the drama or the hardships as long as you have love it never will fail. In my long life I have learned all of that. I had a strong family and we always made it out of our hard times at the age of 4 my father walked out on our family. I always had hate for my father for leaving my 3 siblings and I with a single mother. My mom always made it through the hard times she was a strong women. This shaped my life I never was able to trust or to give my heart out until I met my best friend Nadine. We shared a lot of memories together and we were the best of friends she was the one I would cry to and tell all my feelings to. She would always listen to me and I wouldn't be judged because she had a love that never failed. As I recall I remember one time Nadine running to me in the middle of the night crying her eyes out he parents were murdered. I cried all night with her and washed her tears away I was afraid with her and didn't know what to do I scared. My mom took her in as her child so not only was Nadine my best friend but she was also my sister. My mother met a man name sam he was the best man my mom could have ever found. He took me in as his own child and I loved him dearly. He was the father that I always wanted. We had many happy days together but in the mid- 1800's all this would change and my life would have another bump and dramatically changed my life forever.

Chase 2

There was a thousand of us who were going to make the long journey from Missouri to Oregon. What we did not know at the time is that this would be one of the hardest and toughest situation our people would have to face. Everyone was running around like mad people trying to get ready for the long journey that awaited us. It was an early morning in 1843 and as we got ready to take the 2,000 mile trip to Oregon my mom said. "Baby are you ready to leave this life behind and begin a new one." I did not tell her I was afraid and scared for what would await us on the journey. I put my fears away and said " Yes mama I am ready." As I looked one more time at what used to be my home. I prayed that are journey would be safe for the Oregon Trail awaited us,

My name is Maria rose and I was one of the thousands of children that made this journey this was not a fun journey for us. Us kids didn't have the normal kid life like as other did we couldn't go to school and play and just be normal youngsters we were constantly on the move to get to our destination. We faced many adult like experiences and we were all emotionally drained from losing so many family members and friends it was the toughest thing that I had ever faced in my life

Well this is where the hardsip and troubles began. We started off with about a thousand people and many of them have passed on. I can still see the joy and happiness that each indivdual had and who many of them who hoped to go to Oregon were put to there graves. There was many deaths that we faced because of cholera. My best friend Nadine died of it. Nadine and I were talking and laughing about what we would do when we reached Oregon. We had good times and within hours my best friend had died, of a mysterious and deadly diese. She was the first person on the trail to die of this deadly disease. As I thought about all the fun and laughter we had