She Reveals The SIN She Witnessed As A Girl. Warning: This Story Will Haunt You.
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- I have posted clips from my documentary before on TH-cam and have been asked many questions in the comments about it. So I decided to tell the background story. My video presents the entire interview.
It is a strange and sad story and my doc details the efforts that my team over a nine-month period to investigate it. We concluded that, even with the minor errors that Nettie Mitchell may have made in telling it, the basic story was true.
I took the interview that you are watching here to the executive producer of PBS American Experience series and she gave us the funds to make a one-hour documentary that both investigated the story and dramatized it titled Sins Of Our Mothers.
Some of the people that you see in this film clip corroborated what Nettie told my cameraman back in the 1975 when he recorded this interview. And I complement PBS for running a story like this involved with the Oedipus complex, Puritan sin (really sin in any culture), the sex abuse difficulties young women endured when they went to work in the mills of Massachusetts back in the mid-1800s.
Sin was a central concept in Puritan theology and was taken very seriously in New England during the 1800s. The Puritans believed that human beings were born sinful and that salvation could only be attained through faith in Jesus Christ.
In Puritan New England, sin was not just a personal failing but a crime against God and society. Puritan communities were tightly controlled with strict rules to prevent sinful behavior. Puritan ministers preached about sin regularly and sin was viewed as a very real danger to the community. Punishments for sin were severe and included public shaming, fines, imprisonment and even banishment.
Puritans were particularly concerned with sexual sins such as adultery and fornication which they believed threatened the sanctity of marriage. They were also deeply opposed to gambling, drinking and other forms of "worldly" pleasure, which they saw as distractions from the pursuit of godliness.
Life for rural Maine farmers in 1850 was difficult and marked by hardship and isolation. Most farmers lived on small, family-owned farms. Farmers typically had to contend with a challenging climate, as the winters were long and harsh, and the growing season was short. The soil in Maine was also rocky and infertile, making it difficult to grow crops.
Farmers worked long hours, often starting before dawn and continuing until well after sunset, in order to tend to their crops and livestock. They relied heavily on manual labor, with most tasks performed by hand or with the help of draft animals such as horses or oxen.
In addition to the challenges of farming, rural Maine farmers also faced social and economic isolation. Many lived far from towns or cities and had limited access to markets or goods and services. They also had limited access to education and cultural amenities.
This may be why a rural Maine farmer family trusted that when they sent their daughter Emmeline to work in the Lowell woolen Mills, she would be safe and protected as the broadsides hosted around the state of Maine for all to read claimed.
But it is also true that throughout New England and maybe throughout the country at that time, shunning was an active part of community life. Shunning was a form of social ostracism where individuals who were seen as violating community norms or religious beliefs were publicly condemned and excluded from social interactions. Shunning was often used as a way to enforce moral standards in the community. Those who were accused of violating these standards, such as engaging in extramarital affairs or consuming alcohol, would be publicly shamed and excluded from social events, including church services. Those who were shunned would be denied access to critical resources, such as food and supplies, and would be excluded from the support and assistance of their community.
Individuals who were shunned experienced significant social and economic hardship. They might lose their livelihoods or be forced to move away from their communities in order to avoid the stigma of being shunned. Despite its harshness, shunning was seen as an important way to maintain the moral fabric of the community. It was used as a way to enforce social norms and to discourage behaviors that were seen as immoral or sinful.
All of the above helps to understand how & why what happened to Emmeline according to Nettie Mitchell, could have happened. For me Nettie Mitchell was a courageous journalist/storyteller. She held it inside for so long and was pleased when we made the documentary (titled Sins Of Our Mothers), & provoked Judith Rosner to write the book Emmeline. The money she received helped her live the rest of her life in some level of comfort.
I want to thank the advertisers who post on my video. They include Portland to Bar Harbor and Rome, Maine.
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Here is the complete story of how and why this occurred. It will help you to understand. th-cam.com/video/sPW_TGp8MrE/w-d-xo.html
And this 98-year-old lady who I interviewed back in 1979 was just amazing. She lived a life that is completely gone now. -th-cam.com/video/js91H5wB11Q/w-d-xo.html
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Thank you for looking after Nettie in her old age. She reminds me very much of my great auntie Annie. She reached 96 years old and had worked as a 'lady in waiting' ie a house servant, and she told me stories of the cruelty of the rich towards the poor. Aunty Annie always looked out for those in need and when we would walk through the lanes and woods, she knew every plant and its use. I still miss her.
Thank you for this
I saw the video for this story before. I think it was the first video I saw of yours. I especially liked the Vietnam soldier story but was sad it was cut off. I wonder what happened after that. I like to think he was okay after that and was loved.
I’m sure Nettie says she’s 89 not 98.
A friend of mine has a very similar story about his mother. She lived in the northeast as a child, and was sent far away to work for a doctor. I don't know much detail, except that after she came back home she had severe anxiety the rest of her life. Her own immediate family suspected she had been sexually abused during her time working for this doctor. Very sad.
In the very early 1950's when I was about six we lived near a sweet old lady who used to make us cookies after school. My sister and I used to go to see her everyday after school. My parents didn't know her, she was just our friend. Things were very different and far safer in those days. Thinking about it now, she lived alone, didn't seem to have a car or to leave the house. We had to cross a railroad track to get to her little house. One day, I was by myself and went to cross the railroad track on the way home. A train was coming and I was hesitating to cross but I didn't want to wait for a long train. The engineer was honking wildly and I could see him looking freaked because there was nothing he could do to stop the train. I saw my mother across the street, yelling don't cross, stay back! But I leapt across right at the last moment. The train was probably no more than 20 feet from me. I got a switching when my mother got hold of me. She said I could never go to see the old lady again. I guess as a kid it didn't strike me that my sister and I may have been the only company that old lady had in a day, but as I've gotten older and company gets scarcer, I have thought about it. No one phoned her and I don't know if she even had a phone. So I guess she made her cookies and no one came until she gave up. It must have been a shock and a great sadness to her for us to just stop coming. A while back, I searched for our old address. The neighborhood had hardly changed, I suppose because rail yards had grown up over time and no one really wanted to live there. Our house was pretty much as it had been. Believe it or not as I looked around the neighborhood I saw what must have been her old house still standing. Of course the old lady died long ago. It was very sad for me to realize what two little girls never returning without explanation might have meant to a lonely old soul. Wherever she is now, I hope she could hear me explaining to her what happened.
I've had few similar situations in life when I was younger.
It was a nice kind old lady that got me to keep going to school, when I was being picked on.
She got my bullies a d gave them a serve, and after that, she would leave me a little at of sweets to pick up on the way home.
I've always found old people to be very interesting and a great source of information.
Now I'm old I STILL find old-er people fascinating and I m left in a different time where people don't care nor the time to consider other's well being.
When I'm dead, nobody is going to know till the smell can't be ignored any longer.
I've never been married and never had kids, plus I left my immediate family behind in 2010, in the interests of self preservation.
Mother spent many years trying to end my life and the family have done nothing but lie and gaslight me about the abuse for decades.
Youngest brother is the most normal. Next brother and father are narcisists and my mother is a bipolar psychopath, while I'm high functioning autistic. Always been the outcast and society really isn't any different.
I won't let illness get me because I'll do it before I end up having to rely on the help of others, while losing my dignity and self respect.
Ftw
Ouch!!
Such a beautiful story!
Great story. Think of all the company and happiness you and your sister brought. Mustn’t think of when you stopped going. I’m sure you impacted her world very fondly. Thank you for sharing.
Was the house made out of gingerbread? 😂
I once heard this saying from someone: “when an old person dies, a library burns down”. This story was *riveting*. A 🌹for Emmaline.
African proverbs 👑♥️🙏🏿
So true
Very well said
Never heard this saying, but I love it ❤️
That's why we have souls
This story has played out countless times in Ireland where I live. The things that were done to young women and girls who, through no fault of their own, were perceived to be "fallen women" sickens me.
Praise JESUS 😢🎉
Oh no that's crazy that's why I say read the Bible pray to Jesus stay in Scripture
Like seriously I can attest to some of these things but I know and truth that the Lord will never leave nor forsake those that call upon his name in spirit and Truth Spirit of the holy spirit in the gospel of peace which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ Our Lord and our savior the one and only son of the Living God
That sounds like some Twisted demonic stuff
Why would she go that far
Nettie made her life matter by telling the ladies story and showing her kindness as a little girl ❤. RIP Emmeline ❤
Rest in peace Nettie too
Right! That's was amazing!
The ones who should be ashamed are those hypocrites that shunned Emmaline. As far as Emmaline, God will remember her in the resurrection….He knows the whole truth and she will find happiness knowing she did nothing wrong. Thank you Nettie, for sharing this story.
This story broke my heart. The very 1st time my mom had sex she became pregnant w me. She was only 15. Everyone except my father wanted me to b aborted. Everyone was very mean n rotten to my mom while she was pregnant. One day my mom was out shopping n needed to sit down. A woman moved over n told her to sit n was the only person that was kind to her during her entire pregnancy. The woman n her spoke for quite awhile. The woman's name was Melanie. I found this out by asking my mom one day where she came up w my name. I am named after the only person thar was kind to her during her entire pregnancy.
Your poor mom ❤️
Such a sweet story God bless that woman Melanie
I always say to people who turn up their nose at unexpected pregnancy, " The vast difference is she happened to be ovulating when she had sex, the rest of you were not. You were lucky, but have no reason to look down on anyone ". Babies are a blessing from God.
Aww, that's so sweet. If that woman has passed, she's probably watching over you. ✨🌻
Karma will get them! I remember when I was criticized for being pregnant by my former friend and her stepmom. Not too long after that former friend got pregnant without having a high school education, still living at home with her mom, unemployed and the father of the child has 8 kids from elsewhere and they weren’t together. Them who criticized had to eat their words.
So sad that as a 14 yr old child she was held accountable and not the man who took advantage of her.
Terri Jamison ....yes. That’s called Judgment Day. If Judgment Day isn’t part of this mans religion then karma played a roll somewhere down his lifespan and could possibly continue into his afterlife journey. If he never asked this woman for his forgiveness as well as his creator then his afterlife might not be as pleasant
That's a Fact as of Todays world also. Some countries stone the girls to death after they've been Raped.
She speaks a truth that begs restitution
Well...we don't know what happened to the man. Maybe he got punished some other way. Who knows.
S. Bajei Garrett As I grew up as a child in MO, (1950’s, 60’s, 70’s) females were always at fault and not the men who abused.
What's even sadder about what happened to Emmeline, is the fact that not only was she an innocent child, who was seduced by her boss, who was much older, but the possibility, that he molested her, and because she was so naive, and poor, she was afraid to say anything. And eventhough the money she sent home, kept her family alive, they were too evil, and ungrateful to stand by her! I hope her entire family is rotting in hell!!😢😢
Don’t forget about the baby brokering.
What a heartbreaking story! A boss gets a young girl pregnant and she is shunned the rest of her life by a community that should have helped her and not criticize her. That’s appalling.
Wait a minute. Her son didn't "take advantage" of her. Neither of them knew the truth. Read the story of Oedipus the king.
The most heartbreaking story I've ever heard 😢
Why did the son go away? I don't understand why he shunned her? It's obvious that there was a human connection (even though they were not able to see that). I wonder if he was shunned as well. It seems to me that he loved her but he reluctantly had to leave and moved to (where?) Main? Massachusetts? Whatever, wherever he went. Someone should investigate what happened to the boy. My blessings to Ms. Netty for telling us about Madeleine 🙏😢. And that bitch sister! “She paid for her sin”. (?) WOW!
Thank you for sharing this story.
@@fckineh48 They are referring to Emmaline's boss, the man who impregnated her.
A tale from a day when women were property of a father or husband. Otherwise of no value at all. Rape a property crime. Shocking but true. British law. Kidding oneself to think US civil war exempted citizens of America. Like most events, ulterior lies about motives and outcomes.
"I think her sister sinned more than she." Absolutely heartbreaking.
Of course the sister was influenced by the parents
Sure she had. And why do ppl think someone's death is due to their sin.
@@mzpchypchz God has pronounced that the penalty of sin is spiritual death and separation from God in a place of judgment called hell: “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Jesus clearly taught that sinners were condemned in sin and would perish and go to hell if they didn't believe in Him as their Savior (John 3:16-18). There are 2 types of death, physical death, and spiritual death. This poor woman's physical death happened as a result of the sins of those around her. They too will face those sins and will not only die once but will die twice unless they repent and turn to Jesus for salvation.
@MAX3D2 I really don't know why you telling me scriptures or anything else. As I said.. Why do other ppl think that they can say..that another is paying for their sins or going to hell for that matter. Neither of us can pay judgement on another or curse them to hell. Individual's relationship with God is their own..their judgment is his. Up above..I was referring to the sister who stated that the banished woman's death was a final payment for her sin.
i wonder how The Most High God looks upon that sister? So Very SAd!
These stories are SO SO very common. We have generations of women who have been abused by others, especially under the guise of organized religions. I treat PTSD in survivors of assault and there are survivors everywhere all over the world with untold stories and unhealed wounds. This breaks my heart, but I feel honored to help women recover. So many Americans really don't want to admit that we have been living in a culture of abuse and oppression, but the truth is everywhere...we just need to listen more.
You are so right. They suffered so much all because of society and the young men who abused them. I watched a movie about this very subject last night called The Woman in the Wall. With Ruth Wilson on Prime Video. The catholic church is so culpable in this situation. I to, had a child out of wedlock in 1983. But my story is so different. I kept my daughter raised her up and she now is a Christian married to a minister and raising 4 beautiful children. What the devil meant for evil God exchanged for extreme good.
There is no hate like Christian love.
The day I heard America was making Abortion illegal I thought of all those women who were destined to suffer the hours of giving birth to children they could not afford either financially ,physically mentally and often a combination of both but of course its not just the women who suffer its the child itself ,born into a Country that offers very little in the way of support with its holier than thou attitude for anyone who cannot work or has not ability to make ends meet being told its their own fault ,this awful lie that poverty and mental health are of your on choice and making seems to be the new liberalism catch cry that lifts the guilt and shame of not sharing or caring and throw it straight onto the already burdened person carrying the pain of not working or being mentally ,its such a shocking lie ,I live in Australia and whist things aren't any where near as good as they could and should be we do have. asocial security system that allows the unemployed to get some money and we have public housing ,both of which are being strangled by the neo liberal "its your own fault.
ISLAM has no shame. Muhammad married a 6 year old named Aisha and when she was 9 he ???
Not really, one in every thousand, maybe. There’s just nothing “interesting “ in all those other “normal” stories. We only hear the exceptions
I grew up in southern Maine, a little town called Berwick, and I can attest that even in the late 70s and early 80s, shunning was a thing. While this was a terrible thing, I'm glad Nettie had a chance to tell the story. I get the feeling that she felt a lot better after getting that off her chest.
I’m an old man, and a Christian, I would say this woman committed no sin, but certainly all of those around her did. I am heartbroken.
Me too..😢
Well she did sin by nail in her boss out of wedlock but the family and community committed the greater sin through their own unforgiveness unfortunately today's society doesn't look down on sin the gov't rewards it balance is key
@@ryanamber3071 your reasoning is stupid. How does a 13 yr old give consent? Nkt.
@@teopistorsind9874 Exactly! I can not believe how small minded some people can be. That poor girl was a child, and all alone. I can just imagine how that older man seduced her, or possibly even raped her. Geesh! Then we've got this other guy on here who just KNOWS the poor woman and her son knew they were related and got married anyway. These people would have fit right in with the evil townspeople. Amazing! It's no wonder the world is so messed up. May our Creator, our Almighty Father and Savior, have mercy on us, even though we don't deserve it.
Ryan Amber she didn’t nail as you disgustingly put it
...it was rape. Having sex with a minor is rape
Grooming a minor is rape
I agree with Nettie's mother. The family of Emeline sinned more than she did. A lot of people who call themselves Christian completely miss the message of Jesus. Forgive.
AMEN!
John 13:34,35
Forgive Emeline?? She did nothing wrong. Forgive her boss/rapist for ruining her life? I’ll leave that kind of forgiveness to the Christians.
So true and still you see these so called christians al around us
Yes i totally agree.
My heart goes out to the lady that this elderly woman is talking about in the story. Everything she went through and then dying alone and abandoned by everyone knowing nobody wanted you. That had to be the worst feeling knowing that nobody wanted you that no one loved you.
😪😪
My two sisters and I have a horror story of our own that lasted every day for seven years. For most it would be hard to believe . I'am the only sister still continues to seek help for more than 40 years. In and out of the hospital for depression and medications. Now that all the monsters involved are now passed I wish I had a chance for someone to listen to our story.
Tell ur story, Charlene. It will not only help u but will help others of how u survived & coped.
I have a story too but will not tell it till the last survivor passes on so he will not be shamed. That day is coming soon.
Re: Emmaline. I know that Jesus awaited her with open loving arms & she is now resting in the loving arms & warmth she never experienced here on earth. To think her family sacrificed her to a dangerous world for their own gain. And then rejected her when, in her innocence, she fell after being put n2 a terrible situation.
As Jesus said, " I would have no one perish."
I have no doubt that Jesus collected her n2 His loving arms & there she will spend eternity.
Would love to hear
This is so tragic and breaks my heart. This kind of thing happened so often in in early America and was so unfair to young fragile woman and treated as objects. Men ruled the land and no one questioned it. What a complete crock! Thank you for presenting this story! This elderly lady was just beautiful!!
Hello dear , how are you doing today
When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground.
What a beautiful quote..we need to hang on to rhe wisdom and humility of our elders, in a world that is too fast and too cool 😎
Btw, This is not my quote, I seen it elsewhere and it is beautiful. Take care, God bless.
So true! Younger generations can learn so much from our elders if only we would listen. Soon those stories of theirs will be gone, as extinct as the dodo bird! 😭😭😭
10 4 roger . i agree
not all elders are wise....not all young people are hard- headed and don't want to learn. Black and white thinking is part of what causes lots of problems for society, families and individuals.
❤
unfortunately it's true .
I’m an ex psychiatric nurse, and I’m old now but the stories my patients told me were beyond belief. God bless them.
Me as well. Psych nurses hear the root cause of all evils.
id love to hear them
Yes, I am a psych nurse of 30 years and the stories I have heard over the years would break your heart.
@@calvinquesnel198 you are so right.
Jennifer Holden I can just imagine. I’m a nurses aide primarily working with Alzheimer’s clients. The old memories often remain cogent and my heart breaks for some of the things I’ve heard. Sad difficult lives
What a wonderful woman. Thank you for this. Shunning is evil. Individuals use The Silent Treatment to punish other individuals- like spouses. I know.
The eloquent language of ages past..."She yielded to his persuasion". Poetic.
I was shunned for decades for not converting to my family's religion. Still rarely hear from them, and when we talk, it's mainly just polite conversation. I work hard to ensure that my children are united and love each other no matter what occurs. My legacy is to break the cycles of neglect, shunning, emotional and physical and "other abuses" -- BREAK THE CYCLES.
Your children are so blessed to have you as a mother. Stay in power, dear Lady.
Which religion was that?
@@leejennifercorlewayres9193 all of them.
Dear Big Black Conference, I hurt fpr your suffering and pain, but you are wiser than they. There is a God in heaven who wants you to join his family he hates religion and he’s the one who made you since the rebellion of the atom we’ve all inherited the signature none are perfect no not even one but when people shun others it’s pride
Pride is a very sin that kick Lucifer out of heaven and it will do the same for us.
The GOD who made you, how to set you apart to call you his own he wants you to join our family.
The family is the family of God.
No religion, but through repentance of our own sin and we all sin rely we still we deceive we’re selfish we just Robert parents we take out the name in vain- don’t we?
Empty yourself of all that you know is wrong by talking to God and confessing it to God not a priest or another human being. And then read the Bible read and read and read and read and talk to God and accept Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior he doesn’t want you to have any religion he wants a relationship with you, and I do too. For different reasons, I’m in the same situation you are.
Jesus promises never to leave or forsake us he will stick closer than a brother he will provide all your needs he will love you as his own and he will never reject you never shown you turn away from you. He will never take away your free will so if you choose not to walk with Jesus at some point you don’t have to but Jesus is the only way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by him he made you he loves you
HELL IS REAL
HEAVEN IS REAL
JESUS IS WHO HE SAID HE IS, the only way to eternal life
Develop a relationship with Jesus. Make Him number one in your life. And read all about heaven where I hope to meet you in person and give you huge hug 🤗 and dance the street’s of GOLD WORSHIPPING JESUS FOR EVERMORE. JESUS IS GOD COME IN FLESH - He is NOT RELIGION.
(Alllll religion YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING
With Jesus, it’s different
It’s what HE HAS ALREADY DONE FOR YOU- a GIFT 🎁
Please think about what I’ve said. Pray forgive (choice), all those who have rejected you.
The shunning is demonic and a way to control - control is abuse and witchcraft.
Pray for your family when you have given your life to Jesus
( because THEN YOU WILL HAVE HIS POWERP to love forgive and minister to them
You may have come to this point for the sole purpose of leading your family out of religion and into eternal life.
God RICHLY BLESS YOU MY
DEAR💞🙏🏽❣️
Amen, sis
Nettie saw an opportunity to get a little justice for Emeline by telling her story to people who might get it out on a large scale. That's really beautiful
Thank you for this story👍. God Bless You🙏.
It's just too bad the people who shunned her didn't have their names exposed for the awful treatment they gave her, publicly SHAMED AND DISGRACED!!! What comes around goes around...
it seems like some sort of vague redemption in its acknowledgement of her existence and what happened to her, but it's more symbolic than anything else.
Yes, precious Nettie never let her dear neighbor be forgotten. So glad she had this opportunity.
I'm with you 1000%
Such a moving story. That poor woman suffered because of the ignorance and bias of others. Truly heartbreaking 💔
They never talk about the Pooish atrocities done across the world banned from 575 countries and self proclaimed children of satan.Dont fall for the lies of this channel!
Thank you for carrying on the stories of our elders past. We can learn so much by passing these stories on to the younger generation.
Think about how many stories like this have died, untold.
*An old person is a library on fire*
@@eilandwaynette What a good saying! I'll remember those words 🙂
@LaMonda Denise God bless you.
@@SilentShadovv its a African proverb..
When a elder dies a library burns to the ground.
@@eilandwaynette
Thank you for that.
I've never heard it put like that before.
In the seventies, when I was working as a nurse's aid in a home for seniors, I heard a horrible story from a woman who would have been between 85 and 90 years old. I missed the first part of the story because she was murmuring it in an undertone. She was asked to a dance by a young man she knew. When he came to pick her up in his buggy, there were several other young men with him. This didn't cause her any concern, because transportation was an issue, and the young folks would pack as many as possible into a wagon, carriage, or buggy if they had the chance to go to a dance. However, they drove her to a distant barn, where there were no other people. I'll never forget her words: "I asked them, 'Where are the other girls?" and they laughed, real ugly like." She was gang raped that night. She never told anyone when she was young, but somehow, she had to tell somebody, and she told a girl in her twenties helping her to get to bed in a nursing home, decades after it happened.
😢😢😢😢😭
Oh wow. She felt that she could tell you that and I believe she needed to. That's such a burden to carry for so many years. 😢 I hope it helped give her peace❤
Poor lady, that’s awful. I hope those men had an awful life.
@@ihanakaunotar2741 karma comes in all shapes and sizes.
My heart is broken💔. This must have ruined her life.
I don’t understand how human beings can be this evil to each other. I’ve often ask myself this very same question if you saw something hungry and in need could you just act like it’s not so? I could not do that to a dog .
Damn I even feed the wood wasps that live in my gate post
Thank you for telling this story. My great grandmother came to Oregon from Missouri on a covered wagon when she was a toddler, and I'm sure had many interesting stories. She was married in 1909 and🎉 was widowed when my grandma was only 6 years old. I knew her until I was 14. I'm now 75. I wish I had asked her about when she was a girl. I'm sure she had a lot of stories to tell.
I was raised Jehovah Witness and left. I'm now shunned for 20 years. I wound up moving from my hometown because of being shunned by family and friends. It is a torturous thing to have loved ones look right through you and even turn around in grocery isle's rather than take a chance that I should say hello to them.
Now I have no network that loves me. I have a few neighbors to talk to but that really aren't there for me.
If you know someone that is shunned please be there for them and help them in times of need.
I'm really sorry your going through that , if you would like be a email pen friend I'm open to that , just a thought,🤗
@@orlalolo4585 Sounds good. I've made a few friends through You Tube this way. Be blessed
You will always have Jehovah and his witnesses by your side just ask for help that you need ❤
Shunned from them was a good thing. They dont know how to love. Its all about control
so very sorry..heartbreaking to hear. I'm gonna pray God brings you good true Christian friends. that will love you unconditionally
When I was a kid in the 70s we lived with an elderly woman, born in the late 1800's, who my mother took care of and she would tell me fascinating stories of covered wagons, crossing the country, and how they had met Geronimo. Here was a woman who was born before cars and airplanes were common transportation. I loved listening to her.
You were blessed. She's seen things, glorious things, that we can only dream of today. Take air pollution as an example. She knew the REAL smell of the air. The skies were clearer. Can you imagine her seeing an airplane for the very first time? Or the virgin land she saw. Wow. To live back then was hard. But it would of been worth it. Life may of been hard but it was so much simpler than today. You are blessed to have known her.
I grew up in the same time period you did. All of the living history was there. I was too young to grasp all the stories then. My great grandfather was born in 1888. He died in ‘67. I remember a few stories from him. You be safe. Share a story of your own with someone young.
@@1fromtheroad did you know during the depression the govt had a project of having people record oral history from old people ? Some have been made into movies about "seeing the elephant" ... an old expression...
@@ronallens6204 I have never heard that before. I will check it out. Thanks
@@1fromtheroad one movie that came out of the oral history was Pharoah's Army with Kris Kristofferson. Just fyi. I am sure there were plenty others like wyatt erp being a consultant for many of the early western movies.
As I was listening to this tragic story, told by this sweet, intelligent and articulate old lady, it brought to my mind another American woman who told extraordinary stories with elegance and passion, and she was also called Mitchell: Margaret Mitchell. What she wrote about in "Gone With The Wind" were stories she'd heard from her folks, about the old days in the South. Even though she garnered a lot of fame (which she really didn't care that much about) and tons of money from the huge success of her book and especially its adaptation for the screen (which she didn't want to have anything to do with, by the way), she ultimately suffered a tragic and premature death. Nettie reminded me of her because Margaret wrote GWTW mostly for her own satisfaction, while she was at home sick, and she never really thought about becoming a professional writer. Her folks used to tease her, saying she was writing The Great American Novel (never showing it to anyone) as she filled more and more Manila envelopes with reams of typed pages. It took a lot of cajoling to persuade her to finally publish it. Makes you wonder how many other wonderful storytellers are going unnoticed throughout America and the world.
nobody asked for your rendition of mm
@@myopinion6092 My Opinion? Nobody asked for Your Opinion either.
@valifictorianismg to the vicious
@myopinion6092
Well said response. What a mean, uncalled for thing to say to a lovely post that was not meant to offend anyone. She sounds like an unhappy, bitter witch 🪄🧹 who enjoys hurting people. Only a loathesome person like you, "myopinion6092" could possibly think to say what you did. And, NO ONE DID ASK FOR YOUR twisted opinion!
One of the the most enthralling videos I've seen in a while, articulately recounted, full of the compassion, sensitivity and understanding which the subject was denied. Oh! the sins of omission of the blameless.
I can barely wrap my head around this story and the amount of suffering this poor woman endured. Her life was ruined at 14, all while she was trying to make life easier for her parents and siblings.. What happened to the young man who got her pregnant I wonder? I bet *his* life wasn't ruined. He likely went on to marry and have other children, whereas the 14 year old he impregnated spent the rest of her life longing for her lost baby, only to find him years later and unknowingly fall in love with him, to find out the truth and once again be left alone. Shunned by the very family that sent her away in the first place.. My god.
I think her life was ruined younger than 14 when she had to take the responsibility to support her family financially. She could not enjoy her childhood because she had to work.
I’m old, but not too old. Society does change. And it has definitely changed for the better. Is it at best.. absolutely not, especially with the abortion laws resurfacing, but much better than women had to in the early days.
My grandmother was raped by her own father at 14, gave birth to her own sister and had to marry a man as soon as she was an adult. Why did she had to, because women weren’t allowed to do most things in life without a man’s name. Grandfather was 12 years her senior but at least he took care of her, however he did pass quite young and had to leave her behind with 9 children including her own sister-daughter.
By that era, women were becoming expected to work as well as be “homemakers” (old term for ‘housewife’) and mothers. What a one-sided plate of responsibility, sounds familiar with society today. So grandma was able to get a job and some things in her name as certain laws changed over time. She had a dirt floor in her house, because working women automatically earned less wage than men. Her children had to work, or she had to marry another man. Working a second job for her was equal to a man working one job.
The law did not care about what the men did, married or not. The men were in control of the law and the houses in the community. Men even owned the churches. Men were quite disgusting having known this kind of power was solely amongst them and the victims will always be due for punishment. “Sheriffs would not respond to domestic violence calls back then because it happened so often.”
I had to question religion as I got older because it results in traumatic cases like such in the video. You’re right, what did happen to that man? Probably went off and did the same to other girls, metaphorically infecting others with lifelong punishment.. sadistic. That’s why it’s important to stand up to what is blatantly unjustified, your voice and vote matters. I’m old now, seen it and done it, but it’s important that the young adults stand up for what they believe in; they are the future of change.
@@FortMetallicayour absolutely correct these religious folks were creating their own rules that never existed in the Bible, my biggest wake up call after years of child abuse myself is that God and the Bible are very clear about how children are to be treated and how "homemakers" are a cultural thing as the Proverbs 31 woman is a businesswoman.
I think in these days we have an over correction though, without a certain level of shame for (adults only) we have a society where no one is married and most children are born outside of a two parent household. Step families are more likely to be abusive than others this increasing domestic violence and sexual violence to crazy levels.
@@FortMetallica my great-grandmother had two children by her father (not her choice, he was abusive), and it never occurred to me to think of them as her siblings- just as her kids. Fuck me...
We don’t know what happened to the boy/man but certainly he was shocked by the knowledge that he fell in love with his own mother. I would not assume that he had a normal life after this. He probably suffered immense guilt.
I think Emmaline's story has bothered Nettie all these years and that's probably why she wanted to tell this story before the crew left. God bless this precious woman that kept Emmaline's story and memory alive so that she may be remembered.
Amen
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Unbelievable what her sister said upon her casket she didn’t sin she didn’t know that was her son good rest Emmalines soul she did no wrong as far as marrying the young man
Well said Kelli
They say if you feed a newborn baby but do not give it love…the baby will die 😢
This story is heartbreaking - had I lived back then, I would have offered to take her in and would have cared for her. Nobody deserves to be treated this way.
so when she was 30 her 16 year old son was bangin her but neither of them new?? oh man
I just came across this. This is a very sad story. So many women were saddled with this life. Unfortunatly cast upon them by others actions. So sad that today,we still have these tragic happenings with women being stolen or lured in and being trafficed. Thank you for this story. 🌹
She died from starvation, but lived with a broken heart.
It's incredible what the human spirit can endure.
Indeed. Indeed.
She actually died from a broken heart, which caused her to not care for her self, and starve...
@elaine turner , I understand what you're saying. People don't die from broken hearts. She lived a sad existence, her entire life seemed to be one heartbreak after another. Her will to live kept her going tragedy after tragedy until one night it was one degree too cold, one minute too long without food or one day too many without what she needed.
I don't know what was saddest in her case, her death or her life. 💔
Absolute heartbreak. So very very sad.
@@elaineturner2941 I don't think you are grasping the fact of what shunning is. She was isolated and alone so no one except for random visitors to help. The town shunned her (look it up) so no job or way to make money and would also mean the stores would not sell to her either even if she had money.
It's literally said several times she scrounged for food and tried as best she could to farm her own food. A chicken or two and a small garden most likely is all she had besides what the visitors would bring. A harsh winter was mentioned so she prob also ended up eating the few animals or chickens she had out of desperation.
My grandmother lived in three different centuries.. born in 1896, lived all on the 1900's and died peacefully in 2002. I adored listening to her stories including her mule named Willie that she rode to school.
...the changes in the world through her life. Just imagine my granddaughter just born, living through 2122, telling stories of the 1960's (from her granddad) to her granddaughter. And here's a thought for whatever its worth, lineup just 2 persons like that back to back and he/she could not even know all the landmasses in the world! :)
Tell me a few stories. I can share..
Please, share some of her stories.
What a lovely story! My condolences for your loss
I loved my grandma very much also, just wondering if she was really 106 according to the dates
I just started reading the book Emmeline written by Judith Rossener due to this documentary. I love reading historical books. Thank you for sharing this story, and your work is awesome!
I am the one who brought that story to Judith Rossner who then wrote the book after meeting Nettie.
David Hoffman filmmaker
It's interesting that Emmeline ignored all suitors, but fell for her son. And he for her. They must have felt a spiritual connection to each other.
"There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it." -Princess Diana
I love this.
Princess Diana was an Angel.
Miss her so much.
That is so very true.
And though she had beauty, kindness, material things, and lived in a palace all she wanted was to be truly loved. I hate that Charles married her just to breed. Although, SHE raised two wonderful boys. I often think how different her life would have been if she were just an ordinary wife and mom. But the again, she did do so much to change the world. I have a tattoo of the althorp crown, not the Windsor one, because she was and is my hero. A beautiful and caring woman that should have been loved by her husband and his family as she was by the world.
@@16watch I don't think that's entirely fair. Prince Charles wanted Camilla from the start, but she wasn't "good enough" for royalty. His hands were tied as well. I feel bad for them both. Being raised or living in royalty seems like a nightmare to me.
My friend, there's no better way to rebuild a personality, then to start at its ruins.
Placing the blame for a "sin" on the victims is a recurring and shameful act throughout human history.
The bully also often gets away with it while the person who finally snaps and reacts to the bully gets punished. Humans are fundamentally quite crap. Most of them., but not me of course 😁
God considers rape a sin, the selling of her child a sin and ostracizing her as sins. Her family did not know Jesus or read The Bible.
@@diamonds5457 If the people marry knowing that their partner is a direct relative, then yes it is considered a sin.
In the case of this story, it's not a sin because they didn't know they were related.
And it Still happens all the time! Blame/shun the victim!!
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Thank you for sharing. . I have an uncle who was farmed out to Wisconsin and my father died never knowing he had a brother. . That was a time that child labor was capitalized on. Let alone rape was a woman's fault. Thank you for the interview.
Touched me, very moving story, I was in orphanage but got a lovely home Mum and Dad and 2 loving older brothers, I give thanks to God, as my dad was a wonderful Christian man,who rescued me, Your story made me cry, my bialogical mother had run away from home and gone to London, met a man, got pregnant, never told him, then had me in another area, and didn't want me, so I went in orphanage, she went on to live elsewhere, got married and had a family, I feel so sorry for these Mums and their children who had no help whatsoever, I was very very Blessed, Praise God
Robbed of her childhood by her parents. Robbed of her dignity by that pervert. Robbed of true love and then she died. Having watched this story many times, it is sad every time I watch it. Bless Emmaline.
And to think I've complained about the problems I've had , by contrast, I've led a charmed life, rest in peace of Jesus Christ Emaline !!!
That pervert is the one who should have been shamed, not her. To this day, women are usually blamed for their own rape, sexual harassment. Sad to think about how some things just don't change.
You know it's a novel written by the woman who wrote _Looking for Mr. Goodbar_. I'm up to the part where she just gets off the stagecoach in the city. 4% on my Kindle. Her parents and siblings were so nice to her as a child. The woman in this interview helped the author with the book.
She was robbed by the greed of American society, the guy might have wanted to be with her but "the company" was more concerned with hushing what had happened on their watch. This country has and always will care more about money and reputation than ones feelings. Americans like to brag about how much better we are than other countries. We might be the worst of all when you get down to it.
So, this child was molested in fact, by an adult supervisor, which is abuse of power!!! Then her child is sold off, and she shipped back home. When years pass and she, unbeknownst to both, marries her son. She is austracised, abandoned, ignored. What a horrific tragedy. Traumatized again and again and again
Shit times. Dont know why so many people want the past back.
Imagine this happened to us for 400+ years!
@@AkayThePoet all over the place, to everyone and since the very beginning
Get over yourself
@@thomaseriksen6885 although it’s off topic even if you use that argument the way this happened to black people in America was a very specific system of violence and industrialization. It was different. To use the argument that you’re using serves as a disservice to black folks and other folks who are enslaved, trafficked, abused etc. Do better dude.
Bless her soul again and again and again
This really touched me. I will never forget this story.
Thank you for sharing this story. Back to watch for the 3rd time... without this kind of documenting, so much is lost. Your work (and also what you choose to cover/share with us) are appreciated!
My grandfather was born in 1918. His father was frequently unfaithful in marriage. When my grandfather was dating a girl in high school and brought her home, his mother got extremely upset upon seeing her. She told him to immediately stop dating the girl because the girl was his half-sister out of wedlock. His family would have never told him otherwise. Sometimes it's almost like the universe's way of making truth be known, even if it's painful.
Whoooaaa. Although extreme, it’s not impossible to fathom.
Oh boy, no wonder they wanted to separate them, it's like having incest relationship without even knowing about it...
Hard to believe something like that would happen, the world is really a small place where anything can happen...
Did they broke up when they found out the truth about their relationship ??
@@Black-Rat Oh yes the relationship was immediately ended, and my grandpa was embarrassed and shocked about it. He had only been dating her for about 2 weeks in high school so fortunately it never got very far.
As A Black American Descendant of Aboriginal And Africa ancestry My Grand Parents spoke of the fear of Us dating our own due to the selling of the children. This is deep.
I went down on a woman I found out was a cousin but hey I didn't know.
I was a Jehovah's witness, second generation. At the age of 40 I left the organization. My entire family, not my children, shunned me until this day. I am now 70 years old. I am so glad I left when I did. I was able to experience "my life". I wish I had the guts to leave sooner. I like who I am today as a result. I am much happier, even at 70. I never attended another church. I put my faith in "The Most High", and myself. That's all we need.
@@richkj8712 "bro"? Could you be more disrespectful?🤦
Hi Stephanie, I escaped as well, and came so much to know, as I wouldn't go back because of them. It's a true communistic organization, and we were not raised with the awareness of the nowadays system-religion. They are tools for the system, made obedient, artificial 'happy', dominant, openly violent, abusive, sexual abusive etc. Good for y that y left, if y want to know more, plse email me. There's a war going on against living people, and the govs does everything to distract and divide ppl. Look at Justinian Deception - the name, and study your inside many selfs!
Jehovah's witness are a brain washed group,,,, very evil leadership.
John 3:16 is all you need salvation! Any church or religion that would shun you is not of God! I am a Christian I do sin and make mistakes but I ask for forgiveness and try to do better. I'm sorry for what your families have done to you but I believe you're stronger for it!! God bless 💕
It's sad that cults damage your ability to get to know the real and loving Christ. I pray those who have been hurt by cults will see Jesus Christ in his pure form.
This means so much more hearing this story from someone that saw it first hand. Thank you for sharing this!
She was raped by her boss at 13 years old and became pregnant. That was what happened. I saw a documentary about this young woman and her life. She wasn't the only victim of this kind of set up. What makes it so bad is that she could not tell anyone that her own boss took advantage of her especially her parents.
The cruelty humans are able to be to each other the biggest sin of all ,
Mark Twain said: "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." So true.
So true
And the worst seem to be done in the name of God.
I have heard worst and today is really critical with things people do, serious, violelnt. things.
And animals
I love Nettie's use of language. It's beautiful to hear her speak so gently and eloquently.
Same. You could tell she was a well read woman.
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Her words obviously reflect that she lived in a way different time period.
@@jenniferross3725 the long ago
At one point I thought she was reading because she was looking down at the table but she wasn't. This was coming from her heart. As you say she was so eloquent, such a beautiful speaker.
This was very moving, so very sad. Nettie told the story very well. Very heartfelt. Thank you for your hard work David.
I love your work, David. Thank you for bringing these historical stories to us so that they will never just pass away like their subjects. 💖
I care for my elderly grandmother. She’s 104. The few times that I can sit with her and get her to be lucid, she tells the most amazing stories of her childhood in her young adulthood. She is a walking history book and when she feels like talking I drop everything and sit and listen.
You are lucky! Listen as much as you can. This will all be lost to the generations to come. I miss my grandparents terribly and would give just about anything to hear one more story.
I work in a dementia specialist care home and we care for a lady who is currently 103 and she has told me some of the most interesting stories she is very much like a history book with what she remembers.
@@yrrah123 - Absolutely. My gramma came to Richmond, CA during WWII. She worked in the factories as one of the first Rosie the Riveters. Things that I remember reading about in my history textbooks, she has firsthand accounts of. Her husband, my grandfather was a Tuskegee airman. He was 92 when he died, but I got some pretty good stories from him too. Blessings both.
Put the dictaphone app on your phone and turn it on when she’s in a storytelling humour. You’ll never regret it.
must be lonely being that age since most people your age likely passed away. I imagine if some 80-year-old company about being old the 104-year-old would be like your not old I have a kid your age.
"Yielded to his persuasion". What a beautiful way of expressing herself. This video holds one of the last pearls of wisdom. Feeling grateful.
Pretty certain that her “ yielding “ is called rape... she was just a little girl🙁
My family is from New England and both my Grandmother and Mother speak very similar to the way she did. They both spoke French as well :) most children from the early 1900 s worked the mills including my grandparents
... dear, alessandra... yes... and it can take quite a bit of life experiance, and, a mighty effort of deep contemplation, to arrive at that point of view. And that attitude will be a conscious decision to choose, for our love will then be equal to our humility and gratitude for the confidence and the prowess that stabilizes our LOVE...
GOD BLESS EVERYONE BLESS EVERYTHING ALWAYS AMEN*XO*the ROCK OF PHAGES ...
@@edithbouvier3003 That's a treasure,
The truth always has a way of finding itself out. So, now we know what so many wanted to hide.
Yes truly a sad sad story, when we think we have it bad it doesn't take long to realize how blessed we are. Stay humble. Thank you very much for your work
She was a child...she did not commit a sin...her family and town did...RIP dear soul...I will meet you in heaven someday💔🙏🏽😇
Meet you in person one day too
and there's no such thing sin, so..
@@trippmoore yes there is.
@@LARRYCAL yes their is
@@trippmoore You're right actually. Sin is not a thing. But sin IS an attitude or a deliberate action in contravention of the Commandments of Love. The evil murderous ones try to hypnotize against this scientific and historic Truth.
I cried because that old lady only had one person to cry for her when she died, and just a little child was innocent enough to love with out judgement.
1 is more than I have.
One person to cry for her???
Gazelle Sun I will cry for you now even though I know nothing about you because that was a sad comment. Show love to others.
@@BougieBlue I will be your friend.
You are never alone.
I love you from any distance. I love you in Christ.
Blessings dear friend.
Gramma Jo ...your comment was sweet as sugar 🍭 🍬
This lady is so well spoken. I could listen to her for hours.
Wow! So sad. Completely heartbreaking. 💔💔💔😢
Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed watching her tell her story. It reminded me of my great grandma who was the sweet human being alive, and lived to be 102.
The hypocrisy of the church and the shame put upon women is a disgrace on humans. I’m sure this story is more common than not.
Thank you for sharing her story. 💞
This makes me mad all my life. My cousin at age 15 got pregnant , was sent away to some nuns and had her baby taken away right after birth. She refused to sign the papers to agree with adoption, so the child went to an orphanage. She was not allowed to even visit her baby. It took her 5 years to get her child back and it was only possible when she married at age 20.
My brother got his girlfriend pregnant when he was 16 and she 15. She lived in a small catholic village and took a bus every day to the nearest city to go to the public catholic high-school. We lived in the city and I attended the same high-school . Her parents were very upset , she was a A student and they had planned for her to study after high-school. But their main fear was somebody from the village would find out that she was pregnant. The high-school with nuns as teachers wanted to throw her out of course. But , her parents decided to stand behind their daughter! They refused to take her off the catholic high-school because she was still school age and the school was a public one and the only one near by. This was 1970 and it was incredible. The nuns and principle were upset but could not throw her out. Her parents got her a small studio apartment in the city to avoid mobbing in their catholic village. She did not miss a day of classes and had her baby during summer vacation. When school started, she came back. Her mother, the grandmother took care of my nephew during the week. She studied law and became an attorney at court.
May GOD Richly Bless You're Family Brigette In JESUS CHRIST'S PRECIOUS SAVIOUR'S NAME SHALOM AND AMEN!🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅‼️
@@marionmarcetic7287your god is evil
They just didn't understand the bible. The bible says no body is without sin. Sin is nothing else but motion. The purpose of motion is nothing but love. Genesis 2:18. The one and only meaning of life is love.
It wasn’t a church. It was the society at the time the progressive wave that came through United States was horrible.
When I was a child in the early 1980s, I met an elderly lady named Opal. I used to walk by her house on the way to and from school. I had a really long walk, and she lived quite a few blocks away. I would see her on her porch, sitting on a swing. She had beautiful flowers planted around the porch. So she had started inviting me up to the porch on the way home from school and we would talk every day and became friends. I don't know why, but I never mentioned this to my family. But one summer I asked my Mom if I could walk to visit her and she said I could. Then not long after, my grandmother found out about it. She knew Opal, and had went to school with her. My grandmother told me she was a bad woman and I was never allowed seeing her or talking to her again. I was really upset about it and missed Opal. When school started back up, I worried about her because I knew she didn't have any family. I had to change my route to school. It wasn't until I was an adult that I brought Opal up to my Mom and asked why I had been forbidden to ever talk to her again. My Mom told me that Opal had a baby out of wedlock when she was young, like maybe 13 or 14. It became clear that everyone in our small town had shunned her. My mom wasn't originally from the area and didn't know until my grandmother (my dad's mom) had a huge meltdown when she found out I was talking to her. It still makes me so sad to think about her. She probably missed me as much as I missed her.
Wow! We really have to stop treating people in a way we do not wish to be treated. Boy... Forgiveness only for "things we deem forgiveable"...seems I read in the bible that Christ Redeems, Restores, and Yessssss Forgives. I'm sorry this lady got to miss out on probably the one person who began to show her kindness. May she be safe with the Lord now...Free and Forgiven...Full of peace and joy---
Small town mentality like that is just sickening. This poor girl, as a child, was raped by some piece of dirt and then its HER that gets the blame and is then shunned by everyone. I'm afraid your Grandmother and Mother were part of that and share some of the blame but I guess its how things were back then in these places. So, so sad and completely wrong.
@@francesthomas8044 What also makes me sad is how much I admired my grandmother and always trusted that she knew what what best. When she said Opal was a bad woman, I imagined all sorts of horrible things in my mind as a child. Like maybe she was a murderer. Then later to find out the "crime" was she had a baby out of wedlock in probably 1926-1927. My grandma was born in 1913 and she said they went to school together, so I'm guessing about the timeline. And then the fact that my grandma was divorced twice and married three times but still judged Opal. My dad liked to make excuses for my grandmother and would say things like, "Oh, She's just a product of her generation," but that doesn't excuse people from their personal bias and toxic behaviors. It wasn't just that. It was also her covert racism and other things. It's just been a lot to process and sort out over the years.
people are so cruel with there social norms and correct behavior. espesially bible thumpers, the bible says don't juge, be kind, love everybody. but yet if you have a different way of life ,those same people will go out of there way to try and take you down. sex is a beatiful thing (plus it feels good) it's not some dirty naughty thing that should kept secret. i felt your pain while reading your story. I know i would of felt terrible once i found that out.
@@nameheire9394 I'm sorry you have encountered someone or some people who follow Christ that haven't represented well but not all followers are cruel. I Do Not agree with what happened to this woman when she was younger or as an adult. If she felt she loved the person, if she was assaulted, whatever the case may have been...She Never should have been treated like this. She should have been loved, restored, and cared for by those around her, not made to feel like there was no redemption. While God has made sex, and all of it's beauty for a husband and wife, He does forgive us if we go outside of He said to do. He only wants what is best for us. Treating this lovely woman like this had Nothing to do with God but more of what people decided to do, as IF they walked around in perfection. If people could have seen what they were doing behind closed doors or what they were even thinking...I bet the tables would have been turned!
Heard this story a couple of years ago too. Well done. Thanx for sharing again, important that more people hear this, may just open more eyes than a sermon would in some sence. Lots of blessings and love
Thank u so much! I think it’s so important for younger generations to listen to stories from their elders! My kids only have one grandparent and I wish they had more older people around them
When I was a kid. We had this old woman on our street who's name was Muriel. She lived all alone. Whenever us kids would be outside riding our bikes she'd come to the window and call to us. She would invite us into her house and have a spread set up on her kitchen table of cookies, cake, pie and all the root beer you could drink. She would sit with us at her table, ask us about school and then get coloring books and crayons out and color pictures with us. Then when it came time to leave she would get her big jug of pennies out and tell us to fill out pockets and we all got a hug from her on the way out. At the time I was maybe 6 or 7 years old and thought she was just a nice old lady. Then as the years go by and you think back to it.. you realize that she was lonely, had no one left and just wanted company. :(
This is horrible. That poor woman was let down over and over. It infuriates me that in those situations, only the girls were shunned. Marrying her own son wasn’t her fault. How could she have known? It makes me sad.
Agreement with you bc it takes 2 to tango
Yes, that's the problem when secrets had to be kept and people were not made aware of all their relatives.
@@sylvialawrence4431 Yes, especially when adoption cases are sealed and people can't find out about their biological parents. They could unknowingly marry a sibling later on.
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Ppl jump to conclusions, & speak before they have all the facts. & by the time it gets to the 10th person there’s no going back. The person is never ask for her side. It’s to late, family, & friends, & their fork tongues have ruined a life. Absolutely heartless..💔
I lived in one of those towns David. Thank you again for sharing your work.
So happy and glad I came across this channel of yours David, you are brilliant, empathetic and an amazing investigative director/journalist, love this, have just subscribed to all~! 💕💕
She was molested as a child where was the sin on her part? The sin was not hers but the sin of the community.
Agreed
You are correct!!!
And of her parents, who let travel away from home at the age of 13, and supported them as young as she was, but they didn't supported her, when she was mis-treated and outsided from the whole community. They should have had at least mercy on her. 😥😥😥
@@burnsloads 🙄
Ha I know someone real close that has been raped 2 times and molested and she never dresses with nothing but class.@@burnsloads
I'm glad that this woman recognized that this girl/woman was basically abused and traumatized by the entire community.
This wasn't "basically" abuse it was straight up abuse. For a 13yr old to have been sexually abused and became pregnant as a product of that abuse just to have her body and free will violated even more by her abuser when he decided that she would carry the pregnancy to term and SELL her child to someone else (not give the child away to a good family that she agrees to but SELL) then to discard her like trash afterwards and send her home with the trauma of the abuse she suffered at the hands of a adult who had power over her and the shame she carried as she had been conditioned to believe that it was all on her everything that happened to her would be considered her fault and her "sin"... then to spend years carrying that secret and shame and trauma with your family making it all to clear they want you to submit yourself to a man who in her mind was them telling her to go do the thing that had given her such pain before. Then when she finally feels like she found some light in the darkness and that she was in love with someone who loved her back and treated her with dignity and respect for it to end with her finding out it is the child that was first forced on her then stolen from her and now she had without her knowing married him must have felt like God was punishing her in those days when those kinds of beliefs were beat into people. She was abused in endless ways that are so sick and today would be criminal...
I found a great article (very long though!) that showed census records to debunk this story. It appears to be an urban legend.
@@emerystodden2522 it's a wonderful story about Emaline ,the beautiful woman who is telling the true story because she was there. Blessings Nettie
But it’s just a story. People are running with this and getting heartbroken and outraged because this whole thing is presented as true facts. I read a very thorough well researched piece and it seems the records that do exist show that there was a real Emaline but she didn’t marry her son and she wasn’t ostracized.
@@emerystodden2522 show me the link... I'm not seeing how records from that time being as slim and often times inaccurate or incomplete could tell you for sure if she did or did not marry her son or was treated poorly by her community particularly as the records you mentioned are self reporting records kept by the government and fun facts most people don't self report the married their children 😉
Humans can be so cruel to their human kind that sometimes I wonder if there are only bad people in the world.. This poor lady must have gone through harsh cruelty.. May God have her at peace now. Something she was never allowed to have in life..
Thank you for sharing this story. Its very true every person has their own story. I subscribed to your channel..😊
This was such an informative video, I really enjoyed it! Can't wait until y'all put out the next one! Thanks again!
She was a child when that man took advantage of her then she became pregnant! Shame on her family!
Mary Parker shame on her parents for sending her to the factory
JadaMP yes there is shame, leaving her alone knowing people out there not good
Shame on the whole town
@Mary Nova They had large families back then because children were needed to help work the farm. Farming was truly a family affair. EVERYONE had work to do in a farm family. Also, infant mortality rates and child mortality rates back then were quite a bit higher than they are now, so having lots of kids ensured that at least SOME of your kids would survive to adolescence or adulthood.
As far as tarring and feathering the man who raped a child...that would necessarily entail admitting that your child had been raped, and a lot of parents probably didn't want to do that for fear that their child would be ostracised and looked on as "different" or "tainted" and never be able to get married.
@@hallieharker4384 It was also cold at night,so they had to snuggle up.No t.v to watch.
It wasn’t her who Sinned, it was those who left the poor woman to starve to death. What a sad tragic story 😩😢😢😢
And the sorry man that raped her . Makes me sick to my stomach. I hope he is paying for his sins too . He caused a lot of heart attack . 😥💔
and those who sent a 13-year-old child out in the world to earn money for the family without the protection and supervision of those who should have been caring for her.
@Lorne Malvo I grew up on a farm and my summers were spent working all day in the tobacco field or doing hay way before age twelve. These people sent their thirteen year old away to support the family. And then when she was obviously preyed upon without the safety of her family they take no responsibility for their massive neglect and culpability in the entire mess.
@Lorne Malvo not to mention, being sent to the kitchen to light the Winston on the stove at that age, when there were no matches 😶. (Someone say child protective services)
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That's an amazing story! Bless her for sharing it! ❤
This story has broken my heart and I am sobbing as I write this. The sin was from the people who shunned Emmaline. The cruelty of some people never seems to sadly amaze me.
A friend of mine used to be a 5th grade teacher. Every year she taught the Greek myths. When she came to Medusa, she made sure to tell it 'properly'. Here was a young girl who was raped at the temple of Athena. Athena did not protect her and instead, turned her into a hideous monster. Then, this 'monster' was hunted down for sport for men who wished to prove their battle prowess; and when she killed the men who came to kill her she was vilified even more. Emmaline's story reminds me of Medusa... forever being punished when she should have been shown mercy and kindness.
I’ve never heard the real & full story of Medusa. Shows the importance & magnitude of the fact that history is written by the victors. It’s too bad the true story isn’t the one that’s part of mythology as society could learn so, so much for Medusa’s real story. Thank you so very much for your very enlightening & melancholy story. Makes me want to go back & research all the stories we’ve all been taught. The real morals that have been lost to lies & history, I’m sure, could be so much more valuable to our collective consciousness than the mainstream story-line that a small group of people agreed upon to distribute to the masses.
Well that's specifically the version from Ovid's Metamorphoses, which is a very popular version but Ovid was also well-known for altering stories to make the gods even worse than they already were. The earliest myths Medusa was always a gorgon, she was just the only one of the three that was mortal. There's also varying versions of the story where Medusa and Poseidon had sex consensually in the temple.
@@angusvansatriani784 Very well said Angus! We ask "What is the moral here?" about any tale we are told. When we stand back a little we may discover multiple sides, and purposes! to a tale.
She had to become a monster to protect herself from men. "Sometimes a woman has to be a high riding bitch to survive." Delores Claiborne
Amazing.
The lady who told the story seemed a remarkable lady .like alot of ladies at that time they knew what real hardship was xxxx
As a Christian, Emmaline was raped and didnt know it was her son. How the community treated her is horrifically disgusting and i hate it!
She didn't do anything wrong!
I CANNOT BELIEVE they said that at her funeral!
I don't believe it,... I think they used the paper and gossip to scare parents who gave their unneeded kids away,.. in reality the adopted child most likely married it's family IT'S ADOPTED FAMILY
EVEN MANY OF TIMES ADOPTED GIRLS MARRIED THEIR ADOPTED FATHERS OR HAD CHILDREN WITH THEM ESPECIALLY AFTER A DIVORCE...
that's Why they couldn't find her son or his adopted family because it isn't real.....I THINK THEY SAID TO THEIR SON AND HER BUT IT WASN'T THEM, or it was a total hoax and cruel, it was probably her money that bought the cabin obviously it was land around her family
Plus some of the adopted children were abused and died so they wanted to shame those parents that gave their children away for adoption instead of the adopted parents being shamed... Wasn't it in an old book about an adopted boy married his sister, he was said adopted... Had to of had adopted girls that married their siblings...
Anyhow that happened lots of times adopted girls staying at relatives homes for the summer and marry much older relatives
Obviously the people that raped the girls working at the factory had family in the town the factory was
So the adopted child was still around it's father's biological relatives
I don't believe the story
I do think it was to shame and scare parents that gave their kids up for adoption
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She was in her early thirties and the guy she married what??? 17 or 18??
Most likely husbands that cheated but yet they adopted their son of the husband died or divorced ADOPTED MOTHERS AND STEPMOTHERS HAVE SEDUCED THEIR STEP SONS OR ADOPTED SONS
You'd think in more wealthy family the weddings were in the paper, so back then adopted children married their adopted family members and mention it in the paper...
It was to shame the biological parents
BECAUSE SOME WERE ADOPTED BY ITS FATHER'S FAMILY MEMBERS
IF THE MOTHER LOOKED IT UP SJE COULD SHAME THEM KNOWING THE KID SHE GAVE UP MARRIED OTS FATHER'S FAMILY MEMBERS
😢So sad and her sister wasn't there for her then said she finally paid for it, What,,,,
Then they probably went to church that following Sunday to hear all about how righteous Abraham was. I bet nobody event batted an eyelid when they came to the part about how Abraham's wife was also his sister. Or the part when he forced his sister-wife to lie to the Pharaoh about being his wife, cause the Pharaoh was smitten with her and Abraham wanted to take advantage of that cause Pharaoh kept giving them free stuff.
Not even when the Pharaoh approached Sarah for her hand in marriage did Abraham respond; He kept his mouth shut cause more free stuff!
The marriage went through, and that's when a very pissed off God decided to show up. Who was he pissed at? Abraham, right? Nah! He was pissed at the Pharaoh for marrying another man's wife. God then proceeded to smite members of Pharaoh's household. The story ended with Pharaoh telling Abraham to take his wife and leave Egypt. He never saw any consequence for his actions, and the Pharaoh was even nice enough to let Abraham keep the stuff he had given him. Quite the double standard, eh?
It only makes sense when considering who the Bible was written by: Men with daddy issues.
@@Tumbledweeb yeah you got that story very very very wrong. She WASN'T his sister. He lied TO THE KING, ABIMELECH, of NEGEV (not pharaoh) and said she WAS to save his own skin. And no, the marriage didn't go through. The night she came to the palace God said "uh yeah no." And he let her go. It's literally all right there in Genesis ch. 20.
If you're going to comment at least know what you're talking about.
Read How Not To Read The Bible by Dan Kimball. It gives the basics of understanding Christian theology and the Bible itself.
@Ericat257 I''m not talking about the Abimelech incident. He pulled the same stunt TWICE:
Genesis 12:10 - 20 "When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai. So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had."
There you go. How awkward this must be for you right now!
Tried to say how important finding your site was to me. I am so grateful for your interest in stories of life and the humanity that you bring in your retelling of these stories. We need honesty, love and acceptance in our lives. Amazing direction to go in. Thank you for your work❤C.Nagoda
I’m 21 but since I was a little kid I’ve always gotten along much better with older folks, I have learned so incredibly much from them, and I have heard some unbelievably amazing stories.
Sorry but you're still a kid. Unless....I'm old 😬
I salute you young man. Spread that feeling.🙂
In 60 years, you will have stories that amaze the young.
Definitely try to share them with the world in someway like David did here :)
Good for you Jacob. You can learn something from everyone. I've always felt that. Everyone we meet knows something that we don't know. If we'll only take the time to listen. It may be the simplest of things. But you can take something from all that you meet.
The fact that despite this, she did not become bitter, speaks volumes more about her character.
Billy Calhoun what’s forgiveness honey?
Billy Calhoun oh I was thinking forgiveness honey was like a magical potion you take
Billy Calhoun ur forgiven 😊
Billy Calhoun yes you misunderstand my joke 🙃😘
@ : Yes, Jeanine; thankfully, she hadn't.
Bitterness, ne, brokenness would have killed her earlier- in life; although, an (initial) thought: of 'earlier'- seeming to be 'blank' luck/blind 'hELP'.
The stunted, bruised, normal girl/woman, did receive: . . her Own gifts of:
. . morning sunrises, close birds, and infrequent human visits . . that kept her alive.
so very very sad and wrong. thank you for sharing. I have heard this story before, and I loved hearing you speak of it, and the older woman's telling of it. So powerful. My relatives, way back are from Maine and I know the culture was/ is quite different from city life. just so very sad.
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This is so sad, and thank you for sharing.
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This woman was clearly a victim her whole life. None of these circumstances were her fault and yet she suffered for the sins of the ones who sinned against her. So sad☹
'Whoever can bear the disgrace of the country is the ruler of the country. Whoever can bear the misfortune of the world is the ruler of the world.
Hello how're you doing hope you're safe due to the covid 19 pandemic?
@@michaelmcdonald4021 I love this quote! Thank you
@@pollacksharman0147 I'm doing good, and you?
@@MiaMia-rx9dw I'm fine
Where are you from if I may ask?
Even today when adults send "children" in to adult situations and then BLAME the child for mistakes IT IS THE ADULTS FAULT PERIOD ! It takes time to understand people !
They should have charged that boss with rape.
I had that same thought. People were so naive back then and could not imagine such things as child trafficking and rape etc.
Even in time most ppl remain a mystery.
That would include most of our public schools at this point, they are heavily sexualizing children for clearly evil intent.
@@rebelbecky276 people 150 years from now will say the same about our times as well.
Thank you for the full description 🙏
My horse my heart what a loving story ! Thank you for sharing as at least we know there are some decent human beings in our world of hate and violence and I just came across these little documentaries and I love them all ! I hope he keeps telling us more beautiful stories we can relate to
It’s sad that her sister took the opportunity to proclaim her atoned for her sins, while making no mention of herself of her sin and responsibility for the starvation. It’s often when people assume the moral high ground that they falter in the eyes of God.
@@rosered1070 ... and right there is the harshest judge-mentality of all. And is exactly how we condemn and dam ourselves. Jesus advised to suspend judgment for this reason...
GOD BLESS EVERYONE BLESS EVERYTHING ALWAYS AMEN*XOX*the ROCK OF PHAGES ...
@@rosered1070 ...
Dear, Audrey... you gathered that from what i wrote? You're not only intelligent, and very perceptive, but intuitive, and psychic, as well. I'm very impressed, and flattered. I can only say, thank you..
It seems sadly her sister had missed this verse :
John 8:7
King James Version
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
I was thinking the same thing..how could a sister let another sister starve? what bible are these people reading? some people gonna be very woke on judgment day..horrible
How cruel society can be to reject people who are victims. My heart cries for Emmaline.
Mine too!! Some people have no compassion or empathy. I knew a family in WV whom the parents were siblings. They had several severely handicapped children and people made fun of them and were so cruel. Someone even posts videos on TH-cam of them. In my opinion Emaline didn’t sin and was forgiven. The real sin is being cruel and cold hearted.
@@ndobbins58 Ms. Nancy, I know of whom you speak in WV. It upsets me they are/have been filmed as I do not feel they are at a capacity to decide for themselves, (though I could very well be wrong!) to each agree to be filmed. That just burns my biscuits!! I also believe our God is a loving forgiving God and that Emaline is in His arms. God bless.
@@AngieJames4172 I agree!! I wish there was some way to stop it. God is seeing what they’re doing and He will judge them someday.
@@ndobbins58 God is supposed to be all-powerful. Why doesn't he do something about it now?
@@stoverboo are you referring to the girl in the story or the family I mentioned? Over time newer generations of the family aren’t as handicapped and the family as a whole are doing a lot better than when I was a child. I don’t have the answers as to why things happen the way they do. God is in control and we have to trust Him.
Watched this again with my almost 16yr old. Thank you so much for posting your Documentary's ❤
Shoutout to any young film maker watching this. Please carry this format on. Interview people, especially elders who have so much history and experience behind them. This is important work.
I have a story that is very unbelievable but true. That is happening right now. It involves the death of my mother and my wife. They never got theirs. I'm going to collect both theirs and mine or end up dead getting justice for them. Justice is a thing that doesn't really exist. Not in the system named after her. Not in my experience. And I grew up in it. Graduated both high school and college there. I've been subjected to things that people simply won't believe in the last year. While trying to grieve for the only two people left who cared about me. Who died within 7 months of each other. By people who have tried to get me to commit suicide, intensionally.
I did this in high school with Mt grandma 👵 I miss ger so 😭
@@TheElephantRoom1111 stay strong speak the truth. Write it shout it. I will listen.
@@TheElephantRoom1111I'm so sorry to hear this.
Grieving myself for the last family who loved me. The others stopped the meds, now are v keen on getting last of her money
Having neglected her almost to death twice.
People are cruel
You keep safe but do as you wish fight for your justice.
Sending love to you.
Turning your grief into strength to fight back.
Show them you are better than them.
You sound a good person.
I hope you find good friends and people to give you the love you deserve ❤️
It's good stuff!
My grandma's mom was sold into marriage (by her parents) to an adult coal miner in Kentucky while in her early teens. He got her pregnant and then left the family. Like just disappeared. Her own family treated her like she was trash. So my grandma and her momma took off on foot. Followed the railroad. Ended up in Oklahoma. Generational trauma is real and all of us have roots of deep deep pain in our ancestry. Poor Emmaline. I can't believe she died like that.
I,too,was raised with small town mentality. There were folks shunned. Divorced women but not the men. We were not allowed to play with children of divorced women. An old man used to display himself to children but he was not shunned. Jehovah's witnesses we're shunned. Promiscuous girls and women we're shunned. Gay men were shunned. The list goes on. But in my town all were tended, watched out for. I can recall my father taking bags of food with bills on top of the bag, after dark ( so the recipient wasn't embarrassed) leaving it on porch or doorstep. Ring the bell or knock them quickly leave. Different town. We would have remembered the child Emmeline was, one of our own.
There was also semi shun. Like a white woman with half black or half Indian child. We were allowed to be courteous but not overly so. Interesting. Poor Emmeline...my heart goes out to her. Bet her family had no problem spending theoney from sale of her baby.
My great grandmother was sold into marriage to a 57 year old man when she was 14. They had one son and her husband died.
so what happened after OK?
@@rondaallen7211 well, we are mostly all still here 😳
I have watched this video several time . 😢it is so sad ,but I thank you for sharing it.
Thank you so much david, What a tragic and sweet story❤
I think of my 14yo daughter and am in tears listening to this woman tell this little girls story, she was a little girl. How absolutely horrifying the world has been.
@@ms.fravell7606
It isnt very pretty
what a town without pity
can do..........
,,,,,,and still is
It’s not a 13 year old girls fault an older man convinced her to go to bed with him, then she had to pay the consequences of everything that’s not right, what a horrible time to be alive back during those times.
@@lisaottomann2396 You mean an older man who was a child abuser raped her. A 13 year old is a child. A child cannot consent.
@@bluewren65 your very correct, except back then men controlled so of course with as many perverts that have always been around, of course they would say it is ok to be with a 13 yr old CHILD!!!!!!! SOCIETY what a joke