If you feel bad about Emmeline. Just know there are people today who have no one, alone, outcast, for whatever reason. If you see someone alone, befriend them. That’s the best way to pay emmeline back.
@@kpeezyforsheezy Definitely not a Dr Drew fan at all BUT something he said way back stuck with me bc it so true. "The world would be a better place if everyone had an ounce of empathy."
First her parents sent her off alone, an older man basically raped her at age 14, baby born and given/taken away, she was sent home, did not date, met and married a younger man. Found out it was her son, divorced him, her family and the town turned their backs on her. She was told that she was a sinner. Who’s the sinner?????The freakin Town and her family!!!!!!
Nettie seems like she was a wonderful child, who grew up to be a compassionate old woman who felt it was important for people to hear the sad story of Emmeline. ❤️
Two cousin of my, whose family were separated due to an argument.They met at work,fall in love and on the wedding day, they discovered that they were family,they decided to marry in spite that the whole family walked out the wedding .Their marriage never lasted three months.Now they were sure stupid because they knew
@@sisteroflight I find myself torn on this subject. The awful stuff that is happening to a person ....is this payback for stuff they did in a previous life ?
Why do we need to know all this evil crab in the world nothing new it repeats itself best never hear about it at all find better happy things and let by gone be by gone in some normal believes that some of us still have
What the heck was wrong with those people????? Emmeline never committed a sin, the moment she and her son found out who the other was, they both divorced, it was a mistake, not a sin!!
@@beatrixthegreat1138 I agree, they should have been allowed to pursue as mother and son, but I can only imagine that it would have been quite awkward afterward. Poor Emmeline just flat out got the short end of the stick in life, I sure hope she is happy in heaven, she deserves it. bless her heart.....
ᔕωєєтᙡιℓℓσω those days were brainwashed. Men brainwashed woman. "It's always a womans fault". Men ALWAYS had the POWER over women. Woman were severely brainwashed im sure they not only lived in fear but were most likely desensitized- im surely even their emotions were controlled by the asshole men!
When I married in the early mid 1970's, he revealed to me that I was his property and he could do as he liked to me and any children that would later come. For example for over a decade I was only allowed 2 pair of underwear, one to wear, one to wash... I shall not say all the horrors he subject my children and myself to. It took me over 14 years to get my children and myself away from the evil man, the devil itself he was.
Maybe that ******* former husband is now in prison rotting in a jail cell, in preparation for the Final Judgment when he rots in Hell, etarnally. We can only hope…
I bet she had dreams of moving far away and starting her life over, that’s my plan. I can’t put it into words the horrible pain of being outcasted but it’s true, my life has turned out a lot like Emmaline’s. I’ve never had anyone to call good friend. The one decent family member I had has died, My father made him mentally handicapped, that was my darling brother my two sisters are the golden children. I am the black sheep, scapegoated, ostracized, My mother told the police she didn’t want to see me when she was dying. She didn’t have dementia, she was fully aware, it is not what she intended to happened she was manipulated by my older sister in that sisters to Sons. The reason is the rest of my family banded me and my identical twin from my mothers deathbed for no reason, my father was a malignant narcissist, and for the most part the rest of the family was as well. My mother had developed Stockholm syndrome. I have really healed I only cried a little bit during this, I don’t have the luxury of being upset and hurt anymore it’s all about survival. My identical twin sister did a 18 year shame in smear campaign on me which is still going on and my older sister has her own shame and smear campaign against me as well. There are people who hate me that I don’t even know, they just hear lies from others and family who hate me. I tried to go to church, the pastor’s wife embarrassed me in front of everyone questioning me about why I don’t go to church more often, I was sick for the first 50 years of my life, so even gas/fuel to drive to church is unaffordable. I’m 51 years old I have regained some of my health and strength, life is better than it ever has been. My head is so messed up about weather people would ever like me or not that being in settings with other people who just too painful and I get sensitive my perceptions get distorted at the same time my perceptions are correct, I don’t fit in. I asked the pastor to lay hands on me to help me bc of some back pain, to pray for me, to give me some hands on healing, he asked someone else to do it for him relaying that I was demon possessed, that person didn’t want to do it either. Upon learning that while feeling desperate I caught the ear of someone who was unaware of what I just mentioned above, I got this person to lay hands on me and she prayed for me. And in my desperation I told this person briefly my entire life story in matter of several minutes just the highlights of my life. Felt good to get it out it always feels good to talk about it I’ve never had psychiatric help they always wanted to put me on pills not for me, but the people who hurt me on pills not me. Unfortunately this person was way too afraid to hardly ever speak to me again, She even walked away for me while I was talking on another occasion after that. I had committed to going to church for a one year every Monday night classes so this happened twice, twice class was canceled, no one told me, I was the only one that showed up the second time, guess they don’t realize how broke I am and that it wasted my gas/fuel twice when I am in the fight for my life to play catch-up after being sick for 50 years. Pls Don’t feel bad for me I had a near-death experience when I was four years old, and I’ve had my solid proof of God since I was blessed to have this experience ever since. As for my future I’m going to give it my best shot and go after some things I’ve always wanted I have my health back, my days are really short. I have so much to do I’m overwhelmed I don’t know how I’m going to get it done in the short time frame. I isolate because I’m too afraid to be hurt. If I could only convince myself that I don’t need anyone to love me, that’s what I’m working on. I can tell you she/Emmaline brought the chickens in the house for two reasons, one for companionship the other was to protect them. I can tell you it was hard for her to eat them and I can tell you that she had no choice but to eat her chickens. I could tell you that she probably cried a lot, I can also tell you at the same time she was very strong from having gone through all that she had gone without. I can tell you that it hurts her that her family sent her way and that she wanted someone to love her, that she thought it would be easier when she got older to get the love that she didn’t get as a child. I can tell you that she had a lot of love to give. It was said that she was approached by children taking her goods and that she was very sweet, I can tell you this is true because she would have given anything to have made a connection with a single person as we humans naturally want to have a connection with another soul. I can tell you since everyone thought the worst of her that she went out of her way to be really good and not even have negative thoughts, because this is what you do when your own family thinks that you are worthless and dislikes you. Hideous that adults sent children to check on her. Ridiculous that people didn’t want anything to do with her but they wanted to go to her funeral. My identical twin sister, a malignant narcissist never let me know her now young adult three kids, two of which are a set of twins, my older sister would not let me know her two kids either. They have seen meet in public and looked away when I waved in the past, it was extremely painful. Recently my identical twin sisters twin daughters’ boss And his wife invited me to come see my niece At the restaurant she works at as a hostess, I hope that I can finally finally establish a relationship/friendship and be a part of her life, wish me luck pray for us, I hope so. I’m scared, I found out about a month ago about where she works, I’m trying to get past Christmas I made it past Thanksgiving I don’t want to approach the situation during the holidays because it would be awkward especially painful if I don’t get a holiday invite because it’s too close to the holidays, maybe I’m just making excuses because I’m scared maybe I should just buy three gifts and wrap them and take them over there to their home. The kids have moved out of my sisters home and in with their father, so I won’t have to deal with my narcissistic twin who hates me, it’s not safe to try to have a relationship with her btw, if I even had the option. Oh yeah I absolutely have tried over and over it’s not gonna happen, not my choice, wasn’t my choice in the past but it is my choice now, don’t want a single thing to do with her, forgive and move on. Emmaline’s sister was said to have raised her hand saying she paid her debt, why couldn’t she stand up and do that for her sister while her sister was still alive, and do it in front of Emmaline? It is so painful when your own family doesn’t want you like you love you, it’s very difficult to realize/imagine that anyone else would care to when your own family wants nothing to do with you. I screwed up family we’ll always try to fix it self by scapegoating at least one family member, to put the blame on them. She was manipulated by the rich boss, she wanted someone to love her. And again is any of this is true is it all just rumors? Whadda these darn ppl really truly kno?!? There is a very good chance that none of this is true, I’m sure it has happened somewhere in history but there is absolutely no proof here, closest thing to it is these old people who remember taking her items when she was a white haired little old lady, but were the parents telling these kids to take her goods just passing judgment on her based on rumors and lies? Absolutely it is very possible that none of her sins that she is accused of is even a bit true. Thanks for reading, I don’t have anyone to talk to so it feels better to get it out. The most important thing that I have recently finally got my brain wrapped around is this, for every action there is equal reaction and I must be happy if I want to get happy back in return. I must remember that if I do think or manifest anything negative that’s what I will get back. So my plan is as I move forward to focus on love when I am confronted w life’s daily struggles. ThankYou for your prayers thank you☮️💕🌷 RIP EMILY
SkaterGrl51 Sav’h Wow!!! And I'm mad cause my family cares so much they're smothering me!!! I don't like to talk much unless I have something important to say, but if u need someone to listen, I'm here. Nobody should be so alone😊. Love and light from the islands😊😊😊
Whe I was in my early teens my dad became a pastor of a church in small town pa there was one beautiful young girl in the church that people talked about behind her back saying she was a whore and no good but she was kind to me I was always left out of play by other kids ,but she would always invite me . after some time I found out she was being molested by her stepfather a "deacon" in the church I told my dad a d he started looking Into what was going on and then contacted the police, but the girls stepdad was well liked in the community so it was swept under the rug, and the church fired my dad now I see that beautiful young woman now aged by drugs a trauma ,I feel terrible I didnt do more. Sorry for poor punctuation
You did all you could as did your family, honored to hear about your braveness and kind heart, you knew right from wrong and did all you could to help her as did you father who God has a special place in heaven for, thank you for standing up to wrong.
@@joannahernandez4608 its something that gets overlooked everyday we have only moment to do what's right if one person reads this and helps someone may that cycle can continue and break the other.
I could have been that girl in another life. I was sexually abused most of my life by my classmates as well as older people. I was constantly called a whore too. I know you feel bad, but you might still be able to do something. Have you considered reaching out and saying what you said?
@@ossianascreatorlife this happened 30 years ago about 10 years after it happened I seen her one day she had started using hard drugs I tried to get her some helped but the more I tried the more she pushed away she moved and I had lost contact I've tried over the years to find her without any luck.it was hard seeing her go down that path I pray to one day see her again health an healing
I let it be known that I was being molested by my grandfather and some uncles and my family just doesn't talk to me and this was years ago I'm 46 years old now and if it wasn't for my kids I would be by myself people can be really cruel but as long as you don't let that make you cruel you'll come out all right because I'm fine no I have a warm heart I'll do anything for anybody my kids adore me my neighbors Adore me it's just the family they don't want to discuss the truth so that made me an outcast
You know what.. you're an amazing woman nd blessed .. The karma brewing for THEM won't be nothing nice .. Best believe. There's a special place in HELL for scummy despicable ppl who abuse children. Smh. God bless You honey...
Mikel, sometimes the trash takes itself out. You’re better off without the ones who shun you, believe me. Stay well and stay faithful. You’re on the right path. ❤️
This is a horrible, heartbreaking story. Poor Emmaline was failed by everyone from the youngest age. I hope she rests peacefully, and knows the world now stands with her.
Shabazz Rgt Peace from God, from faith, from no longer enduring cruelty. It isn't a cliche. It's hope. If you have none then just pass on by instead of perpetuating more negativity on her. That's all I'll say--- I don't have time to waste on people who have no hope or faith.
I knew a man many years ago who was adopted. He said he used to fantasise about finding his mother, having sex with her and then telling her who he was. I was horrified to hear his thoughts about it. He said that the reality of meeting her was entirely different (thank goodness) and that he understood how difficult things were for unmarried mothers back in the day.
Still today, people look the other way, to save their own buts. The whole world revolves around majority following the rule makers like sheep, too afraid to speak up, too afraid to be unpopular, its actually disgusting. Majority is mostly wrong.
I’m 53 years old and found out my grandmother was a child bride from Georgia. My grandfather was 21 and my grandmother was 11. She had my father at 12. How does one process this? How am I supposed to feel? Almost wish they had kept that secret.
Are you having difficulty because you loved your grandfather and are having a hard time with that love now? What was your grandmother like? Did they stay together until one of them passed?
It is a pity that she lost her childhood in having children. Child marriage has long been an issue in America. These days most states want you to be 17 or 18, but it’s not well regulated. The main question, though, is did they love one another? Did they basically have a good life? If they did, then it worked out in the end. If you are a person of compassion, and it seems like it, some of it came from your upbringing. If your Grandmother raised your Dad that way, it was partly because she loved him and wanted him to be a good man! Take heart. Teen mothers do wish now and then that they’d started later, but they still love their babies very much!!
This story really touched my heart, the sadness I feel for a woman long gone is overwhelming and I know I will recall this story for the rest of my life. Sleep softly sweet Emmaline.
I'm from there and remember the story well. I also remember many of the people interviewed. Nettie Mitchell used to come to our classroom at school and tell us stories of the past.
Lucky you were to have seen Nettie Mitchell tell her stories. She was a wonderful person and a great storyteller. I felt very lucky to be in her presence and to record her stories. David Hoffman-filmmaker
I moved to Fayette 4 years ago. It's a beautiful little town and the people I've met have been, in general, pretty nice. My husband-to-be is from Fayette and part of his family use to own the general store. His mother moved down from Kent's Hill to Fayette where she has lived her entire life.
I'm just so glad that Emmeline had Nettie to tell her story with love and compassion. It doesn't make up for what she went through but at least Emmeline no longer lives in ignominy and shame. The lack of compassion from her people is truly heartbreaking but at least she rests with Nettie's love.
Emmeline is in the arms of Jesus getting more love than a human can comprehend. As far as her sister I feel that is the parents fault for teaching her wrong and that when something horrible happens to you it is never the victims fault like my family makes me out to be because my brother and 2 cousins molested me as a child. Of course they lied about it and now my family has abandoned me when I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome which is the most painful disease that exists and they won't even take me to get an operation that I desperately need. They call me crazy because I got PTSD at the age of 9 and was never given any help. This story is so sad I could cry except for the thought that she'll never have any type of pain again and never shead another tear.
My Grandmother grew up on a pig farm during the Great Depression and her Father owned a mill. Her Uncle had fruit trees and during the depression my Grandma and her sisters would go to their Uncle’s house to get peaches. In return, their Uncle would molest them and grope them in “exchange” for the fruit. My Grandma’s sister was raped at 12 years old by their Uncle and she had their baby at 13 years old. When news got out, people would drive to their house in hopes to get a look at the “bastard child”. She was blamed and shunned for having the child. She was treated like a freak show. Nothing was done to the Uncle, as their father did not know his brother was the father until the bastard had finally died. My Great Aunt took great care of that child and he is a wonderful person. I hate to hear what the women of my family, and many others, went through during these times JUST TO SURVIVE.
Thank you for the sharing. It’s a sad, but very real of the world that is not far away. Reality is more strange and grotesque than the ficcional stories. Again, thank you, and a kiss from Portugal 🇵🇹
The Bachilers are my ancestors. Rev Stephan is also Emmeline’s ancestor so we are distant cousins. What a fascinating and heartbreaking story. I’m glad I found this. The more we talk abt things once considered taboo the more educated we become and prevent tragedies like this from happening. 🙏🏻❤️
What happened to this woman is utterly disgusting. The thought of her finding and falling in love with her boy is so heart breaking, they must have been longing for each other before they met. They didn’t know and should not be equated with intentional incest. May you Rest In Peace sweetheart ❤️👼🏻
She would have been even too old to have children with him, so no third party would have suffered the consequences of a biologically incestuous relationship. Clearly a victimless crime.
Also, she most likely was raped wanting to stay away from men, yet, why wasn’t the man in authority condemned for raping her? She bore the outstanding blame as most women do because they’re the ones who get pregnant.
@@kattalady8114 I know an 80 year old man who is still married to his 78 year old cousin, this seems odd to me but I have since met many Mennonites who share similar stories... They are truly "equally yoked".
My grandmother's mother died and her father remarried. The new wife didn't like my grandmother. So she was farmed out to help neighbors. My grandmother never had a doll so one day in her fifties she went to a thrift store and bought herself a doll. That doll sat on her coffee table for years till she died. It was so sad. She was three when her mother died and abused by her step mom. At eight she was passed from neighbor to neighbor. I don't know if she was given up because of the abuse but the irony of it was her father was a minister. I have her personal bible and she left many secret notes of her beliefs and wants. Broke my heart when I first read it. She was actually a tad confused on religion but had obviously not been taught by her father. I can't imagine her heart break knowing as a child she wasn't wanted. So sad.
So sad ! To be ostrisized / Shunned ! Is an unbearable horrible thing for any people or persons one to another to do it is not of a Devine godly nature . But to be shunned away from all who you have loved after going through. hardship with an entire family is even worse ! I’m living it myself but have already forgiven all who have looked the other way ! It’s worse than Alzheimer’s. Because of the memory you have ! Alzheimer’s for those shunned away would be bliss. and a painless death !
Bless the hearts and souls of these old ladies who chose to document this story about humanity in its rawest form. It's so kind to hear the story of the little girl walking the snacks to Emeline ❤️ I hope we all love those around us a little better after this ❤️
How does someone just let someone starve too death and die alone? God love her she lived through hell on earth. Raped at 13 , her child taken away, then out casted her entire life and left too starve to death. I hope shes dancing and has plenty to eat and is laughing every second there is in her after life.
Sharon, while I certainly hope she gets rewarded by God, according to the Bible, Emeline is asleep for now, as everyone else, who has died. Only Jesus Christ remains resurrected. Ppl die and sleep. Also nobody turns into guardian angels after death, no matter how cute, noble, gentle, young or old they were. God has plenty of angels (millions). It is appointed unto men (ppl) once to die and then judgement. At judgement, God will either say, “well done” or “depart from me, I never Knew you!”. Only those who repent and seek God’s forgiveness and guidance in Jesus Christ will be able to receive an immortal body and never ending life in the new earth.
How can it be considered shameful when neither person knew that they were related? Their ‘love’ for each other was a new emotion to them and neither could have known that it was maternal-filial love.
I think maybe their souls recognized each other but they misunderstood the relationship connection. I have to go back & re-listen as I'm not quite certain how anyone knew absolutely that they were kin.
@@Silvermoonscorpion No need to revert to primitive explanations about souls. Science has answered this one. It's called Genetic Sexual Attraction. 1st degree relatives usually live together which cancels out the attraction. This is the Westermack Effect. When they don't even know they're related, they'll experience this attraction and mistake it for true love.
Poor Emmeline. She is utterly blameless. My heart goes out to her. What chance did she have; a child of 13, working in a mill, when the older owners son took advantage of her? She had no-one she could turn to. And then to marry her own son in ignorance of who he was. It is a shame she didnt have the means to leave that town and start afresh, but money aside, I can see that after previous experience of life in a city and working in a factory ( little better than slave labour in those days) she would probably have felt safer staying put n surroundings she knew. Shame on those townspeople; I am so glad there were one or two who had compassion. May she rest in peace.
@@barbaramathis5844 and her other son from her first marriage. How can you just leave behind the woman who gave birth to you? People remark on kids today. There were horrible people through out history.
The sad part of this story is ....its still happening to this very day! My heart aches knowing there are old people who are out there hungry, cold, alone. Nothing ever changes. Humans are capable of such great things...n yet...we're so cruel.
We have pseudo scientists preaching humanity descends from Africans running prestigious colleges without thinking about reality. Until this stops the problems will continue.
The narrator called it a moral indiscretion but it could only be that if Emmaline had been aware that the young man was her son. She did not make an immoral decision because she had no idea he was her son
Cece DuBois U R so correct . I also ‘think’ that the natural and good love between a mother and son was there . It was mistakenly felt as a couples love / romance . They knew no better . Since the son left immediately proves this point .
Wow, what an incredibly sad story. I will never understand how the older generations would blame a minor for being taken advantage of/raped by an adult. It makes no sense to me. Also, it's very clear that Emmeline had no idea that the man she married was related to her. It's so frustrating to hear how her people treated her. If only we could go back in time and make things right...
What a terrible tragedy. To have everyone shun her especially her parents when she needed someone so badly it was awful. How was she supposed to know he was her son, its tragic
It's a shame Emeline was ostracized. It's not like she knew the young man was the son she gave up for adoption. Shame on the adopted parents for not being upfront with the son when he became of age! Let this be a lesson to adoptive parents. Tell the truth before the child you adopted ends up in a sexual relationship with a possible close relative.
Honey, she didn't give that baby up for adoption. She was raped, then had her baby stolen from her and sold for profit...all too common a practice back then. That's why the family who bought the baby didn't tell him about his real mother. This is an example of horrific human trafficking that has existed for thousands of years and continues today. Truly a tragedy.
@@lmd2454 In the USA the 1865 13th Amendment to the US Constitution formally abolished slavery, the trade in human beings as chattel, property. So by such Amendment, any "sale" of a human being is a federal offense, violates the US Constitution, and is void from the start and unenforceable.
As an adult adoptee, I can tell you that it isn't that easy. Our birth records are sealed and we (and our adopted parents) are not allowed to see them. In my particular state, you usually go thru an adoption attorney if you can afford it-they're pricey. A representative of the lawyer will look up those people named on our original and sealed birth certificates. Then the rep does the research re birth parents-are they alive, is birth father known, etc. If a parent is alive, the rep explains the situation. Only IF the birth parent gives consent for info to be given or a meeting arranged can we go further. If a birth parent refuses to give out health info and downright refuses to see the now-adult child they gave up, that's the end of the search. Now if both birth parents are dead, we automatically get our original birth certificates, which at least have our REAL mothers' names on them. My male birth parent was listed as unknown & birth mother died so I automatically got the info I wanted so badly. Most adoptive parents DO tell a child that he or she is adopted but without names of birth family, no "truth" can be told about the adopted child's blood parents. They still remain anonymous.
Today, I somehow came upon this documentary about Emeline Gurney. The story of her life brought tears to my eyes. Emeline's birthday, January 30, is two days after my birthday. She was an Aquarius. Also, I noticed Nettie Mitchell passed away on my mother's birthday, March 7. My mother is deceased and has a brother named Mitchell who is alive and well. I am an empath. I love and care for people. GOD BLESS Emeline and Nettie. May they dwell in HEAVEN WITH GOD, JESUS AND ALL OTHER BENEVOLENT ANGELS FOR ALL OF ETERNITY! 🙏❤️💕😢
That was pretty much the saddest story I've ever heard. To be entirely innocent and yet be the victim of gossip and intolerance. I don't think much of the human race.
This is still going on to this day. I have here also neighbours here who laugh about me. Who talk sh.it about me. Who get other's to believe them and that they are victims. Without me doing anything but sitting in my own garden. Bullies still exist. These days with the convenience of facebook gossip travels faster then ever. That's why i hate people now.
I read the book "Emiline" years ago. I didn't know it was based on a true story. It makes you wonder what all manner of awful things could happen to beautiful spirited women & girls back then.
@@FastNCurious88 It's sadly true. You can read it in this comment section even, smh. A comment above had an individual praising the rapist and bragging about his own children. I can't go any further.
If it were not for this wonderful woman late in life who believed this story needed to be told, we would have never known this tragic story of Emmeline. I believe the only advantage of getting old is the wisdom you gain from life itself. I am 50, I think 30 years ago, I would have said, wow, that is sad, and never thought about it again. Its from the experience of life that I know how wrong it was to treat this poor woman this way. I would like to think many who watched this video would try to be kinder to those they might brush aside.
Steven Hair agreed. My husband stopped and spoke to an elderly man wearing a military cap standing outside a restaurant. After a brief conversation my husband offered to buy him breakfast. The restaurant manager actually stopped at their table to make sure the elderly veteran wasn’t bothering him.... this poor man actually asked if he could please have pan cakes and eggs... long story short. This man was a decorated Korean War veteran career officer. He had no family. Was living in a homeless shelter. My husband used his contacts at the regions VA and drove the veteran right to their door and made introductions. This veteran had over a million dollars owed him by the VA. Apparently at one time he applied for his benefits but was treated so poorly and abruptly he never followed up. He is now safely in an assisted living home and receiving medical care and supervision. He is safe. My husband checks on him periodically. How many people walked past this veteran and didn’t even see him? Who treated him so badly at the VA he never went back? Don’t even think about allowing any so called asylum seekers demanding entrance into the US for their free ride before American veterans are provided what they EARNED.
@@CandiceGoddard Uhh, Candice, Steven wasn't sauing that *only* older people are wise, or that *all* old people are wise, or that *no* young or middle-aged people are wise.. Maybe work on your reading comprehension, and maybe soften your attitude a bit. My gosh!!!
@@CandiceGoddard I am going to ask you to read my entire comment again, and if at that point, you still feel I suffer from "romantic delusion" about wisdom and age, I will reply then. You either took my comment completely out of context, or you are one taco shy of a combination plate.
It’s heartbreaking to hear Emmeline’s story. Today we know that Genetic sexual attraction is not uncommon in cases like this and that it might me a byproduct of missed bonding. Our biggest enemy is ignorance. RIP Emmeline 🙏🏻
Inceist is wrong, but understanding how sexuality shines some light on it's reason. My mother told me some stuff about the first time as a young girl when she had sexual dreams, they were actually about her grandfather..and it kinda has to do with genetics playing a cruel joke. My father alao mentioned something similar as to that as I got older I would find my self attracted to a women like my mother and he said it's not uncommon and happens to alot of men.
@@MsAmique We can't blame either mother or son -- they had no idea!!!! These kinds of things happen sometimes... like a son coming home from college with his girlfriend & after a while his mother realized the girlfriend was actually a daughter she had given up for adoption. Or the daughter who had never known her father falling deeply in love with an older man... and they eventually discovered he was her father.
I'm surprised that siblings/half siblings aren't discovered married to each other due to adoptions and sperm donors. With so many of the records being sealed it is hard to know who you are related to in these cases. Emmeline did not deserve scorn and shunning. She was a victim. It hate that the woman is always the great sinner but men are free and clear, most of the time. Thanks David for this wonderful documentary.
meama: I've often wondered about that. Say a young guy give sperm in his early twenties. In his forties, he meets a younger woman, who reminds him of himself when he was younger. We just have no idea how often this happens.t
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead Incest- in same islamic culture maybe same others, people get married with first cusins.. So they have a risk genetic disorders if they have children. So good think we have genetyc counseling today...
I think about that, too. It must happen more often that is known. And in addition to adoption agencies and sperm donors being in the equation, I also think about children, especially within the same community, being fathered by the same man..the mothers and fathers don’t always know. And it might make sense that they may be attracted to each other. Isn’t the some phenomenon regarding that? They sense the familiarly or something?
how could they call it a sin or a transgression when neither she nor the son even knew that they were related- holy smokes, you can't judge people for something they don't know about.....
Your work is second to none David. Thanks for keeping all sorts of histories alive thru your filmmaking. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it… Have a great day David ❤
@@karencarney7595 The name is German. It's occupational in origin and means to measure land. Likely the ancestor was a land surveyor. Probably not what you originally assumed it to mean in English.
In 1999 i knew a lady who was...no lie...108. She told us she remembered when the Titanic sank. Her name was Beulah Smith and she had been a teacher in TN. Her son was about 75 a doctor and still practicing at the time.
@@niche9015 There are many ways they could have advertised this excluding irony. I get the concept. The point i'm making is it does not help the documentary in anyway. Please don't be a smart ass.
@stupidcomment Thanks for the clarity. In this day in age, the title just doesn't sit right with me. There were many titles it could have been called in order to make ppl think. But once again thank you and thank you for speaking respectfully. Because others seem to live off negative energy in these comments.
@@peggymorin8944 I totally agree. Though it would be a sad story I feel there should be a movie made of her life. Maybe it would soften hard hearted people and show others how blessed they are not to have lived in her day and time.
Emerline is a novel. A must read. So sad to have had her childhood. She was not responsible for marrying her son. Emerline had no knowledge that her husband was her son.
The people that asked her parents to let her work for them knew what they were doing.Why didn't they ask the father to work for them &send money home to his family?Those people planned to take advantage of that young girl all along.
The whole town sin . "Love your neighbor as yourself" They did not do this one commandment the only one Christ spoke of. They will have to answer for this.
@Isis Montgomery in the new testament it's say basically if you can't keep all keep these main two. Put no other God before Him and love thy neighbor as thyself. Problem with that is ppl don't even love themselves how they are going to love others. Understand now why the world is so messed up
She gets raped by a grown man yet she’s the one to blame.Damn shame and if she didn’t know it was her long lost sold son it was not something she did wrong purposely very sad story.She went from being abused as a child to be abused being elderly👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
The men always get away with abusing girls and woman!!!! Why woman who know what men do protect them always disgusts me beyond belief!!!! Having lived it myself I will never comprehend it and can only pray the men who abuse the innocent girls and woman and woman and men who then protect those pos all rot in hell forever without a moments relief!!!!!
The christian bible also states that a woman is property of her husband, that slavery is god's will, and that if a group of locals come knocking at your door looking to gang rape angels god requires you to protect the angels' assholes by offering up your daughters to be gang raped instead. If you quote the bible as your moral source you are a sickening excuse for a human being.
@@BullCricket75 I think what Me Andu was saying is the church and the entire community of so-called "good Christians" weren't following the very Bible they claim to believe in that does clearly state take care of widows and orphans. The whole community shunned her and that is wrong! They were a bunch of hateful, judgmental hypocrites.
Fascinating story! I am so sorry to hear about what happened to Miss Emmeline. During this time in history, my ancestors lived close by in the province of New Brunswick, and I wonder had this played out in NB if the results would have been the same. So many questions! I wish I could have helped her.
I was raped at 14 by the boy next door (I thought he liked me ) became pregnant and my mother wanted to sell my son but he was given to the children's aid 1964 . 30 years later I found my son but the sins of his father fell on him because he wanted to have sex with me, I no longer have contact with him. Sins of the father. I am in my 70's now. Without God in my life I would have ended my life. Bless.
Sarah, thank you for your kind words, it's has not been an easy life for me. If I didn't have my dog to keep my company and give me love I would be lost in my pain. Bless.
Some are awful and some are just like angels and prepared to sacrifice so much to help a total stranger! I'm the one on the receiving end I wake up not believing such people are real!
God I love the look of 16mm. All our modern high definition is stunning and true to the details of subject in frame. However that special something, the almost dreamlike character of film, is just beyond replication. The way the colors "feel" is like paint on canvas. It is evocative and stirring and totally imperfect and just everything this medium strives to achieve. Sorry i know this isn't relevant to the content but I just wondered if anyone else feels the same way?
I knew of a brother and sister who were separated as children,met,fell in love ,married ,had children and found out they were siblings.They got divorced ,ppl never treated them well,but it was no fault of theirs.
@@edwardstarling1835 This happen in the caribbean,the kids migrated to the USA .In my own family,there was a dispute.One family moved to the deep south of the island,in the 60's.. Those day there were no phone and limited transportation.Two kids met in work,fell in love and decided to marry.On the wedding day they found out they were cousins. Dis spite the family walking out of the wedding they got married .The marriage didn't last 3 months.That was a real baccannal as we here would say .I was 10 back then,now i'm 52.
@@edwardstarling1835 ur sure right,the elders got up and there were a lot of quarreling.They walked out of the wedding and the bride said ''oh,hell high waters i'm going to get married today''. They were cousin and was told that it was a sinful act.
My great grandmother was deaf and mute but very beautiful .A transient was hired on the ranch she lived on with her family.When she was 13 this transient named John raped her.She was then pregnant by this rape and gave birth to my grandmother. Her sisters claimed the baby and raised her .She had a wonderful life. My great grandmother never had any other children and never got married. When my grandmother got married to my grandpa they took my great grandma with them and she stayed with them until she died in 1984. No one in the family was told this story not even my dad. When I was pregnant for my first daughter my grandma told me the family secret. I loved my great grandma and my grandmother even more than I already did . I have a photo of the generations; My great grandma , my grandma, my father ,myself and my first daughter. I treasure it immensely. I have told my three daughters this history so they may learn that no matter what happens in life I will always love them and be right by their side.
mamatoadx4 : You should stop sharing family stories that bring other's to tears. Especially the stories of acceptance, understanding and unconditional love. ❤ At the very least it should've contianed a disclosure: "Warning." " This story contains strong beautiful women whom have persevered with grace and wisdom." "This story may cause ones heart to swell with so much love it may burst." "Tissue is highly recommended." In all seriousness, thank you for sharing. I can see you're very proud of your family heritage and the exceptional women to whom you gain your strength from.⚘What a blessing. Take care of you and yours always!
mamatoadx4, I LOVED YOUR TOUCHING, HEARTWARMING, BREATHTAKING, BEAUTIFUL STORY ON YOUR GRANDMOTHER. Thank you Sweetie for sharing this story. 🌹 Hugs! P.S. LOVE the name, "mamatoadx4" 😉
Your story of love, acceptance for each one, with our faults and misdeeds, indeed paints the picture of compassion and a well adjusted family’s love for each other. If only there were so many more.
Thank you Laurie for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that TH-cam is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker
😭 The sickest, saddest, & most frightening part of Emmeline's life story (true or false - fact or fiction) is that her's is not the last nor the only one of her kind to be told.... Out there... somewhere, in the ugliest, darkest depths of this earth we walk around in,,, are more "Emmelines",,, children,,, being ostracized, banished, traded, starved, abused, beaten, raped, and abandoned by whole families or towns... *TODAY* Wake up people... children are precious. And we all know in the 1800's it was a different, far more struggling time than *today*.... They had an excuse... no proper education on treatment of children/adult alike.... So what is society's excuse today??? R.I.P. and carry on.... all of you beautiful Emmelines🥀🥀🥀
This is sad. Why did people vilify her? It's not her fault she married her son if she was forced to give him away as an infant. She would not hv known him. This is sad
The Internet (TH-cam )is wonderful because it gives you a chance to talk about some horrible things that happened in your life and it also gives you the good and loving people that as abused people we didn't know excisted. God is good Bless all the people on this page that send their love and caring to us that have our pain, I can't speak for all of us, I am in my 70's so I will speak for myself. Bless you.
Thank you David for the heart, I am humbled my story is also being starved but I was a child at the time. If you know the story of the man that had electrical tape on his shoes ,that's how I went to school and was laughed at (King Edward Public School 1962 ) Sincerely Valerie.
Right. I understand the safety precautions, but there’s got to be a better way. I think we all feel a strong bond with our birth moms. Like I’ve only been around mine a handful of times, but even if I didn’t know she was my mom I think I would still know there’s some connection there. Idk if she can feel it, but I feel a bond. That makes me think in this situation, and probably many others like it, that natural bond is returning but since they don’t know there’s a familiar connection they mistake it for something else. There’s even accounts of people meeting children (as adults) they gave up and end up having sexual relationships with them. I really think that has something to do with it, of all the women around he was drawn to her and her to him. There’s just something to be said about that and everyone who’s been adopted deserves to know at least enough to protect themselves.
@fluffyduckbutter's sister Nonsense. The Irish were never slaves. As an Irish person myself I would be the first to support you if it were true, but it's not. psmag.com/social-justice/the-irish-were-not-slaves
@fluffyduckbutter's sister my grandmother's mother came to the US as an Irish indentured servant. Not quite a slave, duties of a maid for a rich family.
@fluffyduckbutter's sister That is nonsense, I am a descendant of Irish immigrants (my username isn't my birth name) and we were never enslaved during the nineteenth century. In the seventeenth century Irishmen were sent to the Caribbean as indentured servants, but were not slaves. the MAGA hat has nothing to do with Irish or Irish-American history, Donald Trump isn't an Irish American, and most Irish-Americans live in the Northeast which is arguably the most liberal part of America after California and Oregon. Show me your evidence that Americans of Irish descent in the 2000a were turned down for jobs? You're full of shite!
I think Emmaline's story resonates today because there are people right now living extraordinarily similar lives. What a reality check for all of us. How do I treat others who are or perceive as different than I? Yes a predator could have attacked her chickens but they were also her companions 💔😔
Thank you for sharing Emmeline’s story….. I also was abused in my childhood…. I understand when someone shares their personal story….I’ve shared my experiences of abuse in several churches….I would tell them “The story of Annie” as I was seeking a free room for my special friends to reflect on their own experiences in a safe environment……. I’ve a special love/kindness for the abused….so many just don’t dare to trust …. and these free church rooms gave us all an opportunity to heal our sad past lives together …. as we cried ‘n laughed in our loaned church room once a week….together…. Survivors !struggling to get healthy minds….
Super duper creepy of that older woman to suggest there was some kind of steamy romance between a 13 year old and an adult male foreman at her work. She was between 13-14 and he was the husband of the factory owner's daughter, and her foreman. His age is unclear but he wasn't a teenager. He was a predator. Having an illicit extramarital 'affair' with a 14 year old isn't normal not even for the early 1900s. Let's not mention the fact that he was in a position of power, her boss. Could cut off the lifeline to her family. He was married, and had absolutely no intention of supporting a girl he would likely (no birth control), and eventually did, impregnate. He did not subsequently support her, did he? PREDATOR. He groomed her and then he discarded her. She started out a neglected child, was used and assaulted, bought out for her womb, discarded by all. This poor woman deserves a women's center in her name, not this gimmicky pseudo-history that tries to insinuate a 14 year old orphaned/shunned female had any power, anywhere, in anyone's eyes.
At 13-14 it seems unheard of today, but at 14 because of the harsh environment she likely had a life expectancy of no more than 35-40 yrs. Many died in childbirth or infection.
@@jeangibsonmedley No ma'am; that is an excuse used by colonizers and abusers for centuries. I served in the Peace Corps, in countries with very low life expectancy, some as low as 30. With birthrates of 1 in 2. It is a LIE that it is normal in those places or any other place to engage in sexual activity with and impregnate a 13 or 14 year old. This is not the 16th century we are talking about. And this is not an arrangement between the families or parents, we are talking about, which is how most cultures married young people (through arranged marriage). She was an indentured servant who was used for play by adults. She had nothing to offer, and people treated her like nothing. Its easy to see that. Any other characterization, is just a coping mechanism. What happened here is an American tragedy, and it still happens to this day. Time as an explanation, is an illusion.
So very sad this story has brought tears several times as I read it tonight. I put it down for a while then read some more. May she be so blessed with God and RIP.
You (and your team) make some absolutely incredible videos! This was posted 7 years ago, but it's still being enjoyed in 2024. The narrator has an amazing calming but attention grabbing voice for late night podcast/radio program.
I would have liked to have heard comments from the living relatives of Emmeline's family, the adopted family of her son, and the son's family (after he went back to Massachusetts) since the story must have been passed down to them too. There had to be more of the story from those points of view. This woman's life was such a tragedy. Not even "the good Christian folks" were kind to her (except for the one family sending down the daughter with salt pork and tea). I was hoping to find out that, at least, she had a proper burial and was laid to rest in peace, but even that is a tragedy... nowhere to be found and possibly under a road. Emmeline, I hope that God was there to welcome you home and embrace you with love and light to your new world of Heaven. God bless you Emmeline, and for whatever your true story, I wish for you to rest in peace.
Something like this would have had almost a zero chance of being passed down within Emmeline's own family. Shame is a powerful thing, and, considering the times, I would be very surprised if any of her siblings or her son/husband would ever share this with anyone -- ever. Her story was likely never told within her own family.
"Good Christian Folks"...yeah such wonderful people. Absolutely horrible the way she was treated. She was probably raped by the man in the mill and wanted to keep her job so kept quiet
Wow...shame on them for shunning that old woman...she didnt kno...not her fault,can u imagine living with that truth...thats enough punishment for anyone.
Listening to some of the people talk in this documentary, where they're explaining that Emmeline "should have known better because young girls from Maine were taught from a young age about sex. It just happened", is absolutely ignorant. She was a child.
I consider my mother a hard working kind woman that as an orphan was mentally and physically abused. Due to the way she was treated and brought up in a very ignorant environment, she some how judgemental. Slowly, I have thought her to always consider her words. She has countless of occasions said phrases like: " well, they say that, that woman sleeps around, or she likes to steel, or she is a witch, etc." I always remind her. If that if she didn't see it with her own eyes and if she doesn't know the truth story, she shouldn't feed into the craze.
@@kendrapope6400 my mother was broken like you can not believe it. Then she carried that cycle around. Her mother died when my mother was a few weeks old. She died of yellow fever. They kept her in a hut with my mother. When she died is when they removed her from her mother's side. Her father remarried and was not interested to keep her, so he gave her away to his mother. The way she treated her seems like she hated her. She never had a kind words for her.
It’s not “ Sins of our mothers” it’s crimes committed by men if anything. Guess they didn’t know better back in the days. I wouldn’t call them Christians though cause it’s nothing Christian about how they treated that poor, poor lady.
The most patriarchal societies always have the least sympathetic views towards the plight of women & girls. I think it is interesting how they say Emmeline "yeilded" to the older man when she was 13, but the reality was that rape & sexual abuse of poor girls was very common during these times and that when girls became pregnant, it was they who were blamed for it, often with the view that even if it was rape, the girl "asked" for the abuse in some way or another (and what amounted to "asking" for it could be any number of slight or unavoidable factors). I also hate this view that if you grow up around animals then you are not innocent about sex, because it really isn't always like that. Sadly, cultures like these (slut shaming, rape blaming, ocstracisation of women, sexualization of underage girls, etc) still persist in many places even in American society today.
This kind of thing probably has happened more than we know and ironically some of those who judged her are probably descendants of unions between siblings and cousins. As is child slavery ,not discussed but there. Truth is stranger than fiction. I thought Emillene was smart, just unfortunate.
I’m so glad I gave this a chance, what a story, a sad story indeed, but lessons are to be learned from this, for me “ empathy “ is key, and I’m glad I’ve always had a good understanding of this.
A blade of grass still grows in the meadow and a leaf falls from a tree but mankind has ruined itself. May God forgive us for our mistreatment of others.
How kind were the people who sent a little child to work? How kind were the people who bought her child? How kind were the people who condemned her? How kind were the men who took advantage of her femininity. Her labor and then destroyed her life? This is a story of our whole society both then and now. We still treat women's labor as less in the home and in the greater society. We don't pay women the way men are paid. We still expect women to work at a job and still do the majority of the work at home too. Men still leave women and their children when they feel put upon or whenever they feel the desire for a new life, but we think little of a woman who deserts her children. This is a sad story. We could do with a great deal more kindness in how we deal with women in hard circumstances.
It's only appropriate to cry. What a touching story! The word ostracized was said many times in the story. My heart aches for Emmeline. May her soul continue to rest in peace. Sad! 😢
I am getting worried about my TH-cam history because my recommendation keeps getting weirder and jaw dropping!
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At first I thought the lady on the thumbnail was the one who married her son.... 😳🤣🤣
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If you feel bad about Emmeline. Just know there are people today who have no one, alone, outcast, for whatever reason. If you see someone alone, befriend them. That’s the best way to pay emmeline back.
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So true. It's the best thing u can give someone, a little empathy goes a long way!
I love this❤
@@kpeezyforsheezy Definitely not a Dr Drew fan at all BUT something he said way back stuck with me bc it so true.
"The world would be a better place if everyone had an ounce of empathy."
First her parents sent her off alone, an older man basically raped her at age 14, baby born and given/taken away, she was sent home, did not date, met and married a younger man. Found out it was her son, divorced him, her family and the town turned their backs on her. She was told that she was a sinner. Who’s the sinner?????The freakin Town and her family!!!!!!
Yes so true
Agreed @Fran Mack
Agree
Religion is a scam.
Thank you for saving me an hr of my life
Nettie seems like she was a wonderful child, who grew up to be a compassionate old woman who felt it was important for people to hear the sad story of Emmeline. ❤️
She had compassion for people
The beginning is just priceless. 3:45:
"When where you born?"
"I was born a 103 years ago, you figure it out."
😍🤗 Reminds me of my grandmother when I would ask her how old she was: "I don't know, baby. I think I'm 94 or 5 or 6. Idk ninety-something. Maybe..."
I literally recorded that moment n sent it to my friends
1885 or 1886.
mauherkan cos she did not know how to add herself lol
I didn’t catch that at first. 😂 Sassy old lady.
May everyone watching this story take it heart and use it as an example of how not to treat people.
What goes around comes around! The wrong that you do comes back to you!
Two cousin of my, whose family were separated due to an argument.They met at work,fall in love and on the wedding day, they discovered that they were family,they decided to marry in spite that the whole family walked out the wedding .Their marriage never lasted three months.Now they were sure stupid because they knew
@@sisteroflight I find myself torn on this subject. The awful stuff that is happening to a person ....is this payback for stuff they did in a previous life ?
Why do we need to know all this evil crab in the world nothing new it repeats itself best never hear about it at all find better happy things and let by gone be by gone in some normal believes that some of us still have
Poor Emalline. RIP
What the heck was wrong with those people????? Emmeline never committed a sin, the moment she and her son found out who the other was, they both divorced, it was a mistake, not a sin!!
and its sad they didn't have a mother son relationship at least :(
@@beatrixthegreat1138 I agree, they should have been allowed to pursue as mother and son, but I can only imagine that it would have been quite awkward afterward. Poor Emmeline just flat out got the short end of the stick in life, I sure hope she is happy in heaven, she deserves it. bless her heart.....
God help Emmeline. I bet her son was shocked and shattered.
ᔕωєєтᙡιℓℓσω those days were brainwashed. Men brainwashed woman. "It's always a womans fault". Men ALWAYS had the POWER over women. Woman were severely brainwashed im sure they not only lived in fear but were most likely desensitized- im surely even their emotions were controlled by the asshole men!
Back in the 60s my aunt was 70 years old , a neighbor 20 years old raped her. people treated her so bad
even saying that she caused it.
When I married in the early mid 1970's, he revealed to me that I was his property and he could do as he liked to me and any children that would later come. For example for over a decade I was only allowed 2 pair of underwear, one to wear, one to wash... I shall not say all the horrors he subject my children and myself to.
It took me over 14 years to get my children and myself away from the evil man, the devil itself he was.
A horrible story that sickens me. I am glad you have gotten past him.
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I'm glad you got away from h8m
I am so sorry you went through that. Very glad you were able to get away.
Maybe that ******* former husband is now in prison rotting in a jail cell, in preparation for the Final Judgment when he rots in Hell, etarnally.
We can only hope…
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Not only is the poor woman completely innocent, the town's people are guilty of killing her.
I bet she had dreams of moving far away and starting her life over, that’s my plan. I can’t put it into words the horrible pain of being outcasted but it’s true, my life has turned out a lot like Emmaline’s. I’ve never had anyone to call good friend. The one decent family member I had has died, My father made him mentally handicapped, that was my darling brother my two sisters are the golden children. I am the black sheep, scapegoated, ostracized, My mother told the police she didn’t want to see me when she was dying. She didn’t have dementia, she was fully aware, it is not what she intended to happened she was manipulated by my older sister in that sisters to Sons. The reason is the rest of my family banded me and my identical twin from my mothers deathbed for no reason, my father was a malignant narcissist, and for the most part the rest of the family was as well. My mother had developed Stockholm syndrome. I have really healed I only cried a little bit during this, I don’t have the luxury of being upset and hurt anymore it’s all about survival. My identical twin sister did a 18 year shame in smear campaign on me which is still going on and my older sister has her own shame and smear campaign against me as well. There are people who hate me that I don’t even know, they just hear lies from others and family who hate me. I tried to go to church, the pastor’s wife embarrassed me in front of everyone questioning me about why I don’t go to church more often, I was sick for the first 50 years of my life, so even gas/fuel to drive to church is unaffordable. I’m 51 years old I have regained some of my health and strength, life is better than it ever has been. My head is so messed up about weather people would ever like me or not that being in settings with other people who just too painful and I get sensitive my perceptions get distorted at the same time my perceptions are correct, I don’t fit in. I asked the pastor to lay hands on me to help me bc of some back pain, to pray for me, to give me some hands on healing, he asked someone else to do it for him relaying that I was demon possessed, that person didn’t want to do it either. Upon learning that while feeling desperate I caught the ear of someone who was unaware of what I just mentioned above, I got this person to lay hands on me and she prayed for me. And in my desperation I told this person briefly my entire life story in matter of several minutes just the highlights of my life. Felt good to get it out it always feels good to talk about it I’ve never had psychiatric help they always wanted to put me on pills not for me, but the people who hurt me on pills not me. Unfortunately this person was way too afraid to hardly ever speak to me again, She even walked away for me while I was talking on another occasion after that. I had committed to going to church for a one year every Monday night classes so this happened twice, twice class was canceled, no one told me, I was the only one that showed up the second time, guess they don’t realize how broke I am and that it wasted my gas/fuel twice when I am in the fight for my life to play catch-up after being sick for 50 years. Pls Don’t feel bad for me I had a near-death experience when I was four years old, and I’ve had my solid proof of God since I was blessed to have this experience ever since. As for my future I’m going to give it my best shot and go after some things I’ve always wanted I have my health back, my days are really short. I have so much to do I’m overwhelmed I don’t know how I’m going to get it done in the short time frame. I isolate because I’m too afraid to be hurt. If I could only convince myself that I don’t need anyone to love me, that’s what I’m working on. I can tell you she/Emmaline brought the chickens in the house for two reasons, one for companionship the other was to protect them. I can tell you it was hard for her to eat them and I can tell you that she had no choice but to eat her chickens. I could tell you that she probably cried a lot, I can also tell you at the same time she was very strong from having gone through all that she had gone without. I can tell you that it hurts her that her family sent her way and that she wanted someone to love her, that she thought it would be easier when she got older to get the love that she didn’t get as a child. I can tell you that she had a lot of love to give. It was said that she was approached by children taking her goods and that she was very sweet, I can tell you this is true because she would have given anything to have made a connection with a single person as we humans naturally want to have a connection with another soul. I can tell you since everyone thought the worst of her that she went out of her way to be really good and not even have negative thoughts, because this is what you do when your own family thinks that you are worthless and dislikes you. Hideous that adults sent children to check on her. Ridiculous that people didn’t want anything to do with her but they wanted to go to her funeral. My identical twin sister, a malignant narcissist never let me know her now young adult three kids, two of which are a set of twins, my older sister would not let me know her two kids either. They have seen meet in public and looked away when I waved in the past, it was extremely painful. Recently my identical twin sisters twin daughters’ boss And his wife invited me to come see my niece At the restaurant she works at as a hostess, I hope that I can finally finally establish a relationship/friendship and be a part of her life, wish me luck pray for us, I hope so. I’m scared, I found out about a month ago about where she works, I’m trying to get past Christmas I made it past Thanksgiving I don’t want to approach the situation during the holidays because it would be awkward especially painful if I don’t get a holiday invite because it’s too close to the holidays, maybe I’m just making excuses because I’m scared maybe I should just buy three gifts and wrap them and take them over there to their home. The kids have moved out of my sisters home and in with their father, so I won’t have to deal with my narcissistic twin who hates me, it’s not safe to try to have a relationship with her btw, if I even had the option. Oh yeah I absolutely have tried over and over it’s not gonna happen, not my choice, wasn’t my choice in the past but it is my choice now, don’t want a single thing to do with her, forgive and move on. Emmaline’s sister was said to have raised her hand saying she paid her debt, why couldn’t she stand up and do that for her sister while her sister was still alive, and do it in front of Emmaline? It is so painful when your own family doesn’t want you like you love you, it’s very difficult to realize/imagine that anyone else would care to when your own family wants nothing to do with you. I screwed up family we’ll always try to fix it self by scapegoating at least one family member, to put the blame on them. She was manipulated by the rich boss, she wanted someone to love her. And again is any of this is true is it all just rumors? Whadda these darn ppl really truly kno?!? There is a very good chance that none of this is true, I’m sure it has happened somewhere in history but there is absolutely no proof here, closest thing to it is these old people who remember taking her items when she was a white haired little old lady, but were the parents telling these kids to take her goods just passing judgment on her based on rumors and lies? Absolutely it is very possible that none of her sins that she is accused of is even a bit true.
Thanks for reading, I don’t have anyone to talk to so it feels better to get it out. The most important thing that I have recently finally got my brain wrapped around is this, for every action there is equal reaction and I must be happy if I want to get happy back in return. I must remember that if I do think or manifest anything negative that’s what I will get back. So my plan is as I move forward to focus on love when I am confronted w life’s daily struggles. ThankYou for your prayers thank you☮️💕🌷
RIP EMILY
SkaterGrl51 Sav’h Wow!!! And I'm mad cause my family cares so much they're smothering me!!! I don't like to talk much unless I have something important to say, but if u need someone to listen, I'm here. Nobody should be so alone😊. Love and light from the islands😊😊😊
@@skatergrl51savh45feeling sad god bless u
So true they did kill her in my way of thinking!
Spoiler alert
As a child, I never imagined that all of the real monsters in the world would be *HUMANS*
What books did you read?
your so right
They are!
I did. But I tried not to believe it.
Yeh and a lot of them are your parents.
Whe I was in my early teens my dad became a pastor of a church in small town pa there was one beautiful young girl in the church that people talked about behind her back saying she was a whore and no good but she was kind to me I was always left out of play by other kids ,but she would always invite me . after some time I found out she was being molested by her stepfather a "deacon" in the church I told my dad a d he started looking Into what was going on and then contacted the police, but the girls stepdad was well liked in the community so it was swept under the rug, and the church fired my dad now I see that beautiful young woman now aged by drugs a trauma ,I feel terrible I didnt do more. Sorry for poor punctuation
A tragic story. Beautifully told. Thank you.
David Hoffman filmmaker
You did all you could as did your family, honored to hear about your braveness and kind heart, you knew right from wrong and did all you could to help her as did you father who God has a special place in heaven for, thank you for standing up to wrong.
@@joannahernandez4608 its something that gets overlooked everyday we have only moment to do what's right if one person reads this and helps someone may that cycle can continue and break the other.
I could have been that girl in another life. I was sexually abused most of my life by my classmates as well as older people. I was constantly called a whore too. I know you feel bad, but you might still be able to do something. Have you considered reaching out and saying what you said?
@@ossianascreatorlife this happened 30 years ago about 10 years after it happened I seen her one day she had started using hard drugs I tried to get her some helped but the more I tried the more she pushed away she moved and I had lost contact I've tried over the years to find her without any luck.it was hard seeing her go down that path I pray to one day see her again health an healing
I let it be known that I was being molested by my grandfather and some uncles and my family just doesn't talk to me and this was years ago I'm 46 years old now and if it wasn't for my kids I would be by myself people can be really cruel but as long as you don't let that make you cruel you'll come out all right because I'm fine no I have a warm heart I'll do anything for anybody my kids adore me my neighbors Adore me it's just the family they don't want to discuss the truth so that made me an outcast
My mother was molested by her grandfather. No one believed her either. It really damaged her, may she Rest In Peace.
You are NOT an outcast. Your family is. You should have gone complete public. My dad would have had a shit fit if that were happening to me
@@ellavek1998 I agree with you. I was molested by mum mum (who is a social worker.) and my family cut me off
You know what.. you're an amazing woman nd blessed .. The karma brewing for THEM won't be nothing nice .. Best believe. There's a special place in HELL for scummy despicable ppl who abuse children. Smh. God bless You honey...
Mikel, sometimes the trash takes itself out. You’re better off without the ones who shun you, believe me. Stay well and stay faithful. You’re on the right path. ❤️
This is a horrible, heartbreaking story. Poor Emmaline was failed by everyone from the youngest age. I hope she rests peacefully, and knows the world now stands with her.
Shabazz Rgt Peace from God, from faith, from no longer enduring cruelty. It isn't a cliche. It's hope. If you have none then just pass on by instead of perpetuating more negativity on her. That's all I'll say--- I don't have time to waste on people who have no hope or faith.
For sure Vickie
@@vickiehaper4615 Aren't you Vickie?
I wish her son had gone to see her and made sure she was all right.
I knew a man many years ago who was adopted. He said he used to fantasise about finding his mother, having sex with her and then telling her who he was. I was horrified to hear his thoughts about it. He said that the reality of meeting her was entirely different (thank goodness) and that he understood how difficult things were for unmarried mothers back in the day.
I am so sorry, Emmeline. You were abused by more than one person and all the while you were the innocent one.
Maureen Nolan
All the beauty and kindness within her, will live on forever. Thank you for sharing!
This is so sad oh my God have mercy on all of us that would judge like that.
😢😢😰😰😤
I really hate that Emma’s sister exclaimed “she finally paid for her sins” at her own sister’s funeral. That’s atrocious
You are so right!! Hopefully that self righteous monster paid the ultimate price.She should have stayed away..
I agree! That’s the part that made me the most upset aside from what happened to the poor thing as a woman and as a little girl growing up.
@MysticSkullivine .. I agree. People who act like they're God are the least Godly.
Still today, people look the other way, to save their own buts. The whole world revolves around majority following the rule makers like sheep, too afraid to speak up, too afraid to be unpopular, its actually disgusting. Majority is mostly wrong.
I’m furious.
I’m 53 years old and found out my grandmother was a child bride from Georgia. My grandfather was 21 and my grandmother was 11. She had my father at 12. How does one process this? How am I supposed to feel? Almost wish they had kept that secret.
I'll pray for you and you pray for me too I know all too well about learning things about your family that you wish you could un-hear
You shouldn't feel bad . People waste to much time of life .
Life is traumatic. Processing the trauma is different for everyone. I did therapy. It helped.
Are you having difficulty because you loved your grandfather and are having a hard time with that love now? What was your grandmother like? Did they stay together until one of them passed?
It is a pity that she lost her childhood in having children.
Child marriage has long been an issue in America. These days most states want you to be 17 or 18, but it’s not well regulated.
The main question, though, is did they love one another? Did they basically have a good life?
If they did, then it worked out in the end.
If you are a person of compassion, and it seems like it, some of it came from your upbringing. If your Grandmother raised your Dad that way, it was partly because she loved him and wanted him to be a good man!
Take heart. Teen mothers do wish now and then that they’d started later, but they still love their babies very much!!
The saddest part is the fact that Emerlines was taken advantage of, at such a young age, by a man who promised her family a better life for her. 🙁🙁😞
This story really touched my heart, the sadness I feel for a woman long gone is overwhelming and I know I will recall this story for the rest of my life. Sleep softly sweet Emmaline.
Yes me to
I'm from there and remember the story well. I also remember many of the people interviewed. Nettie Mitchell used to come to our classroom at school and tell us stories of the past.
Lucky you were to have seen Nettie Mitchell tell her stories. She was a wonderful person and a great storyteller. I felt very lucky to be in her presence and to record her stories.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
I moved to Fayette 4 years ago. It's a beautiful little town and the people I've met have been, in general, pretty nice. My husband-to-be is from Fayette and part of his family use to own the general store. His mother moved down from Kent's Hill to Fayette where she has lived her entire life.
Lucky
This story will remain with me for the rest of my life. Life is hard and sometimes cruel. May Emmeline rest in peace.
This isn't a true story it's bs
I'm just so glad that Emmeline had Nettie to tell her story with love and compassion. It doesn't make up for what she went through but at least Emmeline no longer lives in ignominy and shame. The lack of compassion from her people is truly heartbreaking but at least she rests with Nettie's love.
Nettie told the story so beautifully. Made me cry a little.
Yes, exactly! Emeline's story Breaks my heart. I Had To post this & share it on Facebook page.
Emmeline is in the arms of Jesus getting more love than a human can comprehend. As far as her sister I feel that is the parents fault for teaching her wrong and that when something horrible happens to you it is never the victims fault like my family makes me out to be because my brother and 2 cousins molested me as a child. Of course they lied about it and now my family has abandoned me when I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome which is the most painful disease that exists and they won't even take me to get an operation that I desperately need. They call me crazy because I got PTSD at the age of 9 and was never given any help. This story is so sad I could cry except for the thought that she'll never have any type of pain again and never shead another tear.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can use religion to be cruel.
Yes I agree, but it no longer surprolises me
Religion is evil
@Thomas Farrell indeed
Ontological Certainty:
The Great Enabler
Or were they cruel because of religion?
Yes, Debra. God commands us to be merciful and not judge others. We should be kind to others. We all sin.
My Grandmother grew up on a pig farm during the Great Depression and her Father owned a mill. Her Uncle had fruit trees and during the depression my Grandma and her sisters would go to their Uncle’s house to get peaches. In return, their Uncle would molest them and grope them in “exchange” for the fruit. My Grandma’s sister was raped at 12 years old by their Uncle and she had their baby at 13 years old. When news got out, people would drive to their house in hopes to get a look at the “bastard child”. She was blamed and shunned for having the child. She was treated like a freak show. Nothing was done to the Uncle, as their father did not know his brother was the father until the bastard had finally died.
My Great Aunt took great care of that child and he is a wonderful person. I hate to hear what the women of my family, and many others, went through during these times JUST TO SURVIVE.
Curious gossipers are evil beings. Poor Auntie! So much pain in this World-not asked for-not deserved.
@@joycebrannen1943 dammit...I wanna puke at the fact some kid marries his mother
These happened to ALOT of people around that time.añd was swep under a rug.hopefully all these victims are in a better place
Your Great Aunt is a hero..
Thank you for the sharing. It’s a sad, but very real of the world that is not far away. Reality is more strange and grotesque than the ficcional stories. Again, thank you, and a kiss from Portugal 🇵🇹
The Bachilers are my ancestors. Rev Stephan is also Emmeline’s ancestor so we are distant cousins. What a fascinating and heartbreaking story. I’m glad I found this. The more we talk abt things once considered taboo the more educated we become and prevent tragedies like this from happening. 🙏🏻❤️
Have you ever done a DNA test to see how close you are to Emmiline?
Like a Greek tragedy. She must've felt cursed. Lucky they didn't burn her at the stake as a witch. Very depressing.
Nowadays many kids are trafficked and killed during rituals.
She didn't have an incestuous relationship with her son. A census record from 1880 states that her husband was 12 years older than her.
@@elph77 they said she had two marriages. One of them for 20 years.
What happened to this woman is utterly disgusting. The thought of her finding and falling in love with her boy is so heart breaking, they must have been longing for each other before they met. They didn’t know and should not be equated with intentional incest. May you Rest In Peace sweetheart ❤️👼🏻
Very sad.. That poor little girl..
She would have been even too old to have children with him, so no third party would have suffered the consequences of a biologically incestuous relationship. Clearly a victimless crime.
Genetic Sexual Attraction is a real thing that sometimes happens between family members who meet for the first time after decades
Also, she most likely was raped wanting to stay away from men, yet, why wasn’t the man in authority condemned for raping her? She bore the outstanding blame as most women do because they’re the ones who get pregnant.
@@kattalady8114 I know an 80 year old man who is still married to his 78 year old cousin, this seems odd to me but I have since met many Mennonites who share similar stories... They are truly "equally yoked".
My grandmother's mother died and her father remarried. The new wife didn't like my grandmother. So she was farmed out to help neighbors. My grandmother never had a doll so one day in her fifties she went to a thrift store and bought herself a doll. That doll sat on her coffee table for years till she died. It was so sad. She was three when her mother died and abused by her step mom. At eight she was passed from neighbor to neighbor. I don't know if she was given up because of the abuse but the irony of it was her father was a minister. I have her personal bible and she left many secret notes of her beliefs and wants. Broke my heart when I first read it. She was actually a tad confused on religion but had obviously not been taught by her father. I can't imagine her heart break knowing as a child she wasn't wanted. So sad.
Heartbreaking
It seems to me that so called Christian's back in the day were not very nice. Most Christian's theses days are nice people
Alright... go write a book
Awebreeze 0353 😞
georgina cat shut up
I would have been talking to chickens too if no one else in the world talked to me Great things about animals - they never judge you
Absolutely.. pure love
Think we're all guilty of speaking outloud to animals
Love it when people say what they "would have done." Easy to say from the year 2021 🙄
Tbf most big animals in the wikd are judging u..judging whether they can eat u or not
So sad ! To be ostrisized / Shunned ! Is an unbearable horrible thing for any people or persons one to another to do it is not of a Devine godly nature . But to be shunned away from all who you have loved after going through. hardship with an entire family is even worse ! I’m living it myself but have already forgiven all who have looked the other way ! It’s worse than Alzheimer’s. Because of the memory you have ! Alzheimer’s for those shunned away would be bliss. and a painless death !
Bless the hearts and souls of these old ladies who chose to document this story about humanity in its rawest form. It's so kind to hear the story of the little girl walking the snacks to Emeline ❤️ I hope we all love those around us a little better after this ❤️
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uhmm she married her son? you are a rare bird to see that simple and beautiful act..and I pray that I always see the positive like you do..God bless
How does someone just let someone starve too death and die alone? God love her she lived through hell on earth. Raped at 13 , her child taken away, then out casted her entire life and left too starve to death. I hope shes dancing and has plenty to eat and is laughing every second there is in her after life.
Reminds me of Ocey Snead
Why would she be eating in the afterlife?
@@theshoestringstrangla5547 cause food tastes good
So sad . Yet it still happens today
Sharon, while I certainly hope she gets rewarded by God, according to the Bible, Emeline is asleep for now, as everyone else, who has died. Only Jesus Christ remains resurrected. Ppl die and sleep. Also nobody turns into guardian angels after death, no matter how cute, noble, gentle, young or old they were. God has plenty of angels (millions). It is appointed unto men (ppl) once to die and then judgement. At judgement, God will either say, “well done” or “depart from me, I never Knew you!”. Only those who repent and seek God’s forgiveness and guidance in Jesus Christ will be able to receive an immortal body and never ending life in the new earth.
How can it be considered shameful when neither person knew that they were related?
Their ‘love’ for each other was a new emotion to them and neither could have known that it was maternal-filial love.
I think maybe their souls recognized each other but they misunderstood the relationship connection.
I have to go back & re-listen as I'm not quite certain how anyone knew absolutely that they were kin.
@@Silvermoonscorpion No need to revert to primitive explanations about souls. Science has answered this one. It's called Genetic Sexual Attraction. 1st degree relatives usually live together which cancels out the attraction. This is the Westermack Effect. When they don't even know they're related, they'll experience this attraction and mistake it for true love.
@@jakestroll6518 maybe. No one truly knows anything. Not really. It was just a shame the way she was treated, period. Wasn't even her fault.
Cynic. I know about the effect as well, but I at least partially disagree.
I do believe they loved one another.
Poor Emmeline. She is utterly blameless. My heart goes out to her. What chance did she have; a child of 13, working in a mill, when the older owners son took advantage of her? She had no-one she could turn to. And then to marry her own son in ignorance of who he was. It is a shame she didnt have the means to leave that town and start afresh, but money aside, I can see that after previous experience of life in a city and working in a factory ( little better than slave labour in those days) she would probably have felt safer staying put n surroundings she knew. Shame on those townspeople; I am so glad there were one or two who had compassion. May she rest in peace.
I wonder what happened to her son / husband?
@@barbaramathis5844 and her other son from her first marriage. How can you just leave behind the woman who gave birth to you? People remark on kids today. There were horrible people through out history.
Emmerline
@@barbaramathis5844
Can't you just say son?
Jesus! You're like one of those towns people.
The sad part of this story is ....its still happening to this very day! My heart aches knowing there are old people who are out there hungry, cold, alone. Nothing ever changes. Humans are capable of such great things...n yet...we're so cruel.
humans can be so horrid is very sad
@@jax993 Exactly. They will wring their hands talking about a century ago, but wouldn’t cross the street to do a kind deed for the worst off among us.
We have pseudo scientists preaching humanity descends from Africans running prestigious colleges without thinking about reality. Until this stops the problems will continue.
Talk about being dealt a bad hand. People are heartless and cruel. Robbed of her innocence and youth.
Yeah right vh
Me too. From age 4 .
poor Emiline i hope you found a thousand loving friends in the aferlife
This Lady i think has many friends alive today after hearing the way she was treated by her community. RIP.
I hope there is an afterlife . . .
There is no afterlife. But don't worry because death is absolute. Her pain ended when she died.
That poor lady 😢
@@robdrich8556 oh... you are in for a major surprise :) you are NOT your body Mr.
Gandhi said, "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. They are not very Christ-like."
So true!
Gandhi was a racist
@@GH-im3lj ghandi died in 1948 . He supported the apartheid regime in south Africa
@@GH-im3lj He was a vehement racist who supported white supremacist ideology. He will be remembered by Africans as such.
@@makubegysman6160 stop lying and go back to watching Fox Faux News..from you own mother's basement, of course.
@@makubegysman6160 and so, you have AT LEAST 8 other TH-cam accounts, you INCEL basement dweller.🙄
What a truly heartbreaking story. What the community did to her was simply deplorable.
Yes, it was.
I agree
The narrator called it a moral indiscretion but it could only be that if Emmaline had been aware that the young man was her son. She did not make an immoral decision because she had no idea he was her son
@@reginasherman8822 Hu? It is still, by nature, a really bad idea. A piece of paper changes nothing.
And when it was discovered, they parted forever. What a challenging life this poor woman lived.
Cece DuBois U R so correct . I also ‘think’ that the natural and good love between a mother and son was there . It was mistakenly
felt as a couples love / romance . They knew no better . Since the son left immediately proves this point .
the sin was having sex with her boss not accidentally marring her own son .
Regina Galloway
Your statement ???
This is such a heartbreaking story. I hope she’s found peace, wherever she is.
I love hearing people from small isolated rural towns talk. It’s different for every region, of course. But very interesting and beautiful.
Thankyou
Wow, what an incredibly sad story. I will never understand how the older generations would blame a minor for being taken advantage of/raped by an adult. It makes no sense to me. Also, it's very clear that Emmeline had no idea that the man she married was related to her. It's so frustrating to hear how her people treated her. If only we could go back in time and make things right...
At first I was gonna leave a smartass comment due to the title alone. Then the more I kept viewing, the more heartbroken I got 😢
Alexandria, I am glad you didnt You are too beautiful to be so ugly inside. Thank you for being true and honest.
I use to do such just by the titles, but now I realize I have to watch the entire video before passing judgment
SLAVERY!!!!
What a terrible tragedy. To have everyone shun her especially her parents when she needed someone so badly it was awful. How was she supposed to know he was her son, its tragic
It's a shame Emeline was ostracized. It's not like she knew the young man was the son she gave up for adoption. Shame on the adopted parents for not being upfront with the son when he became of age! Let this be a lesson to adoptive parents. Tell the truth before the child you adopted ends up in a sexual relationship with a possible close relative.
Right... why do some feel like bcuz they raise someone’s child the child somehow is really theirs
Honey, she didn't give that baby up for adoption. She was raped, then had her baby stolen from her and sold for profit...all too common a practice back then. That's why the family who bought the baby didn't tell him about his real mother. This is an example of horrific human trafficking that has existed for thousands of years and continues today. Truly a tragedy.
@@lmd2454 In the USA the 1865 13th Amendment to the US Constitution formally abolished slavery, the trade in human beings as chattel, property. So by such Amendment, any "sale" of a human being is a federal offense, violates the US Constitution, and is void from the start and unenforceable.
As an adult adoptee, I can tell you that it isn't that easy. Our birth records are sealed and we (and our adopted parents) are not allowed to see them. In my particular state, you usually go thru an adoption attorney if you can afford it-they're pricey. A representative of the lawyer will look up those people named on our original and sealed birth certificates. Then the rep does the research re birth parents-are they alive, is birth father known, etc. If a parent is alive, the rep explains the situation. Only IF the birth parent gives consent for info to be given or a meeting arranged can we go further. If a birth parent refuses to give out health info and downright refuses to see the now-adult child they gave up, that's the end of the search. Now if both birth parents are dead, we automatically get our original birth certificates, which at least have our REAL mothers' names on them. My male birth parent was listed as unknown & birth mother died so I automatically got the info I wanted so badly.
Most adoptive parents DO tell a child that he or she is adopted but without names of birth family, no "truth" can be told about the adopted child's blood parents. They still remain anonymous.
@@msleemastyles7452 if they raised the kid it is theirs.
Today, I somehow came upon this documentary about Emeline Gurney. The story of her life brought tears to my eyes. Emeline's birthday, January 30, is two days after my birthday. She was an Aquarius. Also, I noticed Nettie Mitchell passed away on my mother's birthday, March 7. My mother is deceased and has a brother named Mitchell who is alive and well. I am an empath. I love and care for people. GOD BLESS Emeline and Nettie. May they dwell in HEAVEN WITH GOD, JESUS AND ALL OTHER BENEVOLENT ANGELS FOR ALL OF ETERNITY! 🙏❤️💕😢
I, too, came upon this powerful docu-drama! Goddess bless Nettie Mitchell. Aren't we glad for that one true compassionate soul? I know that I am.
That was pretty much the saddest story I've ever heard. To be entirely innocent and yet be the victim of gossip and intolerance. I don't think much of the human race.
This is still going on to this day.
I have here also neighbours here who laugh about me.
Who talk sh.it about me.
Who get other's to believe them and that they are victims.
Without me doing anything but sitting in my own garden.
Bullies still exist.
These days with the convenience of facebook gossip travels faster then ever.
That's why i hate people now.
Cup Cake
There is a commandment for you also, forgive those whose persecute you and love your enemies.
I know exactly what you saying.
I read the book "Emiline" years ago. I didn't know it was based on a true story. It makes you wonder what all manner of awful things could happen to beautiful spirited women & girls back then.
It hasn't stopped.
They still happen today
The pedo agenda is in full force. They have infiltrated and infected every part of our society.
@@FastNCurious88 It's sadly true. You can read it in this comment section even, smh. A comment above had an individual praising the rapist and bragging about his own children. I can't go any further.
@@FastNCurious88 🙄 pedo agenda? You mean stuff thats happened since mans walked this earth
If it were not for this wonderful woman late in life who believed this story needed to be told, we would have never known this tragic story of Emmeline. I believe the only advantage of getting old is the wisdom you gain from life itself. I am 50, I think 30 years ago, I would have said, wow, that is sad, and never thought about it again. Its from the experience of life that I know how wrong it was to treat this poor woman this way. I would like to think many who watched this video would try to be kinder to those they might brush aside.
Steven Hair agreed. My husband stopped and spoke to an elderly man wearing a military cap standing outside a restaurant. After a brief conversation my husband offered to buy him breakfast. The restaurant manager actually stopped at their table to make sure the elderly veteran wasn’t bothering him.... this poor man actually asked if he could please have pan cakes and eggs... long story short. This man was a decorated Korean War veteran career officer. He had no family. Was living in a homeless shelter. My husband used his contacts at the regions VA and drove the veteran right to their door and made introductions. This veteran had over a million dollars owed him by the VA. Apparently at one time he applied for his benefits but was treated so poorly and abruptly he never followed up. He is now safely in an assisted living home and receiving medical care and supervision. He is safe. My husband checks on him periodically. How many people walked past this veteran and didn’t even see him? Who treated him so badly at the VA he never went back?
Don’t even think about allowing any so called asylum seekers demanding entrance into the US for their free ride before American veterans are provided what they EARNED.
@@CandiceGoddard Uhh, Candice, Steven wasn't sauing that *only* older people are wise, or that *all* old people are wise, or that *no* young or middle-aged people are wise.. Maybe work on your reading comprehension, and maybe soften your attitude a bit. My gosh!!!
@@kimsutube11 How wonderful that y'all were able to help that very deserving war hero!! I totally agree with you on every single point!
Steven Hairpp
@@CandiceGoddard I am going to ask you to read my entire comment again, and if at that point, you still feel I suffer from "romantic delusion" about wisdom and age, I will reply then. You either took my comment completely out of context, or you are one taco shy of a combination plate.
It’s heartbreaking to hear Emmeline’s story. Today we know that Genetic sexual attraction is not uncommon in cases like this and that it might me a byproduct of missed bonding. Our biggest enemy is ignorance. RIP Emmeline 🙏🏻
Inceist is wrong, but understanding how sexuality shines some light on it's reason. My mother told me some stuff about the first time as a young girl when she had sexual dreams, they were actually about her grandfather..and it kinda has to do with genetics playing a cruel joke. My father alao mentioned something similar as to that as I got older I would find my self attracted to a women like my mother and he said it's not uncommon and happens to alot of men.
This is disgusting. No way to make it okay. Anyway who can wrap their head around this is sick too!
@@MsAmique We can't blame either mother or son -- they had no idea!!!! These kinds of things happen sometimes... like a son coming home from college with his girlfriend & after a while his mother realized the girlfriend was actually a daughter she had given up for adoption. Or the daughter who had never known her father falling deeply in love with an older man... and they eventually discovered he was her father.
I'm surprised that siblings/half siblings aren't discovered married to each other due to adoptions and sperm donors. With so many of the records being sealed it is hard to know who you are related to in these cases. Emmeline did not deserve scorn and shunning. She was a victim. It hate that the woman is always the great sinner but men are free and clear, most of the time. Thanks David for this wonderful documentary.
meama: I've often wondered about that. Say a young guy give sperm in his early twenties. In his forties, he meets a younger woman, who reminds him of himself when he was younger. We just have no idea how often this happens.t
It has and there is a psychological term for familial's that are attracted to one another.
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead Incest- in same islamic culture maybe same others, people get married with first cusins.. So they have a risk genetic disorders if they have children. So good think we have genetyc counseling today...
Misogynists make the rules of society and influence our beliefs. Gradually changing but long way to go.
I think about that, too. It must happen more often that is known. And in addition to adoption agencies and sperm donors being in the equation, I also think about children, especially within the same community, being fathered by the same man..the mothers and fathers don’t always know. And it might make sense that they may be attracted to each other. Isn’t the some phenomenon regarding that? They sense the familiarly or something?
how could they call it a sin or a transgression when neither she nor the son even knew that they were related- holy smokes, you can't judge people for something they don't know about.....
God doesn't.
People can be so judgmental over something that was none of their business
The religious fanatics considered sex and a child out of wedlock her sin what a tragic life for that poor girl
Jason Barnes It was not her sin!
Texas 1 I understand that I am just saying the people of that day saw that as her sin she was an abused abandoned child
" I was born 103 years ago, you can figure it out." Love it!
LOL! Yeah, that was great. Reminds me of my own grandmother. :-)
Lol and that was her opening statement
She was born 1916
Chituga Khalifa can’t be because these interviews are from the 70s
Chituga Khalifa wring she was born probably in 1875 or 1876 or sometime around then
Your work is second to none David. Thanks for keeping all sorts of histories alive thru your filmmaking. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it…
Have a great day David ❤
Thank you.
David Hoffman Filmmaker
All the comments are heartwarming
And very understanding .
😔😔😔 imagine being that young Nettie taking this little old lady some food and finding out later she died of starvation. 😞
It happened more than you think!!
"He without sin cast the first stone"
I wonder how your family got their last name.. lol.
Amen.so be it.
@@karencarney7595 The name is German. It's occupational in origin and means to measure land. Likely the ancestor was a land surveyor. Probably not what you originally assumed it to mean in English.
Wait a minute. You would be going crazy if a daughter married her own father. God never wants to us to marry or have sex our own parents.
Ok! I was never forced into marrying my father and then shunned. Here are a bunch of stones and I’m about to cast them
In 1999 i knew a lady who was...no lie...108. She told us she remembered when the Titanic sank. Her name was Beulah Smith and she had been a teacher in TN. Her son was about 75 a doctor and still practicing at the time.
Did you ever get to speak to her?
The fact that they call it the “sins of our mothers” is what baffles me.
Always finding a way to bash the women.
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When the father was actually the sinner. She did the right thing by breaking up with him after finding out the guy was her son.
You clearly don't understand the concept of irony.
@@niche9015 There are many ways they could have advertised this excluding irony. I get the concept. The point i'm making is it does not help the documentary in anyway. Please don't be a smart ass.
@stupidcomment Thanks for the clarity. In this day in age, the title just doesn't sit right with me. There were many titles it could have been called in order to make ppl think. But once again thank you and thank you for speaking respectfully. Because others seem to live off negative energy in these comments.
The worst part is i wasn't really her fault
"really"...it was in no way her fault.
Let's drop "really". It absolutely wasn't her fault.
@@peggymorin8944 I totally agree. Though it would be a sad story I feel there should be a movie made of her life. Maybe it would soften hard hearted people and show others how blessed they are not to have lived in her day and time.
Emerline is a novel.
A must read. So sad to have had her childhood. She was not responsible for marrying her son. Emerline had
no knowledge that her husband was her son.
The people that asked her parents to let her work for them knew what they were doing.Why didn't they ask the father to work for them &send money home to his family?Those people planned to take advantage of that young girl all along.
She was a child of God " she did not know "she is now with the lord . rest in peace emiline.
Epstein was also a child a god. So is Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein.
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"When were you born?"
"Oh about 103 years ago, you figure it out."
I love her already.
The whole town sin . "Love your neighbor as yourself" They did not do this one commandment the only one Christ spoke of. They will have to answer for this.
Amen to that!
Also this is a JOKE but
“Love thy neighbor as yourself”
i don’t love myself
AGAIN THIS IS A JOKE
Isis Montgomery It wasn’t but he wrapped all the others up in this one commandment. It makes sense.
@Isis Montgomery in the new testament it's say basically if you can't keep all keep these main two. Put no other God before Him and love thy neighbor as thyself. Problem with that is ppl don't even love themselves how they are going to love others. Understand now why the world is so messed up
Judge not...
Love your neighbor wher was that love when native ameticans were under invasion?....fake tear
She gets raped by a grown man yet she’s the one to blame.Damn shame and if she didn’t know it was her long lost sold son it was not something she did wrong purposely very sad story.She went from being abused as a child to be abused being elderly👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Heartbreaking..
Yes I guess it’s easier to blame the victim !! That happens more times than we know .
The men always get away with abusing girls and woman!!!! Why woman who know what men do protect them always disgusts me beyond belief!!!! Having lived it myself I will never comprehend it and can only pray the men who abuse the innocent girls and woman and woman and men who then protect those pos all rot in hell forever without a moments relief!!!!!
You got that right how about that Vickie
Abused all her life. Heartbreaking
The Bible expressly says to take care of widows and orphans James 1:27and prisoners
Screw your stupid bible! Just BE A GOOD HUMAN!
BullCricket75 Me Andu just quoted a good way to ‘be a human’ and you call it stupid? Your logic is flawed.
Just like they did in Salem.
The christian bible also states that a woman is property of her husband, that slavery is god's will, and that if a group of locals come knocking at your door looking to gang rape angels god requires you to protect the angels' assholes by offering up your daughters to be gang raped instead.
If you quote the bible as your moral source you are a sickening excuse for a human being.
@@BullCricket75 I think what Me Andu was saying is the church and the entire community of so-called "good Christians" weren't following the very Bible they claim to believe in that does clearly state take care of widows and orphans. The whole community shunned her and that is wrong! They were a bunch of hateful, judgmental hypocrites.
God bless you Nettie for sharing this story. I hope Amiline is at peace..❤❤
What a sad story, the poor woman did nothing but suffer. May her heavenly peace make up for her life here on earth.b
Pam Griffin amen.
She can have a hope to return on the Paradise earth in God's future.
How's that saying go: swear there's no heaven / pray there's no hell.
She endured hell on earth
Pam Griffin Is
The title of this video really cheapens it. I almost didn't watch it. I am glad I did.
Agree, perpetuating the cruelty againt Em as a taboo freakshow
This should be called "The Boss and Community who Sinned and Failed Emmeline".
Fascinating story! I am so sorry to hear about what happened to Miss Emmeline. During this time in history, my ancestors lived close by in the province of New Brunswick, and I wonder had this played out in NB if the results would have been the same. So many questions! I wish I could have helped her.
I was raped at 14 by the boy next door (I thought he liked me ) became pregnant and my mother wanted to sell my son but he was given to the children's aid 1964 . 30 years later I found my son but the sins of his father fell on him because he wanted to have sex with me, I no longer have contact with him. Sins of the father.
I am in my 70's now. Without God in my life I would have ended my life. Bless.
😥 I'm so sorry
Thank you for your kind words Bless you.
sorry to hear that. God bless you.
Thank you Anna so much for reading my comment, knowing people care warms my heart. Bless.
Sarah, thank you for your kind words, it's has not been an easy life for me. If I didn't have my dog to keep my company and give me love I would be lost in my pain. Bless.
I came here expecting general weirdness and am left in tears. Beautifully told and delicately handled. RIP Emmeline. Wish they had understood.
Humans are so awful.. Rest In Peace sweet lady 💖
Some are awful and some are just like angels and prepared to sacrifice so much to help a total stranger! I'm the one on the receiving end I wake up not believing such people are real!
Yes humans are both
I have to remember at times there are a lot of good people in the world
Myra Hatton animals are much more kind and loving than human
@@reet6271 More good than bad. The bad just get more Press. : (
I agree Myra. Many people younger and older people are a disgrace. God Bless her and blessings and Love sent to you and your family and loved ones.
God I love the look of 16mm. All our modern high definition is stunning and true to the details of subject in frame. However that special something, the almost dreamlike character of film, is just beyond replication. The way the colors "feel" is like paint on canvas. It is evocative and stirring and totally imperfect and just everything this medium strives to achieve.
Sorry i know this isn't relevant to the content but I just wondered if anyone else feels the same way?
I knew of a brother and sister who were separated as children,met,fell in love ,married ,had children and found out they were siblings.They got divorced ,ppl never treated them well,but it was no fault of theirs.
That is dreadful story. Those poor two people
Did the kids come out like appalachian people?
@@edwardstarling1835 This happen in the caribbean,the kids migrated to the USA .In my own family,there was a dispute.One family moved to the deep south of the island,in the 60's.. Those day there were no phone and limited transportation.Two kids met in work,fell in love and decided to marry.On the wedding day they found out they were cousins. Dis spite the family walking out of the wedding they got married .The marriage didn't last 3 months.That was a real baccannal as we here would say .I was 10 back then,now i'm 52.
@@consighneeseal5202 jeez that’s a mess
@@edwardstarling1835 ur sure right,the elders got up and there were a lot of quarreling.They walked out of the wedding and the bride said ''oh,hell high waters i'm going to get married today''. They were cousin and was told that it was a sinful act.
My great grandmother was deaf and mute but very beautiful .A transient was hired on the ranch she lived on with her family.When she was 13 this transient named John raped her.She was then pregnant by this rape and gave birth to my grandmother. Her sisters claimed the baby and raised her .She had a wonderful life. My great grandmother never had any other children and never got married. When my grandmother got married to my grandpa they took my great grandma with them and she stayed with them until she died in 1984. No one in the family was told this story not even my dad. When I was pregnant for my first daughter my grandma told me the family secret. I loved my great grandma and my grandmother even more than I already did . I have a photo of the generations; My great grandma , my grandma, my father ,myself and my first daughter. I treasure it immensely. I have told my three daughters this history so they may learn that no matter what happens in life I will always love them and be right by their side.
mamatoadx4 : You should stop sharing family stories that bring other's to tears. Especially the stories of acceptance, understanding and unconditional love. ❤ At the very least it should've contianed a disclosure: "Warning." " This story contains strong beautiful women whom have persevered with grace and wisdom." "This story may cause ones heart to swell with so much love it may burst." "Tissue is highly recommended." In all seriousness, thank you for sharing. I can see you're very proud of your family heritage and the exceptional women to whom you gain your strength from.⚘What a blessing. Take care of you and yours always!
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mamatoadx4,
I LOVED YOUR TOUCHING, HEARTWARMING, BREATHTAKING, BEAUTIFUL STORY ON YOUR GRANDMOTHER.
Thank you Sweetie for sharing this story. 🌹
Hugs!
P.S.
LOVE the name, "mamatoadx4" 😉
Thank you for sharing
Your story of love, acceptance for each one, with our faults and misdeeds, indeed paints the picture of compassion and a well adjusted family’s love for each other. If only there were so many more.
My recommendations in 2020 just keep getting wilder and wilder 😂
Update: 2021 is just as wild as 2020.
Right
Right?!
Yup!😂
No foreall like what is this
For Reals.....
I live in Maine and I'm glad I got to see this video. It's nice to learn about how life was those many years ago.
Thank you for sharing this story.
Thank you Laurie for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that TH-cam is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I just went back to your video and couldn't find a thank you to click on.
I would have if it was available.
😭 The sickest, saddest, & most frightening part of Emmeline's life story (true or false - fact or fiction) is that her's is not the last nor the only one of her kind to be told.... Out there... somewhere, in the ugliest, darkest depths of this earth we walk around in,,, are more "Emmelines",,, children,,, being ostracized, banished, traded, starved, abused, beaten, raped, and abandoned by whole families or towns... *TODAY*
Wake up people... children are precious. And we all know in the 1800's it was a different, far more struggling time than *today*....
They had an excuse... no proper education on treatment of children/adult alike....
So what is society's excuse today??? R.I.P. and carry on.... all of you beautiful Emmelines🥀🥀🥀
Now we have severe narcissists preying on women.
Children are our most precious resource.
@@boundariessetinstone5893 do you not believe they were narcissistic in days of old?
I agreed with you till the excuse part. Neighter they did nor do we have an excuse.
“Mrs Murphy when were you born?
“I was born 103 years ago you figure it out 👵🏻😂 #precious 💕
She has quite an accent too
Yes! lol She was so over math.
I can’t wait to be old and honest.
No time to waste on math at this point.
This is sad. Why did people vilify her? It's not her fault she married her son if she was forced to give him away as an infant. She would not hv known him. This is sad
The Internet (TH-cam )is wonderful because it gives you a chance to talk about some horrible things that happened in your life and it also gives you the good and loving people that as abused people we didn't know excisted. God is good Bless all the people on this page that send their love and caring to us that have our pain, I can't speak for all of us, I am in my 70's so I will speak for myself. Bless you.
Thank you David for the heart, I am humbled my story is also being starved but I was a child at the time. If you know the story of the man that had electrical tape on his shoes ,that's how I went to school and was laughed at (King Edward Public School 1962 ) Sincerely Valerie.
Even after knowing the story and yet still shunned her! How terrible!
This is a sick and very sad story!
because of "closed" adoptions where no info is available to the adopted person, I should think that this happens more than we think
Right. I understand the safety precautions, but there’s got to be a better way. I think we all feel a strong bond with our birth moms. Like I’ve only been around mine a handful of times, but even if I didn’t know she was my mom I think I would still know there’s some connection there. Idk if she can feel it, but I feel a bond. That makes me think in this situation, and probably many others like it, that natural bond is returning but since they don’t know there’s a familiar connection they mistake it for something else. There’s even accounts of people meeting children (as adults) they gave up and end up having sexual relationships with them. I really think that has something to do with it, of all the women around he was drawn to her and her to him. There’s just something to be said about that and everyone who’s been adopted deserves to know at least enough to protect themselves.
Accidental incest might happen more often than we think but NOT THIS. This is a whole different story. Show some respect.
I am descendant from slaves. As hideous as that was, this is just heartbreaking. You don't always need chains to oppress a person.
elle415 touche!
@fluffyduckbutter's sister Nonsense. The Irish were never slaves.
As an Irish person myself I would be the first to support you if it were true, but it's not.
psmag.com/social-justice/the-irish-were-not-slaves
@fluffyduckbutter's sister my grandmother's mother came to the US as an Irish indentured servant. Not quite a slave, duties of a maid for a rich family.
@fluffyduckbutter's sister That is nonsense, I am a descendant of Irish immigrants (my username isn't my birth name) and we were never enslaved during the nineteenth century. In the seventeenth century Irishmen were sent to the Caribbean as indentured servants, but were not slaves. the MAGA hat has nothing to do with Irish or Irish-American history, Donald Trump isn't an Irish American, and most Irish-Americans live in the Northeast which is arguably the most liberal part of America after California and Oregon. Show me your evidence that Americans of Irish descent in the 2000a were turned down for jobs? You're full of shite!
Everyone is a defendant of slaves
I think Emmaline's story resonates today because there are people right now living extraordinarily similar lives. What a reality check for all of us. How do I treat others who are or perceive as different than I? Yes a predator could have attacked her chickens but they were also her companions 💔😔
I would have befriended Emmeline! Emmeline is like any person who has been bullied, made fun of and I remember the poverty.
Me too I would've visited her everyday!!!
This was in the 1800s. How could you remember the poverty?
You wouldn’t have! You need to understand the time, and the highly likely fact you would have been outcast too.
@@ellavek1998 I think they are saying that they have personally experienced poverty in their life.
Thank you for sharing Emmeline’s story….. I also was abused in my childhood…. I understand when someone shares their personal story….I’ve shared my experiences of abuse in several churches….I would tell them “The story of Annie” as I was seeking a free room for my special friends to reflect on their own experiences in a safe environment……. I’ve a special love/kindness for the abused….so many just don’t dare to trust …. and these free church rooms gave us all an opportunity to heal our sad past lives together …. as we cried ‘n laughed in our loaned church room once a week….together…. Survivors !struggling to get healthy minds….
Super duper creepy of that older woman to suggest there was some kind of steamy romance between a 13 year old and an adult male foreman at her work. She was between 13-14 and he was the husband of the factory owner's daughter, and her foreman. His age is unclear but he wasn't a teenager. He was a predator. Having an illicit extramarital 'affair' with a 14 year old isn't normal not even for the early 1900s. Let's not mention the fact that he was in a position of power, her boss. Could cut off the lifeline to her family. He was married, and had absolutely no intention of supporting a girl he would likely (no birth control), and eventually did, impregnate. He did not subsequently support her, did he? PREDATOR. He groomed her and then he discarded her. She started out a neglected child, was used and assaulted, bought out for her womb, discarded by all. This poor woman deserves a women's center in her name, not this gimmicky pseudo-history that tries to insinuate a 14 year old orphaned/shunned female had any power, anywhere, in anyone's eyes.
I missed that part where they knew who the father was. It's very sad. She could not legally consent according to our laws today.
You're the only true valid comment here everything you said and more❤
At 13-14 it seems unheard of today, but at 14 because of the harsh environment she likely had a life expectancy of no more than 35-40 yrs. Many died in childbirth or infection.
@@jeangibsonmedley No ma'am; that is an excuse used by colonizers and abusers for centuries. I served in the Peace Corps, in countries with very low life expectancy, some as low as 30. With birthrates of 1 in 2. It is a LIE that it is normal in those places or any other place to engage in sexual activity with and impregnate a 13 or 14 year old. This is not the 16th century we are talking about. And this is not an arrangement between the families or parents, we are talking about, which is how most cultures married young people (through arranged marriage). She was an indentured servant who was used for play by adults. She had nothing to offer, and people treated her like nothing. Its easy to see that. Any other characterization, is just a coping mechanism. What happened here is an American tragedy, and it still happens to this day. Time as an explanation, is an illusion.
So very sad this story has brought tears several times as I read it tonight. I put it down for a while then read some more. May she be so blessed with God and RIP.
Great job David ! A story that could been easily lost to time.
You (and your team) make some absolutely incredible videos! This was posted 7 years ago, but it's still being enjoyed in 2024.
The narrator has an amazing calming but attention grabbing voice for late night podcast/radio program.
I would have liked to have heard comments from the living relatives of Emmeline's family, the adopted family of her son, and the son's family (after he went back to Massachusetts) since the story must have been passed down to them too. There had to be more of the story from those points of view. This woman's life was such a tragedy. Not even "the good Christian folks" were kind to her (except for the one family sending down the daughter with salt pork and tea). I was hoping to find out that, at least, she had a proper burial and was laid to rest in peace, but even that is a tragedy... nowhere to be found and possibly under a road. Emmeline, I hope that God was there to welcome you home and embrace you with love and light to your new world of Heaven. God bless you Emmeline, and for whatever your true story, I wish for you to rest in peace.
Something like this would have had almost a zero chance of being passed down within Emmeline's own family. Shame is a powerful thing, and, considering the times, I would be very surprised if any of her siblings or her son/husband would ever share this with anyone -- ever. Her story was likely never told within her own family.
"Good Christian Folks"...yeah such wonderful people. Absolutely horrible the way she was treated. She was probably raped by the man in the mill and wanted to keep her job so kept quiet
Indeed. Amen
Isis Montgomery - indeed... indeed
DarthBunny314 c+
Dear Emmeline Rest In Peace it was not your fault,I am grateful to be born in this generation!
Wow...shame on them for shunning that old woman...she didnt kno...not her fault,can u imagine living with that truth...thats enough punishment for anyone.
These are people who believed if you had a strange birthmark or if one eye was not the same as the other, you were a witch.
bubanner definitely punishment enough!
@@bronxgirlblazin608 ...or worse if u had a mole cursed...
Listening to some of the people talk in this documentary, where they're explaining that Emmeline "should have known better because young girls from Maine were taught from a young age about sex. It just happened", is absolutely ignorant. She was a child.
I consider my mother a hard working kind woman that as an orphan was mentally and physically abused. Due to the way she was treated and brought up in a very ignorant environment, she some how judgemental. Slowly, I have thought her to always consider her words.
She has countless of occasions said phrases like: " well, they say that, that woman sleeps around, or she likes to steel, or she is a witch, etc." I always remind her. If that if she didn't see it with her own eyes and if she doesn't know the truth story, she shouldn't feed into the craze.
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Now this pissed me off, especially her family. Poor as church mice and had the audacity took down on her😡
@@kendrapope6400 my mother was broken like you can not believe it.
Then she carried that cycle around.
Her mother died when my mother was a few weeks old. She died of yellow fever. They kept her in a hut with my mother. When she died is when they removed her from her mother's side. Her father remarried and was not interested to keep her, so he gave her away to his mother. The way she treated her seems like she hated her. She never had a kind words for her.
It’s not “ Sins of our mothers” it’s crimes committed by men if anything. Guess they didn’t know better back in the days. I wouldn’t call them Christians though cause it’s nothing Christian about how they treated that poor, poor lady.
The most patriarchal societies always have the least sympathetic views towards the plight of women & girls. I think it is interesting how they say Emmeline "yeilded" to the older man when she was 13, but the reality was that rape & sexual abuse of poor girls was very common during these times and that when girls became pregnant, it was they who were blamed for it, often with the view that even if it was rape, the girl "asked" for the abuse in some way or another (and what amounted to "asking" for it could be any number of slight or unavoidable factors). I also hate this view that if you grow up around animals then you are not innocent about sex, because it really isn't always like that.
Sadly, cultures like these (slut shaming, rape blaming, ocstracisation of women, sexualization of underage girls, etc) still persist in many places even in American society today.
@@92fc Yes they do but in the case of this video it’s not the sins of our mother is it?
Relijin was created by man to divide & control the people 😡
This kind of thing probably has happened more than we know and ironically some of those who judged her are probably descendants of unions between siblings and cousins. As is child slavery ,not discussed but there. Truth is stranger than fiction. I thought Emillene was smart, just unfortunate.
Probably sure are, truth to that...
I’m so glad I gave this a chance, what a story, a sad story indeed, but lessons are to be learned from this, for me “ empathy “ is key, and I’m glad I’ve always had a good understanding of this.
A blade of grass still grows in the meadow and a leaf falls from a tree but mankind has ruined itself. May God forgive us for our mistreatment of others.
I would love to see what Steven King could do with this story. So much depth and emotion. Blessings to Emmeline’s soul. May she rest In peace. 🙏
borntorageagainstem Yes, it is. Shunning. It’s like the reverse of a witch hunt. So sad.
How kind were the people who sent a little child to work? How kind were the people who bought her child? How kind were the people who condemned her? How kind were the men who took advantage of her femininity. Her labor and then destroyed her life? This is a story of our whole society both then and now. We still treat women's labor as less in the home and in the greater society. We don't pay women the way men are paid. We still expect women to work at a job and still do the majority of the work at home too. Men still leave women and their children when they feel put upon or whenever they feel the desire for a new life, but we think little of a woman who deserts her children. This is a sad story. We could do with a great deal more kindness in how we deal with women in hard circumstances.
It's only appropriate to cry. What a touching story! The word ostracized was said many times in the story. My heart aches for Emmeline. May her soul continue to rest in peace. Sad! 😢