Ellen Strader Described Nauvoo, Illinois, to Bloomington Friends
In 1880, Ellen J. Strader, age 30 and a native of Illinois, was residing on College Avenue in Bloomington as one of two boarders with the family of Andrew and Martha Hoover. She worked as a teacher. When people learned that she was from Carthage, Illinois, only 22 miles from Nauvoo, she was often asked […]