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Ida May Kracaw Converse

Birth	:	24 Aug 1860 Iowa County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	1956 Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA
Burial	:	Franktown Cemetery, Douglas County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.3914986, -104.7521973
Description	:	Aunt of noted author and Native American anthropologist, Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (daughter of her brother Charles E Kracaw). An interview with Mrs Quinn revealed the following excerpt concerning her aunt, Ida May (Kracaw) Converse (K-Q is Mrs Quinn talking. Brower is the interviewer) "K-Q: Yes, we were going back really to the very beginning, because we began with a discussion of my paternal ancestors. And in rereading it, some things occurred to me. One person, for instance, whom I had not mentioned at all had considerable influence on me. [tape off] I'd sort of forgotten to talk about her. This was... Read More	Aunt of noted author and Native American anthropologist, Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn (daughter of her brother Charles E Kracaw). An interview with Mrs Quinn revealed the following excerpt concerning her aunt, Ida May (Kracaw) Converse (K-Q is Mrs Quinn talking. Brower is the interviewer) "K-Q: Yes, we were going back really to the very beginning, because we began with a discussion of my paternal ancestors. And in rereading it, some things occurred to me. One person, for instance, whom I had not mentioned at all had considerable influence on me. [tape off] I'd sort of forgotten to talk about her. This was a full sister (of Charles E Kracaw). Brower: Of your father? K-Q: Of my father. And I loved to visit her. There were three cousins; they were all older than I, but not that much older. This aunt that I loved so much was married to a rancher. It was a prosperous ranch. There was always money in the bank for whatever they wanted, but it was a straight rancher s life. She did the cream separating; she cleaned the separator after; she cooked all day this sort of thing. But she was my height or a little more and I think she never weighed over ninety pounds. And she and my father had perfect teeth. Not one of us has inherited them. My father, toward the end of his life, had to have a filling put in. They had large, strong teeth they just went out the genes window for anybody who has come after. And she had a great deal of manner and bite and [she was] interesting. She played the piano. And at the end of the day, in which she would have got dinner for harvesters and things of this sort been out all day we d go into the living room where the piano was kept very shiny and very much in tune and we d play duets. And the sort of parties that you have in the country square dances and other dances she would go along with their children, and she really danced better than her daughter did, who was a heavier, less volatile sort of person. Now, she certainly had an influence on me. Incidentally, she was the good cook in the family. Brower: Would you tell me her name? K-Q: Ida Converse. She would be Ida Kracaw Converse. She outlived two of her three children and died at the age of ninety-seven or ninety-eight. And I think, as a matter of fact, Kroeber and I saw her the one time we made a trip through the Southwest and through Colorado. We went by the ranch and she was out there still. She was scratching the ground, very quickly weeding her little flower garden outside the house. And certainly I loved to go there. I loved to just trot around after her. I suppose temperamentally we were somewhat alike. We kind of laughed at the same things and liked the same things. 179 Brower: Where was the ranch? K-Q: It was outside Denver, right along Cherry Creek. And it had everything. It had cows, sheep, horses, what seemed to me a pretty huge vegetable garden. And she gathered wild plums and this sort of thing and made jam of it. She dried sweet corn, and one of the things we always had at Thanksgiving dinner was some of Aunt Ida's sweet corn. You dry it, you know, and then stew it. I don t know if you've ever tasted it or not?" Above was an excerpt from: Theodora Kroeber-Quinn, "Timeless Woman, Writer and Interpreter of the California Indian World," an oral history conducted 1976-1978 by Anne Brower, (University of California, Berkeley, 1982), ebooksread.com.

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Where is Ida May Kracaw Converse's memorial?
Ida May Kracaw Converse's memorial is located at: Franktown Cemetery, Douglas County, USA.
When did Ida May Kracaw Converse death?
Ida May Kracaw Converse death on 1956 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Ida May Kracaw Converse's memorial?
Latitude: 39.3914986
Longitude: -104.7521973

Family Members:

Parent

August Leberecht “Austin L.” Kracaw Jr.

(1833 - 1886)

Anna M Law Kracaw

(1844 - 1922)

Spouse

William Edward Converse

(1857 - 1940)

Siblings

Edgar H Kracaw

(1872 - 1928)

Children

Mary Converse

(1886 - 1956)

Lieut Charles W. Converse

(1889 - 1963)

Baby Charles Converse

(1891 - 1891)

Roger Cedric Converse

(1897 - 1975)

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