Portrait of a Childhood

Portrait of a ChildhoodHer name was Dalla E. Beebe TABER Fleming Totten, my Great grandmother. A Homesteading Wonder Woman of Mission, WA (Cashmere), she shot a man August 10, 1910, was convicted of 1st Degree Murder in a Wild West trial, and sentenced to life at hard labor. Before the WA State Supreme Court denied her appeal, she was declared insane and committed. Her Homestead was foreclosed and sold at Courthouse auction. She died in a state asylum on Christmas Day,

Her name was Dalla E. Beebe TABER Fleming Totten, my Great-grandmother.

A Homesteading Wonder Woman of Mission, WA (Cashmere), she shot a man August 10, 1910, was convicted of 1st Degree Murder in a ÒWild WestÓ trial, and sentenced to life at hard labor. Before the WA State Supreme Court denied her appeal, she was declared insane and committed. Her Homestead was foreclosed and sold at Courthouse auction. She died in a state asylum on Christmas Day, 1928. No one cared until now.

The memoir narrates the story of a childÕs life filled with abandonment, neglect, brutality, hard labor, innocent blind faith, ultimate survival, and more than a few successes along the way. It tells about an unfailing trust in GodÕs love, courage, strength, and unquestioned obedience to authority. ItÕs about miracles, mysteries, mothers, and finding lost heroines by uncovering dark secrets hidden for a century.