Searching for Nannie B., a Memoir

Imagine a woman erased from her family’s history. Imagine her being buried in a small town cemetery with no identifying markers on hergravestone, other than she wassomebody’s wife. What’s more, hername is misspelled. It’s hard to imagine what kind of sin such a woman might have committed to be reduced to so little after death.

Who was she? What was her sin?

Nannie B. Russell is her name, and her sin was to have died in childbirth in 1905; her daughter lived. This littlegirl carried the myste...