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over the years.
'nle growing up, Obee use^. to travel with her mother to New York where the family tired to get information from the Foundling Hospital.
"My father had begged them for years to tell my mother who her parents were and they always ran into a brick wall. They would say, 'You don't want to know' or 'You don't need to know.' Every one of the orphans alive today will tell you the same thing, how they begged to know," Obee told the Riverside Reader in 1996.
When interviewed by the Riverside Reader again in 2005, Obee shared an experience she had with a lady who grew up in Tumerville, a blue-collar community that would later be annexed into the city of
cessful in the lumber trade and was able provide well for his family.
Williamson was raised in the McKay home, which had been built in 1879, and she raised her own children, Kitty Williamson Barbay and William "Billy" Williamson, in that same home.
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