There she is the war hero's dazzling better half, Elizabeth (nee Whited) Bracken, here pictured in advanced widowhood, wearing the black mourning clothes that my family said she wore for the rest of her life, sans however the corncob pipe which my family also said said she smoked on the porch of her house as daily accompaniment to her mourning black, contributing to her evident aggreeable disposition. Grandma Bracken, friends and enemies, Grandma Bracken.
