“I am glad Aunt Mira is so kind as to board you.”
Clarissa Goodell to Lavinia Goodell, September 21, 1867
Mira Hill was one of the many women who played an important role in Lavinia Goodell’s life.
Mira was Lavinia’s great aunt, the half sister of her maternal grandfather, Josiah Cady. Mira married John Wheeler Hill, a policeman, and for many years the couple lived in the Green Point section of Brooklyn. In the 1860s, after Lavinia’s parents moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, Lavinia lived with the Hills for long stretches on two occasions and wrote and received many letters there.
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