This is a pic of my great-great-grandmother Etta Strong, with accompanying letter she wrote to her daughter Margaret (my great-grandmother, the woman I knew as Granny).

Etta was married to man who "spanked" one of her sons to death. Sometime shortly thereafter, she was diagnosed with TB, given 2 months to live, and told to go out west to prolong her lung function in the drier air. She started a ranch, and she lived 18 years longer. She never returned to her husband or saw him again.