Weekend Writing Warriors - Feb 10, 2013

Eight sentences from The Ruth Chernock Series, Book 1, Regarding Ruth for Weekend Writing Warriors Group at: Link for Weekend Writing Warriors

Thank you for stopping by for my eight sentences. 

Over 200 years after Ruth was hung in East Grantham, Maine, her family still lives in the small town. As the centuries passed the truth about Ruth's life and death were rewritten. But the time has come for the story to be brought to light again. Cousins who have descended from Ruth have differing opinions of the stories told and one of them means to find out first hand.

Growing up, I had heard several versions of my great-great-grandmother Ruth's life story.  On a mission, I set out to dig up the truth and hopefully to set my cousin straight.  So many years had passed that no-one in my family knew the fully details any longer.  A great aunt granted me free access to her home, where Ruth had lived prior to her death.  There I discovered journals and documents that had belonged to Ruth and her family.  With additional research through public records and newspaper archives I was able to piece together more of her tale.  But the biggest surprise was uncovered in the journal I obtained from the archives of the judge who presided over Ruth's trial.  This is the unexpected true story of the demise of my ancestor, Ruth Chernock.     

This book is a work of historical fiction, but the story needed to be believable to work with what is to come.
The Ruth Chernock Series