The Tempered Wind, by Sidney Alvarus HanksOnline-readable HTML (Also big)
This is a biography of Thisbe Read, a wife of Ephraim K. Hanks. It's written by her son Sidney Alvarus hanks. It's really a beautiful story, and offers a picture of Eph and his family that I hadn't really seen before. It was transcribed into an electronic format by Doug Allen, who has very kindly provided me with a copy, so I could put it up here. You should be able to open it in WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, WordPad (but perhaps without all the formatting, footnotes might look funny too), or any Word Processor that can open Word files. It's a big download for a modem connection (will probably take at least a half hour or so, I would imagine), but it's definitely worth it. I've also made it available as online HTML (thanks to OpenOffice), so you can read it that way as an option as well. Sherry Smith tells me there's a few innacuracies in the book with respect to Thisbe's older siblings, but overall it's pretty reliable from a historical perspective.
Courtesy of Sherry Smith.
Courtesy of Sherry Smith.
Courtesy of Sherry Smith.
Courtesy of Sherry Smith.
Courtesy of Sherry Smith.
Courtesy of Sherry Smith.
Courtesy of Sherry smith.