About Marjorie

 

Marjorie Worth James Hansen

March 28, 1897 - June 11, 1987

Marjorie was born in New York City, in the NYC Presbyterian Hospital. Her parents divorced when she was young girl, and her mother brought her to Hartford, CT. They lived together in a Farmington Avenue boarding house for many years.

  

From the January 4, 1913 entry:

There are pictures of Marjorie and her mother feeding a squirrel in one of the old family photo albums. I believe this picture is a few years after this diary entry.

Marjorie with "S. N. - The Woman".

(S. N. stands for 'Squirrel Nutkin'.)

  

 

One of my prized possessions is Marjorie's coral hand pendant. From the entry on August 15, 1912 -

An ornament she mentioned wearing is her 'coral hand'. 

There is a hole going through it where it at one point held a riding crop.

"At about 5 P.M. I dressed in my white middy and skirt and red hair-ribbons, tie and ornament (my coral hand) and hied me to Mahoney's. "