Larkin Cardin m, Elizabeth Sentell-the Man-Part 3
Larkin's father taught him the art of blacksmithing, just as his father had taught him. Larkin's father also taught him to play violin as his father had also taught him. Larkin's sisters would have been taught to set a proper table and serve a proper tea. His sister's would have been instructed in embroidery and would have spent many hours perfecting it. Each girl would have received a hope chest btwn age 6-8 yrs old. Each girl would have spent her single years filling the chest, in part with assorted linens that she would have embroidered and monogramed with her initials. This would have been part of her dowry. None of the girls would have dreamed of marriage without a proper dowry. And her linens and embroidery would warm her soul and feel her with pride until the day she died. Next.