My 3rd Great-Grandmother was Georgia America Segars was born in July 1848 in Georgia, USA. Her father, Southward, was 38 and her mother, Clarkey was 33. During the Civil War, her future husband, Jerimiah Trusdell was fighting for the North, and he was in Georgia and somehow met Georgia, how I wish I knew. But he fell in love with her and after the war, moved down to Georgia, married her and they settled in Alabama, where he was the town doctor.
Georgia's achievement was that she was blind. This was, no doubt, a big challenge in the 1800s. It is not known how she lost her sight...some research indicates she was born blind and other research says her blindness developed when she was a little older, but at any rate, it does appear she was most likely blind at least by the time she married.
She managed to have a good marriage, to a Yankee, which I am sure was an achievement in itself during that time, but she had 5 children and raised them, while working on a farm.
I wish I could sit down and talk to her and find out all the achievements she made during her life, those that she probably just accepted as normal life. She truly seemed to be an outstanding individual.
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