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| Name: Maryanna Mae Taylor Age: 17 Sex: Female Position: Niece to Josiah Taylor, owner of the General store in Torrington Wyoming. Physical Description: Anna stands only 5' 4" and weighs 100lbs. She has long dark brown wavy hair and deep chocolate eyes. She is a very soft-spoken sweet girl, very prim and proper. She is always dressed to the nines. History: Anna, as her friends and family call her, was the only child born to Abigail and Joseph Taylor. Her parents, looking to join in on the movement west, packed her up and headed to Colorado. Pennsylvania to Colorado was a very long haul but one spring day the family along with five other family members arrived in the small town of Denver. She was but six years old when she, her mother and father, her father's brother Jeremiah, his wife, two kids and her father's youngest brother Josiah arrived in town. Both Anna's father and his youngest brother Josiah opened general stores in their respective towns. Now, Denver has become a very small but booming city and their general store a hit. Jeremiah had taken his family south from Denver, though still thought to be alive; no word had come from them in a while. Her uncle Josiah had moved he and his wife into Torrington and still kept contact. Josiah married a woman he met when they came to Denver but they never had children. Anna found out as she got older that the reason her mother never had more children was due to a fever she had after she lost a baby a mere year after Anna was born. Though 17 years old, Anna has not been married off. Her family's one concern is keeping their business going, her father so deep into making sure things don't get out of control had completely let the idea of his young daughter actually at marrying age slip his mind. She had, thought, found a man she would love to spend her life with, but she was but 15 and he 25. Her father wanted nothing of the sort for his daughter, so the man was made to move on. Since then, Anna has dedicated her concentration to the store and reading history books. Anna was always quite the wonderful student and from the urgings of a teacher, took the extra schooling so she could become a teacher. Still, her loyalty to her mother and father and their business has become second to nothing, not even her dream of being a teacher. Her mother and father were out on a buggy ride one August morning when out of nowhere a particularly horrible cloudburst swept through the desolate area washing their buggy down in a terrible mudslide. Their bodies and the demolished buggy were found two days later. Scared and completely alone, Anna has since sold her parent's business and packed her things to move north to live with her aunt and uncle in Torrington, Wyoming. The selling of the business wasn't exactly her first choice but many city folk and the people of her church urged very hard that she do so. That way she'd be able to move on with her life, find a man and marry. She even had some men offer to marry her and run the business for her. Not so sure on that whole thing, she sold it hesitantly, sadly, and took the money. After all, that wonderful store was the result of her family's blood, sweat and tears. It was full of great memories of her life; she had been raised in that store. It was very hard to leave but she knew she had nothing left in Denver and could not survive on her own as a young 17 year old naive and sheltered young girl. |
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