Robert Is Conceived

1910 – In the fall of 1910 (probably the end of July or beginning of August) Robert is conceived by Julia after an affair with Noah Johnson. Noah was 24 years old (14 years younger than Julia), a laborer in a local sawmill who lived in a boarding house with his wife Mary, a washer-woman 15 years older than Noah and Mary’s two children from her first marriage – Ella, 10 and Nelson, 9.