Carolyn Kenworthy and Nancy Tiley

The 19^th and 20^th century memories of Blanche Lightner Dum and her niece Margaret Anne “Peggy” provide personal glimpses of life in Landisburg and Carlisle. Blanche was born in 1886 to George Billow Dum/Thommen and his wife Annie Simons Spotts/Spatz, both born 1863. Thus, Blanche was a granddaughter of Samuel Spotts and his 2^nd wife Mary Jane Baker, and of John Dum and Mary Catherine Tressler/Dressler.¹ Blanche wrote of her knowledge of her mother’s preparations for marriage as follows: