Who is this lady?

[Susan Higginbotham]

(10-28-2019 06:02 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Could it be Emilie Todd Helm?

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Rob

Rob nailed it! The quote is from Mary Genevieve Townsend Murphy, who was a friend of Emily and her children and whose father, William Townsend, wrote Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town and Lincoln and the Bluegrass. The World Series was first broadcast on radio in 1921, so Emily, who died in 1930 at age 93, would have been able to listen to a number of games before her death. Townsend purchased the Helm home outside of Lexington, KY, in 1946. There were plans to turn into into a museum, but those have been scrapped and the last I heard, the house was up for sale. Murphy wrote a pamphlet, The Story of Helm Place and the People Who Have Called It Home.