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1874 — Willa Cather and her parents move into the home of her paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back Creek, Virginia. Also joining the Cathers at Willow Shade is Willa’s maternal grandmother Rachel Boak. Charles begins raising sheep.
Cather as a child, circa 1882. Photo by Ensminger, c. 1937, Philip L. and Helen Cather Southwick Collection, Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. A studio...
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In 1883, Willa's parents, Charles and Virginia (Boak) Cather, emigrated with their four children (three others would be born in Nebraska), bringing with them the hired girl Margie Anderson and her brother, Willa's maternal grandmother, Rachel Boak, and two of her other grandchildren.
Sep 25, 2017 · When Yost and his husband, Wade Leak, are in town—Yost is on the Cather Foundation board—they convene mildly raucous gatherings of local family and friends.
Nov 15, 2023 · Willa’s grandfather William Cather, of Welsh ancestry, had stayed resolutely Unionist. Her mother’s people, the Boaks, were secessionists. Her uncle William Seibert Boak had died of his wounds at Manassas. Willa’s mother, Virginia Boak Cather, revered the memory of this nineteen-year-old, her favorite brother, and kept his saber and ...
Nov 18, 2019 · Willa Cather was born on the farm of her maternal grandmother, Rachel Boak, in the poor farming region of Back Creek Valley, Virginia, on December 7, 1873. The oldest of seven children, she was the daughter of Charles Cather and Mary Cather (née Boak). Despite the Cather family having spent several generations in Virginia, Charles moved his ...
Born Wilella Cather on December 7, 1873 (she would later answer to "Willa"), she spent the first nine years of her life in Back Creek, Virginia, before moving with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in April of 1883. In 1885 the family resettled in Red Cloud, the town that has become synonymous with Cather's name. [2]
