Annie Dora, born 7 Mar 1869 in Shelbina, Missouri, was the oldest of the seven known children of William Naylor and Sophia Ellen Oakes. Her parents left Missouri and settled in Loveland, Colorado when she was four years old. Her childhood was spent on the farm in the Thompson Valley northwest of the town.On 18 Dec 1889 Dora married Walter Trindle.
"Go where you will, you will meet someone from Carlisle" A proverb among them / Carlisle Old & New: Find the Bells of Old Carlisle. Did Walter and Dora know on their wedding date that their great-great-grandfathers knew each other in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania? Had the families been in touch in the ninety years since they had last lived in or near Carlisle? Did they know that Walters great-grandparents were married there on Dec 19 nearly a century before. These are questions we can't answer. We can only speculate.
It must have been hard for Dora when she and Walter took their young family on the train to their new home in Long Beach, California. We know that before she left she copied family information from both the Naylor and Trindle family bibles. Those pages still exist today, tucked into a ticket envelope from the journey.
Little is known about Dora, but her granddaughter Beulah Osborn Garrison reminisced
"Grandma was an excellent quilter and always had a quilt on a frame. Whenever we visited her we always quilted. No one just sat. After Grandpa died she took in three to five men as boarders to pay her way. she cooked, washed and ironed for them! I have no idea what the rent was. I always thought of her as a special person and loved her a lot. She had great determination against all odds. When Uncle Pink (Clarence) was so terribly burned as a teenager (17 I think) and the doctors said there was no hope for him, Grandma bought zinc oxide in five gallon pails and moved a cot into his hospital room and kept him plastered with it. He was in hospital for two years, mother said. I'm not sure Grandma stayed all that time in the hospital."
After Walter's death in 1930, Dora traveled to Hawaii with her son Ivan and just a year and a half before her own death, on 18 Jul 1941, she married Oldis Whiting Blanchard in Long Beach.
Annie died on 2 Nov 1942 and is buried in Inglewood Cemetery in Long Beach.
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