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Vaughan typed them into what became a 373-page book titled ? Dear Descendants .? They finished just a few months before Colu.
Then Mrs.
Mankin began dictating the stories to her youngest daughter, Orla (Mankin) Vaughan.
In the 1950s, Mrs.
As a keen observer and good listener, she retained much about Ava and Douglas County.
Essentially, Columbia ?Lum? grew up ?with? Ava.
Mankin , was born in Ava, MO, when the town, founded in 1871, was only two years old.
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