- Role
- Secondary
- Nickname
- Hersh
- Profession
- Maid of All Work
- Birthdate
- Oh, 'bout Fifty Nine 'r Sixty
- Relationship Status
- Single
- Playby
- AI
- Height
- 5' 6
- Build
- Medium
- Hair Color
- Black
- Eye Color
- Light Brown
- Physical Description
Thin but wiry
- Reputation
Gossip
- Name History
The family originally came from Georgia and the children were all named after famous Georgians. Hersh was named after Herschel Vespasian Johnson, 41st Governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 U.S. presidential election.
- Employment Details
Worked on Pa's farm in Flathead county till things got hard and he sent her into town to get a job.
- Expertise
Makin' Madam's bed, washing Madam's clothes, serving Madam's meals, cleaning Madam's big oversized ever-dusty house, putting the warming pan in Madam's bed, brushing Madam's hair, brushing Madam's cat, Alcibiades, cleaning Madam's boots, ironing Madam's clothes...
- Kith & Kin
Ma and Pa and various kinfolk back on the farm...
- Timeline
Born c. Winter 1859/60 in a shack somewhere along the Murphy Hollow Road near Trenton, as her family were relocating to Paducah, Kentucky, where her Father had secured a position as Postmaster. The family moved further north and further west over time, to the newly formed Montana Territory in 1865. with Mr. Colquitt, who had connections to Sidney Edgerton, arriving as a hopeful office holder and gold miner, but soon settling as a farmer near Kalispell in the North of the territory.
A couple of droughts and a swarm of locusts in the early 70s hit the farm hard and as soon as she was deemed old enough, Herschelina was sent into kalispell to look for work. She found service as a maid-of-all-work with the newly widowed Mrs Felicity Ashley, relict of the late Major F.G. Ashley, R.E. Mrs Ashley orignally had a number of servants and a nanny for her infant boys.
July 1875: Robert and Julius Ashley fall ill neither survive. Mrs Ashley cannot bear to be parted from her dear little boys and remains in Kalispell but remains in deep mourning and hardly ever leaves the the large house acquired by her husband. Only tended to now by her old Irish cook, Mrs Kilpatrick and Herschelina.
- Written By
- Javia