Gretchen — Alice Marie Yax

Gretchen married Will Solenski at the age of fifteen and they traveled by wagon train to homestead in the Ohio Valley. The love they had for one another was 'a gift right straight from the good Lord' as Gretchen put it. They were disappointed they had no children than lived, but they still had their love that grew with the years. When Will died, Gretchen longed for death too, but at seventy six years old, three small children came to her for help after their parents were killed by Indians. It changed her whole life. She no long longed for death; just the opposite as she prayed that God would allow her to live long enough to see her adopted family grown.