All too often, attempting to uncover the history of a community contemporary historians are often met with a glaring lack of information on the contributions undoubtedly made by scores of women. New businesses, agricultural, medical and educational endeavors carry the names of dozens of men - and their brothers and sons - who significantly contributed to the economic development of this country. Rarely, if ever, do we know the names of the women who worked alongside those men - as wives, mothers, sisters - or the roles they may have had, and the work they may have done.