You hear about Rose Wilder going to Crowley, Louisiana, to finish high school. You hear about Eliza Jane Wilder in Crowley. But when Rose was in Crowley, wasn’t her Grandmother Wilder living close by? Mrs. Wilder died the year after Rose graduated, and she was living with Perley at the time- not too many miles from Crowley. But I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that suggests that Rose ever spent any time with her grandmother. Sad…

