Make the door open!

At the Mt. Troy house someone knocked at the door. A tiny voice called out, "Sedkin, Sedkin, Machen die Tür offen," German, which translates to Little Sade, Little Sade, make the door open.
It was 8-year-old cousin, Elsie Lemke. 

No one even knew she was coming.

She had taken a train all by herself from Florida to Pittsburgh. She got off the train at the PA Railroad Station and walked up to Troy Hill and then Mt. Troy Rd. She had come to live with them. Her mother (or both her parents) had moved her to Florida, but little Elsie missed her cousins on Mt. Troy Rd. Her mother was "strange" and maybe even "didn't really want her." That was the story my mom always heard and she passed it onto us. So what does Mom say about this?

"How cute is that?"

So that's the story of how Elsie came to live on with Grandma Walder on Mt. Troy. Elizabeth Walder raised 5 girls (Flo, Sadie, Lou, Elma and Elsie)

Elsie is sitting 2nd from the right, wearing yellow dress.

            

Elsie and Bob

The picture of the passenger train was taken in 1910 so Elsie could have taken a train that looked like it.