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==Marriage and children== [[File:Grandma Moses wedding pendant photos in 1887, MLH, grandmamosesmyli00mose 0071.jpg|thumb|Wedding pendant photos taken in 1887 of Anna Mary and Thomas Moses<ref>[https://archive.org/details/grandmamosesmyli00mose/page/n70/mode/1up Grandma Moses: my life's history], 1952</ref>]] [[File:Anna Mary Robertson Moses with two of her children - estimate between 1890 and 1910.jpg|thumb|Anna Mary Robertson Moses with two of her children|219x219px]]At age 27, she worked on the same farm with Thomas Salmon Moses, a "hired man". They were married and established themselves near [[Staunton, Virginia]], where they spent nearly two decades, living and working in turn on five local farms. Four of them are The Bell Farm or Eakle Farm, The Dudley Farm, [[Mount Airy (Verona, Virginia)|Mount Airy]] Farm (now included within Augusta County's Millway Place Industrial Park), and Mount Nebo.<ref>{{cite book | title=My Life's History | author=Grandma Moses}}</ref><ref> {{ cite web | url= http://nps.gov/nr/feature/wom/2013/Mt_Airy.htm | title= National Register of Historic Places Program: Women's History Month Feature 2013 - Mt. Airy, Augusta County, Virginia | publisher= National Park Service | access-date= August 30, 2014 }}</ref> To supplement the family income at Mount Nebo, Anna made [[potato chip]]s and churned butter from the milk of a cow that she purchased with her savings. Later, the couple bought a farm,<ref name=GSE /> Mount Airy, near [[Verona, Virginia]]; it was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2012. Having bought the house in January 1901, it was the first residence the family owned. They lived there until September 1902.<ref name=VAnom> {{cite web | url= http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Augusta/007-1021_Mt_Airy_2012_NRHP_FINAL.pdf | title= National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Airy|author=Amy Ross Moses | date= March 2012 | page= 8 }}</ref><ref name="nps"> {{cite web | url= http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20120831.htm | title= National Register of Historic Places Listings | date= August 31, 2012 | work= Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 8/20/12 through 8/24/12 | publisher= National Park Service }}</ref> Five of the ten children born to them survived infancy. Although she loved living in the [[Shenandoah Valley]], in 1905 Anna and Thomas moved to a farm in [[Eagle Bridge, New York]], at her husband's urging. When Thomas Moses was about 67 years of age in 1927, he died of a heart attack, after which Anna's son Forrest helped her operate the farm. She never married again. She retired and moved to a daughter's home in 1936.<ref name="NYT obit" /><ref name=GSE /><ref name="Tfaoi">{{cite web |url=http://tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa516.htm|title=Grandma Moses in the 21st Century (originally published in ''Resource Library Magazine.'') |publisher=Traditional Fine Arts Organization Inc | access-date=August 6, 2011 }}</ref> She was known as either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses", and although she first exhibited as "Mrs. Moses", the press dubbed her "Grandma Moses", and the nickname stuck.<ref name="Stein">{{cite book | first=Judith | last=Stein | title=The White-Haired Girl: A Feminist Reading: Grandma Moses in the 21st Century | url=http://judithestein.com/white-haired-girl-feminist-reading | location=Alexandria, VA | publisher=Art Services International | year=2001 | pages=48β63 | access-date=September 11, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042309/http://judithestein.com/white-haired-girl-feminist-reading | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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