BURIED TOGETHER
Partner
Gladys
Taber, buried together
Queer Places:
Stillmeadow, 487 Sanford Rd, Southbury, CT 06488
Pine Hill Cemetery, Southbury, CT 06488
Eleanor Sanford Mayer (December 20, 1898 – January 26, 1960) was the dear friend of
Gladys
Taber. Mayer is buried along side her husband. Gladys was buried to her
right, 20 years later.
In the late 1930s, Taber joined the staff of
the Ladies’ Home Journal and began to contribute the column “Diary of
Domesticity.” By this time, she had separated from her husband and was living
at Stillmeadow, a farmhouse built in 1690 in Southbury, Connecticut, sharing
the house with Eleanor Sanford Mayer, a childhood friend who was often
mistakenly identified as her sister. Mayer's husband died in 1943. Beginning
with Harvest at Stillmeadow (Little, Brown, 1940), Taber wrote a series of
books about her simple life in New England that possessed homespun wisdom
dolled out with earthy humor and an appreciation for the small things. She
published more than 20 books related to Stillmeadow, including several
cookbooks.
In 1959, she moved from Ladies’ Home Journal
to Family Circle, contributing the “Butternut Wisdom” column until her
retirement in 1967. In 1960, her companion, Eleanor, died and Taber decided to
abandon life at Stillmeadow.
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