A 5 Year Old Girl Was Mailed To Her Grandma For 53 Cents In Postage
Her story is featured at the Smithsonian and won a book award for a college professor that wrote a book to remember her.
When the conductor first saw her, she was standing at the door of the train to get some fresh air because the twisty, winding mountain paths were making her tummy feel sick and her head a little dizzy.
It was a cold February morning and the little girl was bundled up in a thick wool coat and warm stockings, clutching a tiny suitcase.
She showed him the postage stamps on her suitcase and said she was going to visit her Grandma. After hearing her story and inspecting the stamps, the conductor laughed and went back to work.
When he peeked into the mail car later, she was quietly sitting on the mail bags, sucking on hard candy her mama had sent along for the ride, and clutching a big red apple in her little hand.
She was a blonde haired, blue-eyed little darling just three months shy of her sixth birthday. Five, she said, holding up five tiny fingers. Her name was Charlotte May Pierstorff, but everyone just calls her “May,” she said.
