A woman’s life has become one of dignity and comparative ease thanks to the miraculous labor saving devices that science has provided for the efficient operation of her home. Time was in the 19th century a woman raised a large family, ran the home and endured long hours of exhausting work without the benefit of electrical appliances which make a woman’s life easer and happier. Time was when a woman had to face the drudgery of pioneer life with only her two hands and a strong will. This story charts the life of Mariah Coventry a pioneer woman born in 1840 in a little town in Vermont.