I’ve Danced My Life Away
I Remember Her Always as Being Like a Big Sister
Elizabeth Ayoube (2nd from left)
with other Brewster Shirt Factory employees
Photo courtesy of Barbara Dyer
Barbara’s mother [Elizabeth Ayoube] came to live with us but I don’t know if she boarded there or not. My father felt that she should have an opportunity to work and not be like a slave to the rest of the people who were in Bangor, the rest of the Syrians. She was just a young girl, so she came and stayed with us and worked in Mr. Brewster’s shirt factory.
Frances Alexander
with Salim Ayoube c. 1912
Photos courtesy of Barbara Dyer
She was a very pretty girl. She was more like a sister to us than anything. I haven’t any idea how long she lived with us. She sent to Syria for her brother Salim who was in the picture there. (pointing to picture)
Salim Ayoube in front of
the former Alexander family home
on Willow Street
He came over and they each had a store, and they bought the house that I was born in on Willow Street after we moved up to Pearl Street.