Goodness of America
Stopping Eviction
Eighty-five-year-old Gertrude Eaton believed she was going to have to leave her home on Applecrest Farm Orchards, where she had lived for 60 years, because the property owners said they were being forced by their bank to sell the land. Thankfully, an anonymous donor saw to it that that wouldn’t happen in this incredible story out of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.
Gertrude Eaton was born in the cottage in which she resides because her family had been employees at Applecrest, SeaCoastOnline.com reported. She eventually moved back into the house with her husband after they were married, and continued to work for the orchard until several years ago. She had been assured that she would be able to stay in the house for the rest of her life, but the orchard came upon tough times financially and was compelled to sell the land.
Gertrude was given very short notice of Applecrest’s plan to sell the property. When the Eaton family learned that Applecrest Farm Orchards was going to close on a sale of the land on October 24, they became desperate and set up a GoFundMe page in the hopes of raising $275,000 within a two-week period so that they could purchase the parcel of land and house where Gertrude stayed to allow her to live out her remaining years there.
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