Each family has a treasure trove of stories about family members, acquaintances, or surroundings. These are not merely stories but are like the deeds of the bygone era. They capture the changes in the social fabric, social structure, social norms and value systems transformation in the larger socio-political and socio-economic contexts and frameworks. Generally, these chronicles are passed on particularly, through the grandparents. However, over time nuclear families became a norm where grandparents hardly get the opportunities to spend leisure time with their grandkids. Consequently, the family anecdotes and chronologies are getting evanesced. Our 77-year-old grandma describes here how a century ago a widow, even if she was a mere child not even reaching puberty used to be repressed in the name of religion and social strictures. It is so excruciating, harrowing and piercing on the one hand while reassuring to find the changes in the perception about women and the social construct.