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Originally Posted by merrylander
Interesting point, doing family history research I ran into a situation where a lady who was supposed to be my Dad's Aunt had a surname not in our family. In the end I ordered a copy of the marriage certificate. Well the deacon or whoever it was could not spell, but Great Aunt Amy signed her name correctly and in a clear hand. It seems that in an age where children went off to work in the mills early, the girls were give some education.
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In my Dads family, it was the two girls that went to college. All four boys went to work to help pay for it.
Dave
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