Hi Folks Just a few observations from one who spent his early years in East Ky. One: The life expectancy was probably greater for women whose husbands had died. Two: As the children came along they were cogs in the family wheel; doing all of the chores that their age allowed. Some of these chores at exceedingly young ages. Boys behind plows before the age of ten. Girls with sibblings on their hips by the age of Six. At some point depending on the mix of sons and daughters, the mother was more or less just a taskmaster. At the end of a hard day in the fields,sitting on the front porch, the family chatter was about weather,crops,animals,relatives and news of distant thing that gradually filtered into these rural(no running water,no electricity) mountains. A lot further away than a key stroke. Herb Gayheart Jan Garland wrote: > Yes, and then, if there was anything available from the community to > help the widow and her kids, it was only for two years and she was > expected to remarry during that time. At least, that's the way it was in > LA and some other areas. > > Jan > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > In a message dated 9/20/99 7:18:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > << >(nappies) for years. Their life was hard. They also learned to handle a > > gun > > >as well as many men in case of gangs coming around to rob, steal, and rape > > >while the men of the house were in the fields or off to war. All their > > chores > > >where done without running water, unless you want to consider grabbing a > > >bucket and running to the spring and back, no indoor facilities other than > > >the chamber pot, no electricity, and no telephones. Our children and > > >grand-children haven't a clue as to what these women did to run a > > household. > > >Betty. >> > > How ruue. And then of course when their husband died or became incapicitated > > they had the fields and crops for which they had to also care. > > > > ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== > > If someone sends a warning about an email virus or asks you to send ANY > > message to everybody you know, check out these site to see if it's for real: > > IBM AntiVirus Home Page > > http://www.av.ibm.com > > McAfee: Virus Hoaxes > > http://www.mcafee.com/support/hoax.asp > > or one of these sites which are very good about virus and > > chainletter hoaxes or myths: > > http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html > > http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html > > http://kumite.com/myths/myths/ > > ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list, send a message to > [email protected] if you are subscribed to the list, > or [email protected] if you are subscribed to the digest. > In the body of your message put only the word unsubscribe