Speaking of southern women and their lives, has anyone heard the "legend" of Frankie (Stewart) Silver, of Burke County? Not really a legend, because it was true. But it is so dramatic it sounds like a tall story. Excuse the expression, but she was sort of the Lorena Bobbitt of pre-1850 North Carolina. I wonder what really happened. There's a couple of books about her, I hear tell one of them is pretty accurate. Marian -----Original Message----- From: Jan Garland <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 9:24 AM Subject: Re: And then ocf course when their husband died...... >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 true. And then of course when their husband died or became incapicitated >> they had the fields and crops for which they had to also care. >>