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and made her his wife. V-192 and 193 own nothing but an old horse 

 and buggy. Thej' move from one farm to another and have now gone 

 to stay with his mother. Since his illness in the spring from diabetes 

 mellitus they have received county aid, and are liable soon to become 

 public charges, since the mother is unwilling to work. She will not 

 do even her own work, as the unspeakable fifth and disorder of their 

 home testify, much less help her family. 



Five children have been born to them. The eldest (VI-129), a boy 

 of 10, learns with fair ease, but attends school very irregularly. The 

 second (VI-130) is very inattentive and lazy; at8 barely reads or counts 

 to 100. Both of these boys have been caught pilfering. The third 

 (VI-131) has bad articulation at 5, appears silly and mischievous. The 

 fourth (VI-132) died at 2 months of pneumonia and whooping cough. 

 The fifth (VI-133), nearly 3 years of age, is just beginning to walk and 

 does not talk at all. 



V-194 and 196, two sons of IV-93 and 94, born about 1886 and 1889, 

 are described as slack, thriftless, devil-may-care fellows. They made 

 little progress at school; now^ drink and carouse and drift about and 

 keep at no regular work. They are also shifty and mixed in their 

 marriage relations. V-194 "stole away" another man's wife and 

 after living wuth her for a number of years married her. They are 

 living in A, where he has been employed on the railroad for several 

 years. V-196 has reported himself married to several young women, 

 among them a show-girl. He lives with none of them. Is at present 

 reported from the southern part of the State, where he is a flagman 

 on the railroad. No children. 



The youngest daughter (V-198) of IV-93 and 94, known as "delicious 

 Maud," w^as a rather pretty girl, but silly and ignorant and given to 

 gadding about. Married V-199, of degenerate stock. Capable when 

 he cares to w ork, but commonly thought to be licentious and a thief. 

 This w^oman neglected her home and children, and ran after Italians 

 and "Hunkeys" w^ho are on the railroad. It is reported that her 

 husband sold her to one of them and then on evidence of her unfaith- 

 fulness put her out of doors. He is at present digging trenches. He 

 lives with his imbecile brother, formerly an inmate at the Institution 

 for the Care of Feeble-Minded, Polk, Pennsylvania, and his two little 

 sons in a shack in the woods. The wife has taken their youngest 

 child (VI-136) and gone to Uve with another man who belongs to a very 

 bad strain. The two little sons, aged 7 and 5 respectively, are small for 

 their years, quiet and shy, but otherwise appear to be average children. 



Returning to the second child of III-35 and 36, we have IV-95, born 

 1857. She was utterly unable to profit by school training, but was 

 aUvays a modest, pleasant-mannered girl. Married about 33 years 

 ago IV -96 who comes from a good family and is superior to her in 



