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her ineffective husband she had 5 children: (a) 9, born 1848; nervous and 

 somewhat secretive; by her farmer-husband she had a daughter (who is 

 married and has a bright young son) and two sons, the elder of whom is very 

 alcoholic and is an oculist in Los Angeles, California, while the younger is in a 

 factory near home ; (b) 9 , born 1 840, who became very obese ; she married 

 and had 12 children and a number of grandchildren, none of them nomadic; 

 (c) 9 , born 1841 ; her marriage was a forced one; she grew very peculiar, but 

 was never committed ; she had 2 children by an alcoholic husband ; the only 

 one who survives has delusions; (d) o 71 , born 1843, is a shoemaker in Ohio, 

 drank heavily, and had 6 children, none nomadic; (e) 9 , born 1846, has pro- 

 longed depressed spells and has suffered an apoplectic shock. 2-q 71 , born 18 16, 

 was alcoholic; his children are little known. 3-0^ , born 1818, died in 1839 

 from injuries received while clearing land. 4- 9 , born 1820, died of tubercu- 

 losis in 1865; her only son was a druggist who died of tuberculosis at the age 

 of 27 years. 5-d 1 , born 1823; drank heavily; grew obese; was killed in the 

 Civil War; by his wife, from Maine, he had 4 children: (a) d\ born 1848 and 

 died of tuberculosis 1867; was a shoemaker; (b) c? , born 1850; placed by his 

 stepmother in the almshouse, he ran away ; caught and bound out to a private 

 family he ran away again; he has a great deal of mechanical ability, but he 

 never sticks to anything; he wanders a great deal, doing odd jobs for several 

 months at a time, but seldom remaining long in one place ; he is a shoemaker, 

 also a machinist, by trade ; he has invented machinery used in the manufacture 



of shoes, also a "wheel crimper" for the edges of pies; by his cousin R he 



had one child, a son, who is capable of good work, but who drinks very heavily 

 and is at present in Canada. S-o 71 , by a second wife had 3 sons: (a) cf , born 

 1859; was a fine scholar; ran away from home and lived for some years with a 

 hermit, occasionally peddling notions to get a few cents; he was never content 

 to remain in one place, however, often taking trips to the surrounding towns, 

 and finally ran away about 20 years ago and has since never been heard from; 



(b) d\ born 1861; is said to be very peculiar and "too stingy to drink"; 



(c) died in infancy. 6-cf , born 1828, was addicted to the use of alcohol; went 

 to the Civil War, returned home, married, settled down, and has a son who is 

 a weaver in a mill near by. 7 - 9 , born 1 830, died 1 880 of tuberculosis, married 

 a machinist and has a surviving daughter who is not nomadic and has a son 

 who works near by. By a second husband, 7 - 9 , had 3 children who survived 

 infancy: one son who is a shoemaker, one who is a motorman, and a daughter 

 who has married and settled down near by. 8-cf, born 1833, was a shoe- 

 maker ; went to the Civil War ; received a pension and had poor health during 

 latter part of his life; he had 9 children, none of whom were nomadic. 9- 9 , 

 while a child, was burned to death in a bush-fire. 10- 9 , born 1836; after the 

 death of her husband fell into sexual irregularities ; by her husband, who was a 

 machinist, she had one son who grew up with little maternal care, ran away to 

 sea and was not heard from for q years; was a British soldier for 5 years, and at 

 last accounts was said to be keeping a light-house on the coast of Florida. 



Mother's father's father. — Born in England, 1773; was a soldier in the War 

 of 18 1 2 on the British side; he had been a soldier in the British army for some 

 years, and his descendants say that he had been all over the world; whether 

 his early life was responsible for the roving disposition which manifested itself 

 later or whether he was naturally restless is unknown; his children were all 

 born in different towns, which shows that his roving disposition lasted him 

 throughout life; he was a shoemaker and a machinist and died in 1837 of 

 tuberculosis. 



Mother's father's mother. — Became very obese; weight over 300 pounds. 



Mother's mother. — A bright, witty woman who had been a school-teacher; 

 too fond of reading to make a good housekeeper. Sibs: 1 -c? was a soldier in 



