I work transcribing old records into computer program usable text and the poor house is mentioned so very often. We never think about how many people are at poverty level. Back then, there were only so many jobs available. If someone was sick or handicapped one way or another, it wasn't unusual to find whole families in the poor house, and many of them dying there. I write a while and cry most of the time I'm doing it. I don't transcribe much any more, it makes my eyes worse, and I can't chance it. But others do it. The kids and babies and young mothers that are listed are bad, but then you find where the kids are left without parents...it's heart breaking.
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