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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 283623" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Here's a humorous little diddy about the "friend" word. My wife at times in her legal work has to do indepth geneology reserach when legal issues over estates come up. Several years ago she was researching late 1800's early 1900's census data when she came across 2 ladies on the census rolls and under occupation the "friend" word was listed. </p><p> </p><p>Although seperate from her legal case that she was working on, she and I both found this to be odd so since the area was also in our favorite caving haunts (we were avid cavers at the time) we decided a combined field trip was in order. (Scratch, the area was in Rising Fawn and our caving trip was to Cemetry Pit with a nice 150' entrance drop) While there, we did some detective work and learned that these 2 women in fact were prostitutes and thus the listing of occupation. It turns out the town mayor was the great grandson of a woman who lived next door or down a road a piece to be exact and he introduced us to his mother who told us some great stories of these women but also some great stories and insight into the region itself. </p><p> </p><p>My wife spoke with a woman in Texas who was wellknown in geneology circles as she told my wife the use of this word on census reports in some rural areas especially was not uncommon in that time. To see it used in that time on the census seemed so matter of fact but to us it was on the one hand shocking and at the same time funny. That's what I love about history and the truth of it because it will shock you and make you laugh all in the same moment.</p><p> </p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy-very.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy-very:" title="Happy Very :happy-very:" data-shortname=":happy-very:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 283623, member: 2189"] Here's a humorous little diddy about the "friend" word. My wife at times in her legal work has to do indepth geneology reserach when legal issues over estates come up. Several years ago she was researching late 1800's early 1900's census data when she came across 2 ladies on the census rolls and under occupation the "friend" word was listed. Although seperate from her legal case that she was working on, she and I both found this to be odd so since the area was also in our favorite caving haunts (we were avid cavers at the time) we decided a combined field trip was in order. (Scratch, the area was in Rising Fawn and our caving trip was to Cemetry Pit with a nice 150' entrance drop) While there, we did some detective work and learned that these 2 women in fact were prostitutes and thus the listing of occupation. It turns out the town mayor was the great grandson of a woman who lived next door or down a road a piece to be exact and he introduced us to his mother who told us some great stories of these women but also some great stories and insight into the region itself. My wife spoke with a woman in Texas who was wellknown in geneology circles as she told my wife the use of this word on census reports in some rural areas especially was not uncommon in that time. To see it used in that time on the census seemed so matter of fact but to us it was on the one hand shocking and at the same time funny. That's what I love about history and the truth of it because it will shock you and make you laugh all in the same moment. :happy-very: [/QUOTE]
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