House Cleaning & Egg Collecting

Alice Martin>UIS Collection K-M>UIS Collection K-M, Segment 10

House Cleaning & Egg Collecting,

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CHILDHOOD WORK
She was the 4th oldest, so she worked inside the house at age five. Her mother said she could sweep as well as an adult. The older girls worked with the fowl, milk cows, gather eggs. Her mother had a garden.