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Subject: Re: CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
Date: 17 Jan 2002 05:46:59 -0700

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Surnames: Rawlings, Marshall, Hunt, Wheeler, Jurd, Cox, Bartley
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We've been looking into the "Women's Christian Temperance Union" quite a bit because we believe our grandmother Emma Rawlings Marshall may have been associated with this. What you're describing sounds like a pledge card, though I've never seen one. The way I understand it, they got men to sign a card pledging not to drink, and that that is the origin of the phrase "taking the pledge" for giving up drinking. Hope this helps.

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