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From: "Dick Crow" <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] MDALLEGA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 8
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:33:05 -0500
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There presently is a School for the Deaf in Romney, WV which is 25 miles
from Cumberland, not certain how long the school has been in operation.

Dick Crow
"The Ole Crow"
Retired and enjoying it!

"Fair Winds and Following Seas."

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Subject: [MDALLEGA] MDALLEGA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 8


>I was wondering if anyone could answer a question about a school for the
> deaf in the Frostburg/Allegany Co. area during the 1920's. My
> grandmother
> Margaret Geneva "Jennie" Taylor (maiden name) accompanied her younger
> brother Charles William "Bill" Taylor to a deaf school so she could learn
> signing
> too to teach the rest of the family. Where might this school have been?
> I'm aware of the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, MD but I
> don't think that was the school they went to because my grandmother
> didn't
> mention living at the school. And, I don't think my great-grandparents
> could afford the train ride from Frostburg to Frederick everyday
> (great-grandfather was a coal miner). So was there another school closer
> to or in
> Frostburg? My grandmother and her brother were featured in a local
> newspaper
> (could have been the Cumberland Times) because she was a hearing girl
> attending a deaf school.
> Thanks in advance for any input!!
>
> ~~Eve Marie
>
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