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Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] MDALLEGA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 8
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:04:35 -0500
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Pruntytown was a detention center for young boys.
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Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] MDALLEGA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 8


>I think there was on in Grafton / Pruntytown WV
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> 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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