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From: William Southam <>
Subject: Re: [PASCHUYL-L] Searching for family of Rebecca CHRIST
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 23:52:53 -0500

Most of present day Schuylkill County was formed in 1811 from Berks
County. An uneducated or illiterate person may not have gotten the
word.

wrote:
>
> Hello All....
> I am searching for any and all information on Rebecca CHRIST. The only
> information we have on her, we got from a pension application that someone
> helped her fill out. We know she could not read or write because she signed
> the application with an "X". Here is what Rebecca stated on the application:
>
> The application was dated 23 Oct 1893. She stated that she was 69 years old
> and was born 26 Jun 1834 in Barnesville, Berks County, PA. As you can tell by
> applying simple math, her age puts her birth date as 26 Jun 1824, and
> Barnesville is listed as being in Schuylkill County, PA, not Berks. So
> someone either wrote her age wrong or they wrote her birth year wrong.

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