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From: "Merry Whitney" <>
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] 1880 Census - Interesting Occupation
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 01:15:13 -0600
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203021201120.6773-100000@four.greenscourt.com>

Only if she left a diary -- that could make Amazon's top seller list! Does
anyone know what the difference would be, as an occupation, between a
prostitute and a "harlet" (sic)? Thanks for sharing the giggles! My dad used
to claim that "...we probably had some hoss thieves back there, too, along
with the bragworthy ones," but I doubt if he knew about Minnie. :-)
Merry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Doyle" <>
To: <>
Sent: March 02, 2002 12:02 PM
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] 1880 Census - Interesting Occupation


> While looking through the 1880 Census, I stumbled across the following
> entry:
>
> 1880 U.S. Census, Shelby, Tennessee, T9-1279, p. 48D
> Dora GRANT 45 Self F W W TN Occ: Boarding House
> Sarah O BRIEN 23 Niece F S W TN Occ: Prostitute
> Anna BROWN 26 Other F S W OH Occ: Prostitute
> Minnie WHITNEY 22 Other F S W TN Occ: Harlet
> Carrie HEATH 36 Other F S W MS Occ: Harlet
> Maggie STEVENS 19 Other F S W MS Occ: Harlet
> Jane JACKSON 19 Other F S W TN Occ: Harlet
>
> Does anyone want to claim Minnie Whitney? :-)
>
> Tim Doyle
>
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