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After losing her father at the age of eleven, early developed
self-reliance, and at the age of fourteen began teaching a district
school. Later she learned the milliner's trade, working for her board and
spending the day in the store. She was an indefatigable worker, rising
early and retiring late. For one year and a half after her marriage she
lived on the farm, after which she again engaged in the millinery
business, until failing health compelled her to give it up. She was of a
kind and sympathetic disposition, abhorring quarrels or contentions of any
kind. An invalid for twelve years, she endured it patiently and calmly
planned for the inevitable.
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