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Ellen Mowrer Miller memoir, undated
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IV. Peter Mowrer my Father was born in Penn. Charlestown TWP, June 9th 1805, being the youngest child, the child of their old age they had him for "their boy" till they passed the beautiful gates ajar. He was somewhat frail in his early years, they did not send him to school till about twelve years, so he did not know how to talk to the English till he was twelve years, he soon overcame that and as they sent him to school quite faithfully & he trying to improve the time by hard study, he became a good scholar for them times, he worked on the farm in summer times & taught school in the winter. The farms was not very large them times but they had to pick stones every year & feed the land good if you wanted to make it pay. I would hear mother tell how she would go out and pick stones a head of Father's plow so they could hurry when the sun shone, also the older boys helped on the rock pile, so that made them hurry west as soon as they were young men.
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IV. Peter Mowrer my Father was born in Penn. Charlestown TWP, June 9th 1805, being the youngest child, the child of their old age they had him for "their boy" till they passed the beautiful gates ajar. He was somewhat frail in his early years, they did not send him to school till about twelve years, so he did not know how to talk to the English till he was twelve years, he soon overcame that and as they sent him to school quite faithfully & he trying to improve the time by hard study, he became a good scholar for them times, he worked on the farm in summer times & taught school in the winter. The farms was not very large them times but they had to pick stones every year & feed the land good if you wanted to make it pay. I would hear mother tell how she would go out and pick stones a head of Father's plow so they could hurry when the sun shone, also the older boys helped on the rock pile, so that made them hurry west as soon as they were young men.
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