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From: "Carolyn R. Holladay" <>
Subject: Re: [GM-L] "Home for the Aged and Infirm"
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:10:03 -0500

Hi Marilyn
Thanks to you and all the others who answered about the "Poor Farms". To bad
we can't do something like that today. There is an old adage that if you
give a person a fish he will have one meal, but if you give him the fishing
rod, he will be able catch a lot of his meals. But back to the "Poor
Farms", I often wondered how many missing people ended up in a place like
that or a orphans home and we will never know what happened to that person.
Are the "Poor Farms" in Worcester, MA listed anyplace..even a story?

Thanks,
Carolyn Holladay,
Zebulon, GA

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> Hi Carolyn,
>
> The towns always took care of the ill, homeless, poor, etc. from early
> times. At first they paid people to care for them and those records are
> found in Selectmans Journals, Treasurers books, Town Meeting Records,
> etc.. Then ca 1830's or so they had "poor farms" and someone was paid to
> manage them. I found our (Killingly, CT) poor farm records in a book in
> the Town Clerks office. It only went back to the late 1800's tho..
> before that, if there were any books, they probably have not survived.
>
> Marilyn Labbe
>
> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:56:57 -0500 "Carolyn R. Holladay"
> <> writes:
> > You know, in Worcester, MA in the 30's, maybe early 40's they really
> > had a
> > "poor farm". > >
> > to> Bill Coley
> > > Orange, CT
> >

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