Houston County GaArchives News.....GEORGIA NEWS IN BRIEF, ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED AT RANDOM FROM ALL OVER THE STATE October 6, 1892
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The Georgia Enterprise October 6, 1892
Remarkable Fecundity

     Here’s a chance for an interesting showman. If there should be, and it is 
very probable that there will be, some who will doubt the statement, the 
location and principal in the story are to be found. It is nothing more nor 
less than a Negro woman who, though only 36 years of age herself, is the mother 
of twenty-seven children and twenty-four of the children are now living with 
their mother, whose name is Josephine BROWN, on the Peacock Plantation in 
Houston County. There are no twins in the family. But this is not all. 
Josephine BROWN has a sister named Lucinda, who lives at Indian Springs, who is 
the mother of fifty-three children and again these two have another sister who 
lives at Indian Springs and is the mother of thirty children. Now Josephine, 
Lucinda and Eveline, the last named, have other sisters whose names are not 
known, but these sisters have in all a progeny of over two hundred. There is no 
doubt about these facts; the only wonder is that in this age of enterprise, the 
sisters and their families have not been placed on exhibition, but presumably 
the cost of food and raiment has entered into the estimate on profits to be 
made in a dime show on the attraction. --Exchange.


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