Oglethorpe County GaArchives News.....Sallie Hansford: An Industrious Helpmeet July 23, 1886
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The Cherokee Advance  23 July 1886 P 4 July 23, 1886
The Cherokee Advance  23 July 1886 p 4
Ladies' Department
An Industrious Helpmeet

One of those heroines of whom the world hears but little lives near Lexington, 
Ga.  Her name is Sallie Hansford.  Her husband has been bedridden with 
rheumatism for nine years, and she has had a family of four children, two boys 
and two girls, to support.  Last year she bought 107 acres of land, much of it 
original forest, and with the aid of her two boys, fourteen and fifteen years 
old, cleared five acres.  She cut down the trees, rolled the logs together, 
split the rails, built the fence and burnt the brush with their help, and made 
last year nine bales of cotton, also corn and peas enough for her own use, paid 
800 pounds for rent last year, paid her store account and paid $40 on her land.  
She has bought her meat for this year, and paid for it.  In addition to this 
she has done the cooking and gone to market with eggs and chickens. 





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