West Virginia Farm Stories From the Early 1900s: ; Washing and Ironing Were Painstaking Procedures Years Ago

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Editor's note: Mary Cordelia Riffee Figgatt, 103, undertook to write her memoirs of growing up in Putnam County so that her descendants would understand how life was lived in the early years of the 20th century.

She began to compile them when she was 93 years old. For seven years, the former Putnam and Kanawha County schoolteacher wrote in her spare time, completing the work when she was age 100.

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West Virginia Farm Stories From the Early 1900s: ; Washing and Ironing Were Painstaking Procedures Years Ago

Here is the 13th installment from her book, "West Virginia Farm Stories from the Early 1900s."

It was a big job to do the wash when I was growing up.

In the summertime, we went out on the hill and...

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