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Re: "prostitute" in 1880 Lauderdale census
Posted by: Barbra Hathcock (ID *****8213) Date: October 13, 2006 at 22:16:04
In Reply to: "prostitute" in 1880 Lauderdale census by Patricia Welch of 340

I am not sure about Lauderdale Co., but while researching some of my kinsmen in Pike Co., OH, I ran into a slew of this kind of thing.

Some were enumerated as being too lazy to work, some females were enumerated as their occupation being, 'laying on her back', still several others as just being 'hos', and one or two as being 'lady of the night'.

Then I went searching and found quite a bit of this kind of thing, when researching the wild new territories of the west.

A great many of the people in the lines I am researching came out of Ripley, Civil Dist 2. Would you mind sharing just the family name you find this profession in?


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