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a. Note:   The following was written by Frieda Woltman Knauer in the 1980s:
 " O yea of little faith (Thats me, and I will tell you why). I am the 15th child of my Mother, and never was deprived of love and a good home, with enough to eat. My Mother was brought to this country from Ireland, when she was six months old, together with two sisters, by their Father, to live with their Aunt and Uncle, in a Episcopalian faith. She lived there, Hastings on the Hudson, for fifteen years -- until their Doctor said that she would contract tuberculosis, if she did not get work that enabled her to get more exercize [sic], as she was doing sewing, eight or ten hours a day. She moved down to Brooklyn and got a position taking care of children; then she met my Father, and married at sixteen years! Had her first baby at seventeen. She taught my Father (a German immigrant) how to read and spell English, and do arithmetic. He had his own business, and finally got a job as salesman for a large wholesale confectionery house in New York. They bought a house, where I was born, but found out that they had an unsafe cess pool, too near their well, and after their 16 year old girl, May, died, they moved to a rental house, and lost what money they had put in their first bought home.
 I got married at 19, my Father was 77, and not able to get around to take orders from his customers so he got in a telephone and didn't go to New York every day. My mother was 57, in pretty good health, and we all went to church every Sunday, until I moved to New Jersey, 2 years later. Then, my Father died, and my Mother didn't have any pension or Social Security. We had to go to Court (I went all the way from New Jersey) to try and get the family to support her, but they did not live up to their promises to the Judge. I sent her two dollars every week (everybody was to give the same) but she was gradually failing in health." [This is all Frieda wrote.]


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