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Charlotte was the oldest of 9 children, living in Mount Pleasant where she remembers Markham’s lemonade factory. She was responsible for the younger children when they went out and she did lots of work in the house and the shopping, so she missed much of her schooling. Feeding a large family was hard, especially when Dad couldn’t get work.

Roberts, Charlotte

(Born 1948) Interviewed June 2019.

Charlotte was the oldest of 9 children, living in Mount Pleasant where she remembers Markham’s lemonade factory. She was responsible for the younger children when they went out and she did lots of work in the house and the shopping, so she missed much of her schooling. Feeding a large family was hard, especially when Dad couldn’t get work.

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