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Woman Born in 1843 Talks About Being Sold as a Servant at Age Nine

Woman Born in 1843 Talks About Being Sold as a Servant at Age Nine Clara Marsh (1843–1934) was born in Pennsylvania, the oldest child of a coal country family, and was bound out as a servant at nine years old when her father's lung sickness made the household impossible to keep. She spent six years in the household of a farming family in the county — the washing, the fires, the daily accounting of food and labor — and left at sixteen with a tin of saved wages and a character reference on good paper. In this account, recorded in her ninety-first year, Mrs. Marsh describes those years of service, the girl named Nancy Fell who shared her room and her work for five of them, and the choice she made in January of 1858 that she has not spoken of in the seventy-six years since. The life she built afterward — the wages, the marriages, the children, the reputation for hardness she carried into old age — and the brass thimble her mother pressed into her hand the morning she was taken are set down here together for the first time. #1800s #19thcentury