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Women wore (Minuets, long dresses with "lots of petticoats” and always aprons.
Many of the mountain young people ran off to get married - to Maryland. “There was a time in the twenties when folks liked to get married in the l.uray Caverns." Johnson said “That's what mv |>arents did."
Funerals were not complete without a coffin made by Captain Henry and a wake in the home of the deceased. “We'd stay up for three nights—the body was never left alone.” said Johnson. "People stayed there so that the family could rest, if they would.”
Besides missing their homes, mountain |**ople who resettled had another sorrow to bear. Often their children were made fun of for being “country” when they started school in the towns.
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