Child rearing Archives - Appalachian History

Mailing babies via Parcel Post

Parcel Post Service became available to Americans on January 1, 1913. It didn’t take long for citizens to get creative on what to send.

In two short years our house of cards had fallen. We were 6 orphans. The oldest 17 & youngest 3 years. Mother lies beside father on the hill.

The NC colony, starting in 1736, used bastardy bonds to protect the Crown from being responsible for supporting children born out of wedlock.

“Cornbread and Beans for Breakfast,” published 1995, portrays the Depression era scene from James Milton Hanna’s childhood in Cherokee, AL.

There is something about the movement of rocking that will often tempt the sick, overwrought child to slumber.

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