QUEER GIRLS' OCCUPATION.
The only girl grave-diggar in England is a Yorkshire girl; Miss Maggie Freeman, the last of five generations of janitors- in Normanton, Yorkshire (says an English exchange). Maggie acts as grave-digger, verger, clerk of records, bellringer, and geneial factotum at the eight-centuries-oM parish church. She lives alone in a stone cottage adjoining the churchyard, and has attended 500 marriage celebrations, and has dug many graves. Every Sunday Miss Freeman helps to ring the three Wells in the church tower, and she also rings the bells for weddings. She succeeded her father when he died five years ago, after 25 years spesnt ia the church service. For over a century a Freeman has held this position, her great-grandfather having been born and wed in the cottage in which she lives now.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 13
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133QUEER GIRLS' OCCUPATION. Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 13
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