Wednesday, June 30, 2010

A young woman born without legs . . .

and who propels herself by holding a boot in one hand and a short stick in the other was recently married in Sheffield England, to a fine lusty young fellow. When the ceremony was performing, she tooke off her boot to have her and joined in her husband’s.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3

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