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Clarissa Goodrich Angell Rice is my 6th Cousin, two times removed. Many other girls and relatives, perhaps even her father and mother , went from Bridgewater and Barnard Vermont to work in the Textile Mills and other Factories in Massachusettsts. About this time it was said that one year in Vermont, there was a frost every month. Many hillside farmers could not grow enough to provide the seed needed for the next year's planting. Times were really tough and there was an exodus from thhe state, with many headed west to farm or south to Massachusetts to work in the textile mills or shoe factories. Lucky for us, because that is how a Vermont farm girl came to meet and marry George Rice, a chairmaker from Fitchburg. It's also sad to note, that while they were on the farm, the Rice men lived to a ripe old age, but once in the city or in a factory ( at least George P. and his son Charles E. ), most died young of consumtion or like diseases-GJR Herman William Tripp--Remembering......
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