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Finding Husking Peg Schoolhouse, Orrin & Marilla Burright’s Journey’s End

Finding Husking Peg Schoolhouse, Orrin & Marilla Burright’s Journey’s End

by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2019 | The Burright Family

On the first page of The Sun Rides High, Orrin Burright describes how, in 1845, the Burright family left Ohio and headed west. He notes that families traveled together for protection, before mentioning that when they arrived in Illinois, two of the young children in...

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