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Marybeth Niederkorn

Marybeth Niederkorn is the director of the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson.

County poor farm's roots

Saturday, October 2, 2021

Sometimes, finding a ledger at the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center leads to more questions than answers. When a researcher asked me about the ledger for the Cape County Poor Farm, or Home for the Friendless, that held true.

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