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1886 – 1961
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Marta kept a leather ledger of every birth she attended — 912 names, each written in her steady hand. Half the county was welcomed into the world by her.
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“Nine hundred and twelve names in her own hand, and the weather on each birthday.”
Samuel Whitfield· 1 December 1959
“Half the county was written into that leather book before it was written anywhere else.”
Eleanor Grace Whitfield· 6 April 2001
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