From a 1915 issue of Genealogy, A Journal Of American Ancestry:
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After I had driven fourteen miles over the mountain trails, last summer, to a Virginia County seat, I met the white-haired county clerk. "Good Lord, man," he said, "I've been yere in this office forty-two years, and yer the second pursohn that's been yere in all that time to look at them records."
