Family history fact for the day.
In 1870, the man named James Agnew who was my GGGrandpa lived in Montgomery, Ohio (still a part of Hamilton County as is Cincinnati), owned 85 acres of farmed land and 22 acres of woodland. The land was worth $6000, he paid out $100 in wages that year, owned 4 horses, 5 cows, 16 pigs, farmed 50 bushels of winter wheat, 12 of rye, 25 of Indian corn and 130 of oats.
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