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Originally Posted by packs
Seems like it would be strange to have someone else sign a letter to a friend. Unless I guess Joe dictated the letter and had someone else hand write it. I would suspect a secretarial signature would be on a typed letter, no?
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This might be your answer, census says he could read and write but even items with short inscriptions that are actually signed by him appear to be in another hand, which would indicate his handwriting might have been atrocious.
Joe received little formal schooling.Due to the transient lifestyle of coal miners, his family moved frequently during his childhood. At the age of eight, Joe and his older brothers went to work in the mines to support their family.