Elsie Pauline Belcher

Title

Elsie Pauline Belcher

Description

Mill Worker

Biographical Text

Elsie Pauline Belcher moved from the Dark Corner with her family in 1913 to work in a cotton mill. She was stricken with a form of paralysis that required her to walk with crutches the remaining 70 years of her life. Nevertheless, she was employed as a drawing-in hand in the weave room, work which she continued until retirement

Bibliography

Belcher, Ray, and Joada P. Hiatt.
Legendary Locals of Greer, South Carolina.
Arcadia Publishing, 2012.