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Josephine Riley Matthews

“I'll bet you one thing, if the man had to have the first baby there wouldn't be but two in the family. Yes sir, let him have the first one and the woman the next one, and his time wouldn't come around no more.”
- Josephine Riley Matthews,
- in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World (1989)

Josephine Riley Matthews, U.S. midwife

(1897 - ?)