Haven’t talked about this yet but I’m guessing it was pretty similar to when all the men were out during the civil war . There was, I’m guessing, in this case a generation of women that were unmarried due to the war. so as an effect like a lot of single older women probably after the war. Also, probably like what happened in the civil war days —again I’m guessing— the women dealt with things at home while the men were away.
