LOL!!! I looked at the actual 1940 census, and while it is interesting to surmise that a
lady of the 1940's worked in the dangerous, and highly physically demanding job of a
lime burner, the fact is that there were not any lime kilns in Brown County.
THEN, I looked at the actual census page, and her occupation is working for LICENSE
BUREAU!! How the indexer got "Lime Burner" out of "License Bureau",
I don't know....but it made for a funny story at our genealogy meeting tonight.
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Kindest Regards
Diana Biddle
Brown County Historian
On Mar 12, 2013, at 3:19 PM, "Dave Lee" <davidhilary(a)suddenlink.net>
wrote:
I want to thank all that sent a definition of "Lime
Burner".
It is hard for me to belive this is a job a woman would have held in 1940.
Maybe I am just too old fashioned but this was before WWII and Rosie the Riviter.
Were there Lime Kilns in Brown Co. in 1940?
This woman had had 2 years of college per this same census.
Dave
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From: Jim Hill
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Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Lime-Burner 1940 Census
>>> Burned lime (a powder) was the chief component of plaster and was widely
sought after by the building industry. Lime kilns were used to burn the lime rock. Kilns
were stone towers from 28 to 36 feet high and about 8 feet in diameter on the inside.
There were usually three flues extending up the tower. Near the bottom was a hopper with
an iron door. To charge a kiln, a cord or more of wood is first placed in the bottom, and
then the lime rock is thrown in from the top till the kiln is full. The fires are then
lighted in the flues which are kept continually full of wood. The heat expels the carbonic
acid from the rock, leaving the lime. Every six hours the lime, which continually falls
down into the hopper, is drawn out through the iron door by means of long iron rods bent
into a hook at the end and is immediately put into casks and headed up ready for shipment.
The kilns are ranged along a side [hill], so they can be approached on the upper side by
teams, cars, etc. for !
the purpose of charging them at the top, while on the lower
side immense sheds are erected, reaching about two thirds of the height of the kiln, and
under these sheds the lime is drawn, put into casks, and stored till time for shipping.
The kilns are kept running night and day, Sundays as well as week days from February till
December, and 12 hours is a day’s work. Good wages are paid but the work is arduous, and
the confinement close and continuous. It takes about six men to a kiln, and a kiln on the
average will burn 20,000 casks of lime a year and one cord of wood will burn 20 casks of
lime. (Industrial Journal, Aug. 8, 1890)
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Lee <davidhilary(a)suddenlink.net>
To: IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request(a)rootsweb.com <IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL(a)rootsweb.com>; Brown
County IN <INBROWN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tue, Mar 12, 2013 8:33 am
Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Census
One of my wife's relatives, Margueritte Coffey, living in Nashville, Brown Co.
in 1940 census has occupation listed as " Lime Burner" ..
Can anyone tell me what a Lime burner did??
Dave
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