What kind of childhood did Annie Oakley have?

Answer 1

Annie Oakley was extremely poor. Her father died when she was six and her mother was unable to support Annie and her siblings. Annie was presently sent to the Darke County Infirmary, which was an asylum, where she was assigned chores to help the administrator. She was recruited by a local farmer and his wife from nearby Preble, presumably to work as a mother's help, but by most accounts they grievously abused the poor child from ages 10-12. Eventually she ran away and managed to make her way home to Woodland, Ohio, but by then she had scars on her back and her psyche. In later years she recalled her childhood as happy, but this must've been a form of denial since she was deprived of her mother's care and forced to work long hours as a prisoner in the home of an abusive couple.