✅ SOLVED What does this mean on the 1940 Tennessee census?

[CivilWarSaver]

I have been working on my tree on ancestry for a good long time now, and I was wondering what “H-4”meant. It was under “years gone to school” I’m suspecting it means four years of school at home. Thanks!

 

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[Mackaydon]

Or.....four years of High School.
Don.....

 

[River Rat]

I totally agree with Don, H4 - 4 years of high school...just looked at 1940 Census of my area.

 

[CivilWarSaver]

Sorry, but I feel a little skeptical about that because she lived in a very rural area of Tennessee, and she would have graduated in 1912. She was born in 1894. And the only school around was a one room school house.

 

[River Rat]

You just might be correct about that, CivilWarSaver. I'm basing my facts on the 1940 census of my area to include my parents, several aunts, uncles and other people I know personally on the list. This is an rural area of many immigrants.

 

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My wife's grandmother was born in the 1890s and she went to boarding school about 20 miles away ... They were German immigrants and "dirt po" ... she was the youngest of a whole bunch of kids and the family scraped together enough money for her to get some education ....... the boarding school eventually became Delta State University , Cleveland , Ms ..... Of her family, she was the only one born in the USA......