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Isaiah did not marry until he was thirty-one, which was an advanced age for his times. Even then he had married earlier than his father. Old Joshua, who died long before Isaiah's marriage, had been inordinately proud of his one son.
"Jes' wouldn't work fer white folks," Joshua used to say, "that weren't good enough fer him."