I have read several places that in addition to adjacent landowners 
serving as processioners, teenage boys were desirable as they would or 
might remember the boundaries long after their elders were gone and also 
long after the white oak had died or the boulder been moved or the river 
course changed or dried up.

Knowledge that a person was a processioner provides solid information 
that the person lived on or near the property being processioned.


Judy Gabor






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