Ancestry/Genealogy

kdmorris

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10. What a sad story

Sat Feb 18, 2012, 08:35 AM

Feb 2012

I can't imagine being a widower with 7 children in the 1930's. Seems like the family rumor treats him kind of harshly. I guess no one ones if he placed them with family, went to Michigan to find work and fully intended to come back for them, do they?

I have a woman (my husband's grandmother) who was a widow on the 1920 Kentucky census with 6 young children (all under the age of 9). By the 1930 census, she was (then 35 years old) married to an 86 year old man. I've always wondered what drove her to marry him. Maybe they were truly in love, maybe she was desperate for security. I don't think we will ever know. She died when my husband was 13 years old.

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