SNGF -- Your Ancestors in the 1930s Great Depression
Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings , is to: 1) What did your ancestral families do during the Great Depression (1930-1940)? Did they keep their jobs and standard of living? Did they suffer personally or economically? Thanks to Marian B. Wood for this week's SNGF challenge topic. Here's mine: My mother was born in 1934 during the Great Depression. Her father, Tom Johnston, was living at home with his father in 1930. He was just 17 years old and worked as a ranch hand. The family lived in Stephenville, Erath County, Texas, so not sure how far out of town he would have worked. [1] By the time he married Pansy Lancaster in 1933, he worked as a carpenter. In 1940, he had his own business doing woodworking. They lived in Stephenville, with her parents, Warren and Lela Lancaster, her brothers, Wayne and Rayburn D, and her aunt, ...