May 7, 2010
By Elizabeth Gittemeier Lillian Gittemeier raised her family on a small chicken farm in Bowling Green, Mo., during the Great Depression of the 1930s. She loved her family and raised them all with a strong work ethic. Throughout the Great Depression she sold all of the eggs from her chickens and used the money to [...]
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May 7, 2010
By Grant Guggisberg In rural Oklahoma, the Grant family only knew one thing, and that was how to work. Abandoned by her husband, Ila Maude Grant was left to care and provide for five children during one of the most destitute times in American history, the Great Depression. They all worked hard in the corn [...]
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