Posted by redforlife on March 10, 2017 at 16:41:18 from (68.234.121.124):
In Reply to: Great Depression posted by davidt1 on March 10, 2017 at 09:06:16:
The stock market crash was of course in 29. My grandpa sad that the effects really didn't hit farm life until the dust bowl hit. That's when things really got bad on the farm. Things really didnt start to turn around until WW2 came along. To make matters worse, his father died in 36. From then on, he had to take out mortgages to buy his siblings out one by one as they wanted out of the estate. He had been renting the family farm ahead of his father dying. He never got the mortgages completely paid off until up around 1960. And only then because he sold part of the farm to my dad. One time when it was really bad, he shelled corn and hauled a load of it to town to sell. He then bought coal to return home with to heat the house. He didn't get enough money out of the corn to pay for the coal. So after that, he just burned ear corn in the stove to heat the house. He not only saved money by doing this, but he also saved himself from having to do all that hauling. And he was using a team and wagon at that time also.
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