My grandmother had a very difficult life as a young woman, raising her children under very trying circumstances and complicated by an absent husband, who provided little. With the onset of the Great Depression in October of 1929, she was 43 years old with ten children, seven of them between the ages of seventeen to three. It was often a struggle just to have something to eat.
Yet, despite the challenges, I am told she still had a great sense of humor. My Uncle "Pete" (John Edward Lines), the youngest of all her children, fondly remembered my grandmother saying from time to time in jest, that she was going "to get away from all her noisy kids." That she was going to go away so far it would "cost a dollar to mail a penny postcard."
-- Written by her grandson, Richard Lee Gleason
For more about Nora and her extended family, see the following website:
ClearfieldDescendants.com
My grandmother had a very difficult life as a young woman, raising her children under very trying circumstances and complicated by an absent husband, who provided little. With the onset of the Great Depression in October of 1929, she was 43 years old with ten children, seven of them between the ages of seventeen to three. It was often a struggle just to have something to eat.
Yet, despite the challenges, I am told she still had a great sense of humor. My Uncle "Pete" (John Edward Lines), the youngest of all her children, fondly remembered my grandmother saying from time to time in jest, that she was going "to get away from all her noisy kids." That she was going to go away so far it would "cost a dollar to mail a penny postcard."
-- Written by her grandson, Richard Lee Gleason
For more about Nora and her extended family, see the following website:
ClearfieldDescendants.com
Family Members
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Harry "Orville" Lines
1906–1999
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Ruby Josephine Lines Ingram
1907–2004
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Monroe Clegg Lines
1909–1910
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Elmer Byron Lines
1911–1988
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Maxine Jane Lines Gleason
1912–1990
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Lillian Hannah "Lil" Lines Henderson
1915–2007
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Wilbur Emanuel "Wib" Lines
1917–2003
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Rubin Waterworth Lyons
1918–1993
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Melvin Howard Lines
1919–1921
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Eli Enlo Lines
1922–2009
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Richard Delmont "Dick" Lines
1924–1955
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John Edward "Pete" Lines
1926–1998
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