"Hillbilly Elegy"

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(09-23-2020, 07:29 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade living in Appalachia for anything. I love this area and the people here. I couldn't see myself living in a city bigger than the ones you can find here in the Shenandoah Valley. The rural life is for me.

From what I can tell, they likely felt that way too. My dad just filled me in and they only moved to Maryland for the war effort during WWI, so they were there a few years by the 1920 census. They settled in, at the time, a fairly rural part of Maryland. 

The patriarch died while they were there, so I guess mom stayed with the younger kids because her two eldest daughters married.