Posted by Dick2 on August 21, 2012 at 08:58:17 from (174.26.218.15):
In Reply to: Left Home posted by mb58 on August 21, 2012 at 08:26:13:
One of great uncles left home in the 1930's to become a hobo. More or less deserted his wife and a couple kids. He'd come around every few years to see his sister (my grandma), but didn't stay long because she kept telling him to go home and take care of his family.
One of Dad's cousins, from the same side of the family, walked away from home in the late 20's. Somehow one of my uncles tracked him down in the early 60's. He had worked for the railroad and was living in a shack alongside the railroad in Canada. He had no interest in even hearing about anyone else in the family. My uncle took him downtown and got him a haircut and a bag of groceries and left him be.
My FIL left home in WI when he was 15, after his Dad told him that he had too many mouths to feed. He rode the rails to central ND, where he found work during threshing. He rode the rails further west and spent the winter with a sheeo herder in his wagon in western ND. After that he roamed around until he lied about his age and got into the CCC camp as a cook. Later he worked 40 years in the paper mill in WI.
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