Our home place, a quarter section, has been in the family 107 years. My great grandfather bought it in August, 1903. The next day he went in to a local bank and wrote a mortgage on it for $4800. Eight years later to the day, he walked into the bank and paid the mortgage off in cash.
Life was a whole lot different back then Some people call them the good old days. However--my paternal great grandmother had ten children and outlived five of them, including my grandmother.
A 4 year old boy who would have been my great uncle was buried in Germany in 1871 before they came to the States. A 2 year old boy and a 4 year old girl died two weeks apart of whooping cough in 1879, and a 14 year old girl was killed by a runaway horse in 1884. My grandmother died in 1899 at age 31 the day after my father was born. Probably a simple complication they'd fix without thinking today.
It's mind boggling when you think of the emotional trauma they went through.
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