Personal Memories of Pearl Robinson About the Great Depression
Pearl Robinson, an 85-year old resident of Lake Viking Health Care, shared memories of the Great Depression during the week of Sept. 1, 2003. She recalls how her dad worked on the railroad as a section hand even though he had lung cancer. His brother stayed with them,...
Great Depression: Personal Memories of Rosalie Knott
On Sept. 8, 2003, Rosalie Knott, age 90, was living at the Lake Viking Health Care Center in Gallatin, MO. She shared a few of her memories of the Great Depression. During the Depression, there were three children in the family living on the family farm near Jameson,...
Great Depression: Personal Memories of Mary Burchett
When I started school, my shoes were simply gunny sacks I wore on my feet. In the wintertime, I often went barefooted because there weren’t enough gunny sacks to go around. Sometimes, I had to crawl under a haystack to get warm before I finished my long trip...
How a Young Married Couple Faced Challenges of the Great Depression
This paper was written by Leroy Stretch in 1976 as an assignment for a social studies class for Barbara Foley, the teacher. Roy Herbert McLey (1889-1976) and Cora Mae Saul (1905-1978) married just as the Great Depression hit the nation. They were the grandparents of...
Visit the 1889 Squirrel Cage Jail, located 2 blocks west of the Daviess County Courthouse in Gallatin, MO. This historic relic is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a visitors’ center — by appointment,
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