[or-roots] Depression Times / W.W.II

[Robert L. Casebeer]

Cousin Carrol, How delightful that you have written up your life story as completely as you have.  I am only up to age 12 with mine.  When I first came into memory at age 2 or so, my family was eleven miles back in the Umpqua National Forest working at a guard station...so the first transportation I can recall was by horseback. Bob Casebeer, a descendant of Joicy and Dicey Napier. 
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    From: CARROLLOUC at aol.com <CARROLLOUC at aol.com>
    To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
    Date: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:29 PM
    Subject: Re: [or-roots] Depression Times / W.W.II
    
    
    I hope those of you that are waxing nostalgic about growing up during the Depression and WWII are also busy writing your story of those years. They will be lost in another generation if you don't.
    
    My great grandmother was born in VA in 1852 and died in Portland, OR in 1944 when I was 15. She used to tell us children stories of the Civil War and of her life but no one wrote them down and they are now mainly forgotten. I only remember one or two. What a loss this is to our family.
    
    Some time ago, my then 12 year old granddaughter wanted to know what my favorite TV program was when I was a girl. She was horrified when I told her we had no TV, radio or telephone at  that time and she plaintively asked "but Grandma, what did you dooooo?". 
    
    I was born in 1929 and grew up in Portland and the suburb, Parkrose, during two of the most important decades in the History of the U.S.. I have completed my story of what it was like for me, what we children did for entertainment, etc. I began with my birth and ended this first story at age 18 when I was walking down the aisle to be married.  There is also a good deal of genealogy involved in the story.
    
    The second part of my life has mostly been written, up to about 8 years ago. Eventually, it will be completed, with one of my children finishing the last page for me. Then, hopefully, he or she will make it into a book for my descendants as well. 
    
    These stories are not about a great or famous person, but an ordinary individual with her own story to tell and it will be a totally different story from anyone else's story.  I sincerely hope that  my family will enjoy both books and will know their mother, grandmother and great grandmother more fully than they do now.
    
    So, everyone, get cracking on those stories for your children and theirs.
    
    Carroll (Cooper) Summers
    

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