LOL... as familys go mine is pretty colorful.... Havent gotten in to grandmas side or my dads family...
Great grandma married a man who was much older than her... She was sixteen he was almost thirty. He had two kids from a previous marriage... His wife committed suicide... His kids were fourteen and eleven. His previous wife was also his direct cousin... Great grandma would play dolls with the fourteen year old daugter but she was really scared of the Boy.
One time when she was alone after having her first baby Sleeping... she woke to a noise and found the boy standing over her with a butcher knife. Grandpa Robbins came in just in time and ran the boy off. He never came back. Eventually they put him in an asylum where he spent most of his life.
The girl went on to marry and have a life of her own. While Grandma Robbins had babies every two years after that. Two still borns and eight kids later.... she was in her middle thirties by then and the local expert in Child birth. she was on call as midwife to the county... The mailman would pick her up because he was the only one with a car.
Oh and they lived in a dug out on the plains in Colorado. Dirt flooors house was dug into the ground because wood was hard to come by. they had a roof and window s up
They all slept in one bed... When the girls started to go through puberty Grandpa Robins dug another room for them.
Grandpa Robbins had a temper all the kids would scurry out of his way... If Grandma caught him Beating the Mules with the harness chains she would go out and talk softly to him and tell him to stop it. he would...
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