Four Little Faces: A Story from the Great Depression

By Loralyn Reynolds

This book tells the experiences of my mother and her siblings during the years of the Great Depression.

It is the story as it was told to me by my mother, and some of her stories came from her aunt, who helped raise them. Some of the stories are from my grandfathers telling. I have tried to keep the vocabulary simple enough for older children who may want to understand a little better about this period in our countrys history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532038662

Loralyn Reynolds

Loralyn Reynolds is a retired social worker/teacher who has always been interested in history, especially family history. She is a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. This is her fourth book that reflects some aspect of her family history.

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-3865-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-3866-2 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 01/04/2018

Dedication

This book/story is dedicated to the Detamore Family, a family huge, noisy, and loving whose care and support I am so grateful for. And especially to the Detamore who gave me birth and linked me with this family, my beloved mother, Nora Elizabeth Detamore Reynolds Westover Neal Ernstes. (1927-2015)

Family Connections, and Introduction

In the 1840s, Clark Highley and his wife, Telitha Wright, of Virginia brought land along the Miami/Grant County line in Indiana, near the town that would become Converse. He farmed there and raised his family. So did his sons. One of those sons, Leroy Highley, who was a Civil war Veteran, married Ida Culp (second wife), and their first born daughter, Madge Bell Highley, married Percy Odwick Detamore (who was her second husband). Their four children are the Four little Faces. Percy, better known as Mick, was the third son and fifth child of Deloss Detamore and Nora Rust. He had, at the time of this story, nine living siblings. His older sister, Cecil, better known as Pete, mothered the family, who had lost their mother in 1915. This story takes place during the Great Depression, (1929-1930s).

The Detamores had become tenant farmers and laborers, but their history was also tied up with the area that the Highleys occupied. Some of Mick’s siblings had been born in or near Converse, the little town that straddles the Miami/Grant County lines and is a stone throw away from Howard