The Clash of Generations
Ancestry would like me to think I knew who my Grandmother was – she was born in 1881 in Pennsylvania when her mother was 19 years old. She was the oldest of nine siblings, a relatively small Irish family for its time. In a 1930 census, her marital status was listed as “divorced,” even though I never heard of a divorce. She had only four children, three girls and a boy, even smaller still. My…














