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re: Anyone else’s great great grandparents pick cotton?
Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:51 pm to WhuckFistle
Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:51 pm to WhuckFistle
Yes my mother did and we are white. My grandfather plowed with a mule in south Texas. Being poor doesn't discriminate.
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Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:51 pm to WhuckFistle
My Dad and his sisters picked cotton in the 40’s, and they were lily white.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:52 pm to WhuckFistle
My grandmother did
Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:57 pm to SpotCheckBilly
My dad born in ‘36 did. He would talk about how bad you wanted to finish a row to get some lukewarm water that would be waiting. My mom talked about her parents picking while she was in charge of the little kids and preparing the meals. She was like 8-10 years old.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:13 pm to WhuckFistle
I'm 41/w/m..... my grandpa and his 13 brothers and sister were part of a cotton pickin share croper family from Iuka,Ms. The farmed and cut timber all the way down around Osyka and Gillsberg ,Ms/Easleyville,LA until they all got married and went their own ways. He and my grandmother got married at 15yo moved to Jackson,LA and worked for the East Louisiana State Mental Hospital for approx 30yrs. The year after they retired the Louisiana retirement drop program was introduced and all their friends ended up with nice retirement checks instead of $715/mth.
This post was edited on 6/5/22 at 8:14 pm
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:19 pm to WhuckFistle
Yup.. My grandfather grew cotton... along with everything else...
Here's a pic of my Granny picking cotton...
Here's a pic of my Granny picking cotton...
This post was edited on 6/5/22 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:27 pm to WhuckFistle
My Mom picked cotton in the 40's in Scott county Mississippi.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:31 pm to patnuh
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My grandparents, great grandparents, and my wife’s family all picked strawberries. The kids got out of school half day in the spring to go work the fields.
Tangipahoa?
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:36 pm to WhuckFistle
One of my grandparents was a cotton farmer. His kids including my mom picked cotton. Early on by hand. I remember as a child going to the farm and jumping in the cotton trailers. One of my high school duck blinds was made from one of the trailers after he retired.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:44 pm to WhuckFistle
My parents did.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:47 pm to WhuckFistle
My family got out of the cotton business in the 1860s due to labor issues and switched to cattle.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:48 pm to WhuckFistle
I wish they would have instead.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:48 pm to WhuckFistle
My grandma did
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:53 pm to Warfox
Very subtle.
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Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:53 pm to LegendInMyMind
Both my parents did in the 1950's. I've heard my dad say working in cotton fields was what convinced his younger brother to go to college.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:55 pm to samson73103
Look away!
Posted on 6/5/22 at 8:55 pm to LSUaFOOL
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my grandpa and his 13 brothers and sister were part of a cotton pickin share croper family
As was my grandfather. He and his family (wife and four kids) worked on a farm. He saved and bought 14 acres where he built a shotgun home. In his spare time and on Saturdays he'd farm a bit of his own land and raise some animals. Sundays he rested. It didn't matter how far behind he was, he didn't work on a Sunday.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 9:04 pm to td01241
Lot's of Czechoslovakian immigrants picked cotton in CENLA and Texas.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 9:06 pm to WhuckFistle
I had great great grandparents who were crop sharers on a tobacco farm in Georgia. They were dirt poor.
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