Tamerlane said: "Well, a little removed, to be sure . My mother’s father grew up in a family of sharecroppers in Mississippi. But he himself was a poor rural cop in Maryland most of his adult life.
Now my father grew up on a subsistence farm and was the son of a coalminer ( who died of Black Lung, natch, a year or two after I was born ). But they were second-generation bilingual immigrants, which was sort of its own separate category."
Thanks for sharing, hon. Sounds like you’ve got an interesting family what’s got a bunch of interesting stories to tell. 
