re: Anyone else’s great great grandparents pick cotton?

My grandmother did

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.

I did......on a JD9920.

My family got out of the cotton business in the 1860s due to labor issues and switched to cattle.

My grandma did

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.

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my grandpa and his 13 brothers and sister were part of a cotton pickin share croper family

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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.

I had great great grandparents who were crop sharers on a tobacco farm in Georgia. They were dirt poor.