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Anyone else’s great great grandparents pick cotton?
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:23 pm
Was at deer camp this weekend and got bored. Looked around an old shed and came across this.
Called my mom and asked who grew cotton down in this town.
She said her grandpa had a field and all her bothers and sisters picked it when growing up.
Im guessing this at least 100 years old.
Called my mom and asked who grew cotton down in this town.
She said her grandpa had a field and all her bothers and sisters picked it when growing up.
Im guessing this at least 100 years old.
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Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:23 pm to WhuckFistle
Sorry I’m white
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:25 pm to WhuckFistle
My parents picked cotton in the 30s and 40s
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:25 pm to WhuckFistle
My dad is 66 and he picked cotton. Yes, he's white.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:26 pm to WhuckFistle
I work with a man who’s 70. He grew up in central Louisiana and picked cotton when he was young. Said it was mostly him and some Mexican families, sometimes some other poor white kids too.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:27 pm to WhuckFistle
Yup - my great great grandparents moved from NE Mississippi to Texas after the civil war to pick cotton, they had been cotton pickers in MS too
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:33 pm to WhuckFistle
My grandpa hand-picked cotton. They were poor sharecroppers from Tensas Parish. He went on to become a very successful farmer in Catahoula Parish and is the last living son of 12 kids.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:34 pm to WhuckFistle
My maternal grandparents and my mother picked cotton up until the 1960’s in St Martin Parish. Mom said it was hard work.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:34 pm to WhuckFistle
My dad was born in 36. Growing up his family were rice and cotton farmers over near Ville Platte. I heard lots of cotton-picking stories growing up. He never said much about the rice though, except swimming in the ditch or something when he was real little.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:35 pm to WhuckFistle
My grandad did. Rumor was he was the fastest in the area. White or black.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:35 pm to tigerinexile
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My parents picked cotton in the 30s and 40s
Yep, my mom did to. It wasn't very uncommon back then
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:37 pm to Topisawtiger
quote:I've had enough of your cotton pickin' stories
I heard lots of cotton-picking stories growing up
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:38 pm to WhuckFistle
“Lord loves a workin' man. Don't trust whitey. See a doctor and get rid of it.”
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:40 pm to WhuckFistle
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.
Makes todays world seem much different when you think about those days.
Makes todays world seem much different when you think about those days.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:40 pm to WhuckFistle
My dad picked cotton by hand growing up in Bradley County, Arkansas. He's 87.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:41 pm to WhuckFistle
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Anyone else’s great great grandparents pick cotton?
No, but seeing how no amendment is absolute, I'm thinking about getting in.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:42 pm to WhuckFistle
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She said her grandpa had a field and all her bothers and sisters picked it when growing up.
quote:What Arky sisters call their male siblings.
bothers
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:46 pm to WhuckFistle
Cotton doesn’t grow in the part of TN my family is from. My great great grandad’s occupation will get me cancelled in todays world, so I’m not saying shvt. His son, my great grandad inherited money and spent his life bootlegging, drinking, fvcking every girl in town, and died before 35.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:47 pm to soccerfüt
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What Arky sisters call their male siblings.
As much as you talk shite about Arkansas, I’m guessing someone from Arkansas fricked your wife.
This post was edited on 6/5/22 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:47 pm to WhuckFistle
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