“Her girlhood was spent in graceless toil and crowned by an early marriage. Wasted by a quarter-century of childbearing, she saw a row of graves dug for her children. Often she survived as a widow to fend for the remainder of her brood. She could rarely influence the impetuous decisions of her husband and sons, and, never far from the family graveyard, mourned through long years the results of their errors.” Appalachia Book:Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area Source: Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area