My maternal grandmother came to the USA at the age of 14 from Swansea, Wales. She married my maternal grandfather, who was a mining engineer, and raised 5 children (4 boys and my mother). She never learned to drive, because my grandfather didn't want the mother of his children to drive, so my mother as the oldest child learned to drive at age 12.

My paternal grandmother was the granddaughter of a Methodist circuit rider in central West Virginia. She raised my father and his older brother on the salary of a B&O railroad engineer.

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