Mah very own great-great granny done went and give birth and then got back to the plowin'. By the time great-great grandaddy come home she had a big dinner ready fer him, too -- she had done killed a chicken and dug some taters after she finished the front forty acres behind that ol' mule, and they went dancin' that night, too.

Yeah, I've heard all the stories like the above. I've also visited the cemeteries and seen the mothers' graves and those of the babies....