Someone mentioned in another thread there being so few famine stories passed down...I guess it was either to horrible to relate or to hear it being told...the only one I have in my family is my great-grandmother coming over at the age of 7..all alone. She never heard from any family again. She somehow got a job as a maid (at 7?? it doesn't all make sense..) with the Taft family...one of the Tafts wanted to marry her but she married a man working on the railroads...mg