Did relatives pass down stories about the stock market crash and the start of...

[wildlivesinmygarden]

...the Great Depression? Grandmother lived in Pittsburgh on a farm surrounded by a lot of "well to do" people, as she would say. She told us stories of people jumping, and doing themselves in-as soon as they found about about the stock market crash because that is where everything they owned was tied up, and they had no idea of what to do in a positive manner. She knew many who died this way and that is why she had a financially stable life. She would not invest in any of the markets though. She said, "Land is always there, no one can take that away from you."

[SandwichGeneration]

Many of the stories I was told by older relatives revolved around banks calling in mortgages; my aunts and great aunts spoke of extended family members and friends losing their homes and farms during the Depression....and their anger was still very clear to my young ears as I heard those stories.

[miss ellie]

Yes, they did, my parents told us many stories oh how they survived it.