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Mitt E. Morrow & Ollie Morrow

There are many reasons why this story must be told.
One main reason is I love these two beautiful people
for they are my mother and father. There is a story
and heritage of love in all our family that makes it
very special and deserves to be heard.

This story begins Mitt E. Morrow, born August 11,
1902 , in McCreary county Kentucky to Charles
Vaughn and Eliza Jane Morrow.

Ollie Strunk, born August 20, 1908, in McCreary
county Kentucky to James and Sally Strunk.

They were married February 27, 1925 in Whitley City, Kentucky. Mitt went to work at a very early age of 14. He helped his mother raise his brothers and sisters. After he was married he went to work in the logging fields. They later went to Bluefield, West Virginia to work in the coal mines. There wasn't enough work so they went back to Worley Hilltop, Stearns, Kentucky to work there in the coal mines.

They then bought a house and started to put down there roots. They raised there own beef and pork and also a large garden. They most always shared there meat and produce with family and with friends. They had some very trying times with two oldest children and my father coming down with Typhoid Fever. There was another time when my Father almost died with a ruptured appendex. Though it was ruff my father returned to work and then the mines shut down.They faced more odds with the loss of a 18 month old baby.

My father and oldest son Charles went to Tiffin, Ohio to pursue work. They found work at Webster Manufacturing in Tiffin, Ohio . After two weeks they returned to Kentucky and sold there house and moved to Tiffin, Ohio. Because of there religious belief they were guided by the same practice of love for family and friends.

In Tiffin my mother and father bought two apartment buildings living at one on 8th Avenue in Tiffin. In the time that past they would rent to people that would come there from the south to live and work .Alot of times they gave free rent because some couldn't pay. They would leave bags of produce on peoples door step that were in need and didn't have a job. They would raise 10 children and gain lots of respect and friends who knew how much help they showed to many many people to include there own children.

For all the years of my life I will never forget them and the lessons they taught me of love for family and friends . Mom and Dad your principals will carry on forever!

Your Grateful Son Danny

P.S. If in Stearns, Kentucky there is a miners museum there and my dad and his brothers picture is on display there so visit when possible.