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My grandmother Margaret C.
Steveson was from Kilbirne in Aryshire. she and her sister Mary Stevenson
left Scotland in 1921 to come to America for a better life they were
oldest of 12 children, they worked here and sent money back for their
father and the next two oldest children to come over, then eventually they
all came here by 1923 they ended up settling in West Virginia. My
grandfather Alexander Busby was from Motherwell he came here as a small
boy with his parents and sisters and grandparents they went to a
Pennsylvania coalmining town where my great grandfather was killed in a
mining accident when my grandfather was a small boy, his mother eventually
remarried and they moved to West Virginia. Where he worked in the mines
and steel mill and met and Married my Grandmother, they had two
children one of which was my mother. As a child we used to listen for
hours and hours to my grandparents Scottish records and listen to
the stories of how they came to America I once asked my grandmother why
she had to leave and if she missed Scotland and she said yes but they had
to leave so they could have jobs. When I see pictures of Scotland and we
go to West Virginia where most of our Relatives are still I see why they
ended up their because it reminded them of home.
Susan Dickson |
