This is me on my farm in Kanas. This farm was one of the best in town. We were two brother that lived together. Our parents died last year due to sickness.

Jacob Evergreen

(Brother)

Samuel Evergreen

(ME)

That part that we lived in Kansas was in the farm area. Where there was nothing near by. At our farm we grew wheat. We both brothers never thought of marriage, we just wanted to be successful in life.

Life was going great so far. We had food to eat, we were earning great money, we had everything a middle class family could ask for. And every weekend we threw small parties for the farmers around us.

Weekend Parties/Dinner

One normal day me and my brother were just sitting on the couch, and when we started talking about getting married. We talked for about 2 hours and agreed to get married and start a family. So we got married to Emily and Susan.

October of 1929 was the start of where all of the farmers and people with and without jobs fell. The great depression had hit, and it had hit hard. People were looking for jobs, people were living in slums, with not having enough food, money and clothes.

For us farmers crops prices had fallen all of a sudden, and the funny thing was Hoover was not doing a lot. The weather was bad for the western states, not a lot of rain, the sun was always out, a lot of wind. Every ones plans had changed, they had no idea what to grow, instead we just stayed inside.

By saying our plans changed what I meant was instead of growing crops we went on walks, we never listened to music we stopped the weekend parties, and we were just all shocked and depressed. Then the dust bowl had hit us, which was the worst you could ever think while farming. We could not grow crops, we had limited food, and out clothes were all dirty. But thank to god it did not hit us as hard it hit the other states.

We thought everything was ruined, until FDR was elected in 1932. He passed 15 bills in his first 100 days, giving the people some confidence that he will fix everything. The stock market crash really didn't effect our family because we didn't have a lot, but the dust bowl effected us the most.