One hundred years before we were born, our great-grandfather, Carl Henry Roe, was born in this house in Dayton, Kentucky in 1907. His father, Robert Harrison Roe, had migrated here from Mason County, Kentucky where he met Grace Mae Dewitt of Cincinnati, Ohio. The couple married in 1902 and settled into this Fifth Street home to start a family. They later moved to the county and owned a dairy farm. After a devastating barn fire in the 1920’s, the Roe family worked their way west in search of greater opportunity eventually settling in Southern California. Granddaddy, Jim Roe, and later our Mommy, Sandy, were both born in California. Granddaddy moved his family east to Kansas City and mommy later migrated further east back to Kentucky, where we were born in 2007.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Kentucky Born a Century Apart
One hundred years before we were born, our great-grandfather, Carl Henry Roe, was born in this house in Dayton, Kentucky in 1907. His father, Robert Harrison Roe, had migrated here from Mason County, Kentucky where he met Grace Mae Dewitt of Cincinnati, Ohio. The couple married in 1902 and settled into this Fifth Street home to start a family. They later moved to the county and owned a dairy farm. After a devastating barn fire in the 1920’s, the Roe family worked their way west in search of greater opportunity eventually settling in Southern California. Granddaddy, Jim Roe, and later our Mommy, Sandy, were both born in California. Granddaddy moved his family east to Kansas City and mommy later migrated further east back to Kentucky, where we were born in 2007.
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