My grandmother Mary McGraw was the most trusting woman I’ve ever known. Her six gas wells made her renowned as the lady in the big house who would make loans to poor farmers so they could keep their land during the Depression. Most of the borrowers never even had to sign a paper. She would write the check with a smile that said, “Thank God not me.”
Grandma had 12 children, three...
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