Anna Tolich, Helper, Utah, Carbon County oral history project, No. 4, July 23, 1993

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ANNA TOLICH know, on their land. And maybe some of the men might have done some small labor for one of the neighbors, and maybe got paid a little bit. But there wasn't any industry there at all. MT: So they didn't work any place but on their farm? And they were pretty self - sufficient. AT: Yea, yea, yea. That's how it was. MT: See, that is pretty important information because these people were getting prepared to come to the United States, weren't they. Where they had pretty much the same situation even though they were to come here to work in the coal mine . So tell me about your family there. How many children were there in your family? AT: We had eleven in the family. MT: Eleven children? AT: Six girls and five boys. And I am the baby of the family, and I am the only one living at present time of the eleven children. MT: And how did your parents support such a large family? How would they take care of such a large family there? AT: I. . . it is hard to have an answer for that. People struggled them days, you know. And with their own growing, you know, their vegetables, you know, and their own animals, you know, for like chickens, you know and dairy, you know, and porkies, you know. It seems like 2