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That sounds like my father. He was smart, he just never had the opportunity to finish school because he was the oldest, and so the burden fell on him. That would have been in 1925 or -26,Dad quit school in eighth grade to help take care of his family. That being said, he was one of the most smartest men I ever knew. His was not a book-learning knowledge. But he could take a car apart and put it back together with no trouble. He could build a house. He could fix pretty much anything I broke. He could do plumbing, do electrical work, anything in construction. The man could do anything. Whenever I had a problem, I could call him and say, "Dad? I need your help" and he'd be there in no time.
Mom did graduate from HS, but only through the sheer perseverance of my grandmother. Mom hated school; she wouldn't go, so my grandmother had to walk her back and forth. She threw her books in the river and my grandmother would have to buy her new books. She was quite the problem child. Thankfully her three children did not carry on those traits.