Frank Watson: Not My Fault

My ancestors came from Scotland, Germany and Ireland.

The Scottish branch of the family lost their lands in the “cleansing” following Bonnie Prince Charlie’s war in the mid-1700s.

They made a living as best they could until one of them got hungry enough to emmigrate to America as a bonded servant around 1830.

He worked for wages, and his descendants slowly migrated west and found work in the mines of western Missouri.

When the mines closed, my grandfather became a skilled craftsman and constructed interior walls of lath and plaster.

My father worked in a factory for more than 40 years.

My Iris...