Mr. and Mrs. Tarver dealt with a time very difficult during the 1940s in which many
people lost their jobs, families starved and suffered, and many ran to banks in panic of
losing their money.
Mr. Tarver explains to us how real the situation was in his head as he ties back to the
memory of first hearing and feeling the effects during the great depression. He stated that
at the time he had a fine salary and a growing savings account but that it all changed after
they felt the repercussions of the great depression. Luckily for him, his wife was very
thrifty as a person and taught him how to better the situation they were in after Mr. Tarver
lost both his fine salary and his steadily increasing savings account.
Just when Mr. Tarver thought the depression had reached it’s worst point, he receives a
phone call that he needs to come down to the bank he used to work for and see for himself
what is going on stating, “Hurry on down and see he said…“I hurried down and, sure
enough, in front of the bank, there stood a crowd of employees, as blank expressions on
their faces as I’ve ever seen. They were too dumbfounded to be excited even.”
This is where the first of the Tarver families’ situations go from extremely difficult as Mr.
Tarver lost his good salary job and savings, and then transition to the bank needing him
back to provide services for them as a receiver to aid in the liquidation of funds. Many
