My maternal Grandfather came from the hills of Kentucky. Worked in the coal mines from 8 until he was thirteen then became a hobo. Came to Detroit for a job. He worked for Hupp and Chalmers Motor cars. During the Depression he sold ice cream at Electric Park at the foot of Belle Isle. He was an inventor of sorts and filed several patents on his inventions. It's doubtful he ever had much education but still had some brains.

Grandma came from Texas to work in an aunts diner when the cattle farm failed due to a freak snow storm. They met and the rest was history. Grandma called him "pork chop" since that is all he ever ordered. My Mom was the first in her family to get a high school degree.