num_pages: 180
description: Ada was born in 1899 in Russell County, Virginia to a poor and destitute young girl. Due to numerous hardships, she was denied even a basic education and was forced to face life unable to read or write. As a teenager she gives her life to Christ, but through faulty teaching leads her to think God has deserted her. Married to handsome young Nathan Walker at the young age of sixteen, she was whisked away to live with her in laws. Her father-in-law was said to be a warlock and he did in fact predict his own death. After witnessing his murder, Nathan moved her again, this time to the coalfields of West Virginia. Homesick and longing for the green hills of her youth made the drabness of the coalfields almost unbearable for her. Her baby girl Lessie dies and Ada is left grief stricken and ill prepared for what happens next. Nathan, the husband of her youth deserts her and their other two young children. Now a woman alone, in the coalfields with no way to earn a living, Ada opens her home to boarders. She finds she can take care of herself despite her handicap through hard work and sheer determination. She goes on to live her life facing everything that comes her way with honesty and hard work and later in life becomes the owner of a restaurant which .runs successfully for many years. She realizes at the end of her life that God did not desert but in fact has been there with her blessing her all through the years.
language: English
title: I'm Ada
titlecomplete: I'm Ada
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Lulu.Com