Gama Sue Steed married Dale Fuller of Redkey, Indiana. I called Gama Sue. They never farmed. Brother Larry, the one with the poultry project, had farmed until he died in 1988. Just described is the complication one often encounters in a discussion of what has been lost with the decline of agrarianism in America.
Nostalgia complicates the story, the desire for the stimulation urban life offers enters in.
Lateral mobility which upward mobility makes possible comes into play.