Mrs. Culp's Diary, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1937

What happened to the Culps in 1940?

The years from 1937 to 1940 in the lives of Mrs. Culp in her family are somewhat mysterious for us. A major recession — known as the Roosevelt Recession — gripped the country in 1937-38, and may have sunk Walter’s businesses. However, we know a few things that happened to the family in 1940 because there was a U.S. Census that year. Here are the highlig…