A family history of ancestors and descendants of the husband and wife Clarence and Mellye Barr, this book provides a rich tapestry of their lives, information on family relationships, and perspective on twentieth-century American history. Both raised in northeast Tennessee in the late nineteenth century, the couple married and began a family in California during the 1920s. Despite the expectation of remaining on the west coast, they moved back to Tennessee and became the patriarch and matriarch of the farm Mellye inherited from her parents. Containing autobiography, correspondence during war time, and a rich array of stories from the author's perspective, this volume is a unique offering for people connected to the Barr-Foust family, genealogists, and readers of memoir.