What little Amazon showed as a sample, sounds as if her life was almost a parallel to mine... I was born a few years later than her, just a couple of months before WWII started, but my dad was a share cropper too and we pretty much lived from hand to mouth for a number of years... until he left the farm when I was about 10 and started doing construction work in town, but his first love was always farming. We were a family of 6, Mom, Dad, and four kids... two boy and two girls... I'm second oldest of the four and the oldest boy of the grandkids... my dad was from a family of 10 kids and mom from a family of 3.... I had it made as a grand son, was the only boy in the family until I was about 9 when my brother was born, then the uncles and aunts all had 5 other boys in pretty quick succession. My brother and I were the only ones with the family surname until my last cousin was born.
My grandmother said the only problem for them during the depression was they had trouble getting flour and sugar... one of the few things they didn't grow themselves... they grew a lot of sorgham and sugar cane though and made their own syrup which substituted for sugar.... so flour was the biggest problem.