{"id":5763,"date":"2020-04-11T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/?page_id=5763"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T19:27:14","slug":"the-life-and-struggles-of-luther-roark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/the-life-and-struggles-of-luther-roark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life and Struggles of Luther Roark"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5763\" class=\"elementor elementor-5763\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-492a7b8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"492a7b8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{"ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot":"yes"}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-57809b1\" data-id=\"57809b1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbb60d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"cbb60d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1226\" src=\"https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luther-Roark-768x1226.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-28539\" alt=\"Front Cover Luther Roark Book\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luther-Roark-768x1226.jpg 768w, https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luther-Roark-600x957.jpg 600w, https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luther-Roark-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luther-Roark-642x1024.jpg 642w, https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luther-Roark-963x1536.jpg 963w, https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luther-Roark-1283x2048.jpg 1283w, https:\/\/roark-conner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luther-Roark.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cfa0559\" data-id=\"cfa0559\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60885ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60885ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>THE LIFE AND STRUGGLES OF LUTHER ROARK – <\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong>A SHORT BIOGRAPHY – 1995<br><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><b>by John J. Roark<br><\/b><\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(29 pages)<br>$10.00 – Softcover<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This short biography of Luther Roark<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> begins with his birth on December 31, 1879 in Birchwood, TN, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #000000; text-indent: 36px;\">in the homestead of his grandfather, Joseph Roark. Present were, of course, his mother and father, but also Grandmother Roark, now a widow who still lived in the homestead, and probably Grandmother Conner who lived not far away and who would be needed not only to assist in the birth but also to help care for Luther’s sister, Laura, then thirteen months old. The homestead, which was constructed of planed logs chinked with cemented clay in typical frontier style, consisted, at Luther’s birth, of one of the original two rooms plus an added room toward the creek as a replacement of the other original room. 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