1940 Census = Exciting!

It has become a running joke in my immediate family that I am officially a geneageek.  Here's why:  They think I rarely get excited.  That's not entirely true.  I get excited, I just am not very good at showing excitement.  So a few weeks before the 1940 census was released, I'm riding with my sister somewhere and we're talking, and I make the comment "I'm so excited!  The 1940 census will be out soon!"  She thought this was super funny, and so now it's kind of a running joke that you had to be there for.  I guess the only things that really excite me these days are "super boring census records" and creepy cemeteries.

Well, as soon as this census came out, I immediately started browsing the Grayson County, VA section of the census to find the CREED family: John Roby, Gladys, Cornelia, Bobby, and Curtis.  No luck.  I searched the entire county and they were nowhere to be found.  Their known friends and relatives were still in Grayson, so why weren't they?  "Where on earth did this family go?" I asked myself.  But I decided to be patient.  Ancestry.com (to the rescue!) was in the process of indexing anyway, so it would only be a matter of time until they completed VA.

And they have. :-)  And I have found the CREED family!  Apparently they moved to Sulphur Springs at some point in the 1930s, most likely due to Gladys' bout with Tuberculosis and subsequent stay at the Catawba Sanatorium.  I think it says something for the love between them that the family moved closer to the sanatorium.  I don't know why exactly, but I didn't expect that.  I sure wish Mr. Roby was still around to talk to about all of this.  I would love to hear his story... and hers... and theirs.

Update:
After looking closer at the census, apparently this is still before Gladys was out of commission with Tuberculosis.  As of the census, she and Roby were both working in the local mill.  Interesting... :-)