It is and please continue it.
It is. I've heard stories of my family similar to this, although lacking much of the tragedy this family experienced. There is another entire side of my family of which I know very little, however. That side immigrated slightly later than this one, but mostly wound up somewhere in Pennsylvania. Germans, they were. I wonder if we have any connections to this family?
What little I know is that my Great-Grandpa Max was the youngest son of his family, and one of the last to move here, in the 1890’s. He was a stonemason, and a hell raiser, partying all over Pennsylvania, according to family legends, with Bob Hope's grandfather. Later they moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where the family had a farm, and he supposedly did the stonework at Ohio Polytechnic. If there is such a college, I haven't been able to find out where, and I was a child when I learned this, and may badly misremember details. I was told he died during the flu pandemic in 1918.
Is this your family, by chance?