Delia is the story of Cordelia Hadom based on family journals, passed down in an unbroken chain over the last One Hundred and Fifty Years.
"Delia" is based on the true and inspiring story of a woman of character who lived her entire life on the same prairie farm in the late 1800's and the first years of the twentieth century.
As described in the book, a family heritage of pioneering country people tempered in the divided neighborhoods of the Civil War was passed to Delia as attributes that surmounted the personal challenges presented by crop failures, World War I, and the Great Depression.
Jeanette Struchen Buys sketches the fading scenes of rural Illinois and the people who created their community of neighbors which formed a treasured bit of sectional U.S. History.