The French have a saying, “Plus c’est change, plus c’est le meme chose.” It translates roughly to “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” I think that applies to this story from long ago. It is about Evelyn Adele McCoy, a plucky single mom who went by Della.
Della was a Table Rock girl who gave up the name Purcell when she married the dashing Parker McCoy in 1891. She was 19 years…