Today many of us use the word “folks” to refer our parents. The term was not always that specific and often in earlier times meant family in a broader sense. When Emmar Osenbaugh mentions writing “my folks” in March of 1918, she’s talking about her family in general–not her parents. They were long dead by 1918.  
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