My mom was the oldest, yes. The story we've heard is that he came from a well-to-do family and my grandma definitely did not; it wasn't a long-lived relationship and he gave her money to have an abortion. She did not have the abortion, obviously, and I believe she went back home (a couple of hours away; she'd been working as a maid in the town where he lived) to have the baby. She never saw him again - by his choice, from what we've heard.
Wow! So you have no idea why he left? Was your mom the oldest?
My mom was the oldest, yes. The story we've heard is that he came from a well-to-do family and my grandma definitely did not; it wasn't a long-lived relationship and he gave her money to have an abortion. She did not have the abortion, obviously, and I believe she went back home (a couple of hours away; she'd been working as a maid in the town where he lived) to have the baby. She never saw him again - by his choice, from what we've heard.