Generation Curse?

As the saying goes truth is sometimes stranger than fiction but for the stoic matriarch Mrs. Harmond and her family the events which characterize their lives do not come from a horror movie but are a part of their daily reality. In the community they are seen as pariahs as Mrs. Harmonds father had been accused of committing sacrilege by stealing the parsons bull and burning the manse. Everybody said they were cursed from the grandparents to the youngest in the last generation as the strange disappearances uncontrollable juvenile behaviour and horrifying deaths rock the family like an earthquake of great magnitude and leave them cowering beneath a rubble of pain disbelief and near hopelessness.