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Hi Michelle,
Dates help. Your grandfather could have been born anywhere between 1837 and 1956, oddly enough. If you know when your father was born, you can estimate his mother's birth year by assuming she was between 16 and 46 when he was born. Even a 30-year spread is better than nothing. Your grandfather was probably 0 - 5 years older than your grandmother, but he might have been anywhere from 10 years younger to 40 years older, so you can't get a fix on him as easy.
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
has entries for 8 men named Carl Darrah and three women named Ann Darrah; to of the Anns have middle initial M. None died in WV, no SSN's issued in WV.
If one of the entries is yours, $27 will get you the person's SSN application, which will have his/her birth date, birth place, parents, address and employer at the time. An obituary, death certificate or cemetery record will help too. Obituaries often mention survivors. They sometimes mention siblings who have passed on. They sometimes are wrong, too, but they are a really good source of genealogical information.
If you know when and where your grandparents died, you can look up their obituaries yourself, or write to the library in that area enclosing a small donation and a SASE, or try a post on the appropriate county page here or over at Ancestry. If you post in both places, mention that you are doing so in both posts so that one volunteer doesn't duplicate another's effort.
There are no men named Carl Darrah living in WV in 1930 on the census index I use.
http://www.tedpack.org/begingen.html
has some hints for beginners. You might read the one about good posts and the one about grandfathers.
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