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![Homestead Shacks over Buffalo Tracks: History of Northeastern Fergus County [Montana] (1)](https://i0.wp.com/www.mtmemory.org/img/placeholder.gif?1735518749 "Homestead Shacks over Buffalo Tracks: History of Northeastern Fergus County [Montana] (1)") | [...]iues and of this community. CI.ARKE AND LUELI..A BELDEN CHRIS AND SENA I.ARSEN Covpn Desrcu By JA[...]Y Honvxe |
| [...]John and Betty Maruska Myrtie Beatty[...]Jim and Joyce Murphy and Family Jerry and Linda Bowser Bea Murray Jim and l,avinni Bowser Agusta Myers Richard and Deb Bowser George Netterberg Gordy and Marcie Brask Artie and B.J- Niemi Gene Brown V.A. "Bud" and Virginia Norskog Ramona Brown John and Billie O'Reilly Bureau of l,and Management Vema Patterson and Family Lillian Bumett[...]Mary Pollard f)an and Rosina Cimrhakl Lillian Poepisil Frank and Marie Cimrhakl Dan and Pat Rindal Roy and Charlotte Coulter David and Paula Rindal Bill and Sharon Davis Glen and Dollie Rindal Bill and Jean DeWes Melvin and Ella Rindal Jim and Rosalie English Olaf Rindal Bob and Kathie Fink Rod and l:sa Rindal Les Fitzgerald Mike and Kathy Shirey and Family Dave and Shannon Gar Joe Siroky Bud and Shirley Grindheim Ken and Clara Siroky Stan and Lu Horachek Mero Siroky Family Jim and Marcie Horyna and Family Roger and Martha Siroky Ray Horyna Ted and Delores Siroky lee and Marcia Iverson Tom and Clara Siroky Kay Jackson Gary and Jolene Smith Karen Johnson[...]Muma Southworth larry and Helen Jordan Elizabeth Stepans David and Marilyn Kalina Ed and Mildred Styer Don and Charlotte Kalina Ted and Judy Thompson larry and Sue Kalina and Family Lucill[...]Agnes Wells Joe and Marjorie King Albert and Betty Westburg Wanda Emery Kolstad Sonny and Noma Wiengardt Dean and bnda Komarek and Familj Mr. and Mrs. Don Williams Joe "Speed" and Je88ie Komarek Wanen and llla Willmore Jenny Link[...]lnis Woodard and Family Monte and Donna Lund[...]Ernest and Marie Zahn[...]Bauman Charles and Ethel Lelek F'ergus County Credit Union of Lewist[...]nal Bank of Lewistown Jim and Adelphia Naylor Roy Community Fair Booth Marcie and Jim Horyna[...]Ed and Mickey Styer George and EDee Komarek[...] |
| [...]Each proceeded to build a life Told to us and our children[...]s not as easy as it seerns. Who preceded you and mq Tremendous herds of sheep and cottle Many came from oppressed lands[...]n usith prairie dogs Freedom is here for you and rne.[...]urrow in the louely uirgin In place of grass and sagebrush[...]ose hardy pioneers Tremendous herds of sheep and cattle[...]Tales of their hardships and their ioys Sagebruslt and rocks rnust be cleared away[...]and p Ruth Siroky is the widow ofJim Siroky who[...]via in 1913 at a-ge four, with his four aiet€r8 and brothem itd.;;d 1ft. J;h; Siroky Sr. They ho[...]oy, Montana where they experienced many hardabipe and adventures. |
| [...]l mention. A special thanks to our patient and fearless leader, Illa Willmore. The secretary- treasurer, Jessie Komarek, spent hours keeping the records and finances straight. The research team was Marie Zahn, Ella Rindal, and Donna Lund. They donated a lot of time and effort. The members of the committee are Bill Dav[...]y Horyna, Lucille Umstead, Warren Willmore, Roy and Charlotte Coulter, Dick Kalina and Speed Komarek. They helped in many ways.[...]ur pioneer residents for their memories of people and places: Winnie Rife, Harold Bauman, Marcy and Jim Horyna, Frank and Murna Southworth. Frank and Marie Cimrhakl, Steve Gilpatrick and Ernest Zahn. Thanks to those who helped by proofreading, filing, indexing and in numerous other ways: Sue Kalina, Charlotte K[...]rek, Pixie Zieski, Vicki Willmore, Sue Willmore and Barb Kalal. Thanks to the Roy School and B. J. Niemi, A special thanks to the students w[...]computer work; Misty Will*or., Roxie Willmore, and Kathy Kalina for proof reading, frling and indexing; Jamie Strunk Kananen for art work. Th[...]e a great help. Thanks to Mary Ann Quiring and Rachael Eide for their help and advice. Thanks for photos and information above the call of duty: Carley Graham[...]ine Tully McNeil, Helen Hanson Hartman, Don Hardy and Dodie Rife. Thanks to all the people who helped by writing stories and writing letters. Thanks for art work to Illa Willmore and Marie Zahn.Thanks to Monte Lund for donating a sc[...]like to thank our families for putting up with us and encouraging us. Many time the housework didn't g[...]all the countless others, who donated time, money and knowledge and sent in material for usage in this book. This bo[...]one has to remember that everyone can see, hear, and teli the same story in different ways, The reade[...]this reason. We cannot verify the exact accuracy and details of stories or dates but they are as close[...]ble. We will continue to gather information and it will be on file for anyone who wishes to use i[...]e were able to include in this book. We had poems and maps and information that had to be cut to fit the[...] |
| [...].. IDO Steamboat and Woodhawk[...]."..275 How - When and Why of Homesteading C[...]Eariy History of Roy Cemetery Homesteading and Homesteaders[...]Servicemen and Missiles In and Under the Prairie Skies[...]Service men and women Valentine[...]Rockford Railroad Line Bits and Pieces ............. ......[...]Dirt Moving Now and Then Ado of Cow Punching[...] |
| [...]to have Mary Pollard who had access to newspapers and data at the library and copied mirads of material for us. Marie Zahn, who was born and raised in this country, knew many people and had kept track of many and had clipped articles from magazines and papers of anything about anyone from this area. S[...]full of items, including old letters, post cards and clippings. This has been invaluable. To begin with three families met and talked about doing a history. They started a list[...]books were great at giving us all kinds of advice and ideas. We organized a history group wiih officers and a set of by-Iaws. It does help to have people sup[...]people didn't feel able to do the actual research and writing but were invaluable in identi- fying photos, remembering people, places and events, in contacting other people for information and in helping to sponsor raffles, pre-book sales, donations, a dance, the saie of special pens, paper and envelopes and in memorials. Ideally on a project such as this there should be one group of people doing the research and writing and another group dealing with finances. However we d[...]we had addresses for along with a geneology form and a request for addresses of anyone else. Response[...]the hours of interviewing people, verifying facts and correcting dates, names and events. Some people sent complete stories while others sent facts and someone had to rewrite them in story form. Marie Zahn did hours of research at the library and courthouse; Frank Cimrhakl also did much research[...]king on the book. There was a book naming contest and a book cover designing contest. We gave a talk at[...]. We talked to many printers around Montana, and in other states, in an effort to put out a qualit[...]to make before printing can begin, such as: type and color of cover, kind of paper, size and style of type, overall design, number of copies to order and much more. Many people have helped in many ways and they are mentioned elsewhere in this book. There were hours of typing and reams of paper used, as well as file folders and lots of postage. There is a great deal of wo[...]n three vears shows the dedication of the workers and members of the committee. |
| [...]Were out for hides and skin. Summer has its heat[...]Sent back for their hin. ,And Winter has its cold. People haue thei[...]And started out to raid. But I also haue[...]Then there were rustlers And the ground be deep in snow,[...]They stole horses and cattle You could euer want to kn[...]Of euery brond and breed. Like euery other state[...]ew men weor their neckties; Lewis and Clark come thru Some prefer o bandona; And from that April day[...]- It grew ond grew and grew. My sto[...]I. Willmore The area surrounding Black Butte, and the north- phere, distances can be deceiving and the Little Rocky |
| [...]of the fan-tail deer which became extinct *,ith and cactus. On wet years it can be a sea of yelk_rw[...]lilies, with their around 50 pounds and had small compact antlers. fragile white-pink bl[...]this tiny deer. wild roses, sunflowers and dozens of other wild flowers Whii[...]anged, the river ali dot the landscape with color and fragrance in their channel has chang[...]te- the river is noq' river channel and new bcttomlands lope mingle with cattle. Prairie[...]with new growth have built up on the south side, and throughout the plains. The yip and wail of the coyote visa versa. The[...]resulting from the Ft. Peck can be heard morning and evening and mirades of dam is slowing do[...]Buffalo hunters, trappers and earlyr settlers, and (especially the fox which have become numerous in[...]recent years) a busy highrvay, plus easier access and a but depleted wildlife. WWII was a[...]were good years with very little hunting done and game once numerous sage grouse, ihat old timers tell about increased and moved into nell' areas. Elk, deer and "flying over in bunches by the thousands." Rattle[...]ent. and favor the fresh artesian water. over reservoirs.[...], piains are broken up by rocks, hidden washouts and drum, northern pike, sturgeon, sa[...]creature, with no true bone development and a long covered with juniper, ponderosa pine and some frr. This paddle-like nose that e[...]die is used to stir the mud at the bottom browse and protection for wildlife and cattle, and in the of the river in search for food. It averages about 40 early days provided logs for homes and firex,ood for pounds in weight but can exceed 140 pounds. Portions homesteaders and steamboats, and posts to build fences. of the fish are[...]lbs. of choice caviar. willows, wild fruit trees and bushes of chokecherry, Hunting, frshing, boating and floating the river are service berries (June berr[...]all prime drawing cards for visitors and natives alike. berries and currants. In and near the mountains are By the[...]had become a major transpor- poplar, birch, pine and fir trees. tatio[...]sed formations. The gray colored Judith formation and the to carry supplies to the mining camps, and gold and darker Bear Paw shale. Slides are common in the f[...]highway was formed from decomposing volcanic ash and is 191, east to Valentine is rich with fossils and pieces of composed largeiy of clay particles.[...]s unearthed in the breaks date back 80 mii- away) and moved southward. The present channel was[...]discovered thousands of is prime wiidlife habitat and hunting is a major recrea- teeth and bone fragments. tion ofthe area.[...]urs Iarge fertiie lands once grew tons of alfalfa and seed in the area between highway 191 and Wiider in the and other produce. Much of the land that once[...] |
| [...]s of bac- range area of 50 to i00 miles and the brandings and F ulites; strange creatures that lived i[...]the highest prices on buffalo rock by the Indians and were carried as a good the Chicago market.[...], salamanders, turtles, crocodiles, snails, clams and birds built for a line camp, that several hom[...]as his hunting grounds. From it, in its and Stuart[...]season, came his food supply, his clothing supply and 5,000 head of longhorns into Central Mont[...]Anderson Ranch was originally settled by Reese And- of white man who took from him his way of life,[...]877 that James Fergus came in with cattle and settled on Chief Joseph led his people, the Nez P[...]n desperate flight for freedom. They came through and the original properties established by H.P. (Governor) around by the Judith Mountains and Black Butte and Brooks of Helena. The ranch was developed into one of passed near the present site of Roy and went on to the the finest stock ranges in[...]n 1889, Cow Island crossing on the Missouri River and headed the property and all the cattle were purchased by Oscar north for[...]tured prominently in the early his- Arrow heads and teepee rings, for the lucky hunter, tory[...]d surrounding Roy. can be found near the old camp and buffalo kill sites all In 1883 the number o[...]o inhabited this region were mainly the and built up a sizeable sheep herd on Box Elder. Osca[...]rs), Crows, Chippewas Barn Ranch now owned and operated by Gary and -a tough and the half-breed Metis. It is reported that as earl[...]February of 1884 it was reported that the 1830's and 1840's the Metis were hired as guides for th[...]Oregon the trappers. The Metis are of Cree Indian and French previous fall were all fat and would yield 8 lbs. of wool ancestry. They came he[...]responsi- Wm. Fergus on Box Elder, Chandler and Chamberlain ble for the heritage of our area. The families of the of the Cone Butte area and W. H. Peck were all reported Doneys, LaFountains, LaRocques and Gardipees came to have sizeable flock[...]olgtowers at this time. These families settled in and near Roy organization was formed in the[...]rn cattle to fatten on the hard grasses that grow and cure in eastern Montana. This grass has feed valu[...]Ranching had its ups and downs, then as now. Cattle until moisture is rece[...]extremely dry and frres burned from the Judith to the builders and the Indians, after the buffalo were gone. The[...]sselshell, blaekening thousands of acres. 1870's and early 80's. These were mostly longhorns,[...]driven over dusty trails from the Texas Panhandle and Fergus County and though their numbers are getting they dominated t[...]fewer as more land is set aside for wildlife and recrea- ups the cattle were trailed to Fallon or Custer or to some tion and plowed up for wheat and government pro- point on the Northern Rail[...] |
| [...]ny Or NonrHeesreRN Fencus Couxry Hereford, Angus and crossbreds dot the range. airplane[...]a Carpenter, Henry Otten, Dick Reed, Herman Otten and BilI Cook. Some of the other |
| [...]patched a French-Cree employee, Archie Amiott and F the spring with Chas. Conrad, I.[...]wers & Brother; A.E. Rogers, Broadwater and most of the Bloods suddenly decided to return to & Pepin Co. and John Goeway for a Boston firm. Daily,[...]5.00 per head these men sat in a row, with pencil and paper, counting from that government. They could not be convinced and inspecting each robe and marking No. 1 and No. 2 that they could earn a better living hunting here. according to color and sofbness of tanning, seeing both November, when the buffalo hides begin to be prime, the fur side and the flesh side of the robe. This took an Kipp sent Eli Guardipee out to huni and Schultz joined entire week to go through the 4,11[...], elk, antelope, wolf, side of the river and after the river ice was frozen solid, beaver, fox and other hides were also sold. I.G. Baker Gardipee hunted the plains on the north side. and Company bought more than 1,000 buffalo tongues The Crees and Riel's Red River mixed bloods were which were smo[...]h. Some thousands of good hunters and their wives good tanners. They were pounds of dried buffalo meat and pemmican went to a hunting hard this[...]ing Rock Agency. and ammunition for the coming war they were plan- T[...]ds they lay claim to. By March Big-Nose George and his gang of horse thieves were the last of the blankets were traded to the Cree and a camped near in the breaks and came to the post for trip was made with saddle horse and sleds to the post at supplies. One of this gang s[...]ufEng upstream he had no control over civil cases and it was in the and from Boston, the fur buyer, John Goeway. He was h[...]w the passing of tons of dried meat and pemmisFn as well as elk, deer, the herds. During the summer Kipp went to Fort Ben- antelope and other skins. ton and brought dowa a big supply of trade goods for[...]trade. The Cree decided the post. Kipp and Schultz boarded the "Helena" and to no longer mingle with the Bloods and Blackfeet and the other men brought the bull teams and horses on the moved down river in the area at the[...]ee the demiee of these animals from set up there, and so Kipp readied about a thousand dol- th[...]Indians needs demanded. lars worth of trade goods and a samp outfit and dis- Goon[...]ed the buffalo horees. Thie was done |
| [...]February 14, 1933 in the and switched hands. He did this several times D emocr[...]number of men are still diggrng coal on the Butte and sure must be heavy." Dad replied that he[...]the coal is being sold in Roy. It is way and that it felt like gold it was so heavy. estim[...]ater I told the story to another since fall and it has meant something worthwhile to[...]bars were stoleh from a mine at Zortman and no supply of coal for the diggrng of it. This[...]ere they went. They could of commercial value and is on a school section, but it not fi[...]ver. The description of the man they figured Roy, and in the Valley View area. took the gold and the man at our house fit" When A mining claim o[...]then in the late 70's a new surge began and the mines at side of Musselshell. He went to town, got a couple of Zortman, Landusky, Kendall and in the Judiths are fellows to join him in a mining venture and they started booming once more. Gold p[...]the back for the mine. Enroute they were attacked and mines in 1988 figured in the mi[...]0 per dav for a miner; $4.00 per day for laborers and timbermen Orl and $2.00 per day for cowboys and sheepherders. Cow- boys made the best miners. The[...]ys the possibility summer, went broke in the fall and had to go to work in of oil beneath t[...]Several test wells have been dug. Most have pasts and were rough characters. been capped and the rigs are pulled up and gone before A story told by a rancher living in[...]aura of mystery and speculation as to what they found. In the wint[...]a small leather case. He asked to and lease the oil rights for a few years from local l[...]by Dolores Rife Records show that gold and silver and other minerals Bamboo Dick Gies will commence work in earnest on the |
| [...]'4t Amalgam Hoppy and and Porphritic Jim Mitchell are sinking on the Bi[...]and Bernard Neisigh has two glnims. An effort will be Graball Charlie Wiliiams and Givea-dam Tom Burk are made[...]Silver Crescent. They think they and it is thougbt that by the judicioue use of a litt[...]ens is drifiing on the lead. He has about one and one halffeet of$35 ore. Charlie will not[...]g on a small vein of ore in May 1881 and has eome valuable prospects in the Cone the Bertha. It runs $175 in gold and silver. He is sacking Butte distri[...]he past week taking preii- inches of$180 ore and three and one halffeet of$15 ore. minary[...]ny. The object of the com- He is about 80 fi. and within 10 feet of the lead. He expects[...]about 10 days. and Golden Jack No. 2. Hurricane Craig Coughty and Hard Rock George F[...]t eeven feet of$27 ore. Butte district and known as "The Bull of the Woods" From a Decembe[...]al paper it caught fire and destroyed the building contnining t}1s[...]and bad only three more feet to sirk before croescutt[...]this geason of the year. Cave" lode, and is owned jointly by Richard and Vincent Gies. There are three tunaels on the[...]ore The ore assays from $12 to $26 in silver and about 70 per deposits that are being mine[...]firet gold to be recovered in the Judith and North Moccasin of the month to Newark, New Je[...]za." Problems between environmentalists and industries From the nee/spaper "Great Falle L€ader" they wrote: and labor and management have made it diffrcult to "The Con[...]nes but it is hopeful that well-managed, tion and will ehow up well in the future. Among those environmentally-aware and community-minded mining interested in the disfrict is Vincent Giee and hie clains operations can be developed. Mining will take a big join the M.K. on the west and joins the Voltaire. (At thig[...]Haneen has a claim next to the Voltair. Oecar and[...]feet, with 425 pounds of pressure team of horses and a big steel water tank mounted on a coming out of the well. It wae caeed and is still being wagon while they were drilling.[...]used in all Bob Landru's buildings and Doug Landru's Henry Edwards used one of two wells not plugged. It houee and shop.[...] |
| [...]ing to Asa Samples to market at Omaha, tween 1819 and after the disappearance of the paddle- Neb[...]ic after 1900; of these, some 300 were and Daniel Maratta of the Fontanelle, one of the fastest destroyed in service and left their bones in the river, boats on the[...]ed rivermen. their hulls, reefs, sandbars and some were the result of The treacherous nat[...]ain fire by her rowdy crew in a drinking session; and when Abe Wolf, went hopelessly aground at P[...]Fort Benton, rescued the passengers and freight, sal- With the gold strikes in 1863, Captain Joseph vaged the machinery and returned to Fort Benton LaBarge went into opposit[...]unfortunate vessel's equipment was sold. Company and his firm of LaBarge, Harkness and The beautiful Grand Union Hotel,[...]or the November 1882 by Stephen Sptizley and company. It gold fields. The "Emilie" and "Shreveport", LaBarge was built on the w[...]evee, a three stgry boats, with 400 tons of cargo and 300 passengers, the brick structure, made from 500,000 red and yellow first wave of emigrants which came to sett[...]was the American Fur Company steamers, "Key West" and most luxurious hotel in the West and catered to river "Spread Eagle", beating them by three days. and overland travelers, supplying the fineries of East- The T. C. Power and I. G. Baker businesses in Fort ern civiliz[...]e cen- Road to Walla Walla;the road to Helena and other gold ter, their symbol, was made clearly vi[...]). The The Whoop-Up Trail led to Canada and Fort Mcleod, Coulson & Peck Line, called the Miss[...]merce carried over this route to the tion Company and the Kountz Line were stiff competi- north[...]nded his business to carry overland Paul and North Dakota through northern Montana freight and passengers and was known as Benton and was another imporiant overland trail. Transportat[...]red by them to pilot their avenue oftravel and transportation from the East and pride steamer, "The Helena". Power had become the owner of several more steamboats and thus was able to underbid the Coulson Line with t[...]60 to 65 days. The average fare was 9150 in 1867 and some 1,500 persons reached Montana in these vesse[...]out 1875. The boots brought in troppers, ntiners, and the WYOMING which was 265 feet long, the larg- soldiers and supplies. |
| [...]hundred or so miles to the via the Bozeman trail and north from Casper. Some placer mines. Shipments of gold, furs and hides, wool came from the Pacifrc Coast, but to be sure, most of the and livestock, passengers, the military people as well miners and their supplies came up this river route and as mail went down the river to the Eastern[...]RAcED Missouri pilots were a hot-blooded breed and engaged narrow chute to port-side, in hope[...]would make the short cut passable. contracts and while mostly on a friendly basis, some[...]head of Emilie was navagable. Rather than let her and passengers lives. take the lead, he threw the wheel over and ro-med Twenty-nine-year-old Samuel Hauser, pros[...]s June 6, 1862, ihis race began as the "Emilie" and the so enraged that he let go the wheel and snatched his "Spread Eagle" left Ft. Berthold heading for Ft. Ben- gun and would have shot Spread Eagle's pilot had not ton.[...]quaking boat passed the Spread sengers and crews exchanged threats and curses. For- Eagle. (There was poor regulation of steam power and tunately, the two boats separated on the[...]the danger.) With as related by Hauser, and f,milig's engineer turned on much applause from t[...]the last pound of steam, causing her to glide by and new head of steam and charged to the lead. Emilie's Emilie re[...]ilot encouraged his engineer to put on more power and ahead of her rival. This race proved the fleetness of soon she drew abreast and they held this pace for more Emilie and earned her owner a big share of the river than an[...]SreAMeoar AND WooD Hawrs[...]overnment was still the root portion and let them float down river. Now, spending money to[...]in 1914. It raised the cottonwood power and many of the old timers I knew cut pitch pine tree[...]led "wood hawks". THo Nalans AND LncnNos Or Laxorraams. Thans AND STREAMS[...]n- |
| [...]t the ranch. The bear Bear River (Marias) and the other name was "Dried was in some timber and was eating berries. Bob tied Meat River." his horse to a tree and slipped up close so he could Rottlesnake Bu[...]t him, - South of Roy and slightly west of[...]Saddle Butte the log and clawed Bob who pulled out his .45 pistol[...]between the river and Roy on the east side of the and stuck it in the bear's mouth and fired one shot[...]many miles in all directions. over the log and stood over him. He crawled out from under the bear and got to his horse, and rode to Gilt Whisker Coulee[...]e where a'red-light'wornan bandaged his wounds and took care of hin. There were no doctors or[...]e had been in a Musselshell River and the trail wound its way fight with some Indian[...]k where this hap through Valentine and over the Judiths to the ranch pened was named[...]that the creek ran red with it. The and half stone is still standing. other is that at[...]s the site of big buffalo CoaI HilI kills and again the creek ran red with blood.[...]- country north of Roy, between Wilder and Sand Creek. Cottonwood Crossing[...]s there was a house on it that would mirage and look just like a grain elevator from a[...]hole in the creek and cut many of them down. The Ford Creek - is suppos[...]was crossing. It is marked with rock and cactus,[...]- It sets near the old 79 Ttail and ness. A preachers son, a bank cashi[...]om a distance. Indion Butte An old Indian lookout and campground returning board are a[...]he hunting party out Missouri River ice jam and flood of 1947 was home of[...]of its entangling meshes and then all were a trifle the fan-tail deer.[...]ed when camp was made. No more Crooked King Troil and King Islond - The north road out of[...]top of the Missouri river hill more or Roy and flows eastward to the Musselshell River. On[...]a study made by a 'history through the breaks and down to King Island. student'in an eastern state, Lewis and Clark named Little Rochies - The Indian name was[...]ever, to natives and old timers it's still Crooked thev called the Musselshell. One was "On The Far ^ Creek and to local students of hietory data, the |
| [...]11 description Lewis and Clark gave of Sacajawea Drag Creek Th[...]nued October 90, 188?. |
| [...]es warmer than on top; another reason why teacher and some of his students measured the temper'[...]never stays long. ature of the Butte at one time and discovered that not There are seve[...]erature was gev- One is that Lewis and Clark, on their expedition,[...]burned off before Lewis and Clark came. Never-the.less[...]are hanging low and blowing around the Judiths; they[...]dissipate when they reach the pass between them and Block Butte, os seen from the south. the Butte and leave Black Butte standing all alone.[...]when asked to pay up, he pulled a gun and tried to kill between Rocky Point and Fort Maginnis. In the 1880's the winner. Jim stepped in and ordered the man to lay Rocky Point and Wilder were associated with Fort down his gun and leave the premises, but instead he Maginnis and the telegraph line between these two[...]up the Missouri River on the headed and a good shot he fired once and killed the[...]ransferred to freight wagon trains pulled by oxen and horses, bound for the Fort, Maiden The shanger canried no identification and no one and Gilt Edge.[...]on. No Carroll Trail to Cone Butte, turning south and heading charges were made against Atk[...]f going around the Judith he closed and abandoned the Mountain House. He went Mountains.[...]the lower Yellowstone valley where he worked as a and scenic. packer and helper at the Burns Trading Post. In 1883 A roa[...]ntain House" was Jim Atkinson and Millie Burns were married and they located near the summit on the Gilt Edge sid[...]o homestead at the present crude saloon was owned and run by Jim Atkinson, site of R[...]ie where tired Box Elder Creek and juet below where the present Roy wagon masters and their crews, miiitary scouts, pros- Stockyards are located. There was a good spring of pectors and trail-weary cowboys stopped to wet their[...]Jimmie was employed hauling government freight and operated only a short time due to a tragedy. from Fort Benton to Fort Maginnis and supplies to the A killing took place over a pok[...]ctim McNamara store at Fort Maginnis and the mining being a stranger who rode up and sat in on the game. town of Maiden[...]At first he was winning, but began losing heavily and |
| [...]ly, wild frontier. It's oll weather-beaten and gray It was once someone's only home, For as cowboys and, the lonely riders Always could find peace and quiet there. But now it's all alone and empty Indians, coyotes and bull snokes As the wind blows in fresh air.[...]. Its roof is all dry as proirie dirt And the walls are all bore.[...]All shaggy, weather-beaten and gray. In fact it's a great synbol[...]by Margaret Hedman When and why the homesteaders came to this[...]Visiting and restful socializing usually began the |
| [...]upon it for five years, cultivate a portion of it and within four years. A fee of 254 for each acre o[...]ble; file a map of the Because there was easier and more tillable land to the area showing the irrigation plans and source of water east of Montana where danger from[...]TN'{SBN AND STONE I,ETqOS from the land aliowed each year.[...]e-emption land law of the United States was years and who was a eitizen of the United States or had[...]d filed a deciaration of intention to become one, and who public land prior to 1891 could prove up[...]ebellion' for at least three of the homestead act and that the entry was for his months provided he filed on less than 150 acres prior to exciusive use and benefit; settlement and cultivation. June22,1874. He could enter or sell enough to make the He had to pay legal fees and commissions as follows: 160 acres. He cou[...]Coer LeNo Iand and live there and cultivate it for five years con- Such land[...]or within two years afterward, proof of residence and cultivation had to be established by four witness[...]l the expiration of five years from date of entry and had to be made within seven years. The government[...]tract, if he so desired, by paying for it in cash and making proof of settlement, residence and cultivation for that period. The law allowed only[...]Desenr Ci-etiu All lands exclusive of timber and mineral lands which would not, without irr[...] |
| [...]ed to be homesteaded. There was the United States and the State of Montana for a fee of considera[...]next few years and land and mine values were expected Each of the above men[...]HounsrneDrNc AND Hounsrneonns[...]er the disasterous winter of 1886-87, the drouths and century, peaking in 1917-18. Homesteaders usually[...]steaders began to They rented out farms back east and came west seeking fence with barbed wire[...]t, for the most part, where these sorts and some corrals and fence "his" land. These people came from the owne[...]people couldn't even make a down pay- and homesteaders. These people were essentially ment[...]cattle Inspired by the Enlarged Homestead Act and by dry- and sheep men. land propaganda spread by the railroad[...]a system by which part of the the mid-west, east and south. land was planted and the remaining land was allowed The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and GreatNorth- to lie idle or "fallow". By plowing deep and harrowing ern Railroads were spreading the g[...]at the proper times no plant growth was permitted and abundant harvests produced from these fertile lan[...]ce. The following year the fallow land was seeded and lands to sell too; lands that the government had[...]l was plentiful in the decade that followed crops and livestock and who would use the rails to ship 1909. Crops and prices were good. These were the their commoditie[...]Montana men enlisted by the thousands and went off The countryside began to become dotte[...]r in 1917. Montana sent 25% more men stead shacks and trails became roads as more and more per capita than the nation did as a[...]ndane, recorded in Central Montana and there were no crops. Byford, Christensen, Dory, J[...]y. pair, hardship and failure. The early homesteaders had The newcomers built shacks and began to plow under no idea of what they would be up against and most pulled up stakes and left the native grass. The homestead rush began s[...]great depression of the 30's and more drouth. Wheat in less than 20 years an immense grassland in Central and Eastern Montana, over 500 miles long and 300 harvests averaged only 2.4 bush[...]raged 50 bushels. Prices tumbled on top plowed up and was producing some of the lushest crops of that. Then came hordes of grasshoppers and cut- ever seen.[...]alo. the "Great misery. People starved out and the exodus accelerated. American Desert" became a[...]ble. they merely used it. Cattle became localized and herds Over half of the farmers lost th[...]n in their own territory. Even bankruptcy and abandonment. Half of the states banks |
| [...]a steaders with only a milk cow or two, and back to large popuiation decline in the 1920's.[...]n the late 30's things began to get better again, and farms a couple thousand acres and runs at least a cou- with the outbreak of WWII a[...]an, turning over a hundred acres a day. Union Oil and Hardware Company, two grain eleva-[...]the early days, might sell out for a tors, a cafe and hotel, a garage, two bars, postoffice, few hundred dollars, if lucky. Today? liquor store, school and train service. Fergus had an limit.[...]- the sky's the elevator, store, postoffice and school. Many of the area's farmers and ranchers of today are Today Roy has three businesses, a post office and the the children, grandchildren and even great grandchild- school. Fergus has nothing but a seldom used commun- ren of the men and women who made it through the ity hall and at Valentine there is only the skeleton of[...]es now zards, weeds, depressions and sometimes cruelly low transport children to schoo[...]prices they get for their wheat and beef. They are made The population continues to decline and the ranch of the "tough" stuff that[...]a I was to become well acquainted And here we were in Montana, a place where what with-[...]eattle, settled The ground was bare, and cold prevailed. Remember, in Fergus County around[...]n LaConner, Washington when trees and there I found the tools of my new trade; a th[...]dly. It was bad news. Uncle bucksaw and an axe. Jack had died.[...]Then That nighi it was decided that my mother and I, then boom! I hit something! It was a[...]There I was with no telephone, no transportation and I didn't have a license, but I was going to be[...]ana encountered on the trip. It was foggy, snowy, and icy seemed to be paired together for[...]in any What an adventure for a grandma, mother and son! direction. Greenhorns ali. We[...]gh it; thought John, his wife Roxy, and two year old son, Billy, pro- we could come and go as we pleased. Little did we know v[...]My next problem was how to get to Roy, or Lewis- and shoes that a kid would wear in the Northwe[...] |
| [...]T7 coming from the river to town, one day, and that I could take a nap, which puzzled rrie[...]someone did show. I spotted a car headed our way, and lying down, as we had been. L)thers were[...]r said his name was Joe Bell. got our deer, and drove right to them. How convenient |
| [...]Wass's Store. I was hungry for fresh fruit and stuffed from Roy out the Little Crooked route, another five my waist with apples and oranges, keeping theur in miles beyond. So I mad[...]for the Jensens, IJmsteads, Hemsings, Cornwalls, and McNultys, brought no news frequent ra[...]was time to but I was happy to have the activity and contact with rest ourselves and our horses, we stopped at Curiey Wil- the nonworl[...]lmore's place, and it was there I discovered to my great Along th[...]s great. The McNulty Ranch had feed for and oranges. I was very disappointed, but everyone got cattle and a rare stock of supplies. I made pack trips to[...]tle on bare, unshel- place on the King Ttail and I took off to the Jensen tered ground was that a poor cow could freeze and Ranch, on Sand Creek, by way of the J[...]d off the mail. I then that the cow could be shot and dragged out if it were to stayed an extra da[...]til dark. I had been five days on the trail. Mom and Umsteads were, along with many others. and grandma were upset because they'd had no word of[...]elve weeks, at it, but it broke my grasp and its tail feathers broke off. least, was minus -20[...]onth of these conditions our supply situa- and down like a roller coaster. tion looked pretty grim. We needed food, firewood and I was to make my long trail ride twice more that kerosene for lighting. And there was no sign of a let-up. winter, the la[...]that day Ralph Jensen, Jess Woodcock flour, bacon and canned milk. and I set about to work. Suddenly a warm wind cropped[...]d up. The three of us looked at each other and howled in like springtime. The morning Al and I left the ranch it unison. The eagerly aw[...]fter a brief spring break, the reservoirs filled, and holding their noses inside our jackets to thaw the huge the cattle, horses and wildlife finally had plenty of ice balls on their[...]at or drink. John Umstead, Al Snook and I cut eight inch thick Somehow we made it to Roy, arrivng between 7 and 8 ice blocks from the reservoir, fillin[...]able to begin settling the cattle and estate business, In town we rousted out the fel[...]. It is difficult to describe the power of 40 MPH and the smell of the animals.[...]d in one's memory. For some folks to cook for us, and gave each ofus a cot and example, the McNultys filled their ice hous[...]ice between 30 and 36 inches thick. That was ouite The live[...] |
| [...]e to the stockyards in Roy. Both cattle and horses were Northern Lights. They were so brilliant and powerful frequently bunched together at th[...]dragging down a weak bog lines to ride, and fences to tend. I once spent a long deer out[...]ltys, putting up morning to find bits of hide and a scattering of bones a drift fence to keep[...]dried up water holes. and checking coyote trap sets, using dead or dying de[...]s environment is you must skin the animal and water. cleanly and stretch the hide to be suitable for market[...]ear a low, powerful howl amid the miles away, and had calved. We were asked to come yapping, giggling coyote sounds. That, of course, was and pick up our stock since water there was growing[...]Since my horse and I were very thirsty I asked for a Spring o[...]to summer in Fergus County, Montana. And this day one of those words was "nope". He Th[...]n the prairie. pointed to the alkali buildup and went into his dugout. Less than a week later[...]rown, He returned with a can of tomatoes and my drink of a and would remain so the rest of the year.[...]o help us check the condi- By late August and early September nearly all the tion and number of our 4H brand cattle that survived[...]20's, came to live with us. He knew the country. And he nearly 500 head from the north shore of t[...]ail boss was Larry Jakes had much patience and put up with me, this Jordan, whom I met[...]very drive for about cattle, horses, people, and patience. Jakes also Warren Willmore and me, so you know it wasn't some- taught me to[...]ng cattle (4H) were gathered by myself, ) of it and amuse myself to this day with the loop. Frank Jakes, Johnny and Elna Wright and Tommy We rode the country from the river, south, a number and Jenny Link. Tommy tore off a finger roping one of miles to Armells Creek and along the various ornery critter. Bu[...]to L,ewistown to get me the sign to sit tight and watch. Soon after an sewn up. The next[...]a hot three day drive to the Roy stockyards. and a running iron on his saddle. Frank corrected the[...]inter stockyards that year; the best cow and calf pair drew and others took quite a toll on the cattle.[...] |
| [...]Rv Or NonrHresrtnN Frncus CouNrv days to Seattle and one day more on to Skagii County. I When[...]Federal regulations at that time were to water and outdistanced the calendar. My school re[...]ommetcial travelers", The world was hot and dry that year. I didn't see a |
| [...]uddled, awaiting their fate. Fortunately the Peck and go up the Missouri River to Ft. Hawley, a decision was to terrify them with threats and set North West Fur post with a stockade. Hawley w[...]hree starving days to was built by Billv Cochrane and noted pioneer men reach Ft. Howie. Rusc[...]ts Boyd reaching Helena on November 2. and Bradburry, Henry McDonald, and Wm. Bent. . March 12, 1868, Huntle[...]ail The pony Express riders would cross the river and service between Abercrombie and Helena had been travel toward Black Butte, skirti[...]d all departed from Hawley Mountains on the north and west, going through the and agent Bradbury was g:iven orders to close-up Judi[...]y of Judith Gap to Ft. Howie, affairs and return to Helena. Bradbury, with Harry Diamond City, and in to Helena, this being much the McDonald, F.M. (Pomp) Dennis, Harvey Martin, shortest and most pleasant route with an abundance and "Seven-Up" left April 5, 1868. At a point eight o[...]an at Ft. Buford reported of arrows and bullets for several hours, having three much trou[...]severe winter of 1867-68, with violent blizzards and short distance, and at nightfall, returned with in- deep snow across[...]ark they started two fi.res some Henry McDonald and Wm. Bent had been wolfing distance apart and crept in the shadows between the on the Milk River and answered a call for men to get fires with terrifying yells and volleys of arrows and the mail moving at Hawley, which had also been[...]they managed to slip away in the darkness and a party of five, they left Hawley with two ponies[...]e starting place, loaded with eight sacks of mail and reached Helena, where they camped. Again,[...]orded in the could not be found afterwards and it was supposed area of Black Butte. Fred Rutschmann and a com- that he had been captured and killed. The rest ofthe panion rider left Hawley o[...]party reached Musselshell City the next day, and four sacks of maii bound for Helena. Near Black[...]d by the time the Northern Pacific their clothing and proceeded to rip open the mail railroad[...]contents to the wind. The cap- Ruffee and the Huntleys nevertheless played a |
| [...]ed in each dif- ing coid, blinding blizzards and risked the animosi. ferent area with th[...]il on the east-bound Romunstad ranch and on along the road to the mouth of train found a package of letters, so old and musty, it the Musselshell. Tbe stage ran d[...]ention of Mr. Werich, distributing Roy and less frequently, beyond. Railroad construction the mail. Stained and stuck together with blood, reached Hilger in November of 1911 and began carrying postmarked Helena, Montana, Se[...]Edna C. Pierce P.M. been a Pony Express rider and had a dug-out in the hill to the west and across the creek, also a little 1917-18 Bu[...]tenseu P.M. North Dakota in the early eighties and he settled at 1903{5 Delos - Near Two[...]th of Roy on Rocky Point Trail. completed in 1882 and placed in operation on July 28 of[...]Agnes Lindshom, store. from Ft. Buford to Poplar and the third from Poplar to[...]Marshall, Teena Hansen (assistant) and Sadie From Fort Hawley, where it crossed the r[...]Baker P.M.'s. route went up the river hill and followed the ridge to the 190t08 Mauland[...]Mathews, Billy Trimble, Sam and Don Connolly, junction the line continued on to F[...]a Webb; 193&36, for the theft of wire, insulators and an occasional pole Stanley Wright;[...]Bill Marsh; 1952-72 Pat O'Rcilly; appropriations and the extension wa8 never built.[...] |
| [...]serving area A new structure was built and relocated on the residents from 1892 to 1988 - a[...]rs. southwest corner of Second Avenue and Main Street, Walter H. Peck came to Montana from the east in and on fuug.22,1974 the post offrce moved into the new 1881 and went into the sheep business on Box Elder[...]he present location of the Dorm Jackson and mail is delivered by mail truck, six days a week[...]Fort Maginnis, out of the Roy Post Of6ce, and the others receive theirs by stage; semi-weekly.[...]named postmaster. and Paul Pitman is the mail carrier. The Peck ranch was sold to Oscar Stephens and the John O'Reilly is mail carrier for what is known post office was moved to the Smith and Laraway locally as the River Route.[...]el T. Smith became the new between Wilder and Fort Maginnis. During homestead- postmaster, and on November 6, 1902 Ervin W. ing days the route ran between Roy and Wilder. The Laraway took his place until the Smith and Laraway last patrons to receive their m[...]tinued in 1987, except for the mile from 2, 1907, and the office was moved to his ranch at the h[...]Black Butte and on the west side to the old Guy Town- On Oct[...]send place (Jack Ritts now lives there) and back to Roy. and the post office was moved two blocks south of Joe[...]site. Roy to Hilger and mail is delivered to those who have Frederick A[...]along the highway, by George Vaughn Jr. who 1915, and he held this post for four years. Mail was now carries the mail from Lewistown to Winifred and Roy coming in by railroad. and back again. William L. Marsh took over the job[...]Although the post office "Roy" was established in and was postmaster for 27 years. Mrs. Marsh was his[...]h of the town cachet where the Roy Bar now stands and remained there envelopes with a special postmark and design, and until moving to the Security State Bank building. The special stamps, was prepared and were made available Roy Catholic Church took over this building, and the in June of 1988. post office was move[...]s Merc.). In 1946 Marsh reached retirement age; and Simon L. Dotson assumed charge until May 31, 1948[...]This envelope with its homesteader's shack and cancel' of 1973 when Rosalie Y. Fogle English of[...]Webb Zahn in commemoration of Roy's 75th anniver' and assistant for several vears.[...] |
| [...]I'II be Soft white petols which ddnce and flirt Just to get owoy from thot mournful song With euery odd shope and thing on earth That is sung all day and all night long." It gets in the ualleys and rnokes big drifts[...]Setting him gently on her knee And neuer is stotionory, but olways shifts[...]to his weII meant plea. First from the east and then from the west[...]s what some folks do say And neuer again will it you onnoy- Not only whi[...]Il probobly say Dorkening nlan's future and his labors foil. "I wish I coul[...]n around, ond stop its hum. "If I be good and go to bed, One mo[...]nsets with brilliant oranges, rainbow, and the full arch in between. yellows, golds, pinks, fushias, greys and blacks all The lightning on a hot summer night, for those stout intermingled and bold can leave both a "foreigner" and of heart, make 4th of July fireworks d[...]world. These have left across the sky and lighting up the entire countryside an indelible m[...]gination ones that start the frres and can make one's heart leap. and give one an eerie feeling of being in never-never[...]inding. They land. The Northern Lights can'dance' and'play' across leap from ridge to ridge[...]post, from bank to the sky in icy colors of green and blue and silvery white bank. Maybe one gigantic finger reaches out to its point and pink, colors that no Hollywood or Las Vegas light[...]atch. lightning is-and on the prairie far from tall buildinge 'Sundog[...]center to hide behiud, so very close,-and so very humbling. framed in rainbow hues, herald[...]making a firll halo around the sun. the lives and livelihood of all within our borders, is a The[...]articiparits can look as though one can reach out and touch it, and from one to one'hundred. the stars still shine on clear summer and winter nights, |
| [...]the Missouri River rises from the bottom land and[...]n the early years when homesteaders were finding And eat snow it can" It can turn a bitter cold below[...]and falling of distant hills, trees and rocks. A lone bed at night with the temperature[...]esteaders shack, in the distance, would loom up, and severai inches of snow on the ground. About mid-[...]way through the night, the covers are kicked off and farther away, until it faded and upon reality was found dad, or mom, gets up to c[...]by Con Anderson: ing noise awakens the household and upon investiga- tion it is discovered that the sn[...]ne, the "dry" creek is running bank full of water and the M[...]those earlier years, before the air became dusty and temperature is reading 45 above.[...]filled with carbon from gas used in cars and tractors, The Roy area lies in the chinook bei[...]ability to explain. The frrst I saw was in 1911, and from Europe and Souih America they have different names,[...]oy area, but most of them at that time were south and ing bitter cold weather.[...]shack, normally, we could see only The where's and why's of a chinook are not yet fully[...]The landscape east ofus had raised Pacific Ocean and consists of warm air moving east-[...]right up and for a distance of twenty or more miies, was erly.[...]ner than that on the My dad and I were on our way to this homestead and western side. Chinook conditions occur when a pre[...]g up over a hill or rise in elevation in the road and sure situation results in a steady flow of air fr[...]outh built a shack near the road, and lo there it was. It had to and a low to the west, moving across the mountains,[...]we drove further it became smaller and as we reached it, it Just before a chinook occu[...]te rock, about three feet, nearly comes very thin and thawing begins on the mountain[...]main stationary in a particular area, moving back and forth. Frost can form in the warm[...]dley, who came to teach the Indian Butte damp air and when it comes in contact with the still[...]frrst mirage cold ground, ice begins to build up and can make for one winter morning, and it left him speechless. He had very dangerous roa[...]rver Some crisp mornings when the sky is clear and the sees reflections of distant objects, usually inverted and air is sharp, one steps outside and views a landscape often distorted. Wh[...]as a desert or road, rise up in the sky in shapes and forms usually seen only it reflects the[...]ves. watches the shapes change. Some float upward and Whatever-the mirage is a fascinating, unpredict- break off from the main stem and then dissipate. able, mystical and wonderful illusion that few in the Others widen and flatten and before them, the illusion world[...] |
| [...]Lewistown, to the southwest, the color will fade and it will appear as though the sun and Havre, to the north and even Grass Range, to the is rising out of the nor[...]east. Most south, will light up the sky and be visable from our shows occur during the months of March and Spe- area. tember, the equinox mo[...]ow idyllic time of year. The first cold snap and frost, has[...]e's a crisp, pure, tingly feel in the air; a snap and magnetic field which surrounds our glove channels[...]le peculiar only to this time of year. The fields and these electron particles into streams of light wh[...]and silvery sage. The trees have donned their autumn and the further south it can be seen.[...]colors of gold, bronze and red. The sky is a pure blue. South of the equat[...]The smoke lazily rises and drifts down coulees. Birds Aurora Australis.[...]their flight south. The Suxnocs AND RArNBows days are getting shorter and evenings are longer and Sundogs, like rainbows, are caused by moisture in the quieter. Along the river all of these colors and aromas air. Sundogs differ from rainbows in that they are and quiet gentle sounds are contained and reflected formed by ice crystals instead of water[...]thin its channel as it continues its journey east and A sundog is always viewed when looking in the d[...]always viewed It's a very favorite and special time of the year. A when the sun is to th[...]time to take inventory, reflect and to be still. Another phenomenon are halos seen around the moon The weather and the skies and the special pheno- or sun at times. These, too, l[...]e same condition that causes the halo and view that spectacular show going on outside! will[...]ts. It one came up quick on a beautiful sunny day and caught was Sunday and she was home for the weekend. As the so many peop[...]re weather to hit Central ter wherever they could and stayed several days. A lot Montana in the[...]y dnd Mickey left early to of stock drifted under and smothered. take her back[...]out 2:30 p.m. the sky clouded over, the wind blew and Central Montana and a lot of cattle were lost. One it loo[...]on Day! So many people were caught sheds and got the cattle in around the barns. After that, away from home. Cars and buildings were drifted everything[...]10 past 4Lar.y Emery walked in. He, Sandy, Mark and We had a whole two years of blizzardy winters f[...]2, L979, nothing but snow Puckett place and had gone in the ditch, on the hill and one perpetual windy nightmare, both of those[...]After taking our 4-wheel drive and pulling them back But the one storm I'll[...] |
| [...]ver saw anything like At 10 after 5, Roy called and said, "I'm here in Roun- it. Cliffs pickup[...]out on top of the Demo dup ai the Sheriffs office and they won't let us come hill and ihey had walked 3/4 of a mile into the storm home. Roads are closed." So while we were talking the and l/2 mile with it to their backs. Nancy's face was[...]e-cycle hanging from her broke through the clouds and the thunder just boomed chin. Mel and Cliff were wearing caps and insuiated along the ground; kinda like being under a bridge when coveralls; had gloves and were warm and okay. David a iumber wagon rolls over. I tried to explain that to had a cowboy hat, no gloves and a light jacket. His Roy, but he couldn't hear it or understand. He just said hands and ears were frozen white. I ran a sink full of "You[...]ong". warm water and he started to thaw his hands in it. I was just[...]g to find oOt who else was! "You boots off and her feet were badly frozen. We put them in can't believe what I just saw and heard!" a pail of warm water and every time it felt cold to her "Oh yes I can,[...]frozen solid. We finally got it peeled off of her and Davis's and had gotten stuck and tried to walk home wrapped her in hot[...]started across the open land. He had gotten lost and returned shivering. None of them had ea[...]on, so I to the road. He sat down by a fence post and gave up. made soup, fried spuds and ham with plenty of coffee. By the lightning he th[...]The men finally bedded down on the davenports and a camp" about a hundred yards away. He made it there big chair and amazingly went to sleep. and very gratefully sat out the storm with Slim and the Nancy was so miserable I put her in[...]water and turned the bathroom heater on high. She had At[...]tried to dress warmly; had on a warm jacket and heavy had gotten stuck on the corner southwest of our house wool sweater, overalls, wool sox and a pair of her hus- and walked back to Woodards. No one was home and bands worn-out thermal underwear. H[...]ven. They were very throwing bales in them and the front of the legs were wet and cold and were afraid if the power went offthey wor[...]would freeze to death. They were Mel Larson, Dave and The next morning she had blisters the[...]Black Butte hand. I called the doctor and he said there wasn't much Ranch and were trying to get to Roy. I frnally told them[...]tried. from Roy to go, I'd take our 4-wheel drive and show I never want to live through a[...]rning, the sun was shin- She called Cliff Emery and he made it to the Red ing. Jim Murphy[...]hey called at 10 after 7 to say plow. Roy and Mickey came galloping in with my little they were starfing back and would call me when they red Mustang. And so ended another Montana blizzard. got to Roy. I watched and waited. All of the neighbors Roy took[...]ottom, or the pickup sitting 40 feet Nancy and David, but never heard from them again.[...]uggett In the spring of 1984 Carol Sluggett and Frank name. If okay it would be call[...]see if Carol could get a station down at back and said that there had been a station at Valen- |
| [...]CouNrv Faulds then became the weather observer and heid the The year with the[...]day was minus 50 on January 31, |
| [...]"$ Coldest *'inter - Ilrrid and I9?8 q.rth 5; days below zero readings,[...]r with the longest growing season - lg8? with l5i and 1967 - 67 days 90 degrees to 102 degrees.[...]huge culuerts out of highway 191, near Mobridge, and twisted them, like pretzels. The Roy[...] |
| [...]bitten toes and noses. 1908-May and June. A big flood along the Missouri. The 1933, June. Calvin Birdwell and his grandson, Chet Jr., and river ran from hill to hill. Everyone fled to the hills and the horse they were riding, all kille[...]rts that the Bill Baucke ranch on 4" hieh and so dry that engines are setting it afire[...]reported 4 ft. 7 ir. of water in his home. and others from across the river because ofpoor range[...]cake of ice smash into the house and tear a roon off. 1919, August, Valentine. Worse h[...]Olaf Rindal's granary with 500 bushel of wheat and up and battered roofs and windows, killed chickens, oats completely under water, destroyed crops and a truck...hail stones as large as[...]summer supply. 1919. It began in November and was storming yet Mathison[...]with straw and use it for his summer'g supply of ice Great cattle losses...no chinooks...shortage of coal and Mike Machler...3 miles from the riv[...]cracking ice was terrific. 1922-23. The Fritzners and the Sandstroms had a few head[...]feed it to the cows, Ray McNultys and son, John Link and Mr. and Mre.[...]Joe Hopkins ran for the hills and camped out. Had 1923, April. Ed Evers, cattleman[...]taken horses and cattle out the day before and turned north of Roy, reports cattle came th[...]elpe where two men were unharnessing horses and etruck[...]the them. The horses were kiiled instantly and the two[...]he Mieeouri Breaks coun- men, A. M. Stendal and Joe Ferdet, were knocked[...]isolated ranches. Bill Rogers and Bob Kellogg found unconscious for sometime and were unable to walk for[...]entering the barn a horseback, was hit. The horee and[...]n ex-service man rushed across the street and applied[...]rvice artificial resuscitation to the boy and is credited with[...]Jeee Woodcock. o'clock last evening and though unconecious from the[...]ments is recovering, but com- and snow in the area'g history began to break up.[...]breaka country north of Porter Strausburg and Frank were both working in the[...]at had been isolated by deep drifts. field and when it started storming left the field and ...Quote from Argus Farmer "But to aak anyone what started for the barn and while unhitching the team at[...]their loesee were ie not considered manners, and the the barn door the bolt oflightning struck and killed one[...]ou of the horses, knocked another one down and at the should eee their neig[...]o....Road to Irwis- dition but on his feet and as quickly ae possible brought[...] |
| [...]an November 19th. We shortage, starvation and cold. hauled hay ov[...]48" deep to get over there, so got Laddie and went and brought of moisture. 8 foot ofsnow in pla[...],ewistown was December L4,L977, buildings and cattle. Sheds coilapse, corrals level full. wh[...]t in this all over the bottoms on Dec. 15 and we got fresh water in the area. Houses shoo[...]n this dam, which we really needed, and it must have risen 4 feet. happened in the middle of the night. Bonnie and Mark came December 16 and we took pickup and 1961. Area livestock industry in throes of the to[...]broken drouth of summer has shriveled and we stopped at Greens but snow was knee deep in th[...]hay production...dried water holes timber and about 8" on the level. It was wann but ha[...]thawed from Turners on. Got a few greens and went on past 1962, June. Worst flood ever hits Ro[...]We walked back a little ways but very hard going and ...houses damaged...tops of fence posts cov[...]parts of the roads ..10" of water started home and when we got up by Shankline we found a on Roy Main street....water inside houses...Mr. and tree in the road! Wilbert and Hap had logt it. They had gone Mrs. Ben B[...]ter up to the door handles...a reservoir brimfull and running over the same one that had 8 cows die in, in and Bon took the two to Billings and Hap got a lovely big one 1961-because of[...]out of highway at New Years day Dad and I took pickup and met Betty at the Armeils Creek due to the f[...]too late to help crops We dug pickup out and Dad got to Roy for euppliee on Jan. 6" stun[...]d recall; 11.25 feet in July. Ice.jam anyway and that's the last trip the pickup made to date. The[...]level at following day we only got to barn and unloaded 4 balee that 25 feet). Ice went out March 7th. . froze over on were left on it and fed them and a few from behind the barn. November 21st[...]Pickup wouldn't go part of November in '77 and did not quit snowing until anJarDore,[...]the sun. Roy, Montana was below the barn and dragged balee out for them for for a week.[...]hen I dug out the tractor which was almoet buried and dur- show. Hundreds ofpeople, scientists,[...]He'd bought a new battery for the tractor and we got it put in began at 8:30 a.m., lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes and and dug out the old platform and put it on the tractor so we there were 15[...]we could no longer make it and had to dig out slaing fey ftrg and a few days later the Central Montana area became[...]time became poor. The condition lasted a and then you dig it out" few days, with no il[...]red that is worth mentioning. The David Kalina and it drizzled all day and froze as soon ag it hit the enow. There'E[...]the loose fluffy etuff. Montgomery came and plowed ue out and to Boy area. It uprooted trees in an area l[...]Roy. Feb. f2th Shoveled out pickup and got loe.d of hay that 1986. Precipitation above n[...]winds in the area, tore up sheds on the Lund and Zahn ranches, roof off of Ralph Willmore and Bob Cimrhakl houses, destroyed bale stacks[...]ctric poles snapped. 1987. Hordes of grasshoppers and drouth conditions. Hay shipped in.[...] |
| [...]by I. Willmore One of the biggest and most successful propaganda On Februar[...]ad land to sell. This propaganda was so extensive and so ingrained that even after the dreams had failed and many had left because of the years of disaster, t[...]ril27, 1914 the aoyit with the county clerk and recorder. The company[...]Roy. organized to conduct a general land, farming and livery business at Roy and was capitalized for $20,000. Directors were Harry F. Hunter of Chicago and Lillian Stephens of Fergus. March 11, 1913-New[...]jou Theater last Saturday afternoon (Mar. 8), Roy and Forest Grove being the main attractions. The theater was packed and the bidding spirited. There was keen competition[...]rmells was to be sold on May 10th of that year. And so the buiiding of the railroad began. It was an[...]s, surfacing the track bed, making road crosgings and bridges-all done by men and horses and or mules with shovels, fresnos, elevating plows, dump wafons, slips and dynamite. There was the track itself to lay. Then[...]ts to build, telegraph lines to erect, stockyards and water tanks to build and right of way fences to be put up. The usual rai[...]igrants from Europe. the summer heat, and in winter huge icicLes hung from it. |
| [...]terprise "The rail- After WWI and again after WWII traffic slowly road is completed[...]pot attractive to travel to Lewistown and other places by this morning and the first train, which consisted of[...]fourteen cars of freight was pulled in last night and by the thousands were gone and trucks that could load Roy is a busy town today." at the ranches and go straight to market began to take It wasn't l[...]passenger service was added. over and soon semi's were doing the job of moving cat- Thu[...]the products of the area bottoms and there was no longer the seed and potato were taken out and hauled to far away markets. There crops to ship out. The railroad was dying and in 1970, were cans of cream and milk, cases of eggs and crates 56 years after the steel wa[...]chickens, carloads ofcattle, sheep, horses, grain and close. potatoes, tons of turkeys; al[...]Through the years many depot agents and section destinations. workers lived and made their homes at Roy. Some of On Augrrst 10,[...]Can't find o reol cow-horse no more, And giue the Cowboys Willies. And a man can't read o brond.[...]which tell of the demise of the range the indian and horse power to the white man. To this[...]y, the horse is still a necessity to the ranchers and might add that this was a thrilling e[...]horses; to out-maneuver these animals took skill and lar and valuable in sports of racing and rodeo and the good saddle horses. show ring, a[...]The post war drouth and recession of 1919, saw many |
| [...]fend for themselves; where they would break and sell them to the local some came from farmers in the Judith Basin and local ranchers. owners. The drouth and poor economic conditions Shipment[...]y basis forced many homesteaders to leave, broke and disillu- for two months. This reduced th[...]er, as well, but the make \r'ay for cattle and sheep. horses prospered and muitiplied. Drout[...]hundred head of By 1927-28, the economy boomed and moisture re- CBC, Chappel Brothers horses were gathered off the turned. Cattle and sheep were claiming the grass and Reservation, swam across the Missouri River and the horses had to relinquish their range. Gathering and shipped out of Roy in 1934. In June of 198[...]ow- were put across the river at Joe Bell,s and traiied to boys. There were markets in foreign c[...]ere iost in crossing the river. Remount stations and many were destined for the A wee[...]bought by A.B. McCullough of Ft. Smith Horse and The first sizeable shipment at Roy came from t[...]South Manning. These range horses were gathered and swam Dakota. Unloaded at Ft. Pierre and trailed to Laplant, acloss the Missouri River, I[...]feasible to run horses in this area. The , and 5 cars to St. Louis, Missouri.[...]in the early 1950's. began with F.S. Johnson and his partner, Charley Miller of Little Crooked, Athearns and John Mayberry, Roy Hanson and the DAY horses, Johnny Matheson dispersing the Ge[...]hurlo McCain estate (T bar M) horses, Sam Sherman and Hank Griener and the local owners participating. The first of Ju[...]follow.ing shipment of 20 cars went to Wisconsin and Illinois. Seven hun&ed head, contracted by Chap[...]This photo was taken in the summer of 192g and. shows being held on the Indian Reservation range[...]eastern packing plant. Sam rounded up and shipped out of the country. In the uery Sherman rounded up and bought horses in phillips eorly days[...]ed, others were used for the of the Davidson herd and trailed them to Chinook, coualry d.nd[...]rell There were skirmishes between the sheepmen and I remember my fust rattlesnake sca[...]weed I think it was. Carmikle, a cowboy came in and scattered the sheep all The second scare was for real. Larry Jordan and I over. I worked for cattle outfits, but I thought that was were camping out and the snake crawled in bed with us. getting pretty[...]Larrl' saw the snake hrst and hollered and BOYI did we There were shearing corrals a[...] |
| [...]35 ornery and hated to cook outside, so he headed for a[...]stick of wood was chasing the rat and Joe was keeping |
| [...]htl" "Well, the flood ruined the house and got to the barn. After that they moved the house and built it up higher by where the sheep camp was. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Jordan, steaded in Custer Co[...]t He began working with cattle early and had a job with _t the Bradshaw Land and Cattle Company on the Powder River east[...]. He worked for -! Disbrow and McVey Cattle Company for a time, swim. ming cattle across the Missouri and working the range. _:'.i:_ri., One fall and winter he took a train to California and rode for a "cow outfit", returning to ma[...]road while Jordan worked traiiing cattle and "met officially" at a country dance in Roy in[...]n tradition. The Jordans married in 193? and have lived near Roy ever since. CBC riders, Frank Kincaid (background) and Bob Jordan enjoyed the rough times and said the boys had Ingalls (foregrou[...]dares all the iime. He remembers once how he and Mark Stanley were trailing a bunch of ca[...]pull ropes," Jordan said. "Once he asked and I said, 'Everytime you catch me on this little black horse and you on that big gray horse you want to p[...]ell, Mark had on these big batwing black and white chaps and a big hat. 'I'll pull horses with you,'Isaid. "We backed up our horses back to back and tied the rope around the saddle horns. I[...]ike this Weli I pulled and the saddle came right -back and forth. off and landed on top of him and he was flat on his back. I thought I'd killed him!" Jordan hadn't though, and that stunt was only one of many. "If you[...]round us. We did things like jumping off cutbanks and swimming in the river," Jordan said.[...]Disbrow-McVey and Bickle cowboys tahe a well-deserued[...]Allen, and Arnold Zohn. They fed us beans an'beefsteo[...] |
| [...]ding in local rodeos was also a favorite pasttime and said he won $85 in three days by rid[...]n they tried out some bucking horses and steers. A friend of his oniy won $50 for two horses for Gene Autry. "He bought most of them too and first places in bronc riding in t[...]to 40 head of bucking the CBC and his life with the cowboys of the 20's and 30's. horses in two days. In 1927 he rod[...]oduced aren't around any in saddle bronc and bareback. in 1932 he rode in the more and the wild west won't ever seem as wild. C[...]if the day. The day money was $25, $15, and $10 and Jordan you could work for the CBC[...]he King cattle were taken to Walter from Roy and east to the Musselshell River. Much of[...]ands with a wild bunch of cattle and had me help take her to were, remember that[...]se, but Henry down over 900 feet. The creeks and coulees were eroded was riding a youn[...]I had great dreams of owning many cattle and using and started for the town of Roy some twenty five-mile[...]Crooked Creek, the he could work for others and make a "Grub Stake" to cows went i[...]We could not drive In 1914 a Mr. Brockway and Mr. Vaughn (horse out- them out be[...]it) took500 head oftheir horses south ofthe river and we rode to where we could pick up som[...]the cattle round up days of the 1880's and it seemed that this time she would succeed. Henry and 90's, every higher point of ground was given a[...]me!" Three Princesses, Cottonwood Crossing, and so on. We frnally got these cows to moving again and as we Naming these points was necessary for[...]s for roads to be built. While Many horses and cattle were realiy wild and some driving up the first lane, w[...]steader's traveled or grazed in groups and were called wild cabin; their gate was open, and our wild cow went bunches" One day, Joe Sear[...]e help him ride. He selected two of his best and fastest house before the cow could hi[...]ridge. There was a lot of high brush on away and they went east at a wild run. We took after[...]here the cows stopped. This was trouble them and did not overtake them until we reached[...]east. This ride us. As we waited Henry and I changed horses and was in very rough terrain with sagebrush and cut Henry asked for help. Henry, being a good roper, coulees up hill and down. What a ride!! Exciting-yes,[...] |
| [...]Hrsrony Or NonrseesreRN FsRcus Couxry bridge and some 100 feet beyond. Henry, leaning down,[...]gate in the fence, to the north near the creek and much |
| [...]As sometimes happens, a stampede would occur, and The time of which I speak was the year that then Rock and Rye would take advantage oftheir early McNamara &[...]Circie Bar from the training and not run far-they would immediately English Syndic[...]at attempt to get out of the herd and reach free and neutral the time that on one circle at the junction of several soil, and there would watch the stampede with the ranges, k[...]other that on one occassion a horse and rider were brands represented were: the Z, the FB[...]a bonus by the fore Horseshoe Bar. the Circie C. and others too numerous to man of a new[...]and listening to the "attempted" lullaby of my partne[...]ble as see in every living thing a fellow mortal. And this is two children tucked snugly[...]ngled with the the higher animal called man. Love and hatred, gener' ringing of the horse bells in the herd. One night, think- osity and selfishness, jealousy, fear and courage are ing that all was well[...]e in the lower animals as partner and get "the makin's". My partner and I rested in the higher. and smoked together until time to wake the next relie[...]and as he galloped on to camp to wake the boys for th[...]uous by the absence ofRock and Rye. I did not tell the brotheriy love between two steers, whose affection and[...]care for each other, is seldom equalled among men and[...]ut much to my surprise, they were not over- ROCK and RYE-for these were the names Tom taken short of ten miles distant, and as the foreman was Shaw, the foreman of the Two-B[...]with the boys who followed them, and the Iong drive fiyst saw a Montana sunrise on a s[...]beei it was decided to lower Musselshell country, and there they lived and leave them to be picked up and shipped with the next grew until almost ready for[...]somewhat different from weeks later and be handled by the same men; for it was the averag[...]Junction, on the Yellowstone, to Fort Magg:inis, and in charge of the beef returned. that[...]d safely loaded our herd upon of horses went down and the price of beef went up. Then[...]the cars and started it on the long journey to the tables they[...]nd. As the season was growing among the sagebrush and buffalo B3ass, in order that late[...]you may believe it or not, they turned Rock and Rye over more from the place of release. They were ranging and[...]Missouri-but we lost them again in much the pany, and absolutely disregarding all the rest of cow[...]mayor of Billings. And so it happened for several years best and moet careful cowboys in the outfit, whose sole[...]the range to their doom. But years dimmed weight and quality by its journey over the range to Bil-[...]their sight and slowed their pace, and finally Rappel lings, the shipping point; and it was then that these brothers ea[...]marked & Company. friendship and brotherly love for each other, became a[...]and in the summer must have had a good time, for they[...]picked range where the grass was plenty and the water A Remarkable Pair[...]cattle of their clsss were nevbr fed, and surely those two, sight of Rye, and then the big steer would suddenly[...]of through the herd, pushing other steers aeide, and call starvation, And how often they must have eeen each and bellow until a responge from Rye united them once other get thinner while eating sagebrush and willows more. When they had eaten buffalo grass to their hearts and snow when the grass wae all covered and the water content, a glance or low moo from one to the other would holea frozen? And how thankful they must have been indicate that it[...]when friendly chinook solved for them, and in their spot, iie down together and quietly chew their cuds. favor, the problems of life and death. |
| [...]have the reign of the piow horse and the school ma'am. Rock and Rye are probably forgotten by most ofthoee[...]s to inteose his band, us left-uone ia jail, and none are in the eaddle. Some Vlhere[...]ouered the ground., barns; others have been, and etill are, in the eheriffg Nou we fin[...]ffice, an honor to which all cow-punchers aepire, and Al even though these changes in vocation and indus- from which clase the beet eheriffe are made. The place try have come to pass, and the man in his arrogance where Buffalo corra[...]ho can under the Winnett i:rigation project, and the rest of the say that there may not be f[...]a great eettled comunity of ship of Rock and Rye!" proeperous and ihriving dry-land farmers; and in that by Roy E. Ayers land once ruled by the bronco and the cowboy, now we[...]rveying, certain sections in each River and south for about 12 miles. At a meeting held in to[...]o split the Fergus school system. These sections, and county lands No. 1 as it was too big and the Indian Butte District acquired by tax foreclo[...]n the State Grazing from over grazing and develop livestock water. Act passed in 1933 by th[...]rations had very little fedr state created and organized the Montana Grazing eral government land, but a lot of county and state Commiseion, by an act of the[...]to admininster the Taylor Grazing Act in Montana and of a trade of timber lands of western Montana for grass to supervise the work and promulgate the rules and land in the eastern section. There are no such bl[...]first school lands in our area, just sections 16 and 36 in each chairman. This group was calle[...]rces took over in 1976. Montana is the only state and other ranchers in western states began to work fo[...]40 acres to area met at the Rossiter School house and in October of gummer a co'i/ and calf, on the average; less near the that year sto[...]Indian Butte area met at the mountaine and up to a hundred in the breaks. There is Willmore[...]res, Fergus No. 1 will summer one cow and a calf. |
| [...]Jones; directors, John Beck, Herb Beck and Ralph Act, anyone who ran livestock from 1929 to[...]ified them for a permit on federal lands. over and served on the board ofdirectors. Some ofthose[...]h the ranches on the Jordan, Ray McNulty and Joe Mauland. Vernon upper end receiving a life[...]r. When the fee system was set up Komarek and Perry Kalal. Helen Umstead is hired as under the[...]to the county in lieu of The rules, laws and regulations governing the dis- taxes.[...]districts were set up to improve the BLM and Fish and Wildlife until 1976 when the the range and there was a provision in the law that Fish and Wildlife took over. there had to be a dam built s[...]formation of a grazing district on Antelope and Crooked In 1938 several ranches that were memb[...]the government meeting was called to order and Vernon Puckett was under the Bankhead and Jones Act. The drouth of the elected ch[...]re' Vernon Puckett, Secretary-treasurer, and executive quired to lease these lands for grazing[...]board members Charles Southworth, Carl Gautier and The Soil Conservation Service administered the[...]way. Those present were: W.C. Galloway, Joe lands and transferred the g:azing rights from the pur-[...]Southworth, Laurence Kauth, Charles chased lands and increased them, on the remaining Sout[...]Distad, Joe Kosir, Nick Spiroff, Carl Gautier and for 10 months out of the year, now they are run for 7 Vernon Puckett. months on summer range and wintered the other 5 The second m[...]te lands under lease. Frank Perry, A.J. Hughes and Mike Myers. ) From 1944-1946 the two[...]unty Peoples, Carl Gautier, W.C. Galloway and Nick Spiroff. land.[...]Butrn Gnezrwc DtsrRtct tion and that the meeting place would be Rossiter After[...]ctober of igga School house in Fergus Co. and the post office to be the decision was made that[...]ian ested parties again met at the Willmore Ranch and the Butte about building a fence between Crooked Creek Fergus No. I was split and the Indian Butte Grazing and Indian Butte districts. (Up to that time cattle D[...]ported in 1935: roamed freely and ranchers in either district would The first[...]he Indian Butte Grazing spend many days and travel many miles to round up District were: P[...]urer, Mrs. Josie H. In the fall of 1964 and 1965 most of the allotments |
| [...]. Styer, Sluggett; vice president, Bob Fink; and Carol Sluggett, Spiroff - E. Styer and Sluggett-Pitman and E. Styer and secretary-treasurer. Other members of the bo[...]1980. Styer, Lee Iverson and John Gilpatrick. Vernon Puckett was secretary f[...]by Frank Cirnrhakl and John Sirohy During the years of drouth and low farm prices the All dams, when comp[...]This project was to build stockwater truck and with Laurence Christensen helping, picked |
| [...]She is sometimes good, sometimes bad- Nails and string in bulging pochet.[...]waye had a "flair" for writing. To clirnb a tree (and neuer fall). Esther ie the daughter of Dee and I*na Potterf, early day bueineee To dig for uorms and then to fish, people of Roy. And opple pie's her fouorite dish.[...]the build- lantern inside an apple crate and set the child on the ings were moved, sometimes s[...]hough the name in the variety of ages and children learned to get along with Superintendent[...]. Paradise school might be moved nearer to Jones, and The teachers were sometimes ladies fr[...]ill in Sometimes the children would be 15 or 16 and The following article by Margare[...]sometimes had to go to work try schools. and came to school when they had time.[...]where they were located. borhood came to school and was very cold. The teacher[...]d school instead of ness like any summer. Charles and I had our everyday Roy. chores tending the turkeys and chickens, running They explained how and why it was necessary for an - errands to and from the garden, watching and listening attendance of five pupils which[...]rd with Mrs. Jensen, unusual amount of whispering and spelling between the teacher. My moth[...]board two of our neighbor kids, Warren and Bob neighbors, Willmores and Jensens. The same hush- Willmore, Charles and I made the necessary five. "But hush chatt[...] |
| [...]usical instrumentin accompan- Model T. to jiggle and bounce the 22 miles across hills iment to her favorite instrumental side. You never and a rough road to Wilder Trail. Having crossed it w[...]were spent roaming over the near by hills and down to inspection tour group was complete. Immed[...]the Creek where we picked out sticks and willows that viewing the long interior of the hal[...]k horse became quite an place between a reservoir and the school house. At one art. First you[...]scraped the very top of the bark off; and if you needed a the different atmosphere. The hug[...]our bunch of horses, you wood floor, high ceiling and ample windows on the side scraped deep[...]and range war. Bob and I strung along with the more The building was[...]est sene lamp or a gas lantern run by hi-test gas and man- one wire cut or one of Marie's stu[...]r Winter. In winter we builtsnowmen and slid down for lunch. Our subjects met the require[...]n our homemade sleds. Did some skating if the ice and art education. For music, Mrs. Jensen had a wind-[...]long winter, spring was rvel- violin, flute, horn and piano. We also learned the basics come. Aw[...]ained on the last bit of snow melt and run down the coulee, looking blackboard continuously. for flowers and small animals. As I have mentioned For art wor[...]nstruction paper. circle of stones and an old tin frying pan someone had We had a 15[...]y annoying. sight and the school house was quite a distance, we felt[...]ching a lizzard being boiled She had a chauffeur, and they came in a Model A alive, my mother came over the dam banking and need- coach. She would make a visit in the fall and another less to say we all got a licking, a scolding and lessons toward spring - then we had to show off w[...]wn. There were three A half century has come and gone, but Mre. Duffy of schools in the district, the Fort Maginnis, the Alpine and Fort Maginnis still remembers the days when sh[...]rts, had completed normal a Miss Hanson, and learned that she aleo wae going to school at Diilon and taught one year in Cascade County[...] |
| [...]dren. In addition to young man, Jerry Joslyn, and learned he was also to Tom th[...]Dorothy school, Miss Hanson the Fort Maginnis and Anna the Mays, in California; and Mrs. Ruth Burnett, Fairbanks, A)pine.[...]nd. She came to this famiiy. She drove a team and buggy to school each day, country with her mother and little sister in 1898, when picking up childr[...]Falls, had lost his wife and written asking Anna's mother In those days[...]m was short, starting soon to come and keep house for him. after the school election in the spring and continuing Whether as a stude[...]After teaching at the Alpine school, Maiden and New Year, Anna accepted the ?9 school in the[...]problem. The railroad only ran as far as Roy, and the school was some distance beyond that. But[...]spirit, young Miss Roberts boarded the train and went as far as she could. Getting off the tra[...]he was Gene Covert who iived near Valentine; and she might be able to catch a ride with him as[...]e Covert ranch, where she stayed over- night, and the next day Gene Covert's son, Bob, hitched up the team and buggy and drove her to her school in the breaks country[...]llo Neuijel, Wasta Stibal, Joe "Speed" ranch, and she has lived in that area ever since. Her hus-[...]w. Front row: Lada Stibal, band died in 1944, and she lived with her son, Tom. Helen Mouc[...]by Marie Zahn AraNpa O. Swrn'r AND InursE HART 1873 in Maine, the daughter of Augustus and Abbie Amanda O. Swift was Fergus County superin[...]Louise Swift was married to Elmer Hart of in 1912 and homesteading. Miss Swift was born in[...]Mrs. Hart was a graduate of an eastern college and Montana rural areas for many years and also was Pet- did practice teaching i[...]o 7927. in the suburbs of Boston and in Randolph State Much credit for the early suc[...]her marriage. here, goes to the indomitable will and unfailing energy After her husband's d[...]pose. Many a child in Fergus schools, and was later elected to this office. She also County received clothing and sometimes even money taught two ye[...]chool. with horses and then by car, with her chauffeur at the Her sis[...]. Her last term ended the fall of 1932, when 1926 and they made their home together until Mrs.[...] |
| [...]She married Floyd Green of Lewistown in 1953 and Springs. The White Funeral Home was in charge.[...]Barsness Green was born in May LawnrNcr Bersupss AND EuzABETH BARSNESS GnsEN[...]College and received her B.A. degee at Colorado State Miss Elizabeth Francis and Lawrence Barsness came[...]t Greeley. She was a member of to Montana in 1914 and homesteaded adjoining claims Delta Kappa Gamma, business women's sorority and southeast of Roy. She taught schools in the commu[...]AR, the Lewistown Women's Club. She was an active and in 1917 they married and moved to Lewistown to[...]d, 8 March 1958 at St. Joseph's Hospital, l,ewis' and Mrs. Barsness continued her teaching career. She[...]wo sons: Larry Barsness taught Gilt Edge, Cheadle and Roy schools and was of Missoula and Jack Barsness of Bozeman, and four elected Fergus County Superintendent of Scho[...]grandchildren. She had two sisters and four brothers in 1942 and served until her retirement in 1954. She was[...]t my boch Has seen many moons, droughts and storms; I stand[...]pon the ploin; And things thot might hove been' As time we[...]r A. Wright The good old days haue come and gone, The birds in the nest haue flou'n[...]ngs upon this earth, It sits lonesome and alone. |
| [...]property, the Max Maberry ranch, Yaeger famiiies, and the famous Horse Ranch. This ranch was the horse[...]ribe had their winter camp at the head of Armells and the old Townsend ranch which took in the first ho[...]bottom land stead of Shorty Becraft, stage driver and miner. This which is now the Wiedman hay meadows. ranch was later the home ranch and headquarters for The Wiedman ranch was homesteaded by the g:and- the George Gilpatrick sheep ranch; who came to t[...]father, Chris Wiedman, in the fall of 1888 and the orig- area in 1895.[...]he present building site. The grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Gilpatrick, The apple[...]a pioneers who came to Alder Gulch and one of the oldest trees now bearing is 75 years o[...]he Wiedman Ranch, was Steve Gilpatricks now live, and the log cabin still held in the lo[...]stands. They lived there for several years, happy and school house was built on the banks[...]isted on living, raising a wonderful garden and living until they the school attendance recor[...]were May Biggerstaff and Alan Wiedman. Later many Other pioneer families who lived in the valley near more pupils came and a larger school was built nearby. the Judith Moun[...]During the next few years the Junction School, Kelly's, the Goods, the Chandlers, the Hiatts and the Romunstad, Knob Hill, Fergus and Horse Ranch Hosiers, whose land is now part of the Wiedman and schools were opened and all were well attended. Gilpatrick ranches. In th[...]nches in the which still blooms in the tall grass and the rhubarb, year 1874 was the Old C[...]ll near Rocky Point on the nostalgia of the hopes and dreams of these early rugged Missouri[...]and one-half days; freight fifteen days, and freight Among the early pioneers was one Tim Ca[...]se dashing young Irish bachelor, who homesteaded, and for a few years, due to Indian at[...]ck, Maberry, Wied- This area, too, had its good and bad sides, as does our man ranches, and down through the Yaegers property. modern world.[...]es ishing bootleggers turned out some of the best and Fergus holdings. This ranch was a[...]lived in the area, including early days and a commissary was run at the ranch. one Jack Maher[...]James Fergus. on a wild shooting spree one night and killed Jack Bar- They paid back their loans with butter, eggs, oats, etc. clay and others in the old bunk house which still stands[...]ine into Lewistown in in the home of James Fergus and the Chris Wiedmans, 1900-Wm. Fergus, Fergus Land and Livestock, HiIl with many pioneer families attending. Ranch, Fergus Bros., and the Geo. Gilpatricks. Later Mining, too, had it[...]l line for Armells, with the switchboard Jack Lee and the lead mine of Vince Geis. ore was[...]rving the Wiedman, John Gilpatrick, Fred, by hand and spent the winter taking out a fair amount Charles and Larry Yaeger ranches and the Tom Byrnes of gold on Armells Creek on[...] |
| [...]NonrHrasrtnN FeRcus CouNrv antiques still worked and were a comfort when help or abundance in[...]hed by the Armells Trans- pasture grass, and once again the sheep and cattle eat |
| [...]created in 1913. The trustees were A. C. Weideman and Edward Dougherty. Other families in the area were[...]Davis, Ida Anderson, Clara Plath, Alice Hamilton, and Vernadel Green. The last teacher was Grace McClen[...]mber 20, 1936. The district was abandoned in 1942 and attached to #56 Hilger. Rosn CennarcHaEl, AND Mou,Ir ANpsnsoN Rose Anderson Carmichael was[...]Cap McCullough's mother. Both Rose and Mollie Eownno AND LouISB CHaNolPn |
| [...]The Chandlers left the Deer Creek Ranch in 1899 and path. The army's band began to play and the Indians moved to Lewistown. He w[...]hat when all was said county treasurer and also a state senator. and done, instead of fighting, they all smoked the peace They had three children: Helen, George and Alice. pipe! The trip from Minnesota to their des[...]pril 11, 1918 and one on an invention to furnish light for an autom[...]les this winter, one an eight-ton the motor and may be used all around the car. rotary plow[...]xon has applied for a copyright on a song that he and from the U.S. Patent office. A patent has be[...]his ranch located near the Maury citizen and we are eager to extend the right hand of Bros. Horse Ranch last fall to Obee Bros. and went to fellowship. Agra, Kansas, has come back to Montana and will buy (Though there ore 4 different spellings we belieue all to another ranch and camp here. Mr. Donevan came from be the same person.) Kansas orig"inally several years ago and done well here, A Mrs. Russell Donouan taugh[...]but like many others, got homesick, sold out and returned Frances Donouan attended the school.[...]AN VntnnaN Charles Grant Edwards, son of David and Ohio Charles Grant Edwards di[...]ery. Survived by his |
| [...]Tns Fpncus BRoTHERS James and Wiiliam Fergus were both born on a farm in Shawto[...]hire, Scotland. James was born on October 8, 1813 and William on April 19, 1833. They were half brother[...]patrick) Meagher county when the county was split and Fergus the Townsend Ranch (now Maberrys);Mary (Mrs. R.S. county was formed and named in his honor. James Hamilton) the ranch on upper Deer Creek (Lipke) and Fergus gave powerfui leadership in the formation[...]Andrew along with his father and a hired man, came Fergus was a great reader and a free thinker. He did by wagon in 1880 to locate and establish the ranch not use alcohol or tobacco and had only contempt for headquarters on the north side of the Judith Moun' those who used vulgar and profane language. He was tains. James and his hired man returned home and left raised with a Presbyterian backg:round and was a Andrew who spent most of that[...]ivestock; battling the bitter cold winter, wolves and at the age of 92 and was buried in Helena beside his renegad[...]Butte. Stephen F. Gilpatrick (a great grandson) and his son, Andrew died about 1928. Hazel is living in Alaska" John, and John's son Steve, still live on pari of the old[...]lder Ranch, Fergus William Fergus was a farmer and a Presbyterian acres and was also one of the largest in the country. Mr. |
| [...]k below where the came from Fc,rt )laginnis and was distributed frr.rm the Wi[...]s ranch was located. fort, by our place, to and fronr Rocky Point on the[...]er had a school house buiit Missouri River, and \.!as put in pidgeon holes (mail near the Fergus home where school was held, and that boxes) along this route,"[...]Church in Lewistown, Montana. first teacher and school was at the William Fergus ranch.[...]uncouth, ill-dressed and had no education, although he[...]him and that made Oscar antagonistic toward the[...]Fergus family and then he bought the land owne{ by[...]Blanchard and Walter Peck. He later bought the iands[...]Lanarkshire. He never married and made his home on[...]the age of 76 years. Bob and Will Fergus ranched at[...]. ?ltis stone monument was erected by friends and rela- |
| [...]family after Andrew died in 1928 and the ranch opera-[...]lease and then sublease county land adjacent to vacant[...]She remarried and with her second husband, Austin[...]Shortage of capital for stock and slow national eco'[...]post office and store. Early in 1937, during a blizzard the Dauid Hitger), Margaret (Mrs. J. B. Rauch) and IVellie (Mrs. adin Romunstad).[...]night clothes, heavy stockings and a fur coat' She man'[...]r Axei-nv Fencus secured and to push a 1934 International pick-up away[...]us, son of plight, she sat in the pick-up and decided to enjov the James Fergus in August of 1909. Andrew was 59 years blaze and exploding of canned goods. old; Hazel had just tu[...]the drifts to attempt mail delivery. He aided her and Andrew James born in 1916.[...]probably the first woman to drive a car and took her to Roy. Mrs' Sturdy, who ran a restauran[...]ctive in the Fer- there, took her in, rested and dressed her. gus Livestock and Land Company as secretary. She was[...] |
| [...]reek. His home is on the original James Andrew and John Collins. homesite of his grandparents. Their[...]Montana- He attended school at Hilger grade and Hilger John and Ann Collins Gilpatrick came to Helena, high school; a business college in Helena and the State Montana from Galena, Illinois. They wer[...]pi River during the Civil War;George;Henry and Mona Deffrnbaugh. Her brother is Pete Def6n- who was also a river boat pilot on the Mississippi, and baugh of Lewistown. Steve and Nellie were married in Stephen.[...]then Steve remembers miners from Kendall and the North overland to Virginia City where he prospected. After Moccasins sitting on the mountain and looking east using up all of his funds, he went to work for wages. He over the prairie country and one of them saying, "I married Louella Fergus, da[...]domm for the whole country." The rest Stephen and Louella had four sons: Collins Fergus, agreed. But many of them did homestead and stay George Andrew, James Henry, and Frank. Collins and grandchildren of these miners: Biggerstaffs, became a plumber in Seattle; James a.carpenter and McBurneys, Busseys, Beattys and Wunderlins are still photographer in Sitka, Alask[...]sentative in Seattle. Steve and Nellie raised two children, John and Mona George Andrew was born in Helena on Octob[...]h raised three children: Stephen G., Lynne and Jana. interested in his grandfather Fergus'ranch,[...]Steve and Nellie have loved their ranch home and It was a long ride for the "tenderfoot" and he said he their life here. They love the beaut[...]saddle was not climate, the clean fresh air and the wild game; deer, elk, as soft a job as was his bookkeeping one. antelope and birds. They aren't fond of coyotes which He fil[...]it to his grandfather. This was a common practice and in this way the larger ranchers could controi the[...]for that time; from $20 to $40 per acre. George and his uncle, Andrew Fergus, would ride sometimes as[...]returning home alone he was caught in a snowstorm and got lost. Having been told before to let his hors[...]he right, back row, is On April 20, 1904 George and Bertha Vannest were George Gilpatrick Sr.[...]L. to R: George Gilpatrich Jr., S.C. Gilpatrick, and Elizabeth Wiedman Vannest. She is believed to be Gus Kauth, and Stephen F. Gilpatrick. |
| [...]daughter of granddaughter, LiIy Maury and Claude Maury. Seated[...]fantastic, panoramic view of their ranch and of the trouble they're always ready to help out. Once when the Armells valley and the vast prairie that stretches north Giipatricks[...]replaced the old" Everyone pitched in to and other wild game come to their door step. They mov[...]years ago. Their grandson, Stephen G. now Steve and Nellie now live in a small comfortable home lives in the house along the creek and is the 6th genera- on the top of the ridge above[...]P. R. Hell AND JoHN HaLr, Mr. and Mrs. P.R. Hall came to the Armells section, John went to school at Armells and later the county Frank and Madge Jacobs homesteaded on Armells[...]rank, Rose Eva, Jess |
| [...]r Fergus 1905 at Eagle, Nebraska, the son of Mr. and Mrs. County for ten years before retir[...]con- William Knapton. He was educated in Nebraska and tinued to live in Lewistown until his[...]He was employed by various ranches in the area and 16 of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign later homesteaded in the[...]ranch for several years. He then sold it rado and several nieces and nephews. and moved to Lewistown to make his home.[...]was born April 24, 1878. Hill, Horse Ranch and Fergus schools. School was The couple met and were married in Austria and came worked in-if and when there was time. George says he to the United[...]feet was a common occurrence. In wintertime the and George, born in Wisconsin. Another son, John, was[...]oined the family during these the creeks and coulees. years: Andrew, John, Joe and Elsie. They lost another Clothes were home-made and passed down from child child, a little girl.[...]do. They helped with the garden, looked for eggs and ried and seldom visited his sister's, our mother and nests that the hens managed to hide out, chopped wood aunt Mary Pelot. He ran a small band of sheep and a and kept tlle woodbox full for it took lots of wood f[...]cooking, warmth and for heating water for washing He passed away in 1938 and is buried in the Roy and bathing. They milked cows, shoveled manure and Cemetery."[...]well, There are good memories of good times and "wonderful even though he was only three years ol[...]"The land was free the air was clean and what train to Armells. From there they walked the[...]Montana area. was old enough to walk! Mrs. Pelot and Mrs. Kuras George started on his own[...]farmers and ranchers in the area. Wages were about Mikil built a two room log house, with a dirt floor and $15 a month, plus room and board.In his adult life he a dirt roof, on[...] |
| [...]oof over his head. As times got better he married and raised a family, "like we all did". He started a[...]operates today in the Lewistown Heights. He is 81 and still going strong! Mary, at the age of 15, was working and helping area families with gardening and cooking. She married Charles Hay, now deceased. M[...]eqth Star Route.- Andy, with the help of his sons and brother George,[...]ithout blueprints. Andy still does carpentry work and "does it good," George says. "When he builds anyt[...]lueprints, just his brain". He has been a gas man and an electrician. Andy and his wife are now retired. Their family are now out on their own and scattered in different parts of the country. J[...]-:* ti and handyman. ;2 Joe and Elsie moved away from Montana and now live in California. George does not know e[...]anged it first so it would sound more 'American', and soon; little by little, L. to R.: Mik[...]d of Kuras. George, Mike, Andy and John Kurns-in the 1920's.[...]innesota. Will attended school in Madison, Wisc., and Landru family came to the United Statesrwith her[...]Evagaline, Louisiana with his grandparents and, or, Fergus, was born in Glasgow, Scotland on November his parents where they farmed rice and he attended a 22,1864. She was 17 years old when[...]fields at Nerv Hall, California. But the prairies and Primrose, Iowa. He came to Montana as a young buttes (Cone and Black) of Montana that he had heard soldier in 1884 and was stationed at Ft. Maginnis. about since childhood and the stories of the land near The couple met, and were married on September 16, the Missouri River beckoned him and so in May of 1910 1885 at Fergus. They settled on a homestead next to he returned to Montana and took up a homestead. William Fergus. (Coledonia R[...]am "Will" Newton, was born on investment and sent Peny Foster out to Montana to the old Fergus[...]Elder Creek. Three other run it. Perry and Will became good friends. children were born to t[...]orth, who died at 9 (Perry) one day and this good-looking girl came to the months of age; and Mable (Cary) who was born in door. She had an ax in one hand and a tea-kettle in the Louisiana in 1901.[...]other. She was trying to kill a gopher and I thought to |
| [...]The Landru farnily: Bob, Will, Harriet, Bruce and The original house that Will and Haniet liued in is still Williarn. The man stonding between Bruce and WiIIiam standing on the'Beatty' place. (with hat on) is a friend and neighbor, Louis Mitten. myself she sure would mak[...]in Illinois on May 15, 1892, had here and die here," he said. Hattie passed away first, on come out from Illinois to visit her brother and to keep April 19, 1979. Will died November 11, 1981" Both were house for him. She and Will were married on December laid[...]July 4, 1949; James William born Jan. 18, 1951 and 10. 1924. He was the first to ride a horse to att[...]ves in Scottsdale, Arizona. born on July 17, 1926 and Robert "Bob" was born on Bob r[...]. and cattle. In 1948 he wed Verda Mae Wendt. They had Will and Harriet always put a great stock in friends. 2 children; Alan born October 6, 1949 and David born He told of times when as many as 16 wo[...]y 14, 1952. He later married Rae Rousek Spurgeon; and ride to the top of Cone Butte. They attended chur[...]ld, Shelly Louise, born in September of at Fergus and the children attended the Romunstad 1958. and Fergus schools, and high school in Lewistown. Bruc[...]In 1959 they divided the land among their 3 sons and the home ranch for several years afte[...]heir Lewistown home was filled Doug and Debbie, attended school in Roy. with momentos. So[...]as originally homesteaded by photos of the Landru and Fergus family members and Einor Tiseth. Hattie's father, W.[...]known as the 'Foster was dated February 29, 1917 and was of their first i place'. He als[...]arriage. There were 16 men on place and Hattie inherited it from him" the barn roof, shingling. They had 40 for dinner that Doug and Colette Landru and their two sons, Casey day. and Kyle, now live and ranch on the home place.[...]. PBrnn eNo INce LensoN Peter Larson and Inga Cjerholm were married in The couple had nine children, 5 girls and 4 boys: Great Fails in 1896. They lived in Belt u[...]istown. Peter worked in the coal and Oscar. mines until he took up a homestead of 320[...]ey had one child, Armells in 1912. Here he farmed and had livestock; Barbara. cows, horses, pigs and poultry. Art[...]Blizzard. He rented the Vestal place about 1925 and with the Ruth married Bill Rabe. They lived in Wisconsin and help of his sons took care of his homestead, the[...]had 5 children: Bill, Marjory, Richard, Charles and place and another place he had acquired.[...] |
| [...]59 Ebba married Henry "Hank" Rood and they lived at Oscar and his wife, Mildred, live in Lewistown and C[...]Iowa on ia Lewistown. |
| [...]ckeg Michigan peninsula town of Gladstone. Victor and with a heart attack and died in L942. Clair came first, and later their father, John, and his After leaving the homestead Jean taught school in brother, Robert, came and homesteaded on Armells many com[...]frame cabin with a bed that school and the University whenever possible. She folded down[...]married Fred N. Thomson, also a teacher of Math and another wall, and the chairs were hung on pegs when[...]ntana area. After Fred's death in 1943, Jean con' and their younger sister, Jean, came along after she[...]rsity after thirty years! She received her Minnie and their children lived close by. As there was[...]Michigan until ill health forced her retirement and she was hired to teach the grade school. Charlie and George returned to Montana. Until her[...]fter their children left the Armells region, John and before the drought of 1919. Some cattle they brou[...]er from Oregon didn't withstand the harsh winter, and in Creek Canyon close to Lewistown i[...]tains. John died in 1930 and Mary lived with Jean in Victor came to Lewistown and worked for Thompson Lame Deer unti[...]y left the homestead, as did the ing World War I, and was so proud of that service that oth[...]gan. he continued to wear the "puttees" and jodphurs for Vic McKerlie loved to tell s[...]tor Con- bike over the rough roads out there, and how he missed struction Company, specializing in grain elevators and the train in Lewistown so he walked to catch[...]ildings in every part of Montana and Hilger or Suffolk. One time he had his fath[...]back of the bike, riding over the bumpy roads, and he In 1921, he married Helena Wernli at Garneil[...]turned his head to say something to him and dis' had three children: John, a West Poin[...]retiring to Dayton, Nevada, recently; and always remember that he and Helena loved Montana Pat, who is the wife of Judg[...]air married Clara Tollefson of Choteau and they loved the climate, and the people, and everything about had two children, Betty Jean L,ennon and James Allen' the Bie Sky Count[...]L. J. (Lourr) MIrrrr.r AND MISS RUIH MTTTNU This brother and sister were long'time residents of was reared and taught there for several years before |
| [...]o1 Louie Mitten retired from his ranch and moved to Park, Washington. He was[...]on August 28th, 1853 in Montana and became a sheep man not far from where |
| [...]they came by stage to Utica where Walter met them and sell what was left of his sheep and had barely $f ,000 to they traveled by horse and buggy to their new home 25 show for his labor.[...]general store in the next few years and with the excitement of homestead Garneill which w[...]ncial difficulties. areas opening up and new industry the general store Through his reputation for personal integrity and with proved to be a thriving business. Pe[...]wner with Frank Hassett of the Garneiil and as such took homestead filings in the area. property. He soon bought his partner's interest and Peck's retired to Lewistown where he[...]still residing in that business he sent for Linda and the children. By this time area. the railroa[...]by Bessie Wiedman Samuel T. Strausburg, stock and grain rancher in and his sons then turned carpenters and built the |
| [...]o,l Birdie's former husbar.rd was Roy Lee Wolfe and her in i935 she and the children moved to Roy where they |
| [...]was killed in France in WWI; Winfred (Winnifred) and Ernest, who moved to the west coast; Donald, who was around Roy for several years and Fred. Fred Vessey was born in 1895 in Sauk Cent[...]lJrO. born September 26, i9a3 (all in Lewistown) and Dan born March 5, L952 in Grangeville, Idaho, die[...]Fred worked for a large cattle outfit between Roy and (Valentine?) the winter of 1919. He and Charles Russell rode the range together for t[...]idn't die, so Charles drew a picture for Fred and left it in his house and when he was gone someone stole it. This happe[...]Fred Vessey 1930 Before Fred and his family came to Montana, Andrew Fergus had[...]s cowboys ranching himself. They had sheep and cattle. hung a boy on a cottonwood tree. That[...]ce on Armells 1944 they sold the ranch and moved to Stites, Idaho Creek. and bought a ranch. Fred also worked at a planer mill After Fred and Nellie were married they lived on a[...]the age of 77. Nellie was 81 years old in 1988 and the Gilpatrick Ranch for several years before he[...]Alan and Bessie Coluer Wiedman Albert C. Wiedman was one[...]They sold their grocery store and in 1888 Chris headed ranchers and farmers of Fergus County, his homeplace[...]of Albert. then 14; Amelia 12, Emma 4 and Charles 4 Creek, and comprised of the lands homesteaded by his[...]They came up the river and across the plains to White Albert was born near[...]ight children Bruckert, Iiving. Chris and Albert left the rest of the of Christian and Sibylla (Gutekunst) Wiedman and a family there while they came[...]Vannest and Mrs. Frank Hash. Chris and Sibylla were married in 1871 in America.[...]ies. houses between the homestead and Lewistown then; |
| [...]the Mayberry Alan retired in 1969 and lived in a mobile home at the Ranch; the Coiver Ranch and the Vannest Ranch, now Colver ranch unti[...], Tim, Debra (Mrs. Rich Bowser), following spring and he and his father worked together Mike and Leda (Mrs. Mike McReynolds). Tim, Deb, in putting up the log house; their chief implements Mike and Leda all attended school in Roy and are RHS being a cross-cut saw and a wood axe. graduates. Marcelyn and John took over the ranch After he retired from the responsibilities ofgrain and when Alan retired and continue to operate it along with stock farming,[...]s. town, where he died in 1924, at the age of 85, and his Emma Wiedman married Marion Maury in 1[...]They had two girls, Emma and Amelia. The mother Albert C. Wiedman acquired h[...]n 1916, Mrs. Fergus stead he became a range rider and cowboy on some of married Louis Smith in[...]1955. the ranch holdings of the Fergus Livestock and Land Amelia Fergus married Bud Wiliiams in 1930. They Company. Later he returned home and took the active had one son, Charles. man[...]sented the original claims entered by his father and had a son, Jack, killed in the crash ofa B52 in 1971 and mother and other additional claims totaling 1180 acres.[...]near Christina. ing the location of his parents, and his individual He married a neighbor girl[...]d as one of the trustees of the in Omaha and another named Norman now living in in home school and helped organize two school districts India[...]Republican in Charles later remarried and had two daughters. The national politics, and during the World War he was reg- mother, the[...]r. Elizabeth was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and she and her sister, Mrs. William Gordon, came to the Unit[...]led many un- loaded their emigrant cars at Hilger and also hauled lumber from the three yards there. Ma[...]Elizabeth was always cheerful. She was well read and could recite an endless amount of poetry. She died in 1929. Albert died in i945. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Wiedman was Alan B., who was born August 19, 1905 and was a graduate of the Lewistown High Shcool. He i[...]f Fred W. Colver. She had two childr:en, Marcelyn and Fred D. Colver. The original Chr[...] |
| [...]k area south of Lewistown Germany, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wilkens. He where they raised cattle and sheep. After Fred's death received his education[...], Mrs. Edward Tennessee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Corle of Plymouth, Indiana and Mrs. Raymond May of McDonald.[...]llinois. Margurite Abbott of Lewistown was Fred and Jessie homesteaded in the Horse Ranch[...]ilding (Rain- Carroll Trail crossed Armells Creek and one mile south bow Bar), was purchased and moved to the ranch for of the Chicago, Miiwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Rail- Rudolph and Betty to live in. road townsite of Armells. Howev[...]d by this time, so the address was and some of them stayed on for many years" Louie Ferg[...]20 years, quitting when he was over 80. John Paul and graveled) between Lewistown, Hilger, Fergus and Jones worked on the ranch from the[...]going to Valle Vista Manor in Lewistown in 1978. and crossed the creek at said Carroll Trail crossing.[...]the Mussellshell Trail. The last few years he and Mike the buildings at right angles to the old hig[...]on the main ranch tered in Arizona and Andy helped here during the and in the spring one band was trailed across country summers and Mike lived in his house in Roy (first through the[...]worked here he was 88 years old. He died in 1987 and turned east at the old country (Zuley) school hou[...]e age of98. to a pasture between the Indian Butte and Crooked Bill Bucher, son of sheriff Fred and Mary (Keller) Creek Grazing Districts, near Butto[...]e 10 or more years too. tance was around 40 miles and took about2r/zdays (if it Charles Yaeger Jr., son of Charley and Esther (King) did not rain) to trail there. Howev[...]e sheep wagon could not be moved in the gumbo-mud and ranch as a hired hand in 1951. He[...]p were moved eldest child of James and Mary (Colwell) Raw of Moore. home the same route, but by fall the lambs were big and They built a house that fall. They hav[...]ren: them kill to eat....but some just kill lambs and ewes for Stephanie Marie, ageBYz, Kayla Rose age 2 and Clay' sport and one coyote will kill 35 or more lambs in a[...]rn January 3, close to his camp wagon every night and sleep with one 1965 and Christopher James born August 23,197I" ear listen[...]Larry A. Yaeger, second son of Charley and Esther, night he could shoot in the air and scare them away. started working on[...]959. He mar- After George died in 1948, Rudolph and Elsbeth ried Betty Jane Pallett, one of a set of twin daughters of (King) "Betty" Yaeger and Fred "Fritz" Yaeger moved William and Doris Pallett, of Lewistown, on May 26, |
| [...]67 1962. That fall they moved into Rue and Betty's house ranch raising cattle, sheep, hay and some small grains, ti |
| [...]nment stories that Con Anderson wrote in the 60's and early bet 160 acres of land against $i6.00 that you could not 70's about his father and the early days of home- live on it for f[...]some won the bet and others sold their relinquishments[...]rance companies and lending agencies who were eager I, Conrad Ander[...]steads. Well, actually they did iimits of Spokane and attending the South Central not sell but took the loans and left the country. Smart High School in Spokane wh[...]Roy where the better grass and land seemed to be. The My Dad saw advertisements in the Spokane paper Olson's (dad and 3 sons), a Mr. Burk, and Mr. Hatch, that the Milwaukee Land Co. was going to build rail- and Mr. Ginthur from Iowa came and homesteaded on roads to Winifred, Roy and Winnett with much land in what was later ca[...]homesteaders were needed. Jones and wife came in the winter of 1910 and 11 and My father, who was a brick layer, had worked in[...]ll the arriving in Lewistown with some bedding and cooking good lands had been taken long ago. Then,[...]material, a team of horses had to be purchased and a thinking of people is that the other fellow has[...]f the railroad property; so we stead adjacent to, and where a friend had one on a moved it over the fence nearer the creek. creek and a band of sheep. The fellow wanted a partner[...]orses, there were two teams to who worked in town and could bring him supplies once choose from one of sorrels and the other gray in a week, and would go halves. Good land was to be had[...]cheaper in price. Dad's name was C. F. Anderson and he was later The teams were of the sadd[...]We finally were on our way to the homestead and we steading.[...]l Trail in the early days. James Know, two ladies and another fellow left We were told, "[...]to After eating, the horses were watered and had their believe they were the first homesteader[...]because it took them to the Roy area that spring and they located was very far to the Chamberlain[...]aters, would say "This is became so worn out and tired it could not go any further about the best[...]with our wagon. We then led our team of horses and The filing fees were $16.00. The locater charged carried some bedding and walked on to the Chamber- $50.00 for showing him[...]eastern end of the land within six months, so Dad and my brother had to Judith Mountains. and the creek was named Chamber- do this by Se[...] |
| [...]69 Next morning we went back to our wagon and sup- found later frozen to death. The ranch was known as |
| [...]Jnnnunu B. AND HANNAH Jeremiah B. Bowser was born in Fayette[...]860. The couple member of the Royal Neighbors and of St. Victor's married in 1880 in Claremont. Iowa and came to Mon- Catholic Church. Interment was i[...]Snowies to Valen- The children of Jeremiah and Hannah were: Maude tine where he secured land; la[...]rn on August 6, 1895 ican Legion Auxiiiary and the Roy Women's Club' in Estherville, Iowa. He attended schools in Iowa and Ernest and Hattie had three sons: William "Bill" E. Kansas.[...]in Hiiger. February of.L927 and Jerry who was born in 1933 and Ernest came with his family to Montana in 1913 and died when about 6 months old. moved from L[...]d in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Mon- until her death on January 15, 1984 at the a[...]l never was a member of Modern Woodman of America and she married. was active in the Sacred H[...]Jerrrss AND LAVINNIE BowsER Jim Bowser and Lavinnie Strausburg were married |
| [...]t\ married to Deb Montgomery, daughter of John and The Bowsers only daughter, Rhe[...]RHS in 1980. She is married to Jim Hughes and they STsVp AND JOSEPHINE JUNGER CAMPAIN Steve and Josephine Campain met and married after Dad's place to get the[...]a "They had a iittle band of sheep and a few cattle-for |
| [...]in Watertown, South Dakota, the daughier of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jungers. She received her educatio[...]homesteads they bought out. They raised cattle and had a band of sheep. In 1945 they sold out to Don and Margurite Marso and Steue and moved to Lewistown. tinks eventually bought the[...]e a niece, Pearl Selchert. r Steve and Josephine died about l0 weeks apart in 19?3;she on March iSth and he on Mav 30th.[...]ter After the Joslin Post Office closed, Frank and Nancy Carier moved to the Black Butte area. L[...]e McCauley place until 1937 when they went broke and moved to St. Ignatius where Loyd "did any kind o[...]Tip Carter and Loyd remarried and moved to Kalispell in 1g53[...]1966. ment. He still resides in Kalispell and is a member of the Montana Fiddlers Association.[...]ildren were Sadie Ellen, Gertie May, Herbert Ray and Tilford "Tip" Spurgeon. Sadie was married[...]Herb's son, Homer, attended Roy schools and went away in 1962. Gertie (Syron) passed away i[...]ome a County Extension agent in Montana. Herb and Tip, along with their wives, ran boarding[...]dren were born. ran one for the school teachers and the Tip Carter's had They were married on December 30, 1888 and came to one for the high school students. The men also did all the Joslin area and homesteaded in 1914. Frank passed kinds of odd[...]Counrxpv AND STENSON[...]in Waseca County, Fergus County and came to Montana and filed on 320 Minnesota in May of 1874" He worked[...]e Stenson was born in Boyd, Minnesota and leased most of my Mom's land. Mom taught school o[...]ere she had from 3 to 6 students . . . She School and taught for several years in different areas of[...]out homesteadins available in My Mom and Dad were married in 1919 and decided |
| [...]te where my Dad got a job as loved farming and if the machinery of 'today' had been an automobil[...]ded to return to the Roy area early in 1921, and tell the "bushels to the acre". It sometimes irri[...]ple in the fall what their We had a dear friend and neighbor, his name was harvest ran and my Dad's figure was always within a Antone (Tony)[...]the Don Deyoe Agency, seliing Stars and Durants and My Dad was from a large Irish family of 10 children whatever Don handled later on. and he was next to the youngest. The family farm Since my Dad was Irish, he loved to dance and Irish always went to the eldest boy in the family[...]y. naturally my Dad left home around age 18 or 20 and I remember my folks talking about the Stabb family was 'daring' and went West* The rest of his family a great deal. I think they probably visited back and stayed close to home; all Iived within a 50 mile[...]or 12 and stopping by Stabb's. I remember there was a[...]dear friend and the person who attended her when she and Dad married. Dad's attendant was a C.D. McCullen.[...]by Kathryn Johnson and information by BilI Dauis O. J. Davis homesteaded 8 miles south of Roy, Mon' several ribs and never fully recovered from the acci- tana in the[...]Simon, Rose, Nora built. One child died at birth and is buried on a hill not and Frances graduated from the eighth grade at the fa[...]e boy, a son of Joe Black Butte School. Bill and Kathryn from the eighth Y. and Tillie Doney, is buried beside him. His name was[...]His doctor told him to "go west" Charley and Jim, and they also raised Louise's three and at 16 years of age he started out. He moved into children, AIex, Alfred and Lorraine LaFountain. Louise Idaho and then Montana. He spent a few years as a had a homestead 5 miles from the Davis ranch and 5 freighter from Fort Benton to Lewistown and Gilt miles from Roy. They lived there during the summer Edge. He was a farmer'stockman and raised horses, months and moved to their home in Roy during the sheep and cattle; also a lot of hay and grain" Mr" Davis sehool months so the children couid attend school' did his banking and business in Grass Range. On one Owen was[...]He moved to occasion he was unhitching the wagon and the horses Lewistown and worked for the Milwaukee Railroad' were spooked by a little dog and ran over him' He broke Louise died of[...] |
| [...]cinrueasrER^- FERcus CouNry moved to Great Falls and worked for the railroad for 22 on several ran[...]t of 1967 at the age of56. army in Worid War II and served in Germany. He mar- |
| [...]e Little 1472 years before retiring and turning it overto Dan Horadrek Crooked area; a dug-out house, corrals and he ran Bilis ranch is made up[...]ually he bought from the county, and the Cliff Larson place. located. In the early 1900's he settled in the Black Butte He and his present wife, Sharon, raise sheep and cattle area, just down from where the Blakemores live, where and do some farming. his children were born and raised. Sharon[...]s old when his dad died, in 1932. Mosby, and children, Cy, Mickey and George "Buck", He was a tough young guy; said he[...]the army. He married while in the service and after effects! being discharged he and his wife, Rhonda, and her two One of the things he did as a young fellow was run a sons, Kevin and Cory, came back to Roy and he became trap line. Every Saturday a.m, he took off and would go school custodian for a couple of years and they both up the creek to the Jim Ranch (Melvin R[...]ive in Henderson, Kentucky. across over the hills and go down the Chamberlain Mickey[...]ere Winnie Rife Christopher. They live and work in Great Falls. used to live and back into Roy -a[...]ay, "Hell of a long ways to go for a skunk or two and he helped to raise and put about 14 others through a few weasles. I don'[...]d His granddaughter, Tammi Anderson Combs and her out the guy was grving another guy more money for sons, Ean and Shaun, live in Mt. Vernon, Washington. unskinned ones. After that I buried and froze the Ean and Shaun love to spend their summers with skunks in[...]grandchildren, Charlene and C.W. Kananen both g:ad- Bill attended the Black Butte school and a half a year uated from RHS and reside and work in the Roy area. at Liitle Crooked. They nee[...]l Bill has a wonderful sense of humor and a great out- going there - at least[...]loves to tell stories about people he's Eli Doney and Bill went down. "They paid for our food and clothes, so we would attend." The other students[...]- he always remembers the humorous and[...]uman side of those people. were Marie Webb. Belle and Earl Castille. Mrs. Bertha One he tells about concerns Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wright. Jenson was the teacher.[...]down in the wrongfully, of cheating. Bill got mad and quit school; barn and Joe called upon the assistance of his wife to no[...]They got the cow hoisted up in the rear and it was Mrs. Ever since I always stress to these k[...]ere, uttering phrases, trying to get someone ment and began the preliminary work on the building[...]the only one not Bill was employed by the Fish and Wildlife Service amused by th[...] |
| [...]other, Grass Range Grazing District and was a director fron: Regina Egeland, was born at[...]reside in Great Falls. Thelma, and Eleanor. After Ben Solberg's untimely death (suic[...]his ranch operation" He was schooled in Lewistown and left school in 1928, at the age of 16 and carried on his stepfather's ranch interests. This[...]s. They sold the cattle in 1936, at a good profit and went into sheep. In 1945, they went back to cattle and sold out in 1949. Richard Fergus married Marcel[...]Dich Fergus ranch home. and built the Fergus Motel at Great Falls, Montana, a Fneo AND LEoRA Focls Fred Fogle and Leora Stratton were married in I[...]903 with their periods in Washington and Oregon and finally settled Antone Frehner was a native of Switzerland and was Millie (age 6) Vogd, in Zurich, Swi[...]was around 60 to 62 years old when he died and had |
| [...]nn guardian of Louise King and Wallace King and took in a hurry, but Walt followed him out and said, "You try |
| [...]tv drinking folks got wind as to who had it and we finally Fred had promised anothe[...]the two prospective buyers got together and one Christian "Chris" P. and Sena (Olsen) Larsen came Chris and his eldest son, Cliff, came ahead with cat' |
| [...]farmer of the Roy area, a veteran of WWII and was buiit.[...]passed away in 1954 Mrs. Larsen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Olsen and at the age of 55. her other brothers, W. A. Olsen and Ed Olsen, all Myrtle married Harve[...]'s when they went to Ft. Peck to work on the dam. and Roy schools. Two of their five children, Mary Jane and Violet, were After the Larsen's moved to their[...]born in Roy. Other children were Dale, Archie and last two children were born. As the nearest docto[...]Sena's mother, Mrs. S. H. Olsen, acted as midwife and helped bring Helen into the family in 1914 and Amy in 1918. "We got mail at the Burt Sargent place. My father and the neighbors had to go to Hilger for supplies and sometimes in winter would get caught in blizzards and would drive in circles 'till they would get their bearings and could see lights. My father had a big brown fur coat that was real long and would hold out the cold. Sometimes there would[...]nter time. They would fili the bobsled with straw and lots of blankets and we would all cuddle down and be warm. It was real exciting. I started school[...]now lives in. My first teaeher was Charlie Morgan and other teachers were Irene Scott Standing from left to right in front of the lowa Bench and Winnie McNeii (now Rife). Later my folks moved to[...]school. Larsen, Helen and Chet. Close neighbors when I was a child were the Kaisers, Mr. and Mrs. George Jurica, Frank Wallas, Horaceks, Bernice married Cecil Warner. Their son, Don, at- and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wonderlick. tended school in Roy and left when he joined the service The Fred Fogles[...]in WWII. Bernice later married Remi "Ray" Blais and and had four boys. All the children attended the Sunn[...]his music. He along with the Zahn brothers and Harvey married to Edith Beam in 1945. Cliff and Ann had a Fogle were known as the "Mi[...]pu- daughter, Jean Lois, who now lives in Georgia and a lar dance band in the early days. son, Theodore died as an infant and is buried on the Chet married Margare[...]Ieft in the 30's and lived in Rainier, Washington for Cliff bought t[...]Helen married George Martin and Amy married Cliff was born October 22, 1896 in Albert Lea, Minne- Harold Marbin the sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Marbin Sr. sota and passed away in December of 197 4 at the age of Sena passed away in December of 1953 and Chris in 78.[...]Eznen "JoE" AND MARY LeFouNretx[...]was born November 21, 1869 at Anthony LaFountain and Madely Ross. He spent his Dunseith, North Dakota, the daughter of Modess early years in North Dakota and in Canada. Naturaliza- Turcotte and Mary Rose Peltier. tion papers for "Ezre L[...] |
| [...]trrHr Op NonrHEnsrEnH Ft:Rt;t's Ct,l u'rv Joe and Mary were married in 1869 at the Turtle[...]in Belcourt, North Dakota. They had and Mary Rose passed away on May 29, 1963. Of their |
| [...]e up for air. the money for Dad. The LaFountain's and us became The Indians reached the top of this ridge and could good friends.[...]January, 1949. He was strong around and knew he had to be in this pond of muddy and healthy unfil just before his death.[...]elieved he died from He was married at the time and had several children. drowning and left. Oscar Stephens, asked Joe to take up land[...]to supply the old camp. The river with the claims and his children could also have claims on land.[...]e those cabins were built so they were few cattle and horses of his own. moved up river a few miles to another and better site In 1935 or before, when the depre[...]Point. all financially, Joe lost all'his property and moved into Joe told me that many trop[...]up to the town of Roy. He had no money or horses and wag. Rocky Point and he would take them camping and ons and asked another old-time resident for a team and hunting. He had what was called a Re[...]lf carts were made completely from wood and no iron was and one load for his friend.[...]e rawhide. The next year he asked me for a team and wagon to The hunters would shoot and kill all the game they haul wood on shares. "No, Joe," I said, "not on shares. I saw and keep only the largest heads and horns, throw- have plenty of wagons and horses but no money and ing the rest of the bodies away[...]killed must haul wood. I can't buy coal for heat and cooking. by hunters who were paid by the government so as to You come and get two or four horses and a wagon and I control the Indians and they received $1 a hide for will take four horses and a wagon and we can go skinning them. together and haul wood. What you haul is then yours."[...]to take them east - skins piled as high as Creek and north where years before a frre had killed could be reached and a quarter of a mile long. most of the timber which had dried and become good Joe said, "People[...]) but they are nothing. I Those trips took two and three days to complete and had to sell wheat at 19 cents a bushel and good yearling we made camp at night. Sitting by t[...]I asked if he had seen worse times and Joe said, "Yes, now.[...]when the buffalo were killed off and the deer, elk and He told me how his father saved his life from[...]s detested halfblood people as much "and at times I had to eat skunk and coyote meat. Yes, as the white race.[...]or their furs when then," Joe said, "and many times the groceries brought a band of Indians saw him and came for him. He ran up to Rocky Po[...]to someone." other side. He jumped into the pond and lay down The following story was written by James Sacks and |
| [...]ncus CouNrv size of Lewistown," LaFountain said, and the town shrank as "Even back then, with gas under 20 cents a gallon, it was |
| [...]Isadore LaFountain. He attended school in Roy and ing of Lervis and Clark and the Indians are on perman- moved to Lewistow[...]n World Russell because of it's authenticity and style. War II and received the Silver Star and Purple Heart. LaFountain never had any formal art[...]'teacher'. Robert, Wade and Duane; daughters Pennelope and He died trying to rescue a swimmer in trouble. His Candace; a sister, Lorraine (Mrs. Don Sandaine) and greatest ambition, he expressed many times, was t[...]veral half brothers: Monroe, Jim, Oliver, Charles and his talent to bring recognition to his heritage,[...]te, south of up on one of the trips home and it was impossible to see Roy in f 917. N{y father[...]arch 5, 1887 in Gretna; Nebraska. He and when they pulled up and stopped, we found our- married my mother, Nellie[...]a yearning to go west, so they Townsend, and our very good friends, Guy and Edna went to North Dakota, renting a farm at Kempton, Townsend and girls. The Steve Bullock's had a phono- North Dakota. Alice was born there and they stayed at graph that everyone enjoyed.[...]r 2 years. and it was cranked by hand. Other memories come to[...]Roy mind, such as the prairie dog towns, and rattlesnakes and filed a homestead claim located 10 miles south of and Howard worrying the folks by walking and running Roy at Black Butte, about half-way between Roy and barefoot when there were so many snakes.[...]ward, was almost five wagon for Howard, and since we had such strong years old at the time and I was going on three years. winds, he made a sail to fasten on it and the wind gave The trip wasn't as hard as earlier[...]a ride. We also entertained ourselves by getting and us kids, as we could ride on the train, which wen[...]d into Roy by then. Dad met us in Roy with a team and be fun to jump off the chicken house usin[...]room shack. Dad gently, so he jumped and his extra weight turned the assured my mother that as soon as he got a barn built umbrella inside out and he had a bad fall. Several years for shelter and care of the animals. he wouid build a earli[...]ted help of neighbors, the always played and sang to us every night before bed- buildings were[...]e much of our furni- time. He played by ear, and could remember all the old ture as time went on.[...]ime. There was a doctor in Roy, but through it and take care of everything with Howard, the horsebac[...]. all crops and in order to survive, most of the men had to I remember the trips to town for suppiies and the find jobs. Many found work in the gold mines and for candy treats that were aiways given to the ch[...]s. when supplies were purchased. Howard, Marjorie and I Mother taught my brother the first 3 years at home, would snuggle under heavy quilts and deer and bear then when I was old enough for schooi she moved into lap-robes in the back of the wagon and sleep on the way Roy for the school term, as daily trips by horse and home. I remember a really bad snow storm t[...] |
| [...]When t'-l Marjorie and I would get almost home, a much larger girl had l[...]is as follows: Howard Perry: born July 31, 1911 and died January 16, 1976, married Agnes McPhee and their children are: Donald and Kathleen. r Alice Jane: born September 28, 1914, married to Keith Royston and their children are: Penny and Marjorie. Marjorie Melvina: born September 12, 1917, married to William Taylor and their children are: William Jr., Grouer "Cleue" and NeIIie with the children: Alice, and James. Morjorie and Howard. 1924.[...]At the age of 14 years cook at that time, and married her on the 7th of April he left Pennsylvania and worked his way through the 1914. She died[...]5. Clyde never remarried. southern states to Utah and came to Montana in the He homesteaded[...]ad he worked He worked for the Morman's in Utah and liked it for Murray Deaton and for Spud Stephens for several until they decided[...]was time to In later years he moved to Roy and worked for John move on!![...]ch from Stanford to Lewis- July of 1953. town and the Lewistown to Roy stage. At that time the He is surgived by his only daughter Elsie Coulter and post office was where Bert Sargeant lived. Jim Mu[...]He was married hours hoping to be rescued and finally he chewed his twice. His first wife was a[...]hat while working in a granery one day he slipped and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Prouty, as a survivor. fell and got hung up by his thumb. He hung several[...]Mvens Feurlv Jacob Marion and Mary Jane Myers came to Montana The[...]steaded. in 1914 with their daughter, Mary Ellen and her They were: Harry, Jesse, Charlie, John, and Jim. husband, Claude Satterfield. The Myer[...] |
| [...]dc and Earlene who live in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and Leo He was born in Harrisonville, Missouri. Among those |
| [...]sheep. The horses could forage for grass stepping and snorting as she raced homeward for the[...]l directions. Momma and three year old Bonnie would go out with At home we told our parents. Our Aunt Ruth and the sheep each day. Later our Dad and a neighbor Uncle Bill were there. We all got into[...]ing their sheep. They site of the den, Bill drove and our Dad straddled the took turns staying there with the sheep while the other hood and with a shovel, whacked snakes heads off until[...]little sister, Claudia, was born in den with dirt and inserted a pipe attached to the[...]r children stayed alone on the exhaust of the car and proceeded to pump the fumes ranc[...]parents brought next spring our Dad rode by there and there was no Claudia home, she and I put her in our wicker doll indication that any[...]ator. I still have a sense of her terror, and killed. The next day, his Aunt, Uncle, friends and her fear that he had been dragged and injured or killed. neighbors came up t[...]ay between Black baby was sieeping and as gently as she could, told us Butte and Cone Butte. It was owned by L.M.A. Wass our Daddy had been killed by a bolt of lightning. and about ten miles south of Roy. Mr. Wass's brother, And so the years have gone by. Momma moved us to Aver[...]Jones, who was about fifteen cow and sold milk. In the spring we eagerly moved back ye[...]ranch. Momma put the sheep out on shares. We ery and household goods were hauled in wagons.[...]lder, there Momma drove the car with the children and what else were new horses, she co[...]g job on the Missouri River. They would lose gate and our Mother pointed to the farm buildings. The their school district and would have to join another dis- house was painted white and stood out from the rest. trict whe[...]ifi- alfalfa. The plants were about two feet high and in full cate had expired. Mr. Fink wen[...]t bloom. There was this rolling movement of green and and Momma was subsequently issued a permit. purple as[...]ght breeze. Jim and I batched in Roy. Momma went the twenty And so we moved into the house with the hardwood[...]a rounded knoll along side a gurgling and Johnny with her. Claudia started school that year. creek, which was edged by trees and a variety of other Momma remember[...]h; The following three years were very pleasant and John Rindal, sixth; Bonnie Rife,[...]s for fourth; Marvin (Boots) Mathison and Claudia Rife, our parents. It was the depression[...]ol. We walked the through May. two and a half miles each way. Jackie started his Momma then went to Roy Junction School and taught school years at that school.[...]nton We had a few horses, some cattle, chickens and pigs. Rindal, Johnny worked for Charl[...]ot along the creek. I for Lynn Phillips and Bonnie stayed on the ranch. remember his giving e[...]Jeanne Fox stayed with her. coal oil in it and heading us down the rows of potatoes[...]s story of that summer: Anton to pick potato bugs and drop them into our cans. He Rindal[...]egetables in bins of dirt in the cellar. and Jeanne were chasing them out. One of them had Mom[...]bloated on the grain and fell into the creek and died, Due to lack of grass and hay for the cattle, my right at the crossing. Bonnie and Jeanne walked to Pat |
| [...]ynn Phillips. The went back to Montana and the ranch. That July 2nd, next morning they walk[...]y Everett. stopped at Woodard's and Mrs" Woodard gave them a In Sept[...]. They Johnnl' went to High Schooi in Roy and graduated in were into our field when Momma and Claudia came 1947. We were all growing up and establishing our own driving along. They got a ride the rest of the way. They lives and families. had been so thirsty they drank water o[...]er. The courage, stamina, persistance dead steer and set fire to it. She burned it every day or and her devotion to all ofus, that has never waned. S[...]has alu'a1's had a very special enthusiasm and interest burned up also, as there were none at t[...]and inspiring all of us and our families. She now has where she taught for t[...]arded with twenty-seven grandchildren and I do not know the Potterfs all winter. During tha[...]ber of great grandchildren. driving Momma, Bonnie and Claudia to the school. On May[...]ob accident. We are stili in shock. He was. Momma and Jim. Albert LaFountain came over the hill and is, loved deeply by all of us. and the cars collided. Momma, Claudia and Jim got bloody noses. Bonnie's knees were bumped.[...]his ear cut. He put a blanket over his shoulders and walked to Speed Komarek's. Momma wore sun glasses[...]t happened in the winter. In the summer Johnny and Bonnie rode to Pat O'Reiily's. John[...]about his work. It was fun poetry, full of humor and observation of his work. Bonnie helped Arlene tak[...]isappeared. Later they found it down by Woodard's and the caif was gone. In November of 1944, Momma and I went on the train to Everett. I had graduated that spring. I stayed with my aunt and her family and soon got a riviting job at Winnie McNeil Rife with the sons and daughters she Boeing.[...]laudia McMartin, Bonnie Sandstrom, Johnny, Bonnie and Claudia were enrolled in ihe Winnie, Lila Williarnson and O.S. (Jim) Rife. Picture Everett schools and Momma worked'at several iobs. tahe[...]We were so happy to have a Iot of deer and antelope and was named after Orin McNeil and Stewart Rife, both small game and plenty of good water. my grandfathers who were both early day home. It rvas so dry and so many grasshoppers that we had steaders in the Roy area. My parents were Winnie and to sell about everl'thing in 1936. A good cow and calf Earl Rife.[...]hard to believe now days. My older sister, Lila, and I started school at Blakes- We rented a house in Roy in 1937 and went to school lee, it was 472 miles to[...] |
| [...]y time in uary, 1973, the roads were icy and temperature down to Japan with the 43rd Engineer[...]friend, Don more construction equipment and it's as though we Rindal and I made a trip through the Dakotas, and to never left. Oklahoma to visit my d[...]ildren but Janine are married Arizona, California and Washington to visit my moth- and we have six grandchildren. All in all, life has been er's relatives, and then back home. A never to be forgot- very[...]st, was born September 3, 1961. In 1956 drought and grasshoppers again forced the sale of livestock,[...]aska (a sure way to get rich). We moved to Alaska and worked for a year. Beautiful country, but no gold. We came home broke and I went back to work on construction for two years[...]rge to move to a warmer climate. We looked around and bought a ranch at Elk" land, Missouri. We rented our Roy ranch and sold most The Jim Rife family from L. to R.: Back row: Jim, Joh.n, of our construction equipment and made a move we'll Jarnie, Janet. Front: Janine and Judy, Lu,v ScseEFFER John R. and Lily Schaeffer came to Montana from[...]. They had four children: Edgar of |
| [...]n the mines. nieces and nephews. A brother, Alf, was postmaster in I[...]left to his nephew, Frank 1881 on he accumulated and soon became a rich man. He Stephens, but ev[...]lty of em- dollar. ployees, his checkbook and a vest pocket memorandum John H. Stephe[...]was sheriff book. He knew, to the penny, to whom and how much he ofFergus Co. from 1917 to 1920. John's son, George, was owed and how much was owed to him. sheriff from 1959 to 1968 and his daughter, Ruth He was brusque and somewhat peculiar in conduct. Stephens Carr married Harry Wright. Other descend- He had a big heart and stuck by his friends and ents of John Stephens who have lived in Roy were employees through thick and thin. The 'latch string' Ruth's daughter, Betty Carr Warneke and family who was always out, to anyone who came to[...]rried. When he died on June 18, McArthur and Jim Warneke and family who ran the 1906, in Denver, Colorado, at[...]ry in the early 1980's. vived by several brothers and two sisters and many[...]Herefords. He met Mary Jane Harris, a born and raised Montanan The center of entertain[...]games, picnics, dances, box socials, visiting and they took up a homestead, southeast of Roy, on wh[...]. Bill Hinkley, Miss Blair fiater married a Hotel and for the Waite family at Utica.[...]be They came by the hundreds. swamp grass and the cows died anyway. Walt Haney Mom died on March 16, 1949 and Dad bought a ranch leased them some grass so they[...]wn. Their homestead shack burned to the ground and I He sold this and bought a place on Warm Spring Creek was in the ho[...]the was milking the cows. She saved me, a basket and an age of 79 and moved into Lewistown. old Indian beaded glove. Jack and Mary were members of the American Here- Neighbors and friends donated furniture and money ford Association. Jack worked with L[...]ousekeeping. They were generous bring relief and W.P.A. in the Roy area when things because no o[...]October 17, 1968. then bought from the Chan Cook and Reynolds |
| [...]Tue CHIIonEN OF JAcx AND MARY Wooo.IRo Blaine was born December 1, 191[...]k town. She married Peter Wallinder and they moved to Marie (MarJ) and Jach Woodard Blaine[...]were The Fergus Co" Sheep Ranch, Forbes. Burnett and Leslie. |
| [...]athering buffalo chips for fuel for the ton, Iowa and Will grew to manhood there. He married f[...]d there for a number of to do the washing and bake their bread. years, then went to Enid, Oklah[...]wagon. They They left in 1933 and moved to Whitefish, Montana. homesteaded south and east of Roy and the Flehartys Will DeSilva died at Enid[...]41" were their neighbors" They had two sons: Burl and Joe; Ada DeSilva died the last of 1959. four daughters, Olive and LaVera of Enid, Oklahoma; The Joe DeSiivas left Whitefish and moved to Grace Knight Jones and Ella Nickeson of Cut Bank, Dundee, Or[...]. were three Jones boys: Robert, Oliver and Buddie D.; Mr. Knighi died in a fire when their home burned" and three girls: LaVera Jones Hoffman, Jane Jones Gr[...]lerton, Iowa. Wildman and Joy Woodard of Billings. Grace married Earl H. J[...]Roy, 30 March 1921. They lived in the Roy, Fergus and She was visiting in Billings when she di[...]to Billings. Earl was employed by an Oil Company and Mountain View Cemetery at Billings. ELMsn AND GRAcIA GRINDE[...]n, Montana; Jean Grinde Halverson, born |
| [...]n. was a first cousin to William Jonathan Rowland and Their's was a musical family. They[...]a with his wife, Martha. They had dances and occasionally at the W.J. Rowland ranch, two daugh[...]there adding daughters Gracia at the piano and Ruth Eva, married Bert Cummings; and a son, Horace Clark, on the ukelele. In[...]ected a dance who married Ada Thomas. Both Horace and Bill filed band heard on several radio stations in Spokane, on homesteads. Horace and Ada had one child. Dolores Washington.[...]1915-1918 Byford Postoffice and store was named for Byford Wagstaff and located on the knoll south of where John Turner |
| [...]The big fancy box got the dishes knew very well, and another man who was a collector and some bedding. A telescope bag got the rest of the[...]lesale firm were on their way to bedding and a rug. The mirror went in my trunk. Little Crooke[...]from my place. So when we including me and my bags. The train for Roy tooted off told them w[...]old us to go back once more. to the stable and cancel our team for the next day. They At R[...]20.00 they said to get that stuff out to so Elmie and I just had a snack so we could get started.[...]to see Harry We rode out to Little Crooked Creek and they finished Shanklin and his wife, Vanita, who had opened up a their business with the Scotsman who ran the store and drug store in Roy. They were happy to see me and when we started for my homestead. It was supposed to be i told them I was moving out and had hired a dray to three miles north of Byford.[...]e out in the morning, they said that was foolish' and houses along the way were lighted, so we had to[...]ey, but I think the you. He'll be in here, and I'll send him over to the depot. door was unlocke[...]You go back there to be with your stuff, and don't name of the soldier boy. As Elmie and I belonged to a wony." Back to the depot[...]ng dray", Harry shouted. equipment and sleeping bags with us, so we felt right at[...]this confident little man comes in and I relaxed. "Here's After the men left us, we f[...]ff', I said. "Do you think you can take it?" "Oh, and swept the dust offthe pine bunk and spread out our yes, I'Il get it on", he said, and he did. camping equipment. We then opened our foo[...]s had an ordinary wagon much like wagons we store and had a snack and went to bed. It was g:eat! had on the fa[...]el, fancy quite roomy. There was a homemade table and chair in big box, trunk, telescope bag, two suitcases, and on top there. We went to Crooked Creek, which was just a of it all, my cot and my groceries and me in front. We short walk, and got water to scrub with. We really too[...]fore, it was early in March scrubbed our house up and felt quite at home. Then the and the roads were muddy. Most of the snow was gone f[...]ys we visited our neighbors. and the gumbo stuck to the wheels so it was necessary The cool September air was so invigorating and the to have some contraption on the wagon that scraped seven mountain ranges hemmed us in and old Black the wheels off. The horses didn't have that and balls of Butte seemed to move into our back yard[...]we picked up our feet once in a while and great mud balls would fly. gear to catch the stag[...]l. At the foot of this rather forbidding hill mer and lots of nails. Mother Smith gave me some we stopped. Peters unhitched the horses, and he and I sheets, pillow cases and two big warm quilts. The girls and the horses went up the hill to the Edwards' home.[...]mirror. The boys at Mr. Edwards came out and took the horses, and Peters the drug store got a big rain barrel for me and in it were took me into the house to Mrs. Edwards and introduced magazines, bandaids, and mosquito dope. Others gAve me to her and then left. Mrs. Edwards was such a warm me dishes and pots and pans. I bought for myself a and friendly woman as so many western women were. fo[...]g box covered She had just baked bread, and the kitchen was so with cretonne that really tur[...]ter a treasure. My boss also gave me his .22nfle and his wife while Mr. Edwards and Peters came in and we all had gave me a lot of pretty cretonne for a closet in a corner. coffee and good new bread along with other food' It had How was I to get all this out to my little house and started to rain and soon Peters left. He had to stay with into it af[...]. . the mail, he said, and must put a tarp on the load too. The rain barrel got the tools, the pots and pans, and He said good night to us and disappeared. |
| [...]ld a new school house to the west of my place. In and I asked Mrs. Edwards what I owed her. She smiled[...]e mornings, I could hear them emptying water into and said, "Oh, give me 50Q." I think I was near tears[...]left that morning, after the men had and everyone learned of new ways to make bread. This[...]. One night I was awakened by a roar, and my house At noon Peters stopped to rest the ho[...]ing from side to side. I was frightened! "An fire and fried bacon and made coffee and sandwiches. earth quake", I thought[...], I heard later that wild horses were being house and it was not so roomy anJ[nore. Peters had an rounded up for shipment overseas. axe and was out at my wood piie splitting kindling for[...]ray wanted, but he handed it back with a big grin and so I packed my bags, checked out at t[...]. I'm sorry to say, I land offrce and went back to my home in Minnesota. never saw Pete[...]e all my own, no alarm my parents, John and Lena Anderson. My older clocks, no regular time f[...]France with the engineers, so The Byford store and post office was 3 miles away, so there[...]es. During the summer, the that fall, and my year on the farm ended the fall of stage was motorized, and ran, I believe, three times a 1919. Once again I left for Lewistown and the land week. A young man, named Roseland, had a well of office. At the land office Mr. Kelly happily told me they very good water. It was the[...]e for all of us as the fields that had good water and he was a very popular young were dr[...]n pools someplaces but the horses, and the year that I had winter rye dried up, so I water was alkaline and no good for drinking. We all was ve[...]big pool in the creek to Department Store, and I was lucky once more to get soak up, so one day[...]ining time of my residence on my hill. It thumped and bumped its way over the cactus homestead was just trips out there for weekends and and the sage, ending up with just the bottom stave on[...]ny pictures of my house, Jakes boys took the team and rescued my barrel, filled of the Jakes family and of wild horses which I treasure. it with water and hauled it up to my house. It was a[...]younger people there now who are as wonderful and ful carefree days. The children who came by my place gracious as the friends I loved and treasure so in my each day, to and from school, were a joy to me. My memories.Amen.... neighbor, Peter Roseland, and a young Canadian boy, (Nena Anderson liues in Minnesoto and still owns her David Bruce, who had a homestead n[...]na) Hnnnnnr AND JANE Bpcr AND FAMILY[...]by Thelma Beck Erickson |
| [...]ary 1950; Beverly Ann,9 February 1951 and Patti Lee, Nascoutah, Illinois. He died 20 November 1981 and is 25 October 1952. buried at Grand Moun[...]He had the American Motors dealership and was a Mom's maiden name Jane Muir. born 29 Nove[...]brother-in-law and son, Neil, were his partners in the years old. Jane and Herbert were married, 20 June Beck &[...]o children were born to working on motors and cars were his great love and them: Thelma Christena,25 November 1915 at Summer[...]making them run gave him pleasure. His wife, son and ville, Illinois and John Wesley, 11 October 1919 at brother[...]since his death. John was stricken with cancer and died 18 March I, Thelma, was marri[...]ried in the Veterans 15 December 1934 and we lived on a ranch southeast of section with Mil[...]lta for 7 years. In the fall of 1941 we left Larb and Service, 27 June 1942, went overseas in August of[...]moved to Missoula, where Bill worked on the power and received his honorable discharge, 27 September[...]as a mechanic sergeant. He helped 1942 and moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington.In carry o[...]in the 1954 we moved to a farm near Oakville and in 1969, Philippines near Luzon.[...]uary 1984,77 years of age. We have four children: and six children were born to them: Connie Rae, 8[...]1948; Neil Rowland, 9 Janu- 1942, Ronan and Bill Junior, born at Seattle.[...]30's. They moved their belongings to St. Ignatius and March 1910 in Illinois. They had no children. Eth[...]k died at Lebanon, Illinois, 1 December and returned to their native location in southern 195[...]where they remained for the rest of their lives' and they were both killed when their car was struck b[...]1958. raised cattle, milked cows, had hogs and chickens and John Beck and his uncle came West and did some they kept stoppers, as well as boarding some of the prospecting and mining in Idaho before coming to Byford teachers and three pupils from outlying com- Montana" He worke[...]munities. John was handy at carpentering and fixed up this locality and took up a homestead22 miles north' a nic[...]st of Roy in 1918. Ethel joined him shortly after and taking part in social events in the surroun[...]"CoutNG To Mox'reNA AND HolunsrneDlNc"[...]re tana, when I arrived at Roy wiih my parents and and there was snow on the g'round at Roy. Uncle John[...]came with his pickup, to haul our trunks and his The last 22 miles to my uncle John's homestea[...]came with his car, two seated traveled by pickup and car. w.ith[...]r first Indians. There was a grub box and some gtoceries and just enough room for Pow-wow going on and we saw papooses, feathered me to sit, while Mr. Peterson and Pop were in the head dresses, beautiful blankets and real Indians. What front seat. a sight[...]ar old! Mom and Johnie rode with uncle John. It was late |
| [...]rived, for whenever we came to a steep hill, Mom and Johnie got out and walked and T.L. and Pop would push, as the pickup was weighted down[...]s car. The next morning, the snow was so white and pretty, ail the winter wheat that had come up was[...]quarters in the three room shack with uncle John and aunt Ethel. He had moved another shack in prior to our coming and so, when warmer weather came, my family slept there and we continued to cook and eat with Johns', Mom helped with housework, cooking and canning and Pop helped uncle John, while he was filing on our[...]piece. One 40 A. was John and Ethel Beck right on Crooked Creek with the creek[...]. with another 80 A. on the hill. home. Mom and I did a lot of sewing and made many The 320 A. had been homesteaded and let go back, so it quilts and rugs. was again open. This place had a shack with a gabled I started school at Little Crooked and boarded away roof and small dam, plus some old machinery had been[...]d at left. This was four miles down Crooked Creek and just the Little Crooked Postoffice and store and was on the above Hennemans. Pop made a road acros[...]the Rocky Point Trail, across from the log miles and finally got some culverts for crossings. He[...]art, being out of sight f:.om ing place, voting and political gatherings. Yes, there where we lived,[...]en! being cut, which allowed range cattle, horses and sheep The Byford school district, #207 was formed and had to get in, eat and trample the crop which was so hard to the f[...]ing and Roland Schrier, teachers. Johnie and I and the Also, range horses were gathered and shoved across younger Jakes children attended. the Missouri River and shipped out on the Great North- I remember when I was at Little Crooked school and ern Railroad from such points in Phillips, Hill and Bridg:ie Hickey was our teacher, she a[...]Egaatius Krafden to learn our language and how to In the fall of 1923, the folks got a shack moved onto read and write and American history, so that he could the 40 A. wher[...]ers. He was in our reading heavy metal roofing and a slate covered, heavy tar class. pap[...]ale blue building paper, put up with lath and Pearl, with the help of Mr. Jakes. She was with to secure it. Mom made curtains to put around beds and Mabel Cottrell and Murray when Guilberi, Edwin and in one comer. We had a cookstove with two doors i[...]. I used to stay with Mabel oven, hearth in front and a water reservoir in back, tin and would ride their saddle horse, "Mistake", home in stove pipes and a )uretal roof-jack, so that no wood the morning and go back in the evening and pick up the would be near the pipes as they would get hot. We had a milk cows and do the milking for Mabel and help with brick chimney later" As time went on, a[...]ay was added, grving us two rooms. We had one bed and 2 was camp tender for Swend Holland, Sr. and was away cots and at one time three beds in the new room. The[...]with all her kitchen was used as the dining room and a place for the small children and coulcin't do the milking. cream separator" Cream[...]them itary cot, with both sides that folded down and would with vasoline and put them in the shoe box and wore open into a full bed. Space was necessary to move them for Sunday and special occasions. about, as one room was 12' x 16'and the bedroom. 12, x I will also mention that the Phillips', Abe, Jen and 12'.Later,we bought the Garwood house, as this fa[...]s brother, stayed at uncle Johns' had moved away, and it was added to our home. It gave when t[...]Chevie car to Illinois in 1g29 us three bedrooms and it had a brick chimney, also a to take[...]ration. Abe was never without his chew of tobacco and never accomplished) and it was used for a clothes eve[...] |
| [...]q7 and had a heart of gold. He showed my dad how to lay Vivian Dickamore, Eudora Bontrager, Ivy and taught at the Joslin school 191[...]lso taught that year at Joslin. There were 22 Broone[...]rnv, |
| [...]a they met Miss Anna Good (laier Anna Mussellman) and she informed them of the homestead opportunities in Montana. In 1914, Bridgie, Josie and Michael, who had again joined them, and Miss Good went to Montana where they filed homest[...]iving. Later, they built corrals, acquired cattle and horses, cultivated wheat crops and began their many years of Hilger in 1937, h[...]E Bar L". ranch was ideally situated and very productive. They Michael entered the Milit[...]he taughtinclude: The Woods School, kwistown and attended many church and social organ- the Joslin School, the Clear View S[...]hool, Stubbins niece, Mrs. Gertrude Drennon, and her daughter, Hall, Zuley School, Hidden Hollow,[...]ement Board in September 1937 for 23 write and the social graces. Margie is now an excellent yea[...]he met and married Emily P. Bowers who was visiting Josie also taught schools in Dawson County and fiends. They lived in Lewistown until 19[...]Pennsylvania to be nearer to her daughters and she talked of the spring wagons they used for traveling, passed away there a few years later. and how "one of the horses wouldn't let a man work[...]h of Josie's husband, W.E. Jones, in her", so she and Josie were the only ones who could 1956, she and Bridgie decided to return home to Ken- hitch up t[...]ho purchased several homes in Mt. Sterling and accom- otherwise would have celebrated the holida[...]e told of riding horseback to many of her schools and dence on Sycamore Street in Mt. Steriing is no[...]hobbies, while by their nieces, Florience and Anne Christine Hickey. alone in these teacherages, included writing poetry and Josie passed away on March 6, 1968. expertly p[...], her last teaching possession of these paintings and display them promi- assignment was at St. Pa[...]Sisters who had children would stay after school and she would help sustained a fractured hip, We have a photo of her riding them to learn to draw and paint. Because ofthe lack of a horse at her b[...]She enjoyed her return to Mt. Sterling and as usual, black stove polish. Bridgie treasured this drawing and was very active in church and social activities. How- displayed it in her home[...]ever, she never forgot her friends and experiences in Before leaving the homestead, t[...]ceived letters accumulated 1580 acres of. grazing and improved land. from President Ford; Julian M[...]of Josie had married William Edward Jones in 1929 and Kentucky, as well as a Kentucky Colonel Commission had moved to Roy. Bridgie and Michael purchased a and letter and greetings from her many friends in Roy, ra[...] |
| [...]She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and[...]Mt. Sterling, near her mother and father and all but one brother and sister.[...]traveled extensively and did more things then most[...]telephone, airplane, television and watched a man[...]national and local affairs; her love of people and her[...]one; students, friends and relatives alike. Her pioneer Josie Hickey Jones -[...]ffolh-Winifred two weeks, at the age of 106 years and seven months. orea and many of his descendents still liue there.)[...]by Barbara Jakes Krantz Alberb and Barbara Jakes resided by Alenia, Minne'[...]oth are resting in the Lewistown Cemetery. |
| [...]nn Fsncus CouNry Dad moved her tar paper shack and added it on to I rented a box car and filled it with a team, cows and This picture wos ta[...] |
| [...]eated in 1917. The first trustees were A.J. Burke and Frank Genther. The frrst teacher was Elizabeth Frances. Other teachers were Zoe Baker and Mrs. L.E. Barsmey. According to the school record[...]tensen School, District # 130 wos created in 1914 and abandoned to District #135 in 1921. Ella Stenson[...]Linnabell Coots, 12 years old daughter of Williom and Debbie Coats; Ethel P. Chestnut, 12 year old daughter of Susie McKenner; Clarence and, Lawrence Christensen sons of Chris and Emrna Christensen and CarI Christensen (about 11 years old), son of Paul and Marie Christensen. Two other students who were al[...]tltat term were: Charley Christensen, son of PauI and Marie, and Lester A. Day, son of John McJonnett ond, Eualyn[...]tendal ranch about 10 miles southeast and more, stockmen will avail themselves of the opportun- of Roy has moved his family to his new home and is now ity to rent some good ranch o[...]had was August 1924-the crops were in and good and homesteaded in 1910, 12 miles south of Roy, under[...]t the big 2 east-side shadow of Black Butte. Ruth and Walter Bras- story ranch house and moved into it in 1927. Ruth loved ier made it[...]il they retired in the late art, writing and flowers which they worked into a beau- 1960's and moved to Lewistown. tiful yard with fountain and waterfall into a lily- Their childhood yea:s we[...]na- attend- pond surrounded by a lilac hedge and yellow roses. ing the same schools and Church. They were married In the lean years of the 30's and 40's they moved into there February 14, 1910. The[...]n 1942. After freight line team for T.R. Matlock, and proved up on the World War II the family put the ranch in full operation homestead land and built their first one-room home. again. 'Gramp' and 'Nanny'enjoyed a close relation- Ruth always said[...]ship with their three grandchildren: Keay, Diana and reach the cupboard and Walter the stove without gei- Bill[...]ng up". The ranch grew in size with eattle, wheat and Fondest memories are of iong hours o[...]ory was 'the biggest harvest they ever and the big picnic every fall when people came[...] |
| [...]food cakes were so Garden Club, Cowbells and Eastern Star. She wrote beautifully decorated" many stories and poems of early days and painted pic- Walter was active in the Montana S[...]sun sets over Black Butte" ciation, Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star. His first love was his land.[...]COME, MY i.AD Ruth enjoyed Woman's Club in Roy and Fergus,[...]CALL IT A DAY AND RIDE AWAY.[...]AND CHALLENGED ME.[...]DO I REGRET. and Wolter G. I HAD NO TIME TO FUME AND FRET. Bro[...]Peer-* AND MARro CHTsTpNSEN Paal and Marie Christensen came to the United States[...]the ditch. |
| [...]in 1929 Paal had The house was sold in about 1937 and moved into Roy, about $3500 on deposit and received back only 10 cents across from Joe Murph[...]on the dollar, $350. Paal and Marie retired in 1927 and bought a house in Paal died in Roy in 1935 at the age of 83 and Marie in Roy which would be known now as the Paul[...]ANonow (ANnBns) AND PEARL (OrsBN CHRrsrrNSnu[...]I remember my dad's parents, Paul and Marie Chris- and Marie Christensen, was born on May 27, 1896 in tensen. They lived in Roy and Grandpa C. smoked a pipe Casey, Iowa. He came to[...]- Pearl Irene Olsen was the daughter of Willie and son. Grandma C. was a very sweet lady and ghe had the Inga Olsen. She was born on October 1[...]warmer climate for her hedth- She lived to be 75 and in 1911.[...]the drug store in Roy. We always got to go lived and farmed a place which they leased in the Fer-[...]Corths: Shirley, Clayton and Betty and their parents. (Haun) born May 8, 1928; Aadrew Jr. born February 11, Tindals and Scanlons lived not too far from ue at Fergue 1934[...]r 15, 1938, all born in and we all went to grade school at Fergus. My cousins, Lewistown and Dolores Irene (Hainer) who was born in Irene, Earl, Larry and Harley Christ€nsen and parents, Miles City after they had left the Fergus area in 1940. Chris and Em, lived a ghort digtance from ug. Evelyn writ[...]I do remember the Fergus dances and how my foiks[...]put on. - In the winter it was extremely cold and we slept in Evelyn attended the Fe[...]Andrew passed away in October of1971 and Pearl on gus store and it was all we could do to get the car home[...]Nnrs, Fnno, Csanuev, AND JoHN CnnrsrnmspN These four sons of Paal and Marie Christensen did in Iowa and Nebraska and never returned to Montana. |
| [...]INnonuarroN ON DBvrNr AND HASSTNGER Holrpsrneonns AND THE W.E. Drvnn Fevny Op SourHnasr Roy Anse[...]une 1933, the lasi original homesteaders to leave and eighteen miles northeast of Grass Range, Roy was that area between Bear Creek to the north and the our hometown insofar as shopping and attending high Little Box Elder to the s[...]o Roy that my parents delivered their Hall and Brasiers to the west and the Fergus County cream, their grain, their cattle, and did their banking Sheep Company ranch, nine miles to the east. This was and other business. Roy was their postal address exce[...]where cattle were driven out to graze in summer and in wherever my sister and I were attending rural school. the fall ro[...]as always rain enough for mak- her sister Minnie, and their father Jacob, came from ing hay. ea[...]he area was in a very dry cycle their entire stay and by freight car to Lewistown because the spur of t[...]ranchers' stories about there being little sage and with brooding father away, after the death of his[...]ermanently. time to time, most notably Jack and Marie Woodard, They freighted their goods and lumber for homestead who left the homest[...]when their house burned down in the mid-1920's, and a night at the Stoddard Ranch in the eastern foot[...]of Black Butte. Perry and Jenny Cox left their homestead, about five As s[...]miles east of us, on Bear Creek before that and came Roy as their address.[...]riefstay. The school year of1925-26 Once mother and grandfather came over Roy Hill, Father and Perry fixed up a homestead shack near and saw a great circle of wagons and saddle horses on Blakeslee School on the M[...]the high school later stood. southeast of us and our mother's took turns staying Grandfather insisted she drive over and see what was with my sister, Ruth, myself, and Harley and Merle going on. They got there just before a cowb[...]us running the middle of the ring mounted a horse and stayed with it Auburn Post Office. through sunfishing, rolling, and hard bucking, riding it The Wilke family, w[...]after a stint in with two married brothers, Herb and Wiil. His intention the Bear Creek School district northwest of us. was to help them and their families get established on There was a great deal ofreturning for a few years to their claims and then return to Fairmont Academy in a dif[...]. They shipped by railroad directly to ing and the promise of farming better than on the Roy, th[...]people Seeing the flatlands south of Bear Creek and think- who had homesteaded on the plateau[...]h of the Little Box adjacent to my mother's claim and insisted that father Elder, had mostly remained and farmed on more fertile also take out a claim to i[...]nd, did not leave his the north side of a rimrock and sand ridge. The only land, two and a half miles southeast of us on the bank remainin[...]holes here and there, even during the serious drouth He did no[...]n fact, have married in Roy on December 16, 1914, and remained had to leave earlier h[...] |
| [...]- range creek waterholes two and a half miles east. on his land, seven or eight miles west of us, in the late Russell and his grandmother (Elliman) moved to Roy[...]left before we did. where she died in about 1932" and where he remained There were few newcomers. Notably Jack and Kate for years.[...]bstantial homestead shack Between Christensen's and ours, Ed Hansen, who near th[...], together with Jess iater ran a pool hall in Roy and then moved to the oilfi.elds, Warren, a year or so before he removed to the Church- and his first wife, Katie, lived for some years. He and well place. During Ruth's first yea[...]rned for a short period in the late and she and I iived in one room of the Christensen 1920's. Ka[...]us, the buildings tucked away and the three sons of Chris Christensen were the only[...]tting an elementary two homesteads The Churchwell and that of Charlie -[...]tact, still there September 21, 1915, and I, born July 31, 1917, were the when we left Mont[...]923 family left in the mid 1920's. and lived in the Churchwell buildings. My uncle Herb[...]ing, reading and reading and despite conflicts with the moving to Plum Creek n[...]to help kill time in Churchwell place, a brother and sister named Hustad. proving up[...]left, together with Democrat Nerus and books borrowed from the few Moore, for western Montana, and a newcomer, Jess homestead-ranches here and there, we made good use Warren, moved onto the Ch[...]a ranch in teaching he had taught and preached, sometimes as a the rimrocks, five miles[...]Montana. He named Flaherty lived for a few years and ran the was a grand old man.[...]His granddaughters, Elsiva and Leona, were in the Minnie Hassinger left for Lewistown and then Black Butte Boosters[...]Walter Brasier, in their home near Stubbins Hall, and family went back to Indiana before I was born in[...]in 1928. Mary Alice Satterfield; Ruth, Jean and Lois 1917. Cal Bratt, who lived towards Sand Rock[...]rinde, whose parents had come to live seven miles and wife went to Lewistown where he was a butcher.[...]from Stubbins Hall; Lorraine Lenling; and Ruth and I Fulanwider (a name I shall never forget, as it[...]o Boston. A learning (sewing) and social function and brought the brother of the Hustads, had homestead[...]hat he meant to luck Sunday dinners and other community gatherings me was an open cistern[...]ross high cutbanks, built in the very early days, and est live district, and with the Roy School district now across a gumbo f[...]ing well. agreed to pay board and room for Ruth and me. In 1924' Later, some people got their drinkin[...]Alli Thomases on the Minne- did the oil drillers, and their wash water from the sota Bench, and the next year attended the same Rowland well. To[...]ned with the CoxlDevine had a lived-on homestead, and his brother Rudy's arrangeme[...]To lure her from North business in Roy, trucking and other. It was he who Dakota, t[...]r $85 per month instead of acquired the WED brand and most of our horses when[...] |
| [...]g in the after the man who ran an elevator and store. Because of aforementioned ranch five miles northwest of us and at lack of roads and the often impassibility of Little Box that time i[...]d in go west to the Roy-Grass Range road and then south to these parts; a seventh-grader who was unhappy with Grass Range and east to Winnett. My parents fought Stubbins School; myself also in the seventh grade; and the division because the proposed maps[...]d once more. This was a very Churchwell and Devine land, and to split us off from substantial white building o[...]ery half section or measure passed, and the next year as residents of section had a homes[...]There were two sisters and a brother in Lewistown During the winter of 191[...]rs. I should neuer forgetthem. racks of dry reeds and inedible weeds that the govern- The bro[...]mote areas of the ment had shipped to Grass Range and Roy while county, such as ours[...]r. Faulds of Roy who boarding schools, and because to these education- had attended my mothe[...]e, it was ag:eed there be a joint school both her and me, realized she could not possibly manage[...]managed to get approved by the being nearly blind and recovering from toxemia, and so County Commissioners. Because of the[...]dren in the district, the few still lived nearby, and father spent the winter driving to other vo[...]was a state apportionment complication and the offr- that cost up to $35 a ton against a pri[...]he Each fall, my parents went to Winnett and pleaded. cattle bawling. They would shoot them fi[...]sed to yield, the To return to education, Ruth and I each finished Roy school board per[...]a class of eleven stacked g:een thistles and straw from old straw-beds eighth graders under the superb teaching of a Mrs. and there being no money for bullets for the deer rif[...]from a ranch on the river. Our family and the hope always present that this time maybe they[...]o further could survive; with the second and last bank in Roy our education there.[...]having closed the spring of 1931 and a nationwide In my second year of school, a group of Winnett depression; and with my fathdr at death's door from a businessmen and other residents of eastern Fergus[...]with all that, Roy had agreed to accept me gratis and to and school costs, and no one in the new county would let Ru[...]t rented us a from before my time-the Golden West and the Boston room in their house nearer the high school until we Montana, nearer the Judith's, and after my time, the were through. Rowland No. 1 as mentioned, the Rowland No. 2 and Ruth was Valedictorian of the Cl[...]of 1933 and in addition to my scholarship for that, one In[...]s not until the summer of communities, \ralentine and Dovetail, served by stage- 1933that we[...]people, My father did not soen recover, and the doctor said an |
| [...]altitude, so soon after my Wahl in 1942, and after the war moved with him to graduation in June 1933 we sold out and moved to Day Maine, Georgia, Michigan, and Texas; the last three County, South Dakota. There[...]ces in a position with the Ford Tractor Division. and there was spring water feeding a good well and a I transferred to the University of Minnesota in the fall big grove and orchard planted by my late grandparents. of 1938, taking a major in journalism, and was gradu- Five days after we arrived, the drouth and dust storms ated magna cum laude in 1940. I worked for six years in began and there was no crop until 1939.[...]of a small newspaper in Leola, South Dakota. My and wife, moved to ours. The barn blew down, the hous[...]m Missoula we left for three years in Sister Ruth and her husband, Charlie Wahl, managed[...]altimore, Maryland in the 1970's to borrow a jeep and wire-pullers and get where he got his Ph.D., then eight[...]aching economics at Purdue University in Indiana; and where the grass came to the door handles of the[...]to speak of. The land was University and worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, obviously being farmed and they thought possibly by and finally since then in New York City where he con-[...]tinued to work in international higher education and old Rowland No. 1 artesian well. A big reservoir[...]wn. aged a bit of published prose and "other" poetry, but After Montana, Ruth and I lived in South Dakota, have made[...]family of 3 children. I raised two ern Minnesota and where Ruth received her teaching daughters. Our mother died in 1947 and father in 1975; degree. She taught elementary sch[...]in 1984 and my sister, Ruth, in 1985.[...]d east of Black Butte in plow, mower and the binder, all horse drawn. Thresh- 1909 or 1910[...]ve. The games in various homes, picnics, baseball and visiting wood was gathered on Black Butte. The house was and dinners in the homes. Church was rarely held, bui[...]om Lewis- Large gardens were grown and during dry weather town and held Sunday School. Rev. Cottom was the one[...]Much canning of vegetables and meat was done using Neighbors were: Bingaman, Stebbins, Burkettes, the hot water bath and a wash boiler. Fouch, Know, Pierce, Tully, Ole and George Johnson, Women of the community were most resourceful in Townsend, Minnie and Louise Trumer and their meeting the health ne[...]e Gracia held in a church in Roy and burial was in the Roy Rowland, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Joslyn, Ruth Brasier and Cemetery. Another death was that of[...]ormed a beautiful biack horses- dam and a running creek" The dam was used by the[...]ary of my seventeen years lived kids for swimming and the creek for wading.[...] |
| [...]GeoRce AND IDA Gevnn by Ernery Geyer George and lda Geyer homesteaded 3 miles east of[...]fal'ette, Indiana. He was January 28, 1916 in Roy and Beulah (Mrs. Paul Curey) married to[...]January 20, 1970. George, Ida and Florence are all bur-[...]orge Geyer's ranch six miles south of here and have him show a check he received for three ten-months-old shoats, that were raised and fattened on Buffaio Grass and wheat. Mr. Geyer hauled the three shoats to Roy Tuesday morning and carried a check home worth S99.70. To be exact these shoats were ten months and seven days old, were fed wheat as a grain food and allowed to run in a fair-sized lot along t[...]eater amount of money for his wheat, labor and amount of money invested than he could otherwise under present conditions and prices, and he only wishes he had more The George Geyer homestead house, 1913. From left to wheat and pigs than he has. right in the picture: Emery, Ida, Ethel and Florence.[...]gton Pierce was born August 28, and N. Cooper at Cascade, Montana on September 5, 185[...]on February 16, 18?9 in Perry He and Charlie were very good friends. In fact, had Coun[...]ere of Green City College in Green City, Missouri and held thrown away in later years. that[...]iled head of the college he taught Latin, English and higher on 240 acres in 1912. The homes[...]In 1916, his son, Heber O. Pierce and family joined After the Green City College clos[...]n later 1'ears, until his death on back to school and became a minister in the Methodist- O[...]ter Episcopalian faith. A second book was written and and teacher. For several years (around 1930) he was t[...]about was the time he was visiting an area family and formed the marriage ceremony for Charles M[...] |
| [...]109 tough and many people were very hungry, especially |
| [...]as also three younger than I and I couldn't leave them, the used for community[...]ated by a I married in April of 1935 and lived near there until wood and coal stove. There were no inside faciiities, or[...]na. electricity, so water was carried from a well and heated All of us are still living except one sister, Phyllis, and on a stove for washing, baths, etc. We used coal[...], Douglas. I have four children, 11 grand- iamps and had an outhouse. I only remember one home children and one great grandchild. in the area that had an inside bathroom, which was the home of Walter and Ruth Brasier. My father, Heber Pierce, hauled mail from Roy to Auburn with a team of horses and a buggy for many years; twice a week. Then later[...]lmost impassable, where there were drifts of snow and later mud. So when anyone drove to town they had[...]was a long way to Lewistown with a team of horses and a buggy. My mother died in 1928 when I was 13 y[...]Pierce family. From left to no way of going back and forth each day. There were right: Mox, Leona, ?, Elgeua, Basil Tully and Jack. Claupn AND MARY Setrnnrrplo |
| [...]JOHN AND CARRIE STUBBINS Mr. and Mrs" John Stubbins of the Auburn vicinity are me[...]ld of a number of watermelons Stubbin had raised and brought into Roy. The picture was taken of them[...]John and[...]Pictured aboue are Mrs. Claude Satterfield, Ello and lilhen the grass and hay got short during the dry eorly RusseII Tully.[...]themselues as Basil TuIIy is prcpar- Satterfield and Basil Tully.[...]uided by Earline Tully McNeil Russeil A. Tully and Ella N. Cooley were married They were[...]far as the railroad went. There they hired a team and change of climate might heip so they iroved to Gi[...]as approxi- Edge, Montana. There they homesteaded and Mr. mately 36 miles. They stayed[...]they had hoped it meat, dried apricots and plenty of coffee. Russell said it would in the Montana climate and he passed away and was the best meal they ever ate. is be[...]own. They left early the following morning and near mid- Hattie, then went back to Winnegan and got her night, very near exhaustion, they arrived at Hattie's nephew to go west rvith her and work on their ranch. cabin. They were so tired they never bothered to eat His name was George Long and he was to iive in Mon- supper. They built a fire and slept on the floor that first tana for quite some years. Hattie and her husband had night. Hattie's cabin was one room, 10 x 12 feet. had no children and she was quite naturally very lone- The Tully's homestead lay east of Roy and north of some after the passing of her husband. S[...]. It was the S% of NW%, N% of SW% of sec. Russell and Ella owned no land in Missouri and thought 17 ,NV2 of the SE% of ihe NE% of[...]arted their homesteading by putting up a 12 x her and her nephe*' and put down a homestead claim. 14 tent, f[...]ber three feet high. Once, the After much talking and planning they decided to go. te[...] |
| [...]on a Sunday r.r'hen all the stores were closed and Dad storm came up one night; one of the worst sto[...]re. Fire could be seen running along the and as Dad started into it a Chinese came out and saw ground. Mother was so scared she climbed upon the the marks left on him and started hollaring "Small- feather bed and cried and cried. (Lightening was not pox!" Dad went back to the depot and they had to send suppose to strike a feather bed.) Wind and hard rain the Health Officer out who gav[...]ill of took the tent partially down, so they went and stayed health, "except for recovering from the measles," Dad with neighbors, George and Ida Geyer, who lived three said. When he[...]e rest of the night. The unloaded his stock and Dad stayed in the Fire Station a next day, Dad built a cyclone cellar in the ground and week before continuing on to the ranch. then went to Lewistown and bought lumber to build a Dad went to[...]last time he drove a wagon and team any distance. He Mother wanted a log house[...]x 16 feet, asked Basil. three walls, a roof and a bare floor. "You never did see One time[...]n we moved into prt 2Yzbarrels in brine and Ella canned the rest. those three walls, a roof and bare floo!," said Dad. Peddled out to th[...]had to go quite aways. They would cut the and dill pickles you ever did eat," Russell said. He posts while there, sleep under the wagon and cook their would haul two or three barrels[...]meal was cooked g:owing, on the sled. and ate on the wagon wheel while in Montana." Russell was breaking in a horse one time and he had On November 25, 1913 they moved into their log five horses hooked up and this bronc was prancing house. On the first Christmas Eve the nearby neigh- around and just at this time Russell saw a rattlesnake bors were over and a snow storm came up and they all run in front of the team. He jumped and caught it as it had to spend the night. Dad and George Geyer slept was going into it's[...]where Dad had put a shelf to store g:ound and trampled it to death. After killing it he things[...]rattlesnakes always kept getting into and a horse that Later Dad bought a two room house,[...]d a Ford trac- did get close to one. tor, and with Dad's team of horses. Then in the fall they Russell and George Long used to play at houses./or moved it t[...]n the neighborhood. Russell played the two houses and enclosed it. It was made into a hall and banjo and George the mouth harp. was the coolest part of al[...]in place of other medication for a bad cold. Evi- and was one of the worse they had seen in Montana.[...]shovel five feet down to bag for something and realized the mistake, and was the well and use a post digger the rest of the way to[...]h up with him. But it was too late to save Ella and Hattie Harzis used to hang up a tea towel on the the little girl. She was buried in Roy. George Geyer and clothes line if they wanted the other to come ove[...]was born in the log house on the across the road and up a small hill from the Tully's. homeste[...]mbers her dad telling her about some men Missouri and helped on the Tully farm again. Their[...]road. toward it, she took out a gun and as the wolf had been Dad got the measles in Sioux City, Iowa and was as coming from the ranch yard it had[...]He never fed his an expert shot; she aimed and when she shot, the wolf stock for 48 hours. They[...]Montana went over into a dip by the cave and old Frank, the |
| [...]is also deceased. He passed away in 1gZ0 sights and then back down again. Mom thought for and is buried in St. Paul, Minnesota. Earline, a wido[...]k back under my own power. Never did see the wolf and dear old Frank was just fine. I asked my Dad, one[...]times that I saw him, what kind of a gun she had and he said it was a war rifle, big, and a large shell was needed, either a BE/45 or 45/55[...]This was in 1g30. Dad stayed on the ranch awhile and later had to give it up due to the depression. He[...]g44. Ella passed away in August of 7944 of cancer and she is buried in Renton, EIla, Basil, Ru[...]by Ethel Geyer Reynolds Minnie Trumer and her sister, Louise Trumer,[...]100th birthday was |
| [...]ere is the Bohemian Corner Cafe, operated by Peny and Marge Kalal, and the Corner Service, operated by their daughter, J[...]around, is across the highway, from the station, and is still used occasionally for meetings and get togethers and rarely for a dance.[...]cher. The school board was G. Siruc0k, Anton Heil and James Kellner. In 1920 an isolated territory in T[...]Mabelle Woodcock, Margaret Stephens, Helen Jordon and Mrs. W.G. Braiser.[...]were John Drake, A.W. Warner and Frank Pospisil.[...];.]j::;,1:,.j Jordon and Helen Kostaryz Siroky.[...]tine and Benjamine Pierce. The families in this area Marte[...]were: Warner, Bobenmoyer, Kennett, Olson and Orr. Margaret Stiendorft and Emil Koliha. Front row:[...]Kinsella Wasta Maruska, Henry Martenic, Miro Heil and Louise Lund and Joe Gerig. Martenic.[...]"Central". The last teacher was Mr. Kelly in 1963-64.[...]Elsie Jones, Ernie Harrison and Beatrice Arthur.[...]Euelyn Koliha, Delphia it was long and level and perfect for a buggy race[...] |
| [...]Alice Fadrhonc and Donald Kalina. Bear Creek School Martin Benes and his wife, Caroline, homesteaded in Delia, in her 80's, are the only two of Martin and |
| [...], 1879 in Lubino, Czechoslovakia. Roy and a news item told of a time when Caroline was His[...]d to Lewistown in 1943. Vaclav there. In 1906 she and her mother moved to Omaha, had palsy and was ill for many years before passing Nebraska. She and Vaclav were married either on aw[...]Caroline worked at St. Josephs Hospital and was a They moved to Salem, Oregon and lived there for 16 housekeeper for[...]oming to Roy where they ranched. One and passed away April 28, 1981, at the age of 92. Bot[...]v homesteaded in 1918. while Caroline and Vaclav are buried in Calvary Cemetery.[...]CaenLKA Frank Cabelka and his younger brother, Robert, raised him and when he was old enough he joined the |
| [...]ois had another helping neighbor. (Bedlan cooking and Cishwashing were shared. Joe washed[...]the necessary land for the four miles up and four miles back home, unless him. Joe then farmed his own land, and that of someone passing by gave[...]land was sold farm his own land. Kviz passed away and another to James Kellner and is now owned by Perry Kalal. neighbor moved on th[...]carry water to them. Some two weeks went by and when I was four years old. Dad came ahead in an e[...]y were called that because you took every- and a big snow came and of course that ended the thing in it. I remember[...]at was the first time I can remember my plow disc and harrow, 2 wagons, 4 horses, 2 pigs,[...]e was ready to go back to Illinois. chickens, cow and calf, furniture, some real good stuff; W[...]. We had to walk everything to start a farm with, and of course, dad had about 2 miles. It was[...]belonging to the teacher. We learned to read and count Mother and we three boys followed a few days later in and write, but there was a lot of Sunday school too.[...]had her hands full, so a nice man took me in tow and moved some 2 miles east. We had a nice house and barn helped mother with the other two. and a good chicken house. It was here that my grand-[...]The homestead is part of the Horse Ranch.) floor and a dirt roof. We wintered there. Dad built a He and my dad dug a well for water and walled it barn for the livestock and a place to keep the feed. with flat sandstone which they hauled with a team and We had a lot of snow that first winter. Things[...]deep- but I remember once he took his old shotgun and came We had a lot of great experiences there' The winter of back with an old sage rooster and a big porcupine. 1918 was a hard winter' The flu epidemic hit and many Range cattle ran at large everywhere, so[...]nt sister, Martha Ann, who died in that evening and the.t dtnn *u. coming down. He wore a big epidemic" buffalo coat and I was sure it was Santa Claus. He was[...]h at that time was turning out a lot of the night and at the frrst light was gone before we kids[...]d to a real school here. The town was quite range and that's where he slept. But dad did have a well inhabited. My teacher had three grades and almost good barn for the horse, and feed. 60 students.[...]away with the range say I learned and real good too. cattle. Many a mile my dad walked[...]fter that night those range cattle were kept away and born. the cow didn't stray anymore.[...]was working. It was When spring came my mother and dad made a about 2 miles, by trail, to Kendall and 3 miles by road. garden by the creek where we co[...]We three boys walked to school in the spring and fall plants. I can remember how hard they worked putting and rode horseback in the winter. Then as we got larger everything in. Mother had started tomatoes and cab- we d.rove a horse on a heavy two wheeled cart with bage plants and we would go down there everyday and which we also delivered our cr[...] |
| [...]ing two places at the time. a big bunch of cattle and also did much grain farming One afternoon dad and I went to get the horse to and haying. I attended various schools and worked on bring the binder home so we c[...]ad a full year of school. got the horse in and it started to hail. Now I've never By now I was a[...]old story, we survived by miiking a bunch of cows and storm. Killed chickens, tore off shingles, even killed we had to go to Roy to buy groceries and deliver cream some of the trees, and my wheat field, needless to say, and eggs. By now I could handle a team pretty well so[...]ground was as bare as a we'd take the buck board and team and go to town. The summer fallowed field. b[...]So I rode for a cattle outfit for a few years and had a lot team at noon, wait for the cream check,[...]reat experiences. The name of the two fellows who and return home, about 12 miles, one way.[...]d The ranch was sold so we moved back to Hilger and crosses Warm Spring Creek were Disbrow and McVey. Kendall. By now, no school was left so we attended Wages was 800 a day, board and tobacco. In the school in Hilger.[...]this was L927-28,I didn't pass out bulls and late calvers. We would have a herd of some 25 of[...]0 head, 55 to 70 bulls. This job would fall to me and school district had been formed so it wasn't so f[...]n moved it school. By now I had two more brothers and a sister. was back to the ranch to move[...]ne can imagine. We had By now I had met and adopted a family by the name been to several rodeos and this was upper most in our of Zahn. They[...]every way in the world to get miles and many an outfit stopped there to rest and get a something to buck. We built a big corral and after get- good home cooked meal. ting all[...]le in, that belonged to a large them down and keep them overnight is quite a job. ranch. and that ran loose all over the mountain, Once we were down to a bit of hard bread and some Sometimes things have to be fixed and dad had just reboiled coffee, as the mu[...]in. We had gotten a water holes first and had rolled and pawed in them. big steer in, so we got dad's newly repaired saddle and The horses weren't gentle. My partner T[...]nough to bucked off out of Hilger aways and he was off his carry two people. We put the saddle on. My brother, rocker two days and then didn't feel too sharp. We were Butch, was to[...]chute. My five days travel from Hilger and then three days to other brother, Jake, was to ri[...]opened the chute, Jake Tom stood up and said, "There's our destination". It cleverly stay[...]ed Butch didn't take long to get packed and underway. It was a and jumped over the fence and staried running through gradual slope so[...]under his belly. He the pack horse loose and he went straight to the corral. was kicking and running and that new lining was It was open range so we dropped the cattle and went really getting torn up. The strings were bei[...]ad. They had smelled the water so they came quite and we were running after him trying to catch him. If[...]Butch was going to high school in Hilger, and John Mayberry was there with his crew and about by now, so when the fall work was done I al[...]o eat. school. We rode that ? miles every morning and at This was my home away from home f[...]for a fellow. It didn't The next two summers and winters I spent there in take many trips to schoo[...]Crooked Creek drainage. I was riding for Disbrow and when it came the last of February, one morning wh[...]cattle from went to school I kept right on going. And never went Miles City and we had to look after these. Larry Jordan back. Bu[...]ate; I went to work for a came with them and a drift fence, about 10 or 15 miles fellow who ha[...]rk for Eno Jensen, at Hilger. I worked all spring and Zahns, helping where I couid. summe[...] |
| [...]- *'ork horses and haying, either one a big job. After I left ther[...]time getting the crop in. The tractor broke down and I had to hire it done. Me and tractors were at odds. I worked on the home Fergu[...]. One evening after work I rode over to my home and discovered that the grasshoppers had eaten everyt[...]o one could make g6 a day. We worked in the beet and potato fields. There were seven of us in the crew: myself, Jake, Butch, Ernie Hartman, Bill Letty and two others. After harvest, we moved the family[...]bs for a big out- fit. In the spring I helped dad and rented an 80 acre farm, joining my dad's, and had a good crop. I worked in the spud cellars til[...]where Nona and the baby were sitting and almost fell[...]section of land and after working for the PN Cattle Co. EnNpsr AND NoNA we moved to the plot of ground, got sheep and started[...]keeping house. by Ernest and Nona Hatall Ernest came back in an emigrant car; Nona and the [Ernest and Nona met and courted in the potato fields! two boys, Lewis and Tom, followed later, by bus. We They were married[...]auling east ofRoy, between Ernest Zahns and Larry Jordans. wheat from the dry farm for Nona's[...]o develop the raw land. building dams and also for John Rindal. Then we The wind would blow[...]moved over the Valentine road. so that Tom and Lewis build a bie ditch and the next morning it would all be wou[...]growing but the We farmed a little and raised a few cows. Ernest also wind never forgot us. My brother, Harold, and I started went to work on a drilling[...]ere he was once again working for Murray tractors and mowers. They cut all those peas. We got a[...]year we moved back to the ranch thresher in there and salvaged as many as possible for a short time then we sold it to Ed and Chet Trusty in after the wind blew them into ditches. fence rows and the spring of 1956. We moved to Lew[...]children were born in Roy, except Tim and Tamie, have a large herd of hogs and they grew fat on those L,ewis and Tom. shelled peas. Lewis, Tom, Jesse and Mike graduated from Roy. |
| [...]nv Op NonrHEesrsnN Fencus CouNrv Ernie Jr., Edna and Tamie graduated from Lewistown. near Kimberly and he works in a beet factory. He is a ANtoN AND MARY Hnrl Anton Heil was born in the[...]Miro |
| [...]- Anton HeiI and A good crop about 1938[...]n their George, Gene and Anton. Mrno eNn Brlrv Hrtl ANTOU AND CHARLES HOSNA[...]sna died at the St. Josephs Hospital 8 Febru- |
| [...]Joe Kalina played for many school dances and[...]button accordian on the back of his saddlehorse and would go to play for dances at the Bear Creek and Swoboda School houses; at the Bohemian Hall and in[...]they'd waltz, two-step and polka. Many a young couple[...]rig. Fourteen neighbors had gotten together, Emma and Joe. In front are Don and Milton. formed a company and bought the rig. Joe was one of[...]tion. He helped set up the fuL{ Farm Program'and them out to a12 x 14 homestead shack. Emma's mother with the sign up in 1933 and was community committee couldn't see her daughter[...]f 1933-34. homestead friends. One was a carpenter and the other Joe mapped and measured many fields. From 1938 one a mason, who did the plastering of the rooms. and on, when the government paid for the building of Thus began many tough years with dry summers and stockwater dams, Joe staked and measured for many of hard winters during which th[...]oe taught veteran's in the farm school at prairie and sagebrush. Dick Kalina paid tribute to his Roy for two years. In 1951 he and Emma moved to early pioneer parents when he said that "all ofthe sons Lewistown, when their son's, Dick and Don, took over and daughters ofhomesteaders owe a very great deal to the ranch, and he worked classifying land for the their parents for making a country and home out of the county. When he retired from[...]worked right along with our drilling rig and drilled many wells for people in the fathers. The[...]ss rate with his talent. When cows, shocked grain and even worked in the field with he reached th[...]wife, helped bring him into the world. Dick, and Dick's wife, Virginia, on the home place. Joe Milton was born on December 1,7922 in Minnesota and passed awayin 1979 atthe age of87. Both a[...]until his retirement in February of 1980 when he and Virginia moved into Roy. Dick and Virginia Martin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Martin, were married on June 3, 1946.[...]is father's musical footsteps, as did all 3 boys, and for many years he played drums at a dance, somewh[...]on arises. Virginia was a talented piano player and for years they, along with Sonny and Norma Weingardt, were known as the popular dance[...]Dick started in 1941 with the Zahns, Harvey Fogle and Chet Larson when they played for monthly d[...] |
| [...]- guitar and drums.[...]has remodeled the old Stendal house, which Dick and his brother, Don, leased the home ranch for they bought in Roy, and has made it into an attractive several years, unt[...]where needed, trucks, does dirt moving work and helps Virginia passed away in April of 1980.[...]rts Dorothy Elnore Fogle, daughter of Harvey E. and the late 1970's. Myrtle L. Fogle, and Milton Wilford Kalina, son of Additional farm ground was rented from Cabelka in Joseph W. and Catherine C. (Emma) Kalina, were 1956 and the lease was retained throughout the couple's un[...]sheep by truck, one jumped over the side and escaped. couple were married. They returned to Ro[...]the sheep. The next spring Dorothy's aunt, Helen and George Martin. Milton was 25 ewes we[...]seem as cold as past win- The farm was 480 acres and had a three room house. ters to the[...]lumbing. The modernization n^--tinued with teries and there were two orange crate cupboards. They[...]i- 1962. Prior to 1961 a had a borrowed milk cow and thirty chickens. Their selfinstalle[...]ated telephone connected the first crop was whead and rye, farmed with a 10-20 Kalina fo-... wrth Maruskas and Martinecs. Two longs International tractor, a Sanders plow, a combine, and a an.r a short would get an answer at th[...]e, was born on August 27,1946 in 1961 and 1962. The construction company headquar- in Lewis[...]ot a gas- ters was in the Kalina yard and the gravel pit was in powered washing machine, pu[...]na In 1948, a 32 volt light plant was installed and the farm to 451 acres. Kalinas built th[...]graduated from Northern Montana College in house and dug the well in the basement. Havre in 1968 and married Susan J. Roth of Bridger in Electricity[...]in 1951. By 1953, November 1970. Milton and Dorothy were milking nine cows and selling The Roy High School r[...] |
| [...]Hrsronv Op NonrueesrsRN FeRr;us Couxrt Milton and Dorothy moved to Lewistown in 1974. Stacey born May' ll, 1982 and Erir.r burn Septenrber 27, |
| [...]many a day out on the prairie in scorching heat, and immigrated to the United States in 1907. He lived[...]fearing rattlesnakes, being hungry, and just plain lone- Dakota. There he manied Barbara[...]er Sr. was a member of the ZCBJ Lodge. He Montana and homesteaded northeast of Roy.[...]n the Boer War. He wrapped it in newspaper, and get him. and all the way to Montana, he protected that gun like Mrs. Kellner and her son continued ranching. a baby. His wife was[...]During her last years she was bedridden. Her son and pans he was guardfng with such tender care. She[...]rmers. learned to speak English and would not have been able Their only child, a s[...]tana. In his youth there was a herd law in effect and Jim married Mary Jane Tabor on November[...]for a cattle. Youngsters were delegated to watch and herd year spent in the CCC camp in Idaho[...]e cattle to keep them out ofneighbors'grainfields and acute homesickness. His only other adventure[...]a Miro Heil remembers him as being an inventor and a considerable length of time, Heil decid[...]dy was using the tractor for other pur' resembled and worked on the principal of a lawn po[...]mower. Rigged up with strings he could pull it up and manifold for heat and was cooking beans. down his face. He claimed he h[...]to the problem by starting his Model T and jacking it up, Kennedys place, and in coming over the hill, all he saw he rigge[...]. All of tractor. He would put the car in gear and let it do the a sudden a carrier of sorts come qp[...]s, after using this method to start full of dirt, and tipped over dumpiirg the contents off to the tr[...]t up Cuanr,ns AND MARv Koran's Devs Ar Rov[...]- |
| [...]er floor for part bought merchandise on credit and then there wasn't time living quarters during th[...]ed to the hardware, as it was too far to go back and forth sell the hardware, moving back to[...]to Anton KOLAR'S HARDWARE. With the homesteaders and Koliha's farm and is still standing there. The folks people moving[...]ar, Dad did a lot of freighting between Hilger and Roy Leona Kolar Thielmann, Viktor Kolar, Judith Kolar and into Lewistown with his lumber wagon and horses Berg, Willie Kolar and Louis Kolar. for supplies before the railroad cam[...]Their son, Adoll took over the farm at Moore and they at the Bert Sargent ranch on the outskirts of Roy where moved to the Lewistown farm. they fed and bedded the horses down for the night. The[...]r two sons Dad passed away July of 1960 and Mother continued while Dad was either working on[...]old the farm to Ed. In 1984 Mother was on Mondays and then return at the end of the week, so a[...]wood for the year, so sale, east of Roy, and they found a calendar that Dad he'd go to the Mis[...]t would break but finally he decided to turn back and the Kalina men for grving it to our famil[...]direction, as there now farms the homestead and we hope to keep it in the were no roads or trails[...]out somewhere. Sure the work, hardship and pleasure they had during that enough they stopped[...]as available. Tbey hauled water for the house use and the livestock, part of the time. October 4, LgL[...]the homestead with Grandmother (Katrina Sirucek) and her neighbor lady, Mrs. Zaruba, as midwives. Ther[...]rs had to help each other during sickness. Mother and Mrs. Zaruba saved a little boys life by making hi[...]player with their two sons, Jarnes and Adolf. They were They had the homestead all pro[...]nuary 14, 1885 in Czechos- in Lewistown and Milfred and Charles are both listed lovakia. Emma Kosmata[...]gus area. He lives They had five children. Emil and Evelyn were both in Billings and was a self employed car mechanic, born in[...] |
| [...]- and Marie had two children, Emil Jr. and Carley. his wife, Jean Stiff (o[...]Evelyn (Lohse) passed away in February of 1969 and do their two sons, David and Bruce. is buried in Kalispell.[...]ilfred "Mei" became an air traffic controller. he and Delphia attended Eastern Montana College and be- his wife, Nola, iive in Yakima, Washington and they came a teacher. The first school she taught[...]Anton passed away February 11, 1962 and is buried James Naylor and they lived at Danvers for many in Lewistown. years before retiring and moving to Lewistown. The Ko[...]Charles lives in Stockton. California where he and ranch.[...]the horses. While they were out binding and shocking Paul, Nebraska in 1915. My uncle, Joe, h[...]n on a hot summer day, my sister, younger brother and encouraged Dad to come to this new land as many and I were playing in front of the house. I was lying on people were coming and filing on homesteads. The my stomach on a bench along side the house and right country was being settled fast. Since most[...]just happened to come home from the field and killed it. ment of 160 acres from a bachelor, nam[...]grades. We walked across fields and I remember how My oldest brother and sister were born in Nebraska heavy o[...]. She is still living in Sumner, Washing- roof on and built a barn for the livestock, though it was[...]n named Lou Gerig. He was grant car as far as Roy and brought only the necessary very strict and I was so scared of him because he did things. Mot[...]oys. In later years I was grateful to paper shack and many times wished she could return to[...]oney they had to buy the The drought and depression years were especially Iand. With courage and determination they stuck it out. hard[...]garden without irrigation, able to see her family and friends. milked cows, raised chickens, raised hogs for meat and Land was covered with sagebrush so had to be[...]e planted. Rains came geesefor meat and we stripped feathers and Mother and crops were good until the terrible drought of 1919. made pillows and feather comforters. She baked all our The crop fa[...]The hay they bought It was hard and I am glad we don't have to iive like was shipped in and was very expensive and the that today. Mother at ag[...]was slough grass. home in Lewistown and enjoying pretty good health. Mother worked rig[...]o Hospital in brush, milking cows, shocking grain and working with Lewistown on October[...]t seems country. That is where I had my beginning and I enjoy everyone had a hard time, a few moved away' but the going back to visit old friends and see the homestead of majority stuck it out and never lost hope that better my parents.[...]titude When I reminisce about the old homestead and the and self-reliance. Adversity only slowed them down a[...]little. ten. There were many happy moments and simple Aithough we had to work hard and didn't have the |
| [...]e basic values was a wonderful place to grow up and commune with and appreciation of life. Our parents sacrifices and nature. There were no TV's, but a simple battery courage to survive in very harsh winters and years of powered radio which brought us the news and of course drought without bene{its of furna[...]a path for us to fol- wood, feed the livestock, and carry water into the house low. We can certai[...]or their for our daiiy use. We also had our cats and dogs. My Iove and solid values they instilled in us. most importan[...]a grew up on a horse. We spent many hours riding and herding cattle. 'q\[...]e of weather; rain, snow, biizzards, dust storms and sunny weather. It was a one room with dedicated teachers, who had all eight grades and who gave us the greatest gifi of all, that of wanting to learn and better ourselves; to be good citizens and to appre- ciate this great land called America.[...]y in 1939. From left to right: by the older kids and we learned beyond our grade Duffy, Cha[...]y later on. (Emil's wtfe)and Emil. The above conditions described may soun[...]kids were brought into this world by a mid-wife and never saw a doctor for many years. Outside of th[...]Neighbors were always willing to help each other and I remember going with Dad to the different neigh- bors and it was impossible to leave without enjoying the[...]was Emma too. She moved to Great Falls and he worked in the smelter in was Emma McCarty, a[...]Torvv AND MATILDA KozELUH information by Georgia Kozeluh Netterberg Tony and Matilda (Tillie) Kozeluh homesteaded in Other families who lived near were the Swobodas and Roy in 1913. They farmed 8 miles east of Roy. Til[...]Benishs. The Benish name was later parents, Frank and Anna Halla lived close to them.[...] |
| [...]Roy: Helen, went into the chicken house and got full of Georgia in 1914, Helen in 1916, Mildred in 1917, and mites! Evelyn in 1919. Paul was born in 1921 and Geraldine in "I was ornery," she says[...]n incident when 1929 after they had left the area and moved to Ballen- she scattered 100# of f[...]parents were outside and another time when she rubbed They lived in a tar paper shack and had, as Georgia Helena's hair full of ax[...]om winter the water wouid freeze inside the house and the Roy to Ballentine. blankets they wer[...]denelle, Arkansas and he passed away on January 11, "We had cows for milk and chickens and I suppose 1974. Tillie Halla was bor[...]had a garden; I know September 20, 1894 and passed away on November 5, he (father) raised pot[...]elen who died Georgia remembers a time when she and her sister, in April of 1971.[...]Lro nNo ANrorqm KneHuux Leo and Antonie (Pestal) Krahulik were married on[...]Leo was born on November 15, 1889 in Nebraska and They moved to Eugene, Oregon after they left the[...]tire ritual in Bohemian. Later ica as a young man and settled east of Roy in 1914. He a service was held in the Roy Church. Both father and married Anna Kasala in 1927.[...]the Roy Cemetery. Anna was the daughter of John and Rose Kasala. In 1934 Anna married[...]an. Jacob She was born in Czechoslovakia in 1901 and received was born in July of 1894 in Mi[...]. She was 13 when her parents came of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bedlan. He came to Montana in to Roy[...]when he was about 3 years old. Joe Anna and Jake lived and farmed on her former hus- died a year later. They[...]gton; Rose (Mrs. Thero Knapp) born 1906; Martinec and little son, James, came to America from[...]22,1924, panied by Mrs. Martinec's parents, James and Anna buried in the Roy Cemetery; Lou[...]l Griffith) born 1919, gtaduated from Buffalo sas and settled at Timken.[...]hman, Sophomore years-graduated at the mountains, and thus chose their homesite. Lewis[...]Grandmother Anna Vondracek was a mid-wife and born in Czechoslovakia 1902, died May 1969[...] |
| [...]rade. He built put the car in the garage and it was not used until one a stone barn, chicken house and out buildings on their ofthe boys learned[...]After his parents retired and moved to Lewistown in Mr. Martinec worked at th[...]II. It The Martinec children attended Coal Hill and Roy was in the Battle of the Bulge, t[...]wns wiped out, with the exception of himself and one Anna loved animals, especially the cows, cats and other soldier. He was the recipient of[...]edal, wounded in action 16 December in the strays and always made room for another. There 1944[...]1945. Our father was a gentle man and he would use his Anna Vondracek Mar[...]through the wire gate. He Frank Pospisil and they lived at Moore where they[...]Fnqlx AND ANNA Menrnqnc by LiIIian Pospisil Janss AND LENA Manrwnc James Martinec was born in 1902 in Czechoslovakia. Jim and Lena retired from ranching in 1965; leased |
| [...]JonN AND MARY Menusra information by Marie Vanek and Joltn Maruska Jr. John Maruska was born in Jirekov Habru, Kraj, John and Mary were wed on February 1, 1916 in |
| [...]us CouNry In 1924 John, along with John Horyna and Anton Ernest enlisted in the Air Force after high school |
| [...]IJJ Mr. and Mrs. Pospisil started their journey north[...]the Krahulik place which |
| [...]bors in were purchased in large quantities and usually lasted exchange for labor, favors or needed supplies. the year. Flour, sugar and salt came in cloth bags. Washing clothes was a[...]two copper sacks were saved for pillow cases and for storing dry boilers heating water. A small ta[...]d on top. Electrical storms were frequent and violent, without The scrub board came out and the process began. This production of rain.[...]ne of these storms. The structure was were washed and then boiled for several hours to regain located[...]the tree making the hair on her head and arms sting. Soap for washing was also made at[...]nging in her ears for several days. She was saved and boiled up with lye creating a thick con- also[...]ch struck the coction which was poured into pans and later cut into chimney of the house and traveled down through the bars before hardening. Hand and face soap was usually stove pipes and blew open the door on the front of the "Lifeboy"[...]d for laundry purposes. around the room and finally hit a corner of the kitchen, Bathing w[...]l as water had to be heated blackening the wall and floor. in large quantities. Once again the round[...]b or water trough was brought in. A fue was built and gathered and played cards by kerosene lamp. Occa- bathing bega[...]t her wonderful poppy seed frlled kol- the family and proceeded with each person always aches.[...]anterns. Once Ail farming was done with borses and horse drawn in awhile a baseball game was h[...]mber of the family took were wrapped in cloth and placed at the foot of the bed part in this chore,[...]r warmth. Occasionally a small glass of home-made and three hay racks were readied each fall for harves[...]to year, the wood in the wheels shrank so wagons and hay undress for bed in a sub-zero bedroom! racks were pushed into a reservoir and left until swel- During the year, ducks and geese were relieved of ling had adquately taken place and once again the their feathers, during mou[...]were made to Roy to feathers were bagged and saved. On long cold winter acquire coal for winte[...]e made evenings these bags were brought out and everyone until an adequate amount for winter use[...]Roy, was given to each person. The feathers and down were trips were made to RounduB. Children lo[...]inted on these small squares of paper was and when enough down was acquired pillows and "Bucking Bronco, Roundup Coal."[...]avy tarp-like baking bread, she had left the door and window open, ticking. These were filled each[...]the mattresses were taken outside, being watched and the hair on her neck raised. She emptied of straw and washed. Buttons for the closures turned to see tw[...]s or velcro in those said they muttered something and pointed at the bread. days. Straw was stuffed in and once again, fresh mat- She hastily gave them the bread and they left without tresses for another year. i[...]mb to annual trips were made to Lewistown by team and the roof and plunge the broom up and down the chim- wagon. These trips took several days. Food staples and ney. Next the stove pipes came down and were carefully |
| [...]more frequent and faster. The first car the Pospisils[...]the team of horses was harnessed and hitched to the automobile and the race was on with the horses going[...]wide open and a cloud of steam coming from their[...]breath and body heat. Some brave driver would be[...]Roy. He lived there for many years and was later joined[...]Pospisil lived in Lewistown for a short time and then from I. to r. are: Rudolph, the next two (lady and man) moved back to Roy and made her home with her son are relatiues from Neb[...]nie, Lillian tl)ith Bill kneeling in front of her and of 93. Rudolph passed away the same ye[...]n 1963. Ieft is Euelyn, fourth from left is Helen and Normq" is on the end of the row. The other childr[...]relatiues. carried some distance from the house and cleaned, then |
| [...]s born parents in 1910. He attended school in Roy and in in January of 1951 and Pauline in November of 1961. Lewistown and then ranched with his parents.[...]ipps. They ranch near Gilt On June 26, 1946 he and Lillian Thomes were mar- Edge and their 3 children attend school in Grass Range. ri[...]Vivian married Kenny Martin, son of Harold and in 7977, sold their place to Olaf Negaard and moved Amy Martin. They live at Belgrade and also have 3 into Lewistown.[...]e they bought when they Dan Scyphers and has one son. moved into town.[...]ny. The couple had four daughters: twins, Dinah and They live in Lewistown with their 3 children. JosrpH Rnllrcx AND MARy Menrnvec Rrlmcr[...]oslova- Mr. Rellick was a WWI Veteran and a member of the FneNx AND SrELr,A Ruznr (Ruzrcr)[...]her parents. She grew up in Chicago where she |
| [...]FneNx AND LEoNa Snorv Leona Sirucek, daughter of Jacob and Katerina were improved, making life easier. |
| [...]were dug, but the break out the coal and haui it home. It was a soft coal water was often bitter. Small dams were made across and was red in color and was very hard to get. When coulees and they filled with rain water. The men finally[...]ect was to move the house to the ter time and used during the summer. Many gailons of water whi[...]yed the accor- years before selling it and buying a farm near Moore. dian and music was furnished by anyone who wanted Jacob Sirucek died in June of 1946 and Katerina l0 to play, The one in charge of the dan[...]ril of 1947. Joe passed away in 1956, keg of beer and later at the dance a hat would be passed Frank in i962, Emil and Willie in 1965, Rosie in 1975 around and the men would chip in enough money to and Louis in 19p4. pay for it. A lunch was served con[...]eona still lives in the Roy area on the ranch she and and poppyseed and prune kolaches or cake. Everyone her[...]developed; Bessie lives in always had a good time and looked forward to the next Idaho and Mary (Mrs. Charles Kolar) resides in a dance.[...]nough land to make a living. He sold out to Jacob and bought a place near Glengarry. As families wit[...]e. Frank's 14 x 16 foot homestead shack was moved and used for a school, temporarily. It was known as t[...]rger schoolhouse was built later on. Sage hens and jackrabbits were very numerous then. Men would come to the Sirucek place with their guns and ail would go on a rabbit hunt. They would spread out, far apart from each other, and walk in the same[...]fr.ft. and cieaned and everyone took some meat home. It was T[...]hers to celebrate the Golden a fun day of hunting and visiting. Anniuersary of Jacob and Katerina Sirucek on the Later on logs were haul[...]w that there was coal in the nearby Emil and BilL. Front row: Rose, Mary (Kolar), Bessie hills and with a scraper and horses they would move and Leona (Siroky). Seated: Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sirucek. the soil off of the hill side and then with handpicks, Taken on October 12.1936. Lpoorcen AND FRANTISKA "FRANCES" SKALKA |
| [...]- spent 18 months in France and was wounded in combat. met my mother and was married. He bought a grocery My father was[...]tlement was $75.001 Judge and Police officer in Morse Bluff, Nebraska. He Wh[...]When he became too disabled to work my father and I ters and built many of the early buildings in Roy and spent all of our time together, traveling and even living for homesteaders of the area. My fath[...]or three years. He carpenter, bought a dray wagon and moved home- died in the Vetera[...]St. Patricks Day, 1957 at the age of 79. He and I were belongings, to their homesteads. He also h[...]e closest of friends. He tried mining at Landusky and hotel in town where they slept, while locating a home- Zortman and cut timber up on the Missouri, north of stead. Th[...]d of many early day saloon,fights and land disputes. I guitar and Uncle Joe the violin. They were much in[...]ied a suitcase of clothing of a home- My father and his brother never returned to Roy after[...]n my father left, he just left every- and filled it with cow chips and let him carry it, walk- thing and went to war. I understand that my Uncle Joe ing all day to his homestead shack. And returning the sold his homestad, I do not know to[...]supply of groceries and laughing with him over the My father was one of[...]ers that came humor of the situation. and went; an adventurer, one of the last of the breed. He My Dad and Uncle Joe, who died in Sandpoint, Idaho was able[...]work as a ranch echo over the plains and in the dark recesses of Black hand in Nebraska (C[...]tain, a haunting refrain, that they too, trapping and was one of Omaha, Nebraskas earliest helped to shape the community and build a nation! motorcycle policemen. (1911) He m[...]Note: They also built a Z.C.B.J. Lodge Hall and a lems, went to Roy to homestead with his brother[...]hese were also ran a saloon in Clarkson, Nebraska and one in their largest building proj[...]discharge from the Czech ancestry and Kolin was settled largely by people Army in 1919,[...]BJ. FneNr AND EMMA Vontcre Jaurs AND ANNA Honecnr VoNoRecex[...]by Albina Martinec Bawden |
| [...]Their daughter, Martha, died at child-birth and a Kansas and then came to Montana with their children baby daughter survived. The grandparents went back and homesteaded over the hill, east of Marti.necs. Theirs to Kansas to bring back and raise the baby, named was the ranch that became[...]. He stayed Martha after her mother and a boy, James yecha. The with them and worked, and when the Vondraceks grandparen[...]Yecha decided to raise the children himself and did not Anna Vondracek was a mid-wife and delivered all let them come to Montana. He then remarried and the twelve of her daughter's children. Another d[...]children were raised at home. settled in Kansas and died there. She was the mother of Vaclav and Anna, not getting the children, returned Martha Yecha who married Lynn Phillips and bore his to Montana. While they wer[...]Jim went to Lewistown with his father, Frank, and Grandfather James (Vaclav) Vondracek, born in[...]ster he was able to earn money for clothes and winter 1933, 79 years. buried in Roy Cemet[...]continued farming and planted current and apple trees[...]clev Vonnnacex AND ANNA They stayed o[...]later married a lady with two children; Vaclav and Anna Vondracek came to America from Bill and Steffie. A daughter Stella, was born to the famil[...]en, Kansas. From Stella grew up and went to country school in the area. there they decided to go west and locate on a home-[...]After Martha grew up she and her brother, Jim[...]Yecha, visited their grandparents, the Vondraceks and here on a homestead. They left a daughter, Martha[...]usin, Sylvia Martenic, accompanied her. Vaclav and Anna built a stone house out of flat sand rock; a[...]Sylvia remained in Kansas. and sold eggs. They took their grandson, Jim Martinec[...]the cafe in Roy when she met in to live with them and to help do the necessary ranch[...]information from Clyde Warner and Wilma Warner Ford Arthur W. and his wife, Mina (Railsback) came to the Mother and I would take the cream and eggs to town Roy area abour lg15 and homesteaded T 18N R 2BE in the spring and fall of 191g to Ig2B, when it was not parts of sections: 21, 22,27, and 28. Warner received the too hot. The egg[...]president Woodrow Wilson. on Novem- and the cream cans were covered with damp sacks. We o[...]uld sell all the eggs we couid to private houses, and The family came from Iowa. There were four chil[...]the team to a little creek nearby to water them and put 1909 to March 13, 1954 and Clyde Orlan, November 12, the feed bags on. I was now ready for town and a six 191l-[...]We always went by Joe Murphy's garage and Vicker's Ciaire Dollie, lv{ay 2, 1915; Doris Marg[...]visited the bakery 1919, both born on the ranch and Wilma Jean, born for some other go[...]I remember how the train came into the depot and The only one in our family born in a hospital[...]a Y. There were two elevators which Wilma. Mother and the new baby came on the train d[...]s during harvest. A reward of the from Lewistou'n and May Kennett met them with the trip to town was a sack of candy included with our team and spring wagon to t,ake them home" I will ne[...] |
| [...]Their daughter, Martha, died at child-birth and a Kansas and then came to Montana with their children baby daughter survived. The grandparents went back and homesteaded over the hill, east of Martinecs. Theirs to Kansas to bring back and raise the baby, named was the ranch that became J[...]s. He stayed Martha after her mother and a boy, James Yecha. The with them and worked, and when the Vondraceks grandparen[...]Yecha decided to raise the children himself and did not Anna Vondracek was a mid-wife and delivered all let them come to Montana. He then remarried and the twelve of her daughter's children. Another da[...]children were raised at home. settled in Kansas and died there. She was the mother of Vaclav and Anna, not getting the children, returned Martha Yecha who married Lynn Phillips and bore his to Montana. While they were[...]Jim went to Lewistown with his father, Frank, and Grandfather James (Vaclav) Vondracek, born in[...]ster he was abie to earn money for clothes and winter 1933, 79 years. buried in Roy Cemetery.[...]continued farming and planted current and apple trees[...]which all produced fruit. Vecr-ev AND ANNA Vor{oRacsx They s[...]later married a lady with two children; Vaclav and Anna Vondracek came to America from Bill and Steffie. A daughter Stella, was born to the famil[...]ken, Kansas. From Stella grew up and went to country school in the area. there they decided to go west and locate on a home- M[...]After Martha grew up she and her brother, Jim 160 acres. Their daughter, Anna[...]Yecha, visited their grandparents, the Vondraceks and here on a homestead. They left a daughter, Martha[...]usin, Sylvia Martenic, accompanied her. Vaclav and Anna built a stone house out of flat sand[...]any chickens Sylvia remained in Kansas. and sold eggs. They took their grandson, Jim Martinec[...]the cafe in Roy when she met in to live with them and to help do the necessarv ranch Lynn Phil[...]information from Clyde Warner and Wilma Warner Ford Arthur W. and his wife, Mina (Railsback) came to the Mother and I would take the cream and eggs to town |
| [...]s equipped with starter, slipped and fell on the steep bank, throwing the rider off speedometer, demountable rims, chains, spare tire, and in that manner, is, of course,[...]The horse made his way across the stream and came[...]eight years. He is survived by a wife and seven children, The family left the area after[...]eek, Thursday homesteaded in i914 and my Grandmother, Kate Rails- afternoon.[...]nd is Coronor Curtis W. Wilder was notified and together[...]My mother and the five youngest children, which testimony o[...]the spring of L924 foliow- back to Lewistown and shipped Saturday afternoon to the ing[...]be alive. We were rounding up cattle and I had just left made. Two of his sons, Cecil and Earl, accompanied the him to go anoth[...]he rode into the creek. Mr. Warner and his sons had been gathering cattle for[...]e happy times to several days in that section and last Thursday left their remember. We attended Bear Creek School" There were home as usual and after proceeding: some distance from box suppers and dances to attend. I remember the town the pla[...]near the Kalina place and Joe loaned him a pair of attached to his not[...]returned a search was at comes to mind and the people were always helpful and once instituted, the parties going out to the[...]ghborly. they had separated the previous day, and taking up the I still remember ever[...]e down some three feet from the day previous, and followed received our mail once each we[...]Bare, Fred Schultz and his brother. where he had clambered out ofthe creek bank. Wires weie stretched across the creek and the process of[...]he body finally being Lewistown paper and an article telling of frnding the found at ab[...]one of the boys swam out to My brother and I went in this cabin the last year we the island and fastened a rope to the body and brought it were in Montana, to escape a[...]Kaiina playing the accordian. been washed out and the horse and rider were plunged[...]liked to hear him play and he seemed to enjoy playing. Warner was wearing knee length rubber boots and spurs which would make it extremely hard for[...]er the horse on entering the creek had and moved to town. |
| [...]al desire of people in the Grass Range, Roy and Valentine sections, Sheriff Firmin Tullock[...]Juiy 2, for the purpose of making a thorough and extended search for any evidence that may t[...]Father, Arthur, under a lot of bedding, and Randolph seemed nervous Mother, Mino and whenever anyone went toward the rear of the[...]ond Doris. with Afflerback at that time and had the body in the car. el! It is the[...]s mur- 0.. i dered by his prisoner and it is the hope that this search n. party[...]Dory J.V. Puckett started the Dory store and post office which ran from 1915 to 1918. He also carried the mail from Roy to Valentine. The store and post offrce was just off the north Valentine road[...]The first trustees were Lee Jacobs and J. Asbergee.[...]gan and Minnie Luton. In 1927 Joe Kosir and Blazej[...]Lelek had their land transferred from 131 and 140 to[...]ight: Donald Myers, Charlie Lelek, Harold Puckett and Vic- tor Lelek. |
| [...]nY FnaNrx AND EMMA Meorsox Bann[...]d when we came to Montana so I |
| [...]Henny JoHNsoN Fanrly Mr. and \Irs. Harry Johnson were homesteaders in[...]His father helped Mr. |
| [...]Butzu Lnmx Fanati-v Blazej Leiek and Mary Holoubeck were married in 19[...]rom Czechoslovakia. Blazej carrier. He and his wife, Barbara "Teddy" had four was a barber b[...]stead daughters: Vicki. Linda, Laurie and Janis whom they in the spring of 1912. Their homestead lay 15 miles east lost. of Roy and 1 miie southeast of the Dory post office and Ernest workeC in the oil fields in Wy[...]the Lindstrum post office. Blazej talked and Texas until he retired in 1986. He lives in Coior[...]at City, Texas. time they were friendly and did no harm. Edward is deceased and is buried in Silver Springs, He was a partner in a threshing machine and steam Arkansas. engine along with Ch[...]Colorado City, Texas where she Mike Myers, Frank and Joe Kosier, Grover Beal and was visiting in I974 and is buried there. Blazej died in John Tuma. Blazej usually hauled the coal and water 'I[...]982 at the ase of 98. and is buried in Lewistown. for the steam engine. Cha[...]k homestead is now owned by Agusta Myers engineer and Swan Johnson or Joe Kosier were the and is leased and farmed by Larry Kalina. thresher operators. There were usualiy 8 or 10 bundle wagons and 2 grain wagons. Combines replaced the sfeam thres[...]first tractor used on the farm in 1938. Blazej and Mary were the parents of four sons: Edward born M[...]rn December 26, 1917, Victor born January 1, 1921 and Ernest born Sep- tember 2, 1926. The boys attended the Box Elder and Dory grade schools and Roy High School. Up until about 1922 most of the groceries and supplies used by the Lelek famiiy were purchased[...]at they went into Roy for their purchases. A team and wagon were the main method of travel used. Dur[...]Charles in left: Charles, Blazej, Mary and Edward with Victor in the Army Engineers, Victor in the Navy and Ernest in front. the Marines. Only C[...]injury he suf- fered in the war he could not farm and so moved into Lew'istown where he has been associ[...]e business for many years. He married Ethel Bowen and they have two children: Wayne and Nancy (Wichman). Victor also stayed in the Cent[...]town. He worked for ten years in a hardware store and then from Threshing scene at th[...]ad about to Nebraska rainfall of 30" and saw no reason to be[...]n Ro5'. Then he took up a homestead where he Cook and Reynolds Land Co. These were managers of[...]He later sold his homestead to the Pucketts and |
| [...]s from John Hultberg, or Holtberg, 2 1937 and also moved to Bozeman. A son, Charlie Pis- miles[...]f he kac, worked in the Red Elevator until WWI and upon bought a hammer and a square and a saw and became being discharged moved to Nebraska. Jerry Piskac an immediate carpenter and buili several buildings in changed his name to Prescott and resided in a nursing town, as well as some farm b[...]1891 in Czechoslovakia, died February 22, Piskac and this he did until 1929, when the drouth and 1970 in Bozeman, Montana; Anna Piskac Pacovsky the depression hit. Then he sold his accordion and born March 22, 1890 in Czechoslovakia, m[...]; Gerald E. Pacovsky Grandfather, Anton Piskac, and wife, Katerina, born September 30, 192[...]7; all born in Roy, Montana; Patricia east of Roy and settled with son, Jerry, and daughter, Ann Pacovsky (Campbell) born Septe[...]information by Marie Peterson Lirnpus Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peterson and family came to family moved to Winifred, she taught in that area. |
| [...]County road department Kansas was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Peterson. for a numb[...]one Mary Angela Dean, the daughter of James Dean and ofthe first gas-powered grade[...]s interred in the from Thurston, Nebraska in 1914 and homesteaded Lewistown City Cemetery. east of Roy at the above location. Four sons and five Mrs. Peterson went to Para[...]in Lewistown. (Works), Anne (Murray) now deceased and Verle Frank- Besides their c[...]rom tick fever at the age of 19. children and 21 great-g"randchildren.[...]My father, Charles Puckett, homesteaded in 1913 and 1912 and homesteaded fifteen miles east of Roy, Mon-[...]ad sold his farm brother, Donald and I came to Hilger, Montana, in the near Pender, Nebraska and was looking for land for spring of 1914 and went to the homestead by team and himself and his sons.[...]n Lewistown in In about 1915 he started a store and post office 1918. He was lost[...]l My dad lost his homestead in 1929 and we bought a from Roy to Valentine. He also bought[...]ours where we lived till I got married to engine and a threshing machine and threshed all the Arlene and I bought dad's share of the ranch in 1953. way fr[...]We lived there till we sold the ranch in 1979 and moved business man, he went broke in 1921 and left. He to Billings, Montana. Our children, Frank and Nancy, passed away in 1937 in Lewistown. were born in Lewistown and graduated from Roy High I had three uncles, Elvin, Foster and Joy Puckett, Schooi and from college in 1978. Frank is a Doctor of and their sister, Maude Puckett Wilson, who came to Optometry and lives in Monument, Colorado. Nancy Montana too. M[...]Oscar Nelson, had a (Verschoot) and family have a ranch near Lambert, homestead next[...]tana were her Bank, Montana and passed away in 1954. brothers, Arthur and Ed Nelson and a sister, Mildred Twelve famil[...]ht, a must on all homesteads, where food was kept and where families found refuge during sumrler wind storms, if needed. L. to R. in the picture are: Charles and Emily Puchett, Mildred Nelson Puckett (Distad), Vernon and Donald Puchett and Oscar Nelson, Emily ond Mildreds father, |
| [...]onrHn.csrERN FERcus CouNTy all had left the area and we were the oniy famiiy that |
| [...]tells about his mother trying to learn to horse and buggy to travel. In the 50's a few still did drive. She loved to go visiting and so decided, one day, their ranch chores with a t[...]lf. She got the car backed came by foot, by team and wagon and or by train. out of the garage al[...]that it zoomed backward and right straight up the Scattered through out the prairie one can still find a g:ranary *'all and slid back down. In her excitement she few remain[...]brake, *'ith the same results. A few more tries and she only a man'could tame her wiles'. They were[...]driving, for good. table. The thin, upholstered and unpadded, hard board The drivers of these new vehicles often forgot that seats and backs were stiff and unyielding. they had to watc[...]tales toid of these old Model A's trail. And they bften steered in the direction in which speeding through sage brush, rock and rut at unbeliev- they were looking. One[...]y have speedometers? at pretty girls and more than one would have to duck in The rum-ru[...]day vehicle was higher Nashes; big touring cars. And they always had ele- than it u'as lo[...]ed by a bunch of country fellows. It out of town and home is one of life's mysteries. But they occurred at a dance at the Bohemian Hall. did, and then began the process of mastering the[...]not respond to Whoa. Marie very proud and of course he had to brag it up, some- Zahn recal[...]r. Jones, the mail carrier, was there that day and of course he could drive a car. Joe did not kn[...]ructi.ons. He told him what everything was for and how to operate it. The gas feed was on the steering wheel and there was a pedal for low gear, a reverse and brake pedal. Joe got the car cranked up and going. Oniy Jones didn't get in with him, he j[...]He'd come around to where Jones w"as standing and yell, "How do I stop!" Mr. Jones would yell[...]a circle 'about a good half-mile, up the ridge and babk'. This process continued, until Joe ran ou[...]hill in these autos was hazardous enough, and going uphill required skiilful navigation. Gas was gravity fed and when the carbureror got higher than the gas tank,[...]fed to the motor. So - they would turn around and go up the hiil back- wardsl When one fellow bough[...]problem by building a garage Mart and Curley Willmore and son's, Warren and with a door at both ends.[...] |
| [...]would run. Bill obliged and shifted into reverse and gently eased up on the gear shift pedal and fed the gas.[...]giving it enough gas. Bill took his advice and put his foot to the floorboard and as he did the pranksters[...]vehicle, with the Tom Hutton pulling a surueyor and his uehicle result that the car s[...]uri Riuer bottoms. The fellow speed and wiped out several feet of new fence and neuer thought about how he wos going to get out[...]ed. To his dying day he never days before roads and it was ouer rock and sage did figure out exactly what stuck in that engine! and ruts he traueled enroute down the hill.[...]About 1920 a fellow rode into Roy and bought it was envy, just plain orneriness or the[...]ew men decided to paid cash for it and took it out for a little drive. He play a prank o[...]brought it back a little while later and told Joe While several kept Bill busy describin[...]his new car, a couple others slipped out the door and He walked off and never came back. got the vehicle set up on blocks[...]He gave them the tour; got in, started the motor and from or what happened to him. beamed at the Oohs and Ahhs. over the smooth run-[...]river hills. This meant we didn't have to walk up and in the yard?" To my children, who were born in the 40's, down the river hill to go fishing and camping. Some' the Model T is of no special signi[...]ho had their share not to mention the frustration and anxiety the Model T of trouble going forward. Consequently my mother and caused the owners. It may not start or it might r[...]. tried to make mechanics out of hors'emen and farmers. When viewing a torn and patched wire gate, of which The horseman, farmer and the Model T were equal as there were many in thos[...]ould know that a one strived to run it and the other strived to run. Can Model T had run thr[...]LL Basebail was 'the' game in those early years and Roy put together. Roy's first team was o[...]top teams in the league. It seems that the and was made up of alJ local fellows. A few of[...] |
| [...]cellent players. Basebali was serious business and piayers received a salar:y. In 1917 it was report[...]t Wijliams, a pitcher, Bud Edmundson, 3rd baseman and C. Edding- ton, an infielder, were imported from[...]picture are, back row, on the left: Curt Wiiliams and Jimmy O'Toole. L.M.A. Wass is at the far right. D[...]ley, Clyde Story, Bill More, John Cox, Hurley Cox and Walter Cox. WtNru[...]d the summer with I got my groceries and came out and people were all |
| [...]srnRN Fenous Couurv to gather up the money and then one of them went out the tify by a bullet hole clear through from the rear and whiel, |
| [...]- Phillips, Jim Kipp and Ted Putro will be on hand to put on a[...]LaFountain, Bareback; Lew McMillan, calf roping and Irvin Lewistown; Clarence Saunders of Musselshell; Bill Swears, Smith, cow milking. Hilger; and Ray Carr of Christina are more of the cowboys[...]horse race, relay race, wild cow milking and calf roping. crowd. A cowboy parade will go through the town and travel Baseball game: Roy vs. Winn[...]y the WPA. 1ocal auctioneer will be the announcer and MC. Walter Haney is the town Marshall.[...]Hickey Ranch, 1 mile west of Roy and steer riding); bulldogging; wild horse race; wild[...]In the 40's the Komarek Brothers, Speed and George, ing; roping maverick race (roping a calf and branding it) and were promoters for several rodeos. hors[...]an arena director. A big parade was held. DeSilva and the Killham boys are entered in the circingle rid[...]aiterfield) was rodeo queen" In the Concessions and picnic areas are provided as well as Frank[...]oing ihe roping, Francis LaFountain Creamery boys and the local team, following the rodeo. A[...]Larry Jordan and Speed Komarek. AIl the citizens of Valley View,[...]ly 1947-Ed Styer was the producer of the 4th and 5th Macaha, Little Crooked, Wilder, Valentine and Fergus are[...]was lst in calf roping; Sonny Smith 2nd. success and there was an overflow crowd ofbetween five and July 3rd & 4th, 1948-George Kom[...]. Jackson arena rodeo. Jim Kipp and Lynn Phillips were a couple of the top riders[...]that he promoted in ranch cowboy - "broke horses and ran wild horses in the Le[...]4th. Speed Komarek and Wade Buffington won the VALENTINE RODEO,[...]team roping; Sonny Smith and Jack Stevens were 2nd. Cowboy's bucking contest[...]hat year that several community calf roping, $i5. and 5.; maverick race, one calf or g15.; 1/4 members met and organized the Roy Rodeo Club. In the mile horse race, 920, and 10.; pony race, $10. and Ladies race, two months between April and June the action was $10.[...]ers traveled to the nearby mountains Bob Covert and Roland Mathews, in charge. Roy Hanson's and cut the posts and poles for the project. hrrnlrino cirino[...]Charlie Phillips the secretary and Clay Smith the[...]treasurer. ROY RODEO AND HARVEST FESTIVAL[...]ored by Harry Dundom, general and to work out details on a dinner and a dance that manager; James Dundom, secretary and treasurer and Sam was held following the first[...]George Komarek drew up the arena plans and as was Bronc busting, steer riding, bulldogg'in[...]rted in a June 1952 issue of the Lewistown paper: and fancy riding, along with horse races. 9700, prize[...]29th. The arena has been completed and plans are being grasses, vegetables, sewing and cooking. made[...]9 Dick Fergus placed 2nd in the bucking contest and lst in "The rodeo club hopes to make it an annual event and bareback at a Gilt Edge Rodeo.[...]ig success. A.n election rally prizes and 2,000 spectators were on hand to cheer them was h[...]p moneys went Jordan, Jim Phillips and George Komarek each pro- |
| [...]nN FeRcus CouNrv vided 15 head of bucking horses and cattle were Ju[...]utstanding |
| [...]dway between the two rather large Fergus ranches and it's post office was to replace the original Ferg[...]carrying the mail, it was carried by stage coach and left at the local post offices established at mos[...]the James Fergus ranch (Yaegers) on Armeljs Creek and another at the Gilpatrick ranch. When the post of[...]included a grain elevator, two dwellings, a store and post office combined, a school, a church, a community hall and a smalj farmer-owned oil and gas cooperative. I have a fuel ticket from that g[...]elevator was built by Western Grain & Lumber Co. and had a capacity of 12,000 bushels. The Lewistown[...]the cjub was to "promote the social, intellectual and material welfare of the community." The club beca[...]g was purchased from near the Armells post office and moved. by volunteers io the Fergus townsite. The[...]community building at its old site, was re-roofed and remodeled in 1954 and a "homecoming" was scheduled. Past residents, friends and relatives attended from many areas. A yearly harvest dinner was provided by the club members and was well received. This was a Thanksgiving-type meal and enjoyed by many. The home-cooked meal was particu[...]vided at the club building, all by volunteer help and today it stands in good condition. Farm consoli[...]part of it is the garage at the old Fergus store and part of it is the old station at the Bohemian Corners. The store and post office was[...]-o'o"a near the state ilighway and later closed. The church was moved to Roy. The to[...]which is closed for lack of students, a dwelling and the community club building which is still used o[...]ls in this district: Fergus, Romunstad, Knob Hill and Horse Ranch. The first trustees were Odin Romunstad, Andrew Fergus and Clamore Maury. There was not much information on Knob Hill and Horse Ranch school but they are mentioned in manv[...]rst teacher. Pauline Patton taught for many years and later became the County Superintendent of Schools[...]ere: Jenn-v McEneaney, Bertha Huey, Selma Ulsaker and Zelma Gordon. The last Leacher was Margaret Cannan in i977-7E. The district was abandoned in lgSi and annexed to Rov. |
| [...]different farmers in the summer and lived in this[...]hn TindalL, Margit Rindal, Irene Christensen, and Grace Jones. Middle row: Robert Jones, Jimmy and Norman Rindal. Front row: Raymond Tindall, Fa[...]Wyule Adams, Georgia Adams, Ernest Harrell and sidewaiks and it's a sure bet that classes weren't dis-[...]first trustees were: C.J. Romunstad, Anton Rindal and Will Landru. Romona Britzius was the last teacher[...]Jnssn AND ADA Man Aoevs[...]by Wyule Potterf Jesse Adams came from Missouri and homesteaded Robert in 1930. in th[...]na area in 1928. Jesse passed His wife, Ada Mae, and their three year old daughter, away in 1[...]915, Earl in 1920, Margaret in 1922, Lois in 1925 and Wyvlie married Ernest Egger in i930 and they lived |
| [...]that were matched and full of spirit. Morgaret Adams and He ordered a kit of new harness[...]Alene Willis when bridles, and two-seated buggy from a catalog.[...]ttending He assembled the buggy and painted it black[...]early one morning, put on our Sunday best and loaded up the eggs and cream. It was a hot day, so[...]My sister and I were riding in the back seat. I[...]was probably eight or nine years old and my[...]Ioaded, I couldn't wait to raise that umbrella. And[...]The horses went crazy and my dad couldn't do a[...]Alice Knowles, the teacher. eggs and cream everywhere. My dad jumped as lilyule ond G[...]hill. The cream can hit Harrell; Frank (Charles) and George Petraneh; Earl my sist[...]bottom of the coulee and couldn't walk. My dad[...]was a good sized person. two years, then to Roy and lived there from 1937 to I wa[...]my head off. daughters: Doroihy, Heien, Shirley and Mary Joe. My folks sent me[...]help. They lived a couple miles from us and I married William Glenn Potterf in 1960. He passed away walked there and they brought me home. in 1966.[...]IVIy mom's back was hurt and she spent quite Wyvle composed the foilowing story about an experi- some time in bed and Mrs. McKerlie stayed and ence she remembers from her chiidhood days on th[...]neighbors. My dad was a proud man and took a lot of pride in When th[...]orrel mares was their collars and the neck voke![...]a short but exciting life. The cattle and horses. young Fergus rancher died May 19, 1936 in[...]een flyrng time resident of ihe community, and who was teaching quite low, g:eeting friends when[...]who was the first to He was considered the best automotive engineer in reach the accident, and his mother and sisters at the community at that time, and was also an expert IJrbana, Illinois and his grandparents at Modesto, motorcycle rider and car driver. He drove truck for two Illinois, his home state. years, making trips to Billings and other points with[...]JoHw Beamy Farurr,y John M. Beatty lived in and near the Fergus area for paper in them."[...]887 in Maiden. He had a area where he homesteaded and for a time when he sister, Nita, who married Pete Patterson, a Lewistown lived at Cheadle and at Stanford. At Stanford he made chiropractor, and two brothers, Charles, aiso a Lewis- his living a[...]ad the tobacco shipped town chiropractor and Bert. Another sister died in in from one of the s[...]ught John married Ella Donahue and the couple was over the counter weren't an[...] |
| [...]excellent condition and current residents are Dave and[...]during his younger days; how tough it was to walk and to feed the cattle. When he and Ella were newly married[...]mark the ewes and lambs, in the spring, they tried[...]sheep business and need for pasture is what originally[...]fall of that same year John John and Myrtie Beatty married[...]and married Phyllis Parks. They later moved to Great[...]Kenny and Kathy.[...]88 years. Ralph and Mrrtie moved into a new mobile[...]Ralph never married. He served in the European and African theaters of war during WWII and was dis-[...]Sergeant. He ranched with his dad and after the place[...]982 at the age of 71, John Beattl' and son Ralph from cancer. Ralph and his parents are buried together[...]Myrtie still maintains her home in Fergus and keeps The Beattys bought the original Blanchard[...]active, raising chickens, with crafts and as a member of Fergus from Cook Re1'nolds in the early forties and the once very active Fergus Community Club and the ranched there untii the late 70's rvhen the p[...]r John's death. remain) and in traveling to Great Falls to visit her son Th[...]is slill nrr tho.lo.o;c ih. ^.iginal one and family and to Billings to visit her sister. Enrvssr AND BLANCHE BuRBRTDGE Ernest Burbrrdgt[...]tana with his parents Larry in 1939; and Audrey in 1941. |
| [...]who was a pioneer rancher on lower Spring Creek and this area for some time. He had four sons: E.L. C[...]Road. Harley of Huron, South Dakota and W. Virgil of Lewis- William Clegg[...]Jon H. Donny AND FAMTLY[...]aginnis, 11 August There were Ambrose and Ralph LaRocque, the 1888; he died 12 April 1948 and is buried at St. Paul's LaFountains, Demos, and Davises. All owned land Mission, Hays, Montana.[...]cque was Isabelle LaRocque's Julia A. Gardipee and Joe H. Doney were married, 24 husband. Nov[...]dipee's log cabin on 1890; she died 20 March 1970 and is buried at St. Paul's his place southwest[...]rn 20 May My husband, Michael Morin and I lived in Roy when 1912, died in 1954 at Mesa, A[...]they were building the new highway - i91 and 19. We Morin, born 14 November 1914; Eugene "Happ[...]ry 1918; Marie Doney Morin, born months and this was in 1958 or'59. 7 June 1919; Bernice Done[...]re trappers, 1925 at Fergus, died 10 January 1976 and is buried at traders, scouts, ex-soldiers and miners; a good many St. Paul's Mission, Hays; Charles "Lindy" Doney, born married Indian girls and most had common names. In 26 December 1927 at Lewistown and Mabel Doney contrast to these, th[...]East into North Dakota, then to Canada and back to Marie Doney Morin has four sons: Marvin[...]., born 27 October 1938; Douglas descent, and mainly had French names. These people A., born 30 April 1943 and Dwight F., born 28 August 1948. were given no land and were called "Landless Indi- Marie Doney Morin w[...]ans". They were later given US citizenship and were steaded southwest of Roy in the early 1900's and lived free to file on government land, whi[...]A prominent name in the latter French Canadians, and then the family moved back to Roy. Her parents[...]e, Fiant, Fluery, Lavadure, went to the Romunstad and Roy schools and got our Turcotte. to name a few." mail and groceries at either Fergus or Roy. We traveled by team and wagon in the early years. My family left this area in 1933. My grandparents were John and Virginia Doney and Eli and Marie Gardipee and had homesteads south and southwest of Roy. John Doney's place was southwes[...](Mount) and Eli Gardipee's place was near Black Butte, whi[...]ie (Morin), was later known as the Moulsby place, and still later[...] |
| [...]ry Enweno AND ALVTNe DoucunRry Edward William Dougherty was b[...]next child, Ruth, was also born on the |
| [...]McKerlie's Construction. work at Penney's and Ernie went back to Victor Con" I raised a big gar[...]We City Cemetery. In 1952 we moved in and I'm still there. sold milk, cream, eggs and chickens for spending money. Ernie had a stroke and passed away in November of Pete Forte lived with us in Roy and moved to Lewis- Iyco. town with us. He u[...]ure In February of 1960 Glenn Potterf and I were married. for me. Pete moved to a nursing h[...]He had four daughters: Glenna, Bev, Irene and Mary away a few years later, when Ernie sold our home and Lou. Glenn passed away from luekemia October 1966. bought a trailer house and we went to Exeter, Califor- I have eight daughters, 23 grandchildren and 24 nia for two years.[...]with her mother, Marie Kodejs, a sister, Bessie, and about their life in Montana. a brother, Jo[...]le they lived there. Joe Walter in Czechoslovakia and they had come to Mildred was born on May 19, 1919 and Alice on April Crete, Nebraska some time earlier[...]In the meantime our father, Frank Antone Filipi, and Nebraska. his parents, Frank J. and Antonie Filipi, moved from We have[...]Milada Smart, daughter to the Joe Walter family and 1918, our mother went to Montana to visit her sis[...]y lived close to where our parents lived. Another and family and she met our father. They got married[...]1944. Frank A. passed away on July 14, 1967 Iived and had to haul water from quite a distance. Dad and Milena on January 4, 1962. All are buried in told[...]e result his house. His wife was expecting a baby and was also of o. pen-pol project of an En[...]Edna Koll, Mother talked about having a garden and the potatoes the foct that Edna's porents[...]SraNLsY AND OPAL For,oe infornration by Dorthea Folda Fadrhonc Stanley and Opal Folda and family rented and moved it as a fun time, "There was quit[...]s in the spring of 1938. from the Roy area and we really had some fun times." |
| [...]remained in the area. Stan and Opal had six children: Dorthea, Stanley Jr. In later years Stan Sr. married Gladys Kalal and "Bud", Jessie Wilma, Alice and Opal. Dorthea gradu- Opal S[...]1984; Stan died in 1986; Bud died in 1981 and Wilma schooi in Roy. The others went to school at[...]ea married George Fadrhonc in 1941 and FnponnrcrsEN AND HaLr,ocr[...]T 2ON R 21E The Fredericksens, Peter B. and Lena Mortensen, Ther[...]oldest brother, |
| [...]heim Lars Grindheim was born in Norway in 1878 and Elingson and others whose names I do not know. Many |
| [...]Nelson Axel Olaf Hage, son of Amund Olsen Hage and Mari Oldsdatter Lovslerten, was born on December[...]orway. He came to the United States in about 1915 and settled on the Ella Hage homestead north of Fergu[...]out 20 years of age when he came to this country, and spent from the time of his arrival until about 19[...]person who had a pleasant, unassuming personality and tended to his own affairs in a private and quiet manner. In his years at Fergus, his sist[...]n Axel Hage and her family would make frequent trips to his home in order to do his Spring and Fall housecleaning (some- times in between) because bachelors in those days, and perhaps even norv, were not the best of housekeep[...]ps to Lewistown in his one which to move. and only vehicle, a pickup truck. He was especially[...]- a small house and a few acres for a home, and also at the home of his brother, Ludvar Hage garden, on Upper Spring Creek. He lived there for and family in Kolin, Montana.[...]Lewistown. This marriage lasted only one year and upon him, pinning him under it's load for several[...]self even though his legs nephew, John Hage, and then back to Lewistown in were injured. Somehow,[...]scialen, Norway, the daughter of Amund Olsen Hage and Mari Oldsdatter Lovsletten. She came to the Unite[...]er Ella acquired a homestead near Fergus, Montana and proved up on it. One of her close neighbors was a[...]uilt to the Fergus - Roy area until 1914. windows and doors and huddled toeether until the El[...] |
| [...]ewistown, on November 11. i911 in Ella and Peter Nelson were charter members of Zion Great[...]in Lewis- Lutheran Church in Lewistown and Ella was the first town until their deaths.[...]on; her brother, who came from Norway and settled on the Harold Nelson of Phoenix, Arizona[...]n April S, 1951. Peter M. Nelson died Washington and Burton A. Nelson of Bellevue.[...]living" Tnacnores AND HARD Tllrns Srelx Houesrpaonns |
| [...]by Euert Hanell When I lived on the flat and farmed, Roy was my McFadden. I was c[...]from my homestead. My ciose neighbors and he pointed out the cabin across Murphy's Coulee. |
| [...]. The Bol' Scouts took it over" near my homestead and he knew Lewistown, so he took I moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho and in 1948 moved back me to a hotel and we stayed all night and left for Hilger. to Roy. In 1952 I bought 160 acres on the east side ofRoy The railroad forked and they had two trains a day to from Mr. L.M.A. Wass and then sold it back to Mr" Wass. Hilger and one was a passenger train and the other was He had run a store in Roy.[...]sed away a freight train. One went to Roy one day and one went and about 1980 I moved to Lewisrown and then to Round- to Winifred. They just changed off[...]day to Hilger. The first day we got to Hilger and we stayed in the hotei one night and went on to Suffolk and then on out to our little log cabin. It was not very big; 14x16. We ate and slept in it till we got a lean-to built on. It wa[...]ndall, a mining town, up in the Kendall mountains and worked for Dwight Cresap. He was my uncle's bro[...]the mountains east of Kendall. There was a store and a church and other business places. There was a parson- age fo[...]20. In later years the grave yard fence went down and Celebration of Roy, just a rnonth and a half before his the cattle trampled all the tom[...]The Harrod's had a son Lee (of Polson) and a and after he moved to Lewistown he was in the garage[...]on the ranch. (Kalal-Foldah Bob; Nora (Barber) and Babe. Gladys was married to[...]the mother of P.J. was a horse trader, stockman and was under- Joan Kalal (Jakes), Perry and Dick Kalal. After Ed and sheriff of Fergus County at one time. Perry J. pa[...]rced she married Stan Folda. away in June of 1960 and Eliza in July of l922.Both are At the ag[...]Nora and Babe Irish both moved awav from the area"[...]in Perry, their sister, Gladys Irish and cousin, Bill irish, 1896, to Beaver Creek. My fat[...]ds in the Dovetail area. one year old at the time and my Uncle Perry Irish was My dad left the homestead and went into the Army two years old.[...]ith the U.S. They lived on different ranches in and around the Cavalry. When he retu[...] |
| [...]iness on my late Uncle Bob Irish's ranch. 1920's, and then they moved to Washington. I am married to Esther (Wright) and we had five My grandfather, P.J. Irish, moved b[...]a children. All attended school in Roy and graduated and he and my Uncle Bob Irish bought the Kaaro[...]dest daughter, Dorlene, passed away Ranch in 1939 and lived there until the time of their at t[...]s born in California in 1928; my sister, and Gary born in November of 1962. I also have two Frances, was born in 1930 and my brother, Jim, in older children, Richard born in 1946 and Glenda born 1933, both in Washington. We had a dairy farm in in 1948. Washington and moved back to Montana in the middle[...]r, Jim Irish, lives in Lewistown where he is 40's and settled at Fergus, Montana. My parents owned[...]real estate business. He married Esther's sister, and operated the Fergus store for a few years and then Harriette. They have four children:[...]to a ranch where they lived until the and Joey. time of their deaths. Dad passed away in April of 1971 My sister, Frances Irish Conwell, and her husband at the age of 75 and Mom died in 1973 at the age of 69. Iive in California where they are retired. My family and I live at Fergus where we are in the Prnny Inrsri Jn. AND DAvrD IRrsH Perry Jr. was born in Beloit on A[...]away in 1973. |
| [...]And she wanted to marry a man from town I di[...]Who couid dress in the latest style, And there I met a maiden,[...]wasn't working for wages A maiden sweet and fair;[...]eyes were of a velvet black, She'd dark and wavy hair. And now if I had a million.[...]between the mouth of the Musselshell River and Clag- Her form was full and perfect, gett at t[...]year old Sadie King, 18 year old Ida Marcotte, and 17 Her cheeks were of the color[...]cowboy, King and Lucy Louise King. Dorm wrote the poem to[...]Kaano John E. Kaaro had a part in the ranching and farm returned. He was mustered out[...]t in |
| [...]as precinct committeeman of the Republican party, and during the World War was registrar of his home locality and volunteered for active service, but was rejected[...]as made a Mason in Lewistown Lodge No. 37 in 1916 and was a member of Meyersick Camp No. 15 of the U.S.[...]sman, he was the chief originator of the Roi' Rod and Gun CIub, and through this organization John E. and and personally had promoted measures for the preserv-[...]postmaster of warm bed, and congenial people. Fergus after the office was mov[...]Your approach must be subtle and suave lest you flush the Fergus Ranch, where Mrs.[...]your prey before you get a shot at thein. Try and make it of it.[...]f mendicancy. After you have established yourseif and he only had a third grade formal education he wa[...]like the place, stay as long as it is safe. read and won all the spelling bees, "against teachers[...]tch for storm signals. When the lady of the house and everyone else", when he lived at Fergus. During kicks the cat, when the lord and master, usually a placid,[...]in a promised to visit Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I cannot disappoint March 1937 iss[...]them and my time is quite limited, as I have to be back in[...]matters. I want to thank you for your hospitality and a some of the youngsters, especiaily if the[...]Belanger. Montana. He was raised by John and Ellen Kaaro on He was a trick[...]others Circus their ranch west of Fergus, Montana and began to and King Brothers Circus, traveling all over the Unit[...]ly age. As his interests in trick States and Canada with them for eight years, training ropi.n[...]t many long hours practicing animals and successfully broke and trained a zebra, in the upstairs of ihe ranch hom[...]s in In 1965, he performed his trick and fancy roping act the nation. His great interest in horses and animals on Johnny Carson's "Tonigh[...]g act, but the He was educated in local schools and Fergus County one that proved most[...]-quarters in 1939 Kaaro enlisted in the Cavalry and served that was in a bunch of wi[...]g the Worid War II. Arrow Creek breaks and Jim bought him when he came After his discharge,[...]one of nine trick ropers of the world to be Jim and Betty Moyer were married 27 Decemb er 1942[...]born to Roping Contest ever held and sponsored by the Cowboy them: Bonnie Sandman Messier and Debbie Rich Hall of[...] |
| [...]que performer, along with his speak- ing ability and keen sense of humor, which rivaled Will Rogers i[...]the Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and the Circus Hall of Fame at Sarasota, Florida.[...]ing Fergus County Sheriff George Stephens tenure and was selected by the Board of Commissioners to fi[...]nter for the Aged, after being sheriff. Betty and Jim were divorced in 19?3.[...]Jimmy Kaaro He opened the "Bits and Spurs" shop combined with an art gallery in the Great Falls Federal Savings and Loan building at Fifth and Main in Lewistown. His popularity as a professional speaker and trick and attack, 30 June 1979. In his honor,[...]calating. Sheriffs and Peace Offi.cers established the Jimmy Jim marr[...]Award, which is to be given to the student with and Lewistown.[...]Academy in Bozeman. Amusement Business, The Grit and Ford Times as well Jimmy had plann[...]y many newspapers throughout the and horse acts according to brochures he had printed[...]just one of it's best known citizens and native son. retired at the age of 62 and was entertaining at the He was a member of the American Legion, National Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association's Sheriffs Association and a life-time member of the pro- Convention when he[...]by Alice Lane Kahler John and Ruth Kahler came to Montana in lglg from Warre[...]rom William Culver. Mr. Culver moved to Lewistown and opened the Culver Studio. The ranch was known as the Sunny Slope Ranch. John and Ruth and two sons, Wilbur was 8 years old and Henry was 5 years old when they arrived in Mon- t[...]s attended the Fergus school, riding horseback to and from school. After grade school at Fergus, they a[...]graduat- The Kahlers, Wilbur, Ruth, Henry and John Sr. in front ing in 1933" After the death o[...]amily, while attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Kahler were very active in the Fergus The Kahlers, John and Ruth, continued to farm, community,[...]ntained an apartment at Soropto- Mrs. Fred Colver and later helped at the Melchert home. mist V[...]e lg78 at the age The Yaeger boys, James, Larry and Charles, bought of 9,1 yea[...] |
| [...]by Alice Lane Kahler Henry Kahler and I, Alice Lane, were maried in John[...]tana, Gnoncn AND PAULINE (RrNoer,) KNutsor.r |
| [...]DaNrnr, AND MoLLIE MoLTZAU Daniel and Mollie Moltzau's place is now a part of his[...]ull of fun which was |
| [...]ificent sum of 50 bushels of wheat. Their 6, 1914 and fi}ed on a homestead on the SW%NE% of[...]er 6, 1917 in Lewistown, George to Roy for lumber and tarpaper to buiid a typicai tar- Andrew on May 12, 1919 in Roy, and Stella A. on Janu- paper shack. In 1916, his fian[...]ary 25,7922 at the home. to the U.S. from Canada and they were married in St' The children attended the Victory and Horse Ranch Leo's Catholic Church in Lewistown.[...]y were able to with the Chris Christensen and Louie Rindal families. irrigate from springs. The[...]then attended Fergus County High School in Lewis- and the surrounding area. town, and worked in Lewistown after her graduation. In the early days, Petranek bought a team and She married Ervin Weinheimer in S[...]that the person he purchased it from and moved to the Danvers area. Ervin and Stella have didn't have a clear titie. When he ma[...]hem from him, but Petranek David, Eric and Diane Weinheimer. talked him into letting him use[...]Charles Francis served in the CCC's in 1937 and home. He turned them r..rver to the sheriff later, and then 1938. During the Second World War, he w[...]bees. He was in a construction battalion and served in for them.'A team and wagon were necessities to North Africa and the Philippine Islands. ITe married Petraneks in[...]ick up Catherine Fuhs on April 9, 1957 and they have four supplies and mail in Roy. Charles remembers laying children: Thomas Bruce, David Hiram, Sarah Jane and awake at night listening for the ciatter of the w[...]The Petranek's retired to Lewistown in 1950 and weiglred 26,600 pounds and brought 4t/z cents a pound' Charles and George took over the operation of the Charles b[...]anch. They have continued to add to their acreage and 1926 from the Joe Murphy garage in Roy. It cost some- now have one ofthe Iargest sheep and cattle operations where between six and seven hundred dollars and car- in the area.[...]s. It seemed when- check for tracks and there was a long bladed knife ever we went to do[...]from sary improvements, clearing land and building fences our chicken house.[...]He got TB of the bone in his knee If my mother and we children went any place we had and went to Rochester where they removed part of his[...]knee. I believe he was there for one month and his bill oftheir sight, so they would not ransack our place, and was $200 at Rochester. When he returned[...]o sun in Montana he was to with our kerosene lamp and my mother jumped up. She go where t[...]oblem. father was not home, as he had gone to Roy and wouid My dad borrowed a small amou[...]g more hap- $50) from the Roy bank and the only security he had |
| [...]colt back, but went in to talk to them about it and they made had gotten under the manger anci could not get out. My him ieave our only 2 horses and only means of making father would not be back much before dark and the colt a living or transportation. He had to w[...]t she miles. In the spring some one paid the $50 and brought was able to get the bottom out of the manger and the our horses back but I can't remember who.[...]anger to be with it's mother. father went to Roy and Nellie, the work-horse, left her I c[...]died we always got telegrams (I believe) and someone side the length of the barn. These mangers were about 8 came and delivered them. inches off the floor so the cats[...]the Rindals to come to America, ton so she and John stayed on at the Patton place. John but wa[...]ning to Nor- worked with Anton. Pete, Oiine and Leif returned to way. It's not known whether he[...]1910, the They moved to the Wisokay'place and Kristi lived with oldest son, Anton, came to th[...]ntil her death from gallstones in 1924. (Louie) and Pauline arrived, followed by their brother,[...]then John Jr. in 1921. Two more brothers, Pete and Kristian returned to Washington taking fat[...]turn to Montana to live. On John's parents John and Kristi; Pete's wife, Oline, and their death in 1945, his body was returned to Lewistown and son, Leif; Mike, and his wife, Ingeborg, and their two he and Kristi are both buried in the Lewistown City children, Arne and Christine; and Olaf, the youngest Cemetery. son. The[...]ot intend to become permanent John Jr. and Clarence Darrah went to Washington to residents[...]in Washingfon. Anton, Louie, Pauline and Olaf stayed in the Roy- Kris Rindal m[...]at year. language from Helen Rindal. Kris and Margit worked There was not much work in the ar[...]car, so Mike, Ingeborg, to the Fergus area and lived in the little house across Arne, Christine, Pete, Oline, Leif, Olaf and Louie from the present location of the Fergus store. Their son, squeezed into it and headed for Washington. Olaf Norman, was born here in 1928 and their daughter, r remembers it as a cold, miserab[...]Inez in 1933. They broke an axie at one point and had to wait several One cold winter they[...]ir sheep. In 1933, days for a replacement. Olaf and Kris returned to the Kris planted spring wheat and it shelled out badly. He Fergus area in the Spring of 1924. Kris returned mainly harvested it anyway and *'as short seven bushels of because of a romant[...]omunstads. clean up the shelled grain and the turkeys were all Louie stayed on in Washing[...]killed in a hailstorm. That was enough for them and until the Spring of 1925, when he also returned[...]Arurou AND HELEN RtNoer- Anton Rindal was born in Rindal,[...]first of the there for about six years and saving his money, he was Rindal family to settle[...], close to Oquist's, then sold his relinquishment and team of horses and a wagon, took them and settled |
| [...]Hrsrony Or NonrHEesrenN FERcus Cou^-rv Antan and Helen Rindal's first home. This is now the about a mile north of Cone Butte"[...]They killed at least one right on their porch and AIma |
| [...]d three children: Trygve, Margrette the doorknob, and it would alert her to that fact. and Emmett. In 1914 Ellen married John Haugen who also had John Haugen died in 1974; Ellen and Emmett both immigrated from Norway. John Haugen was a carpen- died in 1976. Trygve and Margrette (Turner) live in ter and building contractor. They lived in Lewistown[...]Lewistown shortly anyhow, so left immediately and the 1895, the son of John and Kristi Rindal. Grace Olsen Rindal's[...]rge Knutson's place after the daughter of William and Inga Olsen. George and Pauline moved to Lewistown, and also the Louie worked on the Romunstad Ranch for several Hickey place and the Jim Ranch from Jack Baucke to years after his[...]Louie was on the school board at Fergus and then at returned to the Romunstad Ranch after the[...]a During the 1920's Louie had a threshing crew, and good share ofthose years. two of the cooks he employed were Grace Olsen and G4ace and Louie always milked several cows and had Leona Bare. Fritz Corth was one of the men working for chickens. Grace was an excellent cook and her pies, him. On September 14,L926,Louie and Grace, Fritz and cakes made with cream, cinnamon rolls, and pancakes Leona went to Harlowtown where they were[...]rked for them over the years, with their children and Times were not easy when Grace and Louie were first then gtandchildren.[...]29,1967. He had had Par- brother-in-law, George, and lost it when he couldn't kinson's Disease for several years and had a stroke make the payments. They lived next o[...]rly Mountains. Later he also did cusiom combining and owned by George and Pauline Knutson. custom haying. He had quite a variety of machinery. Louie and Grace had seven children, all born in One was a R[...]to come into Montana, taking delivery and Phyllis Pauline on February 25, 1946' in Great Falls and driving it home from there. Melvin, Donald, Glen and Joyce's stories will be Melvin remembers an Au[...]her still living here in from Jimmy Kaaro for $25 and later traded to Martin the area or[...]na. Brownie was a favorite of all the and Kay Wood went to Billings to college for a short[...]Eckhardt there and they were married August 17,1957. In 1946, dur[...]on- shop adjacent to the Allyn house where Grace and tana Highway Patrol in 1959. Lucille and babv daugh- Louie were living at the time. Dick[...]ter, Lynette, came home to stay with f,ouie and Grace by and saw the frre and helped them to get some of the from th[...]ound the state working at GVW very much. Friends and neighbors donated items; statio[...]hem. clothes, bedding, etc. but the old pictures and memen- Larry was then stationed in Cus[...]to the Driver's Exam Office in Lewistown, years and where Chris Christensen was living at the[...]as planning on moving to Larry and Lucille have three children, Lynette Kay |
| [...]then they moved to Dallas, Texas. March 31, 196i and Ricky AIan born February 26, 1966. Phyllis and Neal were divorced and she married Harvey Lynette is married to John Gerstenberger, has three Logsdon in 1989 and they reside in Plano, Texas. children; Ryan, Kelly and Paul and lives in Oregon. Kevin and his wife Lori reside in Salt Lake Citv and Ricky lives in Lewistown. LeRoy graduated from[...]ch after they were married, then went to Billings and were later divorced. They had one child, Dalene A[...]52. Back row: 21, 1969, Shane on December 1, 1971 and Shannon on Lucillie Ellen, Glen Howard[...]r. Front row: LeRoy Allen, Grace Ceclia, Phyllis and died on June 17. 1974. Neal was transferred to Pauline, Lars Johnson and Joyce Erleen.[...]y so everyone could listen to President Roosevelt and a place about 2 miles south of the original towns[...]tly sheep at that time with a enlisting and families moved io the coast to work in full-time[...]lasses were then held in the Maginnis. Dad, Anton and I rode to the Phipp's place, present elem[...]asses were arriwing about noon. It was wintertime and cold. Phipps held in various buildings arou[...]ss from Murphy's off as we went by his place. Dad and I got home about Garage. The Women's Club Building also burned down. dark and I was glad to get there. We had two high schooi teachers at that time, Mr. and I went to elementary school at Fergus. My dad d[...]he Presbyterian Church' snow. Then I rode a horse and dad pulled Donald on a I worked on my[...]we June of 1952 I married Ella Hitchcock and we moved walked. When we moved to the Allyn place[...]ad in 1966' Wanda Gibson was my 7th grade teacher and Margaret We have three children, all[...]ille was born March 29, 1953. She attended Donald and I were the only two students left at the EMC and earned an associate's degree in offrce prac- Ferg[...]ilies having moved to tices in 1973. She and Jerry Bowser were married in the new irrigation p[...]August of 19?3. They have three children: Melissa and took us to Kendall with her each school day and frn- Mindy (twins) and Lance. They are presently living in ished out her[...]ere were four of Chen Northern Engineering and Linda is a hostess students in my class when we s[...]at Frontier Pies. dropped out for various reasons and I was the lone David Melvin was bo[...]He married Paula Brown of Exeter, California and they invaded Pearl Harbor. A radio was set up in the assem' have two children, Emily and Evan- David is assistant |
| [...]179 manager of Farm Credit Services in Havre and Paula degree. He married Lesa Bell of Arvada, Colorado. |
| [...]close to home in ing her to cook on a wood and coal renge, the likes of order to help his sister, Ellen, and her son, Jimmy. which she had never seen[...]rgus County, tionship with the Fergus Land and Livestock Com- the noted Fergus Sheep Ranch, Ioca[...]isconsin, made some capital for himself and while there married September 28, 1872. His fathe[...]daughter of William a native of Trondjhem, Norway and came to America Fergus, who was a half[...]ging with him a knowledge of Romunstad and Miss Eilen H. Fergus were married the trade of bl[...]October 19, 1904. She was the daughter of William and railway construction in Wisconsin, then took up a Helen (Hamilton) Fe:gus, and she and her parents and homestead, proved it up and spent the rest of his life as all the other ch[...]standing ranchers ship, learned the new language, and pariicipated in in Montana, buildling up[...]der Creek, Iater owned by Odin J. Romunstad. can, and was always loyal to the Lutheran Church in Mr. and Mrs. Odin Romunstad lived there until Mrs. which[...]ealeau County, Romunstad's death in 1951 and then in 1953 Odin Wisconsin, Miss Gertrude Olson,[...]n to make his home until his death near Trondjhem and came to America with her broth- in 1961. Mrs. Romunstad attended school in Scotland ers and sister. Both parents are buried at Strum, and also had part of her education while living on a[...]Montana ranch and attended a business college in Odin J. Romunds[...]school in the Bad attended schools in that state, and his boyhood expe- Lands near Winifred and had charge of the first school rience taught him[...]rming. He was taught on Dog Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Romundstad had about fifteen years of age wh[...]. Montana with a party of Wisconsin men, both old and Mr. Romunstad cast his first vote for[...]h Montana life at Lewis- Mason in Lewistown; and during the World War he did town. Lewistorvn was[...]de up chiefly of his part in the Red Cross and Liberty Loan Drives. Mrs. saloons, livery barns, and a few wooden stores along Romunstad was o[...]f the Bonds." The family were Presbyterians, and William city, at the head of McDoanld Creek; and after the Fergus left a legacy for the[...]ch building at Fergus. Fort Maginnis, for a time, and during the winter of 1890 lBessie Wiedman who[...]rual setting for a truly beautiful landscaping and picnic two paragraphs haue been ommitted in this[...]site that was used by many neighbors for dinners and they are repeats of Fergus family history. (Box E[...]an early age received her schooling at Odin J. and Eilen Fergus Romunstad made their the[...]rs as the Romun- home on the ranch for many years and operated first stad school. with sheep and later with Hereford cattle. Mrs. Romun- F[...]anch stad u'as especially interested in gardening and for going to school at this rural district and later both girls man-v years the ranch was[...] |
| [...]r8i Both married and make their home in California; Fanny[...]garden plot, u'hich is now occupied by Mnno StRorv Fatrrtlv Fnro AND EMMA SrnrNentNc Fred and Emma Steinbring homesteaded six miles years and five days in Lewistou'n, Montana. Burial at EowIN AND FLORENCE TAIT |
| [...]Florence had exceptional artistic ability and painted The Taits were married at Missoula in 1940. They local scenery, working in oil and acrylics. Taits made bought 80 acres in Ruby Gulch, northeast of Lewis- many friends and neighbors during the 27 years they town, Montana and built a Iog house that is now owned operated the store and postoffice. by the Warren Raitts. Edwin cut the logs and sawed the Failing health forced Florence to retire and the post- lumber at a saw mill. They soid this pl[...]closed 21 September 1976. No one Messier in 1949 and bought the Fergus Grocery Store was interested in taking it over. and Post Office.[...]he big store building out to three sisters and his brother, Lyman Tait of the Teigen the highway[...]Drcx AND MoNA Tuoues Dick Thomas and lvlona Moltzau were married in They lived and ran cattle on the Moltzau place during Lewistown[...]was the daughter of the 30's. Daniel and Marie Moltzau, homesteaders in the Fergus[...]. area. (Geo. Heil place) She ran the post office and store at Dick passed away several years later[...]Armells for some years. Dick was a Veteran of WWI and date known. There were no children. th[...]Ouvu TrNnelr VeucsN AND EnNesuNs BnNNpm ThtoA'Li, - Olive Tindall and her son, Vaughn, came to Montana year[...]they from Indiana. Oiiue homesteaded at Valentine and were there, but only harvested on[...]e. The children attended the ran a boarding house and cafe. After Ernestine fin- Fergus Grade School and Roy High School. ished her schooling she went into nurse's training and The Tindalls left the Fergus area to[...]they bought at Kinsey, Montana in 1940. They She and some of her friends became acquainted with[...]among Ernestine went back to nursing and Vaughn worked as them Frank Stepan and Vaughn Tindall, who was by a pain[...]n bought a place at Victor. Ernestine did special and Ernestine were married at Hanover in August of[...]time. Ernestine was having a diffrcult and Ernestine in September 1981. pregnancy, so went b[...]38 years, first as a stewardess, trained mid-wife and Ernestine stayed with them until then[...]a manager in Manufacturing, Research and Develop- The Tindall's had two more children; Fay Marie and ment for the Boeing Co. of Seattle unt[...]yed by Oiive lindall sold her homestead in 1925 and moved the Boeing Co. of Auburn, Washi[...]had two daughters, Cherie, (Mrs. Robert Vaughn and Ernestine rented the Allyn place south-[...]lla (Mrs' David Barnhiii)' east of Fergus in 1925 and lived there two or three of Helena. |
| [...]']J Leo Labrie died in 1968 and Fav Marie in October H & T Machinery Co.[...]and Ann are divorced. Raymond Joseph Tindall was b[...]His son Ken, is a doctor of biochemistry, and is tana and attended grade school there. He moved with P.H.D. at the National Institute of Health and Envir- the family to Kinsey and was gtaduated from Custer onmental Science and Research at Triangle Park, North High School at M[...]s family. into the military in the Army Engineers and saw duty Virginia Kay lives in Ft. Collins, Colorado and is in Korea and also on Adak in the Aleutian Islands. very active in the arts in Ft. Collins and does designing Raymond married Ann O'Neal in 1950. They had two and costuming for the theatre group there. She also has children, Kenneth Raymond and Virginia Kay. her own busin[...]VnN Cr,navE AND Hau, by[...]n the Van Cleave, driving a four-horse sled and I driving a church at Fergus. 2-horse sled, with all the household goods and furni- On the fourth of July, ther[...]tad Ranch with games. When it got dark they night and took all the next day to get to the ranch. The had a dance in the barn and the children were put to snow was as high as the[...]ught the homestead next to us, sunrise and then went home. making the ranch 320 acres.[...]logs for wood around were Norwegian and chewed snuff. They would and put it close to the toilet, so every time we went we buy about six rolls, then open them and put in a teas- brought back an arm load for the house, as Mother sure poon of rum and put it in the cellar so it wouldn't dry burned a[...]out. The four Stephens children and two Moitzau girls Once a year Hanson shipped dried ludefisk and and I first went to schoo] in a cabin on the upper end of soaked it and everyone bought some. the Blanchard place. We all[...]k, George, Cha- at recess a skunk was in the yard and we chased it rles and Bob. The last two were born after I left the under the school. Joe Stephens and I crawled under to ranch in 1918. chase it out, and every time, the kids outside chased it[...]day, 1988. She was preceeded in death by Jack and like our presence and sent us home. Our mother didn't Lester Hall. either, and we got a bath and our clothes were buried in Joe Dubois,[...]furniture store.in Roy, and Frank Southworth went to The next piace we wen[...]aiden, to Allison a train accident. and Elizabeth Frame. From the age of 13 to 17 she lived Florence and George Sherman Van Cleave were mar- in Lewistown and did housework, in exchange for ried in 1910. He died in 1925 and she and her sons board and room in order to attend school.[...]es, Robert American War veteran. Two sons, Erwill and Lester and Erwili survive. |
| [...]Frurs AND MARY Vnsrai,[...]h us when, around !924, we tana. Mollie came west and they were wed, August T, motored, in a[...]and Grandma Vestal (who had been visiting us from The[...]ortlived so Millie spent most of Missouri) and Grandmother Neel from South Dakota. the weeks alo[...]uri, but were Homesteading neighbors were Kate and Rudoiph very reluctant to sell the[...]ineral rights. They had 3 children: Ruth, Warren, and Nan. We were Macon, Missouri became our home and my parents in touch with the Weise's for many yea[...]with Kate each bar for several years and later invested in farm and Christmas up until a few years ago, when I assume[...]ornia, ents built a new home, which was completed and where I had lived since 1944. In[...]home. I was born wonderful husband and a college bound son, whom my August 17, 1919 at S[...]father's close call with "Spot- heart problems and came to live with us, until his death ted Fever"[...]chest for a matter of hours. early 1965, and our son, Gary, his wife and four daugh- He was, fortunately, one of the rare[...]ing" parents. They were pretty wonderful! - and wrong time on occasion, like the time I was throw[...]Wrlunru AND BERTHA WArrs[...]be born in Frontier Co. ary 3, 1921 and was buried in Roy. Nebraska. Bertha Finley was bo[...]got their mail July 24,1910 all born in Nebraska; and Bernice Pearl, at Christina; that was on[...]r 5, i919; Glenn to make their own road and there were 13 gates to open Clyde, January 3, 192[...]othes were ordered out of the Dariene, Bernice, and Glenn were all born on the catalog and Dad went to town once a month for grocer- homeste[...]ost of our clothes. She also made her for Lovella and Bernice. Iye soap and yeast cakes to make bread; butter and In the winter of 1920 we all came down with Sca[...]n The winter of 1918 was such a cold one and Dad had January of 1921 when we were all down. Bless Mother to get hay for the cows and the team of horses that he and Dad; they took care of all of us besides having[...]over it. The doctor from Hilger came out and Christina; that was a hard winter on the folks. |
| [...]ey had been married 53 years when she passed away and never went back. I don't know what ever happened[...]are buried at Zillah, outfit, and was brakeman and engineer for the Mil- Washington.[...]g, Richard, Patty Jo (Lei), Roberta and Birdie (Kirk) of ranching and breaking horses. Portland. In 1931 he and Martha LaFountain were married.[...]Josepu AND MARrE Welren by Milada Walter Smart My parents, Joseph and Marie Walter, were early home. Often[...]vice, near Prague, In 1913 Marie and I started school at Feigus. Our Czechoslovakia. My father came in 1905 and Mother in schoolhouse was the little Pre[...]Wilber, near Crete, had to walk those two and one-half miles to school. Our Nebraska and farmed near Pleasant Dale. My sister, frrst teacher was Mrs. Maude Misener. She was a very Marie, and I were born on this farm.[...]rode double in the idea. He could prove up on it and it would belong to saddle. He was the best horse we ever had. We could him. He came to Lewistown and chose 80 A. two and a take the saddle off when we got to school and let him half miles north of the little town of Fe[...]day. After school we could tar paper shack on it and made required improvements catch him easily and ride home. as specified by the Homestead Act.[...]4 he moved our family by immi the sheep and putting them in the barnyard so the grant car, by[...]e by They'd come right up to the house and howl at us. Dad wagon and horses. We had brought a team, wagon,[...], chickens, did build up a band of sheep and a cattle herd. We and a dog, just the necessary things to start living[...]heep, summers, on land With the help of friends and neighbors Dad built a owned by Cook-Reyn[...]p made ponies out of the first two we got and rode them of friends and neighbors a well was dug. Water was with binder twine bridles and gunny sack saddles. We drawn with pulley, rope and a bucket. We were lucky to used to visit with the sheep herder, Mr. Novak, and his get real good water. It must have been a lonely time for two dogs. all of us away from relatives and oid friends we left in In summer Mother and the two of us would walk over Nebraska. Our neigh[...]the hills about two miles into the timber and pick wild and glad to help in any way they could. Pauline Patton strawberries, gooseberries, and chokecherries. In the and her brother, Jim, were our closest neighbors. Miss fall the folks would take team and wagon and go into Patton was our teacher for many years. From her we the timber and gather dry wood for our winter supply. learned a[...]That was all we had to heat our house and fuel to cook North of us, in the timber, Iived[...]Our old homestead was Steinbrings. They cut wood and hauled it by wagon pretty well built up by 1924. and four horses to Roy to sell. Many time we could hear Some years from 1915 to 1925 we had crops and some him coming by after dark with wagon creaking and years we didn't. Dad rented some land from a fellow harness clanking. He was a happy soui and a good who owned land next to us, a[...]sang to himself all the long way grain and hay. In i919 there were no crops and no |
| [...]s severe with no hay available T.E. Rice and Lucy lived at the store in the middle 30's. for livestock. Dad went to Lewistown and got a job on a T.E. Rice was Mrs. Harrod's fa[...]lady. Then Harry things going on the farm. Mother and we girls had to Grimmet and his wife came. She was a relative of the take car[...]s to most everyone in the horses, after groceries and some hay. We were allotted a vicinity and well liked. Jim Kaaro ran the store in the few ba[...]ain brought in. By that time the early 40's and then Glen Irish. Taits had the store when raiiroa[...]very few people living around Fergus today, cream and butter.[...]ool in Roy. 1930's. They built a house and other buildings with the In my recoilections th[...]little acreage on Billings Bench. They ran Hanson and his family in the early teens. A man by the[...]it would be hard to find the exact spot where rod and family ran the store when the Hansons left.[...]Cenl AND PEccY WrcHr[...]Totrr WtcHt In the fall of 1940, Carl and Peggy Wight came to the site, and built a garage there. Carl operated the garage Rov LBn Wom[...]St. Joseph's Hospital in Lewistown, graduated and DuucaN AncHre AND HAZET, KnNNnov Yutll- Pnlot |
| [...]y 30, 1961 at the age of 57. the Glen and Don Rindal Ranch. The Kennedy's four children Haz[...]Hazel was were: Ruth, Gordon, Lucien and Robert. widowed again a few years later. She pass[...]to Roy a little before July 23, 1986. Both Archie and Hazel are intered in the 1910. His bro[...]e John Nilanders. Olga Romunstad came in Archie and Hazel had three children: Kav. Clifford 1910; filed a homestead in the Fergus area and lived with the and Kennedy. Kaaros. Harry met her there and they iater were married. Kay married Dorman Jacksorr Jr. and took over the Harry was a barber i[...]gust 16, 1957, Bonita L. born Sep- tember 4, 1958 and David M. born June 5, 1964. LENA AND GLADYS SHARPE- Lena and Gladys home-[...]ith Lena's parents. The homestead was sold to Mr. and Mrs. dancing party held at Dittman's Restaurant at Fergus. Elza Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts divorced and she married[...]ALBERT AND BELLE TRIMBLE- The Trimble's came[...]oximately the same time as the Adams'. J.V. GREEN AND SON, SAMUEL- left in March of 1916[...]people back home in Toulen, Illinois, to and a big red barn between Adams and Petranek's" Belle got Montana Lands. sick and they went back to Missouri. Their place was sold to NEWTON AND OPAL KENNEDY- lived on the Allyn someone back east and eventually it was purchased by the place. Mrs. Ke[...]aneks. Fort Maginnis and GiIt Edge |
| [...]Lucille Bishop and her mother, Louise, and Loretta[...]but the fort furnished telegraphic communications and a convenient place at which to purchase supplies.[...]occupied the fort by October 1st. Mrs. Fitzgerald and her three children, family of the post tailor, we[...]being too high. So 25 head were bought at Shonkin and the detachment that was sent for them lost half of them due to poor herd management and then they lost themselves and the rest of the herd in a snow storm. They were r[...]t was bought from Stuart. Other incidents arose and Stuart finally informed the commander that if the[...]to go from Ft. Maginnis to Ft. Benton to Ft. Shaw and finally to the department commander at Ft. Snelli[...]n News-Argus There were a lot of "comings and going" among the commanding officers at old Fort[...]Five of the officers were in command twice, and three of them three different times. Two[...]aptains, three majors, three lieutenant colonels, and another was promoted from captain to major[...]ing officers were Cavalry men, seven infantry men and the records do not show in what branch of t[...]of events that affected the post or its personnel and other pertinent information. When Fort Ma[...]3. The first trustees were C.W. Allen, A.B. Frame and Owen Dunn. The first teacher was Miss Wilkerson.[...]he judge who owned it. It doubled as a dance hajl and saloon. Later school was held in what had served[...]t. There were three classrooms on the first floor and the second story was a large room used for the Mi[...]year with three teachers: Miss McCue, Mary Green and Marvin Drinkard. The buiiding was a landmark for years until it was struck by lightning in 1950 and burned to the ground. Other early teachers were Miss Nellie Glancy, Mr. Moulton and Miss Gertrude Shipman. |
| [...]famous committee of vigilantes. William Anderson and Rebecca, nee Nelson, also Gray-[...]on Co., Kentucky. He had an older brother, James, and Mary Payette, whose stepfather was[...]5. Their home was The family moved to Illinois and Rebecca Anderson Iocated on what[...]to 1953;Josephine, May 7,1876 to 1967;Martha, man and was highly respected by those who knew him,[...]In 1880 he moved the family to Helena and drove a He lived on and owned a farm on the outskirts of[...]Helena. Two sons were born on this ranch: William and it was there that they became acquainted with the James, 1884 to 1940 and George, 1886 to 1953. Stuart's, through their cou[...]Stuart family living in one end and the Anderson's in The Cuppy's soon moved back[...]scovery of gold in what is Sallie, and she, her mother, sister June?, and brothers, now known as Gold Creek by Francois Findlay, a Bill and George, lived on the ranch. Harry Harding ran Fre[...]e the date Anderson's cattle and the way they took them across the on this but fee[...]much gold in Gold Creek were. and he became engaged in hauling freight from Milk[...]eventually purchased by Tom and Jen Link and is now In 186i he returned to Illinois but returned to the west run by their daughter, Kitty and her husband, Wayne a year later.[...]rr was born November 6, 1865 at against the Sioux and Nez Perces. He was with his Mazepp[...]spring of 18E1 with her parents, sister and brothers. following that memorable massacre. At t[...]te of the Yellowstone River that fall and spent the winter at |
| [...]t. Pease, near the true pioneer type and that friend and stranger alike present site of Custer. It was the[...]always found a warm welcome in her home." Kate and the minute he saw her he stated, "That's the[...]th Mountains, now a part of the Link-Wyman Kate and Tom were married in 1881 and made their Ranch. home on his ho[...]y. The Duffys had few neighbors. Rezin Anderson and Kate died suddenly of a heart attack while in Lewis- his family and Granville Stuart, on the DHS, were[...]Family members still residing in the area: Tom and born September 2, 1882, Ann (Phipps) arrived in 1884, Chester Duffy live near Fort Maginnis and Dave Duffy Francis J. was born in 1888, Mary (Cou[...]wistown; all are the sons of Francis (Babe). 1895 and Florence (Lichter) was born in 1910. Another Richard Coulter and Leona Geary live in Lewistown child, Saliy, died when she was about three years old. and LeRoy Coulter (see L. Coulter) lives at Roy. Thei[...]fy's log house is no more. The homesteaders north and east of the Duffys. Many stayed overnight at[...]nce plowed their place. Tom delighted in visiting and story telling fields. The wide open ranges, land covered with grass, and guests enjoyed Kate's cooking, "meals to be ranches and fences remain but there are fewer people. remembe[...]changed. that her courage, self-reliance and cheerfulness were of[...]- In 1894 the pioneer family of Edward and Ardie ested cattlemen from this reputable Z Bar D herd of Fields and brother, Harry Fields came to Montana Hereford cattle. from South Dakota and settled at Ft. Maginnis, where Mrs. Carl Fields and daughter left the state and they were successful stockmen in this area throug[...]coast. their lives. Edward Fields had three sons and two Lee Daniel Fields, born 2[...]Miller, South daughters: Carl, Lee D., Vern, Alta and Etta Marie. Dakota was five years[...]e, Maginnis. He was a WWI Veteran and spent his entire South Dakota. He was schooled at[...]engaged in ranching. married Mrs. Josephine Baker and raised her daughter, Lee Fields and Eleanor Vogel were married, 16 Josephine. Carl di[...]eumo- November 1924 at Lewistown and raised three sons nia at the age of 51. and two daughters: George, Frank, Lee D. Jr., Louise[...]to trail large herds of cattle to the and Ruthie. They aitended schools at Ft. Maginnis, ra[...]ts at Armells agd Roy, bound for Roy and Lewistown. Frank and George lost their lives eastern markets. Some of[...]ued to run the ranch Livestock Commission Company and they advertised where she live[...]the Roy stockyards December 9-11, and she has grandchildren, great and great-great 1935, where they offered for sale any[...]l Anderson, have told me many interesting Creek and had cattle of his own- Both Stuart (Granville) episodes. and Anderson married Indian women.[...]they The year of so many prairie fires and when the timber came to the Black Butte countrv in i880. She and her in the mountains was burning,[...] |
| [...]ht fire r+'ili be shot, including the commander and was told he couid not see him. you." Anderson roughly pushed the orderly aside and walked They went and fought firesl into the office of the frightened[...]so hard and so The commander stated he didn't have any or[...]by Charles McEuony Les McEvony had the first and only steam engine ran he fell, and the cap in his teeth exploded, injuring his COUPLE LIVES QUIET LIFE IN GHOST TOWN[...]ld were |
| [...]iod. The mili was in production around the clock, and miners worked seven days a week. Tha mi-[...]re were two separate settlements, Gilt Edge and an unnamed village two miles up the gulch. "Every[...]. The building also doubled as a dance hall and a courtroom. By the time Iva arrived, sc[...]George's mother ran a combination rooming house and boarding house in Gilt Edge and there he grew up. The frame building is still standing and belongs to his son, Sonny Smith of Grass Range. I[...]s who enjoyed the licorice, jelly beans, gumdrops and peanut brittle she offered. The business[...], barber shops, a blacksmith shop, gtocery stores and livery stables. Two black women were wel[...]t for differeni reasons. Aunt Fanny was a midwife and officiated at many local births. To supplem[...]its "red light district," which catered to miners and cowboys who rode into town on payday, residents of that section stayed to themselves and seldom went out in public. They preferred to hire someone to run their errands and young boys found it an easy way to earn money, si[...]for $3," George recalls. "They usually gave us $5 and told us to keep the change." George and Iva owned. and lived on the Stoddard place, south of Roy, for several years. They sold it to their son, |
| [...]r- Ji) been glamorized in western novels, and on the movie[...]an those Casual Callers |
| [...]nthe flat prairie landnorth of Roy. The BillWoods and Lloyd. Cunningham families. - 1916.[...]as held in various places in #20?. in 1958, Speed and Jessie Komarek built a school near the highway. School board members were Warren Willmore, Speed Komarek and Russell Murray. The clerk was Ava Zahn' The term[...]Nase, Miss Olson, Dorena Baulch, pauline Kovacich and Jim Stiedly. The last teacher was Ernest Harrison[...]oaxu NerHaN Cor,nlteN AND HELEu KuntH McDoNalo[...]nald is not just sure when his parents and then became a career salesman for Liggett and came to Montana, but he always believed it to be[...]Moorehead, North Dakota Eugene, Oregon' and homesteaded in the Indian Butte area, T 24N R Harry grew up and went to schooi in Roy. He has 23E Sections 20 and 21. They had a son, Raymond, who many memories of his years in the Roy country. He was born in 1906 and had left behind, in a grave, 4n reiated a[...]when the family still lived near Nate was born and raised at Prescott, Wisconsin. Indian Butte, they had run out of hay and so, with Helen was born and raised at Hales Corner, Wisconsin. anot[...]rs old, his mother, then mid-winter and enroute home a blizzard came up. age 41, travei[...], "No, Nate, this is not the proper Harry Nathan and a month later returned home to wa[...]orn baby. coulee and camped out all night. In the morning Nate let[...]the fact that his dad, Nate (like several years and then they bought a piace just west of[...] |
| [...]t to talk Helen, her sister, Mae Kurth and Raymond all passed to Nate. The "snitch" had[...]in Burbank, Cajifornia. location of evidence and Nate was fined $15 for Mae died in Los Angeles and was cremated. Raymond possession of a "broken[...]ior year in "One time, my Dad, Frank Gradle and Jess high school in Roy. Then he quit and joined the army. Bilgrien were working in harvest with a header. I He passed his GED tests and received his diploma and Lawrence LaFountain went in to eat at noon[...]service. After his stint in the service Harry and then we went back out to the freld about one" moved around quite a bit, and except for a period of Two hours later someon[...]ley smoke over towards our piace. We all quit and Chevrolet in Lewistown along with Charlie Phillips went back and found the barn burning." That's and Don Imsande, he has been employed as a brake-[...]here fire was con- Eugene, Oregon and then mostly our of Los Angeles, cerned."[...]lks were diversified farmers; waukee and St. Paul railroad as a conductor-brakeman the[...]out of Lewistown from 1952-1955. hay and a Iittle grain.[...]e. "Mail ,Rose born January 6, 1952 and Nathan Coleman, Feb- and groceries were generally delivered by anyone[...]" born February 27,1956 in Eugene and Biliy Joe born Alfred LaFountain, son of Is[...]T2L R24 Sec. 18 Jim Rife, Alfred and Harry used to drive a truck Mae Kurth[...]nce at that time." Mae died in 1967 and her homestead is now owned by Nate passed away in 1946 and he is buried in Roy. the children of[...]s". stories I've heard about Patty are delightful and those Patty was a red headed Irishman.[...]his mouth. Patty could spit clear across the room and hit the stove top! The juice would speed across the hot stove and then splatter all over the back and sizzie with a most unique hiss. Patty bought a[...]rink". He washed clothes, once a year-in June; and in June only.[...]even-tempered fellow, but when lmore and Curley Willmore. Taken in 1927. |
| [...]JoHr'r AND RoxY Unsrnao[...]packed with sawdust in between each cake and each turned to Montana preceding his marriage to[...]dug out in approximately 12 inch chunks and used for town, Montana. Throughout the years the[...]became warm. It was also put in canvas 1923-1982 and John William, i932-1960. b[...]f ice the same; but there are more fences, fields and added to make homemade ice cream. poles c[...]water. grownups and help keep the barrels from tipping and - WATER WAS KING!! Water determined where and spilling the water. (For the sake[...]number of commands the most integerity and perseverance, not to ways. The ways varying with[...]an oblong water tank wash clothes in, take a bath and wash your hair in. propped up on rocks[...]breaking chore of shoveling snow into the tank and of using it, out it went to the chickens; crickets and all. keeping it filled. Animals became accustom[...]was put up off the frozen water from a frre and would come running at the sight of smoke. handmade dam; a dam buiit with a fresno and pulled \ow with the artesian wells[...]of warm water for household man crew. After days and weeks of steady work and use, pastures and corrals, many tedious chores have perseverance th[...]pon us, we are back where we started a generation and These awkward cakes were grabbed out of the water[...]ips that chal- approximately three feet in length and 12 inches wide, Ienged the determination and perseverance of all hard- not, the daintiest articles to handle. The thought of ice core homesteaders and a great amount of unsung praise cold water a shor[...]rked would certainly rejuvenate his co-ordination and bal- with their men on these dry land ven[...]ight slabs of ice pulled RECREATION: Fun and recreation in the home- out of the icy water, the[...]d days just happened. When people dropped in boat and hauled to the ice house. Two day's hauling[...] |
| [...]ce house), cooking a larger ing time and started out shortly after we saw him. We meal whi[...]were loaded with a lard pail filled with ice and a small garden. As I remember, after those two ch[...]amount of water. The ice would melt and if we dropped done I rvas free to go swim with th[...]al because The men took a walk through the hay and grain he should stop to feed and water the horses and let fields, comparing the growth, digesting and examining them rest during the noon hour. One neighbor said, "If the heads and kernels and guessing how many bushels John ev[...]asting energy, as they called it) to and locate him. When, finally spotting him in the field, run down and see where the bullet hit and if they they came rushing up ov[...]his tractor to a stop, anticipating company. ging and wasting more shells.[...]We never could figure out why when and how much wheat to plant. After many the prairie d[...]e government men managed would give a certain yip and down in the holes they to get Pop[...]o until one shoot one he would fall down the hole and we couidn't day one of the men came out and told Pop, "You'll have see him. Someone said mayb[...]l all around out. Big chance with water so scarce and the dog towns this field because you[...]"I was here before you were born and you can't tell me We did have a comfortable, co[...]cially wading out in the barefoot and stand in the doorway and watch the drops dam to water him. He couldn't get[...]ever been drug out of bed when the sun came up and down and we would tumble off and splash around. We told to get yo[...]se was learning bad habits, until dam and were told to be sure and smell the fresh morn- one day my Dad said, "What[...]ing air. One thing, after a bout with cold water and to Stuby?" It seems my Dad had gotten an unexpect[...]long?" "Yes, it was," I re- Nature and wasn't it fun to get up early?! piied. I then exp[...]were driving down the birds happy and chirping. As the morning wore on, the highway th[...]Later dur- of disbelief; while to us, my brother and I, it was a way ing the day the sun bec[...]aught the family early then thirsty and got a lesson on how lo lay on our in life to cai[...]At this point we would look at stomach and drink out of a freshly filled water hoie[...] |
| [...]roRv Or Nonr-urasrsnx FEncls Couxtr it is clear and shiny. Just try tasting clear alkali water |
| [...]ployees teliing you what to plant and where. Those lars. Money had never entered my hea[...]here were no prob- good ieather jacket or a dress and a pair of shoes. It lems with bo[...]cannot be cr.lmpared to the rat-race with time and today.[...]ation; that Dad, who had operated and farmed his land for forty- of mental freedom. The[...]for 120 a gallon. A wall, a reversible cupboard and a door divided the On November[...]mechanical projects, not farming. had one bedroom and used the front porch for entrance.[...]n area, plus one Robert Cimrhakl and Bill took a camping-vacation trip bedroom and the back door was their entrance. In the to Alaska. They fished, enjoyed the scenery and took back yard was a, not-so-sturdy, common cloth[...]is head- then joined the Navy during World War II and was quarters where he lived and worked for the same com- stationed in various pla[...]rning we received news of Charles back to Detroit and stopped briefly in Roy with a blue[...]ervation already pick-up hauling his Indian Chief and a refrigerator, made to fly to[...]ehicles he had accumulated over the years was his and points in Alaska were mere trails with tra[...] |
| [...]an expert at "riding the grub line" and worked for his 1'21N R 248 Sec.20. White's Ridge,[...], east of John Umsteads (Indian Butte) and gear. marks the area of the White homestead. When[...]him. She wouid give Darrell money for his saddle and place for several years and leased to Jensens before leather purchase[...]Valle Vista for some time. Ohio the son of Warren and Elizabeth Thompson White. Jane Thompson[...]Indian Butte area for 22 Jack was quiet and unassuming and all that he came ytars. His ranch was on the main[...]espected him. A neighbor wrote, in a to the river and was a well-known stopping place for all tribu[...]Jack was that way. This community was better and Maiden, only a year before his death in November[...]After his death, Lillis married Frank Potterf, and they his mother, Oline Hemsing, who had been visi[...]home in Lewistown for many years. several months, and a sister. His only child, son Jack Oline[...]Norway, landing at Roach Harbor, Washington, and ton and came to Fergus County in 1915 or 1916.[...]a year or two after her son, homesteaded, and returned that time, Deaton was operating through[...]garet Hedman If you were a child in the 1920's and spent your pre- shiny hair, a well combed mane and a neatly pulled tail. school days on a homestead[...]t trrwn, your acquaintances, besides your parents and one on with the cinch noticably loose; but t[...]ar-old this leather who lived a quarter mile away and came to help my dad processing was quite a[...]o rode a weli-mannered horse, for he loved horses and pretty and smooth and also have such a change in u nd erstood their way[...]tand for smell. Once when my brother, Charles, and I were hours with the reins dropped on the ground[...]wn gelding, medium build, would Charles and I had the neatest, floatinest little wood stand in our yard with his reins down and a knowing boat anybody could wish for. N[...]anced by the perfect grooming, such as events and realized how much I learned in the few short |
| [...]attle many people in this day and age who do not take time to -never hurry them - g[...]s assumed horses it was just the opposite. If you and the cows idea would alrvays be[...]monia in November 1935. After a few short days in and let her pick the trail. To pick a detailed route[...]h's Hospital, he died. cattle is very frustrating and they are apt to turn back. If Roennr AND CLARa MoRces Punov[...]Davis recalled an almost tragic incident that |
| [...]. It r,,'as in [)istrict =lis before 19I!l and ther.r became District Twenty-two children was the iargest enrollment and were the terms of I9l9 and 1922. School was continuous. with |
| [...]ll' homesteader in the Josiin area. and tribulations with it as did the early first car H[...]d pull it with his team when it would Ernest Zahn and moved to Roy. He had a house on not start, and had some narrow escapes. the west of Joe Murphys, where he took care of John Mike and Fred Machler were friends, from their Mettier, wh[...]native Switzerland, and they would stop and visit and Matt took part in the Joslin school activities and was check on his welfare. a good neighbor and friend to all in the community:[...]wistown, 28 The Zahn boys were very close friends and he would go December 1952 and was 82 years old. He belonged to to dances with them when they traveled by team and the Presbyterian Church at Roy.[...]ndmother Kochheiser, -John Fremont, Gene Phillip, and Richard Wilson. who lived in Ohio. The Homestead Act opened land in Montana and the In the winter, our mother[...]open prairie. They started a home, planted crops and wouldn't get frozen. If they looked to be frostbitten, she gardens. The neighbors were few and lived some dis- would grab a handful of snow and hold it to our noses tance away.[...]was away hauiing water with the wagon and team. them of this part of their life on the prairie. Of course, Fremont and Richard were with Dad; I was home with time and hearing things said at different times and by Mother. Just prior to the "criti[...]Jane came to our home, it was wintertime and very and Richard Cass. The events, as recorded, are not in cold. Fremont and I would take turns holdine and chronological order, but do iilustrate the lives[...]board in a wash tub and boiled them in a boiler to get The following is f[...]Winter was a difficult iime to drl'ciothes and she had to Having been born in 1915, my years in[...]ith just two or three other team, Gert and Florie, it was a real outing. I believe children.[...]iday of some kind, we would make ice very helpful and patient with us. She would always[...]inging "America", then THE Fremont and I got to turn the crank, and I can still see PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE to the flag.[...]ch it was a ver]' bleak life. Anything named Gert and Florie. Christmas time was special, as[...] |
| [...]had fer.r' toys, so learned to lake care of them and table phonograph, rtound it, then turned it on. W[...]member wrapping a cloth would look at the speaker and wonder how all of that around one of the[...]sisters. This activity wouid keep us enter- Dad and lHother processed almost everything that we tained for hours. One time, we took a shoebox and I had to eat. Nlother would bake the bread and can the fastened a piece of wood to it, t[...]hat kiiled many of the chickens, also can chicken and many times Dad hunted prairie pounded t[...], double-barrelled shot- her chicks to her and squatted over them for their pro- gun. These, br[...]the pussycat came to the barn when Dad was porch and shoot rabbits that were raiding the garden.[...]re mouth to house that was used in the processing and smoking of feed. The cats fed themselves on mice, etc. hams, bacon and other cuts of pork. One of the chores The coyotes surely had their part in the "Prairie Fremont and i had was to keep the correct amount of Opera". The birds and the crickets, and there were wood on the fire, to make smoke and not let the fire go many, ail sang on differ[...]. The coyotes, being so plentiful, were pigs feet and even think Mother pickled the pigs tail. ha[...]ickens. One night, they killed many of Headcheese and sausage were also made. AII cooking the[...], etc., into chickens. The coyotes returned and ate the poisoned a galvanized tub, where it was m[...]he With four, then five children to feed, clothe, and care was pregnant with my sister, Lenna. Man[...]e couid leave for the homestead know- the morning and working late in the night kept the ing[...]t a book to sewing clothes, washing, milking cows and feeding tell her the procedures and did it. Mother brought both stock, and all the other things required in keeping the Lenna and me into the world by herself. Lenna was home and farm going.[...]ome time, so the umbiiical cords for Lenna and myself' It was years when he came home, we would[...]told us about these scissors. We had at the gate and always looked for some "treats". used them to cut and trim flowers at a cemetery in Spo- Usually it g'as oranges or some hard candies, a real kane and inadvertently left them at one of the graves- tre[...]rried back to one way we iearned to divide things and share with one the cemetery and found the scissors. They were then another.[...]cleaned, placed in a box, and not used for general |
| [...]named me, I was called Patricia, Helen, Dorothy, and just plain baby. I do not know how old I was whe[...]ction in one of the glands in my throat. Mother, and I believe one of the neighbor ladies, took me to the hospital in Lewistown, where they lanced and treated the infected gland. I must have been ver[...]Mary Jane, John "Fremont," Lenn and Gene. brothers and sister crying loudly. They could hear the coyotes howling and thought the coyotes had gotten us. tion that may be of interest. Mother and Dad often told Although she called to tell them t[...]me other problem. After "Proving Up" on the clean and neat. Because it was flat land around the Homestead, they sold out and returned to Spokane. I house, with no trees, it w[...]r. Mine was named Babe. Dad had when Mother heard and had Dad call the man back for g[...]ne of thus feed him. We all ate from the macaroni and cheese the horses, a bay, was tied[...]reared up, trying to break loose, fell and broke his neck. yet the dish did not seem to have[...]e was walking Our neighbors were not very close and Dad would be towards it when Mot[...]at a time, help- called to Fremont and scared the coyote away. Dad ing at these places.[...]he coyote music, but Mother hated the needed beef and pork. Mother and Dad made a wonder- sound. ful s[...]eat Shotgun shells were precious and Dad frequentiy "lined soon, was canned and piaced in the root cellar.[...]one shot. using mail-order catalogs for the paper and flour and When Lenna was born, I rec[...]from the wagon, telling us to stay there and not move The paper was renewed as often as necess[...]ing. When he finally came for us and ied us into the Having read the above,[...] |
| [...]ntseesreRN Fencus CouNry or both of my brothers, and remember the field was as oth[...]true pioneers of this great land, and know my brothers |
| [...]d November day, there were search for work. Annie and the boys entered the United no doctors o[...]many years later that Washington in March of 1907 and from there went on it was cold in th[...]both warm. In 1908 the Dunns moved to Seattle and moved into a George, Herbert and the other Dunn boys began to home at Foster where[...]improve the homestead. It was hard work and required homesteaded with them in Montana. Son Da[...]some of the land which was then plowed and harrowed William loved music and often played his ciarinet in for planting crops and a garden. Timber for firewood the Salvation Army Band. He taught George to play and building was obtained by cutting and snaking logs the cornet and Herbert a baritone. Herb had gotten[...]e out timber. Green timber was debarked and used for logs of a "bobbin"....and it workedl They played well enough and poles to build a barn and corral. Over a period of to play and march in the Salvation Army Band in Seat- several months of hard work an excavation was made tle, and to play in local theaters on "a;nateur nights" for a basement-dwelling or "dug-out". From George's and on the docks when the local ships sailed to Tacom[...]y, two of many entries concerning the excavation: and Olympia. They were known as the Dunn Band.[...]oads of dirt" The frrst six children of William and Annie were all 13 August 1917 "took[...]lsie Mae. the basement and to cover the ceiling. Air vents and The Dunns lived in several places in the Seattl[...]be fixed up. From some store water and keep butter and milk cool. The floor brickyard William acquired a[...]hard dirt surface. which had been dried too fast and had melted into odd When the family moved from the ridge site (about shapes and many of them were stuck together. With the[...]e jacked up the walis, dug a basement, barn and the new chicken house. (no chickens yet). It built up the walls with brick and built a lovely, artistic was in this "dug-ou[...]f many examples of William's artistry with bricks and March 1922. stone which he continued unt[...]tables for the family; some, Iike potatoes and carrots, Henry and the Garwoods took up homesteads about 18[...]14, George Dunn feed for the iivestock and to have grain to take to the age 1572 joined his[...]nning water. no indoor toilets, no After a team and wagon were purchased, the Dunns telephone, no radio, no automobile. Reading and study- started for their homestead site. When nig[...]ern camp was pitched near the Clay Edward's place and was used to light the barn while mi[...]it's first dark winter evenings. Heating and cooking were done night on the prairie sleeping u[...]er seeing was a l0 x 12 shack, 'thrown up' by Dad and Uncle slabs of home-cured bacon, sausages and hams hanging Henry. It was insulated with tar pap[...]smoldering juniper branches. Early in 1915, Dad and Uncle Henry received word Besides our own beef, pork and chicken meat, an addi- from England that their fa[...]hens, jack-rabbits, cottontaiis and occasionally wild return home to England. Due to[...]ersuade Uncle Henry not to go. Dad and the boys built a dam in the southwest por- Uncle[...]e ill-fated Lusitania tion of our land and it r,r'as used a lot: swimming, skat- |
| [...]esrnnN FERcus CouNTy ing, for our cistern water and for our iivestock. Addi- ing strap. When I[...]obtained by melting tubs of one line to each, and off they went...one north and the |
| [...]any fond not deter Herb who saddled up his horse and rode all memories: The sound of t[...]borrow some separator as cream and skim milk flowed from spouts Zane Grey books fro[...]y. into cans for cream and milk. The sight of freshly-fallen There were m[...]played at school, the lazy autumn walks home and the tough time for livestock.[...]Once Ed took Mother to Roy to sell their cream and for horses. The f un of learning[...]from 'bird cards' in boxes of Arm and Hammer soda. Lane's creamery. When they returned[...]The aroma of Mother's wonderful bread and rolls, and check they were surprised to see how smail it was. also her pancakes and bacon in the chill of early morn- When they chec[...]i.ng. The excitement of watching Mother and hole where a lot of cream had leaked out during[...]es prepare wonderful dinners for the to Roy" Mom and Ed had to cut back on their grocery[...]ed On the morning of May 20, 1917, George, Herb and ice cream, for the 4th of July cel[...]. When they came to a rain-soaked Roy and the Judith mountains to be nearer the Roy wooden bridge Leonard's horse went down and one of High School. In the winter[...]way moved into town to attend g:rade and high school. Some home and later taking the long, slow ride into Roy must[...]last year at Fergus High School. For Ed, David and myself, there was a final farewell Hiking and horse-back riding were pleasant here on hardship[...]glass. We were not with- had taken Mom, the girls and Vern over to the new out hardship[...]re some dry summers when we home site between Roy and the Judith Mountains had to dr[...]. We called the Gove Place. Ed was shocking wheat and would ride along, singing sad cowboy songs as we David and I were finishing up the last wheat binding[...]limb boy sitting on the tongue between the horses and the into the buggy and leave the ranch in time to be there binder, a pre[...]isode here. Dad, coming in that approaching storm and Henry and I had Ed, David and I were harvesting wheat and plowing on to act in a hurry. There was not much[...]few miles from the Gove place. around to join Ed and find shelter at the Arduzer home. One d[...]shes, Dad selected a Ed tried to get to his horse and come to our aid but the young team of ha[...]on the homestead. While chang- would get through and we did. Back at our location I ing s[...]m bolting while Henry get in front and grab their bits but the wagon tongue dropped all[...]get one side of hit him i.n the chest and down he went under the horses the tongue strap loose so I ran around to get the other and wagon. Either a horse kick or a wagon wheel one o[...]of wheat, severely broke his leg. David and I both responded to the hail hit. The lightning m[...]nce Henry tried to get away for the car and we carefully put Dad on the back seat. and get under the binder away from the large hail-[...]e I tried to hold the broken leg steady as stones and I had to pull him back. As we left the fieid,[...]hospital in Lewistown. David took both teams and on the field. When we got home, the barn roof was[...]er. blown away, the hay rack was in little pieces and the Dad was still on crutches durin[...]lizzard. I was concerned about Place with a wagon and fresh horses, but it was ail too Dad and Mom being alone on the ranch iaking care o[...] |
| [...]HrsroRy Op NonrHne,srrnx Fencus CouNrv and a shau'l around my face, then walked the 4 miles in Clay and his wife, Hilda, both homesteaded in the[...]country. It was |
| [...]poria, Kansas, graduated from Emporia High School and later took a course in law from LaSalle Universit[...]ibson They came to Montana in 1913 to homestead and settied 172 miles southeast of the Joslin Post Of[...]trand passed away in Miles months oid at the time and is buried in the Lewistown City on[...]Wanda continued her education and became a The Gibson's house on the homestead wa[...]taught for several years. She was married by fire and they moved to the adjoining Wiley Scott to Clifford Nelson and they had two daughters, Michelle place and farmed it for several years. and Robin Rae. Daughters Joysie and Wanda, who were born while Wanda suffered muscular distrophy and was an in- thel'were on the homestead, attended t[...]sixty-six. west of Roy where he continued to farm and milk cows. In 1941Mr. Gibson became iil and Lewistown doctors The girls attended Roy Hish S[...]o Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota. He ated in 1933 and Wanda in 1934.[...]operable due to the internal Grass Range in 1938, and they made their home in location and he died a few hours later. He was 57 years Great Falls where two children, Darline Joy and of age. He too is buried in t[...]Mrs. Gibson disposed of her property and moved to her daughter, Darline Joy, at the age of 27, Joysie Denver, Colorado where she and Wanda resided the became despondent and on May 31, 1967 was reported res[...]body was recovered at Mrs. Gibson and her daughter, Wanda, are buried at the mouth of t[...]HTNNY AND MARTHA HANSON Henry Martin Hanson and his wife, Martha, along Henry[...]discharge from the service. homestead shack and plowed some land before Henry Martha refused to return to Minnesota and the marched off to war in 1917.[...]he homestead as Martha stayed on the homestead and also worked out part of the divorce settlement. some. A neighbor, Les McCollum, plowed and put in the Lucille attended the Joslin school her first year and first crop for her. McCollum had a steam tractor[...]family. When she was six years pulled a big plow and he did custom plowing for old[...]father. That was the last time mother and daughter knowing what else to do, Martha used her[...]aw each other until Lucille was an adult, married and a granary and frlled it fuil. The room was never in[...]hat Lucille returned to the terrible flu epidemic and was fortunate enough to Montana and met the family she never knerv. never beco[...] |
| [...]cus Cr,u^-'tv service of the U.S. Postal system and retired in 1960 Martha remarried in 1920 and they lived in her origi- Howeno AND BESS Hnnr Howard Hart came to the Roy area with Curley My grandparents, William and Nancy Henneman, |
| [...]othered the neighbor, as pocket for each famiiy; and by the time it took him to go it was a long walk from their home to the Kachia store. and get the mail at Wilder and deliver all his mail, it One day she as[...]where in my duty lies". Later in life rve banjo and played for many dances in the Roy area.[...]l lived in the area. He was buried in Lewistown. and was also a city judge. He died in Maita, Montana.[...]ille where she later re- A story about Grandma and Grandpa Henneman married. Sh[...]THB JonoaN Felrri.v Emmett and Mabel Jordan came to eastern Montana Chink, Mike and Orul'a all iived and worked in the |
| [...]rneasrrRN Fnncus Couxrr had been blowing all day and had evidentally loosened |
| [...]zr5 to speak, read and write the language.[...]s, Kolihas, |
| [...]Msnl MussnuttaN AND ANxe W. Gooo Anna Good met the Hickey girls, Josie and Bridgie, Arnold Zahn and moved to Lewistown. He lived for a[...]in Lewistown where he passed little poem and posted it on the door.[...]And throLL, the coohstoue out the door[...]So you just as weII pich, up and skiddew!! |
| [...]by Wanen and Illa Louis C. "Curley" Willmore, eldest son of Caroiine (Leif and Opal) with whom they had stayed brought Louisa Spicer and Julius Willmore (of Danish and them home in their car. When they topped th[...]by little boy, to come home and not to have it there. wagon and team like most homesteaders, but by car. A[...]from the nearby well into small buckets and packing miles northeast of Roy, close to the old[...]probably kept him "busy and out of a lot of trouble!" Curley built a 10 x l[...]the reason why they could cellar to keep food in and stayed that first winter. He remain[...]any others left. was close to the timbered breaks and so he hauled wood In i923 the c[...]t of many by, but small game, such as cottontails and sagehens, homesteaders. Between 1[...]tense heat in summer followed by killer blizzards and "Floweree Ranch" on the Missouri and Marias Rivers. intense cold in[...]But it wasn't all bad. Neighbors appreciated and a neighbor, Glen Mangle, who had a team and they relied on each other, not only for support during the hauled wood and posts which they sold in Roy.[...]d times were Curley went into the Army in 1917 and served in the enjoyed. There were[...]up on his home- neighbors, rare and exciting trips into Lewistown on stead without ha[...]the train, the frrst auto and the fi.rst tractor. The following winter (1918[...]berta, Canada, where his Warren and it was on August 22nd, of a very hot and parents and siblings had moved. Curley did not make[...]son, Robert Eric, in Brainard. The trips to and from under the rule of a monarch.[...]ty terrible heat, a sick little boy and a baby....plus efforts Farm in Lewistown during t[...]n St. Maries, Idaho. Crops were good and there was a steer or two to sell. By Mart cooked and Curley ran the horse barns, as they the fall of 1926 Curley had bought a tractor and built a logged with horses in those days. During[...]ob. They moved another 12 x 16 homestead (Cass's) and started to build them into a ranch. They built shack onto the house for a front room and bought a big fences and cleared sage brush and picked rock; clearing Nash car, land for fields. And they worked out, part time, buiiding Sc[...]h of their son, Warren, on November 8, and attended the Byford school. Other pupils that yea[...]tly on the ranch. They were Johnny and Thelma Beck, Helen and Lily Jakes. acquired horses and 'a' cow. During the following years Later the boys attended the Little Crooked, Joslin and they moved the Joslin Store and built it into a horse- Roy schools. Th[...]rode horses to barn; moved in two good granaries and frxed a shop, school. Mart stayed with them in Roy one year and They moved Mart's homestead shack from the top of[...]grien or "camped out" by them- moving episode. He and his mother had traveled to selves[...]board. town, on the train, for a couple of ciays and the Shorts Then came the crash of 1929 and there was no money |
| [...]irst bales Warren had ever Sam spent and a year when his folks returned. They seen. Their[...]had sold the business at Trout Creek and then had to barnlike stacks. No cattle were sold,[...]tle, by truck, to the during the war years and cattle were fat. Warren was Billings Auction mark[...]ings injuries he received as a child, and so remained on the Ivlarkei made a big irnpacl on[...]came a ranch. good place to sell cattle and horses. Bob had left home in 1941, at the age of 16, and had In August of 1936 ihe Willmores moved their[...]ter. The railroad offered a'disaster rate' and went to night school to get his high school diplo[...]he Aleutian Islands with bought a place at Brooks and moved their cattle and the 1?6 Army Engineers Special Serv[...]n his folks On October 12, 1946 Bob and Vera Sand, of White left to go back to western Mo[...]They have one son, Larry them, he was left alone and school soon fell by the Roy "Skip".[...]on construction for many years until the Mart and Curley bought a gas station and cabins at early 60's when they purchased the Burney (California) Trout Creek and later had the liquor store. Curley also[...]nch work had a mail route. They sold their cattle and equipment and they sell auto supplies. They make their home in at an auction and Warren joined his parents and Burney. brother in western Mont[...]ls, place at Buffalo was leased and Curley and Mart living in the dorm.[...]ntered the cattle there. Warren married that fall and In 1939 the government, through the Bankhead' he and his bride stayed on the Roy ranch. Jones Act, offered $1280 to buy the homesteads- After Mart and Curley purchased a home in Lewistown in much disc[...]what to do, they declined the 1953 and retired. Curley continued to work on the ranch offer and Warren, age 18, came back to the ranch at when needed and also did some trucking. Mart thorough- Roy with his saddle, a few tools, a tractor and 25 head ly enjoyed town life with its cemented sidewalks and of cattle his dad bought for him and began his ranching good running water s[...]owing a long Sam Dennis spent the winter of '40 and'41 with him. illness. He was 63. His[...]ectedly, on September 21, pretty young daughters) and in general had a good 1966, after[...]he ranch his parents home- 19?6 and Hailie Lynne born June 2I,1978. steaded. In Octob[...]e married Illa LeBrun in Jeff farms and ranches with his dad' He and his Nampa, Idaho. Illa was from Ashland, Oregon. Four family live on the ranch. Jeff and Susan (McCrary) children were born to them: Kenne[...]ch 26, 1981; Amanda Dawn born Juiy 9, ber 5, 1957 and Ralph "Randy" I-.ewis on September 6, 1960' 1984 and Matthew Allen born November 26,1987. Ken and his wife, Vicki (Arner) were married in[...]in 1974. Clark, Wyoming in 19?3. They now own and live where Ralph and Shelly (Johnson) were married in 1981. once was t[...]Dustin Lewis born August 14, 1986 kids have sheep and Ken is employed on the CMR and Casey Andrew born October 2, L987. Ralph i[...] |
| [...]ually hidden from view, behind a door or curtain, and pretty much as it was in homestead days. No moder[...]s One particular winter I remember we ate venison and either liked to dangle in it or d[...]tever else they could find, or try to climb in jt and in the was in Roy in the locker, and we couldn't get out to get process tip[...]got electricity and in 1961 telephones. This area was We had no el[...]vancements. Finally our light; a combination coal and gas stove cooked the in 1973 we got hot running water in the house. meals and heated the house; a gas refrigerator that had[...]l, one-room, country school a habit of sooting up and blackening the house kept the houses; first to Indian Butte school with Speed and Jes- milk from spoiling and hid the food from the flies. A sie Komarek's kids and then to Bohemian Corner (or gas-powered washing m[...]Boschee kids diapers were washed by hand everyday and in winter and then in 1968 into Roy, as the small schools were[...]s an iron. This room I do my writing and painting in is the one that was before wash and wear and driers. The gas iron Warren's mother cleared out and filled with wheat, blistered my hands from the heat and the flat irons once when the harvesters were here and she had no heated on the stove, burnt the clothes[...]set a mile away. It once was home to Mom, Dad and cows; the line to the house was an after-thought.[...]An electric stove, heater, refrigerator, freezers and pounded the faucet open and a flood would ensue, lights ha[...]y, so it still had to be heated on soot and periodically setting the wall afire from an the stove for washing dishes, clothes, kids and floors. I uncontrollable stove. A good[...]of water. water. Wash the kids, then the diapers and then the Gone is the smoke from[...]just over the hill and out of sight, and in their place, Baths were taken in a galvaniz[...]goes down, scattered yard lights flicker outside and placed in front of the stove. Then after- on in the evening, and to the north instead ofdarkness, wards it had to be packed out and dumped outside. the Little Rock[...]d bright lights Another use, it watered the trees and a few flowers. In from the mines and miner's homes at Zortman and summertime the kids finished their pla_v time in[...]ty contents, etc. that fl1' over head (and sometimes at eye levei it seems) all went into the slop bucket to be hauled out and on their training flights; or by[...]t-too-far distance of one of today's large modern And it had lo be dumped at regular intervals.[...] |
| [...]Curley, Bob, Mart and Warren. 1953. Cuupe H. WnrrB AND ANNA SrrunNs WHrrn Claude White came to Montana in[...]es |
| [...]by William Wood Jr. William F. and Catherine Franz Wood came to Mon- two and a half years that we \vere there he made 75q. tana in 1915. They bought a relinquishment and proved He had brought a trunk from Ro[...]first nvo weeks that we were Catherine born 1911 and Wiiliam F. Jr. born 1913, all in there,[...]relling about the good they were on the homestead and three others: Mary, times that we had there. They said that the best people Richard and Colleen were born after thev returned to[...]in Des passed away in 1983 at age 96, and are buried in Des Moines, he wanted a rest so we[...]T 2ON R 238 William August Zahn and Anna Meska were born in took a iot ofingenuitl'to form school districts and buiid Germany; William on 5 August 1875, and Anna on 20 schoois, many of w[...]effort. By donations. benefit dances and socials, money families and settled in the lower part of Michigan and was raised to buy supplies, with l[...]lp on these projects. Lumber had to be Wiiliam and Anna met and were married in Bliss- purchased and hauled by team and wagon. So it was freld, Michigan on 4 April 1904.[...]ilt in 1916 with 26 children where William farmed and did carpentry work. enro[...]rbert Henry on 12 June 1905 and On the 10 June 1[...]ifford. The baby lived only a few hours William and Anna Zahn left Michigan with their two and was buried on the homestead. smali sons to settle[...]as born at Apache, fellow haul wood and ivas paid *.ith an old push-button 14 June 1909.[...]ut five accordian. He learned to play it and played it at dances. years.[...]ped build a reservoir to earn money to buy Anna and the three boys went back to her family in[...]th child, Ernest John musical abilities and bought a fiddle for Wilbert at an born 20 May 19i[...]violin for Ernest from a maple tana to homestead and left Oklahoma with a wagon plank[...]bow. Ernest played this load of their belongings and a team of mules. Anna and at dances when he rvas g years old. Th[...]n surrounding communities for where they met Will and continued with him and the many years. Wilbert played the riolin and cornet, Her- covered wagon to Montana. They came in by Circie and bert the banjo, Arnold the guitar and Ernest was their Jordan and followed the 79 Trail across the Musseishell drummer. River, arriwing at Mrs. Zahn's sister and brother-in- There were no rddios or TVs and self-made enter- Iaw, the William Gibsons, homest[...]tainment was encouraged by get-to-gethers and dances Wilbert was 9 years, Herbert ?, Arnold 5 and baby from one community to the ot[...]visiting, helping neighbors, and with transportation They moved into a little l[...]being slow either on foot, horseback or by team and[...]rd filed on a homestead a mile north of the creek and began constructing their first home of logs that[...]the breaks which took a month to cut and haul by team dirt floor and they had a tent. The barn and corrais and wagon- Winters were long and cold, getting down were built next. They picked rocks and plowed a garden to 40 degrees below zero and huge snowdrifts blew spot the spring of 1915. The[...]duca- The country was filling fast as every 160 and 320 tion at Joslin school. L[...] |
| [...]Nry everyone who stopped by. She was a good cook and it Ernest and Mrs. Zahn kept the home going" |
| [...]Enussr AND MARIE ZAH\- by Marie Zahn "Dude" and "Croppy" push the IHC buII rahe to lood |
| [...]rHsasteRx Fcnc;us CouNrr from his place to help and he would walk through the rain and the weather q'ould not moid and spoil it. This |
| [...]Mr.,llie married Flank Herdina and they lived in the Ernest homesteaded north of J[...]I. and Ralph. Ernest married Sylvia Wyland of Hilger. They moved Elsie miirried Gus Janda and they made their home to Scio, Oregon where he pas[...]are: Toodie, Leonard, Ray, Albert, Esther, Susan and David and Pearl. (There may have been more children). Patri[...]town area and later mc.,ved to \\:ashinglon state. They[...]ed from the service after WWI, he farmed both his and his brother, Ernest's places, until[...]ace. thel' moved to the Maiden area and later to Lewistown. Frank's homestead is now a pa[...]5 to teach (Nelson) T 20 R 23 north 7: of Sec. 26 and Ira Davis, T at the Joslin school. S[...]arl in 1926. 20R23 south 7z of section 26, places and farmed there Earl and Bertha's children are: Beatrice (Everette until he retired and moved into Lewistown in the early Bullis), Jean (Lyle Hassler) and Donald. Bea and 1960's.[...]Everette have three children: a son Terry and two The buildings on Frank's place are history them- daughters, Carol and Linda. Donaid has Robert, Ronald selves-all were moved in. The only thing he built was and Ranae. Bea lives at Hardin, Don at Helena and the root celiar. For the frrst two years he lived[...]Dad. 1942. Joe Medek's house was moved in in 1945 and was used for storage. A tall house, moved from th[...]were moved in from A.J. Andersons, Henry Edwards and Nellies 10 x 10 foot house, all used as grain bin[...]. Outside of the house that Oquist helped move in and the garage, Warren Willmore helped Frank with his[...]ving operations. They used two 15.30 IHC tractors and skids to get the jobs done. Frank had a dry s[...]st he hired Eleanor Cottrell to cook for himself and one or two others. Eleanor made a cherry pie one[...]oroughly convinced her that he had eaten the pie and he never noticed any piis. She never could find[...]its into a pocket on the leg of his bib overalis and disposed of them when he got back out in the fie[...]Earl and Bertha Zeltrtka on the occasion of their Many cottontails lived around his buildings and Golden l|edding annitt'rsary in[...]home in Leu'istou'n. for Frank's cooking and often came in the house and Ttll.[...]te with him. If she couldn't get in she'd jump up and ln a ltotttt frtr tltt ag[...] |
| [...].. !*:Y I'd lihe to cooh beans and bacon in an old blach pan, :-[...]t fttllt,Lt tht cattle dou'n a dustl trail. And hear again the coyotes wail.[...]l in thts ltie. I could turn back one page, And gallop once nlore through the greaseu'ood and sage, Then the rest of n1 days would be rosy and iair, And I'd be content to roch in'this old rocking choir. Mary and Franz Zelenka with their son in law Meluin[...]e of him) died. John Mettier MR. AND MRS. CLEVELAND SPINNER- homesteaded |
| [...]e first trustees were John Beedv. Henrv Ludeman and Harry Martin.[...]years. Stella Myers taught one year and Nora Lund Antelope school was being held be[...]nued with Maude Watkins as abandoned and annexed io #140 Valley View. The the teacher. Th[...]acher. Other teachers graztng district and a polling place until 1967 when the were Carl Watkins and Louise Hirchey. district was annexed to Roy and the building sold to[...]i- ter as teacher. Other teachers were Olsa Iuam and Addis Miller. Kacrila (CnNrn[...]Other teachers were N1arie Dorsey, Mabel Rossiter and S er f[...]r':' The Women folk and hids. Bach row. L. to R: Cora |
| [...]information source Barbara Dawson and Blanche (Mrs. Joseph) Blum ln the spring of 1914, Elizabeth Blum and her two Anna taught school two terms at Brooks, and then daughters, Anna and Barbara, traveled by train from marr[...]sin to Roy, Montana. They her son and was unable to care for her baby Her were met by M[...]y acquired wagon, parents, Matt and Elizabeth, were caring for the child drawn by two horses, named Jim and Prince. All their when Anna passed away approximately 6 months later household goods and baggage were loaded onto the at t[...]unable to take the baby. He gave his consent and the Marhias had made the journey several weeks earlier child was iegaii-v adopted by Matt and Elizabeth. They and had built a tar paper shack which the family woul[...]ias Blum. He was born in call home for many years and through many tears. Len'istown. It was a new life for Elizabeth and Mathias who were Barbara went to St.[...]ld make the basement of the church, and then graduated from it possible to become land owners and to work towards Fergus County High Sch[...]spital' of drought, hail, endless work, privation and then Mathias passed away in Harlo[...]e child- Barbara now lives in Colorado and Joseph in South ren had to be taken to get vaccin[...]income. They would take their cream, grocery list and outgoing mail to Kachia. The mailman would sell t[...]oney he would buy the staple grocery items needed and then do the 22 miles back to Kachia with the empty can, groceries and mail. After Anna went to Lewistown to high school[...]ra's chore to ride her horse to the meeting place and return home with all those items. Good old Roy[...]Burke The Blum family: Etizabeth, Anna and Mathias with Hotel for a number of years.[...]homesteaded at Kachia. He married and Mary Barron Fargher. They lived on the family Ora King and they lived at Clarinda, Iowa, where two[...]en were born to them: Bill Holt, one of Brownlee and daughter, Mary. Another child was born, trvins, the other child did not live and is buried on the 19 August 1916, after they came[...]aine, lvho lives in Washington; only a few hours and is buried in the Roy Cemetery' John LeRoy and Barron are i.n western Montana, and Marl' was a graduate of the first high school[...], Ora Brownlee, cooked at the Nina and Clarence divorced and she remarried, to Roy dormitory at this time. Ma[...]- Brown of Lewistown. Nina was a school teacher, and no children. and taught the Beaver Creek school, 1924'25 Ietm; Clarence King Brownlee and Nina Fargher were Brooks (Phil[...]stown, Montana' She fall quarter 1927 and the Fishburn school at Heath, was born in[...] |
| [...]for 35 years when she oldest child and trvin, died at Lewistown, 31 May 1952, died, 7 Oc[...]age of 40 years. After age 24 years, and is buried in the Lewistown City cremation, her re[...]Cemetery. Survived by his brother: John LeRoy and Grove Cemetery. Barron and sisters, Lorraine and Lenore and his step- It is believed that Clarence Brownlee[...]n 24 April 1928. the ter of Clarence and Nina Brownlee, iives in Billings.[...]Elizabeth, a Gene studied art and received her BA Degree from teacher and their children, Mabelle, Wiiliam, Geneva the University of California at Berkley. and Carrie Belle came to Montana from Kansas and She spent several years working[...]hey ranched beside the buttes that ranch and took back her maiden name. She did some Gene late[...]after She loved to paint the "big sky" and her buttes - spending fourteen years on the homes[...]evident in so many of her paintings. years he and Mrs. Galloway wouid spend the winter in[...]yards in Lewistown and worked at the Fergus County Their daughter, Mab[...]er Carrie Belle married Robert Daniels and iater moved on July 6,1922. She passed away April[...]interest in the ranch, success- Bob, John and Bill and two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth fully developing it and caring for his parents. Biil never Todd, Billings and Naomi Paronto of Douglas, married. He passed away[...]g crew. I was My new life was an exciting and adventurous time. 9 years old and hadn't been away from the immediate Joe Peoples was born in Ballyscallon, Ireland and Lewistown area since before I started school. The[...]to Canada- He worked on the Hudson try was so big and the people were so few that it was Bay[...]he had started his trip when Forsman, Grant Gore and Rueben Murphy places; all he heard of the sinking and decided to forego it. With vacant and lonely looking. Although you could see for[...]on the section for the Milwaukee Railroad and home- Galloways. Bill, his sister, Gene, and their mother lived steading on Little Crooked Creek, about 12 miles north a quarter mile north. Frank and Helen Messenger lived of Valentine. He married Mabelle Galloway and moved on the Will Schlecier homestead two and a half miles to her homestead on Bloo[...]ew know him. Mabelle was a school teacher and had died experiences such as new born lambs and learning to in 1935. He had[...] |
| [...]us Courrv ing spring. On New Years Day 1938, Mom and Joe were The summer before I started m[...]to Lewistown with the Enoch Houtes and his family lived about four miles and a son, Harold born in 1906' |
| [...]Lawnexcn AND MARGIE KAUTH[...]and'me'down clothes Holly Springs, Iowa. They met and were married in and enough to eat, that was what was important. York,[...]I started school at age six and attended Valley View I, Ava Mae, was born in 19i[...]er behind her home where she would deliver babies and sister, Ruth and I would ride horseback to school and this is where I was born on a fall day in October[...]rew Norby. Monday and leave us there all week till Friday night' I weighed 4 pounds and was the smallest one at birth We would board right in the school house. All the of my brother and sisters. I have three sisters and one parents of the children that boarded at s[...]died when he was a baby. furnish food and everything that was needed while we Homer Lawrenc[...]rooms we would put our beds in during the day and Lucille and Edythe Viola. t[...]moved from Geneva, Nebraska about 1914 and the teacher would cook in the basement for us. We[...]oy, then my Grandpa parents would come and pick us up and we would go (Gusty Kauth) came out from Nebraska and took up a home for the weekend. homestea[...]chers name was Mrs. Rossiter. She was my Nebraska and brought with him two of his youngest te[...]children, my uncle, Cecil Oren, who was about 12 and except for about the last three mont[...]over to the Kachia school and when we moved it was in My mom and dad had my oldest sister, Ruth, and February. I stayed in a private home and then my they took up homesteads side by side. The[...]the school. packed dirt with grass mixed in it and build them My best friend through all[...]the Daddy had just bought a new Chevy car and Momma top ofthe house and dirt or sod was put on top ofthat to had a brother and two sisters that lived there. We make a roof. Then lumber was hauled or bought and a visited all over the country. On the way we were house was built. Grampa Kauth had one section and-we exposed to chicken pox. We came home to Boy and lived in the other. exposed others and it went through the whole country. I recall my[...]p well at night because Christmas programs and it really got spread around. she was always afrai[...]Our Leachers always had Christmas programs and sod and dirt. But it sure was nice in the summer when it[...]home and all the fun and excitement that went with it. This is where they were living when Momma and We would open our gifts on Christm[...]born. would get up early and go for ihe Christmas tree" We About 1921 we moved into the W.E. Jones place and hung up our stockings too. We always h[...]ryone wouid get together was to a better homesite and house. and visit or dance. My dad and grandfather farmed and raised cattle The spring of 1930[...]parents were still continuing to dry land farm and raise May and Uncle Cecil.[...] |
| [...]or-rk me to Lewistown to be operated on. It Momma and Daddy had gone to town. I was about 12 or[...]time. ourselves. We had gone to a Halloween party and they After m5' folks moved out east of Roy, my mother gave us these things you blow on and they unwind and moved to to*'n with us. She took in boarders. She later whistle or squeak and they usually have a feather at purchased the Roy Cafe and Hotel. My mother and the end. So it was after dark when Momma and Daddy father were divorced in May of 1943. came home and we blew out the light so it was dark in[...]ed from high school, in 1935, I started the house and about the time Momma opened the door,[...]olson, for 910.00 a I blew this thing in her face and she just keeled over, month arrd my board and room. fainted. I went to work and grabbed the wash dish with We alwal's thr.lught a lot of both our mom and dad old dirty water in it and threw it all over her. Her and respected them. Being farmers and ranchers, we clothes were just soaked. She came o[...]had tinre togelher as a family. was angry and we learned not to play pranks like that[...]married \\rilbert Zahn in September of 1936 and Edythe Iiving room and a big room which we made into a married Russell Oquist in the early 40's and they bedroom at night. We didn't have indoor plum[...]Lowrence and I graduated from the eighth grade at the K[...]. I started high school in at Roy. Ruth and I 1930-31 batched in one room my folks rented from some people. We had our bed and we cooked and ate and everything in that one room. We heated ii with co[...]e graduated from the eighth grade. Sarah Beuchner and I were close friends during my high school years. I played on the Roy hieh school basketball team and played some baseball. I liked music and loved to dance. I was about 16 when I was operated on for appendi- citis. An oid ewe got down and couldn't get up and I Mrs. Kauth and her four daughters token in 1948 at o tried to help her up and get to the shed and I lifted on her too hard and ruptured my appendix.[...]right. didn't pay much attention to all our aches and pains.[...]nois the patent on November 7,1917 for his land. and as a very young child moved to Nebraska with his[...]ebraska two years later. Coy died parents, George and Pleasant Jane Lovitt. March 3, 1955 and Mae died April 24, L966. Mae McCoy was born Jan[...]ad two daughters: Meada (Mrs. James Nebraska. Coy and Mae were married in Nebraska and Curran) of York, Nebraska and Jane (Mrs. Pete Steeb) came to Roy where t[...] |
| [...]HnNnv AND ANNrE Lupnuex T lgN R 258 Sec. 30 Henry and Anna came from Utica, Nebraska in 1914[...]reek. They lived there until Ray in 1980 and Eva Bourke in 1983. Annie died George Martin Sr., Harry Martin and Lott Martin with their families all[...]e Kachia area in Marion Siella (Harvey) and Madeline Adeline "Melba" |
| [...]t I saw the mountains for the first horses and he and my brother, Delette, would go to the time. Here I[...]was to be our home for three and one-half years. Early evening we boarded the t[...]ide My father met us at the Great Northern Depot and we to Lewistown where he met my grandparents, Joe and walked up town to our hotel. I remember the brig[...]dows, especially Powers. It was the team and wagon and started out for the homestead. Holiday Season. W[...]town to Gilt Edge. This trip took two days. stove and groceries. They took the middle two young-[...]n papa found out that our area had sters, Delette and Lois, with them. I walked up and been opened up for filing. The first day[...]treet with my younger brother, Richard. and papa stepped offour additional 160 acres and then We would walk as far as the mill and we would also 320 acres for grandpa whi[...]f was on one of these walks that I saw a man kick and[...]ave ground between the two houses. Richard and Lois had been like from Deal's across to the Coun[...]been to Grandma's and were returning home by way of After staying in[...]was a big rattlesnake road. So with three wagons and four children we left coiled. Their squeals brought both papa and mama. Lewistown in the evening.[...]ome old sheep sheds she knew what it was and her reply was, "I saw snakes which now is the saw[...]Mountains then, but we were so Richard and Lois had a teeter-totter. A log on the heavily loaded that we would probably have had corner and lower part of the cabin stuck out and this is numerous break downs so we had to drive a[...]what they put a board on. One day they were on it and mountains. not thinking Lois stepped off and Richard dropped After five days of slow boring t[...]e had broken the small bone in the home of Rollie and Mable Rossiter. They had a one elbow cavity. Needless to say, he wasn't taken to a room cabin and how they put us up I don't recall, doctor. My mother rocked him for three nights and stili probably the men slept in the barn.[...]hen he slept. For December the weather was good and today if we Our first fourth of July came and our neighbor, Harry have a storm or blizzard in D[...]being races. Mary Brownlee came in first and I came in and carried Richard, who was two at that time. I must[...]as did ones who could call square dances and the In about three days papa had the cabin[...]Now my mother started talking school and writing to It wasn't but a matter of days befor[...]et one upon us. Papa went to the hills west of us and got a very started in a new community. It wasn[...]n our the bail started to roll. Men hauled logs and erected a cabin so my mother tied it to a bed pos[...]er 24th my father started big box supper and dance on Halloween to help defray across country,[...]ing dance. He expenses. walked several miles and played the violin all night, School started in November and our frst teacher was the only piece of musi[...]re two which was a pot luck, at the home of Harry and Bernice other schools organized. Our[...] |
| [...]es all children could participate in. off and go to the Missouri River timber breaks for fire[...]y usually had to go down to pneumonia. My mother and grandma did what they the Basin as they called it and work in the harvest could for him but he stilj w[...]ake a grub stake. Our years on the homestead Roy and sent Dr. Faulds out, who drove a car. The were rough and we wouldn't forget them for anything, doctor sai[...]in fact, it developed stamina in all of us. him, and he did recover, The doctor's bill was $20.00[...]grandparents re- Lewistown in 1918 and lived there for four years before turned to Nebr[...]ied in Lewistown. In 1915 Rev. Arthur Richey and wife, Diva, and three Murna married Frank Southworth. (See F. South- little girls arrived from Nebraska and located on a worth) homestead. The[...]hey were an asset to the community. and they lived in many different plaees before finally Church services and Sunday School were held in the sett[...]ield for 15 years after he completed school and then moved decided to take the four seventh grad[...]returned to Montana to attend a family reunion and contest, Carl Beedy in spelling and Frank Southworth never went back to[...]r all of us. A neighbor took us to Roy in his car and a well known piano player for dances th[...]he passed away in 1980. the high school dormitory and that was the ultimate. What a comedown to have to[...]By the next year i had finished the eighth g.rade and my mother was determined I should attend high sch[...]t At that time girls could work for their room and board, but my mother knew I wasn't smart enough t[...]In and go to school, so that meant moving to Lewistown.[...]In the fall mama sent an order to National Cloak and Suit Company for shoes, galoshes, caps, mittens, etc. At that time our post office was Lindstrom and the mail was brought our from Roy in a sack or tw[...]to be in Roy. Then the mail was spread on a table and anyone could come in and pick up mail for himself and a nearby neighbor. Mama had to reorder three times before we got our order and then it was spring.[...]. Cora, Horry, Grandma Emily Rose. He passed away and it was then assigned to Belle Fountain and Grandpa Joe Fountain. Front row: the Harri[...] |
| [...]19i6 heard as a child, once again shock and hurt. with his wife, Isabelle, and five children: Mildred, ,,Les died.[...]to get the coffin and Uncle Lenora, Lester, Leta and Robert. The foilowing account George went wiih hi[...]lady came and prepared the body. Some first. Lott and his family had moved from near York, ne[...]he carne and preached. the service. (I don't They were in D[...]was not a minister, just a very religious person and he Montana. "The folks were in a moving mood s[...]k to stove; there *.rerr't enough chairs, and he was crying. Dakota, rented an emigrant car and returned to Mon- And of course that hit me _ I,d never seen my dad cry[...]car. stead-you see, we were just 26 miles east and a little "Dad had gone to Jones, he han[...](at the time Lott had gone in after the coffin) and had hills with the pine trees on it. I can't r[...]for S or we got there, there were seven of us, and Uncle Harry's 6 of us to stay in a hotel so we had. to go back home and family of seven, and Aunt Cora went out to pick Lester was buried without us there. potatoes for supper and they were such liitle marbles "Af[er Lester's death the folks couldn't leave the and I thought, 'How's she gonna feed us'.[...]but somehow it's never gotten done seven of us, and we kids went to school and my Dad and he is still at Roy." spent the winter building t[...]). back out to the homestead to plow and farm until he "The homestead was near Gene Galloways. I remem- had proved up on it. Leta and a cousin would. go along ber her the most, in fact, Mable and Geneva Galloway, and cook for him. After he proved up he sold to Gene[...]about her childhood occured before Lester's death and She had the most beautiful saddle horse, a bay, and she proves that kids then, were no differe[...]were on the homestead three years, until and had told Les and Leta to 'be good'. They were in i919. It[...]er for vaudville actors did in those days, and they used axel my Mother and Dad to come because they were all grease. On their faces and their arms. "Mother was not down with the flu. Th[...]is brother, Harry, as a barber after Livingstons, and came home sick. He had gotten the he[...]r they come from Illinois. talked he and Father walked out towards the barns. The Leta, now a widow, married Earl McClure and lives doctor left and myd ad came in. I can hear him say yet, in[...]for several years "The doctor said it was fatal." And there I was that age (about i0), just couldn't ac[...]Robert Martin married Claire Ramsey and they aiso[...] |
| [...]days in Mon- tana, I wiil never forget. My father and mother, Orin and Cora McNeil, had read advertisements of beautiful[...]6, my father left our home in Everett, Washington and came to find out for himself. Jack Sommers, a rea[...]ion just 3 miles north of the, then, Kachia store and post office. Mr. and Mrs. Rose and A young and charming their young son, Earl, ran the store and post office.[...]y 16 feet. He then returned home to Washington and worked during the winter. By March he had an emig[...]ll the household things, 250 cedar posts, and for our model T Ford. shingles and lumber for the rest of the house and barn. There was no school nearby so we w[...]for the railroad, I worked was to come. Mother, I and the four younger children in a real estate office and the chiidren went to school. came later by train.[...]high when we arrived. However, by evening he came and by hopes. The plowing had been done so[...]was nice stead. Both my brother, Maurice, and my sister, Ruth, with quite a little rainfall. Mother canned a lot and the wanted to ride in the seat with papa. The sea[...]t to Lehigh, Montana to work at on his head. Mama and I screamed, but luckily he the coal[...]ran the pumps that kept the wasn't hurt too badly and climbed back on, but only water out of[...]r that. took the "1918" flu and was very ill, but he did recover. The day was[...]Our winter was lovely on the homestead and we horse and wagon. By evening we reached Kachia but[...]that were people doing their chores and some from Mr. Rose had died while Papa was back[...]prairie but always we felt very secure. cold and windy. We huddled under blankets in the[...]g it all looked good - more crop was put in wagon and drove on. It was April 1, 1917 (APRIL[...]in Roy on the place in the fall of 1919 and decided to leave. so soon our one-room house was[...]laid Many neighbors said, "No, stay and get cattle." My flooring up over the rafters so with a bed springs and father wisely decided against it. mattres[...]- Our neighbors on the south were Mr. and Mrs. Matt ably up there. However, this was our first introduction Blum and daughters, Anna and Barbara. Just east of to SAGE TICKS and we surely didn't like them. them were Mr. and Mrs. Deitche and sons, Tony and Several more trips had to be made to Roy to get the Joe and daughter Helen. Jim and Bonnie Frailey were rest of our lumber and household furniture. Soon Papa east of o[...]edrooms. This made the in Lewistown and they spent little time on their place. house "ell" shape and was quite comfortable. The barn A young man named Kelley was just north of us and came next with space for a car also. Papa heard o[...]uilt a cistern with a Guernsey cow for sale so he and I waiked over there gravel filter. Then he was drafted into the army and and bought it. We led it home.[...]had just graduated from high school Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Miller joined our place on the N.W. |
| [...]friend. Mrs. Hudson his father's place, Mr. and Ntrs' Frank Martindale and lived on her son's homestead as he had a pool hall in lheir children, Todd, Buck. Deed and Babe, Frank died Lewistown. Danny Dempsey lived on his fathers place from tick fever in 1919. Mr' and Mrs. Henry Ludeman, and did all the work there. Then came Clint Martindale who called themselves "Mam and Pap" were on the and Bessie's place and their son, Gale. Joining him was east of us. and then they all ieft the homestead also,[...]hn Rife, guided three of the six chiidren of Orin and Cora McNeil, along with carloads of other descend[...]brush looked just as we left it 65 years before, and the cactus that I walked into pierced as painfully. We had some trouble locating the site of the tarpaper-and-lath cabin, gone without a trace except for the[...]lar under it. The dirt road coming from the south and running east of our house had not changed position. On the southern horizon I recognized Sandy Butte, and more westerly, Biack Butte.[...]ices Winnie Rife, Ruth Johnson, Grace Biggs and Florence of World War I, my folks, at age 44,took[...]Hemehe. near Roy, and in March of 1917 moved with their six brought it to her lips and said, "It's bitter!" What a children; Clara, Winnie, Florence, Ruth, Maurice and disappointmentl We each had to taste to[...]welis. She said she would go off on a hillside and cry it nearly a mile away and kerosene lights. out by herself, then she'd come back to us and try to be Music was a joy in our lives. W[...]us healthy in graphophone with cyclinder records, and I seemed to be spite of little food. After[...]oll them off the rocking chair onto the floor. and dab up each crumb, We licked our plates too. One[...]dishes I licked my plate so play whiie the girls and Maury sang war tunes, "Good- clean that I told Mama she wouldn't have to wash that bye My Bluebell," and "Sweet Little Buttercup," and I dish. She said, "Um-hum," as she put it[...]not undertand that, water being so K-K-K-Katie," and "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down precio[...]es scrubbed the floor with the On The Farm." Mama and Papa held high standards and dishwater, leaving white streaks on the[...]ack in Papa gave up farming after crop failures and went to Michigan. "Oh. to go down the lane[...]ll of the incident. But the would grasp my ankles and lift me up to the hole in the family said later that I "ran away" and they had some ceiling.[...]ent by, quite isolated. We could scream or trill, and no one At one time I took my naps on a[...]facing chairs. Once I woke to a popping sound and an Mama was so in hopes of having water on the[...]iliar aroma. The others were eating white, fluffy and each morning she would dig a little deeper in her morsels and gave me my first taste of popcorn. well. At last[...]into the water, she a marvel of creation, and we all climbed up in the |
| [...]imes, Dark clouds over Black Butte moved closer and "We sunk more than a thousand[...]them, warning of homestead, and it was the most foolish move we ever rain that could soak the gumbo and make it difficult to made." Yet with many years and miles between, we drive out. We must hurry, but j[...]ead was our tie with a happy child- and the carefree life Mama and Papa provided for us. hood. Florence was searching through memories and Winnie stayed on in that cou[...]the dry creek bed. marrying Earl Rife and raising her family at Roy. The I joined her for a[...]hurry on or get caught. The storm waited for us, and we Maury eventually took over paying[...]in 1985 his wife, Glenna McNeii, and their children own ranch, "having seen it once."[...]Rifes have included a trip to the would your mom and dad take up this worthless home- o[...]Hennv AND RuBY Mnao[...]information by Lucille Mead LaPoint Harry and Ruby Mead came to Lewistown, Montana[...]ntine area. Their "My parents, Ruby and Harry Mead, did not talk |
| [...]Hrsrony On NonrunasrnRN Fentlus Coulrv And lhen there were the Martins and the South- into the Army. I can re[...]amed Blank, too, who had out to Montana and Ioading their personal belongings' |
| [...]Harry (T 19N R 25E Sec. 33) of Agra, Kansas; and a Harold moved to the Fergus area to farm and ranch daughter, Mrs. Carl Noble of Melvern, Kansas. in 1926 and on May 26, f932 he and Ruby Strausburg Haroid was born in Fargo, North Dakota to Ole and were married in Lewistown. They left t[...]on August 9, 1899. His mother died at and moved to the Kinsey Project near Miles City to his birth and he was reared by John and Della. In the farm. He was range boss of Kinsey Cattle Grazing early years he worked on horse and cattle round-ups. Association in the 1940's and also worked on the con- He was remember as havin[...]struction of the Miles City V.A. Hospital. He and Ruby team of horses, along with Curley Willmore, Claude Iived at Kinsey until retiring and moving into Miles Satterfield and John Beck, that hauled into Roy. Their City in 1970. horses were always well kept and shiny and the The couple had four sons: Larry, Clayton, Karl and harnesses were oiled and in A-one shape." Geary and four daughters: Mrs. Ray (Christine) Mace, Harold had a beautiful voice and use to sing at Mrs. Blaine (Marcel)[...]recalled in i988, "I can hear Simmons and Mrs. Dennis (Lois) Haughian. Flunky sing "Blue H[...]Fnsonrp AND MARy Seens Freddie was born August 12, 1875. M[...]Nebraska. They found relatives to rent their farm and Amanda and her husband were in the grocery busi- came to Montana in an emigrant car around 1914. They ness, and he later became Chief of Police. They have left behind a married daughter and another seven children. daugh[...], trained as a beautician ters, Rose, Lena, Alva, and Sylvia and one son, Joe and had her own shop. She now lives in Garden Grove,[...]en were awarded a New Testament if She and her husband moved to FIat. Alaska where she they came five Sundays, and Lena received one. was a postmist[...]other, Joe, Lebanon, Oregon. drove a buggy and the girls rode on the floor of the AI[...]e Sears, born 1901, worked for Richfreld Oil Co. and was named Elmer Montana Sears. His mother del-[...]Elmer Sears, born 1915, became a teacher and taught were surprised to find a new baby when the[...]r Boeing Aircraft in Amanda worked in Lewistown and came for Christ- Seattle from 1943-65. He returned to college and goi his mas. She brought the children little glas[...]d for the State taining small candies. Amanda met and married Jim of Washington in the Department of Labor and Indus- Rogers in Lewistown, and they moved to Washington, try for 10 years. He and his wife, Elizabeth Burke, have Indiana. 4 children and Iive in Seattle and Bloomington, Indiana. Mary became concerned abo[...]here, these children were born. for her children; and after some heated discussions Viole[...]Escondida, California. Montana until he proved up and then returned to their Marie Sears Sp[...]Fiorida. While here the Sears raised potatoes; and although CHanle[...]they met a doctor from Okla- |
| [...]uury from our town in Nebraska; peopie that Dad and his out to the homestead. We stayed in[...]as a homesteader |
| [...]evening after school, Frank excelled in athletics and received his letter in Edward was helping Frank work cattle and Edward's athletics. He graduated in June of 1923.[...]loop of wire frozen to the ground, home rvhere he and his father, Charles Southworth, throwing him and dragging him a quarter of a mile. formed a partnership in raising cattle and small grain Frank and Murna rushed him to a doctor in Lewistown which w[...]she thinks of all the commuting, days off, River and camped. Frank was Clerk of the School holidays and vacations the family spent at the ranch, District[...]the range, work cattle, stack hay' and drive a tractor. In Murna continued on in school taking part in all 1956 Murna retired and lived at the ranch, becoming a music activities.[...]part of the community. They were working hard and an operetta and because the auditorium at the school[...]in one day the afternoon in, in 1954 and Mid Rivers Telephone in 1961.[...]art in the 1921 years on one place and giving it his best he would, operetta and she had the lead in the 1922 operetta.[...]the ranch in 1964 to Bob Murna graduated in 1922 and that fall she enrolled in Harvey who[...]into town he filed for Public Administrator and was York, Nebraska. She attended for two years. S[...]worked at the Central Montana Stockyards for she and her husband moved to Madison. Wisconsin.[...]s active in all Masonic Bodies. Telephone Company and did some studying at the Murna *'as active in Eastern Star and in her church. Wisconsin School of Music. Her mar[...]with agriculture and livestock groups visiting farms in In 1941 Murna and family moved to Lervistown, va[...]knew the range better than an1.'one else and also knew One day going to the bank for the Telephone Com- every creek, every coulee and most every sagebrush pany who should she meet on[...]Emily is married to Sam Thompson Jr. and lives in conversation, but Frank learned she live[...]beth is married to Stephen Boulevard and sure enough, after work he showed up at Dixon and lives in Chaska. Minnesota. her front door. From[...]but inherited three children: Edward 14, Emily 11 and Elizabeth 8. The children were anxious to move to[...]their new mode of living, such as no electricity and hauling drinking water. Edward was put to work in the hay field and he[...]Emily and Fall came and the youngsters tried riding bicycles to[...]horse. The-v loved their teacher. Stella M:-ers. and enjoyed all |
| [...]Ntcola AND ANNA Sprnor"r[...]ff *'as born in 1889. He came to Montana and they ranched in the area until 1956 when the-r' f[...]l 1913 when he homesteaded in the Valen- and their son died in a boating accident in 1969. The[...]ewistown. Margaret iater married "Red" of Vendell and Catheron Kiska. Kiskas homesteaded B[...]six children who all attended Kachia grade school and graduated from Roy high schoolr. Nick was born[...]e area until retirement. He then rented his ranch and moved to Lewistorvn. Katherine was born in 1919[...]hop in Lewis- town. She married Anthony Narinucci and they live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mary was born i[...]he elder Spiroffs. In the back Commercial College and worked for the Bureau of row from left to right are: Nick Jr., Katherine, Ray and Standards in Washington D.C. until retirement. Sh[...]Joe. Front row: Mary, NicA Sr. and Anna, and Margaret. married Mr. Kirstein and they live in Deland, Florida. Joseph was born i[...]ill doing part time work. He Business College and worked for the Montana Employ- and his wife live in Helena.[...]nt Service for many years. He retired in 1986. He and Margaret was born in 1931. She married Don Harv[...]tyer, as I know it. My father, Pearl Lee Ellis, and my mother, Jennie My parents moved b[...]orn in Missouri: LeRoy 1914 with Hyman Cunningham and my uncle, Leonard and George W. They remained in Missouri until the fal[...]approx- of 1934 when they moved back to Roy and operated imately 18 or 20 miles. I was born in Ro[...]in 1931 from South Dakota Ed and Mickey Styer Alta Mae and Jack Styer |
| [...]245 and went to work for A.M. Stendal, for awhile, Then h[...]January 21, 1986. Children of Mark and June (Phillips) JOHN B. AND MARY BEEDY- John and Mary had three before hom[...]place is now part of the |
| [...]om AND THE Lwnsrnou Feun Y[...]nal homestead proof on 160 acres at the U.S. Land and gave up farming, east of Roy, in 1918. My mother[...]1914. went to her folks at Ortonville, Minnesota and my dad George Paulsen homste[...]There was rain for a few years and then the dry years the flu on the train and died a few days after he arrived set in. Lennart also left. My Mother and Dad stayed at Green Bay. A few years later my mot[...]m family homesteaded more year and if no crops he would quit. The fall of 1918 east of Roy. They were Lennart, Edna and Agnes. was when my Dad went to his parents home and my Lennert came to Montana about 1907, when he was 21, Mother and I went to her folks. and took up land in the Highwood Mountain[...]That was in so his dad told him to get out and frnd better land. November of 19[...]o Roy to set up a Lennart went to the Roy area and found much land[...]sale to dispose of my Father and Mother's properties. that could be homesteaded. H[...]Mr. Swarble had a sale and sold the things they had on Edna and Agnes, and on December 10, 1909 the three[...]sale was not good because people met in Lewistown and walked to east of Roy to pick out[...]had no money to buy and people were leaving their land for homesteads. Th[...]ndstrom paid the taxes on the land supply of food and had plenty of warm clothing for the journey. The[...]Agnes and Edna. My mother traded some property dark and they found an old cabin to spend the night in.[...]with Agnes and Agnes became the owner of all the Their sack[...]sold all the land about 1940- Edna the next day and walked gntil it started to get dark, at which tim[...]take care of some unfin' walked towards the light and found it was the home-[...]ished business and met the Rev. L.M.F. Jordan whom stead of a family by the name of Al and Laura Swarble,[...]he married i,lr1924. who gave them a warm welcome and remained life-long[...]Lennart married a Texas girl and brought her out to friends. The next day they pic[...]ard he worked on a railroad in Canada for a while and Lennart was the first of the three to move on[...]at Falls. There he met Junietta He opened a store and the Lindstrom post office in a log Cable Thornton and they were married December 31, cabin on his home[...]y returned to his father's farm near Ortonvilie, and used the lumber to build the claim shacks. Agaes[...]inn., where he worked. The farm became Lennart's and Edna got their homesteads soon after Lennart did.[...]after his father died and they worked it until 1942. The government was[...]Agnes soon took over the post office and store. Times I am now the owner of the Lindstrom homestead at were hard and people did not have any money to[...]thing. It was cold in the winter and if W. Lindstrom in 1881. Eleven childr[...]one this farm. Five lived to be adults and three of these to get it for her. Agnes got[...]indstrom family to homestead. Their the store and post office for two years, then left going to[...]n Falls, Minn. He Denver, Colorado where she met and married Al moved to Can[...]ighbors were Edna Lindstrom got her homestead and worked part- the Sioux Indians. |
| [...]er. Some of the families that were in that area and probably received their mail there were: Lou Eato[...]tle Dutchman" Kupke, George Hartwig, Frank Facher and J.E. Mills. Some "Lindstrom Notes" newspaper it[...]llows: November 26, l9L4 - George G. Paulsen and Miss crew below the Swoboda ranch and is approaching us Edna Lindstrom[...]town. Mr. Paulsen is a well known contractor and has a Thursday and Saturday and rvill return to Roy on the homestead in the R[...]ek. James Wilson the purchaser shoeing horses and smithing pans. per acre. Mr. Eaton and family will return to their[...]people, pro- native state, Nebraska, and will continue to farm there. testing against[...]rabbits last week, killing over 100 and shipping 42 to St. Paul. sioners this week, o[...]The present storm is hard on stock and fuel in this unsatisfactory to the public.[...]by Gloria, Dorothy and Deloris Schulze In the year, 1914, Hugo Busse[...]h him for four years. |
| [...]by Gloria, Deloris and Dorothy Schulze In 1916 William Schulze and his parents, Fredrick William and his parents stayed on. In July of 19i8, Frank Spoon, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Titus Spoon, Eva passed away[...]moved Mildred (Woodruff), Frank, John and Bert, all of whom |
| [...]belongings, plus two pigs, some cabbage and potatoes, Life for Anna had been very hard sinc[...]her father when she was only three years old. She and present. her brother began working when s[...]room cabin with a lean-to years old, hoeing beets and working at harves,t time, shed in which they stored their vegetables. The new and helping in the barns feeding cattle, in order lo help Mrs. Sramek made sauerkraut from the cabbage and their mother feed the family.[...]wealthy "baron" or during the winter and she had to dig it out in chunks farmer, and they lived on the farm. She had very little[...]school. the horses ran away and both barrels and water were So, when friends, who were already i[...]very hard for the young Srameks in the her mother and brother, not even knowing if she would se[...]ain. dry and very little of anything grew. Sramek put in 13[...]r young Anna, who could acres of barley and harvested only a small part, because not speak a[...]he boat like a herd of To keep warm and to cook, Mrs. Sramek gathered cattle. The boat was very crowded and several shared sagebrush for fuel. Her husband had to work out and the available cabins. Many of them were seasick and in often times she was alone for a week or[...]r away. Only one family lived any- Anna was young and her spirits high. Nothing could where[...]rs. Sramek was alone when her first child, a baby and the emigrants were taken in charge by an agent[...]hich for Anna was Stanford, couldn't and the baby was born. It only lived a short Montana. time and there is a little grave on the homestead to At[...]Two more chiidren were born at Roy, Martha and wasn't much easier than the boat trip, since she and Frank. While Martha was still a baby, he[...]t her, had to ride on a box on the binder and she rode along with them while top of a load of l[...]grain offthe platform and lay it in a pile, to be threshed Anna stayed with her relatives for about a week and later. then she went to work on the Strou[...]family. She also had to learn the wagon and he looked everywhere for it, but it was other hou[...]never found. outside in Europe. Washing dishes and setting tables A cow which he had purchased for g?5 and which were major tasks. As soon as the dishes wer[...]f, was killed by lightning. they were turned over and put back on the table in The white m[...]or was stolen. A Her next job was with the Jim and Joe Vanek families. man who was hauling gra[...], camped It was there that she met Joseph Sramek, and on near the homestead one night, and his horse got away October 28, 1913, Sramek and Anna were married. and went to the neighbors who recognized her as the |
| [...]that Comstock hadn't taken, and there was enough of it[...]thought quickly and decided to go ask his neighbor if[...]money was exchanged, and no one was wiser.[...]In 1922 Srameks bought two houses in Kendall and[...]was moved from the homestead to Plum Creek and was used as a wash house and later a chicken house. It is[...]Times got a little better and a John Deere D tractor[...]made by wagon and took a good long day, and some- The Sramek family at Roy. Joseph and Anna with their[...]es were tied in the lot area now children; Martha and Fronk. occupied by the post office, and it was a meeting place for the farmers and ranchers in the surrounding[...]soon found out. It wouldn't go through snowdrifts and[...]ide, her, they told him she didn't belong to him, and he left Sramek slammed on the brake. The car t[...]d. He hollared "whoa" One day when Mrs. Sramek and a friend were on but the car didn't re[...]e a cared too much about driving after that and Mrs. little city in those days), they very nearly[...]ng. away. A motorcycle came roaring down the road and In 1950 Mr. and Mrs. Sramek retired from the ranch the frightened horse reared and started to run. Mrs. and moved to Lewistown. Joe Jr., who was born in Sram[...]of the cart, but 1925, remained on the ranch, and is still there. Sramek about that time the motorc[...]y his retirement. He died suddenly of a happening and pulled his machine off the road and heart attack just after they had moved.[...]ght a place on Plum Creek land again. She and her daughter, Martha, returned to and moved there to live, after renting the homestead. Czechoslovakia and spent three months visiting there. They also rent[...]come to the United States earlier and had died in No one had seen the man for several days and when Minnesota. Sramek went to investigate[...]had Mrs. Sramek remains in the home she and her committed suicide, it was surmised, by taking[...]which produces more than most big gardens and her The Srameks decided to clean up the cabin and move house is surrounded with flowers. She[...]d granary lawn, picks apples from her two trees and even prunes that they had been living in and they still had the lease the trees when they ne[...]In the wintertime, she makes quilts and crochets In one of the cupboards, Mrs. Sramek found a jar or afghans and pillow tops to pass the time. But come glass cont[...]arden planting seeds again, long before four pigs and had borrowed a boar from one of the[...] |
| [...]towel, had to be taken along to the spring, and a dipper in 1911. His homestead lay 8 miies east[...]ming home with itl where the Frank Siroky's piace and Joe Kalina's place My mother told me, many times, about a time when I was. Mail and groceries were gotren at Lindstrom. w[...]he homesteaders were mostiy bache- me up and had scrubbed the floors and as she moved a iors, which my father was at that[...]way. No wonder then. Dad, with his team of horses and wagon, drove to I'm still leary of lizards! And there are still plenty of Hilger and got a load of lumber. He knew how much[...]a for different visiting with our team and wagon, over to Auntie and people, one of which still stands and is very visable Uncle Vondracek's. Auntie[...]he little house of Alois Docal that Perry Ed and she cooked coffee in an enameled kettle and added Kalal has moved next to the highway and made into a lots of cow's milk for me.[...]In January of 1914, Dad went back to Minnesota and In 1918, Dad had a chance to sell the homestead and he and my mother, Julia Kuchera, were married on the[...]They came back to got an immigrant car and off to Ballentine he went. Montana and lived on the homestead until 1918. Mom, Charlie and I were taken to the train depot by Joe Three ch[...]f, Marcella, in Kalina, who bid us farewell and we lefl to join Dad. October of 1914; Martha who[...]l 1925, when we went back born in January of 1917 and is buried in the Roy to Minnesota for a year; returning to Montana in 1926 Cemetery and Charles who was born in July of 1918.[...]in Billings. Dad raised gxain on his homestead and had a few Rudy was born in Billings and twins, Robert and milk cows which he and Mom milked.They sold the Raymond, w[...]Horyna on November 2, 1938, four a team of horses and would load up the cans full of years to the day that I first met him. Although my folks cream and the eggs from the poultry she raised and off knew the Horyna's, I did not meet any[...]until we came back to Roy to visit with Joe and Emma When we would walk every morning and again every Kalina. My Dad and Emma were cousins. evening to the barn to milk th[...]along the path every time we went by. he and Joe were out working in the fields, suweying. One[...]Later that fall I came to visit the Kalina's and went surprised a rattlesnake which was outside it's hole, so over to see Annie and there met Jim- We will have been Dad took care of[...]WWII in We lived on the south side of the road and had to Africa. cross the road to get wa[...]out a haif mile away. One day, (in 1988) and has spent the last several years at the Mom disco[...]stead after the war, but he didn't stay long and moved Roy after Dad did. With Joe's help he built[...]n by seven yesrs. He passed He did some farming and rvhen World War I came, he away M[...] |
| [...]Horyna remembers him. MR. AND MRS. GEORGE HARRELL- They ran a hotel, "Charlie was a single man, a homesteader and a neighbor of restaurant and boarding house at Lindstrom for a short time. our[...]Tbe chiidren went to school in Roy. Sons Edgar and Roy both from. Up to then I had only a tin can."[...]a. His place was just north of the Hill Boulevard and Trunk schools. His homestead was near[...]Crooked. Montgomery Marshall ran the post office and store in his house, which was ]ocated on the north side of the Rocky Point Trail and the community building and school was directly south. This stood for many years and finally collapsed. Ole Sand- strom and Nels Fritzner headed the construction of this bui[...]; the Woods, south of Rasmussen's; in the Bushman and the Fryman houses that were near the Jakes family who had nine children; they also attended Little Crooked and the Byford school. Baker Springs had a large enroll- ment and had school every year. The small populated areas[...]nated the land to build the Little Crooked School and community hall. Logs were hauled from the river breaks with teams and wagons. The logs were hewed on four sides, and every few feet holes were drilled to insert pegs[...]it was time to erect the building. N.D. Fritzner and Ole Sandstrom took charge. Women cooked over open[...]cock, Marie Skibness, Myrle Goheen, Bertha Jenson and Charles Morgan was the last teacher in 1934'35.[...]strict with several schools. (see Bundane, Byford and Baker Springs). The school cen-[...] |
| [...]uisible corrals, only people and horses forming the arena, a bucking horse contest[...]me from as far away as Valentine, Box Elder Creek and Musselshell to attend. They came via horseback, wagons, buckboards and ,a few even came in cars. Little Crooked was[...]oves of frr trees. The trees had been cut, hauled and "planted" the day before to picnic under. Willis[...]tes flag to fly on the flag pole. The Fritzners and Sandstroms were great organizers and they would have speakers and entertainment come out from Lewistown and other places. If live music for dancing couldn't[...]19. Homesteaders came from miles around to attend and in 1988 those still around who attended were stil[...]Miss Gallagher, Miss Bridget Hickey, Miss Good and Jesse Woodcock enroute to the big doings at Littl[...]Hall and Schoolhouse. |
| [...]ncus CouNrv Dressed up in their Sundoy finery and taking it easy Charles Allen homesteaded on the[...]ed area. He was a blacksmith taught school. |
| [...]big frre in the Little Rockies destroyed so Jane and Bonnie Bell. much timber and threatened the towns. Daddy was We lived at the Horse Ranch and I remember Mother working in the gold mines and all the men were sent out saying that when Mrs. J[...]tle red I married Ernest Westburg and six children were wagon.[...]ctober 1942; Claudia Marie, Milo had greyhounds and did a lot of hunting with 26 September[...]ing coyotes. 1950 and Patricia Jane, 5 April 1957. My mother passed We were out on the homestead off and on during away 29 December 1956. We[...]August 1968. Milo Buck died 25 October 1976, and my Daddy worked for the PN Ranch, haying and gather- twin sister, Betty on August 31[...]les up the lives in Alaska. Judith River and were at this place for four years. S[...]rked in the Roy area. Ike There was good fishing and our father caught some worked for Joe Murphy in his Roy Garage. He was a huge sturgeon and we would have a big fish-fry for the good hand with horses and broke horses for different neighborhood.[...]e Our brother, Jack, was born 28 September 1929 and famiiy move to the Jennings place east[...]that worked for Jack Maiden Valley where we lived and he built houses as Baucke when he ship[...]stown. by rail to Roy and they trailed them to the river breaks. He worke[...]mond Coal Mine out Later Clarence and his famiiy lived in Roy and he was toward Forest Grove. My sister and I used to go in the janitor ofthe Roy school for several years. mine with him and we would get to ride out on the car Son, Albert, and Betty Zahn were married 20 October pulled by a little team of mules, Jack and Jennie. He 1979 and have two sons; Dana was born 9 November hauled coal to Lewistown schools. We went to school in 1980 and Nicholas was born 28 February 1984. Maiden and Lewistown. We were in Zortman in 1936 Tnn CTanENCE BAKERS AND THr FneNx Cantrns |
| [...]outside calves the skimmed milk, built fence and creeps to rvhen the cellar door was open and down she wentl allow cattle to go under a fence and stop horses from Luckiiy she *'as not hurt, only[...]The school going through. I got $20 a month and my board which was held in another deserted homestead house which was good wages for a kid and I was happy to earn it. I had two rooms, one used[...]neighbor. Here, I learned to use a pitchfork and watch Bushman brothers could live together, each[...]Grandpa Carter was running the Joslin store and and cry and I would practically have to drag her all the p[...]We pulled our desks as close to the stove as and the Carters moved to Black Butte in 1921 and we possible. Our sandwiches were often frozen, bu[...]th of There was a prairie dog town between school and where Little Crooked, about 4 miles. That summer Dad and I we lived, the rattlesnakes would den in the burrows. fenced, planted some fruit trees and built a little That spring, I was running home from school and reservoir (which never held water, d[...]'s golden spent much time preparing songs, skits and poems to wedding celebration. I went to s[...]y our with five Jakes children. three Lucas and Lola- Mrs. parents, grandparents, friends and neighbors. Every- Bonnie Allen was our teacher. one sang carols and enjoyed the big Christmas tree Dad tra[...]we had spent many popcorn, colored paper chains and cut-outs. The bells hours listening to it's nice music. and Santa's cheerful "HO! HO! HOI" and bag of candy, Our homestead was on the east side of the coulee and nuts and popcorn balls for all the good little boys and Uncle Hubert and Aunt Vida Carter had built on the girls brought[...]but hung up were going to move to Black Butte and Dad got their log our stockings. I got a whistle that you put in water and buildings and one became our house. We put in a blew to make it warble. Another time, I received a knife garden and watered it from holes in Carter Coulee, by with a[...]o as not to lose it. carrying water in buckets and watering each plant set One Christmas, I was give[...]urned out pretty well very special, highly valued and remembered by me. and even raised watermelons. We saved two for Dad[...]ame home from harvest in the Judith Basin clothes and food. The fruit came in dried varieties. and that fall. big game was scarce. A sage hen or[...]One of the first green Crooked in 1921 and I remember ta.king part in games, things to appear in the spring were the wild onions. Our footraces and g:eased poie climb with Harold Ware. teacher was[...]Carter rode his little horse "Tuesday" in picking and eating them. Also the cows milk in the t[...]real Western. The spring would be tainted by them and sometimes it was broncs had been run in of[...]They roped one and dragged it out ofthe corral, saddled The Zahn homestead joined Grandpa's on the north. and the rider mounted. He rode until the horse quit Arnold was about my age and Ernest, a little younger. bucking or was th[...]fireworks display at dark made lettuce sandwiches and baked potatoes in a camp- and a dance followed. It rvas marked by the sad event[...]We were living on our homestead in 1923 and it was a amazed how much those high banks had shr[...]te of Marshall wanted to Ieave Little Crooked and go back to the Dutch Louie saloon at Joslin.[...]the wall-many homesteaders had left already) He and the Hickeys; Bridgie was my teacher for several years. I Dad made the deal and we moved to Marshall's and |
| [...]his small supply of coffee, canned goods, tobacco and area-they u,ere sold, catrned nnd di[...]ake candy. There was a steel barrel with gasoline and a way for sheep and cattle. Iittle container of motor oil-not many ca[...]s at this time. Bootleggers frequented this trail and paid left Little Crooked and moved to Black Butte. I had a well for help when[...]the mud holes. riding job for Desbrow and McVey when they came in Dad went to work at the[...]The drouth forced more people to leave and Carters were so fortunate. The Pipes family, neighbors east of and our family moved to St. Ignatius. This has been my Button Butte, were the first to have a radio and we used home since that time. My parents and my sister, Lola to go hear the program by Henry F[...]me in during the day time hours. When Pipes' left and moved to Lewistown, we put up the hay on their place. Dad sent money to hire help for me and Herb Sandstrom was hired one year and Arnold Zahn[...]no water, we leased a dam east of But' ton Butte and I went to camp and take care of the sheep and cattle. The first evening I set up my tent, unrolled my bed and started a fire to cook my food, the sheep decided to leave. I ran to bring them back to the bed' ground and when I returned the wind had blown the[...]The Little Crooked Store and Post Office with Clarence fire into my bedding. I put out the fire and discovered Baher, Sadie Baker and LoIa standing in front of it' the sheep were leaving again, so I took the tarp and the This picture was tahen in 1924. dog and stayed down wind with the sheep. I had a Modei T Ford and made regular trips to take Mom a barrel of water and juniper that I cut for wood. She would always have food and clean clothes for me to bring back. We moved do[...]er place rvhere there was a good set of buildings and a cistern to hold water. My brother, Earl was bor[...]ontinued as most of the patrons had left the area and the 'Dry Thirties' were beginning. John Turner wa[...]atron. Now there were no post offices between Roy and Wilder and mailboxes were put up along the route. Mail still[...]nge horses. Charley Miller boarded at our house and we also gathered the ZA horses. 200 head ofthem were sold to Chappel Brothers and we swam them across the Missouri River at Rocky Point. Owen Davis and I had the job of holding them up on the north sid[...]po" Carter, Tilford "Tip" Cartt'r. Mrs. Carter and Reservation. The roundups continued to gat[...] |
| [...]by Lydia Dercer Johnson Turner and Ernest Derrer Tahen from tape and written story (1987) man with a[...]ly came to ihe Littie Crooked area miles) and would stop in to visit with the Derrers. He |
| [...]20's they left Montana, except for Ernest, and headed he was working on this crew he came home and walked for California. Marie Derrer passed away in 1937 and from Roy to the homestead in the middle of the ni[...]er. For fruit they had one box each of oranges and He worked for a fellow near the oil f[...]apples, to last a year. There was a cow for milk and nett area. butter, but in the spring whe[...]on such a storm, west of Roy. He struggled and fought deep snow flavor they couldn't use it. They would find a few for a couple of days and finally made it into Roy. The chokecherries, service berries and buffaio berries. Wiid hotel was full of men[...]days for someone to open the road. They couldn't and cornbread. When the war came in 1918 they had to[...]went to stable his bake sugarless, eggless cakes and bread with flour that horse and when he went back to the hotel to get some- was almost all bran (shorts) and would not rise. thing to eat, the fellows had all left and gone home. Water was a big problem. Little Crooked Creek was Ernest and Lloyd Henneman were batching down in alkaline so[...]the breaks one time. It was cold, 40 below, and when one in rain barrels (for drinking). They had[...]- of the fellows stepped outside for a moment and then rels up the river breaks hills and by the time they came back in he could[...]or upstairs, they found everything was to Montana and a visit to the homestead, several years all smoke and flames. Henneman grabbed a pan of later. the Derr[...]rink of water on a ranch water off the stove and managed to carry it up the they visited, and were directed to the familiar water Iadder and splashed water all around, by hand, and got barrel sitting by the side of the house. The[...]the bed had gotten up warm from the afternoon sun and a host of mosquito against the chimney[...]them down in the tick and tied a knot. Outside of some Another problem wa[...]sleep in. The gumbo rolled up, filled the spokes and accumulated Another memory Ernest had o[...]lips took over the place. These "rum-runners" and their where the ferry ran. There was a store there and that's girls, "supposedly their wives," would stop and stay at where the dances were held. It was a two[...]ould not see any cars. miles. She spent the night and the next day they all Ernest left the[...]sted all night, so California. Both Ernest and Lydia live in the Santa they didn't return home u[...]ve all nicknamed him "Montana". of people dancing and a big story going around about Gottlieb continued to pay the taxes on his homestead some outlaws and four or five 'crazy guys' got in a row- for many years after he moved to California in 1923. boat and went across the river."[...]by Arlene Fox O'Reilly Frances Link Fox and Harold Fox moved from Forest Green Plac[...]the way; it took aboul seven days. and i uould walk down there and get bum lambs, after There were four girls in t[...]13; school. Virginia, l2; Juanita, 4; and Jean, 2. We lived on the In the f[...] |
| [...]Rrur.+srrRx Fsncus CouNri- during the depression and work was scarce. Daddy |
| [...]ey to buy coffee, so Dad bought a bushel of wheat and had it ground. A certain amount we used for cerea[...]Mother toasted in the oven tiil it was dark brown and the old folks used it for cof- fee. When the cows were fresh, we had milk and butter, otherrvise we did without. Same with the[...]d School for lack of some- thing better to do. Ed and I walked to school, about four miles. My father h[...]ol house. The men in the area also made the desks and seats for the school; also the.blackboard. My sis[...]85 when this picture We had to haul our supplies and groceries (except for was taken in[...]e cows got into would come along, also for school and dances. We had that too. I told this[...]sor out here. He brought our organ from Minnesota and used it at the just looked at me and said cows aren't very particular. I dances to chord on to accompany the fiddle and guitar said, "neither were we, when th[...]He is a city man from Boston. wiches, and we had coffee sometimes. They passed the[...]boiler and poured it in the barrel; added more snow, and We used to get a bunch of us in a sled and drive down so on. At least the waler was[...]than Lynn Philiips. He was a good looking cowboy and of every pail full. Those were the da[...], Milton. Their clothes on a wash board and hung them on lines to dry mother thought I'd be h[...]ey had or to freeze dry. five boys, and she wanted a daughter to spoil, I think.[...]. We used to like to go to deathly ill and weather permitting, they took them to rodeos ai Byford and at Big Crooked and on to Winnett, Lewistown, but hardly anyone could afford a doctor. and were at the one at Little Crooked when Johnson[...]Oscar Sandstroms oldest welcomed by the stockmen and the elements. It either son. My mothe[...]heir homesteads, we kids (myself, gave up and went back to the midwest. We were a hard Esther and Victor Sandstrom, and my brother, Ed) iook up bunch but still had fun. We didn't need drinks either a team ofhorses and barrels, churns, and cream cans, to have a good time. and a paii with a weight on it and drove to all the empty We moved to Washi[...]ittle water. What we did tana in our blood and moved back the next spring; not get was so full o[...]how we drank it. We to farm though. George and his brother, Roy, worked on always had water barr[...]I am the iast survivor of m5' family and the Sand- house was a little coulee. Dad[...] |
| [...]JonN J. Ga.n-ecnnn[...]en' Montana in 191? with his wife, Katherine and son, ChevroletinLewistownforanumberof[...]vania He homesteaded between Little Crooked and Wilder' 19 May 1938, where he was buried. They farmed in the Fergus and Brooks neighborhoods Mrs. Katherine Gallagher died at Yakima, Washing- between 1925 and 1936, when they sold out and he and ton 12 June 1966. his wife returned to Pennsylvania. Jeues A. GnrrN AND SusAN MaLoNn GnreN[...]turned. She was forced to spend the night outside and Wrllta.u AND PAULINE CURTIS[...]long. Greens were in charge of their place and no one |
| [...]town, Montana. ton. Minnesotir to Mr. and Mrs. Hanson. Mr. Hanson Doris Myrtle, born at O[...]n. Roy tember 1915. Married Ted Putro, in Montana and rode a pinto horse to Montana in[...]y wagon in 1916. Nlonrana where he and Alice resided. Rnlps N. JonsoN AND BERTHA ScHyER Wooococx Jnxsov[...]a in 1909 |
| [...]red a radio soap advertise- Prohibition. ment and wrote a jingle for a new soap produci. She[...]kerosene refrigerator! This was Missouri River and moved there in 1937. In the early a great help to her as iceboxes and cellars were the only forties, the Jensons moved back to this area and joined cooiing agents at this time for country ho[...]the Woodcocks. They enjoyed ranch life again and Rural electrification was twenty years down the r[...]until the death of Mrs. Jenson, The depression and drought years of the Thirties 20 March 1[...]d with Woodcocks until the mid-frfties when sheep and then the land was sold to the US Govern-[...]38. Jensons moved to Helena, where Ralph and was buried at Hastings, Michigan. worked for seve[...]by Lydia Derrer Johnson Turner and Fern Johnson Harger Bert W. Johnson homesteaded[...]at outlaying homes while doing his mail Wisconsin and lived in Minneapolis during his younger route, on[...]ing car. Berl had sold his mail route to Mother and daughier worked out a communication My[...]ch totally relied on Ernest Derrer's dog, and went to work in the harvest. The men were paid Ti[...]ith worthless checks. They had to go somewhere to and he would take back the message I tied on his collar make a living and headed for California, which for to my mother."[...]them was a wise move. Bert and Lydia both contacted the flu during the 1918[...]s Fern. Svroxrn JonNsoN AND SHoor-our Ar Lrrri,n Cnooxno[...]going to Wash- |
| [...]Crooked area, He made several styles and sizes of brooms, near Whisker Coulee.[...]o barn brooms. He used Jones raised broom corn and made brooms for many a wooden vise[...]is brooms were also sold in stores in all and sewed it with wax string by hand and needle. the smail towns around.[...]Raymond, stayed with the Steve vise and start his broom straw on one end. He Webbs after[...]nd wire around to fasten it as it turned. He Roy and got a job with the railroad section crew. He[...]press the straw down to was a very shy young man and the teasing dished out the thickness[...]was put through to specially fasten the straw and wasn't heard from again.[...]furrow straw, which was thicker, smoother and at Armells for almost 40 years, until he entered[...]head nicely. Dad would then cut the broom and it Luther's son George has written the followi[...]broom. He worked very hard all his of his father and famiiy. life and many nights it was 2:00 A.M. before he Luther[...]st residents of Rockwell 10 children - 8 boys and 1 girl - First girl baby died City, even th[...]Jesse, my only sister, stayed with us kids and Dad well City, Iowa. In the summertime, Luther[...]15 to homestead 28 miles out of Roy, plastered and did all forms of masonry work from M[...]ned my occupation later. In the winter, and we loaded a boxcar with what little belong- he cobbled shoes and made his brooms for the ings we[...]fil- moved to Roy. ters from molds and also I remember a small veh- Luther worked for the railroad and proved up icle he put together out of parts he[...]ed some on the railroad age. It had belt drive and gas motor. with my brothe[...]his homestead. I'm now the last liv- feet tall and we'd break it over and rest it on each ing in the family and will be 84 next October, row so it made tunnels. Dad called it "cradling" 1984. I'm well and active. I have worked many it would then dry and be ready to cut. Luther made[...]different jobs and had nine children of my own. a cylinder to thr[...]poke very broken English Brooding over ill health and war conditions in his and told of studying and taking his examination for native country and city of Odessa, Russia was given as citize[...]om a self-inflicted gun shot from a Cossack and had put in much military training in their 30-06[...]in Fergus County near neighbor's house and found the woman and her small the county line.[...]boy nearly frozen. The stove was full of ashes and she Krafden got his mail at Wilder postoffice and used to could not get a frre to burn. He cle[...]ht many times, as it was started a fire, cut and carried in a supply of wood. Thus quite a distanc[...]he saved their lives. as she was disoriented and there ica in middle age, became naturalize[...] |
| [...]eRcus CouNry husband was working away from home and she and and Egglands were some of the sheepmen that[...]tead. worked for in lambing and shearing season. |
| [...]ough rnoney frorn coyote pelts kept Viuian, Teena and Iu'ar. ma[...]hen moved to the river, on the Webb and had the fire under control by the time neighbors, place and it was there they flooded out and lost all of from miles away who sped to[...]en as it was starting to "get going good," and got it put turned cold again and froze hard. out.[...]angerous, so the canle were moved up to the hills and had to rely on their common sense and have a plan of they themselves moved up onto a hill above the place action in cases like these." and stayed in a tent. The ice "jammed" that very night The Mathisons moved to Coiumbus in 1967, but and flooded the entire area. During the night they co[...]Their son, Roy, became an accountant and public on the bottom above theirs calling their cattle out, so administrator and lives in Texas. Boots resides at they knew they w[...]Roberts, Montana. Vivian became a nurse and was river bottom that night, they would have lost[...]ecovered. several thousand doilars in those days, and all oftheir Teena was in failing health for two years until her hay, plus part of the house and all of their furniture. death in 1981, n[...]m The a long, hard, coid trip through gumbo, snow and ice, Breaks" published. The book tells of people and places but they made it by dark. and events about the country she so dearly loved.[...]One time, Dick Mackie, a biologist who was living and once with Teena and son Boots to visit relatives, but working for the Montana Fish and Game in the area, home to him is st[...]s dog which.had been place in Columbus and returns "home" whenever he bitten by a rattlesnak[...]- heard a crackling sound. They timers and with his inseparable companion of so many looked up and saw that the roof on the house was afire. years and times, both good and bad, gone; it's just, "not If Mackie hadn'[...] |
| [...]FnaNr McAnrnuR AND Bnrry Rae W,qnNEKE McARTHUR by Frank McArthur and Helen Machler Frank McArthur was born 2 Septem[...]hler's Sheep est of seven children born to Walter and Julia Yaeger Ranch in Petroleum Cou[...]iving He bought Mike Machler's spread and started out on with an aunt and uncle, Rose Yaeger Machler and his own. In 1962, Frank marri[...]s a young widow with four children Julia McArthur and Rose Machler were sisters. and was running the Roy Grocery Store. Her husband, Frank attended local schools and Fergus High School Fred Warneke, was[...]leaving his wife, Betty and their children, Jim, Linda, He moved to the river and worked for Mike Machler, Sandra and Bobby. They all went to Roy schools and at his ranch. In 1935, Mike and Fred Machler leased the eldest gr[...]They ranched in the Missouri River area and the they trailed the cattle from the Missouri bre[...]selshell Trail until 1963, when they moved to the and shipped them to Nevada, by rail. This was due to[...]ome, crossing the Fred 1942, working for Machlers and other ranchers in the Robinson Bri[...]In 1969, they sold this ranch and bought a ranch near as a bombardier and flew 67 missions during World To[...]resided since. Frankie is married and has a son, Durck, He received his discharge in 1945 and returned to the born 24 September 19[...]area. Because of ill health, Frank and Betty have Frank returned from his extraordinary[...]leased their land, sold off the stock and are still living Air Corps with no injuries, but shortly after he got in their ranch home and Frank has retired" SreNlnv Novex AND JosEpHINE PITNER NovAK[...]T 21N R 288 Sec. 31, 32 Stanley Novak and Josephine Pitner were early home |
| [...]- Abraham Phiiiips and Jennie Quigley were mariied in Knox, Indiana in[...]from Roberts, Montana by wagon with three horses and some household goods. They had relatives in Rober[...]?l Tom and as Phillips Ridge, about 372 miles north of the L[...]Nou. 1961. came and stayed with them. He didn't homestead. Abe farmed and was a horse trader. In February of 1930, Abe and Jennie were in the timber getting a load of wood[...]Joseps AND MARY Ppns AND SoNS, Devto Hnnunx AND IRA GT-NUN T zON R 26E Joseph Pipes and Mary Jane Laughery, both natives |
| [...]TheS' rl'ere survived b5; their son, daughter, and three was buried beside her husband, Joe.[...]andchildren. Irma Pipes married Carl Longfellow and lives in Lewistown^ Her father, Herman, died at 6[...]nticueRy in Lewistown where he had been a painter and bar- James was a well known ranch[...]17 October 1977, at age 83. He ailment and complications after an iilness of over a was an invalid for the last several years and his wife, year. He u'as born in Clinton C[...]body was shipped to Rockwell, Iowa for burial, and was the veterans section of Hishland Cemeterv at[...]21N R 25E Sec. 29 Charles Rish, his wife Neile, and little daughter, Zion City, Illinois, Charles Rish took over the store and Dorothy, homesteaded on the ridge west of Fritzne[...]BnN.latrtu Ross AND IsAPHINE SPIKER[...]by Marie Zahn Benjamin Ross Spiker and his wife, Isaphine, came |
| [...]Our Little Crooked neighbors were Bakers and Jakes. on October 25, 1919, but I never could get a birth certifr- I remember well when Earl and Pearl (Jakes) were cate so I can't prove it. My parents, Minnie and Joe born. My sister and I had to give up our new dolls we Stroble, came t[...]a after my brother, got for Christmas and had hardly played with because Francis, was born[...]o give them. I born in Roy in 1917. We were there and at the homes- really didn't want to.[...]fellow named John Turner use to stop and visit on his School and I remember going to dances there and walk- way walking to and from town. I was always happy to ing home when th[...]dle go to Wilder to visit Marie Webb and sometimes stayed and accordian music still going around in my head.[...]remember one year moving into Roy for the winter and a fresno. Sometimes George Jakes helped him.[...]We stopped to rest once We had to have gardens and ate a lot of sage hens, and ate fried chicken out of a lard pail. cottontail rabbits and snowshoes as big as dogs in the Sometimes my dad would be gone for weeks and winter. We melted snow on the stove in a boiler t[...]the My sister used to stay with, and help the Misses shanty. One spring when Dad was b[...]or on went to get him to come for dinner at noon and we saw their place was a good old wel[...]tub upended on Sometimes we saw antelope, coyotes and rattlesnakes. top to keep the water[...]ning would come in the stone boat and we rode in it with hay and blankets and house and bounce from stove to frying pan on the wall[...]ame of the school, but there was a tall Christmas and back again - that's when you lea[...]our It was 1933 when Dad gave up and headed for some mother taught us and one year when my sister and I relatives in Washington. Dad had[...]e but me picked fruit he had seen our new teacher and she had white hair to help us on our way. I was too small to pick so I found and false teeth we thought he was teasing, but it was[...]were there. After we got - true and she was a real teaeher. She taught us to sing. She brought fern fronds and tree twigs from Washing- ton state to paste on paper to make pictures and story books about Skookum apples from Wenatchee.[...]y out there. Part of the time we stayed in Roy and went to school. The only teacher I remember in to[...]of friends. I remember John- sons, Lanes, Oquists and Athearns -[...]inthe summer of 1929 burning and Hanson's Grocery.[...]Alice age 11 and kept our horses.[...]he could frnd a job, as the depression got worse and his dream of irrigating many fields on a l[...] |
| [...]us CouN'rv settied here I grew six inches taller and Mom put on 40 homestead and 7rd grade at Byford and the rest at Roy SrruoN VoNtvun AND MAY ANoBnsoN[...]e they met. Both worked elsewhere to |
| [...]ental Oil 1936. Company in Cat Creek and May taught school. May Simon's last[...]e to the Little Crooked area he was known Winnett and wrote several stories, including "The Kis-[...]EnwrN R" WenrzENLUm AND SoN, Peur T 2ON R 27E Sec. 3, 5, 6 Edwin Wartzeniuft and his 16-year-old son, Paul, |
| [...]e took off. His yelling scared McBride worked out and was gone from his homestead a lot. the house movers so bad that they ran off and in their panic He was gone so long one time that[...]ch McBride was able to thought he'd left for good and decided to move his house, as identify them. w[...]TB of the rvouldn't fly open, hooked the team on and took off. Unfor-[...]unately McBride had returned the previous evening and was and that. too. bothered him.[...]rved the first drinks in Mobridge. The bar, owned and operated by George and EDee Komarek is located just off Highway 191, sou[...]elieve my luck. I decided to build a bar, cafe and trailer court on my land. I applied for and received a beer license in July of 195?. We began to build on August 11, 1957. My wife, EDee, Clyde Coulter and I worked continuously for nearly 3 months to comp[...]first drinks were served to Al Gates, Trig Haugen and Dick Kier, all of Lewistown. Construction on the bridge began early in 1957 and with it came an influx of people. A cafe was added and opened in May 1958 for the road crew, carpenters, cement and iron workers who were starting to move in. The trailer court was added and in use by June 1st. The wages ofthe road crew ran about $2 per hour. Cafe help and bartenders got from 554 to ?0Q per hour. The bridge was completed in November of 1958 and dedication ceremonies were held in August of the[...]not come to the area until 1960 we used gas lamps and heaters and propane refigerators. In 1961 telephone service began and a gas station was added. Once the construction[...]deos. The first Mobridge rodeo was July 4th, 1961 and we had two rodeos a year for nine years. The crow[...]p was built in 1962 to serve contestants, hunters and tourists who were invading the area. First to land a plane on it were Bob Cimrhakl and Fred Sandstrom. A major flood on June 16, 1962[...]. Mobridge has nice weather in the spring, fall and winter, for there is little wind. it does get hot in July and August. George and EDee[...] |
| [...]THB FnEo RoerNsoN Bnrocn AND HrcHwAy 191[...]anything was done again. north across the plains and dream ofbeing able to cross Early in 1952[...]te to aid in the "development of new oil fields", and interest, locally, in a proposed new road to Mait[...]s from ranchers. bridge across the Missouri River and a highway to The governor began to p[...]ow the old D-Y Trail. doned and the Armells site was selected. Armelis was I[...]ed. 13-14 miies east of the Power Piant site and 10 miles One was at Wilder at a cost of $325,000[...]bridge (Winnett to Maita) at a cost of 9400,000 and one at the would become a reality within fo[...]Wickens Bros., Walling Construction, and Sheriff Con- In May of 1930 numerous soundin[...]yroll. association met with county commissioners and busi- While the bridge was under cons[...]July of '59 the gravel work was completed and oiling route for a proposed highway from Canada t[...]s were conducted the Rocky nor Aronson and Senator Fred Robinson, who the Point site was de[...]bands, free boat rides, a huge barbecue and 10,000 cele- or Rocky Point, to promote this sit[...]ot brants. It was a 30-years dream come true and it made a as yet thrown its support to this site[...]ent on Rocky Point showed more advan- And that homesteader child that gazed north wond- tag[...]he picnic. There were speeches, boat rides, games and soaking wet on the other side with many mi[...]BRIDGE! The road was surveyed during the 30's and about 30 The James Kipp Park was dedica[...]was named i.n honor of the early explorer and settler of westerly direction. In 1940 an 8-mile[...]ddle of a pasture. WWII came along 1831" and the construction was halted.[...]of St. Leo's. Falls. It was remodeled and blessed. Mass was In April of 1915, Fat[...] |
| [...]moved to the A home near Murphy's garage was used and also a Bishop building and then later on to the Roy school home across the s[...]. John Haligowski; The first one was held in 1918 and has been held 1958-59 Rev. Raymond[...]t; 1962-65 Rev. Albert Rutan;' 1965-68 Rev. Myers and Mrs. Emma Dobeus were instrumental in[...]68-72 Rev. R. David Bielefield; starting the idea and work. They packed their linens, 1972 Rev[...]iin Fisher, tablecloths, silverware, dishes, pots and pans, food and OSB; 1978-84 Rev. Richard D. Oste5man, Lewi[...]Presbyterian Church held its dedication and the building was moved to Roy where it was used and laid the corner stone on June 7, 1928. One hundre[...]ople attended. The first meeting was held in 1914 and ing and it is now at the Bohemian Corner between the the[...]mally organized in 1925. G.W. cafe and the gas station. Dougherty was founder of the chu[...]d on the Most of the members moved away by 1936 and Rev. Bauman-Lund Ranch. William Bess[...]by Vernon Puckett and Ken Sirokt The Roy Presbyterian Church was org[...]which was built about 1916 and used by them until 1931 |
| [...]Churches and provided alternate services. Weekly ser-[...]succeeding pastors; Lutheran, Rodney Dundorf and[...]and a modification of the agreement in 1982. Services[...]Rev. Bill Liddell moved on in 1986 and was replaced[...]Winifred, is held each year and because of financial[...]Farnataro. They made their home in New York and the was installed in September in September 1960.[...]ed for church that had just opened. L.M.F. and his older brother did purposes.[...]dedication services were held nary and became Presbyterian ministers. November 15, 1964.[...]as re- His brother went to Canada and Rev. Jordan went to named the Fellowship Hall.[...]t he also served some other small with the Hilger and Roy Presbyterians and the Win- churches at the same time he[...]also was employed as a plasterer. of the Roy and Hilger expenses and were now out of He married Edna Lin[...]y went to Wyoming after the5'left Roy. After that and expenses would be shared by all three and they he served several churches in No[...]retired they moved to Fargo for a few years and then to Rev. Larry Vinson of the Winifred Luther[...]924 the land was purchased from Diamond by of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnson who lived 20 miles east W.E. Jones and owned by him until his death in October, of Roy, was scalded and died. At that time the grand- 1951. The heirs, Mrs. Josie Jones, Opal, Doris and Earl father, E.D. Johnson and A. Djamond purchased the Jones, deci[...]s the Presbyterian Church the west half and the Catholic first lo be buried there.[...]Church the east half of the cemeterj', and the deeds were In the years 1918 and 1919 there were many deaths made to each. from the flu. Many lots were sold, and the cemetery, of Each church is r[...] |
| [...]ever, bushes, brick and cement partitions and the upkeep[...]Standing about two and a half feet tall it has the original[...]trunk ofthe tree buried in the ground. The top and sides have been carved and varnished for its protection,[...]rhakl, who alone had, for years, spent extra time and reminder of the past. Markers, in quiet solitude,[...]e way for the present. donations and memorials had been installed. Cimrhakl For seve[...]e weeds, Kananen created. hauled water, and cieaned up around their relatives .[...]large chore by Cimrhakl, flowering crabs and evergreens, and they for so few; so in the 1960's the Silver Sage[...]a are flourishing. community beautification and service project took on Metal mark[...]cemetery for Memorial were set in cement and placed at the unmarked graves. Day. The Valley Vi[...]At other graves, markers were re-set and graves leveled them out, and it wasn't long before the Black Butte to make mowing and up-keep easier. Shadows 4-H club joined in the effort, and so each year a No longer does the Roy Cemetery stand alone and certain date and time in May was selected and a large almost forgotten, it's now, once again, a place that group of youngsters and adults would gather and work shows respect and love for the pioneer ancestors that to make the h[...]s to be buried as near to began to Iocate records and to try to identify the graves his beloved[...]It wasn't long before she had committee and Genealogy Society at Lewistown Carnegie Library.][...]e for about is worth noting as typical of its era and of the people. 30 miles. The funeral[...]ld in a beautiful little white Two young and carefree cowboys, suddenly came church in Gilt Ed[...]their horses to attention; took off their hats and sat with with hundreds of white prairie lilies th[...]owed heads until the long line of wagons, buggies and had picked. The casket was brought out from Lewistown buckboards slowly passed by. by wagon and team. Mysrnny Gtnl In 1935 Cliff Emery and Jim Kellner's father were to the Ro[...]girl, about ten They were out of money and stopped to work a short years old. She had long y[...]they looked perfect, the little girl died and was buied. Mrs. Romundstad remem- but when you to[...]grated just like bered her because she and the little girl were about the ash. The sheriffcame out and they eventually moved her same[...] |
| [...]nn GRevn'.lRos There are many small graveyards and lone graves pees lived (somewhere[...]een identi- through between BIack Butte and the Judithsl there is a fied. There are probably[...]set of twins buried. Thet' died at birth and were buried in One rancher in the Valentine ar[...]all enclosed graveyard Frank Kosier and Mrs. Stiendorf s among them. Chair- where D[...]man of the Lodge, John Horyna, conducted these and his nephew, Dennison Pugh Owens, Jan. 2,[...]nduct services for the deceased. tub of hot water and was scalded to death.[...]ns Indians, was Blumfield, father of Edith Blair, and baby girl, Phillips. 'buried' in a tree with all her clothes and jewelry. The The Blumfieid grave is near the UL B[...]of side of the river. He was struck by lightning and killed, finding beads, some home-made and some trader beads June 13, 1915. The little Phill[...]e. One can only guess what happened to the of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Phillips. Her grave was moved[...]It is on the south side of the river. and or their mothers lie? How many Indian braves or Frank Athearn's wife, (Amy), and John Athearn's pioneers, who were[...]disaster, sleep beneath the prairie grasses? And how yard on the river hill, above lake level, nea[...]became of their beloved sons and dauehters? No one will There was a family g[...]here the graves were. Creel's took all the stones and markers. The wrought iron fence that surrounded the graveyard was also taken down. It was beautiful. Harriet and Will Landru tended it for many years and planted shrubs and flowers. Among those that were buried there were Ellen Romundstad, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Odin Romund- stad, some of the Fergus family and a baby of Peggy and Bill Landru. In a small enclosed area on the Do[...]nch os it looked in 1937. ALI the graues, markers and On the south side of Coal Hill, east side of th[...]be dug. The weather mod- erated in about 10 days and the chore was done. Her husband, a casket maker,[...]u epidemic. The grave site is outlined with rocks and is The graue sites of Donald Pugh and his nepheLo Denni' still visible.[...] |
| [...]hristmas tree was hauled in from the breaks and erected in the community hall '*'hich also[...]wintry storm blew into the area, with snow and a bitterly cold wind. "Oh' it was terrible,[...]ahn, banjo; Wilbert Fred Sandstrom's guitar and Del Wyga]'s piano. Zohn on the horn; Virginia Kalino, piano and Haruey When morning came, some of the fol[...]y got food for everyone. The storm raged on and everyone remained at Weingart's place for breakfast on their way home, he the hall and the nearby Anton Hansen (Teena's parents) remembers. home that day and the next night before venturing home.[...]to the dance brought a cake or early years and both Mr. and Mrs. Mathison remember sandwiches f[...]oung man of was tied in a cheese cloth and dropped into an ovai 19, used to ride many[...]nothing of riding 50 miles or more to Lodgepole and other After lunch was served, a coilect[...]Often it would take all day to get there and another day money then. "But we had a lot o[...]piccolo; a Mr. Cook, the trombone; Frank Vodicka and a Mr. Horacek, first and second alto saxo- phone; Jay Gove, snare drum; Wi[...], brass horn; Joe Masek, bass drum; Fred Fadrhonc and E. Edwards, cornet; W.A. Rowland and William Barbee, both clarinet; and a Mr. Porkarnay, baritone saxo- phone. The band[...]At the age of 87, Chmeiar played vioiin and directed a He lived in St. Louis, Missouri for 40 years and musical group in Chico, C[...] |
| [...]ilding a Iarge town haii, later buying a building and moved it to adjoin the hall for school purposes.[...]o open new roads to the town, submitted petitions and appeals urging the immediate completion of the ra[...]at a cost of several hundred doliars for the town and surrounding countryside, petitioned for a large b[...]ownsite Company to furnish gravel for the streets and were the head of the big 4th of July celebration[...]he area; ofworking to get a co-operative creamery and ofthe ladies organization "goading" them into action to clean up the town of Roy and the roads leading into it. In 1926 W.E. Jones, A.M. Stendal and Roy Umstead were the committee working on road improvement for Wilder, Valentine, Bear Creek and Christensen. W.L. Marsh was president and they were working on having an annual Roy Rodeo and 4th of July Celebration. In 1928 Peder Hanson was chairman of the committee to link Roy and Valentine with phone service.[...]- The Roy Women's Club was organized in 1916 and is still in existence 72 years later, making it t[...]ments were: the re-opening of the Roy High School and main- taining it for a full term; remodeling an old building and turning it into a club house; initiating a genera[...]lean up the "chaos" brought on in part by the war and poor crop conditions of preceding years; beautify[...]the early days. In the back (which was maintained and enjoyed by all until it[...]sband ran an burnt up in a fire at a later date); and to urge citizens to eleuator; Laura Diuine; Elsie Umstead; Mrs. Lee plant flowers and shrubs to beautify the town.[...]h Stephens Carr Wright; ?;?; Bridgie Hickey. Mid' and permission to build the Roy Park. They donated[...]ida Carter; Mrs. W.E. (Josie Hichey) Jones; grass and flower seed, paid the freight on shrubs and[...]te Pratt Sim' trees. The railroad buili the fence and laid the pipe for[...]sers donated trees. President agent; and lda Hanson. Front row: Mrs. Douidson, of the Gard[...]Reis: L[rs. A.A. Uane) Johnson: Mrs. Dunn and Lola cated to the upkeep of the Roy Park and they collect Baker Strait. and take care of the funds for several of the Roy Str[...]Lillian Byrne, Lavinni Bowser, Shirley Grindheim and Ramona Brown. |
| [...]Tsr Rov Ron abln Gun Cr.ue The Rod and Gun Club was active in the 20's. They stocked streams with trout; put bounties on predators and destructive animals (gophers and magpies) and favored closing the Missouri-Musselshell territor[...]as president; L.J. Mitten, Ray Carr, Vernon Marsh and Byron Clow committee men for the unforgettable sa[...]high score. The Vaientine and Fergus ball teams, being Nouel Stunt Put[...]- One of the most unique and the lead. novel picnics eve[...]ters held at Roy on Sunday when the Roy Rod and Gun Club could be seen or heard passing through Roy and from all members did themselves proud by th[...]essful in fiilins manner in n'hich they fed and amused the big crowd their bags with the young sages and in only a few in- assembled there from all[...]in stances were the old birds killed and this possibly ihrough and Petroleum counties.[...]All of the sportsmen who came to Roy on Sunday and their birds to the picnic commit[...]to serve them, their Iimit in a short time and proffering their birds to the fearing for[...]exhibition on cooks they were soon browned and ready to serve. A huge the picnic g[...]ring kettle hlled with hot boiiing fat made quick and About three hundred people were ser[...]easy work for the master chefs, Bob Mitchell and John sage birds and a great many of the guests at the picnic Ka[...]were agreeably surprised with the exquisite and savory serving the oncoming crowds who pass[...]were fully as good as table from 12 until 6 and many were the compliments home[...]attendance with served with hot sage hends and other good eats. James Weaver our own deputy game warden and both This picnic held in a grove of fine[...]ing into the picnic grounds. Both Mr. Hill and Mr. Weaver all seemed content as they sprea[...]arrangements favorite shadl'nook. Ice water and plenty oficed tea was on their efforts. on tap there all day while soft drinks, fruit and candies If the change in the sage hen law stands the test and were dispensed through concessions.[...]ent to the onlookers that ihey can and will distinguish between s.rge hens and as well as the participants when the combin[...]es other game birds then the Roy Rod and Gun Club may team of Republicans and Democrats played a picked team aga[...]will be arranged for in the prepa- pleasing and entertaining manner and finally awarded ration for a muc[...]Rov FennrRS UNroN Locnl No. 349 AND Roy FenN,rsRS UNIoN Olt- Cot'lpaNv The Farmers Union Local No. 349 and the Roy Farmers Union Oil Company were two comple[...]on Oil Company to conduct youth education classes and camps which taught the principles which were comm[...]died out with the changing times-other interests and other organizations. At its beginning it u'as r,:[...]. Fred Mabee; vice president; J.B. twine and 400 pounds of coffee at 384 a pound were[...] |
| [...]a portable loader; a blower kind. This was bought and put on front of a tractor and driven by a belt. This blower was to load carload[...]e meeting signed up to order g"rain railroad cars and to deliver wheat to be shipped out by rail from R[...]u.; John Maruska, 1500 bu.; Wm. Schultze, 600 bu. and Joe Kviz, 1400 bu. A carload was about 1400 bushe[...]hired as manager of the oil company and he set up a On November 17, 1931 a carload of d[...]the gas tank and the Farmer's Union was in business. In 1932 a p[...]A few years later the gas tank was dug out and another all meetings were held. There was also a dance and hole was dug and the tank was buried on main street lunch. Tickeis for the lunch and dance brought in where Wright's Service Station was later. Farm and $66.00 and pies brought in $38.00 for a total of $104.00.[...]old at this location. About The music cost $20.00 and the hall rent was $10. 1940 th[...]thirties part of a railroad car of chased and again the underground gas tank was dug vegetables[...]in to Roy by the Farmers out and moved onto this property. Mushbacher left as Union Central Exchange in St. Paul and distributed to manager and Charles Lelek took over. members. There were potatoes, cabbage, squash and[...]In 1942 Frank Stepan took over as manager and con- many other vegetabies. This was in the winter time and tinued as such for 10 years, until 1[...]modities. It took it over for a time and then Cari Christensen and was a reliefprogram sponsored by the organization[...]his wife, Verna, took over and had it for 17 years. After This information wos[...]them Pat and Patti Wherley managed it for a few years Horyno h[...]and then Dan and Don Horacek had it until it was THE FARME[...]The Oil Company had expanded sales and sold lots of porated as a cooperative association[...]ital livestock feed, baler twine, and a full iine of hardware stock of $100,000.00 on April 27,1929. The first sixteen and would probably be in business today if not for st[...]s were bought work for several years. and set up near the Red Elevator. The manager, D.A.[...]e fi.rst president; Frank Cimrhakl Hill, sold gas and distillate for the Farmers Union. Gas was secretary for 11 years and Paui Bischoff the years was 17 or 184 a gallon and he got a commission of lQ a after th[...]op in the ous years as a director and as president from the office of the Red Liverv Ba[...]tead" They were members or knew of the ZCBJ Lodge and were interested in life insurance- Our e[...] |
| [...]ard of directors: Bros. Joseph Kviz, Anton Koliha and Bedrich Fadrhonc. The present officers are: Mir[...]Horyna, vice president; Kenneth Siroky, secretary and treas- urer James Horyna. James has been treasure[...]rganizations: Black Butte, Green Valley at Denton and one in Lewistown. Meetings are held in homes or[...]They are scattered all over the state of Montana and in several other states. There are only 9 members[...]stown. The club takes responsibility for the care and cost of the Fergus Community Hall. Srrrcu AND CHAT'TER CLUB |
| [...]rs There have been Boy Scout troops in Roy off and on throughout the years. In 1968 Mrs. Raby (Beth)[...]organized. Ralph Beatty became the scout leader and under his guidance the boys received some outstan[...]the Roy troop was the winner at a state Camperell and was awarded a trip to Edmonton, Alberta Canada t[...]ts attended. In 1953, Rindal, Ailen Poindexter and Bobby Clark were all awarded the honor of becomin[...]rmed to bring a continuing education of new ideas and trends in the field of home economics and management became a community service organizatio[...]clinics, a 4-H club, spearheaded community needs and improvements such as the signal light at the junction of highway 191-19, first aid, CPR and defensive driving courses and for many years has provided the candy for the annual school Christmas program and gifts for the Central Montana Home for the Aged.[...]ted concerns to physicai fitness, computers, arts and crafts, mental health and business practices. The fi.rst club officers we[...]lla Myers, historian. This club is still active and continues its many community projects.[...]k Cimrhakl, John Siroky, Dick Kalina, Rose Rindal and CliffMarsh as officers. The group was responsible for the TV translators installed at Fergus in 1958 and on Coal Hill in 1960. Carl Christensen did the in[...]in the 1961 legislative session. Siroky, Cimrhakl and Kalina were appointed as trustees by the county c[...]late 50's or early 60's. Many young people, men, and women, joined.[...]mbers worked on community beautifrcation projects and sponsored very successful garden and flower shows.[...]e 60's the area had two such booths; one from Roy and one from the Valley View area, because of an over-abundance of exhibits and active gardeners in both areas. As more people moved away there was not the interest there once was and after 20 years the area was down to one booth. The ladies in the Roy Club grew fewer and older and felt they could no longer do the job. The Valley[...]over sponsorship ofthe Roy booth for a few years and then gave it up because oflack ofinterest. A new g'roup formed and under the leadership of Linda Komarek a younger generation has taken over and the Roy booth is still an award winner at the fai[...]ty members were taken in. There was a Bridge Club and Roy.al Neighbors. A Carpenters Union organ[...] |
| [...]Pearce and leader Robin Miller. Front row: Holly Peters,[...]Heidi Kalina, Amber Willmore, Trisha Byrne and 'L::[...]ll around. Eva T. Murphy, L.M.A. Wass, Opal Marsh and Con Anderson all had a keen interest in recording history and most certainly they had a hand in preparing this[...]shment in the $250, Saloon lots $500, and other lots $200. Building Roy vicinity was a salo[...]P. Coyle, who moved his stock of liquor, tobacco and was kept busy hauling lumber and building materials other products from Gilt Edge[...]He traded with 300, was an important trading and shipping center. the cowboys, Indians and early settlers. The Milwa[...]many people living in this area prior tise and, of course, more people continued to come. to 191[...]urn encouraged their friends to started coming in and the need for a place to obtain come out from the east and settle with them. Roy supplies did become slightl[...]stayed long enough only to see the land agent and served as a place to obtain supplies. It was loca[...]ind their homestead, about 100 feet slightly west and north of the town then they immediatel[...]oad Company decided to build a steading and even those that had homesteads preferred feeder r[...]he Many camped on the edge of town in tents and present city limits of Roy. Land, located about t[...]y could finish their respective busi- miles north and east of the Judith Mountains and lying nesses in town. John Stephens' barn[...]s the at an elevation of 3,100 feet, was selected and arrange- first rooming house. ments made thr[...]land, then summer of 1913 by Ed Hansen and John Sidell. It was belonging to Frank Stephens and Bert Sargeant, on constructed such that there was a bar and cafe down- which to plot the townsite. The town survey was com- stairs and rooms upstairs. The upstairs was so hastily plete[...]ere not able to partition In the winter of 1912 and 1913, John Stephens built off eight rooms and the beds were arranged in rows. the red livery ba[...]such an establishment for he knew the and was located where the present American Legion Mil[...]s. Mrs. Laura Voss was proprietress of the highly and people would floci< to Roy to get some of it;[...]There were only two lots set aside for saloons and Ed In March of 1913. iots sold at these[...] |
| [...]tore. They allowed credit to get the best of them and it turned out, Roy Sturdy and Tony Musek were looking eventually ha[...]ess. John Nylander for a place to set up a saloon and, in as much as they and Leonard Tronsdale were building a large grocery c[...]nsen to condescend to let them buy in and clothing store at the time so they bought Hamm to[...]iately bought up the two iiquor and Raben's building for a warehouse. (Hamm passed iicenses and moved out to the edge of town where they[...]a bank in 1913, though it was sale liquor iicense and made things generally unhandy perhaps[...]er wouid rarely want to corner of 1st and Main and the first banter's name was drink a barrelful of[...]Leon M. Bolter, John Heckler, cashier. and Musek were finally able, by obscure means, to[...]th of the European on which to erect a and located on the lot north of the Roy Cafe. Jay Gov[...]ar. Time saw the two was postmaster and ran a news agency as well. He sold parties making[...]arose about the same time. It pennants and cigars. was owned by David Berg and Simon Duncan and was Charles Kolar built the fr[...]diary in Roy called the Roy Land Company and as they had hoped and they ended up building the appoi[...]his office in the livery barn. ture still stands and is presently cailed the Roy Hotei A meat market emerged along the west side of main and Cafe.[...]the Roy Mercantile. It was called the Roy Roundup and west of the European Hotel. It was the[...]t. largest in eastern Fergus county, at the time, and taller Most of the businesses tried to[...]east front. There two stories high, 25 feet wide and 140 feet long. Stock seemed to be some[...]rger time. structure. Sleeping rooms and offices of many business Roy was no[...]parlor. The six biiliard tables Iawyers, dentists and realtors-and horse thieves-in that it contained[...]was called Harry's Billiard the Roy Rooming House and Mrs. E.L. Newbury was Parlor and it was located south of the Roy Meat Market. the[...]as only there a short while until Harry and Charles Oquist and John Nylandelwere the he sold to J.E. Cox.[...]hich passed many wagons, would William H. Giersch and was located on the south end of be com[...]w started the Roy Blacksmith Shop and kept two other located). It ivas known as the Roy Cafe and was very men, one of whom was a wheelwright, and himself convenient to travelers because it was on[...]rse shoeing town. He was not a very generous man, and if a group and wagon repair at that time since that was the most[...]hens' Stables. No agents generally brought steaks and bread with them if lumber yards, black[...]ness shortly before businesses, their proprietors and events connected with the furnishings were put in and everyone usually had a both.[...]store in Roy was owned by Ed Brassey and Cap McCullen were the first realtors J.C. Hamm and Peter Raben. Joseph Hamm was a con-[...]located south of the Roundup struction contractor and did not spend much time in the Rooms and Bar. The United States Land Commis- |
| [...]r. and other supplies were sold. During that same year t[...]rner Through their efforts Main Street was graded and iot west of the new bank building. graveled and drainage ditched west of town. The club[...]in 1914, the Busy Bee hall served as a dance hall and later as a morsue dur- owned by Fred Mun[...]idemic of 1918. and the other cailed the Big Eats was located north o[...]afe added a city of numerous business, residences and a population bakery to his establishment[...]Cash Siore and Bakery. January 8, 1914 the newspaper moved from Hilger to Earl McAuley and Hurley Cox bought the Roy Meat a lot back of the Silver Dollar Saloon and the name v/as Market from Leo Krahulek, la[...]Marshall September 1914. was publisher and Edith Ammons was the editor. Soon T[...]Jack Bunsworth erected the Farmer's Feed and Sale "Railroad tracks reached Roy April 9, 1[...]ed Barn. It differed from Stephens'Livery 10 and 11 each morning, Whitey Moran's Camp looming[...]y service. Jack installed up on the old Smith and Laraway Ranch and with freight[...]McCain and Johnson started a lumber yard where The first tr[...]ow. (Across the street from with lumber, freight, and people. From that day build-[...]ture business in a build- into Roy every Thursday and Sunday. Each train ing located j[...]re south in Roy, making regular trips between Roy and Hilger, of the Montana Lumber Yard. He[...]establishment. He full of automobiles whizzing in and out all the time. owned and operated a cemetery. Not only trains and autos filled the town. Immigrant Char[...]t side of to behold. Immigrant cars were unloaded and the immi- main street was 16 feet wide,[...]Agnew and Ramsey set up a real estate office oppo- From n[...]site the print shop (Roy Enterprise). many horses and vehicles that it reminded one of[...]turn trip. used for transient roomers and will contain 12 large Joe Reeble erected[...] |
| [...]"Roy needs telephones. With its rapid growth and with pleton Lumber Company took over Joe Cox and Lumber the amount of business which it transa[...]mesteaders to invest in hundreds of outsiders and safe to say that not a day goes more catt[...]In 1919, came a total crop failure and the most severe Rov."[...]winter known in 40 years, and the flu raging among F. Follick started a tailor and cieaning establishment stock as well[...]10 to $50 per ton. But in spite of all that owned and operated by James Kouri was located south[...]k was lost by spring, leav- of the Montana Lumber and Hardware. ing the farmers with very little horsepower, and that in Dr. Faulds had an office between the Post Office and poor condition; rvithout feed and seed; and engulfed in Roundup hotel from 1914 to 1917.[...]pany hauied in rendering aid); and consequently in poor shape to put 40 car loads of[...]built about this was planted, and 1921 was stili better. The few remain- same time and was located to the rear of the Roy Hotel.[...]during across the street from the Montana Lumber and Hard- the drouth period. There[...]took over where the homesteaders left and there were of the European Hotei. Prior to this h[...]of the Chicago story higher, it was better built and had a large dining and St. Paul Railrvay, about 35 miles northeast of Le[...]town, the count!' seat, and on the main trunk line of the room and a telephone office. The rooms were all[...]ighn'ay now completed from Lewistown to plastered and sound proof.[...]t was preceded in the county, and is the distributing point for a vast terri- by a[...]Musselshell river, south to Ford creek and west to the European by Matt Oster, a merchant fr[...]is well adapted to the agricultu' was the Rialto and was located south of the Meat ral purposes and *'ill produce splendid crops of wheat' Market.[...]corn, oats, alfalfa and other small grains as weli as any[...]cabbage to watermelons, while Roy enjoyed boonr and bust during 1917. Its peak in[...]purposes. began, and 75Vo of the young men, most of the home-[...]is a livelr'little town of about 100 inhabitants and a steaders being in their early twenties, were ca[...]point with 35 business frrms. It is well service and never returned. Those with families stayed[...]ht. Everything organizations and a splendid grade and high school had to be bought at farm prices.[...]een subjected to every hard' Stable. Bill Linster and Christensen ran a drav. John[...] |
| [...]ow be bought for from S10 to $40 per acre and at terms to suit any investor. Two ;-ears[...]e Black Butte structure 10 miles southeast of Roy and the Standard of California is drilling on[...]lieve that the Roy territorl', though hard and George Jakes. Photo taken about mid J7's.[...]p to 5.1 bushels per acre on poor farming and 1921 considered a very un- favorable year,[...]_-:n;_':'# per acre and aifalfa from two to four tons per acre, and with the chances for oil throughout the wh[...]McCain and Johnson's first hardware store in Roy, MT.[...]electricity until after the highway and bridge were con- to everybody in the area.[...]structed, in 1960. The towns of Fergus and Roy and the immediate area The Roy c[...]leted about 1981. ity in 1952, as far as Baumans, and the next year it rr,as |
| [...]late 50's. Fire service on roller bearing wheels and with iis 100 feet of high was now e[...]such the district came under ne*' rules and a board of liquid from the end of the nozzl[...]first fire district, one from Roy and one from west of Roy, for a truck was purchased in 1953. It was quite d step up and total of five. Some of the early dir[...]community Puckett, John Siroky and Frank Cimrhakl. Pat O'Reilly watched as Fire Chie[...]was fire chief for several years. Clay Smith and Mary Dodge truck out of the station. Special demo[...]a equipment was pretty well outdated and in 1986 the old voiunteer fireman and devoted much time and energy Dodge was retired and a brand new GMC truck com- to*'ards the up-gradin[...]as did plete with a new pumping system and a 300 gallon tank L:,nn Phillips.[...]munity Business Club were J.H. Stephens, E. Maury and O. Romundstad' The headed a driv[...]hey first teacher was Grace Rowland. Between 1919 and were so successful that they h[...]e a sum each month for five months and at the end of the abandoned. some consolidated. T[...]funded to held at the Smith-Laraway Ranch in 1910 and part of the donators. Then they were able to get tax money and 1911. The lumber was hauled from Lewistown and the state aid for the school. M[...]ports- How- west of Roy, near the road. The labor and the hauling ever, both the boys and girls had some local games and was ail donated. School was held there until the[...]s the principal. He Roy Umstead and L.M. Wass. reported there were 5 students so far.[...]was taught English, History, Music and Glee Club. There the Superintendent, P.M. Paulson taught math and were 29 students enrolled. latin and another teacher was to be hired. The board of[...]922. Then the include a new gym and trvo ciass rooms. The head school closed because of shortage of money and builder was Lee Karau. All[...]e relief rolls' ers had proved up on their places and began leaving the There was also a n[...]football rvas first introduced to had 19 freshman and 5 sophomores. Guy R. Bancroft[...] |
| [...]uist, Willie Jones, Blaine Woodard, Charles and then teachers vote on the students based on citi- Lee Willis, Jess Satterfieid, and James Gradle. K'H. zenship, grades, contribution to school life and general Holmstrom was the coach. This year there[...]ip. The coach was Bill Nugent. 8-piece orchestra, and school plays. The plays were The manager[...]. The team captains were often taken to Valentine and other towns. Glen Rindal and Melvin Campbell. Others on the team The gradua[...]football tournament. Agnes Bauman was the janitor and her grandson, In 1950 there was a[...]ketball as it was thought to be hazardous to town and start fires in the stoves of each room, then[...]ng, tumbling, square dancing, soft- fourth, fifth and sixth grade classes had been meeting ball, track and archery. there under the teaching of Miss DeBock.[...]he Lewis- injured as the pupils filed out quickly and much of the town District Science Fair. The students were Clyde school furniture and supplies were saved. A bond elec- Martin, Al[...]a new school was passed in the fall of Kalina, and Mary Dale Meckiing. They competed at the 1944. Ja[...]me the permanent owner of a fine In 1948 girl's and boy's basketball was started again trophy. When this program and trophy was set up in after having been discontinu[...]them very of 1947 under the direction of Mr. C.A. Kelly. Many of wrong. the instruments had burned i[...]rm Training Pro- basketball tournament and went to the state tourna- gram started in 1949 and ran for several years. The ment. The coach was Conrad Robertson and assistant U.S" government sponsored the program w[...]d Rindal, Tyler school to conduct regular classes and complete agricui- Peters, Mark Robbins, Tim J[...]og:ram was a gxeat success son, Rich Bowser, and Randy Emery. This year the and helped the veterans in farming projects which[...]s, 1950. It was awarded each year to a Senior boy and girl Randy Emery, Mark Robbins, Rich Bowser,[...]se are a few of the highlights of the Roy school. and fair play during the year. A plaque was given to[...]many more but this is the information that school and the names were engraved each year' The[...]be Ruth. A medal was presented to each senior boy and girl. This award was iast presented in 1971. Ro[...]ol students an opportunity to study how the state and iocal governments operate. The program is sponsored by the American Legion and Auxiliary. The |
| [...]kson. Jean 1910.{l Kelly. O.A. l9J8-49 P[...] |
| [...]e photo was taken in front of Diamond's Furniture and Under' taking business.[...]Daniels, Aua Kauth (Zahn) and Sarah Buechner. Front[...]to R.: Pearl Jahes, Donna Larson and Margaret Adams.[...]Maruska, Ann Heil, Don Kalina and Robert Willis. Junior Class of Roy High Schoo[...]r 2013, the l00th anniuersary of the toun. |
| [...], Betty Phillips, Jean Letten' garuer, Tom Sirohl and Jim Murphy. Middle row: Betty Komarek, Judl' Cimr[...]the Rov Shirley Walrod, Jean Komareh, AIta Styer and Blaine[...]picture aboue is from 1987 and shows two students with Gilbert Puchett and Mr. BeattLe.[...]aruska" Home Ecttn<;mics; Butch Zieske, Guidance: and Gib McKinnlt'y, Supt.[...]'stal Sth and 6th grades: Hallie Willmore' Cr1'stal Martin, MonLgomerT' and Rosie English. Front rotu: Kazuyo[...]Janice Heiser, 3rd and lth grades; Myrna Gilbertson, Kathl' Kaltna and Jantie Strunh. Other school person' 1st.2nd and kindergarten. Middle rott': Trisha Byrne, nt'! nr[...]ll Byrne. Zeke ll'alker, Tommy the sc'hctol clarh and s('('r('1ar-1'slncr' 197,9; V'trtdi Sir<,,1r1',[...]k, Slace,r' Gar, Sltau'rt Nelson, assistant clerk and scc'retar1,; Ruth Otto and Clara[...]-Rostnusserz, Jesse Olson and Sammy Stt'cher, Front dians: Vichi V'illntore and I)tattna r?rrbbirrs,6us[...]a. Toni Zieshe. Amber W'illmore, Holly drit,t'rs: and school hoard ntnthr"r.s. ("/r'n Rirtdal. hoard[...]lllalmt'nd, Ed Kalal. Kari Zit'she. James Shirey and Mork llohbitts.[...] |
| [...]-B; tees were T.E. Gander. S.C. Webb and E.F. Hill. The fust teachers were Josie Hickey and B.A. Hickey. Some i of[...]F.A. Anderson, Josephine Sandstrom, Winnie McNeil and Goldie Kilpatrick. It was[...]KNurE HrnueN HoLtursrnou (Kui-i,v) Kelly was born on June 11, 1899 in Halmstad, 1948 he returned to Roy and w-as Superintendent of Sweden. He grew up in Croo[...]schoois until 1953. Keily and Charlotte had 3 sons, lotte Estenson on July 2l ,[...]ids. Iou'a. Dean, Richard and Robert. They had a foster daughter, Holmstroms mo[...]Eulalie. Charlotte's sister and brother, Lillian and I\{ilo the Superinterrdent of schools that year. Kelly taught Estenson (class of '39), stayed with them and attended History, Algehra, Physics. Geometry and coached. In school here. A nephew, Lelan (Bud) Ramharter (class of 1934 Kelly became the Superintendent, a job he held[...]Charlotte ciied in 1979. Kelly died February 2, 1981 quality of education[...] |
| [...]After graduation, Marie Bowser Cimrhakl and I and I. As a family n'e did our part to maintai.n our[...]e College. We found an apartment and batched and pump ri'hich was a quarter of a mile away. Then t[...]boys were juniors by this time. Marie and I would hitch house. ironed, helped cook and get meals" Mom would a ride home over the weekends once in awhile. sew, make pies and other special things, as well as Jim u'as the brains of the family and always received study and prepare her schoolwork for teaching. Mom[...]zen wanted his boy to be *as an excellent teacher and disciplinarian. at least Salutatorian, and Jim was causing too much I r+'as a junior in hi[...]in the Roy High Schooi for him. Although Reynoid and Jim were freshmen. Landon Peterson was the other boy was bright, Jim's grades were better and our principal and he was rvonderful. The kids all loved[...]solution rvas to get him. He expected us to study and we did. He had such a Mom and her family out of Roy. sense of humor, yet u'as f[...]a reduction in salary and teach the upper grades for $60 Wendell Walker[...]a month at Roy). (three rode in the rumble seat) and we visited outl;'ing Marie didn't want to attend summer school and so churches and sang for them. I believe Eddie Dunn sang went home. Goldie Kilpatrick contacted me and w'anted with us part of the time.[...]he Btrhemian had a nerr'roctmmate and someone to share expenses. Hall oc'czision[...] |
| [...]s us. He taught me to drive, after summer school, and we married. Married women weren't hired to teach in those drove to Brooks to settle in for school. Mom and I days. Vernon got a job at the Fort Pe[...]aho with batched in an apartment through the week and came Fred. Fred married Frances Plum o[...]of Lewistown. He ated. He took a government test and passed; the high- passed away in 1956. Mom[...]buried in Stratford, Iowa beside Daddy and Reynold. worked ten years in the Government print[...]ring of 1935 he came down with pneumo- University and went to work for a computer company nia and passed away May 1st. in Minneapolis where he remained untii retirement. He Vernon and I moved to Ellensburg, Washington and iives in St. Paul with his wife.[...]our lems. I finished my degree in education and taught for years in the Navy. It was love at firs[...]934. I had signed a contract to in Seattle and our daughter, Marian in 1948.[...]on, a surnnxary of 75 years written by Marie Zahn and IIIa Willmore eppeared in the June 5, 1988 issue[...]se of free land encouraged people from all and was not available at every iocation) which would walks of life to build this town and community. It must be hard for the modern gener[...]- cool in summer and warm in hend the hardships of life and slow transportation in Dug-outs were ano[...]ving standards, from a hillside or bank and the front logged up, the communication and travel. same p[...], in any form, with Many had dirt floors and the hard packed ground horses the most popular me[...]ame into Roy each day in 1913 to water and swept. Dirt roofs were common and hard-pan build the Red Livery Barn, the first bui[...]a thinner layer because it would crust and shed water necessity to this day, for both work and entertainment. more readily without as much[...]cellars which were covered with dirt. These team and wagon or buggy drove the 25 miles to Roy. kept supplies cool in summer and would not freeze in Those who walked couid car[...]rs were often the work animals had to be replaced and bad built with a team and slip-scraper to catch run-off from water, sparse feed and other hardships were en- snow melf and rain. However, these were too small to countered.[...]t under the eaves of roofs to catch refrigeration and limited space to carry extra food. rain water. and snow was melted in winter. Illness often befell t[...]ed in the Most homesteaders had to go out and work part time. harsh environment, as did acciden[...]town on the Great Northern-New Rockford Cutoff and built. Many kinds of structures evolved including[...]heavy sod that would hoid the dirt Lewistown and excavation was done with teams and |
| [...]1913 Oil orvned by Gary Smith. and 1918. 'l'hen work stopped due to World War I and The population of Roy town can[...]migration of teachers, Mining for gold, silver and copper was another source miners and their families. The school is there, but there of employment. Skilled and professionai people found are few[...]to attend. In 1988 there were 14 in jobs in town and teachers rvere in demand for the coun- high school, grades 9 through 12, and four ofthese were try schools as well. Men went[...]foreign exchange students from Japan and Germany. the fall grain harvest n'hich was anoth[...]Basketball has replaced baseball as "the game" and no means adequate to make a living in this country and everyone attends; the annual Roy Ro[...]ife. draws contestants and spectators from all over the It is hard for us[...]out across the miles of state each year; and aiumni reunions every five years prairie that surround Roy and imagine the countiess bring back[...]side;pne end traffic in the summer and fall swells the roadways on every 160 or 320 acr[...]as fishermen, campers and hunters make their way to Or to drive into Ro[...]the breaks, the Crooked Creek recreation area and few gtoceries and realize that once Roy had a popula-[...]popular recreation area. tion of 400 inhabitants and was booming. Dreams of The ra[...]eing a part of the hub of an agricultural, mining and birth and boom ofthe area, died in 1970. Cattle are still[...]Fink, Dan Cimrhakl, Melvin Rindal, Hap Zahn Roy-and all are now gone. and Wilson Richards, but they are hauled out in large Farmers with huge tractors and sophisticated equip- semi-trucks. Other cattie are sold at, and hauled from, ment are once again turning under the sod and wheat is the ranches to destinations[...]f head of deep artesian wells dot the countryside and no longer sheep. does man or beast have to rely solely on unpredictable And for the most part with better transportation, rai[...]necessities, entertainment and shopping are done In Roy, businesses have dwind[...]st elsewhere-Lewistown, Billings and Great Falls. office, Rosaiie English, postmaster;[...]ose managed by Mike Shirey; the Roy Grocery owned and that remain, is their unshakable belief in tomorrow. operated by Lois Woodard; and a service station, G & S Fnewcrs AND FLoRENcE (STuEBEN) ANtensou[...]Anderson was born in Inver Grove, Minne- quilts and enjoyed reading. |
| [...]as made to Lewistown, maybe the severe drouth and grasshopper plague of 1936. once a month in the summer, less in winter time, so most Evelyn was 16% and had just graduated from high of the family's groceries and supplies were purchased at school. the stores[...]moved to Wisconsin following age of 93, and their son Jack passed awav in 1987.[...]nn Effie Baker was first married to Mr. Morgan and had who homesteaded T. 19 N.-R. 23 E., Sec. 31, 32. Carl trvo children, Roberta and Charles W. Charles became worked as a bartender at the "Silver Dollar Buffet" in a teacher and taught many Fergus County schools be' Roy's early days and was a barber. t'*'een 1915 and 1935. School records show that he Effie Baker ran a bakery and lunch counter; Block 7, taught Iowa Bench, severa[...]area, Lewistown, Roy, Danvers, Maiden, Coal Hill and lishment ftom 1927 to 1937. Little Crooked during this twenty-year period. Carl Baker and Arch Johnson joined forces in the Effie marrie[...]. Bell who was a home barber business and were known as Roy's "Tonsorial steader in the Joslin area: T. 20 N.-R. 24 E., Sec. 30. Artists" and worked together at this trade for quite When Beil[...]ed the some time. house to his homestead and it still stands at this loca- Bakers move[...]in June, 1932. had three children: Wilma, Wilbur and Marion, who Effie Baker died 1 Januar[...]member of the family living at Bells divorced and Effie married Carl Leon Baker, that time. Roennr Ssrnum Ba.nens AND MARy M. BunNs Benenn R. S. Barbee, the son of[...]d citizen of Roy for the 21 years he was in busi' |
| [...]way Ranch Indian Butte area. He also had a ranch and barbering (which the Glen Rindal family[...]was built b1', or for, the Sharpsteins. and was a friend of the law-man, Burr Hill, who alway[...]The party marched back across the street and pro- One incident an old timer recalled concern[...]hed across the street to bor- the bullets and no one was harmed.[...]business to A.C. Neyhart in directory as a barber and a land owner. 1916 and with his wife, Minnie, moved out to his Zemanek[...]s now a building next to the present Roy Grocery, and soon part of the Heil ranch. After p[...]them, then got worried that they might be lawmen, and maybe, when asked, he claimed to be a barber. In so he went back and robbed them of the moonshine so any case his stor[...]a permit, but there was a ready sters in Chicago and had turned state's evidence market[...]to become one of Roy's most prominent and selling them to him. Several boys made spending r[...]the boys inside his establishment; he always met and other prominent Roy citizens and brought to Roy. them at the door. And they had to get there early in the They aiso had[...]he wouldn't buy the bottles after business truck and occasionally Pinky would hi-jack other rum-[...]ed Norway to Portsmouth, England on the Lusitania and a homesteader train, she joined. thenontoEl[...]or the Lehman Store even though she had had polio and wore heavy leg family. They lived on Spring Creek and would fish from braces, because a brother[...] |
| [...]s CouNrv Simon Duncan rvas foreman. |
| [...]tion giuen by Connie Bischoff Wahlstrand Paul and his wife, Esther, came to Montana in 1915 from Minnesota and homesteaded in the Missouri River breaks near Ma[...]of Roy, where he raised Hereford cattle, turkeys and did some farming. Paul and Esther had three children. Pauline was bor[...]Poul Bischoff on January 27, 1922 and Connie was born in Lewis- town, on November 5, 1923. Pauline died of diptheria in April of 1921 and is buried in the Roy Cemetery.[...]k in 1951. Esther passed away in March of 1924 and is buried in Anna was born in Prag[...]daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horachek. She came to After Esther's death, an aunt and uncle, the Osgoods, the United States with her family in 1904 and was raised took three-month-old Connie back to Minnesota and and educated in Timkin, Kansas. She came to Roy in ra[...]asional visits t912. with her father and he would visit her in Minnesota.[...]Paul. and Paul raised her four nephews; twins Donald and Kenneth (Buster) lived with his grandparents in Still- Daniel, David, Dale, and a niece, Linda, the children of water for a couple of years and then returned to Mon- her brother[...]n. Csenr,ns AND Loursn Brsriop Felrrlv[...]in August, by train, traveling with Grandma Kalal and |
| [...]HrsroRy Or- NonruEesrenx FoRcus CouN'ry and 17: miles downhil]. Sometimes rve traveied by |
| [...]!i August 1957. until they retired and moved to Idaho in 1946. The two Mr. B[...]f 59 y,ears. Both are Helen in the ciass of 1931 and Sarah, class of 1985. interrecl at Ro[...]s, The store was soid to Befty'Warneke and Glen Rindal. Idaho. The Buechners observed their[...]was born, 22 December 1g92, the son of Benjamin and Florence Chishoim Burnett at Fredricks- burg, Vi[...]led. He came to Montana with his parents in 1gi5 and homesteaded in the Windham area. He joined the Army in WWI and after his discharge, he returned to Montana and followed the rodeo circuit and rode for cow outfi.ts, also. Ben Burnett married Lillie Jakes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Jakes of Byford and Roy, 17 May Ig46 at Lovelock, Nevada.[...]Ben and Lillie Burnett Ben was employed as a brand ins[...]tana Livestock Commission. They lived in Biilings and Helena, where he was in the State offrce. He retired in 1960 and they came to Roy to make their home where they pu[...]illie Burnett took up tailoring while in Biilings and developed a successful business. She still works[...]y home. Ben Burnett had a great love of horses and the cowboy life. Ben was a member of the Roy Amer[...]2 /<tz and was buried at the Lewistown City Cemetery.[...]ings and sculptures. He created some uery cleuer[...]ds. Hnnernr AND CLARa DrVar-,r-r CennnoN[...]er Noble rvrites the follorving about her mother: |
| [...]rony Or NoRrsee,stnRx FeRcus CouNry was French and her mother was Dutch and lrish. My Cenl AND VERNa CunrsrBNSEN |
| [...]raised two children, obtained a college degree and lives Mother was the sister of Grace Rindal" She loved her in Billings. vegetable garden and was interested in nutrition and Lorraine married Laurence Dernbach and Iives in the was ahead of her time. She liked wor[...]s- Denver area. She has five children and is a professional band in business and handling the bookkeeping. She artist. Joanne married Ronald Love and lives in saw only the good in people and treated everyone the Billings. She is the mother of three and is a banking same.[...]representative. Verna became ill with cancer and passed away in Ronald lives in Phoenix. He is unmarried and has 1969. Carl retired from the FU in 1970 and retired a traveled widely. He recei[...]ived until in the 1980's. He driver and has enjoyed success with photography. lived to be[...]1988. Alan married Carol and has two children. They live There were frve ch[...]tion married Sian Phillips. She was widowed early and Bureau supervisor and also does some farming. CHnis AND EMMA CHRIsTENsEN |
| [...]count of the heavy roads. altercation between him and Julius Karau and his Mr. Karau was also ta[...]issue of the Lett,istown and driven on into Lewistown for medical treatment. D[...]ng, this Mr, Karau (Julius) was assaulted and shot both in the Mr. Cooley also shot one of Mi. Karau's sons who later arm and leg Iast Tuesday by Marion Cooley, who gave[...]elf up to Officer Oquist right after the shooting and punishment at that time, as it was alleg[...]was taken to Hiiger on the railroad speeder and turned the aggressor and it appears that there is still some ill ove[...]anuary 1, 1883 in They returned to Montana and lived and farmed in Dawson, Illinois, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles the Everson community, near Stan[...]H. Cooley. She received her education in Illinois and had homesteaded, until their retirement when they Indiana, and taught school before moving to Montana moved into Denton. He died in 1965. and homesteading in 1913. She taught in Montana[...]nois where she was survived by a son, Arthur, and three step-children: married to Guy Allen in Riverton, Illinois, on February Donald, Helen (Bosche) and Irene (Regli). 21,1923. Lily and Guy are buried in the Denton Cemetery.[...]information by Betty Corth and Shirley Corth Grindheim Frank was born on Octo[...]re born in Ger- Fred "Fritz" and Leona Bare were married on Sep- many and were married on February 14, 1880' Their[...]ermany. coal to various businesses and homes. He was a'jack of He died in 1925. Their other children were: Wiiliam, all trades' and did many odd jobs to earn a living, but S-eptembe[...]1894- he was mainly a carpenter and painter by trade. November 1968; Minnie, October[...], March 189?-July 1979; Fred, and Winnie Rife started working at the post office on[...]1902, the same day in June of 1948 and they retired on the Metta (Boggers) March 1903;Ti[...]May 31, 1971. 1944; Beriha (Schaeffer) July 1906 and Lizzie, August Leona and Fritz raised three daughters and a son. All 190?, all born in Parker, South Dakota[...]om RHS. Shirley was born in June of L927, Frank and Minnie homesteaded southeapt of Roy in[...]uline in December of 1929 1913. They left in 1924 and moved to Lewistown where and Clayton in October of 1930. Frank died in 1941 and Minnie in 1942. They and John, Shirley recalls an incident that happened to her as a William, Frank Jr.. Fred and Tillie are all buried in child. Sh[...]stove, the handle broke splashing the hot water and Fnexx (Jn) eNo Aoe, ConrH[...]y quite severely. Shirley lost all of her Frank and Ada Ruth Christine were married in 1923' hair from the fever that followed and when it came She came to Roy from Pennsylvania in 1921 and taught back in it was a medium brown color. Mrs" Barbee, a in Roy and Grass Range for 10 years. Roy midwife, attended and nursed her during the time Frank farmed south of Roy and Ada clerked for W.C. following th[...]Pauline was married to Mervin Tate and later to Bob and Ada passed a*'ay in August of 1984" Knight. She had four chiidren; John and Karen Tate |
| [...]Rov and Kathy and Kim Knight. Kathy attended the first Lnnoy AND CHARLoTTE Cour,rnn |
| [...]es in the Roy area. In 1945 he joined the and in July of 1985 he retired. Navy and spent all his time on Okinawa as a SeaBee. Elsie worked for Woolworths for 15 years and retired After his discharge in May of lg46 he and Elsie went in February of 1980. Since then[...]ked part back on the ranch for several years. He and Ernest time at the Bon Ton in Lewistow[...]Richard born July 4th, 1947; Robert born Febru- and from 1959 to 1965 he was custodian at the Roy ary 14, 1950 and Susan born August 12, 1952. Clyde schools.[...]lives in Lewistown, Dick in Washington, D.C., and In June of 1965 the family moved to Lewistown Robert and Susan both live in Colstrip. Clyde and where he worked at the Husky Truck Stop for 10 years. Richard are both RHS graduates; Robert and Susan He then worked for the Fergus Co. Sheriffs[...]Joseph C" Darrah, his wife Sophronia (Ktiegl), and their children, George C., Clarence Evert and Helena Alma, came from Iowa and arrived in Roy in February of 1916. They moved to[...]Joseph and Sophronia Iiving when Helena met and married Anton Rindal. In[...]Frank Dengel place (presently owned by Jim Rife) and then to the Mitten place about 1936. The Darrahs had a large flock of turkeys and won many blue ribbons for them at the Lewistown f[...]with the intentions of enlarging his business and to enlarge an extensive program of dairy-[...]rahs are figuring on raising December of 1952 and George in March of 1974. All are one thousand[...]...Birds have been shipped to Texas, Helena and Antoinette both live in Lewistown. Okiahoma and in fact nearly every state in the union as[...]ship- with them, along with their furniture and other belong- ping out many turkey eggs at a d[...]her havi.ng died several years before, Antoinette and her brother, Henry, were adopted by Charlie and Matilda Edwards. Antoinette was 13 at that time.[...]Lorry, Bobby and graduation at the time she met and married George C.[...]George and George's parents where they raised large f[...] |
| [...]311 and they got together to butcher the turkeys for market Landru. Teachers were Miss Rogers, Mrs. Smith and Jeurs AND KATrE Sroet,rcx Doepus |
| [...]Ar,ors AND ToNY Domzal Alois Dolezal was originally from Czechoslovakia. He and his son, Tony, came to Roy from Timkin, Kan- sas[...]Alois was a brother to Rose Horachek, Emma Washek and Frances Yecha. Father and son did not get along real well, as neigh- bors remember. Alois died in May of 1931 and is buried in the Roy Cemetery. Tony was in his fi[...]informa.tion giuen by Si Dotson and Ida VodaII Simon Launtz and Ida May Dotson came to Montana 1970[...]on he William Dundom Sr. was bo[...]n. Their children were: Elsy, Katie, Ira, Willie, and a |
| [...]ntains before there were any roads. The sons, Ira and Willie and a son-in-law Charlie Pintler, brought the livestock, while the girls, Fanny and Mary rode along on horseback. The Dundoms bough[...]ng Creek, near Lewistown where they raised horses and cattle. When Mr. Dundom sold his ranch, he was[...]his time. Since the country was being homesteaded and divided into farms, it meant the end of the open range, and it rvas time to quit. He became a stockholder i[...]. Montana. Katie Dundom died in \ovember of 1920 and William Dundom Sr. died in January of 1925. They[...]Mrs. BiIl Dundom and daughter, Marg Sherman, Bill Fred W. Sherman wa[...]lived in Chicago where they had a tho and Fred Sherman, Tom Sherman in the back ond teaming[...]d left Ellen Gordner. home as a lad and enlisted in the U.S. Navy after the Civil War. In 1883 he married Elsy Dundom and the young couple tried to build their home in a l[...]tern Washington. A frame Bill, Ottie and Winnie. Katie died in Coeur D'Alene, house was buiit and fruit trees were planted. William F. Idah[...]ere he 1886; Mary Jane '*'as born January 6, 1888 and Henry married Mary Vandorn in about 1[...]children. Ira died of cancer about 1918 and his wife In 1891, the Sherman family packed up and had their Mary, died about 1948. belongings freighted to Montana and followed the Willie Dundom married Pearl Davies in 1904 and Dundom family. They first iived near Great Falls[...]River Crossing when Samuel Tekumseh and other respiratory complications. The children of[...]oved to Gilt Edge. Fred Sher- Willie and Pearl Dundom were: Edna, William Harry, man haule[...]ssing Nora, Dorothy, Lucille, James and Ellen. Harry and site,.opened a coal mine, took up a homestead and cul- James were prominent horsemen. Bot[...]Roy tivated a garden. The family lived in a log and frame area. Harry married Pearl Beal.[...]of Pearl married Sam Sherman soon after and they had town. They had a barn with horses, milk[...]en more children. (See Sam T. Sherman) The Sher- and turkeys and glew as much of their own food as m[...]Fannie Dundom married William Barneyrin 1892 and coal and fresh vegetables to miners, a fair living was[...]en. enjoyed. Henry James died in the fail of 1895 and Rose Mary Dundom married John Clark i[...]They built a ranch near Moore, Montana and had two uary 31, 1898. In the *'inter of 1900, Ja[...]ildren. Their daughter, Ellen married August Ihde and died two weeks later. He was buried nearby and the and moved to Cat Creek, Montana and built a ranch grave was marked. John was born February 20, 1902 there. and Tommy was born December 25,1904. Mary Jane Sherman, the oldest of Fred W. and Elsy, Fred W. Jr. left home in 1906 to seek hi[...]rried Robert Rumsey in 1908. They had four child- and fortune.[...]in 1916. Mary remarried to Marvin Young and one F., age 22 years, took over the responsibilit[...]ane, Washington. Their children were: and they had three children. Bertha died Dec. 18, 1957 |
| [...]Htsronv On NonrseesrEnN Fencus CouNrv and Fred W. died Sept. 6, 1965. 1924. They have two surviving children, Luella and |
| [...]c1i a section of land and carry my son and wait for a ride to Curn AND LILY Enarnv AND GRANT EuNNY |
| [...]HrsloHr Or NonrHrasrERx FsRcus CouNTy "Ciiff and i lived in the wagon, Grandma musr have[...]They always enjoyed hunting and fishing, a favorite |
| [...]r the next few months he worked on con- struction and then he entered the U.S. Arml' for a two- -"-ear stint. \Vhile in the service the couple lived at Tacoma and at Seattle, Washington. Their first child, Bruce,[...]at Ft. Larvton. They moved back to Roy in 1957 and lived in Roy from 1957 until 1969, when they boug[...]The Emerys on the occasion of Cliff and Lily's 50th Cliff and Maude Clark just south of Roy.[...]s were born in Lewistown; Grant, CLiff and Lily. Back row, Ieft to right: Larry, Anita in September of 1957, Patti in March of 1959 and Wanda and Floyd. Kim in September of 1962. Floyd worked shearing sheep and in construction for a couple of years before becoming employed by the Fed- eral Fish and Wildlife on the CMR as a maintenance man, a job h[...]and Cliff. cleaning business. He has two sens, Grant and Greg. Anita is married to Dave Peters. Dave is[...]nt in Roy. They have three children: Holly, Misty and Nathan. Patti married Carson Rife. They now res[...]any. They also have three children: Nicolas, Kale and Chelsi. Kim is employed at Big Sky Data Systems in Billings and is married to Darrin Miller. Larry Emery lives at Hobson and continues in the sheep shearing business. During[...]aring crew hord at work. Both of his sons, Randal and Charles, graduated from RHS. Randy'now lives in Sparks, Nevada and Charles 1981 after several years a[...]erving a three ika, graduated from RHS and her other daughter, year stint in the Marines[...]Dyma, lives in Portland, Oregon. Monika and her son, Wanda (Kolstad) returned to Roy in Nov[...]n. FNNO AND NETTIE FADRHONC |
| [...]RN FeRcus CouNTy Fred was one of those to follow and by 1906 he also was Hanvev AND MYRTLE FocLE |
| [...]g on the fences along the road. Dad, Herb and Wilbert Zahn and my uncle Chet Larsen played together for a num[...]t betrveen them. Sometimes it was pass the hat and they got paid that way. Everyone always had a good time and looked forward to the next Saturday because th[...]Katherine, Verge. Front row: Haruey, Elaine and of wood and coal in the winter to keep them all[...]ute from his grand- back to the school at night and check the stove father (he also had the route south of Roy) and carried and add more coal and then go back early in the the mail[...]wton in the late 50's. times that wasn't enough and we would have From there they[...]ll classes up by the stove. Sometimes the paste and live. They had three children: Gary, Sheila and Audie. the ink bottles would freeze."[...]U.S. Air Corps and they settled in Billings where he Upon their re[...]t Co. for many years. the Divine place from Frank and Eva Spoon, east of George and Vivian had three children; Lyle "Skip", Roy and farmed until they retired and moved to Lewis- Kim and Christine. Vivian passed away several years town.[...]ago and George has since remarried. Harvey passed away[...]Elaine married Lee Drennen in August of 1965 and Katherine married Bill Marsh in April 1946, in[...]wedding held in the Sidney, Danell and Trinity. Fni,rx AND CLEvn GarNr Felix Gaine had the Past Time Pool[...]Gaine, son of Feiix, attended school in Roy |
| [...]married Marion J. Knouse, daughter of Frank and place, southwest of Roy, which is now owned by Delores Jessie Knouse (of Roy and Winifred) on October 20, Puckett.[...]1936. They had 2 sons: George Franklin Jr. and Frank and Eva had 3 sons: George, born August 1, Timothy Allen. George died July 26, 1963. His wife and 1914 in Roy; Walter, born March 29, 1918 in Lewistown sons all reside in Butte. and Jim, born January 14, 1920 in Fergus.[...]6, married Josephine Miller on Besides farming and ranching Frank was very active April 20, 194[...]aying crews Sandra, Brenda, Jack, Randal and Ronald. Walter now and was always ready to lend a helping hand with any[...]es in Billings; Josephine in Texas. kind of work, and was especially handy with machinery. Jim, c[...]6, 1963 at age77;Eva two children, Danny and Carol. They live in Roundup. passed away on Janua[...]heir sons served in WWII. Boeing and traveled all over the western U.S. working Geor[...]sile projects. Coyne Electrical School in Chicago and was shop[...]S.W. (Severin) came from North Dakota in 1915 and members. He worked as a clerk and was manager for bought a relinquishment.[...]Roy. Anna came in 1916, also from North Dakota, and They left in1927 and moved to Buffalo. They had one bought a relinquis[...]summers at Flathead Lake: winters were spent in and in the Lutheran Church of which they were[...]rn also in Agra. They moved to Montana in 1914 and homesteaded at the above location, six miles east[...]the gar- age from Emery L. Arney. In L922, Lee and family moved to Lewistown where H. Lee and Moe Halbert-24 Nouember 1953. Golden their younge[...]Mae passed away August29,1957 at Tacoma. Lee con- and telephone service (the only one in town) in their[...]hter, Fern, 1972 at the age of 62.Lee, Mae and Alfred are interred married E. Laurel Dotson, ano[...]om Roy High School Funk, Neihart, Montana and Jean M. Bednash. Oak class of 1942.[...] |
| [...]he nephew' of Mrs. Jane (Thurlo) Mc- Cain. George and Emma came to Roy in 1927 to close the estate of M[...]ge to carry the mail on the Wiider route the fall and winter of 1927 -28. George had a ne\r' Durant car[...]roads were dry, however many times it took a team and wagon or sled and sometimes George used a saddle horse and pack horse. A news excerpt dated 30 March 1929 re[...]months, left Roy Monday morning . with a team and bob-sled, expecting to make the round George Hamilton, with his horses, Tim and Cody, at trip Tuesday. Instead, he came in on[...]lder in the other horse as the chinook Monday and Tuesday took the winter of 1928-29. off[...]ledding! The Friday trip he took the the team and spring wagon. By Monday he hopes to be able to use the car. He ran the Kalal Meat Market in Roy and he and They went to Sprague, Washingto[...]Roy. They were a popular couple and had many friends. Heurr.roN AND MosEMAN[...]iola Moseman was born at Hamilton did road and dirt work for the state, county and Mil- |
| [...]n 1943 where Nels worked in a cabinet shop and later owned a smail grocery store. He passed away in 1968 and Emma in 1973. Pnosn AND IDA HeNson Peder Hanson, who became one of Fergus County's best known and popular merchants and stockmen, came to the United States as a young man and worked for several years at his trade as a carp[...]d as farming was not particularly to his liking and went into the merchandising business at Ryder and later at Benedict.[...]cs the f amily enjoyed. The man in the Peder and Ida Olsen were married on October 31,[...]is 1906 at Ryder. She was the daughter of J.S. and Bertina second from the right in the dr[...]s Nels wife, Emma. In 191 4 they came to Roy and purchased the interests of J.E. Cox in the Roy[...]e recession that followed WWI. As a merchant and business man, he encouraged and[...]promoted development of diversified agriculture and[...]leader the post office now stands. and was very interested in politics. Ida also worked in the store and entertained often. sometimes as many as 30 or more, and still had time and energy to raise six children. The Hansons move[...]1908. She attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota and Central College in Ellensburg, Washington. She has life teach- ing certificates in Montana and Washington and worked in Child Welfare in Washington" She has be[...]ter which she taught Janet Bernice, and Helen. Taken in 1988. in Montana for nine years;[...]They ran a grocery store at Polson for five years and later they moved to South Dakota where she taught for sixteen years at Water- town and he had the Stoudt Insurance Agency which i[...] |
| [...]where he practices law. Norman and his wife, Con-[...]stance, raised three children: David, Margarer and[...]. During WWiI he rvas a Major in the Corps of and Helen Hanson.[...]Engineers. After the war he iived and worked in Mis- Normal State Coilege. She taught f[...]was Black Butte School. She married Bjorn Garnaas and a stock and commodity broker and in reai estate. He is they moved to Omaha, Nebraska. She taught in Omaha now retired. Harold and his wife, Ethyl, raised three for 17 years. The G[...]n Missoula on January The trvins, Norman Edison and Norma Eleanor, were 29, 1935. His[...]he passed away the Air Force in the Mediterranean and European in 1959.[...]29,1884 in Austria. When he was two years old, he and his fos- ter parents moved to Prague, Czechoslova[...]Czechoslovakia he learned the brick laying trade and the art of carpentry. He also acquired his musica[...]910. He stayed about a year with two haif-sisters and a half- brother, who taught him to speak English.[...]year before buy- ing two horses which enabled him and Fred Fadrhonc to move on to Lewistown, Montana.[...]Hartman, OIga lPospisil) Hartman, and Libbies[...]daughter, Dorothl' IIle (Blackhall) and her son Bob llle. while working out. He first wor[...]e sight of sheep, he decided to run a and other merchandise to supolv the homesteade[...] |
| [...]se ies. He rvould visit his friends and would starr l.rome *'as built on the homeslead. late. At night, and not until night, did we expect him On August 6[...]children were born while thev lived and the clanking of the harness. He was alwal's happy[...]o. and we could hear him singing; his voice carrying In[...]ooks. bands in Brooks and Danvers. He also played for We all rvorked hard as a family. I remember clearly weddings and birthday parties. as a child when my father would leave very early in the In 1958 he retired and moved to Lewistorvn. My morning for Lewistown. He[...]stead at wagon to haul home our supplies, lumber, and grocer- Roy is owned by Gene Horyn[...]our.rns Glenn Holmes was a telegraph operator and station Nebraska; he died April 2,[...]dicovered they would be murdered. |
| [...]325 The-r' left the area in 1954 and *'orked on various |
| [...]umber, which Joe Swoboda had brought from Hilger, and could proceed to build a home. On New Year's Day,[...]ter was tough; food scarce. John took a shot- gun and with son, James, they went to hunt food. Jack- rabbits were plentiful, so John killed rabbits, and James carried them. When they got home, it was to[...]hey threw them on the roofof the homestead shanty and they froze solid. When food was needed, one was brought in to thaw and skin, and then the meat was ready to cook. For frrewood t[...]n took them down to keep the stove going for food and Jirn and Marcy Horyna on the occasion of their 50th warmth[...]. The Horynas had to go to Hilger for groceries and supplies, before there was a Roy. In 1914 the H[...]d by Mrs. Vondracek. John passed away in 1950 and Katie in 1960. Both are buried in Lewistown. Jim, Ray and Annie still live on the homestead. Jim married[...]in homestead days. They raised two sons, Howard and Gene. Jim and Marcella have been active membrs of the ZCBJ Lodg[...]"semi" retired and he and his wife, Sherrie, live on the Ray and Annie never married. Ray was in the Army old Jim and Ann Pleskac place which they now own. in WWII, se[...]Sherrie Morrison was teaching in Roy when she and active in the community; in the Legion, as an ele[...]in the Grass Range judge, Democratic committeeman and wherever eise he school system. can lend[...]Howard, his wife Millie, and their daughter, Patricia, Gene now operates the[...]by Marcella Horyna Joe and Mary Hrouda, Roy homesteaders, were For transportation Mrs. Hrouda bought a horse and |
| [...]nson vi'as born in Wellington, Kansas to Isabelle and George Johnson, one of four boys and two girls. The Johnsons farmed in Kansas and in 1914 the family moved to ldaho Falls, Idaho. Archie and his brother, Walter, came to the Roy area about 1915 and homesteaded in the Dory area (approximately 20 mi[...]Sec. 22. After several years, they moved to Roy and opened a pool hall and set up a barber chair, since both were barbers. In 1921 they closed the pool hall and Walter left the area. Archie then movgd to another building and continued with his barber shop until his death in[...]The Johnson Brothers Archie and Walter 1920's. He married Mary Komarek in 1932 and to this union were born two children. Lillian Marie and Lawrence bartered for haircuts with chickens and vegetabies. Sidney.[...]A.A. AND JANE JoHNsoN A.A. Johnson was born in Indiana o[...]sociated in Superior, Wisconsin, where he grew up and received in business with Allison[...], in Johnson Lumber, Real Estate and Insurance company" 1909 where he homesteaded. The[...], Robert L., Richard W., Eunice (Hubbard), Joyce, and another daughter who was listed as having pr"eced[...]hnson On a side street near the Johnson Lumber and Had- |
| [...]{ )R't't{E-{s'rnnl Ft:Ht;t's Cr)t'N'lY Nloore and operated the }loore Hard*'are. \\'illiam B. and Stella moved tcr Glendive in 1952. |
| [...]n ieaves; ert_v. Antonette rvould dig small lrees and other planLs but she did not like butter[...]en provided her u'ith eggs. communitlz and once hoped to run a tree nursery in[...]for life. Her belief in torvn. She planted trees and shrubs of all kinds. When dreams was s[...]ater was hauled by bucket from polkas, and she loved flowers. She kept a beautiful a large w[...]e had built. Unfortunately, the yard, and as soon as spring arrived, so did Antonette project was just too large and there was too little water from wherever[...]Wass. After the Antonette fell asleep and never arvakened (September couple bought Antonett[...]rdening. terf s meat market. This was about 1922, and she lived in the back of the store. She moved ren[...]g Jack Kalal worked for the railroad and was in Mon- operations. Antonette spent much time[...]e homesteaded in 1914 north herself in California and Florida, especially enjoying of Roy. ([...]ing herbs, Lilly, John, Alice, Ray and Don, who were all born and which hung in her attic to dry. As she grew older[...]ith her grandmother, put a name tag on Antonette, and off she would go to Antonette, and attended school in Roy for a year or two. Florida[...]me too difficult, Jack was a tall man and was exceptionally artistic. the tag gave Sylvia's[...]ied as a young marr, in Chicago. cluded her store and part of its connecting house. The Edward G. and Alby Antonette Wass remained in home now occupied by Mike and Kathy (Kalal) Shirey Roy. is on th[...]Dorsey who had a homestead near Valentine and also owndd. She was an astute businesswoman and very taught school. They had two children;Ruth and Robert. proud. Once someone belittled her broken[...]aham recalls "Grandma" took her, and went in to warn his men. They got out and sur- along with Carley's little dog, for wild rid[...]Antonette loved Marie is still living and is 97 years old. Ruth lives in to drive on two wh[...]14. Babe married Lynn Van Zandt in old wood stove and place a heavy iron kettle near the 19[...]ard. Antonette also made home brew, and became an accountant. and once asked her brother to send an herb from Czech[...]just right. Skillei Erreasers, as well as pillows and dusters, were made from goose feathers. Ed[...] |
| [...]nto the Missouri River in Petroleum County. Ed and his mother, Antonette, first came here in[...]r and Carley interests he had, before coming back to ho[...]93. She died sitting in her rocking chair. Ed, and his brother Dan, who homesteaded north of Roy across the Missouri River, left their homesteads and went to World War I together. They served nearly[...]. During this time, Ed was permanently dis- abled and therefore was unable to return to his home- stead[...]years. Ed married Gladys Irish in 1922. Gladys and her father, P.J. Irish, and her brothers had homesteads in the Valentine and Dovetail area, and that is where Ed met Gladys.[...]tine, later operating his own meat market in Roy, and doing his own buying and butchering, which was all field butchered at that[...]and Joan Kalal on the band- routes from Roy to Wilder[...]dountown - Ror-. formerly Wass Merc., and also managed the Liquor Store. During the bad years, he was able to purchase the old John Kaaro ranch and later became partners with Gladys' father, P.J. I[...]uck out above it. "We lost 60 pigs March 26, L97l and Gladys is living in a nursing home which[...]All our chickens and one dog drowned too. Two years Ed and Gladys had three chiidren: Joan, Perry Ed and Iater during the June raise, the water was, again, so Dick. Joan married Earl Jakes and they had two boys, high that only the roof of the house stuck out. I said, David and Doug. Joan lives in Moore, Montana as cioes "That's it. I don't want to live here any more." Doug and David lives in Stevensville, Montana.[...]ning chore. Everything is full of luck at farming and livestock raising along the river, on silt.[...]e, they the vehicles had to be torn apart and motors cleaned." flooded out three times, trvice with an above normal Perry and Marge had rescued a lot of things, but June 'raise' of the Missouri River and once because of couidn't work fast[...] |
| [...]1949. Previous In 1969 they moved back to Roy and took over opera- to their marriage, Dick was in the Marines and Army, tion of Jess's Corner Service and built up a thriving then shortly afte[...]an Corner Cafe. broke out and Dick rvent into the Navy. After the Perry and Marge purchased ihe old Kellner place[...]60, they bought where they are engaged in farming and ranching in a bar in Zortman, Montana and within a couple of addition to running the cafe.[...]years added a cafe (Miners CIub and Wapiti Hay Cafe). Perry and Marge had eight children. Linda (Ras-[...]mobile mussen) has three children; Margie, Heidi and Joe. home court, and a museum. Dick and Lucy sold their Heidi is a 1988 RHS graduate. Laurie (Kibbee-Bowser) bar and cafe in 1983 and moved to Lewistown. also has three children; Lisa, Shelly and Kim, who all Dick and Lucy had five children: Dicky, the oldest, attended school in Roy for awhile. Linda and Laurie died at the age of nine; Debby, the oldest daughter and both live in Lewistown.[...]ried to Mike Shirey. They iive in Roy and they live in Austin, Texas. John and his wife, where he manages the Legion Bar. Kathy'[...]Candl' (McGuire), own the Zortman Garage and Motel. are: Paul (Kalal), Crystal (Martin), Boone, James and Cindl' and her husband, Allen Berg, have the Ford Katie Shir[...]dealership and garage in Livingston, MT. They have Jackie, the[...]one daughter. Joanne married i\{ike McGuire and they vice Station.[...]in the Air Their sons, Perry M., Perry (Pepe) and Keith (Kathy's Force. FnaNx AND JESSTn Klrousr[...]the mines. Frank drove freight to Kendall. Frank |
| [...]e children by a previous marriage, Victor, Perry and Edith Arnaud. Victor helped drive the stage and they continued to do so until the railroad came[...]eat Falls, Montana. Edith married Fred Henningsen and moved to Hoosac, Montana. Penl joined the narn'. All have passed away now. The folks homesteaded one and a half miles east of Roy. Two daughters were born to them there; Helen, now Mrs. Leonard Dunn, and Alice, now Mrs. Henry The La[...]she was quite small The folks operated a dairy and sold milk in Roy dur- yet) and Helen. ing the years between 1915 and 1920. The town itself had gro*'n rapidly, so the[...]us. Dad moved the bunkhouse in from the ranch and made it into a cream station. He bought cream for[...]tion, taken in 1927. he decided to build a garage and filling station on the corner and sold gasoline for the Arro Oil and Refining Co. out of Lewistown. He soid this at a later date and built another station across the street. This ti[...]the building where I went to High School burned and so with it all of our school Helen and Leonard records were iost. Mrs. R.N. Jensen was m[...]and A.A. Johnson. fathers got together and decided a high school was again needed. My father[...]be one of them. Each family pledged so much money and two teachers rvere hired. The following year they were able to get assistance and so Roy once again had an accredited The church still stands that served my sister and me high school. N{r. Petersen \4'as the first pri[...]Some names that I recall were the Goves and Scotts. map, so to speak, with a new school and gymnasium. Charles Scott married Kathryn Gove and lived in I had the honor, also, of having my fathers name on Lervisto*'n. Mr. and lvlrs. Forseman were a couple I my diploma. He si[...]Sunday schooi activities, and she was a beautiful seam" |
| [...]Later in the grade school, I had Mrs. McCain and Mr.[...]912 in Roy, Montana so I have seen and then started. I took one i'ear of high school; my[...]id not finish rapidly after more settlers came in and took up home- high sctrool as I was m[...], around 1910 or so, hunting farming, and helping my father. Later we moved to the wolves,[...]thwest. farmer, then went into the dairy business and then had I lost my mother when I was quite young, and it was a creamery and a service station. He was aiways a very[...]Leonard and I have a wonderful son and family who When I was ready for school, at age[...]n-) Eurr. AND DoRorHY FosrEn LaNne |
| [...]turnips. "They were so crisp and sweet." Wild "Once when we lived at Arm[...]hall at too she described as crisp and sweet. There was a Fergus. It was moved t[...]that was were two rooms. One side was Mom and Dad's and especially good. us girls and the kitchen, and the other side was Rose could on[...]erb was in Raiph herded sheep, mostly, and worked on oil bloom, the blossoms[...]remembers aiso picked in the fall and stored in sacks. The him as being short and really dark. Isabelle jani- roots, "big roots" were also used. tored at the school and took in *'ashing. For She rem[...]that her Aunt Caroline used to make. Her and upon his death he willed his house and some uncle would make a hole in t[...]Roy' Then Jim covered baking pan and cover it all with dirt and and Rose were sent to an Indian School at[...]ype of pudding called "son-of-a- playing, and was sent to a sanitorium in Pheonix,[...]was made it hung in a Arizona. Rose, Joe and "Aggie" also attended sack. Wh[...]ssion at Hays. the sack and slice it. She doesn't remember how When[...]scared all the way to Roy on that narrow road and rants, gooseberries, etc. She assum[...]a horse trader. made moonshine and "I was in "My grandmother, Angeline Th[...]with him when I was young. He was such a and my brother Frank were staying at Armells' I[...]our radio. I wasn't feeling very good and he and 90's and still had all her teeth, but they were worn[...]deceased. the tanning of hides and the making of thread out "We had[...]the of sinew. "She put salt on the inside and rolled the last memories that Rose has[...]'d be rankl Carrier is of her sitting and smoking her pipe, We'd unroll them and sit outside and with funny listening to the music[...]il 3, 1966. She was gol each a flat stone and made it into a type of born March[...]few chokecherries ter of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Thomas. Both are buried and mash them, pits and all, and then make pat- at Calvary Cemetery in Lewistown as are most of ties out of them and put them on a canvas to dry' the ot[...]w many times they got stung' and Frank had also preceded his parents in death.[...]he grandmother He had left Roy and was herding sheep in the would put a little grease in a pan and with a little Dupuyer area when he was struck and killed by flour crumble up the patties into the pan. "And Iishfnins Oh m1-th[...] |
| [...]Rtrt Joe. Jim. Steve and Sarah all remained and truck. In later years, Bell[...]drorvning. Alley resides in Great Falls and Jim is |
| [...]stand outside in the Fil*' evening and hear people talking downtou'n, dogs bark- ing, ki[...]e laughing. I guess the hill cap- tured the sound and bounced it back. It alwavs seemed so peaceful the[...]n water tank for the railroad. It was pretty tall and made of wood. Water always dripped out of it. In[...]n Next is Wilbert Zahn, then Ernest Zahn and "Little" 1957 and we have two children, Diane and Wes. We George Richards. "Little" George gained a reputation were divorced in 1975 and I married Eivin Pickard in as a rop[...]nt much time in hospitals Wheel Blazers and helped to organize and participate in receiving treatments and undergoing surgery. wheelch[...]ne such marathon he traveled 390 miles in 4 days! and is manager of the customer's service department in He is associated with Special Olympics and does Portland, Oregon.[...]dent of the Rollin Squares Dance CIub and he and Iive at Troutdale, Oregon with her six year old g:andson, Earlene do exhibition dancing and travel to Washing- Robert Hart. ton and Canada.[...]t Londo's poolhall operated in the 1930's and Londos left Roy and Mrs. Lena (Dee) Potterf bought the occupied Effre[...]oyed by fire. Lswrs S. MaorsoN AND DaucHrpn ANNe MaorsoN At,reoucH[...]915 there were 55 acres in oats and |
| [...]cr eNl Dor.,,li.- N1,rrr Clarance LeRoy Mann and Dolores Fink Mann I\'lar1 F[...]tl crrul;lg r,f r,eirrs, then on ttr (t!:lahoma and finally in 1932.[...]19Sit Mary Clarice was a granddaughter of Richard and Clrrrono AND OPAL M.rnsn |
| [...]f the Ro1' lVomrn'-. Club fr-rr man)'years and near the schoul. thel' u ere both ver5' active members and leaders of the Their second sun. Robert W., was[...]Lervistow'n paper. In 1937 the5. moved to Roy, and Cliff worked ft.rr \\'PA In i9il thel' mt'ved to Le*'istorvn. Cliff passed away and the SCS and later helped build the Ro5'sehool after on August 23, i977 and is buried in Roy. the fire in 1912. He then rvent[...]ston to be near her daughter. Adeiine, and family. She retirement in 196-{.[...]ut rvith cancer. She is buried beside her husband and cember i939. Merle became quite ill with a throat infection son. of some sort in April of 19-11 and passed awal'. His Adeline marri[...]Irene married Webb Stephens on December 19, 1940. and he rvas buried in the Ro5'cemetery.[...]Bob Opal was ver)' active in community affairs and was married Diann Nealy in Octob[...]the tent that they mother L{aude, and father,lf illiam L. Front row: Glenn, liued in, i[...]their log house on the Howard, Wilma and Lyle. h.omestead. Frc-tm L. to R. are Leah, Lyl[...]1946. Maude Marsh became a postal Ottawa, Kansas and filed on a homestead claim in clerf: in 191S and continued in that position until 1947. Fergus Cou[...]estead. went back ti Kansas to pack up his family and belong- Five of these six children have been teachers. Lyie was ings and headed back to Montana by train. His wife, in the creamerl' business for 20 years and then became Maude" and their fir"e chiidren, Wilma, Leah, Vernon,[...]ster of Valier, Montana. All have fond memo- Lyle and bab5' Glenn. traveled in one train while Will ries of their friends and neighbors during those early came on the "Immrgra[...]ch hauled animals years in Roy. and household belongings. They lived in a tent part of William L. and Maude lr'larsh celebrated their 50th that year (1[...]a to be closer to some of tough to makc it liting and William L. found a summer their flimill- \\:illiam, tr'laude and Wilma are all now job teaching scho,rl in[...] |
| [...]. nNu Henoln Menrtu Feutl-tns George Martin Jr. and Harold Martin, brothers (and After graduation he left the area. In 1980 he and his sons of George Martin Sr.), married Helen Larsen and wife, Mary, and their children moved to Roy for a year Amy Larsen, sisters. The Larsen girls were the daugh- and he was employed as the school custodian during ters of Chris and Sena Larsen, early homesteaders. The t[...], stayed in the area for ton. He is a CPA and has a famiiy of six children' many years and raised their families here.[...]and Lillian Pospisil. They live at Belgrade and have 3 Groncs AND HELEN[...]works on oil rigs throughout the western George and Helen were married in i931. They had a[...]mily of five children;Leaon H., Hazel, Ben, Doris and Clyde and Carolyn, the twins, were born on Sep- Marie.[...]rr lr,J end is now retired. He and his family now was born in November of 1934 and Ben on March 4, iive in Lancaster, California. Carol (Heppner) and her 1939, both in Lewistown. Doris was born in Gr[...]ana. in June of 1945 while the family lived there and George David was born in April of 1948 and married Carol worked at the smelter. Marie was bo[...]own in \Yright, the daughter of Harry and Ruth (Kauth) October of 1946.[...]for the government during the early and they have one daughter. 1940's seeding crested wh[...]an was born on April 18, 1950. He is retired area and then he was employed by Walter Braiser for from the army and lives in Florida. He is married and many years. has two children. They left Roy and moved to Stanford and after Jack resides in Lewistorvn and is the father of three several more moves they fi[...]ege. Earl was born November of 1953 and also lives in George passed away October 6, 198[...]daughter of Willie and Lillian Pospisil, and works for[...]have three children. Henolo AND AMY[...]orn in February of 1957. His wife is the Harold and Amy wele married on October 26, 1940, in[...]ra Elevator in Lewistown. worked for the railroad and in 1972 they moved to Robert was born in August of 1958 and is presently Lewistown, but during most of their[...]living in Scotland with his wife, Charlotte, and their resided in Roy and Harold was employed by Jim Bowser[...] |
| [...]23, 1889 in Lewis- town, Montana. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mayberry, who iived at that time on the[...]n attended school. He ,,r'as an early-day cou'boy and well ac' quainted on the Phillips Couttty ranges[...]estern movie pro- duction was made in the Zortman and Coburn Buttes area. Silent pictures, of course. John had a horse shot out from under him in one scene, and rescued a da#,sel[...]in distress when the coach overturned in a creek and she came up under the wheel with her head through[...]use of animals. Mayberry had a good reputation and worked on took it over and ran it for the next eleven years. ranches through[...]g Ranch at the mouth of Rock Creek. and replaced veteran Walter Haney. He purchased sev-[...]big ranch house of logs eral town lots and bought the Byford school house and which were pegged together. They required drillin[...]moved it to Roy, north of Joe Murphy's garage, and holes by hand through the thick logs, and driving pegs made his home[...]ranch enterprise. His brand was a four hanging 27 and roads were choked with deep snow. John[...]cross. traveled many tough miles by horse, stage and train to John died of a self-inflic[...]brothers, Tom in California and Art of Cody, Wyoming; John ranched on the sout[...]earn ZA horses. E. Slade of Billings and Mabel Mayberry in California" John operated a fer[...]om R.S. Barbee. when he was on the river and was a well-known cowboy He and Mike Machler operated it until 1947; then[...]Mayberry was buried at the Lewistown City year, and Jack Baucke for one year. John and Mike Cemetery.[...]CseRt-rs aNo KarB McAnrv Charles McArty and Katherine "Kate" Kliegel were |
| [...]AlusoN AND WINIFRED McCAIN Allison Lynn McCain was born in June of 1880 in Nodarvay, Iowa, the son of Anson Jay and Louisiana (Aunt Louie) Dougherty McCain. He came to Roy in 1914 rvith his wife, Winifred Nichols. His mother and youngest brother, Roscoe, also came at the same t[...]siana died in 1920, a victim of the flu epidemic, and was buried in Rapid City, South Dakota" Allison[...]William Johnson in lumber, hardware, real estate and insurance businesses. Winifred became a Fergus Co[...]al work that'she In the office of McCoin and Johnson's second store. On did. They built and lived in the house now occupied by the lef[...]him: Thurlow of Roy, Fred of Rapid City and another Allison McCain was the only casualty of[...]Tsuni,ow AND JANE M"CanI by Helen Fritzgerald and Hazel Fawcett In the spring of 1916, Thurlow McCain and his young Most of the furnishings for[...]ood music. We had no became a well-known stockman and merchant during running water; it[...]The lighting was kerosene or gas lanterns. ranch, and in partnership with his brother, Allison, they[...]ack, but in owned the McCain & McCain Lumber yard and had an rvinter we had a chemical t[...]shing was done by hand; the stables; the Red Barn and Green Barn, all in Roy. big copper[...]ed cattle to South Dakota Sioux November 11, 1916 and twins, Helen and Hazel, born on Reservation for feeding[...]ll were born in Roy. coid and lack of feed. He lost a lot of cattle and The following story of the McCain family was written money in the drought and freeze. by Helen and Hazel. We owned a touring car and later bought a Ford These are just bits and pieces from our memories: Ir{odel T. J[...]in took getting bogged down in mud and Daddy had to out homestead papers on the lot[...]' There was a church between our house and the ing. Our neighbors on one side were Bill and Stella school where we had programs, especially at Christ- Johnson and their children. On the other side were mas when they handed out sacks with oranges and the Luchts. nuts and candy to the children. Fruit was a wond- On[...]McCain Mother had lived in Hawaii and knew that babies was a large house where Allison (Ally) and thrived on them, so every time[...]Lew'istown he brought back apples, oranges and with them; in a tent in the back yard. He was[...]I. peelings and cores to other kids. |
| [...]o Romundstads where they had a grove of trees and we picnicked and played games and shot off fireworks after dark. The sto[...]r street; across the street was the Blue Barn and the Marsh family's home. We saw Lindberg in h[...]ad from our house. Lindberg came to our house and needed water for his engine. Mother gave him[...]ivermore jumping the fence be- tween Johnsons and our home to get a gun. We saw parts of the trial in Lewistown and Allie's wife, Winifred, was a Deputy Sheriff[...]e Ted McCain and the cabin until we heard the thunder and felt the Et[...]ke from running hooves, then we dashed inside and watched the horses coming right at the cabin; they would split and go around either side and inio the corrals. They branded the the horses and cattle while we took offfor Pullman, colts and did whatever else you do probably Washington. They lived in our house and had our[...]for shipment or selling or geld' ing. Mother and Daddy both rode in the roundup live[...]and Emma Hamilton. brand was T Bar M. After Daddy[...]home in was given permission to use the brand and now we Roy of a heart attack on July 23,[...]Dakota. having twins when we were born and most doctors Jane and the three children moved to Washington. . were[...]German doctor She taught high school and was appointed Superin- from Lewistogvn was in[...]day we arrived. Daddy wanted a in 1937 and moved to Entiat, Washington where she girl and had the name all picked-Helen. Twenty[...]worked in the Census Bureau in Washington D.C. and and I have got to be the two ugliest men in[...]away in 1950 and is buried in Washington, D.C. We remember watching our father decorate his Both Hazel and Heien became teachers. Hazel taught saddle and boots. He used to entertain us by put- classes in Child Development and in Art at the Univer- ting his lariat out in[...]ho, developing the Child Development Pro' end and we were to run through before he pulled on gram (Early Childhood) at Northern Idaho College. it and caught us. It was very exciting and we She taught college classes until her[...]named from Calgary to handle all our affairs and seli off "Teacher of the Year" for W[...] |
| [...]I{. O., Seoa AND JosEPHTNE MTLLER[...]en years old. Dragging a sled loaded with bundles and with my kitty on top, in a gunny sack, with just her head sticking out, I followed Mother and Dad with their suitcases, over snowdrifts and along the snorvy street from the Depot. Roads wer[...]after weeks of cold winds that drove the heat out and made every door household rvater, Dad carried large pails of water from and window rattle. In May we moved to the "Vickery[...]farm on the east side of town. No washing House" and settled in to enjoy life in Roy.[...]washed on the washboard, Newton Orville Miller and Sada Helen Nichols both boiled in a large copper boiler, and hung on the line to homesteaded in the Stanford/M[...]frozen clothes that could in Great Falls in 1909 and lived in Denton, where I was stand al[...]Dad's born in 1913. After World War I the drought and the frrst fiozen Iong underwear. great depression took their home, crops and livestock, as I remember the excitem[...]usic, comedy farms. His new job as Vice President and Cashier of the skits and nervs from everywhere was very exciting, and First National Bank in Roy gave promise of a sala[...]he world much closer, withoutintruding on the job and a permanent home after years of insecurity. I[...]started in garden in the vacant lot by the house, and built a shed 1928. It was only a two-year high school, that continued for chickens and a cow. He enjoyed his job, involvement to add classes and students until 1930, when I was grad- in community life, and especially the wonderful people. uated with my good friends, Pearl Hanson and Ruby Mother was happy too, with her own home and yard for Strausburg. I remember our fun and hard work creating flowers and vegetables. She traveled a lot with Dad to our first high school annual, the Rattler, and putting on visit the farm families. our musicals and plays in Fergus and Valentine, as well I was sublimely happy. Dad[...]in Roy was funl mare for me from Joe LaFountain, and I loved riding After Dad was e[...]the bridge across the Missouri River, for better and the Chautauqua tent shows.[...]help all his danced around in an ethereal manner, and the town friends in the communi[...]th glowing lights from hard times, and over-extended credit. I cried when I left lighted[...]r college in Dillon, knowing we had to move a*'ay and with cat-tail torches and a bonfire to warm weiners and I rvould not return to live in Roy again. fingers and toes. And there were always the dances-at For a short time Mother and Dad lived in Winnett, The American Legion Hall, t[...]oved to Bozeman where he was in charge of the gus and Valentine. We certainly never lacked for good[...]in Bozeman in 1935. Dad moved to Lubbock, Texas and It wasn't all easy. There was no electricity or[...]iles for Firestone. We have for washing the porch and wooden sidewalk to the out- tu'o daughters, both living in California. My husband house, and for putting out a fire. For drinking and passed au'af in 1983. |
| [...]Purr-r-rp AND REGTNa MonraNc by Earl L. Hamilton and Betty Toomey Phillip John Montang and Regina Caine were mar- Arvbery in 193i, s[...]i896. They had 6 children: Anna Darrell and Jerry. (Hamilton) i696-1973; Phiilip "Ike" 1900-1[...]ighway Dept. for 30 years. Dorothy (Goettel) 1910 and Irene (Haley) 1912-1984. passed away in 1978 and was survived by a brother, They came to Roy from Anthon, Iowa and home- Clayton Armintrout of Yuma, Ariz[...]wo About 1915-f 6 they moved into Roy where Clyda and daughters, Virginia and Betty (Toomey) and they had Irene attended school" Montang became a[...]e daughter, Sharon (Boyes). Cook was owner of the and built roads in Fergus Co. Later they moved to Bil[...]re he worked in the sugar beet refinery. and Lola are buried in Superior. Phillip was born[...]St. Joseph School of Nursing in Lewistown and became was born August L9,I874in Jefferson. She d[...]a RN. She married Lester Heller in 1951 and resided in ber 13, 1962.[...]had 5 sons, 2 daughters and 3 stepdaughters. fke worked for his father on r[...]d Clarence Goettel in 1933. She lives in the 20's and 30's. Later he lived in Billings for several[...]Hanny AND IDA Movrn[...]884 in Spring City, Tennessee. He came to Montana and home- steaded at Roy in 1910. He resided in Roy u[...]The Moyer place Harry and Ida Bertha Gerry were married on March 4,[...]now the home Ontario, Canada; the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William of Floyd and Gerry.[...]work at the King Ranch at 7, 1900. He was raised and went to school in Burrton, Ross Fork,[...]'s death. sister, Ella Mclaughlin, lived and went to work for the A team of horses she was driving spooked and bolted Horseshoe Bar Ranch. For the[...]ing his for ranches throughout Montana and Wyoming and mother and seriously injuring an older sister and infant became a wheelturner for the rail[...]n by Wyoming. jumping into a box car and headed for parts unknown Returni[...]r, Joe home- with only a feu' cents in his pocket and the clothes on his steaded with his brother, Buddy, next to his sister and back. He never looked back or returned to his home town brother-in-1aw, Ella and Harry Mclaughlin. Joe later in Kansas.[...]became employed by Mr. Lewis, who owned and oper- He arrived in Laurel, Montana in the mid[...]y Garage. The garage was later bought by blizzard and u'as washed off the boxcar with a high Joe and he ran it for approximately 53 years. While in pr[...]her train to tional Harvester products and McCormick-Deering pro" |
| [...]for many years. In later years he also farmed and ranched in conjunction with the garage. Eva[...]22. She attended college in Monmouth, Oregon and Dillon, Montana. Eva taught school in several places in Mon- tana and Wyoming before coming to Roy. In 1926 she arrived in Roy to teach school and met and married Joe three months later on November 13[...]ive in the pTA, the Ladies Aid, the Women's Club and took an active part in the County Fair in Lewist[...]Joe and Eua T. booth won many awards, trophies and cash prizes over the years because of her dedica[...]ately 50 years she also served as a public Notary and a[...]Jim. the Roy area. To sum up the lives of Joe and Eva Murphy you would have to say they were very h[...]e style until of Jackson Hole. Wyoming and one son, James Murphy, they both died. Eva passed away on August 1, l'g79 and of Roy. Jeuns AND JoycE Munpsy |
| [...]NonrHEesrERx FERct.rs Cot:rrt Joyee Murphl' and her students at the Indian Butte Danny was a born cowboy, ,*'ith rodeoing and ranching Anthony Muschbacher and his w'ife, Anna, and their closed it and decided to work for awhile. He joined the |
| [...]omedale, u'here they nou'reside. Their children and grandchildren are grown and they have two great grandchildren.[...]. He worked there until the fall of 1940 when he and his close buddy, Jess Satterfield, decided to see the world and enlisted in the US Navy. Emil received his basic[...]Anthony and Anna Station. This was the beginning of a love f[...]hip took a direct hit, but (luckily) did not sink and was able to make itback to the West Coast for rep[...]Navy he retired. finished 5 years of college and became a Virginia, which sank to the bottom of th[...]untii retirment. His son, David, attended there and had yet, are still okay on board."[...]il saw action in the very thickest of the battles and Emil's wife, Amanda, passed away aft[...]until Emil retired when they sold their home and decided While on shore duty in San Diego he met and married to retire in Idaho. Amanda[...]ldren. They lived near Anthony and Mary for 9 years, then One son, David Charles, wa[...]in the Mira They made their home in San Diego and while on Mesa area, near their families where he and Bernice are shore duty there, Emil was able to at[...]1919. Thieves had entered the cellar of his home and known where Tony came from, or where he went, but[...]that the guilty parties must have been watch- He and Carl Baker were involved in an auto accident[...]ank coulee which was The third and last report is dated May 21, 1920. abo[...]up a County Attorney McConochie and his assistant, J.E. pitch to the top. The car stalled in going up the pitch; McKenna and Deputy Sheriff, Dan Corcoran came to the brakes failed and the car went back down the pitch Roy and arrested Tony on charges ofbootlegging. Tony and rolled over on top of the occupants. Tony crawled[...]ite mule' in his possession. He gave out, unhurt, and lifted the car off of Carl who was quite a cash bond of $500 and the arresting parties confis- badly injured.[...]238 Sec. 18 Mr. Neff was a native of Ohio and came to Montana it is one of a kind.[...]house in 1914, homesteaded at the above location and con- which he kept painted white[...]ed at his home, 15 August u"as a quiet individual and a good neighbor. He farmed 1937 at[...]four brothers in Ohio; Jess, with horses. Nellie and Dan, his team and Nellie's colt, Lewis, George and Frank. His body was forwarded to a John, m[...] |
| [...]information by Bilt Dauis and mortuary records Shorty was co-owner of Shorty and Andy's Saloon in Shorty left Roy for a time and then returned in the Roy. His partner was Andy Ch[...]d a second Ranch, for many years. He was a cowboy and hired man. time, to Ileene Erikson, on[...]in Stanford. He also ran the Armells post office and on November 19, He was always well dressed and looked much younger 1931 he was united in marriag[...]life was that of a bar- away. tender and card player. He knew Jack Ruby well (the[...]assassin, Oswaid);he son of Alma Holter and Andrew Negard. He died on had played cards with him in Chicago and at Las Vegas. March 29,L967 and is buried in Lewistown. Fner.rx AND LIBBIn NtcrolsoN[...]ckolson opened a filling station in Roy for Leonard F. Tronsdale and John E. Nylander were in has sold a ha[...]to Leonard |
| [...])ll. trt the trge of 15, 1900's from South Dakota and both homesteaded in the from Eiru (l[...],mundstad, on rhe Fergus Ranch. school at Kendall and Brooks from 1910 to 1914. Ine[...]to Santa Cruz, California in 1936 where he owned and Leonard died August 27. 1967 in Ea[...]implerr,ent agency until his retirement and a daughter. I\{rs. Robert Anderst.rn, sun'ived hi[...]Her brc,ther'. Glr.n Morton, and si.ster, Mrs. Fred Race,[...]H. eNo CeRoLrNr Or-sex Fl.rrrlv Sophus H. Olsen and Caroline (Clausen) Olsen, came to Ro5,' to homestead in 1910 or 1911. Three of their sons, William, Ed and Erick II, and their families, also homesteaded south of Ro-v. Their daughter, Sena, also came to Roy. Sophus and Caroline emigrated from Denmark to the U.S. in 1878 with four children: Erick I, Amelia, Nelsine and Ferdinand. They settied in Grand Meadows, Minneso[...]re children were born: William, Ed, Stefrne, Nora and Erick II. Erick I had passed away shortly before[...]k II in May of 1887. Amelia, Stefine, Ferdinand and Nora never came to Roy with the rest of the famil[...]delivered her daughter, Sena's (Larsen), babies, and Ferdinand, h'elsine (Sena), Amelia holding Edward. when those children grew up and had babies, she deli- Middle rou: Sop[...]and Nora. Sophus died on January 25,1926 and Caroline on ette Kiimer. He had[...]Erick passed away August 23. 1954 and is buried in Erick II was married twice; first t[...]Wrr-r-nu AND INcA (Bnox) OI-sEs William A]bert Olsen,the sixth child of Sophus and cream the5'hauled to town. Eggs were[...]William *'as a good natured fellow' and rvas loved by |
| [...]ncus Corrru"rv bought a new binder in1927, and when they left the one year at Roy Hig[...]n. q'here she finished her high school and college educa- |
| [...]Charles 160 acres ofland and a lot in Roy. A breakdown ofthe[...]e Fund; .814- State Insane Bond Fund: .16c-Insane and Tuberculo- sis Bond; $59.85-County (for schools, Poor Fund, Sink- ing Fund, Bridge Fund, County Fair and General.Fund); $i2.94-General School Fund; $2.00-[...]sin in 1913. They lived at Roy where he and his brother, $2.00-Road Fund: $19.1S-School Dist.[...]Russell AND EDYTHE OQusr the oniy one that got tipped over'[...]r of C.F. Russell grew up and received his education in Roy, "Spokane" Ande[...]He joined the Navy in 1941 and served in WWII. In Charlie operated the biacksmith and threshing busi- January of 1942 he and Edythe Kauth, daughter of Mr. ness until he passed away on October 22, 1954. He was and Mrs. Lawrence Kauth of Kachia, were married in bo[...]returned to Roy for a couple of years in 1947 and 1948. Julia moved back to Washington, where she[...]Russell purchased a truck and did some trucking. They born on March 17, 1899 in Camden, and lived there until her cieath in October of 1987. then ieft and went back to Edmonds, Washington .[...]He Harry A. Oquist was born September 2, 1880 and was passed away on January 2[...]as employed at the retired and went to school and became an accountant' mines.[...]by Arlene O'ReiIlY Daniel M. "Pat" O'Reilly and Arlene Fox O'Reilly house in Roy. Tom Link had built a log house on the and daughter Patricia moved to Roy in February of river and when he moved he gave us the logs. 1944.[...]re children after we moved into Roi': We rented and lived on the Isadore LaFountain place Tom, Douglas and Theresa. south of Roy, for two years. In 1946 we[...]In 1959 we bid in the mail route that went to and ran cattle north of Roy. We bought a place 8 miles Mathisons, and then across the Missouri River Bridge. southeast of Roy in 1948 and moved there in 1949' We We[...]t served in 1952 as we had two children in school and the roads a term on the schoo[...]I was a catechism teacher, 4'H and cub scout leader buses. We had eight children by[...]everal years. John, Barbara, Michael, Mary, Kathy and Tim. We lost our[...]9. Pat died in Pat hauled logs from Rocky Point and we put up a log Aprii of 1972. |
| [...]ren that 1972 until the iate 7U's when I left Roy and moved to remained in Roy. He is marri[...]there. works as a cowboy and ranch hand and he has the I graduated from Ro5' High School in[...]as a clerk in Peder Hanson's store. He was jolly and was adored by everyone. He married Pheobe \\rest[...]Smith now has the property and he rents the house out. Axrorv AND KATHERINE Prsrad[...](granddaughter) of San Diego, California |
| [...]Rot Lew"ist,.,s'n and later frr-rm Bozeman, both t<-' help with[...]arl5' da1's any rain rlas welcome, until |
| [...]l his death at ageTl continued as patrolman and commuted between Roy in late December, 1965. and Billings to work on the ranch. Listed among his survivors were a son, JR, and a J.R. suffered a "heart stoppage" in December of 1984 daughter and two step-daughtrers: Ann, Margie and and lapsed into a coma which lasted until his death in Dolly and two grandchildren, Tommy Gilbert Puckett January of 1987. and Marilyn Puckett who made their home with Joy Delores and their daughter, Sabra, moved to Roy and and went to school in Roy in the late 40's and early 50's. lived on the ranch while Sabra att[...]and the Roy Fire Board and did income rax rerurns; a tana. After his high s[...]ked on construction After J.R. became ill and after Sabra's graduation, and in 1957 joined the Montana Highway Patrol.[...]nue their ranching business. of 1957. In 1970 he and his wife took over the ranch. He[...]ffi Finally, accompanied by his widow and other family[...]e shipped to Roy, as requested by Joe, for burial and the third and final senrice was[...]e was con- ducted by H. Pierce. Margaret Townsend and George Trimble sang. Joe was buried next to his f[...]and it was only through th.e "heroic" efforts of Roy and spacious hotel, was always full".[...]er buildings in the area were saued. It Reeble and Miss Virginia Davis of Roy were married[...]and shipped most of the lumber to Kansas where'it was[...]used to improue a ranch he had there and also to build had hurt herself very badly, she di[...]It Within a couple of days complications occurred and she[...]it and used it as a shop for a few years. that Joe burie[...]is one Rose was living in Roy, with her son Earl, and was reason why he requested to be buri[...]eeause of poor Irene Reeble Houser and his step-son. Earl Rose. JoHN AND HULDA REIS[...]is where they settled. The only work |
| [...]Hulda "Toots", John and John heard about the free land he could get in Mo[...]store in 1917 and taken to the Roy country and after looking it over[...]is the John worked on farms during the summers and Iived Montana Lumber & on his homestead winters and proved up on his home-[...]which Reis becarne Fred Jenni farm and by Christmas time John and[...]30's. The store handled married in Lewistown and drove a Model T Ford out to[...]wagons, Iumber, harness and bedroom. and all farm and ronch In the fall of 1920 John and Hulda took her niece.[...]public scale and also Helen's mother died when Helen was a week ol[...]sold coal and handled then on Helen's last name was Reis.[...]During the years, Hulda did shoe repair work too and foot and it was amputated. About a week later John did eve[...]had a heart attack, on May 27,1945 and passed away. boots. At that time Helen and baby daughter were staying With the business in the shop slacking off John got with John and Hulda while John Warden was in the work at the Montana Lumber and Hardware Co. service duri[...]I, from August i943 to 1946. The Montana Lumber and Hardware Co. closed out Huld[...]ies moved sold the Cushman store and postoffice to Charlotte away; couldn't make a iiv[...]da married Sam Clark of The spring of i938 John and Hulda started looking Ryegate, wh[...]ed to Billings in 1967 to West Park Village store and postoffice, John saici, "This is just what I[...]r the wonder- Hulda said, "I want running water and electricity!", ful times our group had for many years. As Ada Corth howbver John won and that is where they settled. sa[...]have the fun The fail of '38 Helen went to EMC and in the spring we enjoyed at Roy, Mo[...][Hulda is the daughter of Fred and Anna Jenni. She Warden.[...]by Helen Reis Warden Home Life: Huida and John Reis iovingly raised me arti[...]me as a chiid. |
| [...]ren we always watched the train come in and leave. being washed on a wash board in a round tu[...]h rvas heated There was one Catholic and one Protestant church in in kettles on a u'ood-co[...]go outside. Foresman, kept the church and Sunday School alive There rvere no light switches to turn on for light at and growing. Teachers from the school and parents night. Instead, rve used kerosene iights[...]that were given at Christmas and at other special One of m1' greatest joys was the day Mom and Dad times. I enjoyed singing and accompanying for the Reis bought a piano so I cou[...]Each lesson was like a Catholic and Protestant summer Bible School was very special C[...]s. In high schooi I both churches and considered that a privilege. became a music teacher, and planned my own recitals I attended school at Roy, from grade I to graduation for parents and children. The piano has enriched my[...]fe continually. I am eternally thankful to Mother and be held, the mothers willingiy made t[...]In The 4-H Clothing Club was led by my noiher and one operetta I was cast as the[...]at all. The Roy sewed for our daughter, Rosalie, and she in turn sews Woman's Club sponso[...]music program was always strong. We had a band and area, and lvere very caring and supportive of each choir in high[...]vocal work which indirectly benefitted the school and for newly-weds. At the latter, everyone brought n[...]ty. She had a lovely trained voice. makers, food, and shower gifts. Arriving at the home of[...]ollowed by opening of gifts. skirts and black flashing eyes. Every store owner was Roy[...], to lent minstrel shorv, blackening their faces, and having watch them. They were known fo[...]nything an interlocutor u'ho had a sense of humor and could they wanted and hiding it under skirts. No wonder project to an a[...]clerks kept them under close surveillance! cians and pclitical speeches, etc. were all held in the[...]wn big tent for twilight out of day and traveling at night impossible. performance[...] |
| [...]a year, then street, the dray-man, using horses and his dray, rescued at Hariorvton, and then the next year to Big Timber shoppers downto[...]ht we heard the big high school music and I taught in elementary grades. bell, mounted on[...]firemen. After Dad had left, ment and we both still do volunteer work *'ith students. Mother and I threw on some clothes to hasten to the site I am thankfui for the rich inheritance that became and watch the excitement. The fire rig was small and mine because I had so many caring and sharing friends otten unable to put out a burnin[...]of all ages in Roy during its prime in the 20's and 30's. street.[...]all the townspeople raised by Ernest and Marie Jenni Reuss came to Roy to made a run on t[...]church in Havre, Montana where she lives and she, too, activity that I was drawn into since Mo[...]I amused myself by four children she and her husband, Virg,il Toulouse, playing the player[...]are all married with families of their own. I and John Warden. of Lewistown. were married on Hanny AND MAE Rrpe erqo Clenrucn Rirn[...]rmation by Winnie Rife JoHN RoenRT AND Dor-oRss (Seunsrnorrr) Rrrr AND FAMTLy by Dolores "Dodie" Rife |
| [...]sy working for the State High- Peggy, and son, Joshua, live in Great Falls where Earl way, Dolores learned how to irrigate and take care of is employed with the Civil Service and is manager of the sheep-real fastl Our children belonged to 4-H and his office. Jacquie (Mrs. Tom Riebe)[...]ren, entered in the County Fair with their sheep and horses. Lisa and Jason. She is employed with Jones Equip- Earl wo[...]year ment as office manager. Vicki and son, Mathew, Iive in and all the children came home with ribbons. It was a[...]rapher in Medical In 1967 we moved back to Roy and bought the Wass Records. Carson and his wife, Patti (Emery), Iive at Mercantile whic[...]years. We s<,rld Fairmont Hot Springs and Carson works for Pegases out in 19?1 and John went back to work as an engineer[...]They have three children: Nicholas, Kale and Chelsi. Roy and all ofour children graduated from high school Bill lives in Roy, is unmarried and works for Kendall there. Later we moved to Lewis[...]whole world fell apart. Being the Our summers and weekends were spent in the Judith good husband and father that he was, we miss him so. Mountains wh[...]aims. We enjoyed With the prayers and help from close friends and camping o,tt, and watching our property develop. r[...]o on. Our children all live in Montana. Earl and wife.[...]information by Winnie Rife Stewart Rife and his son, Earl, came to the area from Oklahoma about 1914 and homesteaded north of Roy. Stewart's place is now[...]d Komarek ranch. Rife was a blacksmith by trade and he worked for Jim Vickory in his blacksmith shop[...]stones at all, but his appendix which rup- tured and caused his death. Earl took his father's rema[...]wwL south of Roy, and that is where he and his bride, Win- nie McNeil, frrst lived aftdr the[...]Or,er AND RosE RrNler, Olaf Rindal came to the Fergus area with his parents In i929, Olaf and Rose Baucke, daughter of John in 1923. and Laura Baucke, were married. They moved to the O[...]known in the area in Chamberlain place and lived there until 1g82. They 1924.It had been killing sheep at Landru's and bother- then homesteaded in Petroleum[...]souri River. They had a truck garden in the 30's and in a trap and was minus a foot. sold watermelon. cantaloupe, tomatoes and eggplant in Olaf worked for Anton in 1925 and 1926" Wages were small stores from[...]ford. Melons were 50 $25 a month, the first year, and $30 a month the second each and tomatoes L\/zQ a pound. While on the home- year.[...]himber he couid on his own" He bought three cows and farmed the find so the older b[...]across the river and they had to get it by boat or cross |
| [...]school. Students were her ou'n children, John and in 1938 for Fork Peck Dam. Claudia, and Roy, Vivian and Boots Mathison along They moved to the Joe Dvorak place next and got with Johnny and Ralph. Mrs. Claude (Mary) Satter- their mail at B[...]from the field taught there in 1942 and 1943. mouth of the Musselshell. They later got their mail at In 1945, Rose and Olaf bought a house in Roy, from the Mecaha (Garf[...]utiful ents were living on the Hutton place then, and Rose leather crafts and sewing which she taught to Roy high and Olaf moved there in 1938.[...]while. the Dvorak hill wiih Johnny and Ralph in the car and 7 Rose moved to Lewistown in 1965 and operated the cats in a box tied on the front bump[...]there. Olaf retired in 1979. Olaf the soft shale and turned over 7 times, throwing them and Rose evefitually moved to the Charles Cooley home[...]asino Creek with an acreage where Olaf could keep and wagon and Johnny ran back to meet him, crying,[...]about four months old at the OIaf and Rose had four boys: John born in November time, o[...]chers at the river October of 1941 and Dan born in Julv of1943.[...]ruction work. They lived in 1948. He worked there and in New Mexico for about a Sand Poin[...]for his dad for several years. John and Joyce had nine children: Sandra (Town- John got a Cat and did some dirt work around the send) was born October of 1949; Sharon in January of area and farmed Fred Mabee's until about 1959. They[...]he construction busi- Lovell, Wyoming and James in December of 1968 in ness for about 15 ye[...]le John the rodeo grounds; bought a trailer house and moved to and Joyce were living on the Hutton place. John Willi[...]about 1964 finally settling in Sand and consumed a large amount of baby aspirin.[...]54" ing, worked on construction. Ralph and Bette separated The couple had five children. and Ralph was remarried in September of 1974 to Phi[...]s ggraduate; served in the Navy for several years and is born February 4, 1976 and Olin born October 31, 1977. presently employed as[...]They left Roy in 1981 to ranch at Heath and now live Viki (Mrs. Tom Maley) was born July 24[...]t of Lewistown. nois. She lives on the west coast and has a son, Corey. Lori (Mrs. Bill Adams) was bo[...]Berre Arrenssnn'i' RINoeI- Owen age 3 and Stephen born in late 1988. She lives After Bette and Ralph separated she returned to near Billings. school and became a registered nurse. She lived in llli' S[...]He is in nois for a number of years and just recently moved to the Air Force.[...] |
| [...]children: Karen, born in 1958, Lee born in 1960 and Karen married Keith Huck and they ha'e 2 children, Curtis born in 1964. Kris and Kyle and live in Malta. Lee and his wife. Beth. In 1971 he married Corrine Syf[...]gs. They live in Billings with their 2 sons, Reyn and Jgran" have 2 daughters: Tammy and Toni. Curtis passed away in 1983. Robert owns his own fleet of trucks and is an inde- DeN eNn Per Rwoar, |
| [...]oy Enterprise, May 29, 1919: The little two and a half-year-old girl of Mr. and Mrs. in the pasture after the cows[...]th of sounded like someone crying and on investigation found the Box Elder, strayed away Sunday afternoon and was youngster standing in the creek wet and shivering with found by Mrs. James Dobeus, two[...]cold. She was taken to the house, warmed up and brought little one disappeared about four o'cl[...]cognized it by its resemblance to its pasture, and the supposition is, lost them in a coulee,[...]ently occur at the opportune moment as the her and sent an older child for her husband when it[...]ecame evident that she had gone some distance. Ed and and might otherwise have remained out overnight and Jack Ryan and eventually others joined in the hunt....[...]feet Mrs. Dobeus did not know a child was lost and was out to one side she would ha[...]E. O. AND FLoRENcE SANDBo[...]on frorn Patricia Sandbo Hansen Edwin O. Sandbo and his wife, Florence, lived in Roy b[...]inne- 1945 when they sold it. sota and was a registered pharmacist.[...]1885 in Laverne, Minnesota. She died December 28, and Patricia Ann born December L2,7920. The children[...]November 12, 1976. All are buried at and Patricia a first gtader when they sold out and Stanford.[...]ston Sandbo My father, E.O. Sandbo, established and owned his shots of whiskey (I saw this!) and some bottles of liquor. lst drug store in Roy, po[...]shed was picked up late at night and taken into Lewis- who lived just west of Fergus.[...]n to me. Pinky finished the 7th grade at Stanford and graduated from lan a one chair shop and had a club foot and wore a high school there in 1932.[...]to the ground about 1920 My mbther and several other musicians used to play or 21 during[...]ation agent the drums. At the back of the loat and bordering on the alley was There may have been another musician whom I don't a storage shed and coal bin" According to the story, I[...]Church. at the south end of Main street and on the west using the old whiskey trails from Can[...]side ofthe street. in late at night and leave cases of whiskey in the shed.[...]921 in the dance hall. My two sisters helped wind and cases of whiskey would be stacked aiong the back[...]one fall with a man who cals forward of the wail and whiskey was stacked in the later became a noted aviator, Charles Lindberg. He and space. My dad, I heard, was arrested as part of the a friend were barnstorming and did some aerobatics in "gang", but did not serie[...]e of the "gartg" Lewistown. My dad and others talked Lindberg and his paid his fine in court at Great Falls.[...] |
| [...]piiots. I was a single rider in the front cockpit and the pilot had to caution me, in flight, not to le[...]ers. To conclude the show there was wing rvalking and hanging from the undercarriage by one of the pilo[...]the iength of Main Street to the raiiroad tracks and back. \Ye boys rode between the handlebars ahead[...]we hit a culvert near the north end of the street and my. right foot got stuck between the fender and tire on the' front wheel. I spent a month in St.[...]stories were set by hand. dad, Reed West, and others were interested in the bank The[...]as an open-mouthed cylinder about office and then the Catholic Church. The other bank the size[...]with a tug of war, possibly rear of the building and poured water into the cylinder. between the homesteaders and townspeople. It was The next day a bank employee[...]on the second floor of the Bill Johnson and others started a coal mine at the grocery store o[...]heast corner of the inter- the south edge of town and the Roman Catholic Church section where[...]picking cotton knew he was a greenhorn and they over on a freight boat from England. He was[...]d put a handful in his bag every little while. He and wanted to get away from two old maid sisters that[...]ere raising him. His uncle was on a freigh't boat and Finally he decided to quit and go to Texas. He walked stopped in England. Beigium and France and also took and caught rides and arrived in cattle country. He had treight to Ner+[...]decided to get a job on this to learn to ride and cowboys had fun with him; putting boat and finally left from Antwerp, Belgium and sailed him on horses that would buck him[...]became a good cowboy and joined some other cowboys, He deserted the boat and Iooked for a job. The first one taking cattle up the old Chisholm Trail, through Kan- was picking cotton and pulling a long bag to put it in. sas and into Montana. White Sulphur Springs was his There are stickers in the cotton boles and it takes first stop in 1891. He worked on cattle ranches and practice to pick much cotton in a day. Wom[...] |
| [...]k on the William it is. It is marked and is inside the fence. Cliff ranch digging for coal[...]and my dog. Once in awhile, a wagon or riders wouid[...]ace to stay any- that she wrote to my grandmother and begged her to where, so travelers put up their horses in our barn and send someone in the family over to Gilt Edge, Mon[...]ferry over the Missouri River, to Zortman and Lan- Liverpool. She agreed to make the trip and stay two dusky. I can remember whe[...]g away from the sheriff, bers of the Cliff family and rode to Gilt Edge with a came and stayed over night, and went on to the breaks horse and brggy. She found the cold winters very[...]to hide. None of them ever harmed rnother, severe and went down with inflamatory rheumatism[...]gh she was alone a iot. My dad kept the dirt road and was in bed for awhile.[...]to the west of us in repair, putting in culverts and Gilt Edge was a wild west town with shootings and wooden bridges. He would be gone 2[...]some My mother stayed the winter at the ranch and then couples stayed with us till they got their cabins built. went into Lewistown and found a housekeeping job at About 1907, Burt and Emily were asked to take the the Lehman home. Burt and Emily got acquainted at post off[...]n't many customers till the home- the Cliff Ranch and Burt finally coaxed her to marry steaders came. Then people from all around the area him and stay in this country[...]he mail. At first, it They were married in 1901 and went into the Roy was brought in with a light wagon and team, twice a country that same year. They purcha[...]e mail. It was an outing for them and they got to visit Milwaukee Railroad which they p[...]o ranches. The original adjoined the Roy township and the second was 3 miles south over the ridge. Thei[...]Bar E issued in 1901'. In 1935, my husband, Bill and I, and our two children, Bill and Dorothy, moved to Roy and ranched the home place, staying until 1940. My father eventually moved to Lewistown and sold the ranch to Joe Murphy in 1944. I, Julia[...]Burt and Emily were driving a herd of cattle through our y[...]mestead south of us. There was a bull in the herd and riders got to pushing the cattle too fast. The bull turned on one of the riders and gored the horse in the chest. The rider was badly injured too. This happened right in front of mother and she almost iost the baby then. with a lot of neighbors, and I would get to play with When the little boy was born he was crippled and died some white children then. Other[...]eos u'ith real old-time cowboys rid- ers over him and he is buried up on top of a hill west of[...]as after Roy was a town. the log barn. Jim Murphy and Dick Kaiina know where G1[...] |
| [...]sncus CouN'r'y didn't steal her poultry and even little pigs. They chasing a pretty girl with a horse and shooting to scare Tns JaN{BS AND BLeNcHu SIuxrNs FauIr,v[...]V In 1912 the family moved to Roy and homesteaded |
| [...]65 mile south of the present highu.ay, was muddy and the Brice also remembers nrany hilarious and exciting |
| [...]I remember horses, there were rodeos on Sunday and Flour sacks were used for making many things,[...]I remember the dances in Roy. We had a sleigh and We would play in the field while Mom and Dad plenty of blankets. Everyon[...]We went to church once a month. breaks and take some by train to Chicago, Illinois to[...]sold and we moved to Hanover.[...]by Ruth Siroky Mr. and Mrs. John Siroky Sr. and their descendants finally opened her[...]opped like a have been important in the settiing and development of jack in the box!" Joe's[...]trunk. oppression of living under a dictatorship and miiitary As they boarded their ship, the young iady who was conscription did not appeal to Mr. and Mrs. Siroky for heiping with their lugg[...]em, at they wanted a better future for their sons and daugh- ihe pier, and was put aboard a different ship so they ters. Stories about freedom and homesteads available lost their belo[...]bout 85 years old. Their row a team and wagon to meet the family at the stage choice of R[...]t that depot at Armells between Fergus and Hilger, but mean- Mrs. Siroky's sister, Emily, who had come to this coun- while Mrs. Siroky and the children had caught a ride to try earlier was now married to Richard Komarek and Roy. There was no way to let him k[...]n Yugoslavia looked only straight ahead and the clatter of the wagon and Siroky escaped from the country by pretending to[...]him. _ oniy the tools of his woodworking and wagon building The Siroky family[...]ow escapes he crossed the Komarek and Siroky went to timber to cut the logs to border and boarded a ship and after a journey filled build their ho[...]n- in good stead as he hewed the logs and carefully tana. His money was gone because he did not under- notched and fitted the corners of the house. The origi- stand the language and unscrupulous people along the nal log[...]craftsmanship. At last the home was ready and the from Lewistown to Roy; the Komarek home was about family moved into the two rooms and attic. Later a eight miles north of Roy. When he[...]family. Soon the parents learned the language and nearing his new home in the new land.[...]their first American-born child, was fol- Siroky and the five children: Mary, Frank, Joe, Jim and lo*6d by Jerry, Abbie, Peggy, Annie, Josephine and Frances. Another child, Agnes, died in infancy in[...]re old enough for there was much to be done, them and people along the way were helpful toward the[...]h her children. The fields for crops and they slowly accumulated a herd of family left on a ship from Austria and it took a month cattle. The years were fiiled with hard work and the to come. Joe remembers the ship; a rat infest[...]heir brought their belongings in two large trunks and also herds to roam freely on the open[...]owboys carried two knapsacks filled with clothing and bed- had no sympathy for Siroky when[...]they came to crops. A cowboy roped him and tried to drag him this country remembers the trun[...]said telling of Siroky brandished a pitchfork and threatened to drive the one trunk. "Guys were sit[...]a beef still readable. It was so full and heavy that when it was from these herds[...] |
| [...]367 Years passed and when his sons left home to marry, There are now fourth and fifth generations ofthe Sir- |
| [...]r N0HTuEast'uRs FcRcus CousrY eldest son, Ted, and his son, Marty, also live and work CaN e.Nn Ar,Icn SnirH Cl,av. Ppenl AND GARY Surru[...]- |
| [...]r. He then moved back to Roy bookkeeper and his dad, CIay, helps out with the and leased the Union Station from Homer Wi]]is.[...]G & S Oil Company, a success- Gary and his wife, Jolene Herder Slaby, have three ful bus[...]sent has outiets in sons: Gary Robert and Earl Ray Smith and Tony Roy, Lewistown and Grass Range, where it is known as Sl[...]Gusr AND JoE SoucHrr[...]n by Jim Horyna The homesteads ofbrothers Gust and Joe Souchek are They had one son, Joe[...]where he worked for the government, remarried and heart attack, and Gust took over both homest.{d.. Jo" r[...]N R23E A.M. (Marcus) Stendal, son of Peter A. and Secilie ing between the tracks. Markuse[...]erdette was his first drayman in dale, Minnesota and educated in Brainerd. He and his Roy-meeting the train and taking the mail to the Post brother, Rudolph A. Stendal, came to Montana in 1g11 Office and then hauling freight to the businesses about and homesteaded southeast of Roy. Stendals raised[...]cus was imme- Ellis was his next driver and drove for many years. diately involved in freighting and transportation, as he Later Corneiius Lund,[...]tation business that he continued freight and supplies, of all kinds, to the Roy commun- untrt[...]by Jack make the trip to Lewistown and return on the same Stephens, served as a stoppin[...]r claims. A restaurant, in the day in town and then return on the third day. office, served meals three times a day and sleeping accommodations were made. The women occ[...]went into this operation. front of the haystack and the men in the rear, as there The roads w[...]f Creek Hill; take part of it up; unload and go back for the gravel to Roy fo cover the streets and Stendal donated rest of the load;fill the radiator with cold water and take the use ofhis dray teams to haul and spread the gravel.[...]an extra supply; reload the freight and climb the hill Anna Petersen, born near Brainerd, Minnesota, 7 again and put on the first half. Finally the road was[...]Stendai's daughter, Angeline, was born at Roy and The flu epidemic of 1918-1919 ciaimed the life[...]n 10 Aprii 1885. He was of Second Avenue and Fergus Street, on the west side of 33 years old.[...]became the bookkeeper for the skinned dead horses and cattle to make a living by business. T[...]ces to other bought the Red Barn for headquarters and started the areas and the family moved to Lewistown. Here the transport[...]n five directions from Lewistown. The to Brainerd and bought a second-hand Model T. He and Stendal addition of Lewistown was named[...]week to make the trip, They retired in 1955 and sold the firm. In 1966, fc.,llowing wagon[...] |
| [...]29 July f 96g. 20 May 1970. Marcus and Anna are both buried at Mrs. Stendal's daughter[...]away in 1969 Brainerd, Minnesota. and she rhen made her home with her son-in-law,[...]s the son of Mrs. Elsie Eike of Forest David Eike and two grandchildren, until her death on[...]tt SrrpaN Frank Stepan came to central Montana and home- steaded in the Winifred area. When World War I came along, he sold out to Wherley's, and went into the ser- vice. After his discharge, he[...]uley. Frank's sister, Barbara (Mrs" Albert) Jakes and her family had already homesteaded in the Roy cou[...]The couple Iived on the homestead for a few years and in 1938 they moved in to Roy. For the first winte[...]y Roy in 1930. Farmers Union and ran it until he retired in the 1950's. Fuel, in[...]chickens (who hid their nests out all over town), and barrels. The barrels would be filled up at the Fa[...]in the home that they moved into in 1939 and when bers one year, "with help, of course," she canned 40 spring and summer rolls around, she can be seen tend- quarts of peas. And they had milk cows, ducks, pigs, ing her yard and working in the garden.[...]orn June 11, 188i at nia in 1931 and I stayed on in Billings to g:aduate Spencer, Iowa[...]Holly- in 1933. In California Dad and I worked on a wood, California. Belle J. Hinkey w[...]ntil 1939. When I started with Walt Dis- Illinois and died in 1939 in North Hollywood. Their ney Productions we moved to Burbank and now only chiid, Arthur C. Stevens was born May 1,[...]LeRoy Umstead was my best friend and we "Our mail came in by rail. We picked ours[...]lso wrote farm Company owned by Peder Hanson and from Mrs. insurance. Ka[...]te house on the hiil at from Lane's Creamery and some vegetables and the south end of Main Street.[...]6th g:ade in Glendale, California; Sophomore and Joe Murphy's Garage. year in Van Nuys, California and senior year in My mother ran a small bakery and lunch coun- Billings. Mrs. Jensen taught my 1st and 8th year. ter, in the old land office next t[...]" draw on some of my experiences and the "look" of in 191.{. When the bank fai}ed and closed in 1929 country life in stu[...]neys or 30 we moved to Biilings where Mother and Dad rvhere I was employed[...] |
| [...]d had repiaced his colt revolver with a candle and scrervdriver, in the vauit, a week before the robbery, so when the rohbers locked Dad in the vault and fled town Dad was able to take the door off be[...]by some of the town folks. My older son and I attended the 50th anniver- sary of Roy in 1962 and had a wonderful time. I got up early one morning (we slept in the attic of the Pete Rabin house) and took a tour of the old town while the resident[...]and son Arthur. all those memories of my growing up days." Art Stevens and his wife, Ruth, raised two sons: Craig, a 'builder and designer of fine houses' in L.A. and Kent, a professor at the U. of Oregon in Eugene.[...]the pilot nosed over when landing and broke the pro- stormers did give us $5.00 rides i[...]d War I peller. I carved my name and date in a piece of the Jenny and i did go up for my first plane ride. And I was wood." He said it wasn't Lind[...]license. The licenses were granted to Roy Sturdy and an avid card player and spent many happy hours atthe[...]Thus one firm had 2 licenses and one firm had 2 lots.... knew how. Roy was a very congenial person and peopie It was settled by Kennedy and Hansen buying one license marveled at his ability to recognize anyone whose voice and renting one lot to Sturdy.... The Sturdy Saloon,[...]business outside of the town site, moved in and opened in he had heard, never forgetting it. He m[...]On July 21, 1914 in Coiorado Springs Roy and Sophia Roy Sturdy was born December 1, 1883 in[...]rom LaSalle, Iliinois, was Kansas; the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturdy. He[...]born in 1890. They settled in Hilger r*'here he and his received his education in Kansas and graduated from a[...]lace) where they In 1913, Sturdy was in Roy. He and Tony Musek were[...]She was a frne cook and served superb food. Excerpts from an article in[...]The Sturdys moved to Winifred for a year and a half PubLic Opinion tell how the matter finally[...]and then in 1937 moved into Lewistown to make their e[...]Saloons Get Settlement....The tangle in licenses and Sophia passed away in March of 1973 and only two lots finally got straightened out...[...], at age73, Roy passed au'ay. sold to Kennedy and Hansen, belreving they could secure[...]information by Margaret Syron Lindsey and June Syron West The Syrons lived in Roy during[...]ptember of 1915, Roy. Margaret in October of 1918 and June was born in June Margaret married Evan T[...]1935. of 1924. Edwin was born in Januarl'of l9i7 and he died They had one daughter, Dolores. S[...] |
| [...]s moved to Judith Gap. i finished out the Ivan and Gertie Syron homesteaded for a very year and then followed them, graduating from short time[...]re was a pump in the My grandparents, Frank and Nancy Carter, middle of the[...]ther was first man on the rail- place. My aunt and uncle, Clarence and Sadie road and we got our water from the section fore- Baker,[...]hompson was the foreman. He My uncles, Lloyd and Tilford Carter,lived south and Nina, his wife, are still iiving. of Roy. Both[...]lis- We lived in the railroad house and a friend of pell and Tilford in Kansas City, Kansas. My mine was Carley Wass. The Wass house and the uncle, Hubert Carter and his wife, Vida, lived a Brazier t[...]Their son Homer with running water and indoor plumbing. graduated from Roy High School and married a During the later[...]. was started on Ft. Peck Dam and people from the I was very young when we moved to Roy and Missouri Breaks and elsewhere started moving Iived there. My'father was a railroad worker and out. CHenlrs "Buzz" AND ALICE Teyr,on LYulr AND SYLvu VaNZaNor[...]tment was from Antonette's daughter, and they were married December OLe exo Ioe D. Vonnrl |
| [...]elder son, George, was born in my and are buried in Lewistown. My Aunt Ida May Dot- gra[...]mother, Mrs. ford place at Dovetail and she and John Hedman and Larsen, delivered both the boys.[...]a died in 1970 at the age of 85 and is buried there. ranch about ten miles from Roy.[...]the road from them. Bernice Larsen stayed with me and drouth. My husband, Ole, died in 1982 and is buried in took care of George.[...]n. I believe that was the year the drouth began and my [Ida Vodall, now 83 years lives at Greycliff, Montana in folks and the new elevator man lost everything.[...](compiled 1988 by daughter Carley Wass Graham and granddaughter Lindsay Graham Story) Son of John and Jennie Wass, L.M.A. was born[...]igh school events in irish-born John was a farmer and merchant. He put five Central City,[...]headed for Brit- he played short stop, and for a short time after the ser- ish Columbia on 1[...]ues. Canada. He reached Billings three days later and on the By 1917, L.M.A. had met hi[...]ght bidding for box lunches. Alby loved to dance, and plus expenses, drawing pay December 9th. He bough[...]he was often grub for $7.75, hardware for 820-75, and lumber for called, studied music, voice, and art at what later $53.70. For $20, Shorty Beacraf[...]not become a commer- sheep shed on his new place and the next day began cial artist. She did teach piano for years in Roy and was building a 12' x 14' house, sleeping in it th[...]fiied on a homestead, but howling coyotes and first ofthe year.[...], $800. with a crawl hole. Windows and proper doorway came Before m[...]iater. The wooden bed had a sage-filled mattress and grocery. L.M.A. and pals put fishlines over the fence to was covered[...]duck dinner makings. This was something the stove and climb clothed into bed, sometimes staying[...]Having stove fire for WWI broke out and on 5 June 1917, L.M.A. joined the light and only two books, a cookbook and a Bible, he Navy. One of 100 men[...]s two miles away needs, nursing and surgery. and water from a creek four miles from the shack.[...]the ship. L.M.A. had 82 flu patients and 18 pneumonia the first winter. Weekly, he spent 5[...]cases. A bad storm shut down the fresh air system and cents for salt pork- The diet was dull, but by sp[...]ts. The three doctors on board feared the disease and cafe.[...]d died the day before, but with 5gr. ofasafoetida and band nevertheless. He managed a slide trombone by[...]numbered medical until the band polished its act and threw out the trays by day. However, the bunks shifted in storms and |
| [...]"Coffee demonstrations" were sponsored by Nash and canned milk passed by his desk on an open elevator. Coffee and put on by a locai Lewistown wholesaler. "Waste no[...]his motto. Coffee, ham and cheese sandwiches, and cookies were L.M.A. made 14 Atlantic round trip[...], served. The Wass Merc. held such affairs and everyone two Pacific on the USS Dent, the fleet's[...]oung. A coffee destroyer. He made temporary Chief and was the oniy salesman once paid Carley[...]swim, so This was an unbelievable amount and on this rare occa- he signed himseif into sick ba[...]to a Calumet those living west of the Mississippi and wishing to be Baking Powder can "bank". d[...]ness ventures as a sion, he picked up his sea bag and stepped across the line. This was the turning poi[...]- the selling of Christmas candy and in summer,[...]was a rare treat to buy an ice cream cone... tana and wed Alby on 31 March 1921 in Lewistown's that is, until her cousins and she found old First Episcopal Church. For a year,[...]an the store continuously for 35 years, though Ed and skating and swimming at the creek. Carley is no Gladys Kalal, Alby's brother and sister-in-law, man- swimmer, but she recalls the creek and its blood suckers. aged the store from 1937 through 1949. L.M.A. and Alby The kids also fished there, with min[...]artner, the rump, the youngest on the neck. and levels of expertise (i.e., amateur, semi-pro, and pro) Barnett H. Seover lived in Roy about f[...]was the Seover home, built c. 1918, that L.M.A. and Alby Ed Kalal and Dan Kalal. It was possible to win or lose $6 eventually bought and lived in for most of their Roy to $15 a night. L.[...]sa- were two "hook houses" in Roy, May's and Bess's. May's tion 5a cigar can. The game stake always came from this was covered in tar paper and the Victrola could be heard can, never from store[...]he stockyard is Carley Jean was born to L.M.A. and Alby in Lewis- now. They were really bu[...]on 17 June, 1923. She grew up in Roy. and 5 to 8 g"irls per house. L.M.A. worked for Nyland[...]Carley has no middle name. Her birth and Tronsdale's and delivered groceries and ice to name is CarleyJean, but she has always sep[...]for a costly $1 each. Fellows would buy one and split. typical of the area and times. Overly-ripe bananas from Local danc[...]er school L.M.A. was part of the Roy Rod and Gun Club, school lunch. It took years to enjoy ba[...]M.A. board, volunteer fire department, and 1914 Roy Com- laughed about his long johns. There[...]ghts Templar in Lewis' weather cardboard in shoes and flour sack napkins. The town's Masonic Lo[...]yone. Dust Shriner of Helena. The town, and particularly the blanketed Roy. There was little to eat and people canned Commercial Club actively prom[...]he Ciub was L.M.A.'s frrst real taste of politics and |
| [...]d it. He ran for state senator from Fergus County and was frrst elected in i932, serving through 1938.[...]d of his efforts to see seven miles of road built and paved from Roy to Bohemian Corner. This was known[...]lontana drank three train carloads ofliquor daily and alcohol was bringing in g8 million per annum. Mon[...]ppointment, Alby ran the Roy store. In 1937, AIby and Carley joined L.M.A. in Helena. Carley attended[...]ool at Montana State Uni- Lindsay and Alby Wass with their doughter, Carley, versity, now called U. of Montana. L.M.A. and Alby and granddoughter Lindsay Ann. joined her in Missoula[...]cadets woman, Alby was a good shot and horsewoman. arrived. Carley was a volunteer in th[...]ths later, they left ing, gas, sugar, meat, tires and rents. It was continuous Butte to try th[...]the office was For L8 years, Carley and family came to Roy for Sun- abolished 15 November[...]ung ment of Colonel in the Montana National Guard and the Lindsay smeared innocuous ointme[...], Chief called it the "hair goop" and was determined to restore Red Crow. There was tal[...]ly for improve- but Alby never cared for politics and was certainly not ment and a single new hair received rave reviews. They interested in a continuing career. L.M.A. and Alby mourned each passing when AIby n[...]tions and was filled with leafy nooks, plus heavy rasp-[...]t. for even poor tree climbers. Babe, and maybe Alby, played for these dances. Carley On other days Alby and Lindsay would paint, one a *'as small, but benche[...]ic tions loved to join round the piano and sing "Beautiful and directing the choir" She belonged to the Order of Ohio", "Where the River Shannon Flows", and "When Eastern Star, Royai Neighbor's Lodge, and American Irish Eyes Are Smiling". |
| [...]nr Or NoHlunastt:nl FcHt;us Qot:xtr L.l{.A. and Aiby conrinued to live in Roy uniil Alby Uni[...]hanical engineering student" |
| [...]ted from high school in clrto Roy and Michael went through grade six in Roy, June Marsch lived with the Willis family in Roy and graduating from high school in Bremerton, Washi[...]ied Warren Staples son of ton. Diane is married and has four children, two boys Betty (Mrs. Milford Rellick). June was a sister to Mrs. and two girls. My wife and I now live in Washington Gordon And[...]sed in the Dovetail area, the of Fred and Betty Warneke. Jim graduated from RHS daughter of Carl and Mae Jackson. She came to Roy in in 1966. His parents had the Roy Grocery for several 1947 and attended RHS when her mother came to teach years during the sixties. Jim and Sheny now live in at the Bohemian Hall school.[...]They have three sons: Jimmy John, Justin and Chad. high school, she and Jack Woodard were married. They Gr[...]Lewistown. They live in Billings where he owns and until 1965 when Lois moved into Roy.[...]hree Lois purchased the Roy Grocery from Bill and Ruth children: Karry Jo, Clinton and Loni. Winkler in 1969. She has operated the busi[...]in the mine equipment repair business. He is she and her youngest daughter, paula, moved to Bil- married to Judy Siroky, daughter of Jim and Ruth Sir- lings. During that time Sherry and her husband ran the oky. They have a son, Jordan, and a daughter, Amber. store,[...]away in February of 1g69. After Glen and Esther Irish. They are separated and Carla his death Mae lived with her daughter for[...]llings. ters, Becky and Carmen. All of the Woodard children graduat[...]the exception of paula. She and her husband, Kyle Morken, and daughter, Ali- Sherry, class of 1970, m[...]K. W. AND KATHERTNE Wnrcsr K.W. Wright was an early day homesteader in Roy and also owned and operated a furniture store in Roy. Kerridge Wi[...]London in 1860. He received his education there and after college immig:ated to the United States in the late 1gg0,s. He built up and operated an extensive teaming and storage business in Chicago, where he settled.[...]ed Katherine Elizabeth Mooney, an Irish girl born and reared in Chicago. To this union were born eleven children, 8 boys and 3 girls. Their first born, a daughter named Laura, was born in 1gg9 and Iived only a couple of months. All of the childre[...]18. He retained his business interests in Chicago and opened up a furniture storein From L. to R.: Charlie, Vina, Walt, Esther and Harry Roy. August Diamond bought the stock in 1917 and tuken in the 1950's. moved it into his furniture store, and J.E. Cox moved towards the street and here were these big elecric lights his offrce int[...]building. Wright then moved on tall poles and each had four big bulbsl The eiectric- out to his[...]in, using In 1930 the children of K.W. and Katherine were horses for power.[...]her, the wife of Charles Soper, who continued the and grocenes with horse and buggy, and once in a,,i,hile transfer and storage business in Chicago built up by they woul[...]ern Electric Company in New "We got off the train and on the platform we walked out York C[...] |
| [...]No nrH EesrERA* FERG us Ccxl N.r'r' John and Walter who ranched along the Missouri River |
| [...]milk cows, tended by ti.3v,r' his rvife and children while he was away working, was[...]' i built up and was the important reason that he pulled through. Milk was deiivered to the Roy Creamery and r.,'as a steady source of income for the family.[...]Link He attended school only through the grades and while and Jenny still very young went to work helping his f[...]were In 1913 he left Chicago, came to Montana and filed[...], whom he married in December of 1909 in Chicago, and three children, Jennie, Laura and 8i11. Mrs. Wright was born Mary Hennessy, a daughter of Patrick Hennessy, in County Limerick, Ireland and *'as reared and educated there. When she was 16 she immigrated to the United States and worked as a maid in homes of influential Chicago[...]Joe and Laura marriage to Joe. She had a brother, Patrick[...]Mauland York, and a brother, Michael, and a sister, Kate, in[...]no fraternity or church. The daughters, Jennie and Laura, were "exceptional young women of unusual energy and enterprise." Both were accomplished horsewomen and they both also accumulated cattle of their own and they had their own brands. Their ranching knowledge and skiils were invaluable to their father in his ran[...]brands in the Northeast section of Fergus county and "her eixperiences and accomplishments have made her[...]-rt tana: The Land and The People", published in 1930 by the Lewis Publishing Company of Chicago and New[...]long the Missouri River. They flooded out in 1947 and of Louie and Annie Mauland who emigrated from Nor' in the late 40's they purchased the old DHS and Reese way in 1896. They operated a po[...]of 1971. Jennie lives part were Odin and Oscar. time on the ranch, which is now operated by their only Joe and Laura ranched along the river bottoms on the child, daughter Kitty, and her husband, Wayne Wyman old M aul and-Anderson ra r.r ch, which Joe inherited from and their daughters; Tammy, Dusty and Wendy. She his uncle, John Maulan[...]iess, though Laura dearl-v loved children and many shared with her sister, afler Laura became[...]for every Reese Anderson. It has been remodeled and today is an new one that arrived, and for birthdays for the attractive and modern ranch home.[...] |
| [...]from the service. He never married. He died Tom and Jen when they moved to the DHS.[...]love of horses, the mere In 1968 Joe and Laura leased their piace on the river presence of being in the same corral with them would and retired to Lewistown. cause utterances that were[...]ctor or truck a heart attack. Laura and Jen were as close as sisters all day in complete contentment. could be and after Joe's death they spent their time Joe Wright and his wife lived in the Roy area until[...]I The good, old homestead days have come and gone, was two years old.[...]en except that everything seemed a long way off, and big For all the money in Wash[...]The oid world keeps going round and round; Armells Creek, and it was just that-dry. We had to go[...]I picked lots of sage brush in those early days, and He starts the chores with the o[...]feed the horses In about 1924 we moved to Roy, and it was there that oats and hay; I received my education.[...]s ready to go when he can't hear the bell. tion", and paid all my expenses. I saw a lot of country[...]rye- nothing. I just live one day at a time, and sometimes Took all he could get just to survive! reminisce in rhythm and rhyme: But time passed and he made his trip to heaven[...]en seven. Amen. ANDERSON, BOSTWICK (BAUSTIC) Mr. and Mrs.-his FREDETTE, JOE (FRENCHIE) AND DORIS- Joe |
| [...]WEILOFF, BERTHA AND VICTOR- owned and operated intendent of Roy schools in lgIg-20.[...]Weiloff Oil Company' at Winnett, Roy and Let'isrown, retiring SUMMERS, J.E. "JACK" AND MRS.- was known as the[...]in the First as other towns. Homesteaded in Roy and lived here for 12[...]September THORSON, ED AND HANNAH- Homesteaded in the Roy[...]received his schooling. In May 1926 he and Frank Bare had the day before he was discovered unconscious and near death.[...]oslin. He lived just west of Roy, raised chickens and delivered only listed survivor.[...]And nobody gives a damn; Twelve thousand mil[...]For two-and-a-half a day.[...]While waiting for our gals- And for gosh sake don't enlist.[...]Oun SnnvrcE MEN AND WoMEN In tribute to those rvho gave so much for our country and in memory of those who gave the most of-all-their[...]ke the list as accurate as possible. Any mistakes and or omissions are unintentional. CIVIL WAR[...] |
| [...]Kalal. l)ick Irtauland. And.r Smith, Hany KOREA.PRESENT |
| [...]383 and the other seven, among them Puckett, were never[...]Scr. JoHx Brsnop and rescue dives; many during raids and whiie under |
| [...]at Munger's Dining Room in and Viet Nam. Roy, Montana a special dinner for all S[...]t of at one time was 63. ....Brothers, Ben Kasala and Joe Kasaia served on ....[...]ier from Iowa, stationed at Fort Maginnis in Army and Joe in ihe U.S. Army. 1884. when he met and married Agnes Fergus. ....Harry Hull was one of t[...]a change of name, formerly requested by the post and approved by the department. The post was called[...]president, Betty Heil, secretary, Rosalie Engiish and Orptcens AND MEMBERS OF Rov Post #96 It't 1989[...]rl to Girl's State LeRoy Coulter, Service Officer and Helen Umstead, each year, poppy sales and sending items to Ft. Harri- Adjutant. Members:[...]sired item. Sugar was espe- steaders or were left and went to the county for taxes- $ cially desired at holiday cookie and candy making few paid the taxes on theirs and kept them for years' time. Mo[...]yarn. The knitted socks, mittens, scarves, and sweaters again. These were mostly fellows who wer[...]were for the men on the front in cold climates and for school and not yet estabiished on ranches' At war's end[...]raiseri money for various causes and local units would During the war efforts, WWi and WWII men; women' have drives for this purpose. and children on the homefront kept busy doing their[...]man; George Breckenridge, vice chairman and Alby sugar, coffee, meat, gasoiine, and rubber products, etc., Kal[...] |
| [...]a piace to The Red Cross units of Roy and Fergus were very sleep at a Red Cross headquarters in California. "We active and supported in a big way. only got $21 a month, not[...]I was Everyone saved their newspapers and tin cans which out of money and had no place to go in a strange city." children collected and delivered to collection points, Another time when he was stationed in Alaska and mainly at the schools. These were a[...]. It was the Red Many were the women, and men, who were not cross that notifred his command[...]y to come home to attend his men, and to everyone's surprise did them and did them father's funeral. "I nevgr was asked to repay them, well, even to the farming and ranching business. More although I did when I cou[...]and away from the kitchen.[...]tside of the initial installation of the missiles and ied beneath the surface in this area, six ofthem and a periodical updating, they have made lit[...]in the Roy-Fergus section. the area and except for the presence of air force person- T[...]less, a constant reminder of tion is 92 feet long and over 13 feet in diameter. A steel the nuclear age we live in. and concrete equipment room surrounds the liner. All[...]Btrs AND PTECES[...]for a sign Of a steel wheeled tractor. and a two A white flag wavin[...]My life had it's mistakes And in the blazing sun[...]e ground The fields and plows gtew larger My lesson had begun.[...]nothing really changed. Thirty minutes, and one round is The su[...]And the shadows are growing long Acr[...] |
| [...]dle haulers, 3 grain haulers, separator operator, and Oquist, the engineer'[...]e arriual af the thresLting binder cut and tied. Bundtes were easier to handle than machine[...]Ioose grain stalks' Seed crops, such as alfalfa and sweet to reme.mber. The monster made the ground[...],Ior"i, were piled into'shochs' or small stachs and the and it u"ould belch great clouds of smoke and dust, and uhole shoch was pitched onto the wagon loase[...]ing was generally a job performed by the women and sound barrier.[...] |
| [...]1883 in Jefferson county. He taught at Fergus and Ft.[...]He and two brothers filed on homesteads in the Ross[...]student said, fMy mother will know what to do!" and Charlie on top of the rig ouerseeing its operati[...]to fetch her. fellow on the ground is cleaning up and pitching into The mother came, c[...]the smaller ing, he withdrew his hand and no ill effects were ever machines when too much[...]. the whole operation would come to a standstill and the jammed up machine would haue to be cleaned out by Dmr MovrNG THEN AND Now hand. No easl' task on a hot day.[...]- May 24, 1894 The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Sten Hanson of Cone Butte came near bein[...]placed the chiid in a cradle on the door step and returned to her housework within. In a short[...]commotion among the chickens about the yard, and returned to the open door to ascertain the ca[...]ttle one in it's tallons. The mother screamed and grasped the child. The bird flew a short distance and perched on a[...].r .. -: bird was a monster and fully strong enough to carry away S[...] |
| [...]ted on December l, 1909 as a general stockraising and real estate business. P.T. McDermott was the first president and Mathias Staff w'as the secretary. The Company, as[...]s area before the land survey of 1912. Alphonso and Susannah Jackman homesteaded in the area in 1903. Jackman ran sheep with Nick Welter" Jack- man and Welter built the "L" shed and the Twin Sheds for their sheep. They sold out to[...]Penwell was president of The Company in the 20's and 30's. The land was sold at a sheriffs sale in 1934 to Union Bank and Trust Company of Helena, the mortgage holder. The[...]Dick Delaney lives where the company headquarters and Staff Post Office were once Iocated.[...]rbach, Helen Knight, Fannie Allen, Nellie Kakela, and Inez Houts. The last year school was held was in[...], Montana Olaf Eike was born in Skorter, Norway and came to this country as a young man. He homesteaded in the Staff area and became the first postmaster of the Staff post off[...]iously known as the Fergus County Sheep Com' pany and Busch Ranch. He married Hannah Krafb, who also[...]in the same area. His homestead was on Bear Creek and hers was on Box Elder Creek. The Sheep Company headquarters was at the conjunction of Big Bear, Little Bear and Box Elder Creeks. , . Olaf was a foreman at the Fergus County Sheep |
| [...]information sources: Harold Bauman, Aua Zahn and news articles. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ware were originally home-[...]eruptions even to the soles of his feet, and that he had |
| [...]Nry Nick worked at whaLever jobs he could find and even- were born, accidents happened and deaths occuned. |
| [...]391 Brothers and Valentine Cash store run by Waiter a popular area for picnics, swimming and $'ater skiers. |
| [...]rine Rice, Mona Beuis, Nan Weingardt and Zell Conolly[...]Hagen, Theron Conolly, Wayne Conolly and George[...]d in 19i3. The first teacher was Mabelle Galloway and one of the trustees was Ciyde Stephens. It ran un[...]belle Fritzner, Goldie Kilpatrick, Jennie McEaney and Maude Clark.[...]re Millie Fritzner, Josephine Wright, Mary Hughes and Reba Lewis. The district was in the part of the c[...]Margaret Hailstone and the teacher, Ruth Steuens.[...]and George Phillips. g v- { |
| [...]1916. He committed suicide. to the well and got a drink of water and dropped right George married Lillian Sollinger. T[...]by the well. His wife was only 14 years old when and she went home to her folks on Sage Creek. He came they married. Her father had a band of sheep and he af'.er her, two or three times, and finally told her she sent the girl and George Allen to Grass Range with the had to come with him. She said she wasn't. He had team and a load of wool. They tied the team up there in some strychnine or something and he was going to take Grass Range and went to Lewiston'n and got married. it. but they got it away from him and threw it in the Lee Allen, the contractor[...]another She remarried to Ted Brooks. one and he took it as he was going out the door. He went Eowenn AnNry AND EMERy AnNsy Ben and Mary were married and came to Montana, Their range was on Blood Creek and Sage Creek. |
| [...]1906 the post office was granted and a contract was let In the dining room, Mrs. Be[...]land for the town of ran many sheep at that time and had a big crew of men Valentine. He had it surveyed and divided into lots, working there. Mrs. Bean's hired helper was Ella streets, avenues and alleys. It was said that Mrs. Bean Murphy, who later married Harry Mclaughiin and was strict temperance so she would[...]early 1930's at Rochester, Min- miles or so south and bring back ali the mail for the nesota and Mrs. Bean returned to her old home town of neighb[...]Henr-ax AND ADELINE BEvIS[...]Many a time, I woke up in the morning and the bed ton. Harlan was from Indiana and Adeline was from clothes would be fro[...]condense and freeze against the boards. Ofcourse there In 1[...]ds that I usually slept with my liked what he saw and filed on a homestead 4Yz miles brothers. and on the outside ofthe bed. northwest of Valentine.[...]he story, We used to burn wood for heat and those cold winter "The next year we all moved to[...]took a lot of wood to keep any warmth in the ents and five kids. We came by train to Roy and then by house. team and wagon to Valentine. We brought our bag-[...]the folks ordered some of the things they needed and we John born in 1915; and Mona born in 1918. would go to Roy to haul them h[...]WalreH AND SrELr-A Bnvrs I can still remember that 12 x 1[...]paper shack with Walter (brother to Harlan) and his wife, Stella, and a box car roof. By tar paper I mean the cabin was[...]e wind, but the 1905, Della born in 1906, and Gladys born in 1916. cold came right on through.[...]Lssron AND DoRorHY BEvIS information courtesy of tlLe Petroleum History Group and Les Beuis |
| [...]Vele xrtsE stuck. A fellow on a horse came along and tied a rope They moved to Cat Creek in 1941. They ran the Cat John and Clara Blaine lived in Smithport, Pennsyl'[...]g. He purchased the B & B Motel in 1956' He Wiliiam J. Busby and his wife, Mary, moved from Wayne[...]o the Eager RurH AND MERLIN ALBERT BuspNsenx |
| [...]s dad hay Sam served in Germany, Korea and Viet Nam. He that year. He tramped the hay and moved it out to the married Judy Habutzel and thel'live in Billings with edge of the stack; qu[...]ng for a little six their two children, Joshua and Bree. Robert served in year old.[...]the army in Viet Nam. He married Pat Shatzer and We sold the place in the fall of 1g48 and moved up to they have one child, Sara Ann. H[...]roleum County. Julia Rae married Larry VanDyke and They bought the Trimbie piace at Valentine in 1[...]in Bozeman. They have one child, Charisse. Linda and have lived there for many years. Merlin and Ruth married Justin Brennan and they live in Circle. have five chiidren: Merle Le[...]Samuel For the last few years Meriin and Ruth have spent Alfred born in 1945, Robert Richard born in 1g49, Julia the winters in Arizona and enjoy living on the ranch Rae born in 1962, and Linda born in 1g64. the rest o[...]i different places, the young Utah, son of Merlin and Ruthelma Busenbark. Merl couple retur[...]t the Long School. He graduated from Merl and Gladys have one son, Ben Merl. Ben Fergus County[...]nett, graduating from high Merl joined the army and served in Germany during school in 1986. He went on to Vo-Tech at Helena, and the Korean Vy'ar. In 1962, he married Gladys Carr[...]usi- born in 1945. She is the daughter of Ambrose and ness, based at the home ranch. Annett[...]. His homestead was in T 18N R 258 Sections 25,26 and 35. He was a staunch supporter of county division (Fergus-Petroleum) and was also one of the sections most successfui farmers. He had three sons: George, Roy, and Harry, and a daughter, Amelia. Hany homesteaded in T 18N, R 25E, Sections 2b and 26. He married a Tindall, they had four children: Clare. Dorothy, Mary Jane, and Annabelle. Roy and George married sisters, Milly and Isabelle Fritzner, daughters of N.D. Fritzner from the Little Crooked area. Roy and Millv had four children: Earl, Isabelle, Flora, and Eileen. The children attended Little Crooked Scho[...]n the Bill Lane Filling Station in Roy for awhile and then moved to the Brownlee place. Later they move[...]George rr'as born in Mar"of 1896 in Nebraska" He and Isabelle had nine chiidren: George born in 1920 i[...]couver, Washington); Dorothy (Hager) born in 1922 and Anabel born in 1924, both i.n Haruest time a[...]h- west of Valentine. ington; Alvin, 1929 and Joyce (Francis) 1932 boih in moved back to Montana the following spring. Roy and Grass Range (Joyce died 1980 in Camas, Wash.): Le[...]in Winnett; Janice (Balsom) 1936 and Charles, Amelia homesteaded T 21N. R 25E. Sections 19 and in Battle Ground, Montana. 1940, both[...]the area The family moved to \Vashineton in 1926 and then for very long. |
| [...]nr Ceulxrxs Herbert Caulkins came to Valentine and rented the deceased; Carl who norv lives in Wallselea, Alaska and Ed Lambert place. On March 17, Ig2B he married[...]ol in Roy with the Thelma Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Ciark class of 1952. He became a minister and now lives in of Valentine. They moved to Palmer,[...], during the off in Palmer in the summer and often spends her winters season offishing, in[...]days. A daughter, Thelma, was born April 4, 1906, and Clairmont was born in 1908. They moved to Up[...]. Clairmont. "He always said he was just a green and gawky country boy when he met me, but that wasn'[...]ncouver, Washington. Robert now lives at Dovetail and lived there several years before going in Missoula and Gerald in Miles City. back to the Valentine area.[...]Clifford passed away on September 11, 1968 and when they lived on the west coast during World Wa[...]ebruary 19,7977. Both are buried in the Clairmont and Alzora lived in the Central Montana Lew[...]bout some neighbors in the Valen- country schools and Clairmont worked as a rancher, tine area. Tom and Hattie Hogan lived at the head of salesman, and grocer. They operated the Roy Grocery Dov[...]raised a nephew, Earl Steele, who now in Missoula and their winters in Apache Junction, iives[...]n granddaughter of the Couerts Eugene F. Covert and his wife, Mary Elizabeih Ward ery, and household furnishings in an "immigrant car[...] |
| [...]' grorvn, some of served at midnight. Bob, Ruth and Nan rvere read5r to them iiving in Montana, when[...]that they do their reguiar ranch work Mrs. Covert and her two teenage daughters, Ruth and without even a short nap. Nan, stayed wit[...]. Eugenia Ward, in Moore, while the girls' father and an In 1927, he married. Amy Lou Busby. Four[...]- Wiliiam, Scott, Jerry and Janice. An older daughter of the Coverts and her husband, The men must have become tired of eating their own Helen and Frank Messenger, homesteaded about ten cooking, b[...]ouse miles west of Valentine, between there and Roy. They up, and no roof on it, when they went to Moore to get had two daughters, Dorothy (Mrs. Les Bevis), and Irene Mrs. Covert and the giris. The trip from Moore to (Mrs. David Potter). Dorothy and Les now live in Valentine, in the spring of the year, was made by team Winnett. Irene is deceased. and wagon, with the family camping out under the[...]h Covert married Ike Messier February 1, 1917, in and the family got soaking wet in their beds. Several[...]smali boy; Roberta been set up in the house. Ruth and Nan took turns hold- Donovan, who lives in Lewistown; and Mary Daley, of ing a large umbrella over their mother while she cooked, Missoula. and over the family while they ate.[...]ll Formanack in December. In later years, Ruth and Nan often told of how they 1916. They are both deceased. Their only child was Bob and o{her young people in the area used to go to danc[...]went to live with her daughter, Ruth Messier, and often told of one particular time when it was 40[...]group of young people drove ten senger, and later in Lewistown until his death in 1939" miies to a dance. Bob and his cousin sat on the spring Mary Eiizabeth[...]ack of the wagon. VnnN AND EDNA Doucsrv AND SAM AND ZELL CoNottv |
| [...]-' ^4 Donald and June[...]Wallace and Edna Doughty and their gr[...]and ZeII Glendora folks. until the time of his death[...]Mari- noff. They had three children; Vern, Gail, and Arlee. Theron joined the Navy after graduating from high school and made it his career. He died in the early six- and retired from teaching in 1942. ties after a heart[...]while and from there to Winnett where they lived until[...]children. They sold the homest"ad at Dovetail and moved to they entered Valiey Vista[...]1966, a week apart; Sam from Parkinson's disease and had for taxes. Zeli ran the post office for sever[...]Melvin born in May of 1933, both in Valentine, and ton, South Dakota in 1893. He came to the Valenti[...]Arnold passed away on August 24,1953 and is buried and also sold gas.[...]Sinclair were married. They 1928 he and Isadeen in[...]until 1937 when they moved to 1969 and now lives at Corvallis, near her daughter, Grants[...]Mrs. Les Linendoll. Arnold and Isadeen had 5 children: Lola (Bailes)[...]a daughter, Phyllis, who home- born in June 1928 and Donald born October of 1929, stea[...]). both in Lewistown; Delmar born in June of 1931 and[...]daughter. Margaret, who married Chet Larson. area and moved to Rainier, Washington in 1935. He[...] |
| [...]flames. They lost ali their clothing, furnishings and Holms who was running a cafe in Roy. They lived i[...]Mr. Fegert had not been feeling well yesterday and reads in part:[...]ame almost instantaneously, men years and prior to that time had ranched in that area. working beside him reported, and resulted from a heart Alice continued to[...]Only 24 hours before at 9 o'clock Wednesday, Mr. and Csenr.rs W. FonrsMAN AND Errrue AlnxeNosn FoRssMaN[...],30,33 T 18N R 25E Sec. t. 2 |
| [...]rists. ness. Roy was found by Tom Hogan. Roy and Tom were The horse evidently started to run and the young man both working for Mr. Hughes at the time" was thrown and trampled and kicked by the horse, No one witnessed the[...]ce fatal. were investigated by Coroner Creel and Assistant The body was shipped to[...]GneNr AND MAUDo Gonr by Lyle Gore (eldest child) Grant and Maude Cox Gore homesteaded in the[...]about three miles awav. (the Valentine area and lived there until 1918. Their home- peopl[...]by Ed Styer. Dad and Uncle Jim dug a well, but the water was so[...]o we had to take them his neighbors in Seward and York County, Nebraska, to Blood Creek[...]job that first summer to keep the range tion and free land in Montana. cattle away from the garden and our milk cows. The They landed in Lewistow[...]e Bar headquar- My dad was shown a hundred and sixty acre tract of ters was where the L[...]rd bull steading, as it had not been surveyed and approved for came charging at our milk co[...]ling. Later he filed on an additional one hundred and close by the house. In the fracas our Jersey cow got her sixty acres, making three hundred and twenty acres -total,[...]eye put out. My mother grabbed a shotgun and shot the which was the maximum that[...]blinded and the cowboys had to take it to the ranch and Dad returned to Nebraska in the fall of '1[...]ate Cattle Co. beef when we of his livestock and machinery and find a renter for the couldn't keep them o[...]accepted by the Cattle Co. and I'm sure that other In.March of '14 he was[...]doing the same thing. immigrant railroad car and headed for Hilger, Mon- In the fall of 1914 we cut and hauied logs from the tana. Mother and us kids stayed in Nebraska until river breaks to build a log house and a barn. school was out and then we too, headed for Montana. Th[...]her homesteaders Galloways, our folks and some of the other neighbors, wife, Mrs. Miller and her two children, Clarence and they got permission to start a school i[...]rand- to Hilger by train. Ead had left a team and buggy there father passed away and we didn't frnd out about his so we started ou[...]o weeks or so. of us kids, ages eleven to one and a half. In the spring of[...]stead site. All earnest three horses and a walking sod buster. One the house we had was a small tar-paper cabin and a[...]of us boys had to walk along behind and throw the circus tent that we had brought from Nebraska. Three sagebrush out of the furrou' and the other one piled it boys, my uncle, four horses, and a couple of cows, up to burn. Actuall[...]raised a wagon load of watermelons, was warm and there were lots of things to do. We had to[...] |
| [...]had no meat, so Uncle Jim went over in the breaks and killed some sage hens and a couple of jack rabbits. Well, they looked kind of tough, so we cut the meat off the bones, ground it and our mom made a big meatloaf. We had some vegetables that we had raised and we ended up with a pretty good dinner. Our uncle[...]ee bachelors for dinner, so our mother had to try and fix something special. Their names were Raymond Dockery, Wm. Higley and Charley Swaddy. Dockery and Higley were The Gore family takenin 193[...]the photo are: 4th from the left Lloyd Gore, 9th and Dockery practiced law in Lewistown the rest of hi[...]and 13th Roy HaIm. By 19i5 there were 10 kids in school; two Living- stons. three Martins and five Gores. About that time a Mr. Slive (I think that was his 1918. Dad and I went there to harvest the grain that he name) decided to relinquish his claim and our folks had planted in the spring and to take the rest of our bought the house and with the help of the neighbors, machinery and horses to the place on Cottonwood, moved it on our land and gave it to the school district. where we had[...]d up all the g:ain until Martins, two Livingstons and two Gregorys' We aver- there was nothing[...]Our family grew while we were on the homestead and we were on the homestead, but when we gtaduated[...]here were fourteen children from the eighth grade and took our exams at the county eleven of us are still alive and scattered all over the supt. office in Lewistown[...]g:iven by numbers. Montana, Lloyd and Millie (St' John) of Lewistown and The last time I saw the homestead was August of[...]Peur, AND SADIE HacpN[...]n was born May 27,1885 in Cherokee, and then by putting on a rodeo for entertainment. Iowa. He died January 17,7962 and was buried in Fair- These were held out in[...]attle. They depended on rain to water their crops and children were: Twins, Paul Robert (Bob) and Margaret were fairly fortunate until the dry years of the 1930's Hagen Black; Thomas Hagen and Jeane Hagen Heller. came along. My parents, Paul and Sadie Hagen, came to Montana My person[...]te back to the 1920's. Our from Wisconsin in 1913 and settled on a homestead in home was a one room log house to which my dad and Petroleum County, about three miles south of Vale[...]der. Barnetts', Louie Phillips', Nick Hayfields', and Bill My first grade teacher was Ruth Ste[...]went to the Valentine School for the next or team and wagon. Cars, trucks, and tractors began to three years. Mrs. ZeIl Co[...]20's. Neighbors worked together, help- time and we all thought she was the greatest. We lived ing[...]ng up ice, threshing, three miles from school and walked or rode horseback' rounding up cattle in t[...]ghbors also got At times, when we were small and there was lots of together socially as often as p[...]when we got tired he would lie down in the snow and being invited out. There were no churches in the[...]ars. Most of the country kids the iocal ranchers and cowboys would cooperate now stayed at the dormitory. Board and room that year was |
| [...]403 six dollars a month and my parents had a hard time |
| [...]e is buried in the Lewistou'n City Cemetery. 60's and they had a daughter, Doris. They bought the Virginia Clare married Earl Brady and they ranched Gib Distad place and lived there for a few years, before[...]Hanson who lived at the struction for many years and now lives in Lewistown. Horse[...]was also a sister Keith Thomas was born in 1932 and lives in Lewis- to Elmer and Roy who lived in the area, her last name town. He[...]was Edwards. George Harrison was born in 1940 and died in 1957.[...]en sawed the logs into Harris was a sheep rancher and Mrs. Harris worked in rough lum[...]25E Sec. 11. 12 Anthony "Snowball" Hughes and his wife, Mary, men. Mary taught in many o[...]eShoeBarRanch. Snowball came ball became ill and was taken to the Lewistown hospi- |
| [...]T 18N R 25E Sec. 29 Edward and Anna Lambert and family moved from lhat area. |
Roy History Committee, Roy, Montana., Homestead Shacks over Buffalo Tracks: History of Northeastern Fergus County [Montana] (1990). Montana History Portal, accessed 17/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/3797
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