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 | [...]BALDY MOUNTAIN outh of Alder, Montana and near Virginia City, Montana in Gravelly Range bowing Pioneer Lady of the Mountain By: James M. Darby, Sheridan, Montana |
| [...]l depictions of families to massive chronicles of the rise and fall of entire civilizations. While we rely upon "professional" historians to describe and interpret the past in our scores of colleges and universities, we also rely upon non-professional historians to research and render much of our history. These "amateur" historians most often fail to receive the recognition which they deserve. This volume and it's predecessor, Pioneer Trails and Trials, are good examples of an important type of history which is im- portant to all students of localities and regions: community history, written by those who live in the community and who know it best. Among all of Montana's many counties, Madison is one of the most interesting, with one of the longest and richest recorded histories. No chapter of the state's history is more fascinating, or more nati[...]Virginia City's remarkable story of violent crime and vigilanteism in the 1860's. No area of the state better illustrates the key 1980's issue of environmental protection vs. development than does the upper Madison Valley and Ennis. The communities depicted in this volume nicely embody the Montana past. Their main streets and back streets still harbor the essence of the small town-rural way of life that has always been the heart beat of Montana and the Inter- mountain West; and their ranching-mining economies, societies and lifestyles are a vital link between our past and present. So this volume is a welcome addition to the growing historical literature of Montana, a state which has produced an exceptional number of good county and community histories. Madison County is fortunate to have such an active and dedicated historical association, and to have such public minded citizens as those who have created this book. All communities have histories, and all progressive communities must preserve and present their histories. In this volume, the people of Madison County are presented with a vitally important preservation of their heritage and they are fortunate indeed to have it.[...]Dean of Graduate Studies and[...] |
| [...]volume of Madison County History is dedicated to the second and third generations of the early Madison County Pioneers. We dedicate these transcripts of the new generations in order that other generations to follow may accept the challenge and - keep Madison County a prosperous and progressive county in which to live. Also to play an integral part in building a finer Montana and a great United States of America. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. Cover Design and Drawings - Jim Edwards .. .. ... . .... . .. . ..[...]assisted - Dorothy Tolson, Sheridan,· Lynn Giles and Esther Sommers, |
| [...]. . ... ........ .. .. . .... . .. . v Dedication and Achnowledgements ....... . .. ..... ....... vi Po[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . xI Ruby Valley Towns and Family Histories Virginia City . . . . . . . .[...]359 Silver Star and Waterloo . . ............... . .......[...]549 Madison Valley Towns and Histories Pony-Harrison ..... ... . ..[...] |
| [...]Governor Tim Babcock, an invitation he accepted. The[...]the lots between the postoffice and the old Elling Bank Building. Painted white and trimmed in red and blue, the[...]top was resplendent with one hundred red, white and blue[...]enhancing the Centennial festivities. The school reunion, held at the same time, brought former students from all over the United States.[...]May 26, 1963, saw more than 7,000 people at the parade and on the streets of Virginia City. A never-to-be-forgotten[...]An itinerant printer temporarily employed at The Madiso- nian was overheard to say: "This is the darndest place I ever[...]saw. A town of 190 people set out to invite the whole world to town for a celebration and doggoned if they don't do it." In the meantime, Virginia City lost its school for lack[...]young people and the children were bussed to Ennis.[...]n 1965 Charlie Bovey purchased railroad equipment and[...]Virginia City and Nevada City. This is a fabulous tourist fun[...]ride for old and young alike. Virginia City - Dressmaker Shop. Main Street looking west. The movie "Little Big Man" was filmed in Virginia Cit[...]and Nevada City in the fall of 1969. In 1958 J. Spencer Watkins, oldtime cowboy and son of Then it was 1970. In July 1972 a prisoner in the county jail Montana pioneers, financed the construction of the Madison set a fire in the ceiling. It didn't take long for it to reach the County Historical Museum at a cost of $45,000.00. The 105 year old wooden beams. Only the combined efforts of the building is on the old Peel Hotel site and has a false front Ennis, Alder, Sheridan, Twin Bridges and Virginia City fire identical to the old hotel. Now Virginia city had two departments saved the historic structure. The entire interior historical museums, the old Thompson-Hickman and the was badly burned and gutted. Temporary offices were set up new one, both fascinating to explore. in the schoolhouse and gymnasium. The Court was If the writer appears to be unduly preoccupied with earth- established in the church basement. A full year passed quakes, the night of August 17, 1959, remains forever in our before final restoration. All offices were re-designed, but the minds and memories. It was an earth-shaking event rivaling most striking of all is the 19th century courtroom replete gold discovery and Vigilantes. Early day diaries and letters with red velvet drapes and a red and black plush carpet. The spe~ ~f earthquakes to the effect that Virginia City, at the second floor at the top of the winding staircase depicts begmrung of the 20th century, was "shaking like a bowl full murals of pioneer days, placed here by The Madison County of jelly," but the 1959 quake made headlines all over the History Association. world when a mountain tumbled into the Madison River Several documentarie[...]made in Virginia City, south of Ennis damming up the river and creating a large the Bale of Hay Saloon being the most attractive site for deep lake. Twenty-eight[...]1975 brought a movie crew to In Virginia City the belfry on the old schoolhouse toppled Virginia City to film, in[...]e damage. Th~ Masonic lodges, Elles and Eagles have done their part in south end of the courthouse fell into the courtroom as well as making Virginia City lively in the wintertime, but Virginia the ceiling. Huge rafters crushed seats and jury box. The City, known in the old days as the "Queen City," has alwav~ building had to be tied together with iron rods. Repairs took been noted for its hospitality. three months. The new addition was erected at that time. Summertime brings thousands of tourists. Virginia City Also in 19fi9 the house at the Tash Ranch was moved to has become one of Montana's greatest tourist attractions. Nevada City and made into the present hotel. Other People jam the streets. A steady stream of traffic pours buildi[...]in. From a lone photograph of through the city. Some 100,000 or more visit in season. On a[...]duced balmy summer night, one can wallc up and down the main the main street. street and see a car from every state in the Union as well as By the time 1960 had rolled around, the Nevada City Canada. Conventions by the score take place in the Cradle of cabins and hotel were almost ready for occupancy. Before Montana History, another name for old Virginia City. The this, people had been housed at Bovey's Fairweather and town bustles in spring and summer, and rests in the fall and Bonanza Inns and Daylight Village in Virginia City. With w[...]rtheless, there's a constant string of events oc- the addition of the hotel and cabins at Nevada City, more curring all year long, and although small, it's a mighty good and more tourists were attracted to the area. little town. We can thank the Bovey Family for making[...]Virginia City a place to remember. One of the big events of the Sixties was the 100th Anniver- sary of the May 26, 1863 discovery of gold in Alder Gulch. At this writing, with the upgraded price of gold and silver, Preparations for the great day started months before. A many[...]printed on a scroll sixteen feet Few of the old families are left now, those. whose roots[...] |
| [...]redge, reaping $1,000,000 or more, some say, from the land. They employed many local people and took them along when they left Alder Gulch for greener pastures. The Prospect Mine and Mill were flourishing. Miners got[...]Bob 's Place - Oldthe Depression days. The city hall was the scene of frequent public dances and auction bridge became a popular pastime.[...]began extensive repairs of numerous buildings in the west Once again in 1935, earthquakes traveled to Virginia City end of the city. from Helena. This old territorial capital sets on a fault. Any The 10-year replay of earthquakes lengthened to a per[...]idents were awakened at 2:30 a.m. on a cool In the latter Thirties three buildings between the Masonic November morning in 1947 to the sound of breaking dishes, Building and the old Elling Bank burned to the ground. One chimney bricks clattering down the roofs, falling plaster and was a liquor store which created its own sound effects when broken windows. Virginia City, the epicenter of the quake, bottles of booze blew up. And in 1937, the Peel Hotel and had major damage. The front wall of the City Hall was Bar also went up in smoke and flames. There have been cracked; the Masonic Temple and the schoolhouse lost many devastating fires in Virginia City, and there were more plaster, chimneys and windows. The courthouse along with to come.[...]ter had 13 cracked windows. Mining picked up in the late Thirties and early Forties, and Charlie Bovey started buying up old player pianos in 1947. who can forget 1941? World War II. It almost killed The Brewery was in the process of being restored. In the Virginia City. Few were left to "keep the home fires summer of 1948 at the Brewery, the Virginia City Players burning. " Mining, which ha[...]were born when Charlie chanced to meet Larry and Dori halt. The young men enlisted or were inducted. Families Barsness at the Brewery. The "Stone Barn" Opera House picked up their belongings and moved to the West Coast to opened in 1949. Although the[...]jobs. cast and characters, the Virginia City Players during the Virginia City lost one lad--Billie Gohn, 19, s[...]season have been playing to record-breaking au- and Kathryn Gohn. Billie was a paratrooper killed in the Bat- diences ever since with excellent 19th Century melodramas tle of the Bulge in January 1945. and variety shows. One bright spot in the history of the 1940's. In the sum- Mining resumed in the late 40 's and early 50's. The Grant mer of 1944, Charles and Sue Bovey, while guests on a ranch Mine and the Easton and Pacific, along with other local near Ennis, came to visit Virginia City for the first time. In mines, were operating. the spring of 1945, Charlie began buying some of the oldest Likewise during the 1950's, the Boveys, concerned about buildings to keep them from being destroyed. Charlie the remaining buildings in Nevada City, in order to protect bought the Buford Block from Elling Estates Company in them, purchased the land. Thus began the Nevada City the spring of 1946 as well as a building from Humphre[...]Charlie's organ collection grew. He which is now the Fairweather Inn. At the same time he eventually built a music hall in Nevada City to house his fine reconstructed the Montana Post on the corner of Wallace collection some of which came from New York and Paris. and Jackson where the old Peel Hotel had been. He also The music hall is popular with both natives and tourists.[...] |
| Main Street Virginia City in the winter time could be a before the town was hit by several more inches of the white beautiful scr?ne for a postcard. This shot[...]During the 1920's, mining promoters came to the vicinity Virginia City, as other towns in the county, has witnessed and operated fictitious and real mines with money bilked change these last si[...]from Easterners afflicted with gold fever. With the era of Prohibition, the 1920's encouraged The Elling Bank closed its door in December 1930--a sad speakeasies, moonshine and bathtub gin. Virginia City, Christmas for most. The Great Depression had emerged. although the county seat, was no different. Gold was $20.00[...]e. Humphrey's Gold an ounce, women cut their hair and shortened their skirts. Dredge Company came to Alder Gulch in the early Thirties Sam, the only Chinaman in town, probably went south or bringing people with strange ways and soft drawling accents died. No one seems to know.[...]requently be seen who ate blackeyed peas and grits. They worked a dry land coming down from the Elling mansion balancing a big wicker basket of c[...]ast) caused a commotion. One gentleman driving to the county seat stopped to fill his Tin Lizzie with water at Granite Creek. The water went every place but in the radiator. The car kept moving out from under him. Driving with[...]lives again in painstaking detail in fine museums and individual buildings, once peopled .()y the original users of many well displayed relics of the past.[...] |
| [...]Miss Frances E. Gilbert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry[...]G. Albright, Clifford W. Albright and Richard H. Albright[...]who preceded his father in death at the age of thirty-three[...]years. On November 24, 1933 he passed away in the Murray[...]Lodge No. 2 and Virginia City Lodge No. 9 O.E.S. and held the highest offices in each at various times.[...]1861 and came to Virginia City with her parents by covered[...]Mrs. Albright was a member of the Montana Society of Pioneers, the Virginia City Women's Club, a life member and[...]Matrons Club and a life long member of the Episcopal[...]published in 1931 by the Frontier Magazine is found in[...]another section of Pioneer Trails and Trials. (Page 850) Of the six Albright children two are still living in Vir[...]city, Helen Erickson and Florence Thomas. Mrs. Erickson[...]taught school in Madison County for some time. She was ap- pointed the first County Librarian and held that position for many years. She is a life member of O.E.S. No. 9 and a Jacob Albright was born in New Salem, New Y[...]fifty year member of the Virginia City Women's Club. 17, 1860. At the age of twenty-four in 1884 he came to Virginia Ci[...]rginia City he went to work for Thomas J. Farrell and later for R.O. Hickman, proprietor of a merchan- dise establishment. In 1895 he purchased this business and operated it until his death. Mr. Albright was an active figure in the civic and political life and growth of the community. He served Madison Coun- ty as State Senator for two terms and was a credit to the county. He served as County Treasurer for eight y[...]. In 1916 Mr. Albright was elected delegate to the Republican National Convention held in Chicago.[...]of President Theodore Roosevelt, being invited to the dinner by the Mayor of Butte. The menu was inscribed on a copper plate and each guest received a silver medal stamped with the Greater Seal of Montana. Both are in the posses- sion of his two daughters, Helen Erickson and Florence Thomas. In June of 1889 Mr. Al[...] |
| [...]CLIFFORD AND VIRGINIA grew deep. Still every year there's an e[...]FORD) ALBRIGHT young people who have come to stay and put down roots. In time, they will be the oldtimers. Cliffo[...]July 6, 1901, to Jacob and Francis Gilbert Albright. He at- tended the Virginia City school, graduating from high school And now and then went on to receive his degree from the University of My mind lets go a thousand things[...]Helen McLean, a teacher Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, at Virginia City. They had two children, son Kay M. And yet recalls the very hour-- Caldwell and daughter Patty. Their marriage ended in Twa[...]lage tower, divorce. And on the last blue noon in May-- On Janury 27, 1948, Cliff married Virginia Hungerford The wind came briskly up this way, Cook at Butte. Virginia was the daughter of Clarence W. and Crisping the brook beside the road; Florence Brown Hungerford. She was born in Bozeman on Then, pausing here, set down its load June 7, 1915. She grew up in Madison County, attending Of pine-scents, and shook listlessly grade schoo[...]ls from that wild-rose tree. She graduated from high school in Elsie, Michigan.[...]--Thomas Bailey Aldrich Cliff and Virginia moved to Seattle after their marriage. In This book written for and by the second generation of 1951 they moved to San Diego, California. Their daughter those who came before and stayed, is compiled with love and Judith Cook was with them; and Virginia's son Brent and her nostalgia. mother and father joined them in May 1952. After her[...]father's death in 1953, Cliff, Virginia and family returned to[...]went back to California settling in Hemet where the climate in 2063 on the 200th anniversary of the discovery of gold in was dry and more conducive to good health for Cliff. Alder Gulch: "There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living. This we would Cliff died in 1975 and Virginia returned to Seattle where not exchange for the song of pleasure or the bursts of she presently resides. revelry. " Washington Irving Kay Caldwell and Judith Johnson live in Seattle; Brent[...]Cook lives in San Diego, California, and Patty Laurie lives in[...] |
| IN THE NA \1E AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF -m:br iJ,tatr of .:Montana was duly elected ro the office of Delegate to the National Convenuon of th e |
| Emma Batten. John Batten, and an unidentified lady in front of the old Batten Home in Nevada City[...]They lived in Nevada City, Butte and Anaconda, with GEORGE BATTEN George working the mines. The climate, however, proved too[...]severe on Anna's health and en route back to her home in News from his brother John made George, Anna and their Wales, she was stricken and died at her sister's home in two young sons, William and Evan, decide to come to Kansas. George returned to Butte to live, and became a America. The year is 1884. Unite[...]William and Evan, their two sons, made their home with[...]Uncle John and Aunt Emma Batten in Nevada City. They[...]attended school in Virginia City and grew to manhood with the same lure for mining in their blood as their father and George Batten (1865)[...]uncle. For many years they owned and worked the Mapleton mine north of Nevada City, and became naturalized citizens of the United States in 1904. (See their stories below).[...]WILLIAM JOHN AND MARGARET BATTEN[...]Wales, on December 1, 1877, was the first son of George and[...]Bill came to America at the age of seven and spent his life in Nevada City. He owned and operated mines in and around the Alder Gulch area, devoting his lifetime to mining, and was considered an authority on the mines and minerals in the[...] |
| [...]Gilbert; and Virginia Hagenberger.[...]Margaret was a nurse, highly regarded by the doctors of the area. She worked in and around the Ruby Valley for many years and also worked for a time at St. J runes Hospital[...]utte. It was during one of her calls to duty when she met[...]Fever (Tick Fever) and was seriously ill. Margaret was called[...]in to nurse him. They fell in love and were married. Bill continued to mine and Margaret kept up her nursing. She became a familiar sight at sick beds in and around Nevada City and Virginia City. Mrs. Sellers, Margaret's[...]1855 and died in 1941. Bill and his brother Evan negotiated a lease agreement[...]with "The California-Alder Gulch Corporation . . . Frank[...]Zichosch, Mining Engineer and President; also trying to get a lease on the Elfleda ... "and mining began. This had to be in the early 1930's. Bill Batten and friends, Nevada City (1937) Bill died Februry 20, 1942 at age 64, and is buried at[...]me personal notes a number of years but in 1945 she sold all of her holdings and in his life: "Mr. Wright leaves for Butte Thursday morning moved to California to make her home with her son and will be back next Monday and if the ore turns out Greenland and his wife Dixie Gilbert. She died November satisfactory why he will then take the kids back East ... Mr. 17, 1956 and is buried in Sunset Lawn Cemetery, Chapel of Richards was buried today. Mrs. Earp had made up some the Chimes, Sacrrunento, California. flowers. A cold day ... Evan and Uncle go up to the Home Stake tomorrow and I will be alone on the prospect." Bill married Mrs. Margaret Gilbert[...]Evalyn Batten Johnson August 1930. She was born in England. She had three Norma Brockman, Grandma Sellers, Margar[...]EV AN AND CLIDA BATTEN It's September 21, 1879 and the place is Merthyr Tudful,[...]outh Wales. A second son, Evan, is born to George and[...]an arrived in America at age five. Most of Evan's and[...]John and Aunt Emma growing up in Nevada City. |
| [...]Evan and Clida Batten and children, Evelyn and Bil~ Alder[...]Fourche, South Dakota, in 1962. She died there March 2,[...]burial at Nevada City, resting beside the son she so loved. Evalyn, Evan's and Clida's daughter, lives in El Dorado Evan and Clida Batten (1932) Hills, California. She is married to Richard F. Johnson and has two sons, Forrest Timothy and Steven William. In Woodland, California, Evan[...]born November 21, 1903, at Mount Vernon, Arkansas and had come to California to work Evalyn Batten Johnson in the Del Monte canning facotry. She had three children, Harley, Raymond and LaVada Lusty. Evan and Clida had two children, William John, born December 11, 1934, and Evalyn Elizabeth, born March 17, BEABER AND STALEY FAMILIES 1936. Evan continued to placer[...]e Jacob Beaber arrived in Virginia City in the early 1870's. to support his new family, and in 1938 he moved them all On September 23, 1876 he was-married to Katie E. McIntyre, back to Montana, where they lived in the house that is called according to an item in the Madisonian for September 28th the "Dressmaker's Shop" in Virginia City. Evan took ill by Reverend F.A. Riggin in Virginia City. Family records in- shortly after they arrived and Clida was forced to earn the dicate the name may have been McCally, rather than McIn- living. She worked at odd jobs such as janitor work and even tyre. took in washing and ironing to support the family. In 1944 A freighter, Beaber hauled ore from the Lincoln Mine own- they moved from the Dressmaker's Shop to the old hospital ed by Sailor Bill Parker. Apparently he was also an avid house at the other end of town where Evan died on January fisherman as the Madisonian notes that the paper was given 21, 1945, from silicosis. He had worked too long in the a mess of trout by him in December of 188[...]ed in Nevada City. at the National Park Hotel on Jackson Street. Now the house was too big, and Clida, Bill and Evalyn Earlier, in 1882, he had bought s[...]ngs were still very hard for Jackson where the Beabers had a home. Two daughters were Clida and work was hard to find. She finally went to work as born to Jacob and Katie Beaber: Ellen and Cora May. Ellen janitor for attorney Frank E. Bla[...]streak of good fortune. Clida times. leased the Cornucopia Mine to the Shute Brothers. It By her first husband, Mr. Pote, she had two children, a became one of the major gold-producing mines in the area. daughter Ellen, and a son Carl. The son died when he was Clida was able to quit her j[...]ixteen. Ellen was married to Fount Dixon. washing and ironing either. But leisure was difficult for[...]d husband, a man named Fellhauer, Cora May Clida. She had worked too hard for too many years. She had a son Fritz, who died in 1937. Follo[...]veteran from Kansas who had served with the Confederate No stranger to sorrow, Clida was d[...]n her son forces. Three children were born to the Staleys: Frank, Bill died on November 5, 1961. She never got over his death. Margaret and George. Frank and George were married to Virginia City was Clida's home and it was hard to adjust sisters, Dorothy and Ellen Christensen; Margaret was mar- when she went to live with her daughter Evalyn at B[...] |
| The Staleys lived up Granite Creek where he cut wood, hauling it to Virginia City and also did dray work. George Staley remembers that his m[...]least one rat- tlesnake a day near their home. He also remembers the children walking out over the hill to Adobe town and then in- to Virginia City. After Staley's death, at age 75, the children were put into the children's home at Twin Bridges. Frank, at 16, wa[...]to Virginia City to live with her grand- mother, and George spent five years there before leaving to l[...]Enger and Hakes Bennett LYMAN H. JR. AND ENGER BENNETT[...]Virginia City, Montana, second son of Judge and Mrs.[...]graduating in 1930 and entered the University of Montana[...]Hakes and Enger Lang were married in Missoula on April |
| [...]Eda and Frank Blair During the last two years of high school, he studied phar- macy at a local drug store and shortly afterwards passed the necessary examinations in South Dakota and received tive otherwise as follows: When the movement was on to registration as a pharmacist. He followed that profession un- force the various Counties to consolidate into larger units[...]Mr. Blair wrote the amendment to our State Constitution[...]prohibiting the forced consolidation of counties which he suc- In 1915 he and Rose Gertrude Bistodeau were married at cessfully lobbied and secured its adoption; served as County St. John's[...]at Groton. To them three Chairman of the Republican party for fifteen years; served children were born: Josephine Frances, Maxine Angela, and ten years on the Virginia City School Board; assisted in Stephen Robert. In 1920, Mr. Blair and his family moved to organizing a Council of the Knights of Columbus · at Dillon Butte, Montana,[...]employed as a registered for Beaverhead and Madison Counties; was a charter pharmacist at the Paxson and Rockefeller Drug Store, 24 member and first president of the Vigilance Club of Virginia West Park Street. City and was State President of the Fraternal Order of Mr. Blair had been studying law independently for a Eagles (1948-1949). He is also a member of Virginia City number of years and on December 13, 1921, he passed the re- B.P.O.E. No. 390. quired examinations and was admitted to the Bar by the In later years, Mr. Blair became instrumental in bringing Montana Supreme Court. He commenced the practice of law the Secular Order of Franciscans into Montana. Result[...]Dillon, Whitehall, Helena, Great Falls, Missoula and Polson. nia.[...]s Seventh Borromeo Award on Mr. Blair. In the summer of born, Leonard Eugene. 1970, the Montana State Bar Association awarded him its In 1928 Mr. Blair and his family moved to Virginia City in fifty-year certificate and pin, and in the sum.mer of 1981 at Madison County and purchased the Callaway family the State Convention of Eagles, Chief Justice Frank Haswell residence from Lew L. Callaway, where he and Mrs. Blair of the Supreme Court, in behalf of the National Aerie of the have since resided. He was elected County Attorne[...]civil "Reverence for Law" award. practice. He also supervised the operations of the Madison In November, 1970, Mr. Blair was elected District Judge Absract and Title Company, a legal specialty. of the Fifth Judicial District, Montana, comprising the coun- During his many years in Madison County, he has been ac- ties of Beaverhead, Jefferson and Madison, and he has been[...] |
| [...]d in to sit as a substitute Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He wrote the opinion in the landmark case of State of Mon- tana versus Karant[...]6. By independent study, Judge Blair completed the scholastic requirements of Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, as well as the residential requirements with a major in Public Administration, and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, cum laude, in[...]ifty-five years, has made a solid contribution to the success of her husband. A lovely housekeeper, her garden and flowers have been the subject of her tender, loving care in each of those years, earn- ing the admiration of her neighbors and her family. She has been most generous in sharing her flowers and vegetables, especially the African violets she prizes and grows in profu- sion. Mrs. Blair encouraged Judge Blair in his campaigns for District Judge and has taken an active interest in his judicial career. Judge and Mrs. Blair are Catholic Christians and regularly attend church services at Laurin, Montana. Mrs. Blair was born in Italy on April 13, 1906 and came to America in her tenth year. Their two sons, Stephen Robert and Leonard, after graduating from the University at Bozeman, with B.A. degrees, became school teachers, teaching in Montana, Washington and Oregon. Both married and had families of their own. Likewise the two daughters also married and rais- ed families. Stephen Robert Blair and Maxine Blair Williams died a few years ago. Josephine Blair Mathews and her husband, Lowell, reside at Folkston, Georgia, while Leonard and his family reside in Milwaukie, Oregon, a suburb[...]Lenore and Boyd Blevins (1940)[...]job with General Motors at Billings and moved his family[...]Ann, born in Whitehall; and Ihla Faye, born in Billings. Lenore Lynch Ble[...]Clayton Shewmaker |
| After several years in Billings, the family was transferred hotel and a restaurant to serve the tourists who began to to Denver, Colorado.[...]r 12, 1980 at Denver after a meet Larry and Dori Barsness and a group of college drama long illness. Her son Tom, Pastor of the Messiah Lutheran students. They began singing from some old music Charlie Church at Billings, conducted her funeral at Billings where had recently acquired, and agreed to do a show at an upcom- she is buried.[...]ing miner's convention. It was so successful that the shows Lee Ann graduated from college in Indiana and was became a regular event. This was the birth of the Virginia Ci-[...]cted to further her education in London, England. She then taught in Arkansas but returned to England t[...]melodrama has made them famous throughout the region. She now resides in Denver. Nevada City, the once bustling sister town of Virginia Ci- Ihla Faye graduated from college at Fort Collins and ty, a mile and a half north, had dwindled to only twelve present[...]buildings by the 1950's. These, too, concerned the Boveys, and in the late 1950's they purchased the area to preserve Lenore's son Clayton married Ann Martelli of Anaconda. them. After repairing the original cabins, Charlie moved a They and their family reside in Oroville, California. Cayton few old log buildings that were going to be destroyed to[...]main street as it appeared in a Boyd remarried and lives in Arizona. lone photograph taken in 1866. In 1959, the Great Falls Fair Board decided that "Old Town" must go to make room for a[...]Audrey Albrecht "Old Town " in Great Falls were unsuccessful, so the buildings were moved to the back street in Nevada City.[...]BOVEY destruction. The purpose of the Bovey's restoration is to[...]preserve not only historic architecture, but also the other Charles A. Bovey, the man who restored the oldest part of aspects of the culture it represents. Nevada City is thus uni- Virginia City and Nevada City, and one of Montana's most que in giving visitors a more detailed look at the past than is dedicated historians, was a true pioneer in the preservation possible in a regular museum.[...]born May 1, 1907 in Minneapolis, In the early 1960's, the great era of railroads was fading Minnesota, wher[...]r was involved with flour milling. rapidly, and Charlie Bovey became interested in preserving A[...]ndover Academy in some of the last beautiful passenger cars along with a bit of Massachusetts, Charles chose to learn the flour milling the romance of trains. He assembled a complete railroad business. He came to work in the Royal Mill in Great Falls, yard in Nevada City, and a narrow gauge railroad track was Montana, in 192[...]d to Virginia City. ing wheat than in milling it, and rented a small farm near The Boveys did not limit their service to the State to Great Falls. He later purchased wheat land east of the city, preserving things at Virginia and Nevada Cities. Charles and though he was involved in both cattle and sheep ran- Bovey served in the Montana House of Representatives from ching for a[...]rincipally a wheat rancher. 1943 to 1945, and in the Montana Senate from 1947 to 1965. Charlie was always interested in collecting old things for In the legislature he worked for improved highways and bet- the purpose of protecting them. Some of the first things he ter treatment of the mentally ill, among other projects. The collected were old vehicles, and in 1940 he displayed a few of University of Montana awarded both Mr. and Mrs. Bovey these at the Great Falls Fair. A month later, he heard about[...]degrees for their efforts in preserv- a historic old building in Fort Benton which was about to be[...]y. Both have served with dedication on torn down, the Sullivan Saddlery. The town was not in- the- Board of Directors of the Montana Historical Society, terested in having the saddlery restored on its original site, and many historic projects have received their help. so he carefully disassembled it. Re-erected, it became the Charles Bovey died June 9, 1978 in Nevada City. His wife beginning of "Old Town", a representation of an early Sue and their son Ford, along with dedicated employees, con- Western town built inside the huge exhibition building at the tinue to operate the Bovey Restoration with a love for Great Falls Fair Grounds. "Old Town " eventually contained history and an appreciation for the historic work which he twelve buildings, including a Victorian house and general began. store. Its major distincti[...]John D. Ellingsen que idea in portraying the past. While guests at a ranch near Ennis in 1944, Mr. and Mrs. Bovey visited Virginia City for the first time. They were thrilled to find original log buildings dating to the days of the Vigilantes still standing, though neglected. The thought LLOYD W. AND SELMA BROOK of these old buildings disappearing forever worried them greatly, and in 1945 they returned to try to do something to[...]orn in Waterloo, Montana, on March preserve them. The Boveys were able to purchase some of 19, 1896, son of Walter and Lilly Carney Brook. The family the oldest structures, and in 1946 work was begun. As each moved to Jefferson Island where he lived and worked until building was repaired, it was stocke[...]mer- World War I. In 1917 he enlisted in the Army and served in chandise to recreate the stores and shops of the gold rush the 91st Division of the 362nd Infantry which was involved days.[...]in several strategic battles in France and Belgium. On his While it was not the Bovey's intent to operate any[...] |
| [...](1952) Marvin and his mother, Selma Brook Order of the Eastern Star No. 9 and the B.P.O.E. Does. She (1943) Lloyd P. Brook[...] |
| [...]surrendered, his CHILDREN OF CARL M. AND ANNA MAY outfit was sent to Manila in the Philippines where he served (HARRIMAN) BURGSTROM his country in the Pacific area. He came home to Virginia Ci-[...]In 1950 Lloyd married Barbara Stiles. Barbara is the Lucille M. Burgstrom, oldest child of Carl M. Burgstrom daughter of Mary and Lester Stiles and was born February and Anna May Harriman, was born in Virginia City on May 27, 1931 in Butte. She graduated from Virginia City High 2, 1906. She lived in Virginia City and Butte most of her life. School, completing all 12 grades in Virginia City. In Butte she took a beauty course at Madam Carroll's Beau- Lloyd and Barbara raised three children: Philip, Mark and ty School and worked as a beautician until she married Linda. Currently Lloyd is employed by the Cyprus Minerals James L. Booth on April 19, 1925. He was born in Elliott and Barbara is Madison County Justice of the Peace. County, Kentucky on May 2, 1906, the same day and year Marvin, second son of Lloyd W. and Selma Brook, likewise that Lucille was born. He worked in the Butte Mines and as graduated from Virginia City High School and served his a musician. He died in Havre January 30, 1951. country during the Korean War at Hanford, Washington. In Th[...]James Booth, children: Debbie, Dennis, Glen, Dean and Grant. Marvin is a she and Theresa moved to Virginia City. Lucille took a job in detective with the Metro in Las Vegas, Nevada. the County Attorney's office working for Lyman H. Ben[...]Jr. She also worked for Robert Webb, John M. Comfort and Chester L. Jones, a total of 23 years in the County Selma Brook Attorney's office before she retired. Theresa Ann finished[...]Lucille is a musician and has played for many dances in and around the County. She also taught piano and accordion for several years. She is active in St. Paul's Episcopal DOLL (COX) DIXON BURGSTROM Church and is a charter member of Virginia City Drove No.[...]77 B.P.O.E. Does. She also belongs to Alder Gulch Eagle's[...]Auxiliary No. 664, and is a past matron of Virginia Chapter Elizabeth "Doll" Cox was born on North Meadow Creek No. 9, Order of the Eastern Star. west of McAllister and she believes her dad Walter was mid- She married Clarence Dixon on November 8, 1947. He wi[...]turned from service in Europe before her memories and their home was where the[...]Lucille now works in the Madison County Museum during Her grandfather, T.P. Cox had a vegetable and apple farm the summer. on Granite Creek north of Virginia City,[...]dren: Robert T.E. Bock born May 4, Her Dad was the best blacksmith in the Madison valley. 1948; Terryann Marie born December 21, 1950; and Cindy Her Mom worked many hard days to raise five[...]her care when her Dad had to go elsewhere to try and make a living during "The Great Depression". There were seven children: Vio[...]ions: Lucille Dixon, Theresa Bock, Cindy Bock on, and then there was Doll, Elizabeth Ann Cox Howell Dix[...]son in lap of grandfather, · Elmer on Burgstrom, and her young brother, Albert Henry "Babe" Bock. Cox[...]y brief marriage with Fred R. Howell, Butte. Then she married her childhood sweetheart, Ernest "Mutt" Dixon. Doll and Mutt had three children: Terry Ellen, Ernest Jay "Jake", and Beth Ann. Terry married Tom Bray of Sheridan. They live in Lakewood, Colorado, and have two children, Vincent and Cassie. Jake married Ginger Stephens of Virginia City. They live in Livingston and have three children, Jaylene, Jenea and Jason. Beth Ann married Jeff McFadden. They live in Virginia City and have one little girl, Kati. Ernest (Mutt) pass[...]n. Later Doll married Harold "Tuffy" Burgstrom and in- herited many children and grandchildren. They are set out elsewhere in this[...]sed away in October, 1981, so Doll plans to spend the rest of her life in Virginia City and enjoy the best little town in the world.[...] |
| [...]Virginia and John (Bus) Haskins Lucille's grandchildren and great grandchildren: Row 1: Bob Nancy is attending the University of Salt Lake at this Osmanson, Dale Os[...]Cindy Bock writing. Osmanson, Terry McCoy and daughter Tina. Row 3: Cathy and Bob Bock, John McCoy. Virginia was the first baby Dr. Clancy delivered in Virginia[...]City, so he named her Virginia. She spent most of her life in Virginia City. John spent several years at the George Lou born September 18, 1954.[...]two many fond memories of his stay with the Carkeeks. Virginia daughters, Shawna Mae, deceased, and Cindy Charity. They and John live in Butte. live in Miles City. Terrya[...]y. They have one daughter, Christina Luann (Tena) and live in Missoula.[...]le Osmanson. They have two sons, Dale Christopher and Kevin Matthew. They live in Silver City, New Mexi[...]n Harold C. Burgstrom, third child of Carl and Anna[...]He went to school in Butte and Virginia City where he[...]aduated from high school. In 1941 he enlisted in_ the Marines and saw action in the Solomons, at Tarawa, Srupan and Tinian. VIRGINIA MAY (BURGSTROM) HASKINS[...]July 6, 1946. She was born in Conrad, Montana, October 5,[...]1921. Harold worked as a miner and carpenter in and around Virginia May Burgstrom, second child of Carl M. and An- Virginia City, and as a printer at the Madisonian. Their na May Harriman, was born in Vi[...]08. After finishing high school in Virginia City, she Elizabeth Christine (Sally) born July 13, 1949; Jon Harold went to Butte Business College and worked as a born March 10, 1951; Karla Jean born October 15,_ 1953; stenographer until she married John J. Haskins on June 30, Cathleen M[...]ren, 1928. John was born March 3, 1906, in Butte, the son _of Henry Thomas and Victoria Ann, died in infancy. Elizabeth John and Mary Haskins. His parents died when he was quite had two children from a former marriage, Lea Ann and Pete young and he and his brother and sister were raised by a Crase. family named Rockerfeller. John worked in the Butte mines and later as a teamster. Lea Ann is married to Robert Dumezich and lives in Butte.[...]have one daughter, Gloria, born October 19, 1930. She married Theodore Jordan on June 8, 1952. They hav[...]ald Theodore, Robert Edward, Harold John, Tom and Kip William. and Nancy Lee.[...]hter, Mildred Elizabeth (Marnie). George died, ~d she daughter, Valery.[...]neth Wayne, and Harold Erick. She now lives in Anchorage, Theodore (Ted) married[...]Karla married Wiliam Carey. They were divorced and later[...] |
| [...]Doll was born to Walter and Pearl Cox at McAllister, Mon-[...]tana, on January 25, 1920. She married Ernest "Mutt" Dix-[...]on. They raised three children: Terry, Jay and Beth Ann. Harold and Doll live in Virginia City. He is retired and Doll works at The Madisonian. Harold was the first commander of American Legion[...]City Post #117's First Commander receiving gavel and bell in 1969 - American Legion she married Charles Philip Smith. The; have one daughter, |
| [...]Family with grandchildren (1978). Back row: Phil and Janet Fortner, Harland and Dorthy Stephens, Ginger and Jay Dixon. Front row: Jason, Phillip, Jenea, Shan~ and Jaylene. Jerry and Dean Burgstrom (1979). Dorothy married Harlan[...]He finished high school in Virginia City and entered the Jerry Burgstrom, youngest child of Carl and Anna May |
| with a group of men. Dean is interested in church work and CHILDREN OF MATT AND HELEN CAREY teaches a Sunday School class.[...]Burton Carey was born in 1907, the first child of Matt Carey and Helen Jeffers Carey. He went through elementary[...]and high school in Virginia City and was at the Dillon Nor-[...]Madison County and Yellowstone Park until 1937, when he[...]He was employed there and in Wisconsin and Wyoming until[...]In 1938 he married Dorothy Jenkins and three children[...]Scheirer, and is the mother of three sons; Burton, Jr., an ar-[...]chitect now working in the Los Angeles area; and David, a[...]widow, at Helena, Montana. The children born of this mar-[...]married to Cecil Davis. They have three daughters and live at Douglas, Wyoming; and Frank, an employee of Eastern Beryl (Mitchell) E[...]Montana College at Billings, married to the former Trudy[...]Zier, originally from Conrad. They have a son and a[...]HELL EVANS BURPEE Burton and wife Christine moved to Wibaux, Montana in[...]1951. They purchased a home there and are now retired. Bur- Beryl Helen Mitchell Evans Burpee was born in Virginia ton is an active member of the Sons and Daughters of Mon- City, Montana, on November 10, 1890 to James and Susan tana Pioneers and at this writing is serving as a Director of Jane (Strong) Mitchell. She was baptized in St. Paul's that organization. Episcopal Church. Her godparents were Ed Gohn and Mary[...]ton Carey Frances Vickers (before they became Mr. and Mrs. Gohn). Virginia City children were happy.[...]eam sodas at Rank's Drugstore were always a treat and school days were the happiest in Beryl's life. Miss Flora Duncan was one of her teachers. The family moved to Butte where Beryl attended Butte Business College. After graduation, she accepted a job in Deer Lodge. In 1918 she married Charles Lumen Evans. After he died, Beryl and her mother moved to Oakland, California. Beryl wo[...]kland's Million Dollar Hotel. On July 28, 1921 she married Joseph Stanley Burpee. She also acquired two stepsons. Stanley died March 11, 1963. Each Christmas Beryl recalls the beautiful memory of a Christmas tree in old St. Paul's Church and the Episcopal minister, the Reverend Charles Quinney. She remembers Professor Percy Purviance who brought a lot of new ideas to the Virginia City School, Anna M. Hall, one of her favorite teachers, and Hazel Carruthers; also the following friends who wrote lovely verses in an a[...]eck, Frank Sherwood, Harry Kammerer, Helen Ronald and his mother (November 1969) Mailand, Richard Albri[...]RONALD JEFFERS CAREY Pearl Welcher and Harry Reif. Beryl resides in San Leandro, Cali[...]Ronald Jeffers Carey was born April 2, 1909, the second son of Matt and Helen Jeffers Carey. He attended school and grew up in Virginia City. During World War II he[...]Beryl Mitchell Burpee ed in Anaconda at the smelter. He was employed for many[...] |
| [...]n his restoration project. He has never married and is living alone in the family home on East Idaho Street, Virginia City, his mother having died in November 1980, at the age of ninety-five.[...]MARY (CAREY) STILES Mary was the third child and the only daughter of Matt |
| [...]in Virginia City on March 14, 1914. He completed all Joe and Willa Carey with children Linda McCown and twelve of his school years at the Virginia City school, "Butch" Carey grad[...]ma Huber, Dixie Widner, Bishop. Willa and Linda joined him in the spring of 1942. Hazel Garrison, Bill and Evelyn Duncan. After graduation Also employed at the Vanadium were Jim Schneider and Ray he supported himself by mining. Held, both from Madison County. The Carey, Schneider, and Willa Marshall Carey, first daughter of Louie and Belle Held families all lived in Keough Hot Springs outside of (Berg) Mar[...]n in Pony on November 16, 1910. In Bishop. the spring of 1911 her family moved to a homestead on In 1944 the Careys moved to Tuolumne County, California, Norw[...]till live. A son, Lewis Matthew (Butch) was where the school was held in one of Bill Buttleman's born in Sonora on September 30, 1950. Joe and Willa cur- bunkhouses. The next year Mr. Buttleman donated land and rently live near Jamestown and have operated their own bail the new Norwegian School was erected, the rear of the bond business for the past 21 years. They have six grand- building clearly marked with his Diamond G and Circle Dot children: Jeri McCown Avery; Matthew, Kelly, and Joni Mc- brands. The teacher, Frances Wherry of New York, boarded Crown; Jennifer and Leslie Carey. with the Marshalls in their 4-room cabin. Eventually the school was closed for lack of pupils and Willa and her brothers Roy and Harold went to Harrison. Willa was in the Lind[...]t graduating class from there in 1928. For a time she worked at the Harrison Hotel, then attended the Normal Col- lege in Dillon for two quarters, after which she found work in AUSTIN N. (BARNEY) CAREY Virginia City. There in 1934, as the result of a blind date arranged by Austin, youngest child of Matt and Helen Jeffers Carey, Mary Smith, she met Joe Carey.[...]shing his shift at there attending school and graduating from Virginia City Humphrey's Gold Min[...]borrowed a car High in 1937. He entered the Army in March 1941 and was from his sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Lester Stiles, discharged as a Staff Sergeant in the Military Police Corp in picked up Willa, Green and Dixie Gilbert and went to Pony December 1945. where another carload, Fred and Oleta Box, Rita Brownback, In 194 7 Austin married Mildred Johnston Hill. Mildred and Willa's brother Harold accompanied them to Bozeman. and her twin sister, Marian, were born at the Winslow Ranch There at the home of Wylie Davis, Joe and Willa were mar- near Sheridan, Montana. Mi[...]Winslow, Sr., is said to be the first white child born in Alder Their first hom[...]me Mildred was married to Walter (Bunker) ment in the Kate Pankey house which they rented for $16.00 Hill. They had one child, Lee Roy. a month. Frieda and Ray Held lived upstairs. Austin and Mildred have three children: Contance, Penny On[...]nd anniversary a daughter, Linda Ann, was and Stephen. born in Virginia City. After that they moved to Pony and On January 1, 1948 Austin started his c[...]and Bozeman. Since 1973 he has served as a Gallatin C[...]employment. He Deputy Sheriff at Big Sky and the Gallatin Canyon, where he was hired as a diamond driller at the Vanadium Mine at and Mildred currently reside.[...] |
| Mildred and Austin Carey (1981) at Big Sky Lee Roy Hill w[...], |
| [...]Back row: Ruth and Lawrence. Front row: Gene Hann~[...]Mandy Hanni Kelly holding daughter Bridget, and Ethelyn[...]g in Seattle, Washington. Ruth Jane is a Lawrence and Ruth Christensen (1930) bookkeeper and at the present time is working for Fish Ter- 1912. She attended the local school and grew up in Virginia minal in that city. Cit[...]Hanni of Virginia City. On September 21 , 1930 she married Lawrence I. They had one[...]rn October 24, 1907 in Dillon, Wayne Kelly and lives in Roundup, Montana. They have a Montana, to Chris H. and Nettie Jane Christensen. He at- little girl named Bridget. Ethelyn and Gene now live in Jef- tended school in Alder, and in Virginia City where the family fers. Gene works for Madison County on the road crew. moved in 1920. For a time Lawrence worked as an appren- Ethelyn works for the Social and Rehabilitation Services at tice carpenter with his father, and then established his own the Virginia City courthouse as an eligibility technician. She carpenter business in Virginia City in 1930. has been with SRS for many years. Ruth and Lawrence had two daughters: Ruth Jane Darby Ruth and Lawrence celebrated their Golden (50th) Wed- born in Virginia City September 14, 1931, and Ethelyn May ding Anniversary in 1980. Hanni, also born in Virginia City, on May 2, 1934. Both graduated from the Virginia City High School. In 1941 the family went to Three Forks where Lawrence[...]Ruth McClurg Christensen worked for the Milwaukee Railroad until 1946 when they returned[...]COLE AND BAKER FAMILIES Ruth went to work as Deputy Assessor of Madison County in 1954, a position she held until she retired January 1, 1976. Due to ill health, Lawre[...]n 1972. NELSON E. COLE AND ELLA FITCH COLE Daughter Ruth Jane married Dal[...]sylvania. In 1864, at the age of 29 he crossed the plains and Christensen, Ruth Jane C. Darby (45th wedding anniversary settled in Virginia City. For many years the pistol he carried of Ruth and Lawrence - 1975) across the plains was in the Virginia City Museum until a robbery took place and many guns were stolen, his among[...]them. He was a carpenter and a mill wright by trade and was employed in the building of many of the mills and mining[...]to Pennsylvania and married Ella Albina Fitch, the daughter of a friend, and brought his bride to Montana. Ella was born[...]in Port Allegheny, Pennsylvnia in 1847. She was twelve[...]quite five feet tall but of indomitable courage and[...]They made their first home up at the head of Alder Gulch[...]child was still-born and buried up there. Ella became very homesick and her father sent her money to come home for a[...]visit. However, instead of doing that she took the money and purchased a cabin on Idaho street in Virginia Cit[...]stands. Over the next few years Nelson kept adding rooms[...] |
| [...]CHARLES S. AND NELLIE (COLE) BAKER Ella F. Cole on the porch of her home in Virginia City Charles S.[...]1872. He came to Montana about 1902 or 1903 and settled in to the home whenever finances and time allowed until they had a comfortable home w[...]ia City. A Madisonian account in December 1903 The Cole~ had two children, Nellie, born in 1873 and states that "One door east of S.R. Buford and Co's store is ?ne of th~ best equipped and most satisfactory eating houses Albert, born in[...]m the city. C.S. Baker is the rustling proprietor, and ing a stroke. After his death Ella supplemented her income by taking in sewing. She was a beautiful seamstress. Shealthough he has been in the business but a comparatively[...]ilt up a patronage se- was a devout Episcopalian and a charter member of Virginia[...]in Virginia City." City Chapter No. 9, Order of the Eastern Star and served as Charlie was a Baker by name and a baker by trade and was their secretary for many years. Her daughter died in 1915 and at the age of 68 and for the next fifteen years sheknown during his long resid[...]"Baker the baker ". He was also an excellent carpenter. devoted her life to the raising of her daughter's three small children and to keeping house for their father. On September 13, 1905 Charles married Nellie Cole in the She died in 1930 at the age of 83. Episcopal Church in Virginia City. They were married by the Rev. Charles Quinney. Nellie was the daughter of Nelson Albert Cole served in the Spanish American War, was a and Ella Cole, pioneer residents of Virginia City. She was conductor on the street cars in Butte and later a Forestborn in 1873 in Virginia City and spent her entire life in Ranger for the U.S. Forest Service in the Deer Lodge Na-Madison County, graduating from High School and later tional Forest. teaching at the Hutchins ranch on the upper Madison. He and his wife Etta had two sons, Nelson and Grant. Following their marriage they lived in Virginia City and up Albert died April 17, 1972 in Beaverton, Oregon at the age of and down Alder Gulch in various homes while Charlie w[...]ed as caryenter on the Dredge boats for the Conrey Placer[...]o. About 1913 they homesteaded on 160 acres just The twuse that grew from a cabin, Nelson and Ella Cole south of South Ruby. He continued to work at the Dredge residence on Idaho Street, Virginia City bo~ts part time and also he and a nephew, Ornaldo Baker, built the Taylor School house. The children remember that whenever the family needed cash money badly, their father[...]would make a freezer of ice cream and they would take it in the buggy to Ruby and the South Ruby settlement and would drive up and down ringing a little bell and sell ice[...]In 1915 the family moved to Virginia City so the two older children, Kenneth and Dorothy could attend school Nellie took pneumonia and died in December 1915. The children, Kenneth, Dorothy and Harriette, who was just a year and a half, were given to the care of the grandmother Ella Cole and ~harlie worked at various jobs to support the.family. H~ contmued to work the farm, taking the older children with him during the summer.[...] |
| [...]roner of Snohomish County for many years. Kenneth and Edith had four sons. At the age of 56, in 1964, Kenneth and his sixteen year old son, Ken Garth, were both killed on an[...]a car ran out in front of them and he swerved to avoid hitting it. His wife and two oldest boys have continued to operate the family business and Bakers Ambulance is well known in[...]western Washington. Kirk, the youngest boy is a ski instruc-[...]tor in Aspen, Colorado and operates a kyak school there in the summer months.[...]John M. Comfort, son of ,Lynn and Marie Lott Comfort, St. Paul's Churchyard, Virgin[...]school and grew up, graduating in 1929 from high school. and the family moved there and resided in Whitehall until He attended the Normal College at Dillon and the Principia 1927. About that time the bakery was sold and Grandma Junior College in St. Louis, Missouri, and acquired an LLB Cole and the two girls moved back to her home in Virginia Ci- degree from the law school in Missoula, Montana in 1936. ty. Kenneth was in school in Nebraska at the time. During World War II he served in the Army in a Prisoner During his lifetime, Charli[...]akerys in Whitehall, of War Processing Company. The travels in this company Townsend and Ennis and cooked in many of the cafes and took him to England, France and Belgium. He was discharg- restaurants in the county and was cook at the Children's ed in 1945 after serving for 3[...]d as County Attorney of Madison County for 3½ by old time residents for the delicious pulled taffy he made. years, after w[...]went to Washington to be with his son about 1950 and Abstract and Title Company m VITgmra City. He later passed away there in 1952 at the age of 80. operated his own abstract company until he left in 1962 to Charlie and Nellie had three children: Kenneth born April join the Frisbee Abstract Company in Cut Bank, Montana. 13, 1908; Dorothy born March 10, 1909; and Harriette born He terminated his association with the Frisbee Abstract March 23, 1914. Dorothy married John C. Tolson and they Company in 1968 to become manager of the Shelby, Mon- lived in Madison County and Virginia City for many years. tana office of the First Montana Title Company. In 1969 he They now[...]. Harriette married was transferred to the home office at Great Falls, where he Ralph Brownell. They lived at the Madison Power plant for held the position of title examiner until his retirement i[...]native of Lon- Kenneth was a licensed mortician and for several years don, England, whom he married in 194 7, _and _a son Robert L. was associated with Dokken Funeral Home in Bozeman and Comfort. Robert is married. He and his wife Luella, have operated a branch of that business in Virginia City. He later moved to the west coast and was married at Fort Stielacoom, Betty and John Comfort (1947) Washington to Edith Sachs. Af[...]rs as a Chief Phar- macist Mate on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II he returned to Washington and started the Bakers Am- Dorothy, Kenneth, and Harriet Billings - 1953[...] |
| [...]1916 in Virginia City to J. Fountain Dixon and Mary Ellen[...]Pote Dixon. He had two brothers, Carl and Clarence, and one[...]joined the Marines and spent four years in the South Pacific.[...]the union was born Ellen Terry (Bray), Ernest Jay Dixon and[...]rnest worked for a short time with Dave Krauss in the sawmill business in Ruby Creek in the Madison Valley and[...]Rock Mine in Melrose until the mine closed in 1967. He pass-[...]away February 28, 1968 in Fort Harrison, Montana and was buried in the Virginia City Cemetery. He now has six[...]grandchildren: Jaylene, Jenea and Jason Dixon; Vincent and Cassie Bray, and Kati McFadden. Left to right: Jack Comfort, LeeAnn Comfort and Robert L.[...]981). two children: LeeAnn, presently five years old, and Jack, WALTER AND PEARL COX Philip Charlt[...]Virginia City, Montana, to Hortense (Hotie) and Mont- Carl Dixon (1913-1974) was born August 24, 1913 at St. Ig- |
| [...]ti Duncan Martinson (1928) from Jefferson County, and in 1952 he was elected District Judge of the Fifth Judicial District of the State of Montana PATTI DUNCAN MARTINSON and served on the bench continuously until his death in 1970. Judge Duncan was a member of the Advisory Committee Patti Duncan Martinson was born March 17, 1907 at to the Supreme Court of Montana on the new Rules of Civil Virginia City, Montana, the daughter of the late Senator and Appellate Procedure. He was President of the Montana Montgomery M. and Mrs. Hortense (Hotie) Duncan. She was Judges Association as well as Secretary-treasurer of the christened Hortense Cave Duncan, but called Patti for ob- association. He served in the Supreme Court on many occa- vious reasons, her birth date. sions and wrote a number of opinions of that court. He was She attended school in Virginia City, but graduated from Chairman on the Sentence Review Board of the Montana Butte High School in 1924. In 1928 she graduated from the State Prison, which in addition to reviewing prisoner senten- University of Montana at Missoula where she was affiliated cing, initiated many prison reforms. Noted for many years in with the Alpha Chi Omega social sorority and was active in Who's Who in the West, he was a respected, able lawyer and campus affairs. judge. In 1968 she married Karl L. Martinson. They made their Phil[...]n Whitehall. Two daughters were born there, Kayel and enjoyed fishing the many streams he had known as a Elizabeth and Patricia Jean. youth, and took an active interest in photography, water col- In 1940 Patti took over the Jefferson Valley News which ors and astronomy. Much of his leisure time was spent in the she published continuously until her retirement in October Pony-Potosi area where the Duncan lineage goes back to the 1970. She was a three-year delegate of the Execuive Com- 1880's. mittee of the University of Montana Alumni Association, On May 9, 1970 Philip died suddenly at the age of 64 in his served during World War II on the Jefferson County War chambers in the Beaverhead County Courthouse. He is S[...]Chapter of Infantile Paralysis for eleven years and was At this writing his widow Kathryn Duncan He[...]Democratic Precinct Committeewoman, both county and in Dillon. His eldest son, R.M. Duncan lives in Santa Anna, state. She also was a member of the State and National California with his wife and four children. Kathryn Jane Press Associations. She is a member of the Episcopal Grady and two children live in Missoula. Irene Cave Duncan Church. Erdie and husband reside in Bozeman with two children. Kayel lives in Seattle and has three children: Monte, David Hotrum Duncan is in Seattle. Elizabeth and Duncan. Patsy lives in Butte and has five Philip had a keen sense of humor, patience and understan- children: Anthony, Rebecca, Thomas, Jennifer and Gary. ding. People that knew him since childhood[...]ories of a girl growing up were at Potosi on just and true friend. summer vacations with her parents and brothers Dean and[...] |
| [...]r......-.._ "---- Paul Sheeley Duncan was the sixth son of William Patti and employee Jefferson Valley News (1940)[...]Missouri on April 16, 1878 and came to the Ruby Valley in DEAN M. HAUSEMAN[...]Paul received his education in Pony and worked with his Dean was the son of Mrs. Montgomery M. Duncan. He was . brothers in the mines of that area, principally on Norwegian born[...]1898. For a time he lived Creek. He also worked in mines in Butte. He and his brother with his gr~dmother, Mrs. Jennie Pidg[...]to Virginia City. Dean was drilling and entered many contests. He was an avid sports the first graduate of the Virginia City High School. fan and played on the Po!ly and Virginia City baseball teams. He attended Montana State College in Bozeman and after He met an Iowa "schoolmarm[...]iends his graduation made his home there where he and his wife Ed and Elizabeth Avery. After a mail courtship of two ye[...]along with other stationery items. In and two trips to Iowa, he brought his bride, Clara Be[...]ia City in 1907. He con- Dean died at Helena in the fall of 1970. tinued to work in the mines of the area until he moved his He had one son, Dean Jr., who has five sons and is current- family to Mabton, Washington[...]Duncan, Artyle Duncan to Paul 's left and in front. Others m Philip C. Duncan and Dean M Hauseman (Potosi - 1950)[...] |
| Paul and Clara had three daughters: June, Virginia and During the war she joined the WAVES (United States Doris.[...]Navy). After her discharge she returned to college where she Clara taught in the Virginia City schools and was active in received her BA from Boston University. After graduation church affairs. She served as president of St. Paul's Guild she came to Virginia City in June, 1950 to take a course in and superintendent of the Sunday School. hand weaving at the Tidball Studio. During the summer she Abut 1911, Paul, accompanied by his wife, baby[...]bert Evans in his new shop, Madison Mineral Shop, and mother-in-law, drove a team of horses and wagon to and they were married June 16, 1951. Yellowstone Park, camping out. The encounters with bear Their first daughter was stillborn March, 1952; son and vigils at night over bonfires to protect the horses and Christopher Linn Evans was born June 22, 1953; and food were topics of conversation for years.[...]ing World War I he joined his brother, Orrick, in the During the Fifties, Gil and Elizabeth (Libby) owned and Buford Mercantile Store in Virginia City, working there until operated the Rock and Shuttle Shop in Virginia City, with 1922. He was active in community and church affairs and Gil's jewelry, ore rocks, stones, gems, etc. and Libby's weav- was a member of the Masonic Order. He loved fishing on the ing. In 1961 they opened the Virginia Terrace Motel with Madison and other nearby streams. In 1922 he moved his just the office and two rooms, adding two downstairs rooms family to[...]summer, finishing in August 1963 for a visit from the until his retirement in the 1930's. He returned to Montana Flathead County Sheriff's Posse to the Territorial Centen- twice: to build a cabin on a ranch property of his brother nial. Mont and renew old acq__uaintances and visit old haunts; the Gil worked for six winters as a sampler in the Butte Mines, second time was after Mont's death.[...]lizabeth (Libby) worked winters as a secretary in the of- September 1943. Clara died in September 1944. fice of Madison County Attorney from the fall of 1971 to the June Duncan Hunt died in San Francisco in 1963;[...]f 1977. Duncan Jackson lives in Aurora, Colorado; and Doris Dun- Chris will receive his Masters in Biology in the spring of can Notton lives in Milford, Ohio.[...]Carole moved to Alaska in 1974, met Don Glassmire and[...]y now have two girls, Fawn, born December 7, 1976 and Virginia Dunca[...]Elizabeth Linn Evans J. GILBERT AND ELIZABETH L. EVANS Joseph Gilbert Evans was born in Oregon and moved when |
| Edith and Cal bought a grocery store, and later Cal worked One of the experiences Dixie will never forget was having . as staff assistant to the Sacramento County Sheriff. He an auto accident and waking up to find them putting her in a retired a few years ago. They recently sold the store. hearse (also used as an ambulance) to take her to the doctor. Cal started the Crime Prevention programs in Sacramento Good thing she was strong and healthy. and became consultant for similar programs throughout the Humphreys moved to Helena and Green and Dixie went country. with them since they were all like one big family. Their Edith does lots of v[...]nt daughter Dixie Margaret was born in Helena and now lives of the Sacramento Cerebral Palsy Association, is active[...]ramento, California with her husband Tom Fletcher the Easter Seal programs and the Goodwill, plus a past and three daughters. District Governor of the Lions Club. Shortly after that, they moved with Humphrey's to Edith and Cal have a "second" home in Nevada City, California. Then it was World War II and Green went to California in the foothills which reminds her of home. Edith work at McClellan Field in Sacramento. He also was a won't be a true Sacramenten until oranges are more impor- volunteer fireman at the Arcade Fire Department. tant to her than snow at[...]t happened Son John was born in Sacramento and still lives there with yet. his wife Suzanne and two sons. After the war Green went to work for Jacuzzi Pump Com-[...]he worked until his retirement. He kept all the city and coun-[...]ty pumps in top working order including those for the Delta area farmers. Dixie also worked at McClellan Field and DIXIE (WIDNER) AND GREENLAND GILBERT various[...]in 1980. Dixie does volunteer work for 19, 1913, the daughter of Louis and Esther Potter Widner, several organizations now and is grateful for a thoughtful the sister of Leo (Bud) and Lenore (Sis). As a child she grew caring family. She travels occasionally visiting Green's up in and around Virginia City. When her mother married sister Virginia and some of the old Humphrey's gang in Lewis Gilbert in 1921, they li[...]us gold mines where Florida, as well as family and friends in Montana. Memories she and her sister, Edith Gilbert, made friends with the of Montana are pleasant and heart-warming. many animals which were so plentiful then. Some of Dixie's fondest memories were the family get-[...]ll Widner togethers at her grandparents' (Seymour and Sarah Potter) lodge at Meadow Lake. She often worked there during the summer. Dixie attended school in Virginia City and remembers the CHILDREN OF GEORGE E. AND MARY (MAY) GOHN good times she had with friends Mary Smith, Hazel Gar- rison, Wilma Huber and Dorothy Vickers. After graduation GEORGE HAROLD AND KATHRYN (HUBER) GOHN she went to Portland, Oregon to live with her brother Bud and wife Frances, and to work. She stayed there until the George Harold Gohn was the oldest son of George E. and grave illness of her mother brought her back to V[...]ia City. Her mother passed away in 1934. In 1935 she married He was also the grandson of two Virginia City pioneers, Greenland[...]worked George Gohn, who arrived in 1863 and Robert Vickers, who for the Humphrey Gold Mining Company at Nevada City. arrived in 1865. Green's mother Margaret Batten and step-father William Born January 8, 1897 Harold, as he was known, attended Batten and his sister Virginia lived in Nevada City also. school in Virginia City, graduating about 1916. During the Dollis Hodges, Dixie and Green Gilbert (May 1979) Harold and Kathryn Gohn - Christmas 1965[...] |
| [...]went to work for the shipyard at Bainbridge Island, later[...]moving over to Todd's shipyard. The Gohns spent the war[...]Following the end of World War II, Harold and Kathryn[...]he went to work at Hungry Horse Dam and later for the[...]was made business agent for the Plumber and Steamfitters[...]The Gohns then moved back to Virginia City to settle[...]n. For several years Harold served as marshal for the[...]Elizabeth Kathryn Huber was the daughter of John and[...]to Oregon in the 1870's where he worked as a cowboy for[...]Ellen Beaber was the daughter of Jacob and Katie Beaber[...]who had come to Virginia City at least by the early 1870's.[...]r, Bob. At Virginia City's school reunion several old Madison Coun-[...]ng in 1918. Her family moved to Butte soon after. the extreme left, is visiting with Gene Garrett, then[...]When the Gohns were living in Kalispell Kathryn acted as a near Anaconda, while Carl Hubner of the Madison Valley listens to Bob Gohn.[...]After returning to Virginia City she was employed by the summer months he worked on various ranches in the Ruby Bovey Restorations in a gift shop and also worked for the and the Madison Valleys. Shortly after leaving school, Thompson-Hickman Museum, Raper's Funeral Home and, Harold moved to Butte where he first worked for the Butte more recently, the Kand L Mortuaries. After Harold's death Paper Company and later in the mines. On September 9, she moved to Sheridan where she died October 4, 1981. 1919 he was married to Elizabeth Kathryn Huber in Butte. The Gohns had four children, three of whom are living. In the late 1920's the couple returned to Virginia City One son, Geo[...]rk for mines up Alder Gulch. He ed during the Second World War in January of 1945. Serv- also put in some time operating Bob's Place for his brother, ing with the paratroopers, he was killed at Bastogne in the Bob Gohn, who took an extended vacation in California. In Battie of the Bulge. His outfit was a part of the 101st Divi- 1930 Harold was put in charge of the Winnetka mine, a posi- sion entrusted to hold[...]the military service in August 1943, just three month[...]passed his 18th birthday. He had a preference for the[...]blindness. He then volunteered for the paratroops because,[...]as he put it, "it was nearer to the air corps than any other branch of the service". The oldest son, Robert lives in Naalehu, Hawaii with[...]wife, Irene. Two daughters are also still living: Winnie, who[...]ROBERT E. AND MARGARET (STALEY) GOHN[...]Robert E. Gohn is probably the best known citizen of[...]Bob has refused to let the handicap interfere with a busy, useful life. As owner of Bob's Territorial Bar, a modern-day[...]general mercantile, Bob is on the job every day, waiting on[...]his parents, George E. and Mary Frances Vickers Gohn, were[...] |
| [...]ing during the summer months. His first job, at 12, was herd-[...]s for local families, taking them out to graze in the mornings and bringing them back at night.[...]Dad's meat market and was a butcher in Sheridan and in Butte before going to work for the High-Up mine in January[...]the drift to lay track. Water covering the floor of the drift[...]His partner, Clarence V arker, was outside at the time, leav- ing Bob alone in the drift. Crawling to the entrance, Bob was[...]ed on a freight car for the trip to a Butte hospital. He and his[...]partner did not meet again for 61 years but in the summer of[...]around. After the accident Varker had returned to North[...]When Bob was released from the hospital he attended the Boulder School for the Blind where he studied braille along with the current rehabilitation courses. He was doing well[...]magazines and newspapers, then with a line of merchandise,[...]William Ray "Tuffy" Kohls, who was running the Anacon-[...]offered to sell the business, turning the lease over to Bob and letting Bob pay for the inventory as he sold it. Hannah[...]McGovern, owner of the building, scotched the deal when she heard of it; fearing that Bob might burn the place down, she closed him out. In 1973 Bob and Maggie took an extended winter vacation Walking up the street Bob went into the Little Club Bar which included a visit to their s[...]hall instead of a more lucrative saloon and times were tough. Bob's mother, Mary Frances Vickers Gohn, celebrated her Re-naming the business Bob's Place, he operated it from 100th b[...]at Bob's home. Mrs. Gohn is 1926 until 1943. He also became a Justice of the Peace in flanked by her grandsons Ed and Rick with sons Bob and 1926, resigning 50 years later when t[...] |
| into an eight-hour-day job by the revised constitution. In 1929 Bob added another b[...]Bob opened theatres in Ennis, Sheridan, Whitehall and Twin Bridges, hauling his projectors from place to place in a panel truck. His younger brother, Harry, was the driver and projectionist during the early years; when he left town, Bob hired various young men in the county. He handled managerial and ticket duties himself. During the early 1930's a local girl, Margaret Staley, began[...]periods at Bob's Place. On February 17, 1938 Bob and Maggie were married, moving into a new house on I[...]self. Since lights were no problem, Bob worked on the house at night after closing his bar. This, according to the Madisonian, caused a few comments from the neighbors. In 1943 Bob bought the old Content Corner building at Wallace and Jackson, one of Virginia City's first stone struc[...]pleted in 1864. Bob's Grandfather, Robert Vickers and Henry Elling had purchased this two-story building in 1883 and it had been in the family since, although the last business had closed in 1937. Bob and Maggie have two sons, George Edward and Richard Earl. Eddie is married to Elaine Watt fro[...]one retirement party, August 1972, Bill- Montana, and lives in Fountain Valley, California, near Los[...]years, retiring in 1972. Active in the International and Michelle.[...]lectrical Workers, he received an award Rick is also married, living in San Antonio, Texas, where from the union for 27 years of meritorious service as recor- he works for the government at Kelly Air Base as an accoun- ding secretary. tant. He and his wife, the former Joan Hill, have three daughters, Joelle, Melanie and Andrea. Following in the footsteps of his Father and both Grand- fathers, Harry was a member of the Masonic Lodge, and was Margaret Gohn, who was born July 15, 1912 i[...]irginia City, going to school there. Her was also a Royal Arch Mason. parents were Henry Staley and May Beaber Staley.[...]is but had moved to Billings with her family when she was five years old. She became the primary teacher in Dick Pace Virginia City in 1929 and held that position for about six[...]Harry and Frances Gohn have four children: Nancy Jane[...]Pilot, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, Detroit; Philip[...]nia, and Sergeant Larry Joseph, intelligence chief for a The youngest of the children born to George E. and Mary Frances Vickers Gohn was Philip Harry. Born[...]t that time operated five movie houses in Madison and Jefferson coun- ties. Harry was the projectionist and drove the truck used to haul the projectors from theatre to theatre. In 1936 he[...]ey for a year then moved on to Great Falls. While the military base was being built on Gore Hill, Harry[...]Co, a firm manufac- turing tank retrievers during the war. When that firm closed he was employed at a B[...]ry for about two years, leaving after a strike at the plant. Moving to Mountain Bell, Harry wo[...] |
| [...]er squadron in Santa Ana, California. the Virginia City Cemetery. John Guthrie died in 1944 and is Harry died August 24, 1977 in Billings, afte[...]children of her own and adopted Josie's brother Frank when[...]Dick PacP he was a year old. He took the name of Frank Guthrie. Josie[...]lived with them on Granite Creek for a time and attended school in Adobetown and Virginia City.[...]SHIRLEY AND ALDERINE (McCLURG) HANCOCK[...]Alderine McClurg Hancock, daughter of Con and Annie[...]the famous gulch. She grew up and attended school in[...]Virginia City. On July 3, 1922 she married Shirley Burton Wedding picture of John and Mary Guthrie (1890) Hancock in V[...]and Mary Burton Hancock. As a young man, he worked for a JOHN AND MARY (GENDROW) GUTHRIE time for Northern Pacific Railroad. He also served his coun-[...]he worked on the road for Madison County and met Alderine Mary Gendrow and John Guthrie were married in Boulder, McC[...]out 1890. Mrs. Guthrie was born in Quebec, Canada and lived there until she was 16 years old. She lived Alderine and Shirley had two children born in Virginia Ci- in Boston for two years and then came west to join her ty: Donald Con born August 23, 1926; and Lois Jeannette brother John Gendrow in Helena. Jo[...]They both graduated from Virginia Copeland, Idaho and when a young man moved to Boulder City[...]During those years Shirley was custodian at the county Shortly after their marriage they moved[...]0, 1943. He belonged to tana where John worked at the Lieterville Mine. In 1898 the Eagles, Elks, and the American Legion and was an ac- they bought a ranch on Granite Creek from Mr. and Mrs. complished banjo player. After his[...]inson. They lived there until 1908 when they sold the custodian at the courthouse until 1955 when she went to ranch to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Burton. While on the ranch John work for Bovey Restorations. She has been with them for 26 worked as a road supervisor and maintained the road from years and is still employed by them at Daylight Village in[...]nt. Virginia City. After selling the ranch Mary bought a restaurant in Laurin Son Donald served in the Phillipines in the Pacific area and ran it for two years. She then bought a home in Virginia during World War II. He was on Purple Heart Hill in Japan City where she lived until her death in 1939. She is buried in when the peace treaty was signed, and discharged in[...] |
| [...]Eunice Mildred, daughter of Eunice and Manley Holbert[...]The Holbert family lived in Virginia City where her[...]brothers Howard and Jim and Mildred received their educa- tion. The Virginia City High School supplied them with[...]many happy memories. The school was enlivened in 1930 by[...]a new principal, James Dzur who secured the old Methodist[...]Church building as a gymnasium, originated the bussing of students from Laurin and Alder, and directed the operettas.[...]Mildred's claim to fame was presenting to the student body the idea of constructing a "V" on the hill east of Virginia Ci- ty. She used to ride her horse all over those hills. She was curator of the Virginia City Museum also. After attending the University at Missoula and graduating from Dillon Normal College, she taught in Twin Bridges and Glendive. Back row: Alderine McClurg Hancock. Middle row: November 1946.[...]hey had Alderine, Lois and Donald Hancock (1944)[...] |
| [...]David Jr. is a second year cadet at the United States The Haskell family moved to California in 1962. Mildred Military Academy at West Point and Susan is attending and Willis taught Junior High School in Ojai. Mildred was Radford University in Virginia. nominated to The Outstanding Secondary Educators of Wilma and her husband, Bill Helin retired in 1973 and are America. They have also worked as volunteers with a now living[...]n. Christian-oriented Drug Rehabilitation Center and par- ticipated in Episcopal Charismatic Activities. Travels have taken them around the world through Asia Wilma Huber Hill Helin and Europe; to the South Pacific Islands where they met a charming Samoan girl, Vaosa Epa, and brought her home to live with them for two years while she attended high school; JAMES M[...]pe including Iron Curtain countries in a camper; and most recently, on a tour of the United States in James M. Holbert (Jim), second son and child of Manley their retirement motor home. and Eunice Saunders Holbert was born April 26, 1913 a[...]and Amanda Saunders' ranch home on Spring Creek, Jeff[...]Montana. His mother was born in the same house thirty[...]The family moved to Virginia City the winter of 1919[...]ospect was less than pretentious but had a few of the[...]can, Ruth Dudley, Junior Pankey, Miss Rasmussen and[...]Engineering and Geology. He then worked in the Engineer- ing Department of the Anaconda Company with, among[...]others, Dave Piper of Jeffers and Claude Dale of Twin[...]comfortable home on Puget Sound and took to rough,[...]degree below zero winter and two fast arriving children. Wilma Huber Hill Hel[...]Howard Holbert, Manley Holbert, Jim Holbert and Mildred[...]born in Virginia City, Montana on April 30, 1913, the youngest child of John and Ellen Huber, where she grew up and attended school, graduating from high school in 1931. In 1935 she married Jack Hill of Sheridan, Montana. They had[...]David. Jack died in 1940. After his death, Wilma and David moved from Sheridan to Juneau, Alaska in Ja[...]oing to Alaska was one of Wilma's youthful dreams and she was not disappointed. Juneau was a beautiful place, friendly people and good job opportunities. She worked for the Territory of Alaska and after Statehood continued for the State of Alaska. She worked in the accounting sections of various departments during her years of employment. David graduated from the Juneau High School and then attended Oregon State College. After graduation, he mar- ried Jan Moore of Portland. He had been in the ROTC pro- gram in college and in 1960 entered the Army to serve his re- quired time. He liked the Army and made it his career for the next twenty years. David and Jan had two children, a boy David Jr. and a girl Susan. After his twenty years of service w[...]. Colonel in 1980. They are now enjoying civilian life and are[...] |
| Jim Holbert and daughter Marcia. Virginia City - July 1980[...]- Later Jim was transferred to the Geology Department in |
| [...]Ed was a lumber man and miner. He also worked on ran-[...]moved to Washington to stay with his sister until the[...]William Arthur Lynch, fifth child of Tom and Ellen Lynch, was born at the Kennett Mine near Virginia City, on[...]September 13, 1898. His father worked at the mine and the family lived there at the time.[...]and Thomas Galahan, on June 4, 1923 at Butte, Montana[...]Attendants were Ted and Thelma Gerard. Shortly after that,[...]Mae bought the Twin Bridges cafe, Bill worked there as a Steve H[...]cook. After the cafe was sold, Bill moved his family to Butte[...]and drove taxi for Eddy Romey for many years. Helen and Steve joined him and they lived there together for Bill was a skilled carpenter. He and his wife Agnes bought a year. Upon returning to the States in December 1958, Guy several houses which they remodeled and sold. Their mar- worked various construction jobs in the Panama Canal Zone riage ended in divorce. and several missile bases outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. He Bill worked for a time at the Anaconda Smelter, then later was appointed deputy[...], with his brother-in-law Boyd Blevins in the garage business and after serving in that capacity for three years, ran for at Whitehall. After the business was sold, Bill went to county sheriff and was elected. He served one term from Missoula and worked as a carpenter. Later he was employed 1966 to 1970, then returned to the bar business where he and by the railroad. Helen ran the Tavern until they sold it in 1977. At that time t[...]Agnes and Bill Lynch Steve is an accomplished pianist. He[...]he is currently engaged in writing commer- cials and musical arrangements.[...]was born July 19, 1903 in Stuart, Montana to Bert and Jane Talbott. She married Ed Kingrey September 21, 1921 at T[...] |
| [...]unknown. Agnes married Elmer Robitaille of Butte. She passed away January 1, 1970 in Butte. Bill and Agnes ' daughter Louise Delaney resides in Spokane, Washington. She has a son and daughter and three grandsons. Audrey Albrecht Grace and Con McClurg (1943)[...]Con and Grace have one son, Con Michael. Mike attended[...]JR. schools in Bozeman and graduated from Montana State[...]University with a degree in accounting and business |
| [...]Wedding picture of Howard and Christina McClurg (1948) Evelyn McClurg Mooney, Nels McClurg, and Florence Mc- Leoto Ries McClurg ([...]Lacoma, Iowa, son of John E. and Sarah (Mumford) Mc- |
| - Children of John and Sarah McClurg - 1936. Left to right: Van, Jim, Net, Con and Nels LEROY AND LAURA (COX) McCLURG Leroy McClurg, son of Con and Annie Burgstrom Mc- |
| valescence. When she returned, someone had jumped it and destroyed her cabin, a proceeding that was not too rare in the not so distant past. When Ernest and Fred returned from the Army, they decided homesteading didn't compare with dude ranching, so Ernest established the Elkhorn ·ranch on the Gallatin, and Fred the Hilgard Lodge on Hebgen Lake. In 1922 Adelaide's mother started the Campfire Inn resort on the Madison River just below Hebgen Dam. For many years most summers were then spent helping her mother build and operate the lodge which was a mecca for trout fishermen from all over the country. Since 1950, most of Adelaide's time has been spent in her home on the hill in Virginia City, first in company with her sisters Isabelle and Quinn, and alone since their deaths. The house is reputed to be one of the oldest in Virginia City, built of logs in the 1870's and later covered with siding. At the time of this writing_Adelaide is incapacitated due to a stroke and is in the nursing home at Sheridan, Montana. Teachers like Adelaide of the oldtime country schools (and students too) should be deserving of special mention. They had to make do with very limited resources and the educa- tion they developed needs no apology.[...]lurg was born in Virginia City on July 25, 1909. She attended schools there and in Butte. On Sheryl Mooney Eliason Murray (1962) August 1, 1931 she married Daniel Joseph Mooney, a promi- nent Nort[...]w York City. daughter, Sheryl Anne, a teacher in the Bozeman School National Council has over 500,000 members and affiliates District. Sheryl graduated from Montana State University in over sixty countries around the world, also many Hor- with a Master~ Degree in English.[...]l scholarship of $2,000 annually to a ticulturist and former president of the National Council of student at any college studying in the phase of their many Garden Clubs. In 1937 with the fourteen division clubs of projects. Several have been received by Montana State Butte and the Bitterroot Valley Clubs, she organized the University. Montana Federation of Garden Clubs and served as first Evelyn was a Master Judge for their flower shows and president until June 1940. Later she was. made Hon~rary has judged all over the United States and Bermuda. She State President. In 1938 the State Federation was admitted served on the Advisory Council of National Council and to the National Council of Garden Clubs at annual conven- was a life member of both the state and national tion in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Evelyn has served on the organizations. National Councils Board since that time and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for six years. In 1958, as National In September 1955, she was seated as one of two women on President, she presided over the dedication of their ne~ hea~- the platform with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in q[...]uis, ~1ssour1, Missoula when he dedicated the Smoke Jumpers Center. having supervised the building of same and movmg head- Since Mr. Mooney's pass[...]ds her winters at their home in Sun City, Arizona and Daniel and Evelyn Mooney the summers at their Butte Residence. She belonged to St.[...]John's Episcopal Church, a life member of Randall Chapter, O.E.S. No. 97, and has served many years on the City Council Planning Board of Butte and the Advisory Council[...]Betty Jane (Romey) Morck, the daughter of Harvey and[...] |
| [...]Betty and Gerry had six children: Geri Lynn, who is mar-[...]ried to George Calcut. He is in the insurance business in[...]Butte. They have four children and one grandchild. Garry joined the Air Force and served in Thailand. He[...]the State of California in the Employment Development[...]Gaye Lea, who is married to Ron Godbout. He is in the[...]Bountiful, Utah; Seattle, Washington and at the present time is located in the Los Angeles area in California.[...]Jay is living and working in Anchorage, Alaska.[...]Betty still resides at the family home in Butte, Montana.[...]Betty Romey Morck Gerry and Betty Morck (Fall of 1980) Vera (Smith) Romey, was born in Virginia City, Montana on WALTER H. AND MARY ANN (SCHNEIDER) MYERS[...]1901 the eldest child of John and Kate Schneider. The family |
| Walter did extensive rrunmg in Alder and Brown's Gulches. Poor health forced him away from mining. In 1952 he built a restaurant and soft ice cream plant which he and Mary operated eight years in Virginia City. They sold that business and bought the Kisling store building which they remodeled into the Wes tern Gift Shop. In late 1968 they sold the gift shop and retired. In December 1973 they moved to Dillon[...]978. He was mayor of Virginia City for six years, and privileged to be its mayor during the Centennial year 1963 when there was much activity in celebration of the 100th year. He was an active member of all the bodies of the Masonic Lodge, a veteran of WWI, and a member of American Legion Post 117 of Virginia[...](deceased) are: Col. Jack W. Myers in California and Jill Myers Bethke in Missoula. Each has three children. Mary lives in Woodland, California at the present time.[...]the University of Montana, Missoula. Socially she -belonged to Alpha Phi sorority and to the honoraries, Tanan-of-Spur and Mortar Board. After college, and helping his family for a short time in[...]Havre) where the terrain was flat, and wintertime[...]both she and her (by then) fiance, Chet, returned to "home[...]territory", he to enter politics and become Clerk and Recorder of Madison County and she to teach in Whitehall[...]High. In 1933 they were married and established their first home in the T J A Monaghan (now Ben Williams) house in[...]Many of the business people there at the time were young, like the Nelsons. There were happy group-type activities:[...]bridge, potlucks, dances (all over the county), camping, and Chester A. Nelson, Lanita Nelson Leonard and Helen Castle fishing. Families were start[...]edding day. July 4, 1935 and Lanita Jeanne September 3, 1938.[...]One month after their daughter's birth the Nelsons went to[...]live in Redding, California. Chet sold life insurance and CHESTER A. AND HELEN (CASTLE) NELSON helped build famed Shasta dam during the war years, after[...](later Alder) when he was ford University, and dental college in San Francisco. He only a few months old. marri[...]Helen was born in 1907 too, in Junction City in the ornate Aurora, Illinois and came back to Redding to practice his Oscar Sedman house on Granite Creek. She was raised in profession. Their children are Michael, also a dentist now Adobetown. She and Chet did not meet until 1924 when he associated with his father; Marcia and Katherine, who plan was home for Christmas vacation from Walla Walla, medical careers; and Karina, who will become a Certified Washington wh[...]ering. He was a Sociology degree from the University, Missoula and later her member of Beta Epsilon, social fraternity and of Fangs degree in Education from U. o[...]teaching six years, she married First Lieutenant David Helen decided to teach. She received her BA degree from Leonard and lived in Cleveland while he studied at Cas[...] |
| [...]Ray and Frieda Held (probably 1940) several years. She then moved to Lander, Wyoming and was |
| [...]retiring when the office was moved from Virginia City to[...]Butte. She often stayed at Raper's Funeral Home answering[...]business calls when the Rapers were away. Ollie loved children and was always good for a nickel or dime and even a[...]kind and went out of her way to help others. She belonged to Virginia Chapter O.E.S. No. 9 and served as Worthy Matron in 1926. When she became unable to care for herself she moved to the Madison County Rest Home at Sheridan where she now resides. (Ollie died December 25,[...]WILLIAM STEVEN AND JOSEPHINE (GENDROW)[...]lle was born in Flagstaff, Arizona in Ella Walker and Ollie . ""'[...]1884, the fifth of six children. In 1890 the family moved to[...]Helena in 1892 to attend Butte Business College, and later married Russell and attended school in Adobetown and Virginia City. She Worth. She worked as a cashier at the Chequamegon Cafe and Bill Siprelle were married in Helena in 1911 and lived at for many years. At its closure, she went to work at the Easton Mine until it closed down. They lived in Virginia Wilhelm's Floral Shop. She died January 14, 1968. City for thirty years and then moved to California because of Alvah was b[...]oor health. came to Virginia City with his mother and sister and attend- While in Virginia City, Bill worked for the Economy Power ed school graduating from high scho[...]ompany as lineman, maintenance man, meter reader, and mines around Virginia City and was an expert fisherman. general handyman. Part of the job consisted of patroling Alvah entered Galen Hospital on July 6, 1951 and passed and maintaining the line between Virginia City, the mines away while there. and the power plant at Varney. These trips were made by After Ollie and her two children returned to Virginia City horseback in winter and Model T truck in summer with a in 1907, she married Henry C. Richmond on April 20, 1910. good part of the patrol made on foot because of the rough He was born at Twin Bridges, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Rueben country. Other duties included[...]tlers in Virginia City. Henry operated . vicing the street lights, and retrieving cats from trees and a barbershop and sold baths where the Hangman's Building is now. He was also Town Marshal for a number of years. Josephine and William Siprelle (April 1911) Eventually he and Ollie separated and he moved back to Twin Bridges where he suffered a stroke and died. Ollie worked for Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company as chief operator for a good many years, Ollie Richmond and Ginger and Janet Stephens (1955)[...] |
| [...]ea, Josephine Gendrow, Clarence Morgan. of Wm. S. and Josephine Siprelle. He attended the Virginia Middle row: Ciara Williams, Margaret Dullea, Henry Carey, City school and graduated in 1928. Buzz Lynch. Front row: Bernar[...]ed pupils, Alden power poles. This job ended when the Economy Power was Bennett and Bill Siprelle into orthodox right-handed Palmer sold to Montana Power. He also owned and operated the Method scribes. Other memorable teachers were Edna Stone, first motion pictures in Virginia City and Ennis, later selling Mary Duncan, Margaret Rasmussen and Maurice Andres. to Bob Gohn. Other firsts included the first radio in town In 1931 Bill Siprelle and Mary Dale were married in and the first electric washer which is now in the Virginia City Anaconda, Montana. Museum.[...]Mary was born in Twin Bridges, the daughter of Maude During World War II Bill and Josie worked for a year at and C.O. Dale. She went to school for seven years in Abe, the Bremerton Navy Yards. Shortly after that they bou[...]Her family moved to Virginia City in 1923, where and operated a grocery store at Bandon, Oregon with their she entered the 8th grade under Mrs. Stone. Mary and Bill son Fay and his wife. They sold the store in 1950 and moved were classmates through high school and graduated in 1928 to Vacaville, California where[...]rn in Virginia City, attended gram- Alden Bennett and Mary Carey. mar school and graduated from the Virginia City High Bill worked for[...]tors in Madison County in- School. Dr. Clancy was the doctor and Mrs. Trenerry the cluding Harold Gohn, Rupert Garrison and Earl Pulver. He midwife. also worked at the Bell Mine and put in some time for Mon- William John was born[...]nt to work for Humphreys Gold Corporation retired and lives in Boulogne, Florida.[...]a in 1948; Sierra Leone, West Africa in remarried and lives in San Mateo, California.[...]1967. Since retirement in 1977 Bill Keith Roy, the third son, was born in 1918. He moved to and Mary divide their time between Florida and Bear Gulch, California and married Clarice Lawrence from Sutter Creek. east[...]s born in Bear Keith retired as Hospital Engineer and Clarice as Personnel Gulch. He is a mechanical engineer, working at the Bureau Management Specialist. They live in Vacavi[...]five children. Josie's nephew, Walter Gendrow, also lived with them and Doris Lea was born in Bear Gulch. She and her husband, graduated from Virginia City High Sc[...]Ida, Michigan. They have Bobby Manley from Pony. She died several years ago. nine children. Walter remarried and is a retired railroad engineer living in Susie was born in Virginia City. She and her husband, Clinton, Montana.[...]r sons' homes in They have five children. Florida and California. Richard Keith was born in Sacramento, California. He and[...]his wife live in Lakewood, New Jersey. He is the mill superintendent for the Asarco plant at Toma River, New[...]Mary Jo was born in Jacksonville, Florida and is Chief[...]Mercy Hospital in Toledo, Ohio. WM. J. AND MARY DALE SIPRELLE Michael Fay was born in Jacksonville. Florida. He and his[...] |
| [...]ore to date totals six children, 22 grandchildren and one great grandchild.[...]Fay Siprelle leading his horse. Walter Gendrow and Keith on the horse. (1922 or 1923) KEITH S[...]Keith married a native daughter of California and settled[...]in Vacaville. They have two daughters, Sharon and Sandra. Keith was born on March 10, 1918 youngest of three sons of William and Josephine Siprelle. His growing-up years in Both are married and live within thirty miles of Vacaville.[...]Sharon has three children and Sandra has two. Virginia City are filled with precious memories: the high sw- ings in their yard made of two power poles; the funny books they made from old suit sample books. The samples were[...]Siprelle made into patchwork quilts. They cut out the Sunday fun- nies and pasted them into the empty sample books. Those were probably the first funny books ever. Many cold winter days[...]g at these. Keith remembers their bedroom with the metal roof that CHILDREN OF E.M. AND SARAH (WALKER) SMITH resounded when it rained or hailed; popping and selling pop- corn at the silent movies shown by his father; the day VERA (SMITH) AND HARVEY E. ROMEY brother Fay got his first horse and cousin Walter and Keith got scraped off while riding under the clothes line; the day Edith Vera Smith was born April 30, 1903 to Elbridge they moved to the big house on the hill, the "Wheat House". Milton Smith and Sarah Walker Smith in Virginia City in the Keith was six years old. The big bob sleds; racing through old Smith home on Wallace Street. It is still a lovely home town from the top of Monahan's hill down to the Chinese and her sister Mary Ellen lives there. Temple on Flexible Flyers and homemade sleds; hours spent designing and manufacturing the "very best of wooden Vera is the older sister to Mary Ellen, Muriel L. Browne, guns" that were used playing Cops and Robbers in the old Geraldine A. Lane and brother Elbridge (Bud) Walker Smith. Livery Stable and the Madison House; "shinny" games She had a happy childhood and has many fond memories of played with hockey sticks cut from the tops of old cars with a dear friends, schoolmates and the carefree days they shared. small milk can for a puck; his first bicycle and paper routes She married Harvey Ellis Romey on November 26, 1919. selling the Denver Post and Montana Standard; the day a Harvey was the son of pioneers Lewis and Lilly (Kramer) tornado lifted the top of the Old Armory and set it down Romey and born February 28, 1901 in Virginia City. nearby; selling ice for cousin Walter cut from the Dredge Harvey and Vera purchasd the old Kammerer home owned Ponds and stored in an ice house with sawdust covering it; then by the Merritt family on south Jackson Street. "Kick the Can" and "Run, Sheep, Run" played at night on Together they raised a fine family: Betty Jane Morck, Butte; the corner under the street lamp; bonfires and wiener roasts Donna Lea Schulz, Sheridan; Honie Rae Estes, Anaconda; on Old Rocky. and Harvey Jr., (Bud), who is in Anchorage, Alaska. They all Keith graduated from Virginia High in 1936 with one of graduated from Virginia City High School. the largest classes to graduate. He worked as a gold panner Harvey worked for Lewis Dudley at the Dudley Garage with a test crew for Humphreys and later as a stock boy in and later they moved to Butte where he drove taxi for his the building now used by the Virginia City Players. His first brothers Howard and Eddie while he attended Barber Col- car was a 193[...]lege. Moving to Pony, he worked at the A and P Mine in the As the years passed they returned to Virginia City where open pit plugging boulders, then in the mill. Later he went to Harvey operated a barber shop, and the State Liquor Store Clancy, Montana to dismantle a gold dredge and moved with for two years. In 1942 they moved to Seattle and Kirkland, it to Ione, California to work for Hump[...]Washington where both worked as pipe fitters in the Lake Company. Washington Pipe Shop and the big ships docked for repairs.[...] |
| Harvey and Vera Romey - Golden Wedding Anniversary, Novembe[...]o their home in Virginia Ci- ty. Vera worked for the Mountain States Telephone Com- pany until the office was closed. She and Harvey both work- Vera and Harvey ready to take off for Alaska, September ed eight summers for Charles Bovey. Harvey bought the 1978 Pioneer Bar which he operated for 17 years, selling the place in 1968. He later worked three years as a dispatcher for Mayor for two terms in the late 1960's and early '70's. He Sheriff Roy Kitson at the Sheriff's Office, retiring due to ill was also Justice of the Peace for forty years. health.[...]al Church, Harvey was instrumental in building the Virginia City as was Harvey during his lifetime, and their children were all gymnasium and Fire Station. He was past exalted ruler of baptized and confirmed in this beautiful church. Vera is also the B.P.O.E . Elks No. 390 in Virginia City, being one of the active in Virginia Chapter Order of the Eastern Star No. 9, longest term members of the lodge. He was a member of the joining in January 1926, a 55-year member this year. She Vigilance Club and the secretary for eight years. He served was Worthy Matron in 1932-1933, and still enjoys the Past several years on the Virginia City School Board and was Matrons Club. She is also a member of Virginia City Drove[...]of Does, No. 77, Virginia City, and belongs to the Sons and[...]Vera worked fourteen years in the Madison County Golden Wedding Anniversary, Harvey and Vera with Treasurer's Office be[...]easurer for Viola children Bud, Honie Rae, Donna, and Betty at Smith home Shaw English. After six years she ran for treasurer and was November 26, 1969. (Picture in background of[...]Vera and Harvey celebrated their Golden Wedding An-[...]niversary at a reception at the Elks Hall in Virginia City in[...]celebrated her 100th birthday on October 9, 1979 and at this writing is 102 years old.[...]November 25, 1979 a no host dinner was enjoyed at the Romey home with friends and family to celebrate Vera's and[...]Vera still resides in the family home in Virginia City. She[...]12 living grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Her children and grandchildren are frequent visitors and they all keep in touch.[...]MURIEL (SMITH) AND MAURICE S. BROWNE[...]Muriel Lucile Smith Browne, second daughter of old time Madison County residents Elbridge M. and Sarah E. Smith[...] |
| [...]905 at Virginia City, Madison County, Montana in the house that has been in the Smith family since 1885. She attended school in Virginia City - grade and high school · and Butte Business College where she took a secretarial course. She was destined to be a legal secretary because her first placement was in the law office of George R. E. M and Sarah E. Smith Family. Standing: Mary Ellen, Allen, a Virginia City attorney, until she went to work for Bud, Murie~ Vera and Geraldine. Seated: Their mother M.M. Duncan, a local attorney and State Senator from Sarah (Summer of 1969) Madison County for many years, where she remained until his death. She also worked for Philip C. Duncan, the Senator's son and associate. Mu[...]Episcopal Church, a 55-year On August 10, 1935 she married Maurice S. Browne. member of the Order of the Eastern Star No. 9, Virginia Maurice was born in Condo, North Dakota, son of Claude and Chapter, and also belongs to the Sons and Daughters of Mon- Gertrude Browne, and came to Montana and Madison Coun- tana Pioneers. ty as a child. He attended schools in Sheridan and Virginia City. He followed the mining trade, working at different min- ing camps in the area.[...]Muriel S. Browne In 1943 Muriel and Maurice moved to Kirkland, Washington where Maurice worked in the shipyards. They returned to Virginia City in 1945, Muriel to work for Frank E. Blair, a local lawyer and abstracter, who is now the District Judge of the Fifth Judicial District; Maurice found GERALDINE (SMITH) AND HERSCHAL R. LANE work at the Anaconda smelter until ill health forced his early retirement. He died April 4, 1963 at the age of 58 years. Geraldine Augusta Smith was born, raised, educated and Muriel continued to work for Mr. Blair off and on over a married in Madison County. A descendant of E.L. Smith, period of twenty years and retired when he was elected to the pioneer merchandiser whose only son E.M. Smit[...]raldine Smith Lane (1973) happen in her lifetime, she has had a good and happy life, and cherishes many fond memories of her childhood growing up in Virginia City and spending summers up Williams Gulch where her father mined and milled his ore. She remembers being rather bothersome to the employees at the mine because she was always around to ride on the ore cars in and out of the tunnels and relished being hoisted in the bucket up and down the vertical shaft of the Highland Chief Mine until her father found out and put a stop to that. She loved to watch the stamp mill process the ore and enjoyed helping her father assay and melt the bullion into gold and silver bars. Muriel is still living in Virgini[...]me. At this writing her mother is still living at the age of 102 years and also her three sisters, Vera Edith Romey, Geraldine Augusta Lane and Mary Ellen Smith, and her brother Elbridge (Bud) W. Smith, all of whom reside in Madison County except Geraldine who lives in the State of Washington.[...] |
| [...]The family moved to Richland, Washington in 1943 on[...]chased a home and have both worked until retirement a few[...]Lark has two children, Wendi Sue, 14; and Heidi Ann, 11; and is employed by Portland General Electric in Portl[...]Oregon as a technical editor. She also taught at Defiance[...]York; and at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.[...]Geraldine and family make frequent, enjoyable trips to[...]Virginia City to visit her mother, a brother and three sisters. She feels a great affection for the Big Sky Country and[...]believes there is no place like it on earth. She is proud of her heritage and is a member of the Sons and Daughters of Mon-[...]ana Pioneers. Lane Family (1946). Geraldine, Lark and HerschaL father, she made her entry into the world on August 29, 1909 Geraldine Smith Lane Lane Family (1981). Back row: Herscha~ Geraldine and |
| [...]ten-stamp mill and make castles in the moist silt at the tail- ings pond. She remembers the severe electric storms when her mother led the family to the big root cellar where they waited out the storm listening to the thunder rumbling out-[...]side. Sitting there in the candlelit cellar, she'd sprout[...]s or just sit quietly dripping candlewax warts on the backs of her hands. Beloved memories, safe and secure with her mother and sisters and brother watching the shadows cast by the glow of candles, the earthy smell of the cellar pungently pleasant, utterly content. She has never ex-[...]perienced such contentment since, and at this writing she is[...]life was stormy and difficult. She married twice, both mar-[...]riages ending in divorce. She had two children, Bonnie Sue and Michael. Both died a few days after birth. Not ha[...]any living children, she assumed her maiden name of Smith.[...]Mary, or Mary Ellen as she is called by many, worked off and on as a legal secretary for Frank E. Blair, a local at- Mary Ellen Smith atop a very cross camel at the Sphinx and torney. In 1951 she attended Billings Business College for Giza pyram[...]964. six months to study the Stenotype system of shorthand[...]reporting. In the fall of 1951 she moved to Helena and was Walker Smith, was born in Virginia City on August 26, 1913. employed as an auditor in the Inheritance Tax Division, later She attended the local grade and high school, except for her working for the law firm of Loble and Loble. senior year which she spent in Butte, graduating in 1930. In the springof 1952, she had saved enough money to go to Her early years[...]in Virginia City were precious, San Francisco and attend a special court reporting school. especially the summers spent at her father's mine in She practiced seven hours a day on her Stenograph to attain Williams Gulch. She had her own carbide light and went in the necessary speed of 200 words a minute. Life was hectic, and out of the mine at will pounding on the air pipes to alert she missed a few meals, but San Francisco was exciting. the miners she was coming in. She liked to play around the Often she'd walk to Telegraph Hill, watch the big ships sail- ing in and out under the Golden Gate Bridge and dream of Mary Ellen Smith (1981) the day she just might be able to travel to exotic lands. She[...]court reporter for the Fifth Judicial District by Judge Philip[...]C. Duncan, a position she held for 23 years. After Judge[...]Duncan's death in May 1970, she worked for Judge Frank[...]the judgeship. Mary served as Judge Blair's court rep[...]until January 1, 1976 when she retired due to ill health. Her[...]career as a court reporter was rewarding and stimulating. She is a life member of National Shorthand Reporters[...]Reporters Association, and an RPR (Registered Professional Reporter). She also belongs to the Sons and Daughters of[...]Mary is an accomplished pianist and plays stride jazz and honky-tonk. She also plays the accordion. Mary's dream came true. She made it to Europe in 1955,[...]mortgaging her car to help finance the trip. Since then she's traveled to the far corners of the earth and has seen many ex- otic and faraway places, becoming at last an experienced[...]She lives in the house she was born in, the house her grand-[...]ELBRIDGE W. (BUD) AND DOROTHY LICHTE SMITH[...]lbridge W. (Bud) Smith, son of Elbridge M. (Ebby) and[...] |
| [...]and has three children: Craig, Jill and Amber. His wife[...]children: Kimberley, Sherry and Clint. They live in Three[...]works for the City of Three Forks as Clerk.[...]Dorothy is still working at the Talc Mine for Cyprus. She has been a devoted wife and mother these many years and is active in the Rocky Mountain Baptist Church in Ennis[...]and Dorothy expect to retire in the near future.[...]EDWARD AND AMELIA TROUT Maude and Sarah Trout[...]Canada. He, with his two brothers, Charles and John, left their Canadian home in 1878 and located in Virginia City,[...]The three brothers placer mined at Summit with modera[...]success. John worked in the mining-industry for a number of[...]died in Virginia City in 1894. Charles stayed in the Territory for a few years and undoubtedly returned to[...]Edward followed mining operations for nearly the rest of his life. For a number of years he was "plateman" for a go[...]vious to this position he worked as "plateman" at the[...]Ennis. This mill was later moved to Sum- Dorothy and Bud Smith (1979) mit under the direction of W.B. Millard and was operated in connection with the Kearsarge Mine. Sarah (Dolly) Walker Smith, was born in Whitehall, Montana The plateman's job was to scrape the amalgam from the on November 30, 1918. He attended school and grew up in plates which were coated with quicksilver to which the free Virginia City. gold would adhere in the milling process. The amalgam was There he met and married Dorothy Lichte. Dorothy was born in Sheridan, Montana on June 22, 1922 the oldest daughter of Clarence and Esther Lichte. Mrs. Lichte had Amelia Trout, m0ther of Sam, Sarah, Maude and Mabel moved from their ranch at Abe, Montana on the upper Trout Madison to Virginia City so the girls could attend school. Bud worked with his father in mining and milling, then on ... ranches until the fall of 1942, when they moved to Kirkland, Washington to work in the shipyards, as so many Madison County residents did during the war years. Dorothy and Bud had two boys: Milton, born in Whitehall November 2, 1940; and Richard (Dick) born in Virginia City July 11, 1942. Dick was born in the old Smith home where three of Bud's older sisters were born. Bud also worked for a time at the Hanford project at North Richland, Washington. The family returned to Madison County in 1949 where Bud worked on various ranches in the county. He worked for Tom Foster in Sheridan for[...]y 1967 they moved to Cameron, living at McAtee's, and Bud worked at the Talc Mine. Later they moved to the Mine where they lived and worked for many years for Cyprus, Inc. In the meantime, the boys had grown up. Milt joined the Air Force and served four years. He is now a practicing physician and surgeon in Sidney, Montana. He is married[...] |
| Sarah and Maude Trout with Niece Phyllis, July 1920 then retorted separating the gold from the mercury. Maude and Sarah Trout (1981) |
| Sam and Kate Trout in 1914 automobile Dullea of Adobe[...]Dullea was born in Virginia City on July 6, 1889 the |
| [...]er in Whitehall, College, Columbia, Missouri. She also attended Carleton Col- the family moved to Virginia City in 1926 where Jim bought lege, Northfield, Minnesota and the University of Utah, Salt Emil Hedricks' meat market and established the Virginia Lake City, graduating in 1945 from the University of City Market and Slaughterhouse. He operated the market Southern California, Los Angeles. Helen taught grade until 1940 when he and Marguerite took over Ranks Drug school in Virginia City[...]She and John moved to Missoula where John obtained his During World War II, Jim enlisted in the Navy where he degree in Pharmacy in 1949,[...]Virginia City to saw action aboard ship both in the North Atlantic and South work in Ranks Drug Store until 1951 wh[...]ple heart for Postmaster. ·Helen taught in the Virginia City High School wounds received in a Kamikaze attack in the South Pacific. in 1954-55. While he was in the service Marguerite managed the drug Two children, Jamie and John, Jr. were born to Helen and store by herself.[...]ng this time. Jim served as Representative in the Montana House dur- In 1955 the family moved to Berkeley, California where ing the 1938-1940 session. He also served two terms as John entered the Episcopal Seminary, Church Divinity mayor of Vir[...]School of the Pacific graduating in 1958. He was the first In 1951 the Vanderbecks sold the drug store. Jim went to member of St. Paul's[...]Virginia City to be work as assistant postmaster and held that position for ordained. many y[...]John's first pastorate was the Lincoln County field in- As an avid Montana hi[...]for various cluding churches at Libby, Troy and Eureka. A son Murray Madison County museums and served ten years on the was adopted and a second daughter, Mary-Jo was born at Board of Directors of the Montana Historical Society and Libby. was on the Thompson-Hickman Library Board. He was a In 1967 the family moved to Sheridan and John pastored director of the Bank of Sheridan for 36 years, a Madison the churches at Sheridan, Virginia City and Jeffers. County Veterans officer, and past president and secretary- John was active in Diocesan affairs: serving on Executive treasurer of the Vigilance Club of Virginia City. He was a Council, Standing Committee, Board of Missions, and senior warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, served on the Spiritual Life Commission; summer camp; visiting Chaplain Diocesan Finance Committee, was a life member of Chapter at Montana State Prison; and spiritual director of Cursillo. No. 1 Royal Arch[...]rly in his pastorate he became deeply involved in the and treasurer of Blue Lodge, and a member of O.E.S. No. 9 ministry of healing. He was a Chaplain of the International and Virginia City Elks No. 390. Order of St. Luke, frequent speaker at the Pacific Northwest Marguerite was also a 50-year member of O.E.S. No. 9, Healing Conference, and conducted healing missions Virginia City. She was a longtime member as well as throughout the state. treasurer of the Vestry Committee at St. Paul's Episcopal In 1976 John, Helen and Jamie founded His Place, 724 Har- Church. She engaged in three special projects at St. Paul's: rison, Helena, Montana; the first Healing Home in the restoration of the old organ, the covering of the Tiffany glass United States. John became a victim of myasthenia gravis windows of the church, and remodeling the church basement and died March 29, 1979. into its present chapel which is used for winter worship. She loved horses and raced in many county and state meets tak- ing several honors. Marguerite d[...]Helen married John R. Vickers of Virginia City and is cur- rently living in Helena. They had three children: Jamie, John Jr. and Mary Jo, and have an adopted son Murray. On February 24, 19[...]Mary Ellen Smith JOHN ROBERT AND HELEN (VANDERBECK) Born[...]torian. |
| Helen and Jamie continue to direct activities and retreats children are successful in their lives. Billy owns and operates at His Place. John Jr. and Murray are at an Army Base at a surveying business in Lebanon, Oregon; and Leadell is Bad Krueznach, Germany. Mary-Jo is an[...]Falls. Deloras has twelve grandchildren, and at this writing (1981) there are seven and one half great grandchildren.[...]Vickers Portland, Oregon. They have since lived and farmed in San- dy, Oregon and Othello, Washington and in May 1971 retired[...]Deloras is really semi-retired since she holds a part-time[...]position as Senior Center Director of the Senior Opportunity[...]ciation, Inc. in Soap Lake. Her duties are varied and fascinating. She loves the life of service she is privileged to lead, helping her peers and enabling them to enjoy their[...]golden years. At this writing, she is too active to stay at home and not be busy. She thinks of herself as 72 years[...]young - not 72 years old. Deloras is a member of the Sons and Daughters of the[...]BENJAMIN H. AND MARIE (FOSTER) WILLIAMS[...]y, Montana. His parents were Benjamin F. Williams and Gertrude Kramer Williams. He was the youngest of four[...]children: brothers Percy F. Williams and Archie Williams; and sister Deloras (Sis) Williams.[...]Ben grew up in the Virginia City area and attended grade and high school graduating in 1935 as Valedictorian.[...]ol years he was active in athletics. He worked at the[...]Business College for a course in bookkeeping and accoun-[...]ting. Subsequently he was employed by Armour and Com- Marie and Ben Williams Deloras vtilliams Warrick (1981)[...]26, 1909. Her parents were Benjamin |
| pany, Ryan Butte, and the Anaconda Copper Company in ty. He is[...]ia City. City then where he went to work at the Vanderbeck Market. Marie is a charter member of B.P.O. Does No. 77 and a Ben bought that store in 1939 and operated it as the Virginia 41-year member of the Virginia City Womans Club. City Market until 1942 when he joined the Army Air Force Ben and Marie reside in Virginia City. and entered Cadets training in Santa Ana, California.[...]as a mechanic, became Flight Engineer on B-25 's and B-17 's and was sent to Saipan Ben and Marie Wiliams as ground crew on B-29's. Ben married Marie Foster Coulston in 1943, and after his discharge from the service in 1945, returned to Virginia City. Ma[...]Montana on October 10, 1911 to Tonia Flick Foster and William Harry Foster. She attended the Sheridan School and graduated from high school in 1929. After spending a year helping at the Foster Ranch, she then worked for two years in the office of Henningsen Produce in Butte, Montana and returned to the ranch in Sheridan. In 1938 Marie moved to Virginia City and worked at the court house as Deputy Assessor until 1948. Ben worked at the Virginia City Market, the U.S. Grant Mine, Virginia City Garage and the Madisonian. He also worked in the County Treasurer's office and was elected to that office in 1954. In 1955 Ben w[...]stmaster of Virginia City by President Eisenhower and worked in that capacity until his retirement in 1979. Marie went to work at the Charles Bovey Gift Shop in 1953 and was there for ten summers. Ben and Marie raised three boys: Tom, Donald and Roger. Tom is currently living in South Korea and is retired from the Army Air Force. Donny lives in San Francisco, California and is a pilot for Pan American Airways. Roger lives in Virginia City and follows construction and mining. Ben has been very active in community affairs. He taught Hunter Safety for ten years, belongs to the Vigilance Club of Virginia City and the Fire Department, served as trustee of the Ruby Valley Hospital District, and served on the City Council, School Board, and Cemetery District of Virginia Ci- Williams Famil[...]Foster |
| Alder Elementary Schoo~ built in 1915. It is the only rural Alder Steak House and Bar, owned and operated by the Bill school left in Madison County.[...]The U.S. Post Office provides mail service to approxi[...]ly 150 people, including ranchers in the Upper Ruby. The Alder Elementary School, located on the outskirts of The Alder community is situated where the famous Alder the town, is the only rural school left in Madison County. Gulch opens into the Ruby River Valley. Since the first Twenty-five students are presen[...]grades one business enterprises began here around the tum of the cen- through six. Mrs. Grace Osborn has[...]years. Mrs. Becky Flamm teaches kindergarten and the first With the Ruby Dam and Reservoir located seven miles to grade. the south, the area is a favorite vacation place for fishing and The following history of the first schools in the Upper boating. The mountainous terrain is also an attraction for Ruby has been compiled by Sam Maloney and will no doubt big game hunters during specified s[...]as a KOA camp- ground. There are two restaurants, the Alder Steak House and the Oxbow Cafe, also grocery stores, service stations and Lucille Stevens a garage. While ranching is the principal industry, there is also an in- The first school house in the Upper Ruby was a three room terest in mining. A p[...]in Alder for processing log building near the Alexander Metzel ranch. Some of his talc mined in the Upper Ruby at the property owned by sons attended this school. In later years, the building was Cyprus Indutrial Minerals, a subsidiary of Amoco Minerals moved to the Bill Maloney ranch and Grandmother Maloney Co. since 1979.[...]there until her death. Evelyn Cochrane (Maloney) also A heavy equipment business, th_e Smail Construction Co. lived there for several years. is owned and operated by a local family. The Donegan School was built on what is now known as the Alder is fortunate in having a veterinarian living in tc:>wn. Snow Crest Ranch. In the early days it had many students, Dr. Terrill Todd was raised near Sheridan so the valley is but much of its history has be[...]moved about 1905 to a spot near the Bill Maloney ranch,[...]close to Puller Springs. It then became known as the Puller Alder storage plant and shipping facilities for talc mined in Springs School. It was District No. 25 and was also used as a the Upper Ruby.[...]Oxbow Cafe, owned and operated by Carrie Reynolds.[...] |
| Donegan School in the Upper Ruby. Sammy Maloney and Carrie Coad were the only students in 1972-73. Bob Grotzke, the teacher, is in the background. This school was moved again about 1920 to a place near |
| [...]John, Estella and family are active members of First[...]Hope Circle. She is also a member of State and National CowBelles and is a charter member of Madison-Jefferson[...]Cow Belles, serving as the first vice-president. She was presi- dent for two years and later was instrumental in promoting[...]4-H Council and served as a 4-H leader for the Alder Nuggets for many years. She worked on the pilot program for the Lazy Eye testing of pre-school children. She was a chapter[...]John and Estella supported the Future Farmers of America program and were named Honorary Future Farmers by[...]Helena. She was a member of Legislative Wives and served[...]John and Estella still make their home at the family ranch. John H. Anderson, Jr. and his grandson, Jaques Bluett. They are semi-retired since John C. and James P. are doing the work and operating the ranch. John has membership in many organizations and commit- John H. Anderson Jr. and Estella (Hansen) Anderson |
| [...]and sisters were raised in various foster homes. Her[...]Pete was adopted by Chris and Olga Anderson who raised[...]him on their ranch in the Ruby Valley.[...]the County Poor Farm. She married Jack Anderson in 1930 and when he worked for various ranchers Ann would be[...]as the cook during lambing and shearing. She worked for ten years at the Sweetwater camp of John H. Anderson, Jr.[...]Ann enjoys needlework, especially crocheting. She has been active in the Does organization and is a charter[...]John J. and Ann (Mikkelsen) Anderson Home of Jack and Ann Anderson in Alder, 1955.[...]FRANCIS X AND ONA (GOODWIN) BATTLE[...]Because of famine and oppression in Ireland the grand- |
| then drive thirty, forty or fifty n;illes to the dance. They his father operated a small grocery store. His father died in would dance the night away, sometimes till daylight. The 1930 and was buried in the Pony: Montana Cemetery. Bob ride home could be exciting too, when the driver was so tired attended school in Pony for the third grade, then back to he dozed off at the wheel. By the time they got home, it was Butte for the fourth and fifth grades. His mother then mar- time to go to[...]just change, have ried Frank Birrer and they had a sawmill up Ramshorn Creek breakfast and go out for the chores. southeast of Sheridan. Bob started to school in Sheridan in In the Upper Ruby there was no electricity until 1947 or the sixth grade and continued his education there. He par- so. The lights were kerosene or gasoline; the cooking was ticipated in grade and high school athletics, lettering in done with woo[...]both. Water was pumped by hand basketball and graduated with the class of 1942. and the cooling was done with ice stored in sawdust from the While attending school in Sheridan, Bob lived with his previous winter. All vegetables and fruits were canned, if sister Alice Davis and her three daughters, Fern, Georgia kept. Of course, some could be stored in root cellars. Extra and Joanne. During his high school years he worked fo[...]various ranchers (Lelan Baker, Bert Ellinghouse and R.V. made from scratch; bread, cake, pies, cookies, jellies and Matthews) for his room and board. jams. Even butter was work; first the cow had to be milked, Bob also did quite a bit of boxing during his high school then the cream had to be separated, then cooled. Then the days; he fought in several "smokers" in Sheridan and sur- cream was churned till butter, which had to be washed, rounding schools and participated in the Golden Gloves salted and shaped. So it was with almost everything, even in[...]ld in Butte during Bob's junior year in high 1935 and later for the Battles. How about going back to the school. He beat a boxer by the name of Anthony Pope, but good old days? lost to the Intermountain Champion at 135 lbs., Joe Dong[...]is camp in Norris; these horses were remounts for the U.S. Army. He also worked for Walt Ellinghouse breaking[...]horses. ROBERT L. AND GWEN (DALEY) BIRRER W[...]school, Bob enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in October Robert L. Birrer was born in Norris, Montana on March 23, 1942. He took three months training in San Diego and was 1922 the youngest son of John W. and Margaret Alice Stiver. then assigned to overseas duty with the 1st Marine Division, Bob's father, who was from Ohio, studied law but had the 1st Batallion. He spent thirty-three months in the South urge to travel west and he came to Montana with William Pacific and was in the campaigns of New Guinea, Cape Ennis on one of his[...]. Stiver ran Glouchester (New Britain), Peleliu and Okinawa. a blacksmith shop with a partner, Richard Shaw. In 1913 he After being discharged from the service in November 1945, married a young widow, Margaret Alice Hollenburg. She had Bob returned to Sheridan. He worked for Carl Lueck a short three small children; Charlotte, Billy and Alice. She and time then for the Jumping Horse on the Madison. For the John had two sons; John and Robert and one daughter, Jean next five years he work[...]Creek, Bob lived his first six years at Norris and attended the Philipsburg, Montana. When they sold out there, he went up first grade there. In 1929 the family moved to Butte where to Malta, Montana to work for them at the new place they[...]purchased in that area. Later on he was with the Rising Sun Ranch near Malta and the Holman Hereford Ranch at Dod- Pfc. Bob Birrer, U.[...]Bob and Gwen Birrer Family: (l. to r.) Fred, Gwen,[...] |
| [...]Jim and Ivel Emily Thomas were married at Belle Four- Bob[...]Montana in 1923 and the following year moved to a ranch Bob returned to the Ruby Valley in 1951 and has been in near Ennis. In 1925 they decided to leave for the west coast the Upper Ruby now for thirty-one years, as cattle fo[...]yed until 1930, when they came back to Alder. for the Gilbert Livestock. He also runs a few cattle of his Jim worked for Mac Edwards on his ranch and drove a bus own. When Gilbert sold out to Bill Closs in 1976 Bob con- for the Alder School District for seven years. tinued on[...]eman. This ranch is now known as In 1946 the family moved to Twin Bridges and ranched by the Snowcrest Ranch. the Big Hole River. Later on they lived at Opportunity and Bob married Gwen Daley on May 28, 1954 and they have Jim worked at Warm Springs, Montana. two sons; Fred, who is employed by the Montana Power Co. Jim eventually retired in Dillon and Clancy, Montana and in Butte; and Pete, who is presently employed at the now resides at the Shermont Motel in Sheridan. His wife Snowcrest ra[...]Gwen was born in Ogden, Utah on November 29, 1925 and fifty-nine years and eight months. They had raised seven came to Madison County in 1949. She, along with Wilma children: Lewis, Maxine B. Thompson, Marjorie B. Baker, Hudson and Mary Stiles were instrumental in forming the Doris B. Brewster, Luella B. Smith, Ruth B. Sutton and Side Saddle Posse which has become known state wide for Kenneth. Jim has twenty-four grandchildren and t hirty-nine their precision drill on horseback. They have won numerous great grandchildren. prizes and awards at county fairs, rodeos and parades. Gwen made the ladies' dresses for the group when they were first[...]organized. As far as hobbies, Gwen likes to bowl and ride. They both love to dance, especially to music of the 40's. Bob's James Bogue at home in Sheridan, 1982. work with cattle and horses all his life has been his hobby; he has not had time for anything else. But he did a lot of rodeo- ing from the time he was in high school until the time he was married. Right now they both travel q[...]eir son Pete compete in various rodeos throughout the state, sponsored by the Montana Rodeo Association. Bob and Gwen Birrer JAMES EDW[...]ered military service in Wyoming on July 27, |
| Kathryn Wonderly Byrd at the Madison County Nursing home in Ennis.[...]Kathryn Wonderly was born January 20, 1908 in the Up- per Ruby. She was the daughter of Jim and Alice Wonderly, pioneers of that area. She was the third of six children; Mary, Blanch, Etta (Jo), Sam, and Charles who died at the age of one month. Kathryn moved to Butte where she worked in restaurants. She married Ernest Thrasher in 1931 after moving to[...]II. Salmon, Idaho. He died in October of 1941. She moved to Clifton, Arizona and while living there was married to Bill Byrd for a[...]one older sister, Blanche Conway Patterson born She then moved to Fallon, Nevada. While working at the October 3, 1916 and one younger brother Frank Conway, Horseshoe Club there she fell down an open elevator shaft born September 19, 1926. and was seriously injured. She never fully recovered from her injuries and remained in poor health the rest of her life. Kathryn moved back to the Ruby valley, first to Sheridan The Madisonian and later to Alder in 1957. She worked as a waitress and nurse's aid in several places in the Valley. She died in the Madison County Nursing Home in Ennis, May 1979 at the age of 71.[...]CONWAY Jack Conway was born on August 19, 1923 the oldest son |
| [...]in 1957. Desire Cote never married. He worked on the Odilon Cote, 1942 at age 72. home ranch for his brother and on several other ranches in the Ruby Valley. He was known to everyone as "Dee" Co[...]He died in Alder in 1952. THE COTE FAMILY On De[...]Munster and from this marriage four boys and a girl were[...]born: Edward married Grace, dau_ghter of Ernest and Lena Let us go back two generations since infor[...]Craddock; John married Phyllis, daughter of Larry and available for the first Madison County History book. Catherine Babcock; Albert married Lola, daughter of Oliver In the late 1800's Odilon Cote and his brother Desire came and Frances Kendall; Margaret married Robert, son of Ar- from Quebec, Canada to Butte and worked as teamsters for thur and Emily Redfern. Frank, their second son, died at the delivery companies. Odilon married Frances Theobald and age of four in 1926. from that marriage seven girls and two boys were born: Nora (Munster) Cot[...], Alice, Katie, Albertine, Thelma, Anna 3, 1900 and came to Ruby with her folks, John and Margaret and Raymond. Munster in 1902. Her father was killed on one of the Conrey In 1901 the family moved from Butte to a ranch northwest dredge boats near Ruby on February 6, 1905 at the age of of Sheridan and later to another ranch south of Sheridan. th[...]vember About 1907 they moved to what became their old home 23, 1893 and at an early age moved to the Ruby Valley with ranch southwest of Alder. On this ranch, until the early his folks. He farmed and was in the sheep business with his 1930's, Odilon and his oldest son Charles operated a sheep father until the early 1940's. At that time he divided the business. ranch into two parts and sold one part to Hans Hansen and the other (the old home ranch) to Frank and Mae Kelly. At Charles and Nora Cote in 1948 when they operated the Alder the start of World War II they moved to Portland, Ore[...]Charles worked as a welder in the shipyards. After the war they returned to the Ruby Valley and worked for the State[...]Water Board on both canals. Later they operated the Alder Rest Home until they retired and moved to Butte.[...] |
| [...]Ed and Grace Cote, 198L Ed loved the game of baseball; he played with and also |
| Ida Elser was born January 11, 1902 at the Ruby Moun- tain ranch, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Elser and a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. J :D. Bock, pioneers of the 1860's. She had an identical twin sister, Ina. They attended · school in Sheridan from the first grade through high school, graduating with a class of six girls in 1919. · She married Earl Dauterman on July 23, 1922 and they had one child, Maralee. After Earl's death in 1928 she and her young daughter moved to Butte where she found em- ployment. She became acquainted with Donald Dibble and later married him. He held a Federal position and was trans- ferred to California. On March 20,[...]very brief illness of a streptococcus infection. She was survived by her husband, her nine year old daughter, Dauterman ranch ho;se- on[...]in sister, Mrs. Ina McManus; four brothers; Glenn and Ray Elser of Sheridan; Archie of Laurin and Roy of Rigby, Idaho. Joe and his father used this place for summer pasture and After Ida's death, her daughter Maralee went to live with drove the cattle over the mountains to Alder for the winter. her aunt and uncle, Ina and Joe McManus, where she stayed In 1918 there was an early blizzard and they lost a lot of cat- until 1940. They had no children and raised her as their tle. Joe sold the ranch on Squaw Creek in 1946. His father, daughte[...]John Dauterman had bought the Alder ranch from J .B. Laurin with the Laurin brand (J LazyL) which must be one Maralee is an attorney and has lived in the Los Angeles of the oldest brands in Montana. The brand and irons are area for thirty-six years. She has a wonderful husband, four registered in both Montana and Idaho and are still in use on lovely daughters, three delightful grandchildren and an in- the La Vern and Mildred (Dauterman) Reffalt ranch in teresting la[...]In 1919 Joe married Dorothy Roach and to this union were[...]tana. He spent his early life at the Squaw Creek ranch and the Upper Madison Valley where he rode for Roy Frye and the West Fork Cattle Association. He was married to R[...]Paige of Ennis and later to Delores Stoltz of Jeffers. A girl, AND DOROTHY (ROACH) DAUTERMAN Carlotta Sue and a boy, Earl Ray were born to this union. He[...]r married Rose I-Iendrickson of Anaconda, Montana and Joe Dauterman was born in 1892 at Adobetown, Mo[...]six children. One son died when he suffocated in the second child of John and Jennie (Beaufie) Dauterman. some hay. John now lives in Forsyth, Montana. He spent all of his life in the Ruby Valley and the Madison Harold Harvey was born April 7[...]He also spent his early life at the Squaw Creek ranch on the He homesteaded on the Upper Madison, across the river Madison. On March 3, 1943 he enlisted in the Army at from Squaw Creek. About 1916 he and his father bought the Virginia City and served with the 90th Division in France ranch on Squaw Creek that George Bernard had sold to Sam and Germany; he saw action in the famed Battle of the Miller. The Lyon post office and school were located on this Bulge. He earned three battle stars and received an place. Children from nearby ranches r[...]n Marjorie 1945. Dauterman (Donlan) was the teacher. He married Marie Thompson of Ennis, Montana and they[...]hree girls: Kathleen of Butte, Montana, Donna Lee and Harold Harvey Dauterman; Joseph Jacob Dauterman;[...]tana. She was raised on the Squaw Creek ranch and attended[...]schools in Billings, Montana where she graduated from high[...]In 1944 she married LaVern T. Reffalt who was working[...]for Dan Fraser on the Nelson ranch at Jeffers, Montana.[...]and Barbara A. Reffalt at Kingston, Idaho. They have[...]ranch at Kingston where they raise cattle, sheep and[...]nia and Marjorie Donlan, Missoula, Montana.[...] |
| [...]EARLY SETTLERS IN THE UPPER RUBY[...]dians during the fur trading years. He homesteaded a piece[...]of land at the mouth of Garden Creek and raised some cattle.[...]Andy liked to socialize and play euchre. He had one of the early day victrolas and he took it to a dance at the school[...]house. They put him on a table with it, but the phonograph[...]loud enough so they had to have other music. But the ladies kept Andy dancing all night. The story is told that he had a man working for him and it came time to butcher. He asked the man to shoot the steer and after they began skinning it the man said "Why, Mr.[...]During the drought of 1919 Andy sold his cattle and got $17.00 for a cow and calf. Later he leased his ranch to Buzz and Sybil Lynch. After they left it was leased to sev[...]of steam and had to go to the Poor Farm. He passed away Marjorie D. Donlan was born at Alder in 1903, one of eight there in 1928 and is buried in the Taylor Cemetery. children in the family of John F. and Jennie (Beaufie) Dauter- man. All but two of the children are deceased: Ethel died in Spokane, Joe[...]t, Earl was killed by lightning, two were drowned and one died at birth. Mar- Hugh O'Neil, an early day prospector lived mostly on jorie and her sister, A vice Kennedy are the only survivors of Warm Springs Creek. He may have been the opponent of the John F. Dauterman family.[...]Missoula. They April 16, 1846 in Dublin, Ireland and died December 7, 1916 have two sons, Dr. Michael Donlan of Spokane and Lt. at the Walter Garrison ranch. He is buried in Jack Creek[...]married to Patricia Skahan of Cemetery. Missoula and they have five children. Patrick married Juliette Deschamps of Missoula and they are the parents of three children. He flies the Orient route for Northwest Airlines and they live in Bellevue, Washington.[...]fe Marjorie has taught school in Madison County and in and son and they homesteaded on Sage Creek. He passed Townsend. She has lived in Frenchtown and Missoula since away in a Missoula nursing home in 1980 at the age of 114. 1932. Marjorie (Dauterman) Donlan with husband, Arthur and Jeff Fouts was a Civil War veteran who[...]Park. He died around 1920 and is buried in Jack Creek |
| [...]ch was sold after his death. Wilbur was buried in the Veterans Plot at the Sheridan Cemetery. Sam W. Maloney THE EBY FAMILY Terrence (Ted) Irven Eby and Jennie Frances Van Brocklin |
| [...]and they had four children: Danny, deceased; Debra, R[...]and Scott of Seattle, Washington. Mary Jane worked fo[...]Robin was born May 27, 1935 and lived for only a few[...]the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He married Joyce Curry and they have two children: Kimberly and Thad of[...]the construction business. One of the highlights in the Eby family occurred on Oc-[...]tober 6, 1979 when the Madison County History Association[...]sponsored a dedication ceremony at the Community Hall in[...]Eby" by John Kephart, sculptor. This tribute to the women of Madison County was presented by the History Associa- tion and Margaret Kephart. Over fifty members of the Eby[...]family were present along with many friends and visitors[...]her areas to pay tribute to Jennie who symbolized the Grandson, Jason; Sharon (Eby) Young; Chuck; Mark; Grand- pioneer woman. The sculpture was displayed in other com- ma Jennie; and Ruth on the Eby 's 35th Wedding Anniver- munity centers and then permanently placed in the main hall sary, 1980. of the Madison County Courthouse at Virginia City where[...]has been greatly admired and will be enjoyed by posterity. He married Ruth[...]had two children: Sharon Ruth, born June 29, 1953 and Mark, born May 18, 1958. Sharon married Charles[...]Charles I. Eby Young of Froid, Montana and they have two sons: Ryan Wade age 6 and Jason Scott age 3. Mark is unmarried and lives in Helena, Montana.[...]JOHN FAHEY After his discharge from the Army, Charles took up the carpenter trade and is still in this profession. He is presently part[...]irm in Helena. Jack Fahey and his two sons Jim and John came to Mon-[...]tana in 1915. Jack homesteaded on Cream Creek and John Charles considers the greatest contribution in his life has settled on Spring Creek, a tributary of L[...]outh interests. He has served for eleven years on the Another son, Bill joined them here after he was mustered out Board of Directors of the Helena Y.M.C.A. He has also serv- of the infantry following World War I. ed on advisory boards for Boy Scouts, Campfire and Rain- bow Girls for many years. He is presently on the Carpenters' John moved to a cabin in Barton Gulch after proving up on Apprentice Board and is Contest Chairman for the state of his homestead. While there he worked on the county roads Montana. for several years. He was also clean up man for Davis Mining[...]they were digging gold in Barton Gulch. After The sixth child, William Joseph was born May 29, 1923[...]he bought a small tract of land from He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He mar- Zavier Battle and built a house there where he raised fruit ried Marlene Trentman and they had two sons, Raymond of and a large garden. Helena and Edward of Boulder, Colorado. Bill was a Jack, the father, married Pearl Talbott and they lived in carpenter by profession. He passed[...]Ruby. He passed away in 1947 and is buried in Sheridan Donald John born February 28, 1926 served in the U.S. Cemetery. Navy during World War II. He married Betty Treinor _of Billings and they had one dau~~ter,_ Susan of P~oe~,[...]'s home south of Alder. Arizona. Don has followed the mmmg mdustry and lives m Nevada. Gene, born February 24, 1928 married Lorraine Ludwick of Alder and they had three children: Gregory Gene, Gayle and Frank (Skip), all living in Helena. Gene is a carpenter and also resides in Helena. James Alvin, born March 9, 1929 served in the U.S. Arn:1Y· He married Phyllis Babcock and they had the followmg children: Jennifer of Philadelphia; Dian[...]tle; Francis, Seattle; Carter, Anchorage, Alaska; and Brenda of Helena. His second marriage was to Pat Lynn of Billings and they had two girls, Jamie and Sherry of Bill- ings. Jim is in the construction business in Alaska. Robert, born August 1, 1931 served in the Army during the Korean War. He married Claudine Pickett and they have four children: David of Sheridan: Arlee in Alder; .Tulie and Michele. Bob lives in Laurin and is in the trucking business.[...] |
| Jim passed away in 1955 and was buried from St. Mary Church in Laurin and interred in the family plot in Sheridan Cemeterv. In 1946 Bill had a fatal heart attack while at the Kelly ranch near Alder. He was buried in Sheridan[...]ary Church in Laurin. John was handicapped from the effects of rheumatic fever but was always his own man and worked steady in spite of his disability. He passed away in 1971 and is buried in the family plot in Sheridan. Two sisters, Mrs. Kay Tanczarr and Mary Ann Fahey still survive. They reside in Wash[...]Sam W. Maloney CARL WILLIAM AND ALICE (PETERSON) FLAGER Bill Flager was born in Wisdom, Montana on November |
| [...]and his wife have three children. Richard (Dick) live[...]Alder with his family and works for Sierra Talc (Cyprus). Alex, the youngest is in the Army and stationed in Panama. Robert (Bob) and his wife Margaret live in Billings; they[...]Bill and Alice feel they have had a good life. Bill and Alice (Peterson) Flager JOHN AND KATHERINE (THEAUBOLD) GOFORTH[...]John (Jack) Goforth and his wife, Katherine were two[...]pioneer Montana residents who moved from Butte to the |
| [...], July 23, 1919. (L to r.) Katheri-;_e Goforth The Hacker Family, 1968. Pauline and Copper; Parham and with two of her children - Mildred Meyers and Charles Squeak; Carol and Sir Menu; JoAnn and Rusty. Dogs: Jiggs Goforth with his wife, Iva. and Finny. Mildred Goforth Myers and her husband William lived in loved trailing cattle. Well, it was fun after the cows learned |
| The Madison County Side Saddle Club. The years, 1974 and 1975 were spent on the Cheyenne |
| Hermann and Mary's first real tragedy struck on the night DELBERT S. HARTFORD of August 15, 1943 when their home burned to the ground leaving the three of them in their pajamas. Alder had no fire[...]farm on February 24, possessions. Two days before the fire, they paid off the mor- 1925 to Harrison and Isabelle Hartford. He is the middle tgage on the ranch and were so proud of themselves because child of twelve. they still had $800.00 in the bank. A friend in Twin Bridges His early years were spent in helping his dad on the farm. owned a house up Ramshorn Creek and sold it to them for They used horses to plow and plant the fields. Del learned to $125.00. They tore it down and hauled the logs to their ranch drive in a Model T~ Chopp1ng wood for the cookstove, to begin building their present home. Since this was during feeding the twenty-one dairy cows and plowing acres of World War II, materials were hard to get and it took months ground kept Del busy during his formative years. He and years to finish the house. By this time, Mary was so remembers the days of the Great Depression when the family tired of pulling nails she told her husband she "never wanted survived on pork and spuds, home grown. to see another one".[...]Del recalls that it wasn't all hard. It seems that he and his They tried to make their living by milking[...]other, Frank sampled his mother's fermenting home and selling cream. They raised chickens and sold eggs; they made wine, then they attempted to cultivate her garden. Del also sold hay. This idea was a "blooper" so they sold the milk says the only smart one of the group was the "jackass" they cows to Sam Hayden of Laurin and went into the sheep were using for the plowing. business. They did alf right with them except for coyotes and Uncle Sam called Del during World War II and he served the neighbor's dogs.[...]this time he completed his Eventually Hermann and Mary sold all their sheep and high school education. He also spent six months in a went into the cattle business, which worked out well since[...]ll suffers. He was they could raise their own hay and owned pasture land too. stationed in Germany. The prices were never very high but they liked them and are After coming home he went to a telegrapher school in Min- still in the cattle business. neapolis, Minnesota. From there he returned home and met They have lived on their ranch for forty-seven years and his future bride while attending a dance wi[...]honeymoon trip was to Gar- They think a few bumps and hard knocks make better diner, Mont[...]light of their journey was citizens out of people and make you appreciate what you Yellowstone[...]where they had a baby daughter named Roseann. The final Mary[...]The Northern Pacific Railroad provided living quarter[...]away October 20, 1982. top of the depot. They had three rooms, no running water, no[...]bathroom, all up two flights of stairs. While they lived here, Del and Agnes (Bednarek) Hartford on their wedding day,[...]Joan Ann, 1952 who died when she was two weeks old. The family was running out of living area so they bou[...]children joined the family; Mary Ann in 1958 and James in[...]Del is still working for the same railroad only it now has a[...]different name: Burlington Northern. The steam engine has been replaced by diesel and the train comes in only twice a[...]Del and Agnes Hartford, with Roseann and Bobby in front of the N.P. depot. The five children are somewhat scattered. Daniel is i[...]Green River, Wyoming with his wife, Peggy (Kaatz) and |
| [...]oseann (Troyer) is in Alder with her husband, Tom and four childen: Christopher; twins Michael and Marcus; and Patrick. Mary Ann married Dan Birdsill and they live in Alder with their children, Chad and Shane. Jim is also living in Alder. Agnes died January 25, 1979 after a long, lingering illness. She was born February 23, 1931 on a Wisconsin farm, the eldest of five children. During her lifetime she made many friends and was always helpful in community affairs. She was also very active in her Church, teaching religious educa- tion, Latin for altar boys and sang in the choir. She also worked as a nurse's aide at the Sneridan Hospital. Del married Dorla Carroll o[...]Roseann (Hartford) Troyer JOHN AND WILMA (MARSHALL) HUDSON About 1900, William Marshall bought the squatter's |
| [...]shall Larson with her first pupils, Frances, Jane and Marie Tate. After finishing school Wilma stayed on the ranch with her |
| The following children were born to John and Maggie Judge: Mamie, who drowned in Ledford Creek in 1898 at the age of two; Cornelius passed away in California and is buried there; Jim died in Butte and is buried at Silver Star. He was married to Alice[...]Steve lives in Califor- nia. Barney died in 1936 and is buried in the Laurin Cemetery. Joe died in 1943 and is also buried in Laurin. Fred died in Dillon and is buried there. Clara married Leonard Hierholzer; they both died in Missoula and are buried there. Rose passed away in 1937 and was buried in ~aurin. Annie married Ben Martin who was a forest ranger m the Upper Ruby for a time. They lived in Dillon and had one son; all are deceased. John Judge lived for a time with[...]nt to a rest home where he passed away in 1946 at the age of 82. Services were at St. Mary Church and burial in the Laurin Cemetery. Mae Kelly holds the Citation after pinning the Silver Star on[...]r husband, Frank. March 22, 1979. FRANK AND MAE (METZEL) KELLY However, it was sixty-one years before he received the |
| [...]ian officiating. Burial was in JAMES AND ALBERT KELLY Laurin Cem[...]ong James Kelly was born in Alder June 27, 1899 and died and Joseph Edwards, all of Butte; Ray Shaw and Orville September 12, 1966 in the Veterans Administration Hospital Kelly of Laurin; and Grover C. Goetschius of Alder. in Hot Springs, South Dakota. He was the son of Patrick and Alice Conrey Kelly. Survivors included sisters; Mrs. Sim Haines, Laurin and Mrs. Mayme Rork, Hamilton;[...]e Kelly Staley brother Frank Kelly, Alder; nieces and nephews. Rosary was at the Marsh Funeral Home in Sheridan on September 15 and a Requiem Mass was September 16 at St. AVICE DAUTERMAN KENNEDY Mary Church in Laurin. The Anderson-Simpson Post, American Legion, held graveside services in the Laurin Avice D. Kennedy, daughter of John F . and Jennie Cemetery. James Kelly served -overseas in World War I. (Beaufie) Dauterman, was born in 1894. She has lived in[...]Billings. She has one daughter, Mary Jane Norgren, also of[...]Albert V. (Bert) Kelly was born October 28, 1902 and died Australia and Pamela Willets in Chico. Each girl has of a heart ailment in March, 1950 at the age of 48. He was a presented A vice with two great grandchildren. native of the Alder community, a son of Patrick and Alice C. Kelly.[...]rie Dauterman Donlan He attended local schools and graduated from Butte Business College after which he worked on the family ranch until 1932 when he became associated with Sim J. Haines in JAMES W. LEONARD the implement business in Whitehall. On June 18, 1[...]on December Laurin who was employed as a nurse at the Murray Hospital 19, 1944 while serving as a medic with the 7th Army in the in Butte. After a period of working for the Anaconda Copper European theater of operations. James was born on January Mining Co. in Butte they bought the family ranch and 27, 1925 and attended school in Alder, Montana. He was the returned to Alder in 1949. son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Leonard. Other relatives in this B[...]wide circle of friends area were grandparents Mr. and Mrs. James Pitman; uncles in this community and in Butte for his upright character and and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jones, Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Pit- generous helpfulness. He was a member of St. Mary Catholic man and Wilbur Leonard. Parish and of Virginia City Elks Lodge. His body was returned to Madison County in 1949 and he Surviving in addition to his wife were three brothers, was buried at the Virginia City Cemetery with military Frank, Richard and James, all of Alder; brothers-in-law and honors. sisters, Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Sim The Madisonian J. Haines of Laurin, and Mrs. Anthony Rork of Hamilton and several nieces and nephews. Pvt. James W. Leonard, U.S. Army, World War II. The Rosary was said at the Marsh Funeral Chapel in Sheridan, followed by mem[...]No. 390, B.P.O. Elks. Funeral services were held the following day at St. Mary Catholic Church in Avice (Dauterman) Kennedy with daughter, Mary Jane |
| [...]in Butte, Montana on October 20, 1898 to Edwin M. and Mary Ann (Peterson) Smith. Her father worked in the Butte mines and ranched in the Ruby Valley until the early 1900's when the family moved to Eldora, Iowa. It was here that their sons, Ralph and Ray- mond were born. After her husband passed away in Eldora, Mary Ann and her three children came to the ranch near Home Park in the Upper Ruby, which belonged to her father, Ferdinand (Fred) Peterson. For many years she kept house for her brothers. Mary Ann passed away in 1954 at the age of 86 while staying with her daughter Goldie in Sheridan. Services were at the Episcopal Church and burial was in the Nevada City Cemetery. Goldie was married to John Schneider in Butte, Montana. They ranched in the Madison Valley for two years and lived in Virginia City for two years where John worked in the mines. Later John worked at mines in Sheridan whe[...]y both worked for Charlie LaDue, where Goldie did the cooking. John passed away in 1945 at their home i[...]held at St. Mary Church in Laurin with burial at the Laurin Cemetery.[...]Ralph and Raymond Smith, 1919 at Livingston, Mt. Goldie worked for twenty-two years at the Sheridan Hospital. On May 12, 1979 she married Sam Maloney at St. Joseph Church in Sheridan. They live in the old Caswell house near Alder.[...]Raymond Smith was a veteran of World War II and passed away in 1976. He is buried in the Legion plot of the Sheridan[...]Sam and Goldie Maloney, 1981.[...] |
| Bill and Robert Maloney with their mother, Isabelle. 1948.[...]Sam Maloney and his family: Mike Maloney; Margaret Sil~·[...]Sam; Patricia Murdock; and Marybelle Koelzer. Robert, the youngest of the three sons of William and Then the rake frame hit the old mare on the shins and she SAM W. AND EVELYN (COCHRANE) MALONEY Sam Maloney was born in Divide, Montana on October 14, |
| Sam Maloney's home on the Caswell place. Sam met a girl from Butte in 1918 when she came to teach |
| [...]Lodge and other western Montana communities before corn-[...]He came to Virginia City in the 1920's and operated a pool[...]in the old Virginia Hotel; it burned down and he moved into the old Territorial Building where Bob's Place is at the pre- sent time. Chick also did quite a bit of sheep shearing for[...]local ranchers during the years he lived in the Ruby Valley. He had several bars in the Ruby Valley at various times; in[...]Ruby, Twin Bridges, Laurin and finally Alder. His last bar was the one still known as "Chick's Place", now owned and[...]Chick was one of the best fishermen around, generally us-[...]ahead of the spinner itself. As he described it, the fly is just there to take a few small ones, the spinner is for the 'lunkers'. Emma (Misty) & Mike Andersen; Bill & N[...]bert & Sam Maloney. He was also a "fight fan" and did some ring fighting[...]$50.00 or so, if he could stay three rounds with the wool they went back to a strictly cattle operatio[...]al fighter. It was a bare knuckle fight, although the fighter's hands had some adhesive tape over the knuckles. William H. built the first hay elevator in the Valley in 1948 Before long, the tape became unraveled; Chick tore off the by using some wide belts, timber and a gasoline engine. This was later copied throughout the County. tape and they went at it with bare knuckles. Chick not onl[...]married Rose Ball. Rose was born stayed with the other fighter, he put him down and made him September 29 in Kemmerer, Wyoming, the granddaughter of quit. Another exciting local[...]pioneer family. Her grandfather Charles Ball the heavy wire enclosed pen behind Happy Halse's serv[...]station and wrestled with the bear. was one of the largest ranchers in the Big Piney country. He later served as the basis for Owen Wister's classic western Orville Kelly recalls the many fishing trips he took with novel, "The Virginian". Chick., especially down the east fork of the Ruby to catch Before moving to Montana, Rose attended school in fish for the annual Elks Fish Fry. Cokeville, Wyoming and later, Judge Memorial High School Chick was[...]le they were still living there. He later married the She came to Montana in 1945 when her parents Bryan and former Mary Ann McCarthy of Butte who died in May of Emma Ball bought the Carter Ranch in the Beaverhead 1964 and is buried in Butte, Montana. Valley. They owned and operated this ranch until 1954. After attending Butte Business College she managed her Lloyd (Chick) McLean with a big catch[...]rant in uptown Butte. the Ruby River, about 1952. '!'liey were married on[...]born: Emma (Mis- ty), Rosabelle, William, Robert and Sam. Emma married Michael P. Andersen February[...]five children: William, Michael, Rosalie, Robert and Sam. Rosabelle has returned to the family ranch after teaching school in Helena and Elliston, Montana. William B. married Nickie La[...]with their four children: Alice, William, Robert and Sam live on the ranch. Sam has also been engaged in the family ranch operation after graduation from Sher[...]was killed in a motorcycle accident June 15, 1979 and was buried in the Laurin Cemetery beside the grave of his Uncle Robert, who preceded him in death a year earlier. William, Rose and their children continue to operate the family ranch. After 120 years a fifth generation is growing up in the Valley.[...] |
| [...]Ina and Joe McManus with Maralee Dauterman, 1941.[...]In 1941 Ina and Joe returned to Douglas, Arizona where[...]fornia. Chick McLean died September 30, 1967 in the Ruby Valley During World War II Ina was employed at the Douglas Hospital after a long period of failing health, at the age of 69. Air Force Base in the parachute department, inspecting and Funeral services were conducted by the Eagles Lodge; he repacking parachutes for the Air Force pilots. She was very had been a member since 1933. Burial was in the Eagles Plot proud of her job and her involvement in the war effort. in the Virginia City Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Henry War- ren of Ennis; Chick LaDue and Ted Darby of Sheridan; Or- Ina and Joe McManus with Maralee's daughters. ville Kelly, Roy Kitson and Dave Mortensen of Alder. Chick had two brothers: Fred, who died several years before and Donald who was living in Culver City, California at the time of Chick's death. Two sisters, Marie Caulfield and Jane Rogers of Washington also survived him. Ted Darby and Orville Kelly INA (ELSER) McMANUS Ina E. McManus was born January 11, 1902 one of the |
| Ina was a very warm person and contributed much of her love and energy to helping others. After the death of her sister Ida, she and her husband took their niece Maralee and raised her as their own daughter. Ina died at Seal Beach, California on August 10, 1962 and Joe died in 1974. Maralee Dauterman Harsell JAMES A. AND TERONA (RANSOM) MILLER James (Jim) Miller was born in Red Lodge, Montana and Terona Ransom Miller LEONARD AND MILDRED (REDFERN) MORAN Leonard Moran was born at the ranch home of his parents |
| Leonard and Mildred (Redfern) Moran. Mildred attended gr[...]ears. Leonard and Mildred Moran GLADYS (CAMPBELL) MORT[...]n was born in Butte, Montana on |
| Gladys and Dave Mortensen with their grandson, Simpson, 1976[...]Joe Peterson at the ranch. 1981. Kate and Sam were divorced in 1929 and she and her daughter moved to Alder. She later married Bill Smith. Dur- ing the early 1940's she lived in Portland, Oregon and worked in a defense plant. Kate passed away in Sh[...]on May 2, 1973. Gladys attended school in Alder and later graduated from Joseph Richard Peter[...]City High School in 1939. In August of that year she cabin on the old Peterson ranch, 1 mile west of Laurin to married[...]Dave was interested in parents Alexander and Alice Archambault Peterson. He has mining and worked at the Toledo and Grant Mines as well as an older sister, Alice and a younger brother, Raymond in Butte. Eventually t[...]o died of cancer in June of 1977. Dave worked for the Highway Department and the State All three kids attended school in Laurin. At that time the Water Board. He was manager of the Ruby Dam for seven school was one room and had 40-50 kids. There was no years. On August 21, 1945 their daughter Kay was born. In school bus in the Laurin district until 1933 and then only for 1952 Gladys and Kay spent the summer in Alaska where[...]. nearby schools such as Alder, Ruby and Robber's Roost and On April 1, 1963 Dave and Gladys bought Chick's Bar in others. Alder[...]Joe attended high school in Virginia City and graduated in and by that time they felt like one family.[...]1937. He played basketball and track in high school and Dave passed away July 25, 1978 and Gladys has continued played baseball for Laurin for several years. Laurin and to run Chick's Bar. Her daughter Kay is married to Tom Alder baseball teams combined and played other teams in Simpson of Twin Bridges where they live with their three the county. He was the catcher and his brother "Babe" was children. the pitcher. After high school he took up ranching with his father and brother on the ranch at Laurin and as a sideline for extra Gladys (Campbell) Mortensen money, he broke horses at $10 a head.[...]His father Alexander Peterson died in 1950 and Joe and Babe continued on the ranch until 1955 when he married the Wedding picture of Joe and Dorothy (Haggett) Peterson. Oc- Laurin schoo[...]ing as chairman of the Laurin School District No. 55 at the[...]time when they met. After marriage they moved to the Up- per Ruby and took over his father's and Uncle Ralph Peter-[...]dinand Peterson in the early 1800's. With the ranch he also took over the brand P which was issued to Ferdinand Peter-[...]the original hand-written brand certificate.[...]Joe was a board member of the Ruby Valley Stock Associa-[...]Creek and Three Forks Cattle Associations. At that time[...]most members of the Association sold yearling cattle instead[...]The first one, called the Beef roundup_usually started around[...]September 20. The Warm Spring Creek and Three Forks[...]rs joined forces to gather their respective units and then the yearlings from these gatherings were combined int[...]one bunch and trailed to the railhead at either Alder or[...]ida, depending on sale arrangements. At that time all[...] |
| Joe, Bruce, Dorothy, Connie and Emily Peterson, 1981. Raymond Peterson and his mother, Alice Peterson, March, 1968. the cattle were shipped on the railroad and Joe made several of these drives to the railheads. Later on the Ruby Valley receiving his basic cavalry training[...]sociations split up permanently into two associa- and was sent overseas in March, 1945. He served in Luzon, tions and Joe is still a board member for the Warm Spring in the Philippines as a patrolman and traffic policeman with Creek Cattle Association. the famed 738th M.P. Battalion. He received the Meritorius Joe became a charter member of the Snowline Grazing Service Unit Citation, Good Conduct Medal, Philippine Association in 1965. The Association is located between Liberation and Asiatic-Pacific ribbons with one battle star. Lima and Monida on the Idaho border and is a distance of Sergeant Raymond A. Peterson was separated from the ser- some 60 miles which is made by trailing the cattle each spr- vice March 16, 1946. ing and fall. Joe was a board member on this Association for After his discharge Babe worked again on the family several years. ranch. His father died January 10, 1950 and he and his Joe is a member of the Southwest Montana Stockgrowers brother Joe continued to run the ranch for their mother. In Association, serving as a board member for two terms. He 1955 Joe purchased the Ralph and Alex Peterson ranch in has been a life member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in the Upper Ruby, moving there in October of that year, after Laurin, a member of the Farmer's Union and Farm Bureau for a good many years. He has been a weather observer for Raymond (Babe) Peterson 25 years and a member of the Virginia City Elks Lodge for 37 years. Joe and Dorothy have been married 25 years and have three children: Bruce born in 1956, Connie born in 1961 and Emily born in 1963. Bruce and Emily Peterson RAYMOND ALEXANDER PETE[...]son, known as "Babe" Peterson to most |
| his marriage to Dorothy Jean Haggett. Babe stayed on the In 1931 Carrie, Raymond and their mother moved to home ranch. He was a member of the Sheridan American California. After Jim and Carrie were married in 1935 they Legion and of the Warm Springs Creek Stock Association. returned to Montana and raised their family of four children: In 1958 Babe married Mary Neta Baril who was the Anson, born in 1936 at Three Forks, now lives in Escondido, mother of a ten month old daughter Kathy. They purchased California; Michael, born in California in 1937, lives in Fair- the home ranch from his mother and she built a home on the banks, Alaska; Linda, born at Three Forks, Montana in 1939, Flager property in Alder. Babe and Neta eventually sold the married Wayne Deatherage and lives in Springfield, ranch to Bill and Bonnie Mailey and purchased an apartment Missouri; Jim, born in 194[...]Carrie has eleven grandchildren: Anson and Anita (twins Babe met Alma McClintock of Missoula in 1968 and they who live in Germany) Adele, Annette and Aaron; children of were married in Pasco, Washington in the fall of that year. Anson II: Stephanie and Robert Deatherage: Debbie, Shelly They lived in Missoula and later moved to Brainard, Min- and Shawna, children of Michael: and Linda, Jim's daughter. nesota where Alma's children lived. They lived and worked In the summer of 1977 Carrie flew to Germany and spent a in several different places and while he was working at month visiting her grandchildren. She continues to operate Pasco, Washington he was stricken with cancer. Babe spent the Oxbow Cafe. several months at the Vets Hospital in Seattle, making one last visit home in March, 1977 to see his family and friends. Ca[...]s Upon his return to Pasco he kept getting worse and entered the Veterans Hospital in Walla Walla, Washington where he died June 28, 1977 at the age of 55. His mother died the KARL L. AND EDNA (ANDERSON) SAUERBIER same year in September at the age of 83. Babe is survived by his wife Alma o[...]erbier was born at Virginia City, Montana Flager and brother Joe of Alder; daughter Kathy of Butte; on April 10, 1920. His parents were Karl and Eva Trenerry stepdaughters Mrs. Lee Hemness, Mrs. Rod Johnson of Il- Sauerbier and he is a grandson of C.F. Sauerbier whose linois; stepson Jesse McClintock of Minnesota and seven blacksmith shop still stands on the main street of Virginia step-grandchildren and several nephews and nieces. City. Burial was in Nevada[...]ated in honors. Babe was a tall man, six foot one and is remembered Virginia City schools and has spent his entire lifetime in by one and all for his easy going ways, good nature and love Madison County with the exception of the five years he serv- of people. ed in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, three years o[...]which were spent in the South Pacific. He returned to[...]Madison County after the war where he was engaged in min- Alice Peterson Flager ing and construction and later owned and operated a service[...]December 23, 1919, the daughter of John H. and Egidia Jep- son Anderson. She moved to Alder with her parents and an ANSON JOHN AND CAROLINE (WHITE) REYNOLDS older brother and sister, John Jr. and Marie, in 1920. A[...]s generally called Jim, was born August 14, grade and high school at Alder and Virginia City. She is a 1912 in South Bend, Indiana. His parents were Delos (Tip) graduate of Butte Business College and was employed in and Charlotte (Lovelin) Reynolds. In 1915 the family moved Butte for several years as a stenographer-bookkeeper before to Grace, a railroad stop on the Highline near Butte. Jim returning to Alder after[...]her parents later attended school in Three Forks and graduated from in their ranch operation. high sch[...]risty, Lowen Dan Doornbos, On May 16, 1935 Jim and Caroline (Carrie) White were Amanda (granddaughter), Edna and Janet S. Doornbos. married in Pasadena, California. They returned to Montana and Jim worked around Three Forks as an electrician and at various mines, including the Bull Moose near Norris. They moved to Sheridan in 1941 where Jim continued working in mines and also for Montana Power. In May 1959 Jim and Carrie bought the Oxbow Cafe in Alder which had been built in 1947[...]children: Nelson (1905-1981); Alvin (1907-1928); and Raymond who was born in 1909 and is now living in North Fork, California. A[...] |
| THE SPHINX On Mt. Washburn East of Cameron[...] |
| Lowell and Edna were married on October 16, 1949 and Beautiful scrolls made by Mary Sauerb[...]were presented to each family attending. At the top of each own and operate a cattle ranch. They are the parents of two scroll was an artist's sketch[...]standing in daughters, Janet (Mrs. Dan Doornbos) and Kristy, and have front of his blacksmith shop. Beneath the picture was a com- one granddaughter, Amanda Doornbos. plete family tree of all his direct descendants. Family color-[...]coded name tags were pinned on everyone attending the din- ner. These were made by Jane Dawson and we found them Kristy Sauerbier helpful in identifying the branch of the tree to which each[...]son belonged. A beautifully framed print of the[...]ksmith.shop was presented to Dorothy Sauerbier as she was the oldest member attending. It was a pleasant and memorable occasion and we owe a debt of gratitude to Janet S[...]Doornbos for contacting the family members and making all the arrangements, and to Mary and Jane for all their help On August 14, 15 and 16, 1981 nearly one hundred descen- and support. dants of Charles Frederick Sauerbier ga[...]Edna Sauerbier in 1882 and opened a blacksmith shop that still stands on lower Wallace street. The visitors spent their time sightseeing in Virginia City and Nevada City, went gold panning up Granite Creek and NEIL AND MARY (TATE) SAUERBIER visited with old friends. They attended a performance by the Virginia City Players and wound up the get-together with a When Neil and Mary (Tate) Sauerbier were married, two dinner at the Elks Hall.[...]l was born Family members attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Neil Sauer- August 10, 1916 in Virginia City, Montana; the first child of bier and Dick Sauerbier, Kalispell; Mr. and Mrs. David Karl and Eva Trenerry Sauerbier. He grew up and attended Sauerbier and family, Dr. and Mrs. Conrad Orr and family, local schools in Virginia City. His first employment was at Missoula; Mr. and Mrs. Karl Sauerbier and Kristy Sauerbier, the Dudley Garage and he has been into mechanics ever Alder; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Doornbos and family, Havre; Mr. since. Neil is the oldest Sauerbier grandson of Charles and Mrs. Harmel Dawson and Sally Dawson, Salt Lake City, Frederick Sauerbier, who established the blacksmith shop in Utah; Dr. and Mrs. Karl Dawson and family, Lexington, Virginia City. Kentucky; Mr. and Mrs. David Hoagland and family, Bur- Mary Julia (Tate) Sauerbier was born December 21, 1918 bank, California; Mrs. and Mrs. John Dawson, Homedale, the only child of Addison and Molly Tate of Alder, Montana. New Jersey; Mrs. and Mrs. Gilbert Sauerbier, Mrs. and Mrs. She is a granddaughter of John C. Donegan, who came to Jack Favero and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cutting and fami- Virginia City in 1863. Mary grew up on the Upper Ruby, ly, Mrs. Nell Ruth Correia, Butte; Mr. and Mrs. Steve about two miles from the original Donegan home. She at- Feagins and family, Sheridan, Wyoming; Mrs. Dorothy tended school in the Upper Ruby, Sheridan and Virginia Ci- Sauerbier, Seattle, Washington; Ray[...]dria, ty. Virginia; Mrs. Lucy Hayden, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hayden Neil and Mary were married in Laurin, Montana on and family, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hayden and family, Mr. and December 27, 1937. They lived in Missoula for one year Mrs. Dan Hill and family, Dillon; Mr. and Mrs. Edward where their first son, Karl[...]born on January 18, Sauerbier, Lowden, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Secor, Sauk 1939. Later they m[...]y where their Village, Illinois; Mrs. June Dorow and Holly Dorow, Hazel daughter Mary Patricia was born March 16, 1940. Crest, Illinois; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Weise and family of Il- linois, and Mr. and Mrs. N.D. (Pete) Conklin of Ruby. Neil and Mary (Tate) Sauerbier Sauerbier Family Re[...] |
| [...]moved to the Westbrook shop where he worked for six years.[...]was the only machine shop in the Valley that did general[...]ir work. George specialized in blacksmithing and welding. He also had a gun shop and was known for the fine custom rifles he made. He also sold new and used guns and[...]George was one of the first scoutmasters in the area when the Boy Scout troop was organized in Alder. He was also the first chief of the Alder Fire Department and held that posi-[...]ing this period that the fire house was built and all the fire[...]During the time they lived in Alder, Sally was[...]ing her appointment July Neil Sauerbier Family at the Family Reunion in Virginia Ci- 31, 1955. ty, 1981. L. to R.: Granddaughters, Christi and Carin Orr; One episode that occurred during the time they lived in son-in-law, Dr. Conrad Orr; granddaughter, Carolyn Orr; the Ruby Valley concerned his lion hounds. George wou[...]rbier; son, Karl David sometimes get busy and forget to take them for a run. After Sauerbier; M[...]daughter-in-law, Donna (Mrs. a few days, the hounds would begin to bay and make quite a David Sauerbier}; granddaughter, Dia[...]rbier; son Richard Tate Sauerbier. rid of the hounds. He never knew who started it, but the notice came in the mail. Neil was employed in the mines in Virginia City for about In the late 1960's George went into the outfitting business, two years before moving to Anaconda and later to Kalispell taking hunters into the Beartooth and Absarokee wilderness where he was employed by Int[...]About twenty years ago they bought the Canyon Creek Neil and Mary have five grandchildren: Christi, Carin and Guest Ranch out of Melrose and ran it until a few years ago Carolyn Orr, daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Conrad Orr (Mary when it was sold to a group from Nebraska. Patricia). Daniel Karl and Diana Jo are the children of David and Donna (Morasch) Sauerbier who live at Turah east of George and Sally have two sons, Phil and Jim. The boys Missoula. went to grade school in Alder and high school at Sheridan. Phil is now a guide and outfitter and lives in Melrose, Mon-[...]Mary Tate Sauerbier Both George and Sally are members of the Episcopal Church. George belongs to the Masonic Lodge and is a past[...]George Smith and Kate Schneider in Alder, Montana. He was one of e[...]of Virginia Ci- ty. They had two children, Robert and Frances. Jim and family moved to California in 1942. In 1970 Jim EDWIN WALTER AND LUCILLE (BARRETT) and Beulah moved to Dillon and ran the State Bar for a few STEVENS years. In 1979 they retired and moved to Woodland, Califor- nia to be near their children and grandchildren. Ed Stevens, known to[...]was born in Bloomington, Ill. in 1880 and married Elizabeth[...]in 1926 when he worked at a gold GEORGE 0. AND EMILY (KUMER) SMITH mine in Br[...]ing near Baker, Oregon and Salmon, Idaho. George Smith was born June 12,[...]re, Idaho to In 1935 he married Lucille Barrett and the following two George and Ida (Ransom) Smith. His parents had moved to years were spent at Mayland Mine in the Siskiyou Moun- The Ruby Valley in 1899 and his sister Delaphine (Smith) tains of California. The moved to Norris, Montana in 1937 Allhands was bor[...]father work- where Steve became superintendent at the Boaz Mine. In ed at the Broadway Mine at Brandon, where he was in charge[...]riously injured in a mine accident. After mon- of all the horses. In 1902 the Smith family moved to ths of hospitalization, the decision was made to attend Mon- Nicholia, Idaho.[...]Butte. He enrolled in September In 1935 George and Emily (Sally) Kumer were married in 1940 and graduated in 1944 with a B.S. in Metallurgical Salmon, Idaho. They moved to the Ruby Valley in 1946 and Engineering. The Stevens family left Butte and lived at a settled in Alder where they bought the Conrey place from lead mine in Darwin, California until 1945 when they return- Ester and Owen Judy. George started a shop there and then ed to Norris, Montana.[...] |
| [...]Ed and Lucille Stevens with their daughter, Diane. 1947.[...]to this marooned camp. Sawyers Bar, the nearest settle-[...]sional wide spot for meeting another vehicle. The hub of this On January l , 1951 Steve became superintendent at the place was a store of the "back country" variety. Sµice this Sierra Talc Mine south of Cameron. The next twenty years was gold country with many pros[...]with many changes taking to see them buy supplies and hand over a leather pouch of place, including hou[...]ed. One prospector in particular, never ing water and telephone service. Underground mining had to wash[...]place in his plank table and he poured his food into it, occa- Ed Stevens retired July 1, 1970 and received best wishes sionally wiping it out between meals. In the winter, a man from his fellow workers and friends at a farewell picnic held with a pack mule brought the mail from Sawyers Bar to a at Yellowstone Mine. In 1972 he suffered a heart attack and place about two miles from camp. This was a weekl[...]ay February 14, 1976. After living in the Siskiyou Mountains for two years, it Memorial ser[...]in 1937. Things City; Mt. Jefferson Masonic Lodge and Virginia Chapter No. changed again in 1939 when Steve broke both legs and a 9, O.E.S. shoulder in an accident at the Boaz Mine. After moving to Steve was a member of the American Institute of Butte in 1940 Steve started to college at Montana Tech. Metallurgical Engineers and the Montana Board of Profes- Lucille attended Butte Business College and later worked at sional Engineers. He was a 32nd degree Mason, a Past the Registrar's office at Tech. After Steve received[...]ny; a member of degree, they moved to California. The family now included a Scottish Rite and Bagdad Temple of the Shrine; Virginia daughter, Diane who was born in Butte, three weeks before Chapter No. 9, O.E .S. and a twenty-five year member of her father's graduat[...]ett was born in Yakima, Washington on March Diane and Lucille Stevens at their Alder home, 1981. 14, 1915, the youngest of five children born to Fred and Car- rie Barrett. Fred Barrett was born in 1883 a[...]r) Barrett was born in 1881 in Palo Pinto, Texas. The older children were Louise B. Jones (1906-1969);[...]1942). Lucille attended school in Lower Naches and married Ed Stevens on October 21, 1935 at the First Christian Church in Yakima, Washington. The destination of their wedding trip was a gold mine in a remote area of northern California. The arrival of a young bride in camp brought about a[...]ll used by many people. Winter was approaching and it was urgent that sufficient supplies for twenty people be brought in before the heavy snows came and the one road would be blocked for three or fou[...] |
| After a year of living on the desert, the Stevens family returned to the Boaz Mine at Norris, Montana and then in 1951 they " settled down" for a twenty year stay at the Talc Mine. These years passed quickly with mining interests and many community activities. A great source of pleasure was skiing at Jack Creek, Lion Head and of course, the hills around Johnny Gulch. In anticipation of their retirement, the Stevens had bought a place in Alder, formerly kno[...]l names: Van Brocklin, Fitzpatrick, Pete Anderson and lastly, the Monahan place. Lucille has continued to live at t[...]Lucille Barrett Stevens THE STONE FAMILY Frank Walter Stone (1864-1924) the son of Henry and |
| [...]Eleanor Beth Stone (Clark), born in 1931 is the daughter of Emerson and Hazel Stone. She attended school in Alder and graduated from Sheridan High School in 1949. She also at-[...]Beth was working in California when she met and married Robert E. Clark on February 14, 1959 the same day her[...]the Air Force so they spent time in California, Flori[...]Texas, England and North Dakota. They have four children:[...]Elaine, David, Laura and Charles. Bob retired from the ser- vice as a Master Sgt. and now works for Great Western.[...]Beth is active in community affairs and the County Planning[...]Robert Emerson Stone (1935-1980) was the son of Emerson and Hazel Stone. Bob was well liked in the Valley. He attend- ed school in Alder and graduated from Sheridan High[...]and they had one daughter, Sherrie. Bob remarried in[...]December, 1966. This marriage to Betty Jo Howell took place at Arco, Idaho and they had one son, Emerson Samuel.[...]In 1967 Bob leased the ranch from his mother and ran it until 1974 when he sold the cattle and leased the ranch. Bob[...]passed away unexpectedly in December, 1980 at the young[...]age of forty-five. He was an Army veteran and a Charter Bob Stone at age 18. Member of the American Legion Post in Virginia City. His[...]daughter Sherrie now lives on the ranch and his son Sam Elizbeth Stone's sister, Katherine Emerson McDonald resides in Casper, Wyoming. also lived in the Ruby Valley. Her biography is on page 369 of Pioneer Trails and Trials. Henry Edwin Stone (1888-1958) was the oldest child born Sherrie Stone Schandelmeier to Frank and Elizabeth Emerson Stone. He was born January 30, 1888 and spent his entire life at the home ranch. He married Edna Bush of Pony, who was a school teacher in the Valley. Some of her students from Twin Bridges still THE EARNEST P. (PECK) TATE FAMILY remember her. Henry was in the First World War and served overseas in Europe. · After the death of his father in 1924, Earnest P. Tate was born in 1891 at Longton, Kansas. His Henry and his brother Emerson operated and expanded the arrival in the Ruby Valley at the age of twenty and his early Stone Ranch. They became known for thei[...]story are described on page 396 of Pioneer Trails and cattle and even raised a few bulls for sale. Trials. Emerson Francis Stone (1895-1965) was the second son In 1924 he married Mary Mullen who was born in Butte in and fourth child of Frank and Elizabeth Stone of Alder. He 1902. When she graduated from Butte High School she at- was a handsome and well liked young man who fell for a tended the Normal College in Dillon. She took a job teaching school teacher from Missouri. Hazel Rice (1898-1968) was in the Home Park School and lived with the William Marshalls. the Valley visiting with her relatives, the McGinleys. She The school house was a cabin near the yard of the Marshall's was a teacher at the State Reformatory for Girls. This con- home. Three of her students were Faythe and Wilma Mar- cern later caused her to be on the Board of Trustees at the shall and Blanche Conway. Children's Home in Twin Bridges. Hazel had a Life Teaching Certificate for Missouri, Idaho and Montana. She was also a Charter Member of the Ruby Valley Woman's Club and a Earnest P. Tate Family: (back row):[...]ces. Republican precinct committee woman. Emerson and Hazel (front row): Peck, Tom, Bill,, Parker and Mary. were married in Missoula on December 28, 1926 and had two children: Eleanor Beth and Robert Emerson, both born at the hospital in Butte. Emerson and his brother Henry ran the Stone Brothers Ranch. They leased the Cahill place for years but it was sold to Sam Maloney so they purchased the Jensen place, which bordered the original Stone Ranch. This is where Emerson and his family resided. The ranch now consists of the Stone, Jensen, O'Connell and Salmonsen places for the bottom land. Henry and Emer- son homesteaded in an area between Davey and Barton Gulch. They also increased the size of the range land when they purchased some of the Pete Anderson land. This part- nership ended in 1958 with the death of Henry. After Emer- son's death in 1965 Hazel continued to operate the ranch with the help of her son Bob.[...] |
| [...]Tom married Jeanette McManus and lives in Spokane,[...]Charles and Andy. Peck Tate had several brothers who also lived in the Upper[...]biography appears on page 395 of Pioneer Trails and Trials.[...]Montana in the 1920's. He had lost his sight as a young man[...]so he stayed with his brothers and their families. He became[...]a very fond part of all the families and everyone enjoyed his wit and beautiful singing voice. He could remember more[...]. Arthur, Add, Jim, Harold and George Tate. October 1940 and is buried in the Laurin Cemetery.[...]George Tate was born in 1887 at Longton, Kansas and ar- rived in Montana in 1928. He worked on the ranches around After their marriage the Tates lived on a ranch just south the Valler and then worked for Charles Metzel for nineteen of the Marshall place. They also owned another ranch called years. After Mr. Mezel's death he moved to Superior to the Murphy Place. For the next twenty years they raised make his home with a niece, Mrs. Al Wood. He later entered sheep and a few cattle. During the summers the sheep were the Veteran's Hospital at Fort Scott, Kansas where he died grazed on the Gravelly Range. The altitude was too high to July 23, 1959. He was a veteran of World War I and a grow anything but "wild'' hay. In the 1930's they purchased member of the American Legion. the Walter Garrison ranch, which lay below the upper ca- Harold Tate came to the Ruby Valley in the 1920's. He nyon. Here gardens and grain could be grown. Peck and ranched with his brother, Peck for a sh[...]h jointly. Alice Hayden of Butte; she was a close friend of Mary Mullen There were s[...]e he drove truck for Frances was born in 1924. She married Leo Lau and lived several business people. For a time they operated the Ruby in Pony; they have four daughters. At the present time they Hotel in Sheridan. They lat[...]he drove a logging truck and later operated his own grain Jane, born in 1926 married George Miller and lives in hauling company. Alice passed awa[...]ena. They have five children: Tom, Ed, Steve, Ann and in Garfield, Washington. They had three children: Bruce, Ceceila. They also have three granddaughters. Shirley and Jerry.[...]After Peck's death in 1949, Mary sold the upper ranches Marie was born in 1928. She never married, but teaches in Newbourgh, N.Y. and moved to Butte. She survives, as do all the children, along with 14 grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren. Bill, born in 1934 married Bernice Baumgardener and they[...]ildren: Mrs. Jake (Donna) McDonold of East Helena and Joey, who is still in school and lives with his Wedding p icture of Henry Andrew Walker and Christina parents in Butte. They have one grandso[...]raska August 17, 1890. Parker was born in 1938 and married Virginia Laughney of Red Lodge. They live[...]ere they raised three children: twin girls, Karen and Kelly, and a son, George. Four Generations: Mary Mullen Tate; Frances Tate Lau; |
| [...]Alice Walker received a B.A. and M.A. degrees in educa- tion from the University of Denver. Since retiring she has made four trips around the world and has visited all seven continents. She calls herself a travel addict. Alice lives in[...]in the Pacific area. He now lives in Livingston, Montana[...]worked in the construction business for Phelps Dodge in[...]and served in North Africa and Europe in World War II. She later joined the Peace Corps, spending time in South America and North Africa. She received a B.S. degree from the University of Oregon.[...]Mildred Ross of Fromberg, Montana is also in the educa- tional field. She has two children. Family reunion at Casper, 1965.[...]two children. he served in World War IL He was also in con-[...]Alice Walker Since the Henry Walker family lived in the Ruby Valley for twenty of their growing years, the members feel their roots are in that Valley. The family came when the Northern Pacific put a branch line to Alder in 19[...]heir first five years in Sheridan where Mr. HARRY AND KATHERINE (DeFOREST) WILLIAMS Walker served as a track foreman. Fred and William were born there. After an interval of two years in Whitehall, the My grandfather, Andy Williams bought Belmont Park Wa[...]ears later a son, Harry was born to years. During the first years there, No. 4 dredge boat was Andy and Mary Williams at the ranch. constructed near Ruby. Harriet and Mildred were born dur- In August, 1947 Ha[...]heir last home was in Fromberg, Montana DeForest. The following year, 1948 was remembered as "the where Mrs. Walker died in 1933. When Mr. Walker retired in year of the bad winter" and the arrival of Montana Power 1937 he moved to California where he died in 1947. He was electrical service to the ranch. It was nc.- longer necessary to always proud of his membership in the Masonic Lodge No. 1 put off many household chores until a windy day, as the elec- at Virginia City, Montana.[...]tricity was now in almost constant supply and not dependent The surviving family members are: on the wind powered generator. Alma Parmenter has five children and lives in Douglas, In April 1948 my sister, Sally Elosia was born and I arriv- Arizona.[...]ed in April, 1950; we were both born in the old Sheridan Esther Stermitz chose a profession in the field of education Hospital. Our primary education was received at the one and lives in Missoula, Montana. She has three children. room log schoolhouse near the old Wonderly place. There[...]were eight grades, one teacher and an average attendance of Alice Walker and Marguerite Joseph Rask. Her father had nine students. We used the "house out back" and pumped the dry goods store in Alder. Picture taken in Casper, 1967. water by hand from a well. During these years at the school the wood stove was replaced with propane heat, the propane[...]gas lights replaced with electrical service and the hand pump[...]replaced by running water. Inside plumbing and Mountain[...]Andy and Mary Williams at their ranch home. 1954.[...] |
| [...]family recreation centered around things we could all do together. We went "jeeping" with friends, took trips to Wade Lake and went riding with the Madison County Side[...]1973. Harry and Katherine moved to a small place near[...]Dillon. Grandmother Mary Williams moved to the Kilgore ranch on the lower Madison River near Three Forks where[...]her daughter and family live. My sister, Sally and I live in the Ruby Valley.[...]Other family- members who moved to the Valley were.[...]Great Falls in 1947. In 1950 Florence and her sister and brother-in-law, Jessie and Robert E. (Bob) Monahan, bought the Pete Anderson home place near Alder.[...]Florence and Jessie were most active in the Beaverhead Sally and Jane Williams with the historic horse barn in Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution and the background. 1954.[...]Women's Club. Florence died in April 1969. Jessie and Bob sold their place to Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Stevens in 1968.[...]child, Robert L. Monahan and his family. Bob died in Bell- We both had to "b[...]ies in town to go to ingham in September 1970 and Jessie died in June of 1971. high school as no school bus ran to the Upper Ruby until They are buried in the Sheridan Cemetery in the Valley they after I graduated from high school. loved and considered home. On the ranch we were kept busy with chores and helping Harry and Katherine Williams have three grandchildren; with whatever needed doing. As a child I had to keep the Carrie and Karla Coad and Andy Yecny. wood box full at the cookhouse. It was a pretty good chore as I was often rewarded with a treat from the cook. Our spare time was spent with our pets or r[...]Jane Ellen Williams Yecny Harry Wiliams and his wife, Katherine who is wearing a Sam and Deanne Wonderly, 1972.[...] |
| [...]Sam remembers traveling down Cream Creek in the Upper Ruby one day, when he met two old bachelors making[...]to skim all the old dead animals and birds off the top of the[...]ranch was the old Callaway ranch in the Upper Ruby. In later years other couples lived in the cabin after getting mar- ried and thus it was nicknamed "Honeymoon Cottage" by[...]from Mollie Tate and moving there. The Tate place had a big[...]count to see how many had arrived during the night, because friends would just come in during the night and make[...]North Dakota on July 11, 1912. She was the daughter of German immigrants and the ninth of eleven brothers and sisters. She attended schools there and in Texas and often commented that she couldn't speak English and had to learn it along with everything else when she started to school. She married George Ludwick on November l, 1930 in[...]Lorraine and Jim, all born in North Dakota. They moved to[...]Virginia City in 1938 and also lived a short time in Butte.[...]oung man. operator for the Virginia City phone company.[...]Deanne spent the remainder of her life in the Upper Ruby there was to be done during 1940 and 1941. He bought his where she died November 30, 1976 at their home. Sam and own ranch from his father, Jim Wonderly in 1942. He also Deanne had one child, Sandra. tried prospecting with Bill P~ttus on Donegan Mt. one Sam sold the ranch in 1979 and moved to Sheridan where winter.[...]ing. Deanne Ludwick Wonderly, at a place called 'The Green Sandra Wonderly |
| [...]The house was later sold to the Conrey Placer Mining Com- pany and used as the manager's home and 1923 when the[...]ho lived there with his family for several years. The house[...]ompleted 1970. RUBY,MONTANA Ruby Stables, built about 1900,[...]station for horses on Lowell Gilman property. |
| Lowell Gilman standing beside retort furnace used in the processing of gold. The concrete building is now used as a museum, mining[...]NORMAN DOUGLAS (PETE) and MARIE CONKLIN[...]a, second of three children born to Charles Glenn and[...]lives near Dillon, Montana and younger sister Nancy Deed[...]Basin three miles from Reynolds Pass on the Idaho line, 10 miles from the nearest neighbor. In winter traveled on skiis[...]as there was three to four feet of snow on the average. he moved in fall of 1930 to Ruby and leased what was then the Leo Weidner place for one year and then moved to the old Henry Long place owned by William Dupuis. He sold the homestead in Antelope Basin and bought the Long place in 1938 and still lives there. He has raised Angus cattle and has operated a small saw mill for the last 40 years. He pioneered in the use of water[...]sides to water livestock and has built several systems for[...]horseback in the mountains.[...] |
| On February 22, 1969 Pete married Marie McLees Peck and has 5 step children: Joyce Nelson, Bozeman, Monta[...]Cameron, Montana; Bill Nelson, Hamilton, Montana and Bill Nelson, Spokane, Washington and has 13 step grand- children and 3 step great grandchildren. Marie was born to Mathilda and William McLees, one of six children on what is now the Jess Kilgore place, where her grandfather, John W. McLees, homesteaded, 20 miles south of Three Forks on the Madison river. Pete Conklin HAROLD LESLIE and ALICE E. "PEGGY" GILMAN Harold Leslie Gilman w[...]0 in Ruby, |
| [...]LOWELL L. AND LAURA (MOORE) GILMAN[...]Montana, the fourth child of Leslie and Ada Gilman, whose[...]parents came to Alder Gulch during the gold rush days. Lowell and Laura have purchased the property owned by his father and other adjoining land. Their cattle ranch was[...]once the headquarters of the Conrey Placer (Gold) Mining Company. The old cement retort and furnace building still[...]contains many items used in the gold dredge days, telling the tale of making gold bricks. This building also contains early- day ranch antiques. The Gilman Ranch still uses the IH[...]Lowell attended Ruby grade school and Virginia City High[...]l, which at that time was sending a bus down into the[...]r which he went into partnership with his father, and later began purchasing and building up the ranch property Harold & Peggy Gilman Family: (40th Wedding Anniver- and cattle. He is a member of The Southwestern Montana sary-1978)[...]Nebraska. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Degree in Agriculture Education from MSU. He married the Sheridan Soil Conservation District for 9 years,[...]n board turstee at Alder for many years, and high school three children were born: Duke Wayne[...]Ruler in Honey 8-13-74, Rachel Elizabeth 4-19-77 and Katie Joy 12- 1945 of the Elks Lodge #390 in Virginia City, and is a 42 year 3-82. Gail is a registered nurse and Wayne in the vocational member of said lodge. He is a membe[...]County High School, Masonic Lodge No. 1 and was Worshipful Master in 1964 Dillon. Mr. Gilman[...]entury of Masonry". He was serving as chairman of the Study Commission and later the presented a birthday gift from Grand Lodge of Montana of Charter Commission that drafted the Madison County a portrait of Paris Pfouts, the First Worshipful Master of Charter Government. He[...]serving Virginia City Lodge No. 1. Lowell is also a member of the on the Madison County Republican Central Committee. The three York Rite Bodies of Virginia City and the Bagdad Tem- family resides at Ruby, Montana. ble of the Shrine at Butte. Lowell and Laura are active Betty Lee Gilman Nolte was born 5-23-53. She graduated members of the Order of Eastern Star, Virginia Chapter No. from Sheridan High School in 1971 and attended Great Falls 9, Virginia City. They are members of the Bethel United Commercial College for one year. She married Robert Otto Methodist Church Board[...]here Bob is employed at Twin Laura, the fourth child of 12 children of Charles Franklin Bridges Public Schools and Betty with the Post Office. They and Reta Claire Brundage Moore, was born at Monida, M[...]tana, December 25, 1920. Moore's moved from the Centen- "Boone" 7-15-79, and Benjamin Otto 8-27-80, and one nial Valley to (now the Helen Fenton home) near Sheridan daughter, Brittary Lee born 2-4-82. when she was 7 years old. She attended first grade at the Robert T. Gilman Duncan District school and then Sheridan school where she H. Wayne Gilman graduated. She graduated from Butte Business College and[...]training at St. Patrick School of Nursing Lowell and Laura (Moore) Gilman Wedding Picture in Missoula. She is now owner and president oi Madison Abstract and Title Company in Virginia City, having first[...]worked in said abstract and title office under Frank E. Blair,[...]In 1944 Lowell married Laura Moore of Sheridan and they[...]have five children: Karla, Glenn, Leslie, James and Sharon and presently have seven grandchildren.[...]Earl Houtz Jr. of Great Falls, December 1966, and graduated the next year from University of Montana, Missoula, w[...]Bachelor's Degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology. They[...]3 girls: Jeni R. born 7-19-70, Laura M. 7-30-73, and[...]mer school at the University of Montana, graduated from[...]Degree in English and History. He married Pam Williamson[...]and Steven. Their home is in Golden, Colorado[...] |
| Lowell and Laura Gilman Children: (Glenn, Kar/,a, James, Leslie and Sharon)[...]in Ruby. He graduated from Sheridan High School, and Montana State University with honors, with a Bach[...]Norman worked as a ranch hand for John Anderson and Agricultural Education and taught 2 years in the Vo-Ag Carrie as a cook for twenty five[...]ried Donna DeWitt June 19, in Sheridan and Carrie cooked for 21 years at the old and 1977. He is presently manager of Gilman IH Cattle Co. and then the new hospital. is teaching part time in the Vo-Ag Department at Sheridan Carrie and Norman are active members of Virginia City High S[...]n star. Norman was Worthy Patron January 5, 1982, and a daughter, Chelsea born February 9, for 12 years and Carrie Worthy Matron four times. Norman 1983.[...]ry July 1975. graduated from Sheridan High School and from Montana They have four grandchildren and three great grand- State University, with honors,[...]ool in Alder, graduated from Sheridan High School and in Missoula June 24, 1978. He is employed by Marathon Oil finished college at the University of Montana, Missoula, a stu- Company,[...]dent in Business Administration and Home Economics. She Sharon L. Gilman was born March 25, 1960, grad[...]tana for one year, then from Sheridan High School and attended Montana State Belfry, Montana one year after which she married Karl University at Bozeman. She is presently employed as Berry. The[...]er Karla Ann born July 1, 1968. In 1969 Lowell and Laura, Leslie, James and Sharon vaca- tioned in Hawaii and 10 years later Lowell and Laura accom- Carrie and Norman Fries panied Elaine, Dick and Ron Kunkel on a Safari to Kenya, 50th W[...]Africa. Lowell and Laura Gilman CHILDREN OF CHRIS AND ESTHER HANSEN Carrie E. (Hansen) Fries was born on March 7, 1905 in |
| [...]a home in Dillon to be near the homes of her children.[...]Montana to Chris and Esther Hansen. She attended school in Ruby and later Virginia City. She married Frank Moore of[...]idan. To this union two children were born; Donna and Danny. Helga and Frank were divorced, and she now makes[...]Velma P. Hansen was born January 2, 1922, the youngest child of Chris and Esther Hansen. She attended school in Ruby and Virginia City. She married Dave Hansen, son of Ras and Bessie Hansen. They have two children, David and[...]November 23, 1907, first child of Ada Taylor and Leslie G. Gilman, and granddaughter of Pioneers William and Charity Taylor and I. Harvey and Ella Gilman, who came to Alder[...]Lela attended grade school in Ruby after which she[...]aduated from Walla Walla, Washington High School. She[...]ty, Bozeman in 1930, majoring in Business and Secretarial Studies. She held secretarial positions at Montana State[...]University, Iowa State University (Ames) and positions in They live in Bridger, Montana. Norma works for the city, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. After returning to Montana, Karl for the State Highway. Norma is active in the Eastern she worked 18 years (1955-1972) as Secretary to Safety Star and Rainbow Girls; Karla is a Rainbow Girl and Wesley is a DeMolay.[...]here were no school busses in those days, Herbert and Archie walked to school in all kinds of weather to Alder, then Ruby. Herbert and Archie are still at the home ranch near Ruby, do their own work, put up hay and on their spare time go on the Upper Ruby and Sweet Water to look for rocks hnd rubies, sometim[...]heir vaca- tion, saying it's more fun to go up in the hills than to go other places. Herbert worked f[...]ome, making things out of wood such as bull rakes and hay stackers, cutting them out and gluing together. Then he got started tumbling rubies, setting the stones in chains, rings, ties and belt buckles. He takes care the farm and Herbert helps and is cook and housekeeper. Herbert and Archie never married. Evelyn Galiger was the fourth child of Chris and Esther Hansen. She was born December 30, 1910. She attended school in Alder and Sheridan. In 1933 she married Julius Galiger who was the son of Martin and Mary Galiger, also early pioneers. Julius attended school in Laurin,[...]e born: Betty, July 27, 1933; Bill, May 11, 1945; and Bobby, August 6, 1954. During their early years of marriage, both Julius and Evelyn worked on ranches. Later they bought the old N.P. Nelson place West of Sheridan. Julius died in 1964. Evelyn remained on the ranch until 1980 when these holdings were sold. She bought[...] |
| [...]Ron and Gary Kunkel Elaine, Lowel~ Lela and Harold Gilman {children of the late Leslie and Ada Gilman).[...](Gihnan) Kunkel was born Februry 17, 1913 in 1972 and still resides in Butte. Ruby, Montana to the late Leslie and Ada Gilman, Pioneers She is a member of the Mountain View Methodist Church, of Madison County. Butte Chapter No. 39 Eastern Star, member of Sons and Elaine attended Ruby grade school, Twin Bridges High Daughters of Montana Pioneers and the American Associa- School and graduated from Bozeman High School, after tion of[...]men. which she attended Montana State University, Bozeman, for Lela has published, compiled, and preserved many records, 2 years and later graduated from Butte Business College. pictures, and history of Alder Gulch, Montana and her She married Frank Williams of Deer Lodge, an employee[...]son, Ronald Taylor, was born tury in Alder Gulch and Ruby Valley. She was born at the July 22, 1936. Frank passed away in 1943 and is buried in the time the wood-burning, steam operated, gold dredges were[...]uty Clerk of Federal Court in Generating Plant of the Madison River below Ennis, 26 Butte fo[...]aine is an active member of Aldersgate miles from the Ruby headquarters. Lela's father had the Methodist Church, PEO, Garden Club and Hospital Aux- longest record of employment with Conrey Gold Mining iliary. Company in Ruby when the company found it unprofitable, closed down its op[...]Anaconda. He owned the Kunkel Pontiac-GMC Agency in[...]Butte (for 27 years) until he sold out and retired in 1978. They Lela has one sister, Elai[...]ick was a Marine in World War II for Gihnan, Ruby and is proud of her 11 nieces and nephews and four and a half years. He is a director of St. James Community 20 great nieces and nephews. Her brother, Harold Gilman, Hospital, a long-time Board member advisor of the Salvation was killed in 1980 in a car-semi-trailer accident. Lela's husband, Harold, was a Captain in the Marine Air Corps in World War II and is buried in Thiensville, Wiscon- sin near his pa[...]Kunkel Family: Dick, Gary, Elaine and Ron[...]Lela Gihnan Koehler Elaine {Gilman) and Richard J. Kunkel[...] |
| Army, a member of Bagdad Temple of Shrine and Butte LOUIS AND SARAH MILLER Kiwanis Club. To this union a son,[...]Gary graduated from Butte High many, the son of Phillip and Sibilla Miller. School, received a Bachelor's Deg[...]n There was much talk of war in Germany and France at this 1975 from the University of Montana, Missoula. Also, for time and Phillip, Louis' father, was opposed to having any[...]ice for State Parole Board in his sons serve in the army of Bismark. At age 19, with the Lewistown. Since graduation, he has worked for the Forest help of an organization known as the Jewish underground, he Service for 7 years, prese[...]Orofino, Idaho. was smuggled out of Germany and put on a ship bound for Ronald Taylor Kunkel wa[...]hundred who fled attended schools in Alder, Butte and Anaconda and Bismarck's conscription in 1881. He arrived at Ellis Island graduated from the University of Montana in Business Ad- in June 1881, and after a short stay was hired as a ministration. After five years as a buyer for The Boeing brickmaker on Long Island. Leavin[...]ed Pan American World Airways headed west and worked as a brickmaker in North Dakota, where he[...]mployed as a Reservations Supervisor Montana and Washington. While in Washington, he was ad- in San Francisco. He and his parents and brother, Gary, mitted to U.S. Citizenshi[...]have traveled extensively overseas for 13 years, the last trip He worked in Tacoma as a longshoreman and on the Nor- on a Safari to Kenya, Africa, including Elai[...]thern Pacific Railroad. While working on the railroad, he lost Lowell and wife Laura Gilman of Ruby. all the fingers on his left hand, leaving only a thumb on[...]arm. He returned to Montana in 1896 and worked as a[...]brickmaker in Helena, Deer Lodge and Dillon; he also worked on the Two Dot Ranch and as a logger.[...]While working in the brickyard at Dillon, he met Sarah A.[...]Burns, a widow with a son Thomas and daughter Nellie. On August 23, 1896, Louis and Sarah journeyed to Virginia City CLAYTON (CLAY) AND DONNA (WRIGHT)LEE-BENOW whe[...]cabin in Adobetown, where Thomas and Nellie attended Clay was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, the son on Henry and school. Louis, in association with Mr. Vanderbeck, engaged Clara Leebenow. He came to Montana in 1940 and ranched in brickmaking and many of the brick seen around Virginia in Dillon, Montana. In March 1943 he married Donna City today are the handiwork of these two artisans. Wright of Blackfoot, Idaho, the daughter of Wallace and While living in Adobetown their first[...]born June 29, 1899 and died November 4, 1900. He is buried In 1944 they moved to Madison County in the Ruby in the Nevada cemetary. Valley. Three daughters were born, Bona of Butte, Shirley Heitz of Brockway, Montana and Ida of Dillon, Montana. Louis and Sarah Miller and son, William T. Miller, U.S.[...]Donna Leebenow CARL F. AND SYLVIA LUDVIGSEN Carl F. Ludvigsen, the only son of Ludwig Fred Ludvigsen |
| [...]er, Alice In 1901 they moved to Ruby, Montana and built a house |
| [...]Robert A. Rogers and his grandfather E.A. Rogers, great Wedding picture, Grace and Lewis Osborn uncle Howard I.[...]Rogers and brother E. (Bud) Rogers moved to Madison graduat[...]igh School in 1935. Grace at- County in 1939. The family lived at Pony for awhile then tended scho[...]Beaverhead Coun- they moved to Williams Creek in the Ruby Valley where they ty High School in 1941, and was certified from Montana mined for the Smith Mine, then moved to the Cook Mine in State Normal College in 1943.[...]Williams Creek. Toad left Kansas during the 'dust bowl' days, came west E.A. Rogers and Howard Rogers went to Alaska during and worked at various jobs. In the late 30's he was workingWorld War II. R.H. Rogers went to Seattle, to work in the at Dell, Montana where he met Grace. shipyards. The mother and boys stayed in Alder. In 1944 On November 16, 1940 Uncle Sam sent 'greetings' for the the family moved to Cle Elum, Washington for one year, one year draft. The following year, war was declared and hethen moved back to Billings for about six months and moved spent five years in the U.S. Army, thirty nine months over-back to Alder[...]dent comin_g down from the Grant Mine. R.H. moved to[...]Marysville, Washington where E.A. Rogers and Howard They were married on December 12, 1943 in the Lutheran Rogers were building houses. Bud and Robert moved to Church in Dillon. The following June, after Grace finished Ismay, Montana to live with their grandparents, Simon and her teaching in Neihart, Montana, she went to the west Celestia Quinlivan for one year, then jo[...]r one year before returning to Ismay. Montana in the fall of 1945.[...]50 to mine. 1946, in Butte, Montana. Toad came to the Ruby Valley to Robert's stepsister, Marie Woods, and his great uncle work in April, 1946. Ed and Grace came to Laurin the follow-Howard Rogers moved back with them. Howard[...]rin until 1948 when they moved to Alder, managing the Farmers Union Trading Co. for 3 years. Toad worked at Anderson 1m:d Sauerbier ranches for the following 14 years. Old A.N (Newt) Rodgers Home, now Don Rogers, Ruby, A daughter, Susan Louise was born July 11, 1951, and a Montana. son, Charles Lowell on November 30, 1953, both at the old Sheridan Hospital on Mill Street. During these[...]conducted in Alder. It continued for twelve years and the true spirit of christianity prevailed in this venture. Toad worked the next thirteen years for Madison County on the road crew, retiring in 1978. Grace went back to t[...]g her B.S. Degree froµi Western Montana College, and has taught since January 1961 at the Alder School. Their son, Ed, married Judi Howard. Tbev have,- one son, Daniel, and live in Laurin. Susan is married to Michael Merrin, and live in Sunnyvale, California. Charles is xmrrled to Colleen Archer, has 2 daughters, Amora and Kaleen and live in Helena. We have bad a good life here in the valley; blessed with good friends.[...] |
| Bud and Robert joined their folks in June 1950 and stayed in Williams Creek until the first of January 1951, then mov- ed to Alder. R.H. and Gladys bought the old A.N. (Newt) Rodgers house in Ruby in 1959. They remodeled and fixed this house. R.H. mined and did auto mechanics and welding in Alder and Ruby. Gladys M. Rogers passed away April 11, 1980[...]son, Donald F. Rogers has decided to set- tle in the valley, so has moved into the Rogers family house in Ruby.[...] |
| [...]Beaky Twiggs, Mr. Flager and Fay Widener. Mrs Alphonse[...]Mantha had a beauty shop in her home. Those were the days[...]The brick schoolhouse had one large classroom and an ad-[...]There was a good enrollment and the roster of teachers,[...]Haggett and the last one, Jeanette Jewett. Most of the[...]either rode horse back or drove a horse and buggy. On cold mornings Mrs. Wassel had the children do warm-up exer-[...]cises by square dancing to, "the Irish Washer Woman" or dancing the Virginia Reel. In 1962 the Laurin district con-[...]solidated with Sheridan. The Robbers Roost had already[...]The depot was a platform with seats and roof for the com-[...]freight. Philippe Johnson was the freight agent. In latter[...]drove truck for Claude Fitzhugh. Eventually the Northern Pacific freight and passenger truck delivered freight and pro- duce to the store. Passenger service was provided by Tom[...]Lane of Ennis who drove to Butte and back with his touring car. There was also passenger train service. The fare, via Father John A. Delane - Pastor[...]The Laurin Hotel changed hands often. After Mr. and Mrs. Beaufie retired, the business was managed by "Sumie" Cole.[...]He died suddenly of a heart attack at the hotel. The next LAURIN TOWN HISTORY owners were Hazel and Muggs McGrath and Archie and Pearl Estlick of Butte. The Estlicks and Mrs. McGrath's In the early 1900's Laurin was a busy little town of approx- parents, the Dalalazells, resided at the hotel. The McGraths imately thirty-three occupied houses. Ot[...]their two small daughters lived in a house across the ed at least three stores, the Laurin Hotel, post office, tracks. One da[...], Bobby, ventured school, depot, Brennan's Saloon and another bar, the Buffalo from the yard, was run over and killed by the train. Hump. Frank and Jean Van Slette also operated the hotel. During There was a barber shop in the rear of the Buffalo Hump their stay they were visited by his brother, Camille, and fami- and resident barbers over the years included Bob Ramsey, ly. Their youn[...]Mae, became suddenly Possibly the original Laurin Store. C.D. Chalmers General Merchandise and Post Office. |
| [...]Ike Elliott, Phil Johnson, Allie Todd. very ill and died. Apparently she had eaten some rodent cond time. Finally Sim and Ann Haines were the last |
| remember him, but it is believed this building was the original Laurin store. A Mr. and Mrs. Arms had a pool hall and ice cream parlor here for a time. In 1913 Morse B[...]until they built their Morse Brothers Mercantile and warehouse south of the church. This burned in 1922 (See the Oliver Morse history). Martin Johnson and family oprated the Johnson's General Store from 1901 - 1945 at which time it was sold to Fred and Nora Morrison who continued to operate it a short time and then closed it. The general store has always been much more than a pl[...]Here one could relax, discuss local happen- ings and keep up with political news. You might come in your work clothes or dress in hat and gloves. Mr. Frank Redfern is remembered as one of the later. He had the ap- pearance of a Southern Colonel driving a beau[...], Marion house, Johnson's store shopping early in the morning. He would sit quietly in a cor- and warehouse, the Johnson 's house - originally the home of ner at the back of the store where he could watch the Mrs. Emma (Holst) Audiffred Pomrenke. customers come and go while he puffed on his pipe. This pipe was most unusual for it hung dowp on his chest to the end of his beard. The bowl was large, carved and had a lid on it. graves on Dead Man's Island and swimming in the river. Joe Toward the end of the day Henry would throw his bag of Bock's dog, Tige, was one of the most enthusiastic members. groceries over his shoulders and hike back home. Or, if you preferred to sail down the river, Joe Tezak had a leaky rowboat where all the passengers bailed like mad to Another lady would arrive "before-the-heat-of-the-day". keep from sinking. There was lots of horseback riding and She sat behind the candy counter where she could watch the games to play in the large center of town. activities at the hitch rack and sample the sweets in the can- The grownups amused themselves with card parties. ball dy jars. At the end of the day, Mr. Johnson would see that games, picnics, and trips to the warm waters of Puller one of the clerks gave her a ride home.[...]There were horse races, 4th of July celebrations and The only telephone in town was also in Johnson's store. the county fair in Twin Bridges. Adelbert Clapp showe[...]but local calls were identified silent movies in the Chalmer's Building and both he and by long and short rings. John Mueller introduced the town to radio. But the two , Different clerks at Johnson's store included Art Gagnier, outstanding events of the year were the annual Church who died suddenly in their house of a heart attack, John Bazaar and the Seventeenth of March Dance at the Ruby McDonald, Adelbert Clapp, Frank Van Slette,[...]h of these occassions were means of raising money and Ray and Orville Kelly. Several days a week there was for the church and were always well attended. delivery service to outlying areas. Over the years the church is the one thing that has remain- It would hardly be fitting not to mention a few of the ed constant. This beautiful structure was J .B. L[...]well known bachelor citizens. Ed Archambault, to the town, although he did not live to see it. The stone "Shammie" to his friends, owned and operated the Buffalo Hump for years. This two story building had a saloon downstairs and a dance floor above. This was later torn Laurin s[...]r, John Clapp, Lelia Beebe, Sarah Next door to the Buffalo Hump lived William Whitford. Beardsley (1[...]ousner, John tain. Later his nephew, John Mueller and family also moved .Beardsley (9 y ears), Bill Stoltz, Gladys[...]W"III..':=.... scissors and knives. Another was Ike Elliott. A native of Canada, Ike was a skilled carpenter, painter and wallpaper hanger. He had a cabin at the rear of Johnson 's store. Alas, however there wer[...]e to imbibe. On these occa- sions he would sit on the kerosene tank platform with a flask of whiskey in one pocket and a cucumber or large onion or fresh peas in the other pocket to be used as a "chaser". Yet, Ike built some fine houses in the Alder-Laurin area for which he is better remember[...]l place to grow up. There were skating parties in the winter with bonfires and roasted potatoes which were delicious with a little salt - black skins and all. In the summer there were trips to the Road Agent |
| came from Laurin Canyon and the building was erected about 1898-1899 with the dedication in 1901. It serves the needs of the people just as it always has. The local priest now has his residence in Sheridan. That is the only dif- ference. Tourists find it especially attractive. Priests come and go, but Father John Delane, who resided here in the 1920's and 1930's, probably stayed the longest. He was especially well liked by both Protestants and Catholics and the _poor Father who followed him had to listen to a[...]dually people had to move away to find work. Cars and oiled roads took shoppers to larger stores until today there are n[...]times not even a bar or a place to eat in Laurin. The town has become a group of homes for people ~ho want to live " out in the country" where they can own a few acres and have a horse or two; pursue hobbies such as ceramics and dance lessons. Thanks to water from the Ruby Dam, via two canals, and electricity to operate the sprinkler irrigation systems, more green fields extend farther up the bench lands. Even the cemetery is green and well-kept. The Sundowner land development project on the eastern foothills has four new homes serviced by[...]tric cable. There are numerous other new homes in the valley, too. The trains that once car- ried the cattle, sheep and grain to market have been replaced by big semi-trucks. Today the train hauls talc. We leave this period in Laurin history with the anticipa- tion of an electric power line coming t[...]s to Dillon. A sub-station has already been built and stories of gas and oil exploration in neighboring Beaverhead County could very well mean similar activities in the Ruby Delaphine Allhands Valley. One can only[...]Dorothy Carey G. DEWEY AND DELAPHINE MAE (SMITH)[...]April |
| Dewey served on the school board at Laurin, where both Barbara and John attended grade school. Most of the family ranch was sold to Charles Galiger. A granddaughter, Terry Crump, and her husband, Dave, bought the ranch house and a small acreage. Mrs. John Allhands MARJORIE (VAN SLETTE) ANDERSON AND LOUISE Marjorie Van Slette Anderson was born June 15, 1915 near |
| [...], 1861. He arrived in Montana on May 30,1893. He took up his residence in Brandon after his arrival here. He met and married Miss Jessie M. Baker. Jessie was born in the Beaverhead Valley, December 9, 1880. Jessie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.Y. Baker were pioneers who arrived in Virg[...]Jessie's uncle was Tom Baker, a former editor of the Madisonian. John and Jessie were married in Virginia City on January 25, 1899. Three children were born to the couple; Sara (Mrs. Homer Lone), Mabel Anna (Mrs.[...]John and Pearl Beardsley, Gayla and Joe After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Beardsley resided in Brandon until 1912 when[...]They returned When John was three years old, his parents moved to to Sheridan in 1919 and later bought a small ranch on Indian Laurin[...]1952. During his sec- passed away in March 1935. She was buried in the Sheridan ond year of college in Bozeman, he was drafted into the Ar- cemetery beside the grave of Mr. Beardsley. my. John and Gayla spent the first year of their marriage at John and Jessie were members of the Masonic Order and Ft. Lewis, Washington. After his Army d[...]ia Chapter No. 34. Jessie was a returned to the Laurin area to become ranching partners devout member of the Episcopal Church and of the with his parents. Episcopal Guild of Sheridan. Gayla and John have three children: Susan Kay, born[...]June 14, 1957; she and her husband, Michael Hawkins of[...]sons, Bradley John and Robert William. Dan and Jody are in the ranching business with his parents. Andrew Gerard[...]September 25, 1962, is employed at the Alameda Mine out of Virginia City and lives at home. He enjoys hunting and runs a trapline. John and Gayla lived in Alder from 1964 until John R. Beardsley was born in July 1904 at Brandon, the 1976 when they purchased the Vic Clark ranch south of youngest of John P. and Jessie M. Beardsley's three Laurin. This is the old Beardsley ranch. John is in the cattle children. John spent his boyhood near Sheridan and Laurin business and Gayla works at the Madison County court- where his parents owned a ranch. house where she is deputy assessor. As a young boy, John was w[...]John Joseph Beardsley lives in Willow Creek and com- ranch home late one evening when he heard gunshots and mutes to Butte every day where he is employed by MHD as a saw a cowboy riding a horse and shooting his pistol into the computer programmer. Joe and his wife Leita have four air. This frightened John and he took refuge behind a sign children: Jim, Lisa, Shiela and Teddy. along the road. The horseman then fired a shot into the sign, striking young John in the back. The bullet was never Gayla (Beardsley) Allhands removed as the doctor feared paralysis if he did surgery. The gunman later told authorities he thought the lad was a dog. John married Pearl Schneider on June 5, 1935. Their first Susan, Dan and Andy Allhands home was the Beardsley ranch. After selling the ranch they moved to Winnemucca, Nevada where John was engaged in mining. They returned to Montana and settled in Norris, where John was again employed[...]tavern in McAllister until John 's health failed and they moved to Virginia City where John was the city policeman for some time. He was stricken with arthritis as a young man and suffered with the ailment most of his life. John Beardsley died in May, 1972. John and Pearl had two children: Gayla Catherine and ,John Joseph. Gayla, born in Sheridan on November 2, 1936, spent most of her childhood in Virginia City and graduated from high school there in 1954. She married John Dewey Allhands on June 12, 1955 at the Catholic Church in Laurin. John was born December 2, 1933 in Salmon, Idaho to G. Dewey and Delaphine (Smith) Allhands, ranchers in the Leadore, Idaho area.[...] |
| Wedding picture of John and Gayla (Beardsley) Allhands, June 12, 1955 GEORGE AND CLARA (FENTON) BEEBE George's grandfather was[...]was born in |
| opportunity to visit Montana, mainly Alder, Virginia Ci£y and Whitehall. Clara likes to point out the house where she was born in Sheridan and George has many stories about the dredge boats and of course they visit the graves of his sister, father and mother in Butte. Beebe Park, east of Laurin, w[...]11.00 an ounce was hauled out by four horse team. The logs for the buildings were cut right on the spot. Remnants of these are still there and at last report an all wooden home-made wheelbarrow is in pretty good shape there too. George and Clara Beebe[...]ob Bock with daughter, Cindy; Cindy Bock Osmanson and |
| [...]was that of a miner and he spent most of his life following[...]his line of work. He died on November 14, 1951 at the age of 64 and was buried at the Sheridan Cemetery.[...]December 16, 1888 and she died on March 6, 1950 at the age[...]ir eldest son, La Verne, attended grade school at the Robbers Roost School as did his brothers Marvin and Fran-[...]from grade school and then went to work as a cowboy and[...]1919. With the outbreak of World War II, he joined the U.S. Army and went into the Paratroopers, taking basic and ad- vanced training at Fort Benning, Georgia and went overseas with the 82nd Airborn. His plane was shot down during the invasion of Sicily on July 11, 1943 and all troopers aboard the plane were killed. Later all of the casualties aboard that plane were brought back to the United States and were[...]The other two brothers, Marvin and Francis, attended high school in Sheridan and stayed with Smokie and Mildred Ax-[...]teacher at the Robbers Roost School. Marvin now lives in[...]Busby, Montana and Francis lives in Lander, Wyoming.[...]CHARLES C. AND CLARA (BARRETT) DANFORTH Marvin Crane, U.S. Army, 1944. Clara Danforth was the daughter of Samuel C. and Mary La Verne Crane, U.S. Paratrooper, World War II. Barrett. She was born at Havana, Kansas and the family later moved to Wyoming. Here she met and married Charles[...]liffton Danforth, a native of Maine. He worked on the railroad as a conductor or brakeman. Some of the family still have the chair he used to sit on when riding in the caboose. He had shortened the legs and it was especially comfortable. His route was in the Sheridan, Wyoming area. He also had a homestead far up California Gulch near some[...]of Mrs. Danforth's relatives, but most of the time was spent[...]his early teens his father died and was buried in Wyoming. After that Clara and Raymond made their home in the gulch[...] |
| [...], Doris Jones (Gordon) Ray- mond Danforth. where she panned out enough gold to live on, painted pic- |
| parents to Hulett, Wyoming, near the famous Devil's Tower. She married Leslie Davidson on July 4th, 1927 and they moved to Moskee, Wyoming, where Leslie worked for the Homestake Mining Company. That fall, after her[...]r was called upon to finish a term of school when the hired teacher quit. At that time it was possible[...]a permit on graduation from high school. However, the marriage was not to be for Leslie was killed in a timber accident and Esther was now a widow with two small daughters. Eventually she moved to Montana and married George Davis. Esther Davis HARLAN LIONEL AND OPAL A. (BROWN) DENNY Mr. Denny's people had[...]m |
| [...]works for the State Experiment Station at Havre; and Marty who lives at Helena. Both she and her husband, Bruce[...]In 1967 Catherine earned a G.E.D. certificate and became a Licensed Practical Nurse. She nursed five and a half years at the Sheridan Hospital and then went to work for Madison County in the Bookkeeping Department of the Clerk and Recorders Office and is now employed in the Department of[...]GEORGE KENNETH AND EDNA PEARL (GRIFFIN)[...]ge was born in Sheridan on April 21, 1893. He was the son of William Rose Frew and Nancy Brundage Frew. His[...]parents, along with his elder brothers and sisters had moved M[...]from Montana to California sometime between 1885 and "Harley" Denny in later years.[...]1888. In 1892 his father was repairing a windmill and fell to[...]death. Following his father 's death, his mother and the "Harley" Denny died February 7, 1970 at the home of his elder children, William Rose Jr., Ellen Mina and Alice return- sister, Ruth Donham in Oxnard, California at the age of 84. ed to Sheridan and lived on the Temple Ranch on Wisconsin He was a member of the Mormon Church and belonged to the Creek. This is where George was born and raised. Masonic Lodge in Great Falls. He is also buried at Hur- Three years after his fat[...]Dewey and Mary. A few years after Mary's birth in 1910 the Samuel Denny family moved to the Tom Shaw ranch.[...]Edna Pearl Griffin. She was born June 11, 1900 in Alder, CATHERINE (SIMONSEN) DOORNBOS Montana, the daughter of Frank and Lillian P . Griffin. On June 7, 1921 George and Edna were blessed with their first[...]daughter, Vera Frances. Catherine S. Doornbos, the second of ten children of Mar- tin and Agnes Simonsen was born March 21, 1925 six miles In 1920 the Frew's moved to Washington state where south of S[...]is Simonsen George became an excellent stone and brick mason. A sec- and now a part of the Tezak ranch. ond daug[...]George and his family spent a great many vacations in the The first few years of her life were on the ranch by Clear Montana he loved, doing some farming and mining. Edna Creek and now part of the Burke ranch. When a baby, she passed away on October 14, 1944. and her brother, Peter, contracted whooping cough. The doc- tor pronounced her dead, but her father rush[...]married Lucille R. Jarvis her where he dislodged the phlegm from her throat and saved and they continued to reside in the West Seattle area. Lucille her life.[...]ie Fre w, Edna Griffin Frew, George Frew, Enos The Ruby Valley has been her home all her life except for Kelsey, Vera Kelsey, Baby Eona Kelsey.[...]t in Los Angeles, California during World War II, and two years in the Madison Valley after her marriage. She remembered some of the most · 1joyable times for them as children as those times they went with their dad, a kind and gentle man, to the mountains for fire wood or on an occasional Sunday picnic. When young they had the river and an unused gravel pit for swimming holes and the hay field below the house was a skating rink in the winter. Her first two years in school were in Sheridan but she finished through the 8th grade at the Robbers Roost School. She returned to Sheridan for the first two years of high school, then after their mother left, she stayed home to help care for her brothers, Martin, Tom, Howard, John and Ken and her sister Agnes. An older brother, Peter was in the navy. In August 1947 Catherine married Ed Doornbos and they had three children: Andrea, a chemical engin[...]t Des Plains, Illinois; Daniel, who is married to the former Janet Sauerbier and has a daughter, Amanda and[...] |
| [...]n Frew, Baby Vera Frew. died on October 14, 1971 and George on December 30, 1971. |
| [...]Julia and Mike Gali~er and son Charley Mike. MIKE AND JULIA (BARTHA) GALIGER[...]His profession was a flour miller. He met and married Julia |
| [...]ZABETH J. GINAL FRANK AND MARY (KIS) GINAL FAMILY HISTORY On June 30, 1929 it was nurse Mary Ryan who came to the Frank Ginal (1888-1964) was born in Nagy,[...]'s arrival, at a cost of $3.00 mar Megia, Hungary and Mary Kis (1891-1972) was born in :r[...] |
| [...]- Probably taken in Virginia City. FRANK J. JR. AND DOROTHY (BARRINGER) GINAL Frank was born in Cleveland, Ohio April 7, 1918. Because |
| At that time many families lived on small acreages on the STEPHEN G. AND DOROTHY (GOSSETI) GINAL cr~ek. Some were miners using sluice boxes or the old stamp mill. There were two saw mills: Frank Birrer's and Wilcox's. The forest reserve wasn't fenced then so you were car[...]and, New York on to turn out any dairy stuff with the beef or they would all August 18, 1919. His parents had purchased a[...]ed as long as it was still early when they got to the cor- There his fathe~ worked in the coal mines. Coal mining did rals, it would be fun to ride some calves. All went well until not appeal to him because of the conditions and labor prob- o~e critter broke out of the corral carrying Frank's saddle lems, so he de[...]land, Oregon in 1941. They raised two boys, Gerry and David. Gerry died in Stephen's early childhood recollections are of the time he an accident when he was sixteen and David is working in spent growing up on the ranch. Recalling the conditions Idaho for the Boise City Police Department.[...]electricity, and water had to be carried in from some distance In a few years Frank plans to retire on the Robbers Roost as there were no na~ur~ streams[...]by. To this day property he purchased from Warren and Mary Albro. Then he has great appreciation for hot and cold running water and he will help the tourists look for Henry Plum.mer's gold. in[...]Frank Ginal He attended the Robbers Roost School through the 7th grade when it consolidated with the Sheridan School Note: Dorothy Ginal died March 19, 1975 at Belgrade and is District. He continued through Sheridan High School buried in the Sheridan Cemetery.[...]Stephen spent the following year with his uncle and aunt the George Bacho's in Groton, New York on a dairy far[...]Up~n returning to Montana he worked on the family ranch GIZELLA GINAL until he entered the armed services on December 3 1941. He[...]enlisted in the regular army and served in the Army Air Giz~lla Ginal, also known as "Toni", was born October 16, Corps for a[...]~ Molus, Kentucky while her father was working in the Technical College in Fort Wayne, Indiana to study engineer- coal mmes. She grew up on the Ginal ranch, attended Rob- ing. After completing three years there, he became restless :t,ers Roost School and graduated from Sheridan High School m 1940. She enr~lle~ in St. J~es School of Nursing in Butte, Mon- Stephen Ginal tana. While m her third year of training she contracted tuberculosis and spent about seven yea;s at the Galen Sanitarium. Oc~asionally she had a few days leave from the sanitarium. Durmg this time she met Tom Stanton, a retired naval of- ficer, whom she married. They spent a short time in San Diego, California. Her health continued to fail and she had to return to the sanitarium. She died there on December 1 7 1949 at the age of 27.[...]Frank Ginal Gizella Ginal and husband Tom Stanton. ---[...] |
| before compfeting the course and spent some time in carpen- try. He went to work f[...]f Fort Wayne for 18 months. Becoming homesick for the outdoors, he return- ed to Montana to work in carpentry. In 1954 he felt the need for more stable employment so he went to work for the Boeing Company in Witchita, Kansas for the next nine years. He then transferred to Seattle a[...]ed to work to this day. Stephen has 27 years with the company now. He was married in Seattle in October 1966 to Dorothy Gossett. They have two boys, Tony and Lonnie born in 1968 and 1970.[...]Arthur (Buddy) Gratton was born April 28, 1883, the son lreta Gratton of Margaret Hiney Gratton and Hector Gr_a tton. He had an older brother, Jeremiah and a younger brother, John.[...]. Their father worked as a carpenter. He built the big barn and Mrs. Boyd Blevins, her sister and brother-in-law, were which stands on the Claypool ranch at Laurin. Hector came the[...]s. After their marriage, Buddy worked from Canada and later returned there, leaving Margaret and several years for Ruth Graves Redding as bartender at the the three sons. Three years later Margaret married Charles Club Bar in Sheridan. Van Bracklin. The three Gratton boys went to live with their grandmother and grandfather Beaufie who owned the hotel In 1946, while helping his brother, John, put up hay near and livery stable in Laurin at that time. They attended the old Alder, he was involved in a serious accident. Buddy was rak- Laurin school near the Noble place. ing hay when the team behind him, also pulling a rake, ran away and over the top of Buddy. Three horses were killed at John remained with the grandparents until they died and the scene and the fourth had to be destroyed. Con Reeder, continued to live in the Beaufie home until he married Bessie the driver of the runaway team was uninjured, but Buddy Linder. Jeremiah and Buddy stayed with the Marions and was very seriously hurt. Emmett (Skeet[...]e in Bozeman. When they finished col- see the accident from the road and brought Buddy to lege they returned to Laurin and worked at different ranches. Sheridan. From there Dr. Dyer took him to Murray Hospital Jeremiah married Cora King[...]ere he spent many weeks. He never fully recovered and Buddy was fond of horses and enjoyed training and break- after a few more years at the Club Bar, he retired. ing teams. For a time he worked and lived at the Mark Buddy and Ireta moved to Livingston May 1, 1968. On Perraul[...]in Bear Gulch, worked for Ted Eby at his sawmill and later fell and died from the injuries. This kind gentle man, well was employed at the smelter in Anaconda. He also worked at remembered for his wit, was buried from St. Mary's Church the Toledo mine and then for many years for Charles LaDue in Laurin and rests in the family plot there. at the Brown ranch near Sheridan.[...]EDGAR AND IRETA (LYNCH) JOHNSON Ireta, the first child of Thomas and Ellen Lynch was born[...]things happened in her early life. At the age of two a[...]playmate amputated part of a finger with ~n ~xe; and at the |
| [...]Edgar passed away July 16, 1924 at the St. James Wedding picture of Edgar and Ireta (Lynch) Johnson, Hospital in But[...]settled and the savings he and Ireta had were lost when the[...]ank closed. Delaphine Allhands. Here he went into the registered In the years that followed, Ireta had to work hard to su[...]port her family. One of these jobs she was especially good at Their first child, a daughter, was born November 3, 1910 was preparing and serving delicious suppers for the Ruby and died at birth. A few days later their home was destroyed dances. In 1927 she moved to Twin Bridges so Adele could by fire. A n[...]Sommers of Twin go to high school. Here she worked at cleaning the High Bridges and is still standing. There were two more children, School Dormitory and cooking at the Twin Bridges Cafe Adele and Audrey. and Gould Hotel. She also took in boarders. Edgar took pride in his cattle and horses. He traveled by In 1932 Ireta and her family moved to Sheridan and in train to many stock shows to show his cattle.[...]onsin, he returned with thirteen Shetland Ireta took her three children, Gerald, Ellen and baby Wayne ponies, much to the delight' of his daughters and other to raise. Later her father, Thomas L[...]til his death. All ranchwork was done by horse and man power. Some of In 1944 Ireta and Arthur (Buddy) Gratton were married their good hired hands were Allie Todd, John and Bud Grat- in Billings. They resided in Sherid[...]ton, Harry Van Brocklin, Louis Lunger, Jack Hunt and moved to Livingston. Buddy Passed away in Butte Sep- others. Meat was delivered to the ranch by George Gohn tember 2, 1969 and Ireta passed away in Livingston from Virginia Cit[...]tford would come once a year to August 1981 at the age of 94. butcher and process their meat. He would blow up the pig Mrs. Donald Albrecht bladders for Adele and Audrey. These balloons were prac- tically indestructible and lasted a long time. Sam Hagen- Philippe and Marie Louise Johnson, November 18, 1945. burger of Sheridan also delivered meat. His truck had a mesh wire enclosed canopy with long ropes of the worlds best weiners hanging on large hooks from the top of the canopy.[...]~,; For fun times there was dancing at the Buffalo Hump or in Ruby, plays directed by Mrs. Dolly Smith of Virginia City, a ride on the railroad handcar to watch a ball game in Sheridan, (pumping the car home was left to the men), or viewing the Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd movies that Adelbert Clapp showed in the old Chalmers Store building. Also there were picnics and baths at Puller Springs. The Johnson home was always available to ranchers and riders as they drove their cattle to and from their summer range. It meant hot meals and a place to sleep. Children were always welcome and Ireta also assisted as a nurse in times of sickness. At the time of the flu epidemic she at- tributed the fact that she escaped it to wearing a mask sprinkled wit[...] |
| [...]Philippe remodeled the store and kept it stocked with[...]tions and hardware. There was a hand operated gas pump[...]and another for kerosene. The store had the only telephone[...]Twin Bridges. Local calls were reached by long and short[...]When electricity came to the Laurin area, the need for Marie Louise Johnson kerosene declined so the kerosene pump was removed. It[...]was a great convenience for Philippe and his clerks when the[...]electric gas pump was installed. PHILIPPE AND MARIE LOUISE JOHNSON Philippe was a member of the Elks Lodge. He also was a very public spirited citizen and received four awards for the Philippe and Marie Louise Johnson, children of Martin and promotion and sales of Liberty Bonds. One citation reads: Adel[...]"This is to certify that P.O. Johnson has served the United of Quebec, Canada. Philippe was born December 28, 1885 States Government in promoting the sale of the fourth issue and Marie Louise on March 8, 1887. The family moved to of Liberty Loan Bonds and that his name be inscribed on the Laurin in 1901 and for the next 44 years operated Johnson's roll of honor as one who had well and faithfully discharged a Store there. After Martin passed away in 1934 at the age of patriotic duty to his country. Signed by the members of the 81, Philippe continued to operate the business. Liberty Loan Executive Committee of the Ninth Federal[...]Marie Louise, after attending school in Laurin, also attend- ed school in Butte in order to continue her studies in music. In 1945 Philippe and Marie Louise sold their home and She was especially active in church work where she organiz- store to Fred and Nora Morrison and retired to the Leonard ed music for the choir. For years she sang in it, along with Hotel in Butte. Years later some of the people, whom they Mrs. John Mueller while Joe O'Connell was the organist. thought least able to pay, came and settled their accounts. Often Mrs. Sam Maloney accompanied them on the violin. Philippe passed away in Butt[...]Marie Louise Marie Louise worked hard in planning the annual church continued to reside at the Leonard until June of 1979 when bazaars and in soliciting for the two fund raising dances she moved to Livingston. She passed away May 8, 1980. given each year; the St. Patrick's Day Dance and the Both of these fine people were buried from St. Mary's Church Harvest Dance. Favorite orchestras were Tonrey and Bax- and rest in the family plot in the Laurin Cemetery. ter from Dillon and Jan Rich and her Troubadors and Fred[...]Albrecht Harvey from Butte. These dances were in the Ruby Hall and were a great success. Marie Louise was an excellent cook and especially ALICE BOCK KELLY delighted in French desserts. She did beautiful needlework and enjoyed cards, particularly bridge and five hundred. Alice Bock was born March 18, 1907 at the home of her Martin Johnson spoke five languages, but Adele was more parents, J.D. and Jennie Wilcox Bock, on Ramshorn Creek. comfortable with French, so Philippe and Marie Louise grew She attended grade school at the Robbers Roost and high up with a mingling of French and English and learned both school at Sheridan. Like some of her older sisters, she was well. quite a horsewoman and rode some spirited horses in those Louise and her mother made one trip back to St. years. Chrysostem to visit friends and relatives. She also accom- After high school, she entered nurses training at the old panied an aunt from Butte to California several t[...]home. when she was called home to help care for her mothe[...] |
| [...]Mrs. Bock passed away as a result of these burns and Alice returned to finish her training. She worked several years for Dr. James, also in Butte. Bonita and David Kelly She married Bert Kelly of Alder and they lived for a time at the Kelly ranch. She then returned to Butte where she Twin Bridges for two years of high school. The first continued to nurse.[...]te High while her dad After Bert passed away in the early 1950's Alice went to worked for the C.C. Goddard building an overpass at Rocker. Spokane and graduated from Sacred Heart School of The family then moved to Laurin and she finished high Anesthesiology. On returning to Butte she worked at Silver school at Virginia City. Bow Gen[...]Kelly was born in Willow Creek, Montana In 1970 she retired after fifty years of nursing and the on December 25, 1914. His parents were William Kelly, a Montana Standard wrote a fine review of her work. She native of Willow Creek and Della Lee Thompson, a native of spent her last ye[...]forPony. He came to Alder in 1930 with his father and three her until her death in 1980. Both she and Bert are buried in brothers, Roy, Rae and Bob. He attended school in Willow the Laurin Cemetery. Creek, Three Forks and Virginia City. On January 23, 1933 June and Orville were married in[...]Jean and David Frank. They have six grandchildren:[...]Kathleen, Kelly, Garth and Paula Elser and Janet and John ORVILLE AND JUNE (VAN SLETTE) KELLY Kelly.[...]June Van Slette was born in Laurin June 2, 1915. She On May 1, 1940 June became postmaster at Laurin when started school at Robbers Roost School and stayed with her her grandfather, J.D. Bock retire[...]for fifteen years. The post office in Laurin had been grandmother, Mrs.[...]4. June held this office until rn72 when it Frank and Jean (Bock) Van Slette were moving to the Upper Madison. was closed. She attended Irish College above Cameron her first year Orville worked on various ranches but most of his life he and then moved to Sheridan. She stayed in a dormitory in worked in stores. One of these was the Phillip Johnson store[...]sold in 1945. For eleven years he worked at the J.M. Taken Dec. 1976 at wedding of their Grandson[...]Maddison Store in Sheridan. In 1962 he purchased the Alder Orville and June Kelly. Mercantile which he owned for nearly fifteen years. In the[...]CHRIS AND BERTHA (SALMONSEN) LARSEN[...]the town of Aaro. He was one of a family of ten child[...]When he was eighteen he and a friend, Herman Hansen, now[...]living in Alder, decided to come to the United States. Chris[...]1914 and war time when they landed. Before long Chris join[...]ed the U.S. forces and served nine months overseas on the[...] |
| [...]Bertha and granddaughter Cheryl Jean Larsen, Chester's[...]as high as fences in the winter time, to a school in the Stone Lane. Some of the children that Bertha remembers going to front lin[...]. His mother school with were: Esther Judy, the Coxes, Krauses, Stones, died while he was in France, but he was not able to go home, Schneiders and Longs. even though he was close. Because of the distance to the Stone School, Mr. After the war he returned to this area to work on sheep Salmonsen had them transferred to the Ruby school. Later ranches. In 1921 his brother A[...]ed as Bertha went to Lima to stay with an aunt and attended he was driving a loaded hay wagon with a four horse team. It school there and worked out. was winter time, and he presumably went to sleep, fell off Bertha and Chris were married March 10, 1923 at the and the wagon ran over him.[...]ndants were her Bertha was born March 11, 1904, the second child of Nels sister, Martha and a friend, Louis Hansen. and Mary Peterson Salmonsen. Her parents lived on what The next seventeen years were spent on the Sweetwater was known as the Hinch place on the corner just south of the raising sheep. Their two sons, Chester, born 1924 and Taylor Cemetery. There was a red brick school house close Albert, born August, 1926, took their early schooling in by. Edna Bush, later Mrs. Henry Stone, was her first Dillon and later in Alder and Sheridan where Chester teacher. When this building was condemned and torn down, graduated from high school. Albert graduated from the Salmonsen children had to walk across fields with snow Beaverhead High School as the family had purchased a ranch and were now living in that area. Bertha Larsen, 1946[...]Bertha was not well so they sold the ranch and moved to Butte, then Bozeman, then to the ranch where they have now[...]lived for thirty-four years, raising sheep and cattle.[...]His father had passed away the year before. Bertha did not[...]accompany him because she was not interested in crossing the ocean. Chester married and has two children, a daughter and son. He lives in Helena and is an operating engineer for the State[...]Seattle and is a welder in the Todd Shipyards.[...]in a rented car. The force of the impact broke the tractor in[...]two parts with one falling on Chris and breaking his left hip.[...]He is just now able to move about with the aid of a walker.[...]Both Chris and Bertha are blessed with keen memories[...] |
| [...]---- Almour at the Dillon Roundup on Sundance.[...]Lynch, Bunny and Rodger Ny hart, Almour Lynch, 2nd Row:[...]wmaker, Sibyl Lynch. Front: Donna Almour Francis (Skinny) Lynch was born in Adobetown |
| every Wednesday. It contained pages and pages of comics. On May 4, 1942 Ellen married Alvin Morin of Arlee at the The Lynches always managed to scrounge the price of 15 St. Paul's Church in Anaconda. She has worked at a number cents. Most of the town's children arrived and spent a few of interesting jobs, including the Missoulian newspaper, the happy hours reading all those wonderful funnies and lots of University of Montana and as a bookkeeper for the things from the big outside world. Highlander Brewery. Almour worked for the stock association and often spent Alvin worked a number of years for the Burlington North- summers at the Upper Ruby Cow Camp. His partner was ern Railroad in Engine Service. They also ranched on the Charles James and sometimes Inez and Mrs. James and their side, having ranches in the Big Flat area, Lolo Creek, children would drive up and take supplies and picnic with the Florence and Arlee. They owned and operated the Dahl in men. One of the favorite meals at the cow camp was Missoula and the Sandsmark Hotel and Motel and the Moun- mulligan stew.[...]e in At present they are semi-retired and living on their small Laurin. Almour took his three children and accompanied her ranch near Arlee. Ellen works part time for the Confederated parents back to Wyoming. Both he and the children were Salish and Kootenai Tribes as a Home Health Aid. They unhapp[...]er, Ireta Johnson Gratton. Being a good kind soul she was glad to assist him with the rearing of the Ellen Morin children. Almour worked for the Mary Etta Mine and Milling Co. as a timber contractor during the summer and kept the roads WAYNE LYNCH open during the winter and also did a little underground min- ing. He liked logging and supported his family during the depression by getting out firewood, posts and poles, often Wayne was the youngest of the three Lynch children born trading with the local farmers for whatever they had, beef, to Almour and Inez Peterson Lynch. He attended school in pork,[...]Laurin, Twin Bridges and Sheridan. During his first years of Almour pass[...]gton, March 10, school in Laurin, he was the only child in his class, but it was 1944. He was engaged in war work at the Alcoa Aluminum conducted as though there[...]Wayne enlisted in the Navy upon graduating from high[...]school with his friend, Arthur jackson. They took their Boot[...]Ellen Morin bor where he served out the war and the rest of his enlist-[...]After service, he moved to Seattle, married and worked for GERALD LYNCH[...]ton for a time. At present he Gerald Lynch was the oldest of three children born to is employed by the Seattle Fireplace and Stove Company. He Almour and Inez Peterson Lynch. He attended school in plays golf, fishes and enjoys most sports. Laurin, Virginia City and Sheridan. He was fond of sports and participated in them in school. He was also a very good[...]. He had a great deal of musical ability, playing the guitar well and also several other instruments. JOHN THOMAS (BUZZ) AND SIBYL (BULL) LYNCH In 1941 Gerald was married to Doral Hunter of Kalispell in Seattle and shortlv thereafter was called into service. While[...]zz) Lynch was born March 31, 1893 at serving with the First Infantry, he saw duty in the African Junction, Montana. His parents were Thomas and Ellen Theat;e where he assisted with-the first army payroll put out Lynch. Junction was a small town between Alder and in North Africa. He then transferred to the First Airborne Nevada City where the Granite Creek road turns off. and received his training in England. In Italy he par- During his youth he helped his father on the family ranch. ticipated in the Battle of Mount Cassino. He received the Like most other farm boys in the early days, Buzz had a Silver Star and Purple Heart awards. great love for horses, worked with teams and especially en- Gerald has two sons, Gerald Jr., who resides in South joyed training and riding race horses. Carolina and recently retired from the U.S. Navy; and Terry, Buzz attended Adobetown School and later attended Butte , who resides in Wenatchee,[...]usiness College. He became a street car conductor and it and their three children. He is employed as a chef.[...]t Walla Walla, was employed as a milliner and clerk at Hennessy's Store Washington.[...]Her name was Sibyl Bull. On January 16, 1918 Buzz and Sibyl and another young couple who were close friends were[...]Ellen Morin married at the Mountain View Methodist Church in Butte.[...]Their friends were Genevieve Bouvais and Logan Morgan. The ceremony for the double wedding was performed by[...]Buzz and Sibyl made their first home in an apartment in Ellen, the only daughter of Almour and Inez Lynch, at- Butte, later moving to a house on the Tom Lynch ranch near tended school in Laurin, Butte and Sheridan. She was a Virginia City. At that time Buzz was employed on the member of the class of 1939, the first class to graduate from dredge boat. the then "New" Sheridan High School. There were sixteen in Their first child was born prematurely and died at birth. A the group, eight girls and eight boys. second child, Grace was born October 31, 1920. She died in[...] |
| [...]In 1937 Buzz and Sibyl moved to Anaconda. Buzz worked at the Smelter there and Sibyl cooked at the Montana Hotel.[...]Oregon. Buzz worked at the Port of Portland and Sibyl worked at the Swan Island Ship Yards until 1945 when[...]World War II ended. She then worked for Meirer and Franks[...]for the Oregon Transfer. He became ill there so he and his wife returned to Butte and bought a home.[...]carpenter on Butte Hill and downtown for several different[...]contractors. he also worked at the Silver Bow Athletic club. Buzz retired at the age of seventy-two years. Friends and relatives gathered to celebrate their 50th wed-[...]ding anniversary at the Silver Bow Athletic Club. At the time of his death, August 12, 1978, Buzz and Sibyl and been married 60 years and 8 months. Sibyl resides at the family home in Butte. John Lynch Family: L. to R.: Sibyl Lynch, Bud and Ireta[...]OLIVER SHROY AND JESSIE CATHERINE (BOCK) |
| [...]The children remember one night when the dogs were mak- ing a commotion, Oliver took his gun and shot up in the air, only to find out the next moring that he had shot Jessie's[...]prize gobbler which had been roosting on the tri-pod over the grain vat. He hid the bird and only years later, sheepishly[...]Oliver died at the ranch May 23, 1949. Jessie stayed on and leased the ranch until she had the misfortune to fall and[...]tana where she passed away May 18, 1976. One son, Dan[...]Bernice and Revilo Morse[...]ssie (Bock) Morse, Dan, Nancy, Oliver Shroy Morse and son Revilo Joe in Laurin about 1922. REVILO JOE AND BERNICE LEA (ELSER) MORSE Jessie did her eart in laying away garden and orchard Revilo was the third child of Oliver S. and Jessie Bock |
| [...]Star which filled any leisure time she may have had from her job at Walters Store and taking care of her family.[...]home, a little two-room shack known as the Max Meyers[...]place in Brandon. They made it liveable although the water froze in the teakettle on the wood range at night. He drove truck for the Buckeye Mining Company, hauling ore to the[...]In 1948 and '49 they returned to the ranch where they[...]ked cows, sold cream, raised burn lambs, chickens and a large garden. A hail storm wiped out the pea crop and damaged the grain. That fall, Revilo and his brother Calvin did custom threshing in the Madison, Ruby and Bighole[...]Valleys. One trip, when returning from the Madison, the grain separator tipped over on the old Virginia City, Ennis[...]road. Luckily no one was injured and the damage was repairable, so the harvest was delayed only a few days. Family of Revilo J. and Bernice L . Morse: Back Row L. to R.: In January 1950 Revilo leased the Standard Station in Buster Meston, Ronald, Mike,[...]eston, Jan Sharon Lynn, was born at the hospital at the Spuhler house. holding Tyler, Marna, Revilo and Bernice. Front, kneeling: In 1952 they move[...]ey now reside. Revilo Joanne, Derek, Trent, Trena and Scott. Kyle missing when is employed by Boeing and Bernice, now retired, worked for picture was take[...]September 15, 1957. tion she got a job as a telephone operator at the old drop The children of Revilo and Bernice still like to visit the switch-board in the John Thomas Building. Ruby Valley. Ron graduated from the University of[...]shington School of Pharmacy, married Janet Green, and On July 26, 1941 Revilo and Bernice were married at her[...]ix children are: Kyle, Marna, Trina, Derek, Trent and parent's home. They motored to Portland, Oregon w[...]r. They live in Tacoma. Washington where they own and they lived with his aunt and uncle and Revilo enrolled at Ben-[...]operate their pharmacies and gift store. son Polytechnical School. He was hired by the Boeing Airplane Company to help build the B 17 and B 29 bombers. Dennis graduated from Highline J.C. and met his wife In September 1941, they moved to Sea[...]Juneau. Their three children are Michael, Julie and Scott.[...]where Dennis is employed with Many people from the Ruby Valley who went to Seattle to[...]at Boeing and with their son Jesse, live in Auburn, In 1944 they returned to Rarnshorn to help his father and Washington. they leased the Toby place, which Oliver later purchased. Before leaving for the Pacific War Theatre he joined the Ma· Brent graduated from Highline J .C.,[...]h her parents. Schneider, worked for Boeing and is currently enrolled at Revilo saw action on Okinawa and was with the first occupa· Washginton State University a[...]On February 1, 1946 a "V-Mail " in- formed him of the birth of their second son, Dennis Lee at the Re[...]orne. Bernice, a past worthy advisor of Rainbow and a member of the Grand Cross of Colors, joined the Order of Eastern JOHN AND ESTELLA (MOISAN) MUELLER Kyle Greg[...]John Mueller was homesteading in the Tobacco Root[...]Mountains below Copper Mountain at the source of Bivens[...]They lived on the homestead until 1924 when it became[...]necessary to move so the oldest child, Cecelia could attend[...]school. To solve the problem, they bought a house in Laurin[...]next to the Johnson Grocery Store and all three children went to the little red brick schoolhouse (District 55) for th[...]neighbors, but one of the most memorable was Henry Holst. He was the man with the long beard and the longer pipe with the cane stern. His visits often came around dinner t[...]he was a bachelor and Mrs. Mueller was a tasty cook. He[...] |
| [...]The Mueller homestead was seven miles from Laurin and the only means of transportation was a team and wagon or a horse and buggy for a Sunday trip to St. Mary's Church. In[...]As the winters were quite severe, the family moved to[...]Butte, Montana where Mr. Mueller had a job at the Indepen- dent Laundry as a steam engineer and they lived in a small[...]apartment with gas heat. Early in the spring they would return to till the winter wheat fields. Mr. Mueller owned a[...]threshing outfit and would thresh all fall until the snow stop-[...]my father's uncle who was the first to come west. He[...]homesteaded about five miles above us on the Copper Moun-[...].Bill, as we called him, was a skilled blacksmith and John and Estella Mueller, 1916.[...]all problems that came up. He was a very kind and generous would take a Prince Albert tobacco can from his pocket and person. He moved to Laurin about the time we did and had a spill out a handful of gold nuggets. These he had picked up shop where he did blacksmithing and sharpened saws, etc., in the creek bed by his cabin in Bivens Gulch after the rain until his death in 1951 or thereabouts." storms. He would always carefully return all the nuggets to In 1949 the Muellers moved to Helena to be near their the can, smile and light up his pipe. children. John died November 19, 1954 and Estella June 12, The Wilcoxes were their closest neighbors. They lived a 1980. Both are buried at the Resurrection Cemetery there. quarter of a mile away, across the sagebrush fields. Here Kermit J. and Cecelia Mueller Solich live in Helena and there were two ladies, Loretta and Gramma (Melissa) Wilcox. Laurin A. Mueller liv[...]a. They were Mrs. Muellers only female friends on the moun- tain.[...]Cecelia Mueller Solich Top to bottom: John and Estella Mueller, Sherman and |
| ... John and Emma Richard Brennan and children, Jack and Lynn. Mary Aline (Lynn) and John Alcide (Jack). Mr. Brennan was |
| [...]tended school at the Duncan District which was located[...]on account of the weather. Later, when they attended high[...]school they rode the bus.[...]as the Moulton Place. He and his father were partners in the[...]and Pearl; a girl, Mary and a boy, Frank Jr. Later the family[...]moved to Anaconda where Frank worked at the Smelter until[...]cancer operation. Mabel remained on the home place until 1973 when she sold the ranch to Les Duffner, and moved into Frank Stone Family: L . to R.: Back Row: Henry, Emerson, Sheridan. She remained in Sheridan until the time of her Mabel. Seated: Estella, Mother, Elizabeth and Frank Stone death, August 26, 1981 at the age of 89. She was the last sur- (father).[...]children born to Frank and Elizabeth Stone. Upper Ruby area in 1915 and was employed by Mr. Larbee Elinor Robinson married Lester Wessel and has remained on what is now known as the Judge Place or Snow Crest. He in the Ruby Valley. With their son Fay and daughter-in-law was originally from Woodlawn, Vi[...]e. They have three Their first year of married life was spent on the Gainan daughters: Kay Pierce of West Virgini[...]rk of Place, a mile south of where Mabel was born and raised, and Alaska and Chris Maer of Butte. There are also five grand- it was here that their son, Frank was born. The following children. spring they moved by heavy wagon to the Stoltz Ranch, now Elinor Wessel known as the Laurance Christianson Place, four miles west of S[...]November 21 , 1885 in a telling about how some of the chickens smothered and how small town in northern Italy called Pranzalito. This is close many dishes were broken. During the time they lived here, to Torino near the Italian Alps. His parents were Dominic Elinor was born on a Halloween night. Her Grandmother and Jean Rovano. He came from a farm county, but his Stone went out to see which way the wind was blowing. This father was a bricklayer. There were three boys in the family was to indicate what sort of winter to expect. It must not of which Tony was the oldest. His two sisters died during a have been good, because 1919 was one of the worst winters flu epidemic within two days of each other. the old timers always talked about. The three boys grew up on the farm, but when they became In the spring of 1921, the Robinsons bought and moved old enough to go to work they followed their father's trade farther up the river to what was known as the Ramey Place. and became bricklayers, too. This was their home for[...]re they engaged in raising livestock, both cattle and sheep. Frank and Elinor at- In May, 1909 Tony left Havre, France on the La Lorraine[...]Michigan to join an uncle and soon was working in the cop-[...]et. On August 29, 1913 he became a Mabel Robinson and son Frank, 3-11-65. citizen of the United States.[...] |
| [...]In 1951 he made his last trip to Italy to visit and settle the[...]estate. This time he was gone almost three years and[...]a log cabin across from the church. Four years later he suf-[...]fered a stroke and died in a Butte hospital April 14, 1958. He[...]JENS P. SIMONSEN, ALSO KNOWN AS CY, PETE OR[...]monsen was born in Laurin, Montana March 17, Tony and his cabin in California Gulch. 1923. He is the eldest son of Martin and Agnes Simonsen,[...]Michigan he was joined by his two brothers where all Jens attended school in Laurin and Robbers Roost. He three worked in the copper mines. James remained in enlisted in the navy in March 1941 and served on the USS Michigan, but Tony and Peter decided to go west and came Maryland (battleship) until April[...]in Pearl Har- to Butte where Tony went to work in the mines on November · bor during the attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. 11, 1923. After a f[...]he decided to settle in Jens is a member of the Pearl Harbor's Survivors Associa- the Madison Valley. This was an area he truly loved and tion and attends their reunions in Hawaii every five years. often returned there to hunt, fish and prospect. Together, with his wife, they have traveled throughout the Placer mining was one of his primary interests. He mined United States, attending reunions of the crew of the USS with Lou Moore at the Betsy Baker in Ramshorn and he also Maryland. worked claims in Bivens, California and Harris. His brother Jens has been a resident of Portland, Oregon since the end sometimes joined him in the summer. of World W[...]ildren. Jens was ac- year he was back in Sheridan and the Madison Valley, his tive as a linoleum layer in Portland over thirty years. favorite spot. · Jens was an avid fisherman, both deep sea and stream During hunting season he was often guide and cook for fishing until a serious auto[...]1978. At this Eastern hunters. Sourdough pancakes and waffles were his time he became disabled and is now retired. He is an active speciality. Kurt Steiner was often a hunting companion. member of the Central Lutheran Church of Portland. One winter job he had was that of caretaker at the Butte His brothers and sisters include: Catherine Doornbos of Pine Lodge for Elliott Hutchi~s on the Upper Madison. Sheridan, Montana; Martin Jr. of Whitehall, Montana; During the summer he often irrigated for Mike and Julia Howard and John of Post Falls, Idaho; Agnes Bell of Sum- Gal[...]alifornia Gulch was a good mer, Washington and Kenneth of Sheridan. A brother, stopping place for hunters, prospectors and hikers besides Thomas and two infant sisters, Betty and Anna are deceas- such friends as the Dick Nobles, Earl Everetts, Mr. Thom- ed. pson, Mr. Binns and Henry Olds. At Christmas time it was his custom to furnish a treat for each child at the Orphans[...]. Simonsen Home in Twin Bridges. Tony fishing on the Madison River. |
| [...]Row: Shelly and Sherry, 1972. Joe, Jessie and baby Joe Allen, 1933. They sta)'.ed and farmed and on March 26, 1932 they were[...]im Joseph Allen in honor |
| [...]jorie was born in the Robbers Roost area in June 1915. They[...]moved to the Upper Madison near Lyon.[...]be at the home of her parents. Upon her arrival she found them sick with the flu, so went to the home of Mr. and Mrs.[...]Camille Van Slette in Alder, brother of Adlore. The.next morn- ing the entire household was stricken with the flu. She and the children also became ill with it. She died on December 7, 1918 and is buried in Sheridan Cemetery.[...]Adlore then moved to the Ruby Valley in 1922 and con-[...]Bremerton, Washington and made his home there until his[...]until his death in 197 4 at the age of 90 years.[...]FRANK AND JEAN (BOCK) VAN SLETTE . Clara Shaw Van Slette and baby Louise. Frank was the fourth child of Joseph and Delina Van Slette and was born June 3, 1890 in Beaverville Illinois. He[...]old. They settled near Laurin and he attended school at the Adlore Van Slette was born July 27, 1884 in Beaverville, old Laurin School. Later, when his parents moved near Illinois. He was the oldest of seven children. Sheridan, he went to the Duncan District School. He came to Montana in 1894. At the age of 25 he married On September 14, 19[...]a Sundberg. Two children were born to this union. The the time of their marriage, Frank was working for the Conrey oldest, a little girl, died of whooping cough when she was four Mining Company. Later he ranched around Laurin and and a half months old. In 1911 a son was born, Amil, and Sheridan and also on the Upper Madison. In later years he eight days after[...]Slette died. Amil was worked in Anaconda and when he retired, they moved back raised by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Amil Sundberg Sr. to Sheridan to be near their daughters and grandchildren. In May 1913 Adlore married Clar[...]ir golden wedding anniversary in 1964. ranched in the Ruby Valley several years. They had two[...]idan March 1914. Mar- parents were J.D. and Jennie Wilcox Bock. She grew up in the Ruby Valley and attended the old Laurin School, taught Adlare and Ida Sunberg Van Slette. by Mrs. Garvey. She loved horses and was a good rider; she always rode horses in the races at the county fairs in Twin[...]Bridges, Jean passed away September 25, 1967 and Frank, September 7, 1979 at the age of 90.[...]Frances was born October 6, 1916 on the Dan Novich Ranch and she attended schools in Laurin, Sheridan and Virginia City. She married Edward R. Conrow in Livingston[...]on July 22, 1938. The couple lived in Norris several years and[...]where Ed was the barber and she worked at the J.M. Mad- Frank and Jean Van Slette.[...] |
| [...]who is a teacher at Superior, Montana. "Babe", as she was know to all her friends, died March 12, 1963 and is buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. Ed lives in Superior.[...]and Lelia. After the ranch was sold, Joseph returned to Illinois and |
| [...]The Weidner brothers taken in Alder, 1947. L. to R.: James Mary Wallen with parents, Nancy and Thomas Shaw. Ransom (Rance), Leo, Lewis (Lou), George L. (Fay). Mary and Harold also had a special phone installed in their horse races in the valley. Leo and Grace Weidner had three CHARLES LEO WEIDNER[...]idner was born on N overnber |
| [...]FAY AND WILMA WIDENER[...]to Ransom and Anna McKanna Widener in a covered wagon[...]at the Leiterville Mine. He was so tiny that he ws kept[...]shoe box on the oven door until he became larger and[...]Park, when lightening struck. His father and the team of[...]horses were killed. Fortunately, Fay was not hurt and was[...]must have been a very lively place judging from the stories[...]who was working in the beauty shop that his sister, Clara[...]Her father was a conductor for the Milwaukee Railroad. They[...]then homesteaded 160 acres near Oka, Montana and later[...]Fay and Wilma were married in Butte, August 30, 1925[...]and made their home in Anaconda where Fay worked in a[...]barber shop. To augment their income he also fought profes- sionaly and played semi-pro baseball.[...]A daughter Joeen, was born there October 4, 1926 and in 1927 the family moved to Sheridan where Fay had a barber[...]On Gold mining, 1939. Fay Weidner, Rance Weidner and Fay's February 14, 1928 another daughter, Anona, was born and daughterJoeen Weidner.[...]that summer they moved to Laurin where Fay and Wilma owned the Laurin Hotel and Bar until 1930. At this time His favorite sports were boxing and baseball and in his they moved to Harlowtown and bought the barber and younger years he was a member of the local baseball teams in beauty shop from the Humphreys. Alder and Laurin. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic[...]y were very active in club, com- Church in Laurin and of the Elks Lodge in Virginia City. munity and church organizations. Wilma's interests ran to[...]He was from a family of nine music and the arts and Fay's were music and sports. He children, six living to adulthood. Ran[...]a,1 apparent heart attack on November 23, 1968 at the age of Fay Widener, 1924. 75, while driving his jeep on the Upper Ruby road. Funeral services were held at St. Mary's Church in Laurin and he was buried in the Weidner plot at the Laurin Cemetery. His pallbearers were: Orville Kelly, Ted Darby, Charles M. La Due, L.W. Hansen, Roy Kitson, and Mike Moran. At the time of his death, Rance was living in Alder at a[...]years before. Rance was a great story teller, and we believe one of the fun- niest stories he told was the one about himself and L.W. (Louis) Hansen. Louis loved to eat fish alth[...]. It was early spring. Fishing season was closed, and Rance had been trapping beaver in the Upper Ruby country when he came into the Alder Mercantile with a nice catch of brook trout for Louis. Louis thanked him for the fish and said, "Rance, where did you get these beautiful f[...]but I only open- ed it up for just a few minutes and then I closed it right down." Rance had a thou[...]. Orville Kelly and Ted Darby[...] |
| [...]been in storage for years after having come up the Missouri River by steam boat to Fort Benton and then overland by wagon to Butte in the mid 1800's. Because it was so long,[...]barbership and Wilma had a weaving school. Then in 1955[...]broker with her office in Nice and Fay owned a barber shop in[...]Fay died in March 1970 and is buried in Upper Lake,[...]California. Wilma moved to San Francisco and in 1978 returned to Lakeport where she died in March 1979 and is[...]Kansas, the daughter of Samuel C. and Mary Lindsey Bar- rett. As a child she moved to Sundance, Wyoming with her[...]Davis, was divorced and then married Frank Yunt and came[...]and married Walter Davidson in 1901. Walter and Minnie moved to the Ruby Valley where Walter worked on the dredge boats between Ruby and Virginia City. They had two sons, Ira and Leslie. When Ira was about thir- Fay Widener, Wil[...]nes. teen he was accidently shot and killed when a group of little[...]boys were out hunting rabbits. Walter died during the flu epidemic in 1918. managed and trained a boxing club for the Moose Lodge and After Walter's death, Minnie married Colo[...]d many young men advance to Golden Glove fighters and was an orphan raised by the C.K. Morrison family. several that went on to bec[...]y, was born in Billings, ranch north of Laurin and shortly after the marriage, Colon Montana and in June of that year they bought the Laurin Hotel and Bar. They sold this in 1945 and moved to Butte where they owned a bar, several barber shops and a beauty Walter Davidson, Minnie Davidson, Leslie and Ira David- shop. In 1947 they moved to Virginia City and started the son. Pioneer Bar. The beautiful back bar and bar are still being used at that location. It was purchased in Butte where it had Fay and Wilma Widener, June 1968.[...] |
| [...]Wiggins owned considerable property in the form of ranches around Sheridan and rental units in Butte. He also owned the Farm Union Building where the Bank of Sheridan now stands. All of this passed on to Mrs. Wiggins at the time of his death in 1949. She died in Sheridan on February 11,[...]1962. Her son Leslie had died about 1930, but she was sur-[...]vived by his two daughters, Irene Miller and Louise Cooksey, also a half-brother George Davis and his family and half-sisters, Pearl Davis and I val Yunt.[...]Harry Allen Wilcox, only son of Allen and Lilly Van Slette[...]Wilcox, was born January 3, 1909 at the Robbers Roost. He spent his growing years in the Ruby Valley where he attend- ed school at the Roost, Laurin, and the Duncan District, if he[...]owned what is now known as the Harrington Ranch.[...]When about sixteen, while he and a friend were fishing, Mr. and Mrs. Colon Campbell[...]eir guns may bought out his partner who went into the apple business in have been buried wit h them. The boys knew the graves had the Bitterroot. been marked by four stakes and covered by rocks and In 1941 the Campbells went to the Mayo Clinic for treat- branches to protect t[...]des, ment.. Minnie was operated on for gallstones and Colon for a they diligently set to work. All went well until they uncovered calcium build-up t[...]hat looked like a hair saddle blanket. That meant the bones the trip ended in tragedy for Colon died of a blood clot and were just beneath. Suddenly the desire to proceed left them! Minnie had to accomp[...]was spooky! Hastily they covered their activities and left, travel herself. never knowing whether there were any old guns or even if it was the right spot. She continued to live on the ranch until about 1944 when she married Charles Wiggins of Butte and Sheridan. Mr. In 1930 Harry went to wo[...]ing roads. The crew also worked after the season closed do- Charles Wiggins[...]ing all stumps, logs and branches close to the road and burn- ing them. The cost of this beautification project was shared[...]by J.D. Rockefeller and the government. After several seasons in the park, he returned to gold min-[...]ing in Bivens Gulch, ranch work, trapping and working on the highways. In 1933 he had hurt his back when throw[...]1942. He took his training at Camp Claborn, Louisiana.[...]Harry spent thirteen months overseas where in the[...]pumped all the gasoline as far as the Rb.ine River. He also[...] |
| [...]On returning home, Harry bought his ranch at the mouth of Ramshorn. On May 10, 1963 he and Lilly May Tate were[...]married. Several years ago they retired and moved to[...]Sheridan. Mrs. Wilcox passed away in May 1978. She was[...]rvived by three children: Arthur Schultz, Roberta and[...]ohn Tate. Harry had two sisters, Linda Strickland and[...]Florence Bock was born at the Point of Rocks stage sta-[...]tion, March 5, 1895 where her parents J.D. and Jennie Wilcox Bock were living. The railroad had just reached Dillon and her father, along with many others, hauled freigh[...]from Dillon to the Ruby Valley. The family later moved to a ranch on Ramshorn Creek[...]Florence spent her early years attending school and helping[...]her mother with household chores. As a result she grew up[...]In 1912 she met and married Otho Klem Graham. They[...]lived in Alder where he worked on the dredge boats until 1915, then the family moved to Butte. Three children were[...]Jeanne, July 23, 1915 at Alder; and Otha Joe, born in Butte[...]April 2, 1923. While in Butte, Otho worked in the copper Harry Allen Wilcox, Camp Claborn, Louisiana. mines. The family returned to the Ruby Valley in 1931 and remained until 1934, at which time Florence and Otho spent a month in England loading ammunition. Part of his separated. She and her son Otha moved to the Dillon area duty in France involved feeding the men. He claims he where she worked as a ranch cook at the Hansen Ranch at taught a French chef how to fry a chicken. The French Horse Prairie and the J. Luther Willard Ranch north of prepared chicken[...]In 1941 Mr. Willard and Florence were married and con- tinued to live on the Dillon ranch. Mr. Willard died in 1952.[...]Florence died in the Madison County Nursing Home Lilly Van Slette Wilc[...]Geneva Graham married Leo Bray and they had one[...] |
| 1932. In 1935 Geneva married John Radmall and a daughter, Joyce was born to them. Geneva and John were killed in an automobile accident on Tet[...]ia, Monte, Gary, Judi th, Sandra, Sherill, Sharon and Carol. In 1964 the family immigrated to British Columbia where they[...]Graham married Sharon Spencer, September 20, 1947 and they reside in Dillon. Three children were born of this marriage: Thomas, Toni Jeanette and Terry. Cynthia is another daughter by adoption.[...]the clothes they were wearing and the car. They returned to Sheridan and Edward went to work at Paul Pomrenke's Club[...]One night when cleaning the cafe for the day and with the[...]head and the bag of money was taken from him. He was bound and tied and taken on a very rough ride in the back of a truck. Edward was certain he was being[...]n a friend, Geneva Graham Bray, her taken high in the mountains and after being robbed he daughter, Dora Jeanne, Otho Graham and Otha Graham - perhaps would be beaten and left to die or even be killed. 1927.[...]After what seemed a very long and rough ride, the car stop- ped, he was untied and found himself to be in his own back yard. The money was returned so he would have it to open[...]the cafe the next morning. His good friends John Crary, WUDEL, EDWARD AND ELLEN ADELE (JOHNSON) Tom and Chuck Furlong and Ken Bray thought it a very fun-[...]Adele was born at Laurin, Montana May 8, 1912, the Edward cooked at the Gould Cafe at Twin Bridges, the daughter of Edgar and Ireta Johnson. Her early years were Red Rooster at Butte and the Cheaumegon Cafe there. Later spent on the family ranch. Her proudest possessions were a he worked in the Butte mines. Edward and Adele resided in Pinto-Shetland pony named Peaches and a Shetland named Butte several years. Trixie. Ade[...]rce. Adele moved to Sheridan name inscribed on it and a pony cart. These were gifts from and operated the Coffee Shop at the Ruby Hotel then under her father. Like most fathers, Edgar went to great lengths to the management of Everett and Bunny Herzig. She later please his daughters. One time a kitten fell from the hay loft moved to Yerrington, Nevada where she was employed. She between the walls of the barn. The mewing sound came from married Michael Simon of Durango, Colorado in Las Vegas, the wall behind the pump in the pump room. In order to com- Nevada. They made the[...]t his daughters, Edgar proceeded to saw a hole in the wall a heart attack in January 1979. Adele died May 14, 1980. and rescued the kitten after which he replaced the wood from She is buried at Durango. the hole.[...]d Wudel, son of early day Twin Springs, Colorado. She had two sons, Charles and Michael Bridges residents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Wudel. Three and a daughter Kristi. Ramona's husband, "Happy" Surface daughters were born to them: Ramona, Donna and Shirley. died in November 1975. Donna Wudel becam[...]worked for Mrs. Reid when they were first married She taught in Oregon, Germany, Japan and the Phillipines. on the Reid ranch. Later they moved to Sheridan. She received the Outstanding Teacher of the United States After movin_g to Sheridan, Edward served in the Civilian of America Award. She returned to the United States to Conservation Corps as a cook. The corps worked at teach at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Shirley Wudel Kemick Paradise, Montana and later Wisconsin Creek. Adele and and her husband, John reside in Butte. They have a son, Edward lived at McAllister, Pony and Norris where Edward John and a daughter, Kathi. worked at different mines in that area. It was during the Edward Wudel and his wife Mildred reside in Bozeman. time they liv[...]ir home it had been completely destroyed by fire. All that was left were[...] |
| [...]shower at Bessie Linder's home. FRANK AND MARY (DA VIS) YUNT Frank and Mary Davis Yunt and family came to Montana[...]: George Davis, Pearl Davis, Ivel Yunt, Mrs. Mary |
| L. ·to R.: Amanda, Catherine (mother), Andrea (holding dog), Marty and Bruce Masiak, Dan and Janet, Ed (father). Sheridan on August 2, 1947. To this union were born three bier and they have a daughter Amanda; Marty Diane who L. to R. Marty, Catherine, Ed, Dan, and A ndrea at wedding Due to an oversight this biography was overlooked and not |
| [...]old bank building at the corner of Main and Mill Streets. In SHERIDAN[...]Main Street. The old post office was used in remodeling the "It is a generally admitted fact that Sheridan is the cleanest Pick and Pan Drug Store making it much larger. Service and prettiest town in southern Montana with her several Stations take the place of the old Schultz Hotel and the Cor- strikingly attractive residential avenues and cleanly kept ner Saloon. When Halse Motors, now Hamler Motors, mov- business streets. The extending adjacent country of valley ed to a new location about two miles north of Sheridan, the and productive uplands give the town a most picturesque Forest Service moved there. Maddisons no longer have the setting unmatched by any other town or city in the state in store. It is the B Bar B and Jim Maddison has his Custom these important respects." Written in 1917 the above is true Wholesale Business in a new building which was added to today. Sheridan is basically the same but many of the old the back of the store. The Sheridan Bakery which has familiar landmarks are missing. To mention a few; the old operated under many different owners for m[...]x's Department Store, Thomas Store cupies the corner where the Kellogg Saloon was. Next to it is and Telephone Exchange, The Schultz Hotel, The Corner a remodeled building which for years was a mortuary owned Saloon, The Hagenberger Meat Market, The Blacksmith by O.J. Olson, then Emmett Marsh and last by L. Scott of Shop, the old fire bell, which was also used as a curfew and Whitehall. It is now the Big Sky Western Wear Store. The the city council chambers.[...]Leary's "Smoke Many changes have taken place. The cement block Shop" has been remodeled and is now also a cafe. The Hub building known as The Sheridan Garage at the corner of Bar and Cafe was rebuilt after the Club Hotel, Bar and Cafe Hamilton and Main Streets built in 1915 by William and Walter's Appliance Store were destroyed by fire in Oc- Lenkersdorfer and which housed a garage on the main floor tober 1974. The Club was built in 1939 by Harry Graves who with fourteen rooms on the second floor that were used for of- brought the sawed logs from West Yellowstone. Napa Auto fices, a hotel and apartments was torn down in 1973. In its Parts and Dr. McKenzie's Dental Office are new since the place the present building, occupied by The Bank of fire. Ted Darby's Insurance Office and the Doornbos Agency Sheridan was completed in July of 197 4 and affords the bank are in the old telephone exchange. Walters have enlarged space to offer the community and surrounding area the most and remodeled their store into a fine supermarket and hard- up-to-date banking service. Western Auto now occupies the ware store. The Ruby Hotel still stands and was in the pro- Sheridan Volunteer Fire Department,[...] |
| [...]al Building, 1981. cess of being remodeled when the buyer ran out of funds. "Hollywood• and there Shermont Manors was built. This Madison County Nu[...] |
| [...]plenty of room and fresh air. Sheridan did not grow into a[...]large metropolis but has kept abreast of the times, a trade[...]proudly and lovingly call home.[...]Hans was the first child and only son of Henry and[...]Nebraska. Three sisters were born in Nebraska and the youngest slster at Leiterville. The Albrechts moved to[...]Sheridan when Hans was a small child and took up residence[...]t mines around Madison County. A short time later the Sheridan High Schoo~ 1938.[...]mily moved to Leiterville which was a mining camp and a[...]When Hans was eight or nine years old his father decided In 1938 a new Sheridan High School Building was com- to take his son and return to Prussia for a visit with his fami- pleted and the old two story brick building which had served ly. After reaching New York the father a~d son became the students since 1890 was torn down. In 1960 the new separated. However, Hans remembered the name of the ship elementary building was built and later a Vo-Ag building, they were to sail on and managed to find his way to the leaving the old building to be remodeled into the Doris Kitt wharf. Henry found his son at the last moment and together Memorial Music Room and for bus garages. Memorial Foot- they boarded the ship and set sail for Europe. They were ball Field is on the corner of Madison and Poppleton Streets. welcomed by Henry's family and when they returned to Besides the Catholic, Episcopal and Methodist Churches, Montana they brought tr[...]recht Sheridan now has four other denominations. The Baptists and Hans' four sisters. have their church on Water and Ruby Streets, the Mormans Hans' mother died of pneumonia when the children were on Mill Street, the Lutherans use Christ Church and the Day very young. Some of the children went to Nebraska to live Spring Mission is located north on the highway to Twin Bridges.[...]ock 1973-75, David Lloyd 1980 - . Not only are the businesses in town owned by different people but the ranches in the surrounding areas as well. Of the people who lived on the rural mail route in 1924 not one ranch has the same owner. One of the last to change was the Chris Anderson Ranch in 1980. There are many new and beautiful homes in Sheridan and the surrounding area. Many of the old have been restored and remodeled. People seem to take pride in their yards. It is a pretty town with green grass, flowers and lots of trees, Sheridan Elementary Schoo~[...] |
| [...]a child he was educated in the Sheridan Schools. December[...]the Minnie Mine, just north and east of Sheridan on the High Ridge. There was a cave in at the mine catching Hans and Fay. Hans was killed instantly and Fay was seriously crush-[...]recovery he worked throughout the Ruby valley at various[...]mining camps as a miner and blacksmith. In the spring of 1949 Fay moved to Havre, Montana.[...]There he met and married Lucele J ohanness on September 3,[...]ly to the Ruby valley to pursue his favorite sport, fishing. Hans Albrecht[...]Fay has two daughters: Judy who lives in Butte, and Cin-[...]ained in Montana. Hans made his During the early 1930's Fay and Lowell Steiner teamed home for a time with the Tom Lynch family near Adobetown, together as[...]ng partners. They competed in later he lived with the George Rowe family. Dillon and throughout the Ruby Valley at the Fourth of July Hans and Blanche Moore were married by Father Franchi and Labor Day Celebrations. They took first place in many at Laurin, Montana June 25,[...]remembers at one Fourth of July con- house behind the building that is now the Sheridan Bakery. test held just below the old Happy Halse Service Station, Ten children were bo[...]y, Katherine, Donald now owned by Schulz and Shafer, he and Lowell won first (Bud), Mary Jane, Kenneth (Pete)[...]arles, place. Their prize which was donated by the local merchants Leonard and Margaret, who died at the age of six months consisted of a keg (sixteen gallons) of beer and one wash tub from whooping cough. full of gin and mix. This was delivered to Braham Lakes for Hans was a blacksmith and mechanic working as a mine the town's Fourth of July picnic. smith in the Sheridan area. He was employed by the Forest Service. Hans' first venture to make money by mining was in 1912 at a mining claim called the Minnie Mine in Georgia[...]s same claim he met his death December 1, 1928 at the age of forty-one years. This was also his son, Pete's birthday. His oldest son Fay, fourteen, was with him at the time of the fatal mine accident and was badly injured. Hans was employed at the Forum Newspaper Shop at the time of his death.[...]DONALD AND AUDREY ALBRECHT[...]nald (Bud) Albrecht was born at Sheridan, Montana the third child of Blanche and Hans Albrecht. He attended[...]father was killed in a mine accident and his brother, Fay was seriously injured. At the age of twelve he worked at the[...] |
| [...]nald Albrecht family: Leda, Kevin, Dixie Lee, Bud and[...]owned by Ida and Richard Taylor. At the time of their mar- Audrey Albrecht 1951 riage Bud was employed at the Nobleville Mine. When the mine closed he worked at the Ruby Dam while it was under Tilton Ranch mil.king cows before and after school. During construction. Then he worked at the Red Pine Mine and later the summers he worked in the hay fields on area ranches. on road construc[...]ool he herded cows for Bynum Green in When the road job was finished he was patrol operator on C[...]Madison County. In June 1942 Bud went to work in the Civilian Conservation Corps ·and worked on Game at the shipyards in Tacoma, Washington. He returned and Patrol on the West Gallatin. moved his family to Anaconda where he was employed at the September 4, 1937 Bud and Audrey Johnson of Sheridan Anaconda Smelter for three years. Bud enlisted in the Army were married at Bozeman, Montana. Audrey was the in April 1945, but a few months later World War II was over daughter of Ireta and Edgar Johnson, early day residents of and he received his discharge in December 1945. In the Laurin. Audrey's sister, Adele Wudel and husband, Edward meantime Audrey moved back to Sheridan from Anaconda. were the wedding attendants. Audrey attended school in When he returned from the service he went to work at the Laurin and Twin Bridges and high school in Sheridan. Toledo Mine. When it closed he worked on the Raymond Bud and Audrey's first home was a house on Flick Lane[...]Twin Bridges. Besides working at several mines in the area Donald (Bud) and Audrey Albrecht he d[...]Angeles and looked for uranium ore in Montana,[...]Washington, Idaho and Utah. In 1958 he accepted a job as[...]government trapper and moved his family to Livingston[...]Bud played basketball in high school but his favorite sport was baseball. He was a pitcher and played many years with the Sheridan teams. Bud enjoyed different hobbies, ro[...]hunting and making jewelry from the stones and hunting rattlesnakes, making belts and hat bands from the hides. Three children were born to Bud and Audrey, Dixie Lee Bullock, Leda O'Connor and Kevin. All three children reside[...]youth in the Ruby valley. During these years he worked[...] |
| [...]After his discharge Pete returned to the Ruby valley, but[...]at the s-hipyards. After the end of World War II and the closure of the shipyards Pete was employed at the Mount[...]transfer to Tooele, Utah in 1962. He retired from the[...]Sales and Services which he still operates of this date.[...]and Donald E. of Tooele, Utah. There are six grandchi[...]and step-grandchildren.[...]Virginia was born in Sheridan December 8, 1920, the the mines as a miner and mill operator. He was employed daughter of Hans and Blanche Albrecht. She attended the most of his time at the Red Pine Mine near Sheridan. He Sheridan schools and lived in the Ruby Valley until she mar- spent considerable time around Virginia Cit[...]Willis in Dillon, Montana on December 15, 1940. and 1939. He was a mill operator at the Prospect Mine, They moved to Twin Falls, Idaho where they made their operated the stamp mill at the Alameda Mine and drove tun- home for a number of years. Her husband died December 15, nel at the .(\pex Mine in Alder Gulch. 1956. In 1940 and part of 1941 he drifted to mining camps in[...]in Twin Falls, Virginia was involved in a Nevada and California. Returning to Sheridan in the later serious auto accident. She spent endless months in various part of 1941 he was inducted into the Army on December 3, hospitals. The final result was the loss of her right leg. After 1941. He took his basic training at Camp Roberts, California recovery she moved to California and now makes her home in and from there was sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations. Oceanside. In January 1942 he received a serious leg injury which resulted in a medical dischar[...] |
| [...]for the Fish and Wildlife in Logan, Montana working with[...]Beekie joined the U.S. Army in 1943. After being[...]discharged he went back to work for the Fish and Wildlife for about two years. For the next few years he worked at several[...]jured in a blasting accident. He worked for the U.S. Navy in Tacoma, Washington and on a survey crew on the River of[...]returned to Sheridan and worked at the Toledo and Buckeye Mines, trapped in the Upper Ruby, worked for Barney Green in the Centennial Valley and tended bar for Chick McLean in[...]the M & M, Northern Hotel and DeLuxe Bar. He married[...]Carol, Sandy and Kimberly and one son, David who died[...]worked in Drummond for the Douglas Mine and in various[...]He returned to the valley in 1967 and worked as bartender at the Blue Anchor in Twin Bridges. This was the last[...]job that he held, as his eye sight began to fail and he Virginia, Chet and Pat Willis lost the sight in one eye entirely. It was removed at the V.A.[...]BEEKIE) ALBRECHT living in the house formerly owned by Joe Foy. George,[...]ed on him as a small boy, has been an outdoorsman all tana on May 13, 1922 the son of Hans and Blanche Albrecht. his life. Fishing and hunting has been his life and he is con- He attended school in Sheridan spending summers as most sidered one of the best in both. He still does a certain kids did, haying, pea roguing, odd jobs and plenty of fishing. amount of hunting and fishing even with his limited sight. In 1941 he joined the CC's and after spending about six Beekie still handles his[...]beaver, fox and coyotes. He also puts on a number of Bar-B-[...]Q's for special occasions in the area. Betty Lou, Dixie, George, Carol (in front)[...]Beekie Albrecht and Ted Darby[...] |
| Charles and Marian Albrecht CHARLESG.ALBRECHT Charles was born in Sheridan, Montana July 31, 1923 and Har[...]Olga Anderson CHRIS AND OLGA ANDERSON Arriving from Denmark in 1906 C[...]1888 he migrated to this country seeking a better life. |
| [...]on Kiwanis Club. Chris died on November 23, 1968 and Olga on Elizabeth age 9 months. Edna Anderson Louzan ELIZABETH ARMITAGE Elizabeth, the oldest of three children of George and |
| [...]ois to research data about their Sheridan area and worked as a ranch hand. He had two grandfather, Joshua Armitage, and his father, Isaac. children: Mrs. Buck Broman of Wallace, Idaho; and a son Elizabeth was an active member of St. Pau[...]Francis of Butte. In later years Frank entered the plumbing Methodist Church, Helena, especially the Wesleyan Service trade. He owned and operated a shop in Dillon. After mov- Guild for working women. She held local and district offices ing to Pocatello, Idaho where he owned and operated a plumb- and also head office of the State Guild. She served as ing shop, he returned to Dillon in 1931. Here he worked as a treasurer of the United Methodist Women in Helena and plumber until his retirement in 1955. Frank died in 1965. president of the Aid Circle in Sheridan. She is past matron of Eva married Christopher Co[...]eridan. For di- three children: Viola, Cecil and Glen. version she plays cards and helps at the Ruby Valley Nur- Myrtle lived in Sheridan for a few years until she married sing Home. George DuGay. She moved to California and is the only sur- Elizabeth continued living in Helena before purchasing a viving sibling of the Baker family. She had two children, lovely mobile home and moving it to Sheridan May 1976 to Leona and George. be nearer the families of Edna and Bill. She is a contented Ruth was the youngest daughter of the family. She mar- person living at the Wright's Trailer Court in the beautiful ried Richard Kraft and also moved to California. She liked to Ruby Valley surrounded by mountains and appreciates visit Montana for the good fishing, beautiful scenery and breathing the good fresh air. camping. Ruth died in 1975. John died in 1925 and Emma in 1938. Both are buried in the Sheridan cemetery.[...]Shirley Baker McLaren JOHNY. AND EMMA (SANDIGE) BAKER LELAN AND FLORENCE BAKER John Y. and Emma Baker. Carl and Ethelyn Hubner (left). Lelan and Florence Baker |
| [...]er. Everett, Dot and John Ball was the first president in 1964. She worked hard to get this |
| [...]Sheridan schools where he excelled in basketball and track.[...]and then the rest of his life in California. He married and had[...]ugene Ball was born January 18, 1918. He attended the Sheridan grade and high schools. He lived in Sheridan all his life except four years in the South Pacific during World War[...]II. He was a Tech. Sgt. 4th Grade and a radio operator with the 146th Field Artillery Battalion in New Guinea and Southern Philippines. He received the Philippine Libera-[...]Pacific Campaign Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. After[...]returning home he did papering and painting. He belonged to the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He[...]was never very well as he had malaria while in the Pacific.[...]June Ball was born June 9, 1919. She married and lived in Roslyn, Washington where she worked in the shipyards.[...]BRUCE AND JOEEN (WIDENER) BARIL[...]a huge Anaconda, Montana to Helen (Moran) and Leo James Baril. yard with a large vegetable garden and a beautiful rock The family, which included another son, Fay, moved to garden which people came from all around to see. My father California for a few years. Helen and the boys then returned had a lathe and made lamps, cake holders, candle sticks and to Alder where Bruce attended grade school there and in many other beautiful things out of native cedar which he col- Laurin, where his family owned the Vigilante Bar. Bruce at- lected. He also made outdoor furniture: tables, benches, tended high school in Sheridan, where he participated in and flower boxes out of cedar. school athletics, lettering in football and track. He My father died in California while visiting Johnny in 1964 graduated in the class of 1941. On December 10, 1941 he and mother died in 1968. l enlisted in the U.S. Army and served until a medical Marguerite was born September 3, 1906. After graduation discharge in 1943. she worked as a stenographer in Helena for several ye[...]oeen Widener was born in Anaconda, Montana on Oc- She married Frank Sicora and lived in Red Lodge, Billings tober 4, 1926 to Fay and Wilma (Utley) Widener. They mov- and Washington. She died November 6, 1976. Her husband ed to Sheridan in 1927 and •the following year to Laurin. In died June 27, 1978. Both are buried in the Sheridan 1930 they moved to Harlowt o[...]tended grade school and in June, 1940 her parents bought June Ball the Laurin Hotel and Bar and she started to high school in[...]Bruce and Joeen were married in 1943 at Great Falls, Mon-[...]employed in the oil fields by a Canadian drilling company.[...]Bruce Baril and hunting dogs Fritz and Penny.[...] |
| [...]: Danie~ Jennifer, Erin, MichaeL and J oeen lived while Bruce went to Portland, Oregon to sweet little girls. They had some great and amusing work for the city fire department. Because of the war, hous- responses. ing was scarce, but they we[...]ing in construction, operating heavy equip- 1945; she was named Kelly for Bruce's dear friend, Orville[...]and maintained the bowling alley equipment for his mother They returned to ~heridan late that year; Bruce and his and stepfather, Helen and Chick La Due, at the Ruby Valley Uncle Wes went into busines as painting contractors. On Bowl. In the next few years. they had three more children: May[...]aniel Martin, March 29, to Alder for a short time and then to Virginia City, where 1954; and Erin Louise, September 8 1955. Bruce continued his painting business. He was fire chief for Bruce loved the great outdoors and spent alot of time hunt- awhile and also worked for Joeen's father at the Pioneer Bar. ing and fishing. In the summer, he would fly fish the Ruby While living there, they had three more children: Colleen River, Clear Creek, Alder Gulch and other streams. In the Raye, December 9, 1947; Patricia Lou, December 18, 1948; fall, he would hunt ducks, pheasant and grouse and in the and Michael Bruce, January 6, 1950. Soon after Mike was winter, he would ice fish at the Ruby Dam and Meadow Lake born, Bruce advertised in the Madisonian that he would on the Madison with his close friends, Orville Kelly, Mi[...]boy for a good cow to supply milk for five Birrer and Ted Darby. On July 19, 1960, at the age of 36, Bruce died suddenly Joeen Widener Bari[...]while working on the construction of the highway at Lima.[...]Sheridan and he was buried at the Sheridan cemetery with Military Honors by the American Legion Post No. 89 of[...]Sheridan. It would be difficult to describe the love and kind-[...]s that people for miles around showered on J oeen and the children and they will be forever grateful for all the beautiful[...]In September, 1963 Joeen and the children moved to Nice, California where she worked in her mother's real estate[...]business as a salesman. She also played piano and organ in several of the dinner houses in the Lakeport area until 1980 when she moved to Truckee, California where she now[...] |
| [...]the trip with a pack horse and three saddle horses. The first morning the pack horse bucked off all their supplies and broke what eggs they had. They were the first group[...]through that spring so they often had to clear the trail. The snow drifts were deep in many places and once they had an[...]missing one morning. For the remainder of the trip they had[...]e turns walking or ride double. When they reached the southfork of the Flathead River it was high and swift. They[...]The trip took about two weeks.[...]and his brother, Clarence, started in business for th[...]They leased the Talty ranch three miles southwest of[...]Sheridan. That is when he met Thelma Smith when she came[...]Laura Thelma Smith ws born on a ranch nepr the Point of Rocks, October 31, 1915, the youngest of four children of Albert and Laura Smith. She completed grade and high school at Twin Bridges, then took the twc year teaching[...]was Duncan District where she taught one year. She met[...]Clarence's share of the farming equipment, then made a[...]down payment on the ranch. The selling price of the three WILFRED AND THELMA BARIL hundred[...]a large amount of money during depression years and it took Wilfred George Baril, the eighth of twelve children, was hard work and frugal living to find money for the yearly born to Frank and Christina Baril April 19, 1907. He spent payments. his childhood and most of his adult life in Duncan District The years when their children were small were busy bu[...]t was things done grade school at Duncan District and attended two years of together as a family, such as family picnics, camping and hi~h school at Sheridan. As a boy he worked on neighboring fishing trips and occasionally a movie. The first camping trip ranches for a dollar a day and sometimes less. His first was at Branham Lakes. The children were small and it rain- steady job was on the Bullerdick ranch with wages at forty ed and snowed most of the time. The stormy weather dollars a month.[...]prevented them from going out in the boat except for one One spring, when he was about seventeen, he took a trip short trip during the five days they camped. Most of the through the Bob Marshall Wilderness area with his cousin, time was spent around the camp stove in the leaky tent dry- Lloyd Johnson, and a friend, Morse Andrews. They started ing out clothes. They weren't discouraged and this was the[...]36. In 1959 Wilfred and Thelma moved to the house where[...]it and forty acres from his parents. The land joined their[...]original ranch. They remodeled the house and lived there un-[...]til December 1968 when they sold the ranch and retired.[...]ince retirement Wilfred has taken up wood working and had made many beautiful and useful items. He sells a few[...]but most are given to family and friends. Thelma's hobbies are sewing for the family, knitting, crocheting and quilt mak-[...]They have five children and fifteen grandchildren. Their[...]daughter Barbara Ann and husband Gary Dedman live near Sheridan. She works at the Ruby Valley Hospital and he is[...]Daniel Lee, Gary Dennis, and Donna Rae. Phyllis Patricia and husband, Walton Peterson ranch near[...]Louise, Jay Wilfred, and Andrew Ray. Albert Francis (Bud) and wife, Diana, live in Clovis,[...]California. He went to college at Bozeman and has a degree[...]have three children: Nathan Donald, Neil Francis and Nicole[...] |
| [...]Chicago, Annie was born at French Gulch. The other[...]children: Rose, George, Peter, Jacob, Mayme and Julia were[...]born in Anaconda. They went to school there and were bab-[...]After the smoke from the smelters damaged their ranch at French Gulch, the family moved to Twin Bridges in the Thelma and Wilfred's 40th Anniversary. L. to R.: Barry, San- spring of 1917, George, Pete and Jacob, Jay 's father were dra, Phyllis, Barbara, Bud, Thelma, Wilfred. in the first World War. George, born in 1888, was in the Spruce Division of the Army; Pete, born in 1890, served in Sandra Lee and husband, Bruce Thompson, live at Sum- the Air Corps; and Jake, born in 1894, joined the U.S. ner, Washington where he works for Weyerhaeuser Com- Cavalry and served eleven months in France. pany and she teaches pre-school children. They have two[...]ere his father had a taxi- children: John Michael and Christina Josette. cab business and his mother was going to school. She was Wilfred Barry and wife, Beverly, live in Portland, Oregon Oline Kramer, daughter of Joe and Ellen Kramer of Jackson where he works for Tektronix. He studied at Bozeman and in the Big Hole Valley. Joe Kramer was born in Heuer, Den- Minneapolis and has a master's degree in electrical engineer- mark in 1883 and came to this country when he was nineteen ing. Th[...]ee children: twin daughters Brandi Kay years old. On July 4, 1900 he married Ellen Ottun, at Dillon. and Bridget Kay; and a son, Bryce Barry. Ellen Ot[...]Thelma Baril where she received her education. Her father was a Lutheran[...]preacher. She came to the Big Hole Basin in 1899. The cou- ple homesteaded in the Big Hole and moved to Anaconda in JAY AND ARLENE (CARLSON) BARNOSKY 1[...]Deer Lodge and operated it until Jake's father died in 1940. Jacob and Jadwega Barnoskv. grandoarents of Jav Bar- Jake Barnosky and Oline Kramer were married in 1923 and[...]the smelter. In 1932 they bought Indian ground up the Jocko River above Arlee. The ground had to be cleared of[...]timber before crops could be raised. Jay went to the Indian school there for two years and was the only all white child[...]Lodge and lived with his grandparents while he finished his[...]then, after the death of his grandfather, they moved to Deer[...]moved to Madison County and bought a cattle ranch south[...]of Twin Bridges, which was at that time known as the Lewis-[...]vis ranch. Meanwhile, Jay's grandparents had died and his uncles, George and Pete, had bought the Silver Spring[...]In 1950 Jay married Arlene, daughter of Oscar and Marie Carlson of Twin Bridges. She and her family had moved here[...]March 20, 1929 and was raised on a farm near there which[...] |
| [...], Chris, Andy, Kami. was born on what was called the Hawley Creek ranch above Bridges and they and their two boys, Isaac and Ames, live in |
| [...]hurch in Dillon in 1963. They have four daughters and[...]everal terms as Trustee of School District No. 5. She was Mother Advisor of the Rainbow Girls while we three girls all became Past Worthy Advisors, Later she serv- Wanda and Jim Birdsil~ 1943. ed as Clerk of School District No. 5 until her retirement. In 1975 she went to live with her three daughters. Elenore and Mildred graduated from Montana State Col- lege in Bozeman in 1950 and 1951 respectively. Ann Louise JAMES ORMAN AND WANDA DELORES (DONEGAN) is a licensed registered[...]BIRDSILL State University and served in the U.S. Army.[...]mes was born April 24, 1924 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the Elenore married Jack Leseman Crouse of Altamont, Il- son of Orman V. and Nova Audrey Love Birdsill. His linois in the Methodist Church in Sheridan in 1954. They parent[...]Ruby where Jim started school in 1930. Jersey in the Methodist Church in Sheridan in 1953. They He also attended school in Laurin and Sheridan. The family have two sons, a daughter, and a granddaughter. Their home moved to Twin Bridges when he was in the seventh grade. is in Succasunna, New Jersey. Jim's father ran the B & B Grocery Store in Twin Bridges. Ann Louise married Ben E. McKenzie of Alder in the Jim spent two years in the CC's and worked for the North- Methodist Church in Sheridan in 1954. They have three ern Pacific Railroad in Helena untill he joined the Army on daughters. The middle girl, Paula, married Joe Tezak Jr. of August 3, 1943. He took his basic training at Camp Gruber, Sheridan in 1981. Ann and .Ben's home is in Bel Air, Oklahoma with the 42nd Rainbow Division. The 1st of Maryland. December of 1943 he went overseas and was in combat in Arthur Jr. married Betty Lee Theil in St. James Episcopal France and Austria. He received decorations for services in[...]the European Theatre. He was discharged in January of Ruth coming off the plane at O'Hare. July 14, 1980. 1946 fr[...]Jim and Wanda Delores Donegan were married in[...]of Dillon, Dan of Alder and Marilyn of Butte.[...]Jim worked for several mining companies including the Victoria Mines. He worked for the Stauffer Chemical Com-[...]years. He also worked at the Broadway in Silver Star until[...]buying their home in Sheridan in 1950 where Wanda and he still reside. He now works with the Madison County Road[...]tana. She is the oldest daughter of Sylvan and Effie Todd Donegan. She has a younger sister, Della Triplett of Seward,[...]Alaska and a brother, Sylvan Donegan Jr. of Twin Brid[...] |
| [...]egulations 600-45, 22 Septemb~r 1943, as amended, the[...]the two leading platoons of his company were held up[...]tense mortar, automatic weapons and small arms fire during[...]was in support, was committed to the action. As it was go-[...]o position, Sergeant Birdsill was wounded but hid the[...]fact from his men. When heavy mortar fire forced the pla- toon to withdraw, he placed the men in the new position so[...]but refused to be evacuated because of the company's lack of[...]Jim and Lou Birdsill James Birdsil~ 1944. ORMAN AND NOVA (LOVE) BIRDSILL[...]ruary 25, 1893 in Stella, Missouri, Orman and Nova Birdsin 1910.[...] |
| children; the two school age children had to ride horseback and around Sheridan. eight miles round trip to a one[...]city or decent road. Audrey, the only one of the Birdsill children to be born in[...]Madison County, left here the last time in the early 1960 's to The Birdsill's following years were spent on various ran- make her home in Butte. She and her husband, Frank Jen- ches from McAllister in the Madison Valley to Laurin in the nings, who is employed by the U.S. Postal Service, presently Ruby Valley and points in between. It was during the third live in Butte. year of the lease on the McFadden ranch, one mile north of Laurin, that Orman's health began to fail. By the early part Nova Love Birdsill Bower will[...]or, among of 1934 he was relegated to crutches to the extent that he other things, her long and faithful association with the found it physically impossible to carry on the ranch- Womens Society of Christian S[...]and the Royal Neighbors of America. She will also be[...]remembered for her active participation in and support of the After selling off most of the livestock, Orman bought the establishment of the Baptist Church in Sheridan. Nova died dealership for the W.T. Rawleigh Co. for the Madison County on October 31, 1968 at the age of 75 and is interred next to territory. By spring of 1934, the family had moved to what is Orman Birdsill in the Sheridan cemetery. now the Everet Bruggeman place north of Sheridan. In 1936 the Birdsills moved to Twin Bridges where they bought the[...]dsill B & B Grocery, while Orman continued to be _the "Rawleigh Man" in Madison County until his death in March, 1938. Or- man is interred in the Sheridan cemetery. DAVID AND FLORENCE BIRRER After Orman's death, the oldest son, Clovis, returned home and operated the Rawleigh Route until it could be sold. That business sold in 1939 and the grocery store had been David (Mike) Birrer was born to Nicholas and Muriel sold previously. Nova and the two youngest children return- Geary Birrer[...]away when he ed to Sheridan where Nova lived out the rest of her life. In was a year old. Grandparents and an-aunt from Iowa helped 1945, Nova Birdsill married Guy Bower of Sheridan. Guy to care for him and his brother, Joseph, until the father mar- was a Madison County native, the son of James G. Bower, a ried Ethel (Brownie) Petersen in 1918. pioneer. Guy died in 1962 and is interred in the Valley David married Florence (Flo)[...]20, 1937. The couple planned to tour Yellowstone Park but Nova and Orman Birdsill had four children, all but one of due to prior visits to the park and lack of funds, they chang- whom are now living at[...]they would make ried to John Weingart, has lived all of her adult life near and their home. They stopped in Bozeman where a down pay- in Sheridan. She worked at the old Alder Mercantile when it ment was made on[...]was run by Bill McKenzie, at Charles Walter Inc. and at the they took their wedding trip to Glacier Park. Bank of Twin[...]ago. They now live on house on Mill Street. The bathtub stood in the kitchen with Mill Street in Sheridan.[...]Madison County in 1941 to work dy to drain the water from the washing machine. in engine service for the Northern Pacific Railroad (now Bur- The next move was to Bieler Lane. In 1940 they purchased lington Northern). He retired as an engineer in 1979 and a house on Water Street. This was their home for twenty returned to Sheridan, where he and his wife, Marjorie, now years; then they sold it and built a new home on Jefferson live two miles nort[...]Street. James 0 . Birdsill has lived and worked all his adult life in In this home Cynthia Tyrrel, age 10, and Sylvia Tyrrel, age Orman, Clovis, Nova, James, Audrey and Fox terrier Patsy. David and Florence Birrer. Wedding picture.[...] |
| [...]ferson Street. 7, came to live with their Aunt and Uncle. They graduated Mike and Flo's 25th Wedding Anniversary, 1962.[...] |
| [...]ranching. In 1926, after his ranching venture, he and family moved to California, where he worked as a cabinet maker. In 1927, disillusioned with life in California, the Birrers decided to return to Montana. Enroute to[...]for work, they stopped over in Sheridan to visit old friends. While visiting, Nick got involved in one of his favorite pastimes, poker, lost his shirt and ended up spending the rest of his life is Sheridan. His main occupation during these Lelia and Julia as children. years was carpentry and cabinet making. In traveling the September 4, 1902, the daughter and third child of Alfred Ruby and Madison Valleys one can still find many things and Emelia Halse, member of a pioneer family. She attended made by Nick Birrer. the Sheridan school during her growing-up years, grad[...]avid fisherman, hunter, sportsman from the Sheridan High School in 1920. Julia attended the and poker player, his main love was trapshooting. He[...]Montana State Normal College in Dillon, Montana and well known in Montana trapshooting circles, as was his wife, became a teacher. She received her Life Certificate to teach Brownie. He and some of his shooting friends organized and in Montana. Her teaching career covered t[...]Walter 0. Box of Harlowton, Mon- used in lieu of the harder to find pigeons. tana in 1927 at Sheridan, Montana. Their home was in Nick and Brownie were both strong Catholics. During mass, Nick would never let the collection plate pass without Julia Halse Box at the time of graduating from Normal Col- adding the contents of a pocket. Depending on what that[...], money, nails, or a cigar, that's what went into the plate. Whether anything in the Sheridan church was built by Nick is unclear, however, he did build the Catholic Church on Main Street in Twin Bridges. Nick died in May of 1950 at his home on the north end of Sheridan. Brownie died eight years later in Philipsburg, Montana where she was living with her daughter, Gertrude. Son, Mike died in Sheridan in 1981 after a lengthy illness. All are buried together at the Sheridan cemetery._ Son, Joseph is presently living in Absarokee, now retired, but keeping busy traveling and trapshooting. Daughter, Ger- trude is living in Douglas, Arizona, also retired but passing the time visiting her children and grandchildren. The love Nick and Brownie had for Sheridan and the Ruby Valley is presently shared by their children, grandchil~en and great grandchildren. Though separated by many miles, it is always a pleasure to return to the grandness that is the Ruby Valley.[...] |
| Harlowton where Walter was manager of the Union Wholesale Grocery Company, a branch of the Union Wholesale of Helena, Montana. Julia became a member of Primrose Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star and Worthy Matron in 1935. she became a fifty year member. She was a member of the Harlowton Woman's Club and American Legion Auxilary serving as an officer at times. During her younger years she worked with the girl scouts. Julia taught Sunday School at the Federated Church many years. She was a member of the Episcopal Church having been confirmed in Dillon, Montana in 1923. Her husband, Walter passed away in 1965 and is buried in the Sheridan cemetery. In 1975 Julia sold her home in Harlowton and returned to Sheridan after having lived in Harlow[...]parents were Karl and Helena Henrich. In 1911 the family[...]grade and high school graduating in 1924.[...]In 1951 Pat bought the home ranch from his mother. He[...]spent his entire life farming, raising hay, hogs and cattle.[...]Planning to retire he had sold his cattle and was just raising hay to sell and for pasture when he died suddenly April 22,[...]1974. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Sheridan. Elizabeth and Albert had two children. Jerry was born[...]January 2, 1940. He attended Sheridan schools and college in Dillon and Bozeman. He married Shirley Osborne[...]September 7, 1971 and they have one daughter, Amy Fay. Jerry and Shirley live in Twin Bridges where Jerry has his[...]Joan was born June 15, 1941. She also attended Sheridan schools and after graduation married Ralph Pehl of[...]for the John Deere Implement Company. Joan and Ralph have three sons, Jeff, Dennis and Greg. Elizabeth and Albert Braach ALBERT AND ELIZABETH BRAACH[...]ach Albert Braach was born in Brandon to Ewald and Johanna |
| [...]the youngest of the eleven children of Ewald and Johanna Donald G. Braach, 1950. Braach. He attended the little log school house in Brandon through the first eight grades and then graduated from Basic Engineering. In 1963 he[...]Sheridan High School in 1936. He served in the army during and stationed in Lewistown. He later moved to Butte in the World War II and after being discharged, worked at several same position. Don's records with the Highway Department jobs around the Sheridan area and the Butte mines until show a high regard for responsi[...]ng that reflects that he was accurate, effi- in the office of Carpenter Paper Company. Later, he became cient and surpassed standards. a salesman for the company and traveled Granite, Powell Don was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 20 in and Deer Lodge Counties until changing territories to[...]e he served as master twice. He belonged to and Sanders Counties. He traveled to Plains, Hot Spri[...]t High Priest of Polson, Ronan, Thompson Falls and St. Ignatius. He was a Deer Lodge Chapter No. 3 Royal Arch Masons. Don was ap- salesman in the Missoula area as well. pointed Excellent Grand Sentinel in 1973-74 and the next Edward retired from Carpenter Paper in 1972 and now year served as Exalted Grand Master of the first veil. He spends time with his hobbies: rock hounding, cutting and was a member of Zabad Council No. 2 Cryptic Masons and polishing rocks and having jewelry made. He also held the office of Deputy Master. He also served Montana hunts.fishes and relaxes at their cabin on the West Fork of Commandery No. 3 Knights Templer as Senior Warden. the Bitterroot River. He has a large garden and yard at their Donald died April 9, 1975.[...]Recently, he has taken an interest in politics on the Carolyn Braach Tintinger local level. Edward has a son, James and two grandchildren, Mary Jo Braach Flint Brian and Kathy Braach. Edward and his wife Lucille have done some traveling and[...]ope to do more. Since retirement, they have taken the trip up the Inland Passage to Alaska and five years ago, they[...]Stunz, and the families. Ruth is a cousin on his mother's side[...]of the family. They stayed with Ruth in his mother's old home in Altenseelbach. It has been a good life so far[...]although there have been several hot summers and a lot of[...]FREDERICK AND LAURA BRAACH[...]Frederick was born in Brandon to Johanna and Ewald Donald Gene Braach, 1975. Braach on January 28, 1905. He attended the Brandon School through the eighth grade and then the Sheridan High[...]School, graduating in 1924. When a young boy he and his[...]Laura Alice was the sixth child born to Martha and Albert Edward was born in Brandon, Montan[...] |
| Frederick and Laura Braach 'Tim' and 'Meka '. Fred Braach, Jr. son, Lee, and daughters, Nancy and Susan. call this one O'Mega, meaning the last." But when brother . Harry was born the "O" was dropped and through the years her nick-name became "Meka." passing car hit him, breaking his leg, fracturing his skull and Laura attended school in Sheridan through the fifth grade, scraping the skin off one hand. He had to be taken to Butte then the family moved to Billings. She graduated from Bill- to the hospital where the leg was wired together. The rest ings High School in 1927. On a visit to Sh[...]t was three weeks before Meka sister, Charlotte and her father, who were working at the and Freddy got back home. By that time Tim had the ceiling Lake Shore Mine, she became acquainted with Tim Braach on, the floor down, the windows and doors on, the fur- who was mining there at the time. They were married April nishings moved into the new home. With all the unexpected 4, 1928. They had two children, Jeanette born June 24, 1930 hospital and doctor bills to be paid, it was several years and Fred L. Jr. born April 12, 1933. The family lived in before the inside of the home was finished. The next spring Sheridan for five years,and then moved to Brandon for two Freddy fell and broke his collar bone. He broke it again when years. One winter when getting out the year's wood, Tim he was in the first grade and again when in the third grade. also got out houselogs to build his family a home. It[...]wouldn't break so easily. worked hard erecting the house. Harry Howe, a carpenter, Tim worked at mining, ditchwalking, farming and then was either helping or offering advice. A storm was brewing went to work at the R & J Service Station. After four years when they started shingling the roof; so with Harry Howe he bought the station, and operated it for nine years, before and Tim laying down the shingles, the Johnston twins and selling it. He took up carpentry work with Dave Birrer. Meka pounding in the nails; the storm was beaten. Then one winte[...]k he went to Anacon- About this time six year old Jeanette fell from a tree break- da and went to work for the Anaconda Copper Mining Com[...]pany. Meka worked for the Lake Finance Company. ing her forearm. Five weeks later she fell again and broke the They sold their home in Sheridan and bought a new home same arm near the shoulder. It was only three weeks later that three year old Freddy ran across the street to get into in Anaconda. When retirement years arrived, they sold that the car that they were to ride home to Brandon in, wh[...]home, lived in Sheridan two years, then moved and bought a[...]years Tim became ill with leukemia and passed away Jeanette Hall and Fred Braach February 22, 1977. He was buried in the Sheridan cemetery. Meka sold that home and bought a new trailer home and is[...]While Tim had the service station, he drove school bus,[...]was on the town council, belonged to the Kiwanis Club and was Past Master of the Masonic Lodge. He was a member of the fire department for eleven years and when Art Ell-[...]citizen and well like by all who knew him.[...]Fred Jr. married Sandra Foster and they had two girls and one boy. They separated and Fred married Laura Jensen.[...]~red is a computer system analyst for the Boeing Company m Seattle. Susan, the oldest girl, works for a downtown bank[...]in Seattle. Richard Lee married Karen Kushman and is a[...]ongshoreman in Tacoma. Nancy married Dave Zuluaga and[...]under Jeanette Hall in this book. All live in the Seattle area.[...] |
| [...]-perhaps some fifteen years. In all this time he shipped no ore and had no income. His livelihood was furnished by WALTER "CJ{UCK" AND MIRIAM (NATTRASS) Chuck Braach - meat and produce. In return Jack would help[...]some with haying and harvesting. Chuck, who did lots of[...]teaming for various miners over the years, also furnished the horsepower around the Uncle Sam. Without Chuck Braach, Walter, the oldest of eleven children, was born to Johanna little Jack Walker would have had two choices - return to the and Ewald Braach in Brandon on January 27, 1893 at the Butte mines or starve. Chuck was his answer and naturally original Braach home where Elizabeth Braach now resides. there was no one in the world like "Chuck" to Jack Walker. He attended the Brandon school but began working at an[...]arly age. He hauled ore with a four horse span at the age of came into my office for some sort of ailment. The door be- twelve. He was a lover of horses and during the early years tween the office and the waiting room was anything but of his life he hauled ore, timber and freight and did other noise-proof, so when Chuck and I were discussing his health, teamster work. His father died when he was twenty-six and we frequently digressed into the field of anecdotes of old , he helped his mother in raising the younger children. times and old timers which was Chuck's specialty. The resul- Walter married Mariam Nattrass on March 3, 1928 at the tant roars of laughter, totally unrepresse[...]heridan. Miriam was born in St. have made the patients in the waiting room wonder what Paul, Minnesota on September 27, 1899. She moved with her sort of malady the patient inside was suffering from. parents to Dillon, Montana while a young girl. She attended If I had my druthers, I'd wish there were more Walter Dillon schools and was a graduate of Dillon Normal College Braachs. in December 1921. She taught school in Harlem, Craig and Brandon. She was teaching in Brandon when she married Walter. They lived on the Coley place adjacent to his[...]ntil they bought their own ranch in 1930. This is the place where their son, Lester lives today. They had five children: Donald, Lester, Mary Jo, Carolyn and Walter (Guy). Walter was engaged in ranching un[...]ed away May 1, 1959. Walter con- tinued living on the ranch until his death in October 1968.[...]ch by H.D. (Dave) Rossiter. I knew Chuck from my early childhood to the time of his |
| [...].: Diane, Clive, Doris (Mother), Chery~ Tom, Bob, and[...]Deer Lodge where Ken worked on the Milwaukee Railroad. The family moved back home to Sheridan and Doris opened a Doris and Kenneth Bray, 1944.[...]Kenneth's special love was mining and when working with When Kenneth was five years of age the family sold their a trail crew as a young man he discovered a large outcrop- ranch in the Centennial and bought the Hermsmeyer ranch ping of iron ore on which he staked claims. He developed near Sheridan, Montana. The boys attended Sheridan Grade these claims with partners, Lloyd Miller and Chet Stine, and School and moved to Butte for their high school education at[...]fter, Kenneth returned to Sheridan chased the claims and patented them. At this time Ken also where he worked on a trail crew for Forest Ranger[...]the meantime he had to have more surgery done at St. In 1934 Kenneth went to Butte when learning of the illness Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minneso[...]s then he met Jack's On June 1, 1959 the fifth child, Clive Curtis (Buddy) was fiancee, Do[...]in Sheridan. When Clive was two years of age, Ken took 1917 in Marysville, Montana the fifth child of Thomas a job at an open pit mine near Wise River and the family Daniel and Eliza O'Connell Thomas. Doris' father was killed followed a couple of months later. When the mine closed Ken in a mine accident before her birth and when she was one joined the Carpenter's Union in Butte and commuted to year of age, her mother with her two living children, Clive work. He bought some land on the Big Hole River near and Doris, moved to Butte where she operated a grocery Divide and built a new home there. store until after her children were raised. Jack died in May Both Doris and Ken took a job at the Montana Children's 1934 and the Bray family returned home to Sheridan.[...]rning to their home in On May 12, 1936 Kenneth and Doris were married in the Divide on week-ends. On December 2, 1968[...]to Immaculate Conception Church in Butte, Montana and check his house, Kenneth was killed in a car accident near made their home in Sheridan for the next five years. Their Doris[...]an on March 18, 1939. At this time Ken worked for the Forest Service in the summer months and mined the remainder of the year. In 1942 the family moved to Boulder where Ken worked for the Forest Service full time. In 1943 he was transfer[...]erred back to Boulder in 1945 as District Ranger. The following year he was in Butte working in the district office when he became seriously ill and had to go to Rochester, Minnesota where surgery w[...]ry for him to take a year's leave of absence from the Forest Service, so Doris decided to take a course in Cosmetology to help with the family. In 1947 Ken resigned his position with the Forest Service as his ill health made it impossible for him to fulfill the obligations of his position. At the time Doris worked as a beautician in the Tom Liss' Beauty Salon and Normas 's Beauty Shop. On October 29, 1950 their fourth child, Cheryl Kay, was born in Butte and shortly after the family moved to[...] |
| Divide. Doris continued to work at the Center for the next seven years until it closed in 1975. In 1969 Doris and Clive moved back to Sheridan and she was married to Oria J. Not- tingham on September 18, 1970. In 1977 Doris was contacted to work for the Area V Agen- cy on Aging to do a survey of the needs of the elderly in Madison County which resulted in the formation of the Sheridan Service Centers' "Meals on Wheels", homemaker and bus line service for the county. Thomas Kenneth married Ellen Terry Dixon on September 25, 1970 and has five children: Bill, Pamela, Rick, Vince and Casie. Doris Diane married John H. Bennett on March 1, 1961 and has three children: Jacquie, Jay and Jodi. Robert Ernest married Virginia Carol Robinson on May 7, 1965 and has three children: Bobby, Chris and Danny. Cheryl Kay married David Alan Stewart on May 7, 1976 and has three children: Trenton, Dori Rai and Scott. Di[...]James Francis Brim and granddaughter, Margery Brim,[...]seventh of eight sons born to Alexander and Anna Bishop Brim. His father owned the tannery in Salt Lake.[...]While living in Salt Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Brim had their[...]yon. For a few years in the 1890's they _had a summer[...]school for teachers at Mountain Park. The faculty was from the faculty of the University of Utah and the Salt Lake City[...]About 1913 Mr. Brim drove a team and covered wagon[...]and a nephew in taking up homesteads twelve miles fro[...]town. The summer of 1914 Mrs. Brim and daughters, Helen and Mary, stayed on the homestead as Mr. Brim had return-[...]1923. During the twenty-three years she lived in Provo, she was very active in club work and the Methodist Church, where she was a soloist. In 1934 she tansferred her church membership to the Sheridan Methodist Church and became active in the Ladies Aid.[...]In 1937 Mr. Brim sold his rental and mining properties in McGill and he and Mrs. Brim lived with the Fentons on their Blanche Taylor Brim and two great grandchildren, Helen[...]ch west of Sheridan. Later they rented a house in and Bobby Long.[...]Mrs. Brim died at the Fenton home November 28, 1955 Blanche Taylor Br[...]after being bedridden there for two years. She suffered great Nevada in 1933, to make her home with her daughter and emotional anguish the last five years of her life as her son, son-in-law, Helen and Stanley Fenton. She loved to travel Philip died in 1950, daughter, Mary in 1952 and son, and once a year made a month long visit to one of her Frederick in 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Brim are buried in the children: Mary Koeler, San Bruno, California; Ric[...]im was born in Salt Lake City September 12, 1870, the only daughter of Joseph James and Helen Maria Bassett Taylor. She married James Francis Brim May 31, 1888 at FREDERICK A. AND DORA BRIM Salt Lake City. They bought a home in Salt Lake and lived there until 1900 when they bought a home in Provo, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Brim came to Sheridan in the Mr. Brim was born December 21, 1858 at Salt Lake, the summer of 1922 to take the position of superintendent of[...] |
| [...]1948 he continued to teach science and math until he was no[...]longer able to do so. He then became school clerk and kept the books until his death on May 20, 1953. Mr. Brim i[...]erred to as "Prof" by some of his former students and[...]and his protective loyalty to his teachers". schools[...], 1891 in Salt Mrs. Brim was a piano teacher and choir director. She was the first woman to be licensed as a lay preacher by the Mon- Lake City, Utah and Dora Brim on May 17, 1891 in Ord,[...]tana Methodist Conference and for several years was the Nebraska. They were married April 5, 1915 in Billings, Mon- tana. They had both taught school on the Crow Indian designated pastor of the Sheridan Methodist Church. She Reservation in Montana, where their daughters, Dorothy died in Sheridan February 1, 1975. Some of the family had[...]lived in Sheridan for fifty-three years. and Alene were born. Then Mr. Brim was superintendent[...]ana, where their son, Charles Frederick was born. The other daughter, Margery was born in Sheridan.[...]Sheridan, the son of William and Elizabeth Knolton Brug-[...]geman. He attended Sheridan school and spent his early life[...]and team and later with an International truck, they would[...]haul coal, lumber and machinery to the mines of the area and freight for the merchants in Sheridan. When the business was sold the family moved to the old Oliver Ingram ranch where they resided and worked until 1943 at which time they[...]moved to Everett's uncle's home, the Henry Bruggeman[...]In 1932-33 he transported the children to school from Wisconsin Creek. The bus was a 1925 model Studebaker[...]passenger car with side curtains on rollers and no heater. He had to make two trips to get all the children to and from school. When it was cold he wrapped the younger ones in blankets and the older children held them.[...]Helena where he began an apprentice ship in the shoe repair[...]and then went to Cut Bank. In 1949 he bought the repair equipment from his Cut Bank employer and moved back to the family home. He set up his shoe shop in what was the old real estate office on Main Street and remained there for[...]hree years. In his spare time Everett worked with old radios and was a ham operator.[...] |
| [...]16, 1912. His mother and father were Elizabeth and William Bruggeman. He attended the Sheridan school and_worked on the farm with his dad before they moved to their Uncl[...]ranch until June 1940 and then spent a year m the army. In[...]He left there and worked on a dairy farm at Graham,[...]Washington for eight years. Then he worked at the Fleets[...]GEORGE ANTONE AND FLORENCE LEORA[...]Jackson, Montana, the son of Charles W. and Hannah Everett's health was poor and many days he should have Jackson Bryant and the grandson of Antone Jackson, who stayed home but he was determined to keep his shop open. settled the Walker Ranch in the Big Hole in 1884 and after He spent several months in the hospital and died June 1, which the town of Jackson was named. 1981. He is buried in the Sheridan Cemetery.[...]lived in Sheridan as a boy, attended grade school and Several years ago the Kiwanis Club honored Everett for later move[...]ts, sisters, his many years of devoted service to the _comm~~ty. WalU:r Amorette Burns and Ruby Smith and brother, Dale. He at- Sagunsky made the presentation of an air condit10ner for his tend[...]duating enlisted shop at their annual dinner that the Club had for the in the army to serve in World War I. In 1928 he purchase[...]ies who served their weekly dinner every the Silver Star General Store from John Dullea and was also Tuesday in Bethany Hall. Mr. Sagunsky praised Eve[...]la Akin in many years of devoted contributions to the communi~y dur- 1928 and they had a son, George Ralph Bryant. She died in ing his life time and mentioned the esteem and affection the 1930. On February 2, 1934 he married Florence L[...]Tolson. Together they operated the store, gas station and[...]Bruggeman High Their wedding was held at the Frank Tolson home in Sheridan. The ring ceremony was performed by Reverend Theodore[...]P.W. Haynes, pastor of the Methodist Church. The atten- dants were Anna Tolson, sister of the bride and Ray Corn-[...]forth of Silver Star. Having both grandmothers of the bride[...] |
| , George Antone Bryant Mrs. Mary Hill and Mrs. Nettie Tolson, present added to |
| [...]Montana and the cool summer nights best. Alan loved all[...]Alan was a member of the Kiwanis until his death. He was a member and Past Master of the Masonic Lodge A.F. &[...]A.M. No. 20. He was a member of the York Rite Bodies,[...]of Bagdad Temple of the Shrine. Jane was water clerk for the town of Sheridan from 1955 to 1965. She was a member and Matron in 1951 of Arcelia[...]Chapter, Chapter No. 34. She was a member and treasurer of the United Methodist Aid for six years and served on an Aid[...]and Alan were of the Methodist faith.[...]Charles and Dorothy Buck were married in December 1942[...]while Charles was in the service stationed in Fort Morgan,[...]Colorado. Charles brought his wife and daughter, Judy, born[...]In 1956 Charles and Dorothy opened The Saving Center Food and Meat Store in Sheridan. They operated this store[...]for four years. In 1966 Charles went to work for the Post Of- Jane and Alan Buck. Wedding picture.[...]1942 they bought a ranch west of Sheridan talring the in 1971. He served in this capacity until his death November cattle back to the Centennial for summer pasture, a distance 1, 19[...]ldren when they came to Madison Coun- Judy and her husband, Bud Shafer, and two children also ty. Charles was in the service in World War II and Kathleen live in Sheridan. Bundy, her h1,1.sband Ken Bailey, and was a senior in Home Economics at M.S.C. in Bozeman. She daughter reside in Virginia City, Montana. later taught school at Oilmont, Montana and then married her college sweetheart. They often[...]Judy Buck Shafer Alan and one of his colts.[...] |
| Dorothy and Charles Buck The Burke family taken at the Golden Wedding Anniversary. PAT AND MARIE BURKE years later they bought the Arnold Purves ranch and the Pat and Marie Burke purchased the Charles Goddard Sr. land from this ranch joins the land of the home ranch. In ranch in April of 1946 and with their son, Jerry, moved to the 1973 the Burke ranches were incorporated and are now ranch in May of 1946. Prior to buying the ranch they lived in known as the P & J ranches. Butte and Pat worked in the Butte mines from 1942 to 1946. Pat was on the Sheridan School Board for a number of Before that they worked on the Andrew Beck ranch at Deer years and he was President of the West Bench Canal Users Lodge for ten years, Pat as foreman and Marie as cook. Association and the Ruby River Water Users Association Before going to Deer Lodge Pat had worked in the Butte Board for twenty-eight years. min[...]years. Pat and Marie celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary[...]ntered Sheridan High School in July 1974 at the Laurin Parish Hall. Pat died in June 1976 for his Freshman year. After graduating in 1950 he helped and Marie moved to 416 Mill Street in Sheridan. She lives in his father on the ranch. a mobile home which was purchased by the P & J ranches. In June 1952 Jerry and Joan Sleeman, daughter of Mr. and Marie now has eight great grandchildren. H[...]were united in mar- children, Randy, Steven and Kenneth, along with their dad, riage. To this union were born four sons and one daughter: operate the home ranch. Jerry also has Mountain Real Larry, Randy, Steven, Kenny, and Shauna. All four sons Estate of Sheridan along with Frank Allen and Donna graduated from Sheridan High School and Shauna is in her Spuhler whose Mountain[...]Jerry and Wanda Rule have the office in Sheridan which is In 1952 Pat, Marie and Jerry bought the Tom Hart ranch located two and one half miles south of Sheridan in Jerry and which is a short distance below the home ranch. Several Joan's home. Taken i[...]ary. Marie and Pat, May 1976.[...] |
| [...]Margaret Burnett GEORGE AND MARGARET BURNETT FAMILY on January 23 , 1952 in the little Emergency Hospital in[...]ed her teaching certificate from B.Y.U. June 1938 and |
| [...]h a degree in Agriculture education. He went into the service in 1957 and spent most of his time in Japan. On July 1, 1958[...]e returned he taught school for a couple of years and then went to the University of Utah where he received his Masters degree, June 1966. He continued on at the University and received his Doctorate in Education, August 1969.[...]une 1960. George Burnett along with his mining and ranching ac- tivities served for a time as Presiding elder for the L.D.S. Church. Margaret was active in church, the PTA and the American Legion Auxiliary.[...]ALBOTT) BURRIGHT Kenneth and John Burright, husband and son of Nellie Talbott Burright. Nellie, the daughter of Richard and Pearl Talbott, was born in Sheridan, Montana November 6, 1916. She attended school and lived at the family home until her marriage to KARL MILWARD MARLER AND MABEL ELLA Kenneth Burright of Butte, Montana, Ma[...](JOLLEY BRADSHAW) CALDWELL Kenneth was a miner and they had two different homes on Pine Street. They[...]born February 24, 1938. He became a career man in the ar- in Vernal, Utah. Mabel Ella Jolley Bradshaw was born my missile system. He was wounded in Vietnam and is now February 1, 1902 in Leeds Utah. They were married employed by the Anaconda Company, residing in Butte. He September in St. George, Utah. They had three children: and his wife, Pam, have four children.[...]Monty) on Nellie became ill with undulant fever and although she November 23, 1924; and Joy Loraine on July 29, 1930. went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, there was In June of 1948, Karl and Mabel left Leeds and moved to no cure for it. She died July 1, 1948 in Butte and is buried in Sheridan, Montana. Making the move with them were Kay, the Mountain View Cemetery. Kenneth died March 24, 1972. his first wife, Myrlean and their small daugher, Coreen, Mon- Alfred Talbott ty and Elbert (Al) Pack and their two sons, Jerry and John. The Caldwells established their home here, which stan[...]day, and is the home of Kay and his wife, Grace. John, Nellie, Kenneth Burright[...]One more daughter, Joyce Janel, was born to Kay and Myrlean in 1952, at the Ruby Valley Hospital. Myrlean died Karl and Mabel Caldwell. Christmas 1974.[...] |
| [...]Joy Loraine married James Donald Jones and resides in[...]Elbert, Jennifer, Matthew, Jackie, and Wesley. Donald serv- ed in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II and was[...]honorably discharged. He presently is employed by the Post Office in Kerns, Utah and his wife, Joy, works in real estate.[...]for the Sheridan Cemetery for many summers. He establish-[...]of great service to the community, but now is closed. (He[...]Karl and Mabel were family orientated and loved to have Karl W. Caldwell and his jeep, World War II. family me[...]of the "old days" and made their history come to life for their posterity. They have 18 grandchildren and 35 great grand- in May of 1953. Kay's parents the[...]en. Mabel died in November of 1979 in Sheridan at the Kay and his two daughters. Kay later married Grace Cox age of 77. Fournier in 1972. She had two young daughters still at home. They were Mary Jo and Judy. She also had three[...]dwell older children, Richard Melvin, Ruth Ellen, and Dale Eugene who were married at the time. Kay served in the army as an Infantryman and Squad WILLIAM AND BOONE (ROSSITER) CALLA WAY Leader before being wounded in Italy. After recovering in the hospital in Rome he was put into the Military Police. Boone Rossiter Callaway, daughter of Raymond and While an MP he had charge of the Guard Detail that watched Mabel Rossiter, was born in Sheridan March 18, 1909. She General Ike Eisenhower three separate times during Ike's attended the Sheridan schools and graduated in 1926. After rest periods at Cannes,[...]g- graduating from Montana University in Missoula she taught ed from the service and returned to Sheridan. After his English and French in Sheridan High School for two years. ret[...]rked at several Auto Body shops November 18, 1934 she and William Callaway were married before opening his own. He also served as Night Watchman at her home in Sheridan.[...]l has his own October 31, 1906. He graduated from the University of Body Shop and drives school bus for the Sheridan School Idaho in Moscow with a degree in[...]Grace is an Avon Representative. They were Besse and Fred Callaway. have 21 grandchildren.[...]Mexico, a little Two more sons were born to Al and Monty: Ron in 1951 village made up mostly of Mexicans. They were there two and Jeff in 1963. Al served in the army as an Infantry and and a half years before moving to Kellogg, Idaho. Since Bill Airborne Mechanic and was there for the "Battle of the was in the mining business they moved often. Through Bob Bul[...]met Mr. Wetmore Hodges who became a lifelong from the service and returned home to Sheridan. He is friend. Bill was employed by him and his three sons from presently working for Hamler[...]next home was Virginia City, Montana in works at the Ruby Valley Hospital. They have 7 grand- a little[...]Bill had killed them all. After living in Boone's family home Bill and Boone Callaway, 1934 Elbert Pack, Karl Cal[...] |
| Bill and Boone Callaway in Sheridan and in Billings for a few years, Mr. Hodges called |
| [...], Nick, Matt, Dora, Bil~ Fannie, John and mother, Mary Carey. In doorway: Helen Carey, Steve McDonald. Frank, John, Catherine, Nicholas, Henry and William are in City. She lived at the S.V. Stewart's who later become Gover- |
| The Carey Ranch Home. the entire Ruby Valley. |
| ed grade school at the lower Wisconsin Creek School and the Johnny was a well respected businessman of Sheridan, a Sheridan High School. He spent all of his life ranching and very friendly person and a good bar man with the ever pres- never married.[...]ent cigar. He always said he had the best teacher in the During their years on the ranch, Hugh, Steve and Fannie business, meaning Howard, of course. Howard not only was held an admiration for the wildlife. Two of the original birds, his partner in the bar business, but made sure that Johnny the prairie chicken and curlew, have disappeared but have investe[...]ofits into American T & T Stock, been replaced by the sand hill cranes. The Chinese which turned out to be a real profitable investment over the pheasants, ducks and cottontail rabbits have greatly year[...]ade Ted Darby and Charles Murray his "first million " by trapping muskrats, mink, skunks and an occasional wildcat or coyote. The sloughs originally held cut throat native trout,[...]arce, but there are still Eastern Brook, Rainbows and the new comer, Ger- man Browns. Hugh and Steve are still residents of Sheridan and enjoy their retirement. They truly appreciate the spirit of friend- ship of the people of Sheridan and of the many who have been extremely helpful, especially Cy and Bill Mahagin, Nor- man Fries, Sheila Cathey, Lester Johnson, Art Klugman and Jim Ferguson.[...]Corinne and Delbert Clapp DANIEL ADELBERT AND[...]Daniel Adelbert and Elizabeth Agnes Clapp in Sterling,[...]Montana. He was the oldest of three children: sister Hannah[...]Clapp Frew, and brother John Case Clapp. The family mov- ed to Laurin where they owned and operated the Clapp ranch north of town at the mouth of Alder Creek. Delbert attended[...]Robbers Roost and Sheridan Schools and was known for his Howard Weatherwax, Ted Darby, John Cates, 1963. great love and interest in playing baseball. One of his favorite baseball caps had become a Clapp family heirloom.[...]1921, the 40th anniversary of Corinne's parent's wedding. John Cates was a colorful character of the Sheridan area for a period of about twenty-five t[...]len Corinne was born October 14, 1900 to Magloire and know much about his early life or whertl he was born. Believe Pamela Perrault. She was born and raised on the family he was born in the 1890's and was married at one time, had ranch, six miles southwest of Sheridan with her brother, one son and a daughter, Margaret. He came to Sheiidan in Frank, and sisters, Delia and Eleanore. The Perrault family the 1920's. He and his brother, Tom Cates, operated the were noted as an example ot true western hospitality as the Ruby Hotel and made a lot of "moonshine" during the Pro- home was always open to travelers enroute between hibition days. John also had some mining interest in the Sheridan and Dillon. Corinne went to school by horse and area. buggy in the Duncan District. She often recalled her mother In 1933 Howard Weathe[...]out Tom Cates' in- warming stones in the oven and putting them in the buggy. terest in the Ruby Hotel and he and John became lifelong When her father suffered ill health and retired, the family partners with only a handshake. John and Howard operated moved to Water Street in Sheridan. Corinne graduated from the Ruby Hotel and Bar from 1933 until 1946, selling out to Sheridan High School in 1917. In the winter of 1918 she at- Ted Starysky. After a few months of inactivit[...]tended business college in Los Angeles. She was accepted chased the Stockman Bar and operated this bar until 1954. for a government job in Washington, D.C. but she chose to Due to Mrs. Weatherwax's health they sold out and moved return to Montana. She attended Montana State in to a lower elevation in Lewiston, Idaho, where John lived Bozeman and later graduated from Dillon Normal College. with Howard and his wife until they both died. He then went She taught at Robbers Roost and in Absarokee, Montana. to Walla Walla, Washington and lived with his daughter, Delbert and Corinne began their married life in Laurin and Margaret, until his death in 1974. later took over the Clapp family ranch. They had two[...] |
| [...]June 1947 and presently lives in Northridge, California.[...]1955 and married Veronica Larsen in 1976, and Bradley born in 1961. All live in southern California.[...]Daniel Adelbert "Delbert" and Corinne Clapp. He grew up on the Clapp Ranch north of Laurin with his younger sist[...]Phyllis Ann. He attended the Laurin one-room school Back ro w: Delbert Clapp,[...]la, Corinne, through eighth grade. After the Depression the Clapps mov- Elizabeth Redfern, Glenn holding Nancy and Helen. ed to Sheridan. Glenn attended Sheridan High School and[...]and lettered in football and basketball in 1940 and 1941. children, Glenn Howard born January 25, 1923 and Phyllis Glenn worked in a Sheridan gas station and then moved Ann born August 7 1927. In addition to operating the ranch,[...], Ted Darby, to Tacoma, Washington to Delbert ran the motion picture theatre in Alder. work in the Todd Shipyards. He joined the Navy in 1943, serv- Delbert was a 50-year Mason and served as Master of the ing on an attack transport ship in the Pacific during World Sheridan Masonic Lodge No. 20. He was also active in the War II. He was discarged as a Radarman 1st Class in Order of Eastern Star. Corinne was a member of the Order of January, 1946. Although his parents lived in Tacoma, Glenn Eastern Star and served as Mother Advisor to the Order of chose to return "home" to Sheridan. He worked at the Rainbow for Girls. Braach gas station and Maddison's Store and lived with his After the Depression, Delbert worked as caretaker of the uncle, Frank Perrault. He met Betty Jenkin, who was Ruby Dam and then worked at Maddison's Store in teaching at the Sheridan High School and they were married Sheridan. The family moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1942[...]d in defense work. Many people Glenn and his wife moved to Bozeman where he enrolled at from the Sheridan community lived with the Clapps in Montana State. He graduat[...]er, 1949, with a Tacoma as they, too, migrated to the west coast to work in B.S. degree in elec[...]defense projects or begin their military service. The Clapp Westinghouse offices in Butte from D[...]until his home was a welcome respite for friends and these years in death from a heart attack[...]times remembered. the founding members of the Butte chapter of Jaycees, a In 1957 Delbert and Corinne moved to Encino, California member of the Butte Rotary Club and active in the Boy where they resided for fifteen years. They enjoyed the climate and opportunity to garden all year round. Their 50th wedding anniversary was celebrated with family and many Glenn Howard Clapp lifelong friends in 1971. Ill health persisted and Corinne pass- ed away February 20, 1972 after a s[...], 1972. Their son married Betty Jenkin of Butte and their Phyllis and Glenn Clapp[...] |
| [...]"Nifty" and Edith wedding picture, 1935. the late 1960's. He was a "powderman" for the Beaverhead |
| [...]Elmer and Gladys Castle, August 16, 1969. his early life was spent around Sheridan, but summers were |
| per Ruby area. Elmer retired in 1978 and they moved back to Sheridan. They have been busy[...]till include carpentering, fishing, antique cars, old records and working on cars. Gladys enjoys gardening, sewing, fishing and refinishing an- tique furniture. They also spend a lot of time enjoying their three grandsons and their granddaughter. Elmer and Gladys have three surviving children: Owen Garry[...]43, now living in Anacon- da, Montana, working at the Anaconda Foundry; Rose Marie Castle Keller born December 10, 1947, now living in Sheridan, Montana and teaching at the Sheridan High School; and Daniel Joseph Castle born September 30, 1958, now living in Opportunity, Montana and working for Jim Kraut Enterprises in Butte, Monta[...]Rose Castle Keller DALE I. AND RUTH JANE (CHRISTENSEN) DARBY Dale I. Darby was born on May 3, 1926 in Sheridan, Mon- |
| [...]When his father began work for the Smuggler Mining Co. in 1929, the family, which now included a 2nd son, Dale, born[...]participating in sports and lettering in both football and basketball, graduating with the Class of '41. Following[...]the Payless Store for 1 year, where he had worked "pa[...]time" since the fall of '40. Then, in 1942, he spent 5 months[...]in Tacoma, Washington working in the shipyards. Dad join- ed the U.S. Army in February of 1943, serving with the 6th[...]Army, under General Krueger, in New Guinea, and the[...]Honorably discharged after the war, he returned to Sheridan and was employed by J .M. Maddison Store.[...]Donna Jean and Dolores Wright (twins) were born on[...]their older brother and sister Donald (Bud) and Margaret.[...]Three more daughters followed: Joan, Carol, and Mary[...]ty pioneers. Her mothers parents Dennis and Margaret[...]Dullea journeyed from New York to Adobetown in the early[...]1880's. Her dad's parents, William Skinner Wright and Nancy Millsop Wright were among the first to follow Bill[...]Lloyd Wright became ill with silicosis and left his job with ACM in Butte and moved his wife Anna, and children to Sheridan in the summer of 1931. Mom attended Sheridan[...]schools, graduating with the Class of '46. Pvt. 1st Class Ted Darby, U.S. Army[...]l Dad's father died when Dad was only 16, and because Mom's father was ill much of the time, both started to work 1945.[...]at an early age helping support themselves and their TED J. AND DONNA J. (WRIGHT) DARBY[...]They enjoy their many friends and live in a close-knit com- Ted J. Darby was born at the home of his Aunt and Uncle munity. They speak lovingly of how fortunate they were to Mollie (Darby) and George Rowe, 2 miles north of Sheridan, have been raised in a small town, and of the good old times on October 9, 1923. He is the son of Frances Darby and the had by youngsters of all ages; such as the Town Team late James Darby. His grandparents were Patrick and baseball games, the swimming hole near the ball park, Catherine Darby, who came to Adobetown in November fishing trips, and the games like "run sheep run " and "kick 1863. Dad lived the first 5 years of his life in Pony, Montana. the can". Mom also has especially fond memories of the[...]times spent at her Grandmother Dullea's. Ted and Donna Darby, 194Z On June 23, 1947, Mom and Dad were united in marriage at[...]Florian, attended by Clifford (Bud) Ehlers and Dolores[...]On January 2, 1948, Dad began working at the Bank of Sheridan for A.W. Robert, under the G.I. Bill; On-The-Job-[...]and purchased the Arie Doornbos Insurance Agency.[...]Mom has worked for various businesses during the years;[...]Latus - Jeweler, and for the past 20 years for George King[...]Dad served on the Town Council from 1958 - 1966, during[...]which time the town sewer and gas systems were installed.[...]He has served on the Sheridan School Board since 1966, is an[...]active member of Kiwanis, and Anderson - Simpson Post No. 89 of the American Legion, having held offices in both. Dad[...]was also a member of the Sheridan Volunteer Fire Depart-[...]ment for 29 years, active in the Sheridan Trap & Wildlife Club and also a member of several other organizations such[...]as the Knights of Columbus and Elks. Dad is a member and treasurer of the Madison County History Association. The Church has always played an important part in our[...]lives. Dad has served on the Parish Council; Mom on the Altar Society, also teaching Catechism during our growing-[...] |
| Ted and Donna Darby family, 1963. L. to R.: Pat, Jim, Ted, Donna, JoAnne, Kathleen and Skip, the Springer Spaniel. up years and she is also a member of the Order of St. Francis. |
| organization. She and her husband, Dave, an army man, were on hand for the Pearl Harbor attack. Her husband was killed in 19[...]ny to establish ex- changes for troops in Europe. She retired at the age of sixty- two. Now at eighty-four she is the oldest retired female employee of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. Several years ago Reta sold her home at Lanikai, Kailua and now resides in an apartment in Honolulu. Grace was born July 19, 1895. She became a nurse, mar- ried Alfred Lowery of Butte and spent her life there. They had two children, Phyllis and Alfred Jr. She died in May, 1969. Isabelle married Luther Storey of Cameron and her history is in t_h e first volume of Pioneer Trails and Trials. Cleone was born July 7, 1902. She attended school in Wes and sister, Mattie Spear. Sheridan and married Dodley Powell. They had two sons, William Edgar and Dodley, Jr. After her divorce from at the age of eighteen. Because there were more oppor- Dodley, Cleone married Ross Payne and lived in Livingston. tunities for work in Montana than in Missouri, the Blanken- She died in September 1970. ships, with their sons, Clifford and Carl moved to Sheridan in the thirties. The Willard Hickam family came shortly before.[...]ed to Missouri and died there.[...]Wesley became ill with pneumonia and went to Dr. W.J .[...]Burns who had his office upstairs over the Sheridan Garage. At the doctor's request Wesley remain~ in one of the rooms over the garage until he recovered. After his recovery he[...]worked for the Forest Service for years. Telie worked as a[...]housekeeper in the rooms above the Sheridan Garage. She and Wesley were married November 5, 1938.[...]They bought the John Finch home in Sheridan. Telie work-[...]ed at the Ferry Morse Seed Company during its operation at[...]Sheridan and Wesley worked at the Rebich Brother's ranch[...]worked during the winter returning to their home in[...]Sheridan in the spring. During World War II they lived in[...]until ill health forced him to retire. Telie and Wesley raised a fine garden each summer and Telie was best known for her JOHN WESLEY AND JULIA (ARTELIE) DeARMOND beautiful hand made quilts and crochet work. She was a faithful member of the Baptist Church and devoted a great John Wesley DeArmond was born October 30, 1888 in deal of time and energy toward building the Church in Drew County, Arkansas. His mother died at his birth and he Sheridan. was taken by a neighbor lady, who had a nursing baby and John Wesley died July 5, 1964 at the Ruby Valley Hospital who cared for him during his[...]in Sheridan after a long illness. He is buried in the Sheridan a couple who raised him. When just a you[...]ng health Artilie had to leave her home this home and went to work on farms, in cotton fields and and move to Helena with her son, Carl. She made her home when a young man worked for a telephone company. Wesley there and passed away July 27, 1978. Services were con- married a girl from Chicago and they lived on a small farm ducted at the Baptist Church in Sheridan and she was buried and raised hogs. A son and daughter were born to them, but beside her husband, John Wesley, in the Sheridan Cemetery. died at birth. The marriage ended in divorce and his wife went back to Chicago. Wesley's wit and good humor and his and Artelie's kind- ness to their friends and neighbors will always be During the Great Depression Wesley drifted through remembered. several of the southern states working at any odd job he was for[...]find. In about 1935 he "hopped " a freight train and came to Montana getting off the train at[...]lbrecht Colterville Spur. From there he walked to the nearby home of Jay and Eva McGlinch where friends and strangers alike were always made welcome. After a[...]ere he made his home in a cabin on Ramshorn Creek and earned his living ARIE AND NELLIE DOORNBOS by trapping. Artelie was born September 14, 1893 in Christian County, Arie and Nellie Doornbos moved to Madison County in Missouri, the daughter of Joseph Austin and Mary Braden August 1947 when with their three children they settled on a Jones. She married Elmer Blankenship. They had five ranch south of Sheridan on Bivens Creek. This was the ranch children, two sons died in their infancy and a daughter died formerly owned by Pete Simonsen and now owned by the[...] |
| [...]College at Dillon. She taught for a short time at Alma north[...]Arie and Nellie met while attending Western Montana Col-[...]lege at Dillon and were married June 6, 1937 at Great Falls.[...]seventh and eighth grade teacher and principal. While here[...]Arie was again seventh and eighth grade teacher and prin-[...]tor for the Internal Revenue Service and stationed at Glen-[...]March 20, 1944 and their third child, Carol Mae, was born[...]Once they arrived in Madison County, the operation of the Bivens Creek Ranch was undertaken until the fall of 1950[...]when it was sold to Fred Utter of Spokane. The family mov- Nellie, Carol Mae, Marilyn, Vern, Arie Doornbos, 1955. ed into the old Nick Birrer house in Sheridan and Arie[...]fice in the Bank of Sheridan. His first office was directly B[...]operated as a partner with Edward behind the residence and he continued preparing income Doornbos who lived[...]now known taxes, doing public accounting work and selling insurance. as the Cal Creek Ranch. In 1961, the Carrie Junod house on Mill Street was purchas-[...]ed and converted to an office where he continued his work Arie was born March 13, 1909 on the family homestead[...]ddJng real estate sal~s to his services. In 1967, the old near Amsterdam on Camp Creek in Gallatin County, the fifth of eleven children born to Arien and Gertrude Doornbos. telephone company buildi[...]and remodeled for an office. He operated from this office un- They were Dutch immigrants who came to the "Holland Set- tlement" in Montana about 1900. Arie graduated from til 1974 when the insurance agency was sold to Ted Darby. Manhattan High School in 1927 and from Western Montana Over the years Arie served as School Board member Presi-[...]dent of Kiwanis, Worshipful Master of the Masonic' Lodge College in 1935 with a Bachelor of Education degree. He and Noble Grand of the Odd Fellows Lodge. Nellie belongs taught school f[...]to Arcelia Chapter, Order of Eastern Star and the Aid Circle Nellie was born July 23, 1915 in Li[...]thel Methodist Church. Both are active members of the near Lothair, the youngest child of four born to Lee and Methodist Church. Leone Violett. Nellie grad[...]Doornbos graduated from Sheridan High School 1933 and obtained her Teaching Certificate after attending Northern Montana College at Havre and Wes tern Montana Nellie and Arie's 40th Anniversary, June 1977. Back row: Bob[...]ng Carrie Joy, Vern Doornbos, Marilyn Sims, Susie and Gary Sims. Front row: |
| [...]Dudley home on Water Street. in 1957 and Montana State College in 1960. She married Morrison, lived next door and I have fond memories of |
| [...]hould take his family back to Madison year before she moved to Houston, Texas. Later she return- County and resume his beloved mining. The first two babies ed to Chicago, finished her M.A. and did the work toward her were born in Medford, Helen Margaret on May 3, 1910 and doctorate. Meantime Helen went to the University of Cincin- Donald Cave on December 31, 1911. Jeanette was born in nati to work on her doctorate and Donald went to Princeton Pony on October 25 , 1913. The family lived in Pony and En- to work on his. Edith in the meantime has persisted toward nis until 1917 when[...]ttending summer was temporarily sidetracked while the children were coming. sessions at the University of Montana until she received her They moved to Virginia City in 1917 and Edith was school B.A. in English the same year as her three children - 1934. principal until they moved to Sheridan in 1920 when she took Helen," with encouragement from her renowned teacher, the post of English teacher at the high school. Dr. Charles F. Deiss, established her reputation as an Helen, Donald and Jeanette had most of their early educa- outstanding student in Paleontology and Stratigraphy at the tion in Sheridan. Donald and Jeanette graduated from high Universities of Montana and Cincinnati. She next went to school there. Helen was precocious and was sent to Seattle work for the U.S. Geological Survey in 1942 and moved to to high school as the parents thought she needed it. Then all Washington, D.C. where she lived and worked until her three of them went to the University of Montana where death in 1971. She had an astonishing career for a woman in Donald and Helen majored in Geology and Jeanette in a predominantly man's field. She was a sought after consul- Sociology and Economics. They all got their Bachelor tant by geologists all over the world. She published over 400 Degrees in 1934. Helen and Donald continued and got their reports on fossils for field men and wrote many scientific ar- Masters Degrees there also and Jeanette went to the Univer- ticles. She specialized in Byrozoa, Brachiopods and Corals. sity of Chicago in 1934 to begin her study for a Masters in Species and Genera were named after her. Helen had her of- Social Work. Then she returned to Montana to work for a fice in the Smithsonian Institution for a number of years[...]before she died. She was presented the Meritorious Service Donald and Christine after their wedding. Apri4 1941. Award by the Department of the Interior in 1971. She gain- ed a reputation as a gourmet cook and loved to entertain her[...]professional colleagues from all over the world.[...]of his teachers referred to him as "God's gift to the U.S.[...]geological mapping. He was expert in coal and oil shale. He led survey crews who mapped the valuable deposits of these[...]natural resources throughout the Western States. While[...]Oregon, Colorado and other states. In the last years before[...]the Department of the Interior to the world of oil shale. He also acted as an expert witness before Congressional C[...]mittees dealing with the subject. He maintained a home in[...]winters in Naples, Florida and summers in New London, Ver-[...]Jeanette made her career in Social Work. She received the[...] |
| honor of Mortar Board at the U. of M. and a Commonwealth Fellowship at Chicago. She specialized in child welfare and psychiatric social work. She was fortunate in finding in- teresting positions which took her to various states and foreign countries. During World War II she served with American Red Cross Hospital Service as Field Director. She was assigned to Dr. Charles Mayo's group (Mayo Clinic) in locations in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippine Islands, developing social work and recreation programs in military hospitals. She won an Exceptional Service A ward. She developed similar programs in hospitals in Germany during the War Crime Trials. She worked with special groups stateside - amputees at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco and facial plastic patients in Valley Forge, Pa. She then lived in Mexico, studying and working at the Universi- ty of Mexico. In 1951 she moved to Los Angeles and went to work for the California Department of Health in the psychiatric field, remaining at that position until she retired in 1973. She now has a small private practice as a clinical social worker, volunteers at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences and pursues her special hobbies of adventuresome world travel and contract bridge. Neither Helen nor Jeanette ma[...]found James Duncan rewarding careers and lives and looked upon themselves as among the original liberated women. All three children at- He later had a shoe and harness repair shop on North Main tribute whateve[...]parents' Street next to what used to be the Olson Funeral Home. He (particularly Edith's) det[...]their children be later moved his shop to the building on Water Street next to educated.[...]Jeanette Duncan Jim took part in most civic affairs in Sheridan. He served[...]own Marshal, Night Marshal, for a number of years and JAMES AND JENNIE DUNCAN helpe[...]tive in the Masonic Lodge and was Past Master of the James Duncan was born November 13, 1886 on his[...]dan Lodge No. 20 A.F. & A.M., past high priest of the farm southwest of Sheridan. He was the son of James and Royal Arch, served as council officer and held office in the Jeanette Gemmell Duncan and one of ten children born to Commandry. He was also past patron of the Arcelia the couple. He grew to manhood in this area, attendin[...]Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. grade school at the Duncan District School and high school Jim died at the Sheridan Emergency Hospital from in Sheridan for[...]k on April pneumonia on March 21 , 1957 at the age of seventy. 14, 1909.[...]Masonic funeral services were held at the Masonic Temple After ranching for awhile Jim worked on the Dredge Boats and he was buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. in 1910 and 1911. The family moved back to the ranch for a Jennie Flick Duncan was born in Berlin, Germany on short while and then moved to Sheridan in 1913. August 26, 1887, youngest daughter of Henry and Mary Jim and Jennie had four children: Elaine, born in 1910 at Benfer Flick. She came with her family to Montana when the Duncan ranch; Charlotte born in Ruby, Montana in 1911; she was four years old. The first few years the family lived at Kenneth born in 1915; and Donald born in 1918, both boys the Nobleville Mining Camp. She graduated from the born in Sheridan. Sheridan High School with the Class of 1905. Jennie worked Jim worked for J .M. Maddison at his store for many years. at the local telephone office and also had a hat shop on the[...]n Street, a building later occupied by George Jim and Jennie Duncan. N. Latus. She also was a fine seamstress and made dresses for the J.M. Maddison Store. Jennie Duncan and E/,aine Duncan Preston[...] |
| [...]dry from 1929 to 1934. Along in about 1934 Jennie and Jim sold the laundry and shoe repair business. A few months later they sta[...]r many years. Even after Jim's death Jennie, with the help of her daughter, Elaine Preston, operated the business until about 1960. Jennie passed away at the Madison County Nursing Home on March 7, 1971 at the age of eighty-four. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Sheridan and her two grandsons, Larry and Gary Preston, conducted the services. Jennie was buried in the Sheridan Cemetery.[...]was born in Helena, Montana in 1929, just before the great depression. She was the third child of a family of five born to Martha and Victor Magnus. Her first four years were spent in and around Helena. In 1933 they Carl Duncan, 1978. More Salmon. moved to Alder and stayed at her grandfather's place and then moved to Laurin, where she started school. It was a one smaller ranc[...]ent many of his room school with one teacher for all eight grades. The follow- summers. ing year and until 1939 they lived at the Gainan place which Carl was born in Garfield, Washington but was raised in was below the Ruby Dam. This dam was being built while Portland, Oregon. His parents were Delmar and Ethel Dun- they were living there. can. Carl and Mary Ann were married in 1947. Today they In 1939 they moved to the Berard place. The school reside in Everett, Washing[...]accounting clerk for Snohomish County for the past five so they had to attend school in Sheridan. They rode the years. Carl works at the Boeing 747 Plant three miles from school bus - f[...]home. 'They have three children: Carolyn, Barbara and Larry Mary Ann was the only girl in the family and she helped and five grandchildren. They visit often with Mary Ann's her mother with the usual ranch wife's duties including tak- parents at their home in Sheridan. ing care of the chickens, ducks and turkeys. The worst job and the one she hated was washing the cream separator. In 1942 her father purchased the "Silver Spring". She Mar[...]husband, Carlton Duncan, 1 had lived on the adjoining ranch "Silver Spring Mill" until he THE EDMISTEN FAMILIES was four years old. His grandfather, Riley Duncan, was in a partner[...]Among the "Tarheels" from North Carolina who migrated Mary[...]west just after the turn of the century, were W.S. (Bill) and Iola Edmisten and their small son, Ray. The Edrnistens spent a short time at Cottonwood, Idah[...]then worked for a while at the Peterson ranch on Horse Prairie, and even later, at the Cornell Ranch near Dillon[...]before moving to the Ruby Valley where, in 1916, they pur-[...]chased the ranch known as the Edelman Ranch. This place[...]was to be their home for the remainder of their lives.[...]hough Iola had been a member of both Eastern Star and Rebekah Lodges in North Carolina, she did not continue her[...]affiliation after coming to Montana. Neither of the Ed-[...]work at improving their home and raising their sons. Their[...]Ray attended the Wisconsin Creek country school and Don the Duncan District School. Both graduated from Sheri[...]High School, Ray in 1927 and Don in 1940. In the early 30's, Bill was struck by a bolt of lightnin[...]while working in a hay field. His life was saved because he[...] |
| [...]Ray Edmisten Iola continued to live on the ranch and operated it until her health forced her to retire to the Madison County Nursing sold it and moved to Sheridan. This was a convenient move Home at age 87. She passed away on January 22, 1980. for Gladys, who, after the youngest of their five children They were survived by their two sons and daughters-in-law, started school, had returned to college in Dillon and renewed eight grandchildren, and seventeen great grandchildren. her cerificate to teach. She was hired by the Sheridan school Ray remained at home until his marriage to Gladys Mosby district in January, 1962 and remained on the faculty until of Butte, who had come to the Ruby Valley to teach at the her retirement in November of 1980. During this time, she State Orphan's Home, later called the Children's Center. taught third grade for seven years, then moved up to the They lived for a short time on the ranch adjoining the family Junior high level, where she taught language arts classes ranch, but then move[...]their own near Laurin. while reorganizing the elementary school library. After the They subsequently purchased the ranch known as the extensive remodeling of the high school building, she became Rinaldi Ranch. They lived there for almost[...]n full time librarian for both elementary and high school, and[...]Ray, in the meantime, gained a reputation as a reliable[...]cowman, and worked on several of the large cattle ranches in[...] |
| Gallatin, Madison, and Beaverhead Counties. Ray and Gladys raised five children, and have at this writing, ten grandchildren. Of their children, only two, Bill and Jon, reside in Sheridan. Charles lives near Dillon Anita in Billings, and Ruth in Denver, Colorado. ' Don married Betty Alice Mayo and they purchased a small ranch adjoining the home ranch. They had four children. Do~ assis~ed his moth~r in the operation of the home place. This marriage ended with a divorce and Don later remarried and moved to the eastern part of Montana where he manages th~ hist[...]s area. Dean lives at Plevna· Linda in Missoula; and Donna is deceased. There are 7 grandchild[...]Gladys Edmisten FAYE. AND NANCY (MURRAY) EDWARDS[...]Wave Alice Edwards Morgan and mother, Nancy Edwards. |
| [...]Bud, Sharon, Pat. ' Fay and Nancy Edwards' 63rd wedding anniversary. CLIFFORD J. AND HELEN EHLERS |
| Clifford J. (Bud) Ehlers. served for two years. He took his basic training at Fort Ater- Sharon Ehlers Ludwick Ida Gemmell and children: Bil~ Bonny, Ida., Betty, Bebe,[...]Betty was born July 5, 1925 in Sheridan, Montana the |
| has kept her hand in nursing by being school nurse and fill- ing in wherever needed as a nurse in the community. Her husband is a commercial fisherman, pipe fitter and is presently serving in the Alaska Legislature as a Senator. He served three terms as Representative. You might say she missed too many boats going "south" and that is why Sitka has been her home for the last thirty- two years.[...]etty passed away September 3, 1981, shortly after she had written the above history. The following item was taken from the Sitka paper which had been written in memory of Betty. "Sitka Summer" The summer of 1981 will be remembered in many ways but |
| [...]Election Board. Edna is a member of the Order of Eastern[...]I visor of the Order of Rainbow for Girls. She is a member of U.M.W. and president of the Ruby Valley Hospital Auxilary. Bert and Edna feel greatly blessed to have the privilege of[...]with good and thoughtful neighbors and friends near by.[...]ember 24, 1907 on what is holding son, John, Bert and Gary Tavenner. Middle row: now the Ralph Duffner ranch. Her parents were George and Jane Ellinghouse, Edna, Lynn Tavenner. Front row: Pat, Harriet Gemmell Ellinghouse. Later the family moved to Tim and Traci Ellinghouse, Laura, Tanya and Gloria Taven- town and then to Jeffers where she started school. Her first ner.[...]dent. When she was in the fourth grade the family moved to[...]bread, calms, pies, etc. They were sixteen years old, but they[...]to a ranch in Brandon where her teachers managed and had a deeper appreciation of their mothers. The were Libby Winslow, Nellie Wilson and Pauline Holland. Armitages always planned something special for Sundays, The first year of high school she drove a horse and buggy. fishing, picking huckleberries or just a picnic with fried The first day was a disaster. Too tight a rein and a balky chicken and a freezer of homemade icecream. George seldom[...]set of broken shafts. Armed with a lesson worked the ranch crew on Sunday. in driving and a buggy whip, she finished the year without The Ellinghouses always had a good car, so traveled more further incidents. The second year she rode horse back, but their Sundays were usually busy because of the nature of stabled her horse in her Uncle Walter's barn, where the Walter's work. A trip for either family to Butte for the circus telephone building is now located and changed clothes and or dinner at Meaderville was a once a year excursion. thawed out in Mrs. Duncan's kitchen. The next six years However the dirt roads discouraged long trips.[...]ontana Deaconess Nursing School, Great where she graduated from Hell Gate High School in 1925 and Falls in the fall of 1932, graduating in June of 1935 with the University in 1929 with a teaching major in history. honors. She worked in the hospital until she took her State Because of the depression and scarcity of jobs, she settled Boards in November and received her R.N. She did home for a position teaching at the asbestos mine in the Cliff Lake nursing in the Madison Valley until she and Bert were mar- district. Here people were li[...]ied on March 22, 1936, having a quiet ceremony at the Ar- Thanksgiving until Easter. Only a supply and mail sled got mitage ranch. They at first rented a house from Happy out twice a week to Henry's Lake. The route was marked by Halse in Sheridan, moved to Mill Street and in 1938 moved tall poles. to the Mill Ranch, which they later bought. They are still ac- The next summer she attended W.M.C. and taught that tive in ranching there.[...]fall at Lower Wisconsin Creek. That spring she and Henry They have two children, a son George, who married Jane Carey were married in Dillon. The next nineteen years were Goggins. George and Jane have four children: Pat, Tim, happy ones spent between the home ranch and the grazing John and a daughter, Traci and one daughter-in-law, Lauri, all of Billings. Their daughter Lynn, married Gary Tavenner and they have three daughters: Gloria, Taµya and Laura of Back row L. toR. : Mike and Anne Wentz, John Carey. Front Deer Lodge, Montana. George and Lynn have degrees from row: Nick Wentz, Dorothy Carey, Reece Carey and Francesca[...]Edna has worked at her nursing profession over the years and was administrator and nursing supervisor in the Emergency Hospital when she made the move into the Ruby Hospital in the same capacity. They have both had serious illnesses. Bert had major surgery at Mayo Clinic in 1941 and an accident in the Shedhorn Forest Allotment where only Bill Armitage's help, good judgment and strength saved his life. Edna had an Ec- topic pregnancy in 1936 and a serious heart attack in 1970. They have traveled only in Western U.S., Mexico and Canada. They have been active in the community. Bert played independent basketball for about eight years and was a school board member for several terms. He is a member of Masons and the Order of Eastern Star and chairman of the[...] |
| [...]Sheridan, the third child and only son of George and Har-[...]riette Ellinghouse. He attended Brandon and Sheridan[...]ools. He was particularly fond of horses, riding, and[...]joined the Civilian Conservation Corp, Company 955. The[...]young men from many parts of the United States. The work consisted mainly of road building and maintenance, The Ellinghouse sisters: L. to R.: Amy Stone, Agnes establishing camp sites and other forest related activities. Johnson, Jean Nessl and Dorothy Carey. His group was transferred to Paradise in the fall of 1933.[...]While there he became ill with pneumonia and died at Fort Missoula March 9, 1934 at the age of nineteen. He is buried land in Granite Creek and in raising their four children: John, in the Sheridan Cemetery. Carol, Anne and William. Henry passed away January 4, 1951. A year later she was Dorothy Ellinghouse Carey offered the position of primary teacher in Alder. Her mother,[...]with them. Dorothy taught in Alder until 1973. In the meantime the family moved to Sheridan when it came time for the children to start high school. Summers were often[...]s. Fortunately her mother was there to look after the children. Since her retirement she keeps busy with family, garden and church. She is secretary for the Cemetery Board and in 1977 was appointed City Judge.[...]rederick 0 . Ellinghouse. Paradise, Montana 1934. and Harriett Ellinghouse, was born December 15, 1911 in Sheridan. The family later moved to Jeffers and then to Virginia City where her father was a depu[...]E) STONE of a term. They then moved to Brandon to the Krueger ranch. She attended her first seven months of school in[...]Amy, the fourth child of George and Harriett Ellinghouse Virginia City, but her fondest memories are those of the one room log school house in Brandon which she attended for the was born in Jeffers, Montana, October 25, 1[...]short time in Virginia City they moved to the old Krueger next eight years. The family then moved to a ranch on place in Brandon. She attended the first and second grades Wisconsin Creek and she graduated from Sheridan High School in May 1929. After finishing high school she married Joseph M. Nessl in Roundup, January 4, 19[...]ghouse Ness~ Agnes Ellinghouse This was during the depression and jobs were hard to get Johnson, D.C. Stone and Amy Ellinghouse Stone. so they moved to the Flathead and later to Missoula. Joseph got into the optical business and followed it the rest of his life as an optician. Missoula was their home for eighteen years, Salt Lake City for one year and then they transferred to Wenatchee, Washington. T[...]ountry it was easy for Jean to follow others into the warehouses during the fall months. After several years of this she cooked in the hospitals and later in the Junior College until her retirement in 1967. She still enjoys her home with its yard and garden. She does some traveling, making it back to Sheridan once a year to visit her sister, Dorothy Carey and her family. Jean's husband retired in 1943 and died February 3, 1944. They had two daughters: Patricia Lou Bush and Sandra Joyce Elischer, both of whom live in the Seattle area and Jean sees them often.[...] |
| at the Brandon School with Amy Green as her teacher. The family moved to Wisconsin Creek and she attended Sheridan Schools. Her teachers in grade[...]Holland, third grade; Julia Halse, fourth grade; and Mrs. Holland fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. She always thought Mrs. Holland followed her from grade to grade to make sure she got through. She says if it had not been for her she may not have graduated from high school in 1934. After graduation Amy went to Missoula and later to Fair- field. While at Fairfield she attended the Beauty College at Great Falls. She was a practicing Cosmotologist for twenty- five years. Amy went to Florida in 1951 expecting to work and see the U.S.A., but married A.C. Stone, a native of North Carolina, and they have made their home at Ft. Pierce, Florida[...]Ruby, 1956. Agnes was born in Brandon in 1918, the youngest child of George and Harriett Ellinghouse. They lived on the ranch southwest of Sheridan, May 20, 1887. He spent his first that was known as the Krueger place. She attended her first twelve years at home and attended school in Sheridan. At school year at Brandon. She remembers that an agressive the age of twelve he left home and for the next several years turkey gobbler made life difficult for her. When she was in he worked on various ranches throughout the valley and on the second grade her parents moved to Wisconsin Creek and the Upper Ruby. He served in the U.S. Army from October she went to the Sheridan school by bus. Getting to the bus 1917 to May 1919 as a wagoneer and saw active service in on time didn't improve any dispositions, mostly her dad's. France and Belgium during World War I. After moving to town when she was in the eighth grade, Ray- After his discharge he returned to Sheridan and continued mond's pasture made an ideal shortcut t[...]working on various ranches in the valley until 1926 when he mornings.[...]married Loretta Emma Nelson and leased the Madison- After graduation from high school in 1935 she went to Rossiter ranch west of Alder. In 1931 he moved to Ruby Missoula where she lived with her sister, Jean Nessi, and where he lived until 1974. worked at the Northern Pacific Hospital, now the Missoula Archie served as water commissioner for the Ruby River, General. At that time anyone who worked for the company Alder Creek and Ramshorn Creek from 1935 to 1946 and for a year received a pass anywhere on their line. Agnes both the east and west side canals from 1946 to 1956. Dur- chose to[...]or was announced at Billings. and building construction throughout the valley. Many of Shortly after World War II started she went to Norfolk, the log and cinder block buildings that he constructed are Virginia where she worked as a gas welder with sheet metal still in use today. in the Portsmouth, Virginia Navy Yard helping to make He was a member of the American Legion for many years. ship's furniture. She left the Navy Yard to be married to During the last few years of his life he lived with his son, Thomas Griffith, a navy officer stationed at Fallon, Nevada and they lived in Carson City, Nevada. When the marriage ended in divorce Agnes entered nurses's training at the Archie Elser, 1974. French Hospital in San Francisco, California. After gradua- tion she continued to work as a Registered Nurse in San Fr[...]1952 Agnes married Wilson Johnson, who worked for the Pacific Gas ~d Electric Company in San Francisco[...]Illness forced Mr. Johnson to an early retirement and they moved to Sonoma, California in 1974. He died in 1975. Agnes now makes her home in Sonoma. She has one step-daughter, Sharon Johnson Perry, who had two children, Alyce and Robert. Agnes Ell[...]ARCHIE MARCUS ELSER Oldest son of Marcus Elser and Augusta Montana Bock |
| Duane D. Elser in Fort Collins, Colorado and Ogden, Utah. Sara and Katie Elser and Evee and Skyler Pyle. He died in Odgen January 15, 1979 at the age of 91 and is From 1952 to 1957 Duane worked on the Utter Ranch near buried in the family plot in the Sheridan Cemetery. LaUcin, and during that period played baseball for the Archie had four grandchildren: Dan and Marcy Elser; Sheridan Town Team, usually played centerfield and also Jaimie Elser Pyle; and Tammy Elser Greeger._ played basketball for the Sheridan American Legion Team.[...]In 1957 he began his career with the U.S. Forest Service[...]Idaho; Washington, D.C.; Fort Collins, Colorado; and[...]where he is the Director of Fiscal and Accounting Manage- ment and Law Enforcement for the Intermountain Region[...]hich includes sixteen National forests located in the states of Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming.[...]GLENN G. AND LYDIA (BRAACH) ELSER[...]Glen Grover Elser was the second son born to Marcus and Augusta Elser on November 5, 1892 on the ranch they[...]a light wagon with his brothers and sisters. After school he[...]worked for various ranchers. He was working at the Ray Haines ranch at the time he was courting our mother, Lydia Four generations, 1978: Dan and Sara, Duane, Archie. Braach. She was born February 26, 1896, third child of[...]Ewald and Johanna Braach of Brandon. She was educated in Brandon. Lydia also worked for Mrs. Haines doing housework and assisted with the cooking. DUANE DONALD ELSER Glenn and Lydia were married on December 1. 1915 in the[...]Reverend Whitley. Atten- Duane Donald Elser was the only child of Archie Marcus dants were Ray Elser, Ida Gemmell and Ewald Braach. To and Loretta Emma (Nelson) Elser. He was born in Butte[...]1930. He attended grade school in Bessie and Nora, and finally their son, Wesley. Virginia City, McAllister, Anaconda and Alder and attended Their honeymoon home was the small house known as the high school in Sheridan where he participated in[...]Jay Eubank. They athletics, lettering in football and basketball. He graduated moved to Sheridan living in a log house on Bieler Lane while with the class of 1948 and served in the U.S. Navy (sub- Glenn worked for various ranchers, Adam Bruggeman and marine division) from 1948 to 1952. Than Shafer. At threshing time he followed the Remi Baril He married Edith Tam in 1952. They were divorced in threshing crew throughout the Ruby Valley. While working 1975. They had four ch[...]Bloomington, In- for Than Shafer they rented the Rhoul house in Brandon. diana; Jaimie Pyle of Garden Grove, California; Tammy Times were rough, in the depression of 1918, but Glenn was a Creeger of Huntington Beach, California; and Marcy Elser of good provider and always found work. Lydia helped, selling Fountain[...]four grandchildren: her butter, cream, eggs and by doing sewing. When the gold, lead and silver mines opened in the area, Glenn went mining at the Toledo, Tamarack, Buckeye No. 1 Duane Elser 1980. in Brandon, the Uncle Sam, Quartz Hill, Smuggler on Mill[...]Lydia Braach and Glenn Elser, 1915. Courting days.[...] |
| [...]Lydia and Glenn Elser, September 1, 1973. Glenn Elser family, 1935: Bernice, Edna, Bessie, Lydia, and November 29, 1965 they celebrated their golden we[...]at their home in Brandon. In the spring of 1967 they took[...]ip to Seattle. After that they relaxed, |
| Ray and Ella Elser family: Dale, Lawrence, Ella, Ray, Har[...]Rae. They built a new home on their land near the highway and Seattle, Washington. Upon moving back to Sheri[...]1943, he re-entered school and graduated from Sheridan |
| City, Montana, where they resided for one year and then moved to Sheridan. Peggy graduated from Sher[...]his hand at something dif- ferent, mining, so he and Peggy moved to Butte where he was employed by Sta[...]ed construct a flotation mill up behind Rocker at the Mitchell Mines. Upon its completion he became the head millman and operated it for ten months. At this time Stan Huckaba sold his share of the mine and Wesley returned to the Ruby Valley and the carpentry business. He again teamed up with his f[...]960. Since their return from Butte, Wesley, Peggy and their family have lived in Brandon in the home he built in 1952. Wesley and Peggy belong to many organizations and the Episcopal Church. Peggy is a 21 year charter member of the Blythe, Harold, Madge, Terry Passmari Rebekah Lodge. Wesley is a member of the Odd Fellows, Rebekah, and Elk Lodges. They enjoy tending their from high school in 1935. After graduating from the Butte well-known garden and going on picnics in the summer and Business College she worked at the U.S. Forest Service of- in the winter it's basketball and card parties. In the past, fice in Sheridan. In 1936 Madge met a young surveyor, they were active being den mother and scoutmaster to the Harold Fairfull, of San Coulee, Montana, who was surveying cub scouts, Webelos, and boy scouts. The one big vacation with a crew from the General Land Office in Helena. They was taken in 1962 to the World's Fair in Seattle, were married in Los Angeles, California on April 13, 1939. Washington. While there, the family enjoyed the beach, the A son, Douglas Terry, was born March 3, 1940. The fami- fair and salmon fishing. ly returned to Montana and Sheridan in 1944, where a In 1978, Wesley's oldest son joined him in the carpentry daughter, Ann Blythe, was born on February 26, 1947. In business, so it is now known as Elser and Son Carpentry and 1952 Harold (Slim) took over the Texaco Service station and Construction. This seems to be becoming a tradition. Peggy garage in Three Forks, Montana and Madge worked at Tri- is employed by the Madison County Nursing Home where dent. she has worked in the laundry for ten years. Terry graduated from MSU and was commissioned 2nd Lt. Born to this marriage were Vickie Sue, April 26, 1952, who in the Air Force in 1962. He married Alice Lamont that y[...]teaches school; Terry continued his education at the University of Wyoming Wesley Neal, September 27, 1959, who lives in Sheridan and in Laramie receiving his Masters Degree and later in 1968 works with his father; and Marvin Glenn, March 12, 1965, who his Doctorate in electronic control. To Terry and Alice a son, is the last one at home. Neal married Alison Taborski on Ju- Harold Douglas, was born on July 22, 1963 and a daughter, ly 21, 1978. They have a daughter, Ch[...]ather Knight, on June 17, 1965. September 2, 1978 and a son, Bradley Neal, born October 2, In 1964 Slim, Madge and Blythe moved to Fort Collins, 1981.[...]Colorado, where Madge was private secretary to the manager of Ideal Cement Company and Slim was the main- Wesley and Peggy Elser. tance supervisor for the Pat Griffin Company.[...]Blythe graduated from Poudre High School in 1965 and[...]rsity in 1970 with a degree in HAROLD AND MADGE FAIRFULL chemistry. She was commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Air Force in 1971 and has served overseas in Korea and Spain. Madge Marsh, daughter of Wilbur and Flossie Marsh, was Madge Marsh Fairfull died on October 26, 1976 in Fort born July 17, 1919. She grew up in Sheridan, graduating Collins, Colorado and was returned to Sheridan for burial.[...]Harold Fairfull and Esther Sprague were married in 1978 Harold and Madge Fairfull and make their home in Sheridan.[...]JOHN STANLEY AND HELEN (BRIM) FENTON[...]Litchfield, Nebraska, to Rev. Charles Emery and Amanda[...]and Montana, the family moved to a new Methodist charge[...]In 1959, at a Golden Anniversary of the building of the church at the Huntley Project, which Rev. Fenton had ac-[...]complished, Stanley and his brother, Judge E. E. Fenton of[...]in school with the Fenton boys and Stanley used a lethal[...]laughter Stanley replied that he and his brother, three sisters and parents were clothed with the contents of missionary[...] |
| [...]missioner during the depression; was a Veteran of World[...]mcluding the chairmanship for rationing gas for farm[...]machinery and trucks; and was on the county Agriculture[...]on eleven local, county and state boards at the time of his[...]1902 to James Francis and Blanche (Taylor) Brim. She became an apprentice in the Provo Public Library in 1914;[...]tor Academy 1919; and was librarian at Springville Public[...]Stanley and she were married in Provo, July 18, 1922.[...]Jack married Frances Edwards of Whitehall and is a ran- barrels. When this particular barrel wa[...]eridan. Virginia married Maurice Thompson of year old head was the only one the derby would fit! Cameron, June 15, 1947 and is Supervisor of Medical Stanley attended Montana State University and Records and Medical Staff Secretary for the White Mountain graduated from Utah State Universi[...]e County of taught vocational agriculture in Utah and Montana and Arizona and western New Mexico. She lives in Springerville, became a flotation engineer and effeciency expert for the Arizona. Nevada Consolidated Copper Company at McGill, Nevada, When Mary Ann and Jens Christensen were divorced, in 1925. He returned to ranching five years later and came to Helen became the legal guardian for their two children and Sheridan in November 1932. raised them. Robin was born April 8, 1959, and Ronald He was a member of Sheridan Lodge A.F. &[...]961. Ronnie was active in 4H, school Arch Masons; the Sheridan OES: past secretary of the and church. He was killed in a car accident April 15, 1978, Madison County Farmers Union; helped write the state F.U. and is buried in the Sheridan Cemetery beside his grand- bylaws; secre[...]enton. Robin married Clint Bowman, June member of the Sheridan Kiwanis Club; former president and 18, 1977. secretary of the Tobacco Root Livestock Association; and Helen has seven grandchildren and three great grand- supervisor of the youth exhibits at the Madison-Jefferson children. The grandchidren are: Tyler, Steven and Christine County Fairs.[...]illliams; Kathleen Fenton He was a board member and former chairman of the Weulfing; Robin Christenson Bowman; and Shane Weston. Sheridan Methodist Church; helped organize the Ruby In 1943, Stanley and she became interested in the children Valley Soil Conservation District of which he was vice- at the Montana Orphan's Home at Twin Bridges. Some of president for many years; worked fifteen years to get the these children had been there since birth and had never rid- Vigilante Canal; served on the advisory board of the den in a car or been in a private home[...]for children over six who'd had birthdays during the Mary Ann Fenton, 1949. Helen and five grandchildren leaving on a trip to Al[...] |
| past month. They provided the gifts and refreshments for chores at home to help support the family. He repeated the the first year and then the Kiwanis Club took it up as a state sophomore year graduating with the class of 1942. Jack was project for the next four years. the first president of the Sheridan Future Farmers'of[...]Utah State University In 1944 he enlisted in the Army for two years being station- for Advanced Expository Writing; and sold all of her proper- ed in the Philippines and Japan. While in Japan he was ty but thirty acres to her son, Jack. In 1969 she became cor- Stable Sergeant in charge of the Japanese cavalry horses for respondent for six Montana newspapers and the A.P., retir- recreation of United States soldiers in that area. He received ing in 1980. She won many awards in the Montana Press an honorable discharge in[...]rehearsal in Whitehall where he was best man and she was[...]November 23, 1950 Frances and Jack were married in the Methodist Church in Sheridan and have lived there since.[...]Frances May Edwards Fenton was born to Robert and Elsie Johnston Edwards on August 4, 1927 at the Gilmer Ranch south of Ennis. During the next six years she, with[...]her family, lived in Mammoth, Jefferson Island, and[...]live on the Frank Bricker ranch. They lived there until 1947[...]when the family moved to Whitehall where Frances lived un-[...]til her marriage. She attended Cardwell Grade School for[...]eight years, graduating in 1941, then she rode the school bus to Whitehall the next four years to high school, graduating[...]with the class of 1945. She remembers walking to school[...]those twelve years with her seven brothers and sisters, the[...]younger sister and four younger brothers for her to help Frances and Jack Fenton raise. One younger brother drowned in the Jefferson River in 1945 and the younger sister died in 1966. STANLEY JACK AND FRANCES (EDWARDS) FENTON The family bought the ranch on which Jack and Frances[...]n Stanley Jack Fenton was born to John Stanley and Helen January 22, 1952. Lynne is married to Steve[...]rim Fenton on May 2, 1923 in Provo, Utah. When he and is living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Another was but one month old the family moved to McGill, Nevada daughter, Kathleen Helen, was born December 1, 1953. where they lived for the next six years. Jack attended Kathleen is married to Gustav Wuelfing and is living in kindergarten and first grade in McGill, second grade in Roseburg, Oregon. Jack, Frances and their girls have always Carlin Bay, Idaho, third grade in Sunnyside, Idaho and enjoyed doing things together and have spent many pleasant fourth grade in Couer d 'Alene, Idaho and Sheridan, Mon- hours in the hills horseback riding, skiing, snowmobiling, tana. The famiiy lived on Wisconsin Creek for six years mov[...]g or whatever they chose. Jack has a large ing to the home place in 1938. When Jack was a sophomore collection of beautiful slides he has taken of the fun times the in high school he had pneumonia and missed weeks of school. family has had. Then his father took ill so Jack took over the marketing and In 1978 Jack decided to do something he'd bee[...]do most of his adult life and began to take flying instruc- Frances and Jack with daughters, Kathleen and Lynn. tions. He soloed July 13, 1978 and got his Private Pilot's[...]ack has taken an active part in community affairs and at ·the death of his father in 1959 he replaced him on the several County committees he had been on. He and the Soil Conser-[...]vation Service personnel have taken the snow measurements[...]Upper Mill Creek for fourteen years. Both Frances and he[...]are active members of Bethel Methodist Church and at pre- sent hold the office of Treasurer. Frances has sung in the[...]ethel Choir for thirty years. Jack is a member of the Ma- sonic Lodge and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.[...]th are members of Arcelia Chapter of Eastern Star and[...]samari Rebekah Lodge. Jack is a charter member of the Southwestern Montana Marketing Association and has held the office of Secretary-Treasure since it was organiz[...]Aside from Family and Church, Frances' interests lie in[...] |
| [...]20, 1905. He was the son of Clementine and William Flick. My mom, Mary Marsh Flick, was born in Sheridan, Mont[...]July 22, 1910. She was the daughter of Flossie arid Wilbur[...]Marsh. They both attended the Sheridan schools. They[...]eloped February 22, 1928, the year that mom would have[...]ht years. It is where their two children, Margene and Bill,[...]white curly haired dog and what possessions they could find a spot for and headed for California. There they made their[...]home for the next forty-two years.[...]always home and family. California, however, was where Surviving children of Robert Ross and Elsie Edwards. L. to they celebrated their 50th w[...]great grandchildren, friends and neighbors all helped to[...]make it a golden day. many areas, music and sports being two very important Then June 15, 1979, mom died and a heartbroken Leroy ones. She can be found at most of the Sheridan Panther joined her August 28, 1979. games. One of the highlights of her life came in 1979 when she was invited by the International President of Rebekah's Margene and Dick Clements and Bill and Katheryn Flick[...]plan on making Sheridan their home within the nex t few to be a soloist at the annual session in San Antonio, Texas. It was trul[...], Bill, Margene Flick, 1969. LEROY AND MARY FLICK My dad, Leroy Flick, was born in Butte, Montana, Oct[...]Ruth and Audrey Shaffer |
| [...]the age of 51. His death was due to a blood clot on the brain and he died following an operation at St. Vincent's H[...]in Billings. Audrey Shaffer and Gertrude Spuhler Tom was a member of the Southwestern Montana and the girls moved to Sheridan, Montana. She worked for Stockgrowers Association and was active in Veterans af- Lois and Everett Herzig and the girls attended school. fairs. He was elected as Commander of Anderson Simpson In 1952 she married Lloyd W. Flod and moved to Butte, Post No. 89, the American Legion of Sheridan in 1962 and Montana and then to Snohomish, Washing~on. Donna Sue[...]ath in 1966. graduated from Snohomish High School and entered the Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church for U.S. Army. Gloria Jean chose to get married and did not Tom and he was buried in the family plot at the Sheridan finish high school.[...]merican Legion Post Audrey joined another band and worked twelve years at No. 89 of Sheridan. the Snohomish Eagles 195 and the Everett Yacht Club. She Ben and Marie Foster Williams also was assistant to the secretary of Snohomish Eagles un- til she retired in 1973. She still lives in Snohomish and en- joys traveling and her six grandchildren. HAROLD AND DOROTHY FUNK Audrey Shaffer Flod Harold Donegan Funk, the youngest son of Robert Morris THOMAS H. FOSTER and Catherine Funk, was born November 15, 1912 on the[...]Thomas H. Foster was born on October 24, 1914 at the things were a little different at that time, most of the babies Foster Ranch north of Sheridan, the only son ofW.H. (Harry) of the Sheridan area were born in the homes and the kind Dr. and Tonia Foster. He grew up in Sheridan on the ranch, at- Sutherland made many trips to various ranches to assist. tended local schools and graduated with the Class of 1931. For his first year of school Harold attended the Upper Following graduation he worked for his father on the ranch Wisconsin Creek School. His sister, Mary, was his first and in 1933 he married Hazel Garrison and moved to grade teacher. After this school consolidation with the Virginia City and worked for James Vanderbeck at his Sheridan schools he went there for the balance of his educa- market. Later on when Jim sold the market to Ben Williams, tion. Tom worked for Ben for a year or so. He also did some truck- Harold liked working with horses, cattle and sheep. In ad- ing, hauling ore for various mines around Virginia City, dition he liked the outdoors so he made ranching his life among these being the Bell and Sunnyside. Tom and Hazel work. He and his father ranched on the Silver Spring Ranch, had one child, a daughter, Sandra born in 1935. the Beardsley Place and ran cattle on Indian Creek. When About 1940 or 1941 Tom and his family moved back to his parents retired and moved into Sheridan to live Harold Sheridan and Tom took a job driving passenger and freight bought the Bullerdick Ranch and ranched there until 1962. bus for the Northern Pacific. Tom and Hazel were later He was a favorite uncle to his nephews as he liked children divorced. Sandra attended local schools and graduated in and always had time for them. As his own family grew up, the class of 1953.[...]ld made it a point to take them hunting, fishing, and in- Tom went to work in Arco, Idaho for a short time, then stilled in them an appreciation for the great outdoors. enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1950, seeing duty in the May 15, 1942 Harold and Dorothy Lesser were united in Korean War and in Japan. marriage in Sheridan. They had four children. The eldest, Tom was married to Dorothy Kitchas on A[...]They had no children. After being discharged from the Air Bend, Indiana. John Joseph Funk obtained a degree at Force in 1954, Tom returned to Sheridan and when his Wes tern Montana College and is a teacher in the Sheridan father, Harry Foster retired from the ranch in 1954 and mov- High School. He also operates the family ranch south of ed to town, Tom took over the operation of the ranch. This Sheridan. After completing his college work, the third son, continued until Tom's sudden death on[...]1966, at Thomas Michael Funk, is teaching in the Libby school[...] |
| Harold and Dorothy Funk, sons Jim and John. system. Their daughter, Diana Lynn, marrie[...]ching activities Harold was a stock |
| [...]~ Bob and Gert Funk at their 50th Wedding Anniversary.[...]and was a Madison County Road Supervisor on the Upper[...]In 1917 before entering the armed services he filed a[...]heridan. After his father's death |
| Willis Funk and his granddaughter, Tonya in one of his hay meadows. couraged him and aided him in these endeavors. He belong- |
| Gary J. Garrett and wife, Ruth Jean, wedding picture. August 1977. Cameron, Montana. They were married at the Parish House |
| [...]ns to close in Billy realizes it has been a good life with valued friends and family.[...]Bobby and Lois Gemmell family. L. to R.: Patty, Lois, Bob,[...]Engineers and went with a unit to the South Pacific, begin-[...]ning in Buna, New Guinea; he was in the Philippines when the war ended.[...]State University in the fall of 1946 and received a Bachelor's[...]Degree in Civil Engineering in 1950. In the spring of 1949,[...]Robert and Patricia. All are married, leaving Lois and Bob-[...]by living in Bozeman where he retired from the Soil Conser-[...]in Montana. Bobby and Betty Gemmel~ 1941. Bobby'[...]and married a Sheridan man, Jim Spring. They had four[...]BOBBY GEMMELL children and are presently residing in Billings, where Jim is[...]president and general manager of a large engineering firm. B[...]y branch manager of an office in Bozeman 1923 at the home of his parents. His father was hunting for that firm, CSSA. ducks on the Red Rock Lakes with the annual hunting party.[...]o usually accompanied them, had to stay home for the delivery. George Gemmell decided with the arrival of the first child, Billy, that they would be called by the nickname. So it was a family of B's: Billy, Bobby, Betty, Bonny and Bebe, Bubbles (the dog) and Blossom (the cow). Bebe was only two years old when their father died in 1933. She was afflicted with a spinal disease and her cheerful ac- ceptance of the trials of delicate operations and immobility during the long healing periods was an inspiration to all the family. After graduation from high school in[...]ain- ed a personal loan of $15.00 from John Will, the local banker, and hitched a ride to Butte, where he was employed by Pen- ny's Store as stockboy for the whole sum of $72.00 per month. Former neighbors from Sheridan, the Jim Hadzor family, were living in Butte and they took him it. Bobby enrolled in night school at Butte B[...]1942, Bobby went to Tacoma, Washington to work in the Lucille and Guy George. shipyards with classmates, Ted Darby and Glenn Clapp. They all stayed with Delbert and Corrine Clapp, former Sheridan residents. Bobby came home in mid-summer of GUY AND LUCILLE GEORGE 1942 to join the navy. They needed more men in the Army so enlistments were temporarily suspended. H[...]orge was born in Lucca, Italy in 1894. He came to the draft and he and his brother, Billy, were taken into the the United States in 1903, settling in Meaderville where he army in January, 1943. Bobby was assigned to the Army attended school. When sixteen years old he worked at the[...] |
| Home of Lucille and Guy George in Sheridan. Mabel Glasser and son, Dale (Pete). copper smelter, studied nights for a civil service test and was February 24, 1888. He was the son of George and Josephine |
| [...]After graduation, Bonny and a friend decided to travel to[...]Tacoma, Washington to find work. Because of the war, work was plentiful in the coastal cities and they found jobs in a[...]didn't take long for Bonny to decide that the "big city" was[...]r Braach, Grandmother Sheridan where she found work at the Montana Children's Ida Gemmell, Mother Bonny Glasser, Linda and Raymond Center in Twin Bridges. G[...]Bud had also returned to the Ruby Valley following his[...]discharge from the army and again was working in the a popular sport, as it is today, and Bonny served as captain mines. Bonny and Bud were married in Butte in 1947. They of the team in 1944j the last year for girls' basketball until its had three children: Linda, Raymond, and Gail. recent revival. Bud continued to work in the mines of the area until 1968. Bud had been working in mines[...]e Some mines in which he worked were the Toledo, Marietta, joined the Army in 1940. He served with the 3rd Infantry Buckeye and Brown's Lake. After 1968 Bud worked for the Division, spending three years in service overseas; first serv- Sheridan schools as bus driver and custodian. He retired in ing in Africa and later in the European Theater, landing with 1979. Bonny[...]vice employee in 1957, following in the footsteps of her[...]Postmaster in Sheridan. Bud and Bonny Glasser's 25th Wedding Anniversary, 1972. The Glassers bought the old Fletcher house at 427 Mill[...]round brick front. They remodeled it extensively and have[...]Bud and Bonny have four grandchildren: two boys,[...]Michael and Rusty Hamilton, children of John and Linda[...]Hamilton of Virginia City, Montana; and two girls, Rayna and Renee' Glasser, children of Raymond and Betty Mercier[...]1972 at the age of sixteen.[...]BYRUM T. (BARNEY) AND AMY (SIMS) GREEN[...]July 22, 1891. He came to Montana at an early age and engaged in ranch work as a boy and young man. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I and returning to[...]Sheridan after being discharged from the army he secured property in Madison and Beaverhead Counties and married[...] |
| [...]in 1926. Barney had a ranch southwest of Sheridan and also one in the Centennial Valley. From late spring to late fall of each year they lived in the Centennial and the winters were spent at their ranch in Sheridan. Barney ran a good sized herd of cattle of his own and for many years took in around two thousand cattle on pasture from ranchers Wedding picture, 1893 of George and Mary "Daisy" O 'Don- nell Grose. in the Ruby Valley. Later they sold their holdings and pur- chased a home at 212 Water Street in Sherida[...]re after Barney's death until failing health the boss carpenter for the mill at Rochester. Daisy was made it necessary fo[...]postmistress at Rochester. They returned to Butte and then Barney suffered a heart attack and died on February 11, 1961 at the age of sixty-nine. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Sheridan and he was buried at the Sheridan Cemetery with military honors by Anderso[...], L. Nyhart, Gus Lueck, Bob Glick, Ray Ed- misten and John Reynolds. Amy Sims Green was born in Little Metice, Quebec, Canada on March 16, 1897 to Mr. and Mrs. James Sims, one of nine children. She came to Montana in 1916 where she taught in country schools in the Malta area in the 1920's. Later she taught in the Centennial Valley in Beaverhead County and in Madison Cou~ty at Brandon, Robbers' Roost and at Cliff Lake. Amy passed away at the Parkview Con- valescent Home in Dillon on February 25, 1979 at the age of eighty-one. Funeral services were held at the K & L Mor- tuary in Sheridan. Pallbearers were Ji[...]echt, Ted Darby, Russell K. Hudson, Dollis Hodges and Walter, Beverly Grose, Mary Grose Runke[...]Bowden, Charles Layne Walter. Amy left the majority of her estate to the town of Sheridan, the funds to be used for the parks and playgrounds[...]5, 1929. L. to R .: Ethelyn Bowden, Marybelle for the boys and girls of Sheridan.[...]n. The Madisonian By: Ted Darby GEORGE AND DAISY GROSE Mary Geraldine "Daisy" Grose was b[...]Charles L. O'Donnell of |
| [...]n on May 4, 1921. Daisy later worked as a cook at the Linder Ranch at the Point of Rocks, and at the Leiterville and Lake Shore Mines. She also operated a small cafe, a boarding house and a maternity care home in Sp.eridan. The children, Marybelle married Charles Walter, Jr., and raised two sons, Charles Layne of Missoula and Frederick Brian of Houston, Texas. Ethel of Portl[...]rederick died in Sheridan in 1932. "Daisy'Grose and Harry Runkel were married October 29, 1927. Harry died on July 14, 1958. Daisy died January 1, 1965 at the age of 89.[...]working at different places. While in Juneau she married[...]When the second World War started, she returned to Seat- tle and enlisted in the Air Force. She was sent to Des Moines, CHAROLOTTE WRIGHT GROVES Iowa and then on to Washington, D.C. She and a friend toured many of the states, including New York. When Charolotte Groves was the third daughter born to Martha dismissed from the service she took a tour of Cuba from and Albert Moore, January 1, 1900. She was born at the Florida. She has also toured Switzerland, Germany, Italy Nobleville mining camp up Wisconsin Creek. Martha's and Hawaii. sister was the mid-wife. Hamilton Bothwell, a cousin, was She lived in Lakeport, California and while on a boat cruise her teacher for two years. When he moved to Anaconda Ed- to Alaskan waters she had a heart attack. She was taken off na Hill taught her for the next two years. The family moved the boat at Sitka and was in the hospital there. When able to to Sheridan and she went to the public school for two more leave the hospital she stayed with her cousin, Gertrude Hill years. The next year she went to school in Whittier, Califor- Beck. On her return to Lakeport she decided to move back to nia living with an aunt and uncle. Seattle, where she now resides. When she moved back to Sheridan she cooked at the Lake Shore mining camp until it closed down. She cooked at the Charolotte Groves Red Pine mining camp and married Lyle Wright. Then she worked at the Sheridan Post Office under Wilbur Marsh. At GREGORY M. AND RITA S. HALL the time of his death she retired and went with her husband and father to their mine up Ramshorn Creek. They had a Gregory, the youngest of the Amos and Myrtle Hall three stamp mill, which she operated, while the men mined. children, was born in Bozeman, Montana on March 3, 1922, She made many afghans while tending the mill for past time. came to Sheridan as a small boy, attended Sheridan schools After Lyle's death she went to Juneau and Sitka, Alaska and graduated in the class of 1941. He participated in high[...]hool athletics, lettering in football, basketball and track. Charlotte and Lyle Wright[...] |
| [...]drugstore until his appointment to the faculty in the Phar- macy School at the University of Montana where he is[...]rison, North Dakota when she was a sophomore in high school. She and her sisters worked in the theatre owned by her father, Mike Schneider and Cliff Ehlers. After gradua-[...]tion from high school where she was active in all extra cur-[...]ricular activities, especially music, she worked in Helena before attending the University of Montana. After a year in[...]Missoula, she entered nurse's training at Virginia Mason[...]Hospital in Seattle where she was affiliated with Seattle[...]University. Having polio before she was able to graduate[...]meant an end to her nursing career. She spent the next year recuperating at the home of her parents in Sheridan. Greg and Rita have four children: Richard, Constance,[...]Robert and Steven who are all married and have children of Greg and Rita HaU, 1946. their own. He was on the Sheridan High track team that won the State Class B Championship in 1939 and runner-up to Plains for the championship in 1940. Greg and Rita Hall Greg's father and mother opened the Pick and Pan Phar- macy in 1929. Mr. Hall died in 1933 and Mrs. Hall was left with the rearing of the children along with the operation of the drugstore. Mrs. Hall died in 1939 from cancer, while Greg was still in high school and hi"! brothers, Bill and Nathan returned to Sheridan to operate the drugstore while Greg continued high school. Aft[...]eg went to Tacoma, Washington where he worked for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company helping to install the first buried telephone cable in the northwest. With the outbreak of World War II he returned to Montana and enlisted in the Navy. Upon the completion of his "boot" training in San Diego, California he was assigned duty with the 1st U.S. Marine Division and saw action with them in the South Pacific. After 2½ years with the Marine Corps he was rotated back to the U.S. for du- ty. A few months later he was assign[...]e he spent a year at various sites in China. With the end of the war he returned to Sheridan. In the fall of 1946 Greg married his high school sweetheart and classmate, Rita Schneider, and then enrolled in Idaho State College in Pocatello, Idaho. Later he transferred to the University of Montana in Missoula and received a degree in pharmacy. Greg and his family moved to Butte where he was employed in a drugstore and later became a represen- Jeanette and Roger Hall tative for a pharmaceutical manufacturer. In 1958 the family moved back to Missoula and he continued working as a phar- J[...]presentative. Later he became a partner in a Greg and Rita Hall.[...]Montana to Frederick "Tim" and Laura "Meka" Braach. She[...]attended Sheridan School participating in band and glee club, was a cheer leader, editor of the school paper and editor of the school annual. In 1948, her senior year of high s[...]she won a trip to Washington D.C. representing the State of Montana. She was selected by her Senior classmates and faculty. Mrs. Ray Love was her sponsor of the Daughters of the American Revolution. This trip was an exciting one and[...]in Washington, D.C. This was the last year the DAR spon-[...]Frank E. Blair and did abstract and title insurance work, in- come tax and law typing. She visited relatives in Alaska in 1953 and on the return trip stayed in Seattle to work at B[...] |
| [...]Happy and Mabel in front of Halse Motors, July 1972.[...]Wyoming. This was the best run in the park, paying higher wages and better tips. The drivers were called gearjammers Jeanette and Roger's son, Eric Hall and the most famous gearjammer was Gary Cooper, who left[...]the park to find fame in Hollywood, California. Happy also ing Airplane Company for thirteen years. It was there she worked at the Lake Shore Mine for several years then bought met[...]d, Roger, who was from Springfield, Oregon the old brick garage on Water Street. For several years, Art and they were married in Seattle on September 20 1958. In Ellinghouse was his partner and mechanic while Happy sold 1966, they adopted their son, Eric, and Jeanette retired from Nash cars. By 1929, Happy had purchased the Corner Ser- Boeing to become a mother and homemaker. vice Station on Main Street and became a Ford Car Dealer. Jeanette has been act[...]a. Mabel was born in Big Rapids, Michigan to Cora and team and bowling team. She enjoys flower gardening which John Stockwell. After completing school in Big Rapids, she seems to be a pattern following after her mother and father. moved to Helena, Montana in 1928 to ma[...]e enjoys her neighborhood in Seattle as they have the Baker. One son, Kenneth, was born to them May 12, 1930. close knit relationship and friendly atmosphere of the people five years later, Clarence passed away i[...]Mabel continued as a social worker in the area until she mar- Jeanette Ir[...]neth and gave him the Halse name. Mabel and Happy, 1938. HARVEY AND MABEL HALSE Kenneth,[...]They started Halse Motors in 1939, in the red brick garage |
| the business after Kenneth graduated from college in[...]me on his cattle ranch east of Sheridan, which he and Mabel bought from H.B. Nesbitt in 1941. Due to Happy's poor health, they sold the ranch in 1970 to Floyd and Beverly Fossceco. Mabel and Happy both enjoyed traveling in their free time. They spent six weeks with Kenneth touring the southern and eastern states. During their retired years, they toured the birthplace of Happy's mother in Holzhausen, Germany, stay- ing in the beautiful 200 year old family home. This trip was enjoyed with Happy's sister, Marguerite Odden and her hus- band, Harry. The Halse's also traveled to Mexico City with Kenneth and his wife Pat, toured Hawaii several times and wintered in Arizona. Mabel has continued to travel in recent years spending time in Costa Rica, the Caribbean, Arizona and California. Mabel is a member of Eastern Star and the Methodist Aid Circle. She is a past member of the Sheridan Woman's Club. Happy was a member of Eastern Star, Masonic Lodge, serv- ed on the city council and was the president of the Tobacco John Alfred Halse Root Livestock Association. Mabel and Happy were dedicated to their family and spent different, with independent minds. a l[...]918. His teachers were Elizabeth Cynthia, Kristie and Dean Halse. Mabel now has two great Gersch, Mrs. Ivan Winslow, Pauline Holland and Freda granddaughters.[...]Professor Happy Halse passed away April 4, 1975 and was buried in Brim, Mrs. Vernon Marsh and Mrs. Cave Duncan. John lov- the family plot in the Sheridan Cemetery. ed them all but said many times that they surely had one hell[...]Mabel Halse Then came two years at the Billings Polytechnic where he[...]Cynthia Halse finished high school and took Vocational Training. An in-[...]terest in farming was rekindled and he returned to help his father on the farm, working in the mines in Butte during the winter months. During the 30's John built two small houses[...]ill Street for rentals. Then in 1941 he went into the Armv. After World War II and a brief ranching venture with his[...]older brother, Harvey, John in 1947 bought the home ranch and began his own farming struggle which lasted until[...]when he sold the farm. That ended one hundred and seven years that the old farm was in the Halse name. John moved to Bigfork, Montana and married Leona Allison from[...]and orchard overlooking Flathead Lake.[...]1930 to Clarence and Mabel Stockwell Baker. His father[...]died when Kenneth was five years old and he was adopted by[...]Harvey (Happy) Halse after Harvey and Mabel were married Leona and John Halse[...]Kenneth was a graduate of Sheridan High School and the[...]Narancich, daughter of Pete and Edna Narancich of Twin[...]rn to John Alfred Halse was born to Alfred John and Emelia the couple: Pamela, Suzan, Cynthia, Kristie and Dean. All Greis Halse September 6, 1912 on a 150 acre farm north of were born and raised in Sheridan. Sheridan, Montana. His father[...]ior year in high school, Kenneth was large garden and cut ice for the townspeople. The family Sheridan's representative to Boy's State. His son, Dean, five children helped with the farm work. Life on a small farm followed in 1980 to Boy's State. Kenneth was active in during the 20's and 30's was a struggle but with careful DeMolay and was a Past Master of the Masonic Lodge. management the family had the necessities of life, even After graduation in 1952 Kenneth operated the farm though one year the taxes of $75.00 couldn't be paid. Mother equip[...]heir children just grew up, each one member of the Sheridan School Board for several years, and[...] |
| [...]Cynthia, Dean; children of Pat and Kenneth Halse. Kenneth and Patricia Halse 's wedding picture, November 23[...]Pamela was Valedictorian of the Class of 1971 and attend- |
| [...]Steve, Sheila and Sherri Hancock.[...]years. Althea has been employed by the town of Sheridan as utility clerk for the past four and a half years. They are the parents of three sons: Gary, 34, who lives in[...]California; Dale, 31, living in Missoula; and Steve, 23, living in Noxon, Montana. They also have two grandsons and one[...]daughter. R . to L.: Shirley, Althea, Susan, Dale and Kyle Hancock.[...]S.W. Hancock residents in the South Boulder area. Althea graduated from |
| [...]of Ruby, Montana. They have two boys, David and Gary. Dave now lives in Living[...]- mons of Butte, Montana. They also have two boys, Ronald and Donald. They live in Napa, California. In October 1927 a baby girl was born. She died shortly after birth.[...]Bridges. For their history see the Twin Bridges section. Clark, the youngest, was born July 3, 1935. He married Barbara Norton who came from California and they live in Butte. They have two adopted children, Dean and DeAnn. All of the children except Clark attended school in the Duncan District.[...]rs Jean remembers their mother and father being active in community affairs, in- cluding the Masonic Lodge and the Order of Eastern Star in Sheridan. The two Saturdays a month that they attended chapter were the high light of their lives because their Grandpa Bullerdick would "baby sit" all of them and they Frank Hansen had a chance to make fudge and pull taffy.[...]Dave Hansen Clark Hansen June and Ed Harding. June 's retirement party, 1976.[...]E KEARNEY HARDING "Kind hearts and gentle people" could well describe June's -241- |
| Jim and Joan Harding, 1950. since 1945 at Bozeman. Ed coached for several years and then served as Vice-principal of the high school for twenty- nine years, retiring in 1[...]her B.A. Degree in Elementary Education at M.S.U. and taught for eighteen years in the fourth and se- cond grades at the Hawthorne School. She enjoyed her teaching years and missed it when she quit in 1976. Their daughter, Joan Monforton, lives in Spokane, Washington, and their son, Jim, lives in Bozeman. They have four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Retirement keeps them busy; some traveling, their house and yard, their friends, a few clubs and organizations and the Clementine M Flick, wife of William Flic[...]that they get from those precious little ones in the family. Clem was a long time member of the Methodist Ladies Aid June thinks so many times of those wonderful young Circle helping on all committees. She was also a sixty year years, when she had the privilege of growing up with those member of the Degree of Honor Lodge. very special friends and the love and understanding of her At the age of ninety-two she lived alone and cared for beloved parents, William E. and Nancy Kearney. herself until the time of her death. Clem died in the Sheridan June Kearney Harding Hospital March 25 , 1979 and is buried beside Bill in the[...]Sheridan Cemetery. As I write this I am positive my mother CLEMENTINE M. FLICK HATFIELD contributed much to the community of Sheridan.[...]ine Piesens was born December 18, 1886 in Belgium and at the age of five came to Norway, Michigan with her parents. She had very little education as she had to be home caring for her sisters, brother and mother who was ill most of the time. In 1904 she married William Flick of Sheridan and from Iron Mountain, Michigan moved to Sheridan wi[...]ildren were born: Leroy, who died August 28, 1979 and Madeline now living in Butte, Montana. Clem's husband, Bill, died May 29, 1923 at the age of forty- seven, just after moving into a new[...]as left with an unfinished house, a thirteen year old daughter and herself to support. Leroy had just graduated from Sheridan High School; so was able to find work and be self supporting. Clem did any work that was av[...]laundry, did house-cleaning for various families and served dance suppers in her home. After selling her home and laundry to Jim Duncan she was, for an extend- ed period, second cook and then cook for the Orphan's Home in Twin Bridges. She was also house-keeper for Mr. and Mrs. Ed and Madeline Tracer, Clementine, 1976. Frank Hazelbaker, Lt. Governor of Montana. In 1932 she married Ralph Hatfield. Ralph died in 1970.[...]HILIP J. HATFIELD Clem enjoyed having a garden and won many prizes at the Madison County Fairs exhibiting her jellies, cann[...]Jerome Hatfield was born in Sheridan, Montana on and vegetables plus her fancy work and patchwork quilts. January 10, 1896 to John E . and Susie (Bollinger) Hatfield.[...] |
| [...]eld taken at Snowslide Mine west of McAllister in the 1930's. He grew to young manhood in Sheridan, attending the local schools and in 1914 took up ranching in the South Boulder. World War I broke out and Phil joined the U.S Army and served overseas in Belguim and France with the 362 Infan- try, along with three other men from[...]Lucille Funk Henneberry, 1928. Jackson and Archie Elser of Sheridan and Lloyd Brook from attended Montana State University her freshman year. Jefferson island, and all were in the battles of Meuse- These were lean hard times but she was determined to Argonne, St. Mihel and Lep Scheidt. become a teacher so she taught one year at Iron Rod, all After returning from the war, Phil returned to ranching in eight grades. and then enrolled at Montana State Normal the South Boulder for a few years. Then he, his father John College. To make ends meet, she was employed as a dental E. Hatfield and brother, Ralph Hatfield located and operated assistant for two years and also worked at the dormitory din- the Snowslide Mine, which is west of McAllister and in the ing room and did clerical work for the college. She graduated South Meadow Creek area, near the Missouri Mine. They in 1930 and then taught at the Lower Wisconsin Creek operated this mine for a number of years and made some real School. prosperous shipments.[...]heir daughter, moved to Butte, where he worked in the Butte mines unitil ill Janet, was born in 1933.[...]During World War II Dan served with the Armed Forces in He married Pauline Schyett in Butte in 1933. They had Europe while Lucille took a position with the Beaverhead two children of their own, John and Nancy, and Walter, son County Welfare Office. Upon Dan'[...]vious marriage. Pauline died in Butte in chased the weekly newspaper and job shop, The Dillon Ex- 1953. Shortly after his wife died, Phil moved back to Sheridan and along in late 1955, Phil purchased a lot from[...]Dan and Lucille Henneberry Ted Darby on Hamilton Street and built him a cozy log home where he spent the last six years of his life. We recall that when Phil had finished his home, all of his friends and neighbors had a house warming for him. Pauline Oakwood played the piano and we danced until the early morning hours, a house warming that we will[...]Simpson Post No. 89, American Legion in Sheridan and served as Commander of the Post in 1939-1940. He belonged to the Riverside Lodge, A.F. & A.M. at Jefferson Island. Philip J. Hatfield died on March 26, 1962 at the Sheridan Emergency Hospital at the age of 66, after a long illness due to silicosis. He had spent considerable time prior to his death at the V.A. Hospital at Fort Harrison and other hospitals. He was buried at the Sheridan Cemetery in the family plot with military graveside rites and also Masonic rites. Ted J. Darby and Charles Murray LUCILLE KATHERINE (FUNK) HEN[...]orn August 25, 1908, sixth child of Robert |
| [...]3. Dan had been associated maintenance man and part-time operator in the winter. Dur- with The Examiner since starting there as office boy when in ing the summer I rode the Summerdale Ditch Run near Cor- the sixth grade. Next they moved to Butte where Dan con- vallis, Montana. tinued his chosen vocation and Lucille was employed in of- In 1960 I moved to Deer Lodge, Montana to become a fice work at the Montana School of Mines. Custodial Officer for the Montana State Prison. I retired The Henneberrys have six grandchildren and two great October 23, 1976 and came to Libby, Montana in 1980 to live grandchildren: Wayne, Tom, Dan, and James Deutsch, Kim near my oldest son. Deutsch Alexander and Diane who has two children, Justin I married Ruth Margaret Allen of Silver Star, June 19, and Jessica Woods. Daughter, Janet resides in Butte and is 1937. We had four children: Richard Frank of Libby; Helen secretary for Economic Geology at the Montana Bureau of Marie (Nina) Hilderman of Hazen, North Dakota; Patsy Mines and Geology. Helen, who died in infancy; and Theodore Allen (Ted) of Lucille and Dan celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniver- California. My grandchildren are Richard Dean and Troy of sary August 22, 1981 with a family reunion picnic up Mill Libby; Wylie, Lyle, Eva, Brian and Douglas of North Creek. It was hosted by Janet and family. Honoring them Dakota; and Jill, Samantha, Naiomy and Christine of Califor- were sixty family members, coming from Texas, California, nia. Washington, Idaho and Minnesota. Special guests were I was divorced in 1957 and married Della Brooks Marek of brother-in-law and sisters, Eileen and Myron Yeager of Hamilton December 20, 1958. Spokane, Washington and Josephine and Ernest Nelson of During my working years, I developed hobbies that now Dillo[...]ter's wedding. give me pleasure. I have hunted and fished all my live and I Sharing in the occasion were brother and sister-in-law, Rob am a bird watcher, also. Having traveled extensively in and Gert Funk of Wolf Creek who observed their 56th wed- Montana, I can now put my Montana memories on canvas as ding anniversary. Dan Henneberry died Feb. 17, 1983. I paint in my leisure hours--a self-taught hobby I enjoy.[...]H I was born in Sheridan, Montana May 1, 1912, the oldest of three children born to Della Knowlton and Fred George Betty Bruggeman was born in Sheridan, Montana on Hermsmeyer. I received my education in the Sheridan March 14, 1928 to William and Elizabeth Bruggeman. She School. Sam Hagenberger taught me the butcher trade but I was the youngest of four children. The others were Everett, never followed it and left school to work on various valley who died June 1, 1981, Theodore and Mary who now live in ranches.[...]acoma, Washington. As a young man I worked for the Sage Lumber Company In 1929 the family moved from the Oliver Ingram Ranch at Iron Rod as yard foreman. From there, I worked at the which is now the George Frazier Ranch to a ranchhouse on Green-Campbell Mine, was Hoist Engineer at the Broadway the Wisconsin Creek Road owned by the late Harry Foster. Mine and miner for the Toledo and Emma Mines. Her father irrigate[...]d to Hamilton, Montana in 1951 where I engaged in the timber industry, going from there to the Duffy Construc- Her mother was never really[...]pletion Betty as Everett who was always ill took up so much of her of the sewer lines in Hamilton I was hired by the Bitterroot time. Besides there was always a big garden and lots of Irrigation System of Hamilton as heavy eq[...]By the time Betty started to school, Mary and Theodore Richard C. Hermsmeyer were ready to leave home, so she was by herself most of the time. She remembers these years as some of her best ones.[...]Money was never very plentiful and she never had things Betty, Patsy and Russell High.[...] |
| [...]r (left), her sister Reta (ri[{_ht). that many of the other girls had, but she loved horses and when her dad gave her her first horse she didn't care about anything else. She still has her horses today. In 1943 the family moved to the Henry Bruggeman Ranch where Betty lived with her parents until March 14, 1946 when she married Eugene High of Twin Bridges. Two Leona Jackson, holding daughter, Doris, Leslie at the left, children were born to this union, Patsy born August, 1947 Arthur and Frank, right. and Russell born September, 1953. In 1962 they move[...]made their home until 1908 when they moved to the Whitney now makes her home. She lives on a small ranch and raises ranch near Jeffers. dairy and beef cattle.[...]Betty Bruggeman High Jackson, and two sons, Frank and Clarence, still at home.[...]Bear Creek until he was called FRANK AND LEONA JACKSON into the Service, October 1917. He served in World War I f[...]two years in France and Belgium. Frank R. Jackson was born in Afton, Io[...]meron that he met his future wife who was to B.J. and Esther Dye Jackson. He was the eighth child of a working at the Amos Storey ranch at the time and was asked family of nine children. Frank was two years old when they to the boys' farewell party as were all the people in the com- came to Montana by covered wagon in 1898. A[...]y. They met again in 1919 after he came home from took five months. They settled in Virginia City which they the service and they were married in Sheridan, March 13,[...]1921, at the home of Walter and Edna Hill. Frank and Leona Jackson.[...]February 1, 1900 to Arthur S. and Catherine Mallender. She was the oldest of nine children. Her father died in 1910.[...]1912 her mother remarried and they came to Montana when she was twelve years old. She attended various summer schools in the Madison Valley with one term in Bozeman and one in Virginia City in High School. She worked on ranches and in the cafe in Ennis as a waitress until she was married.[...]Frank worked on ranches around Sheridan and then took the mailroute job which he kept for forty years. He o[...]the Sheridan Bakery and a small furniture store. He liked to[...]fish, hunt and bowl. Frank was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 20 and[...]served as Master, as well as being a member of the York Rite Bodies and the Bagdad Shrine. He served as Patron of[...]Arcelia Chapter, order of the Eastern Star. He was a charter member of the Kiwanis Club, and also a charter member of the Anderson-Simpson Post No. 89, American Legion in[...]Sheridan. He was commander of the post in 1924-25. Frank and Leona raised a family of four children: Frank,[...]Arthur, Leslie and Doris. Frank Jr. married Marge Graham[...]in New York City in 1946. They have four children and two[...] |
| [...]J L Frank Jackson Jr., Doris J. Bock and Cathy, Leona M. |
| [...]Les and Betty Jackson, 1982. LESLIE F. AND BETTY JACKSON Town Team (baseball) for several years in the 1950 's and also coached Little League and Babe Ruth Baseball for several Leslie F. Jackson was born on September 7, 1927 to Frank years. He also played on the American Legion Independent and Leona Jackson. He attended the Sheridan grade and Basketball Team for about ten years. high schools, graduating in the class of 1945. Les par- Les is a mem[...], lettering in football, (American Legion) and Masonic Lodge, Bethel Methodist basketball and track. He was also a member of the Sheridan Church, the Sheridan Volunteer Fire Dept. for over 30 years Band and was active in the Boy Scout Troop of Sheridan and and enjoys bowling. attained the rank of Life Scout. He worked for J .M. Mad- In 196[...]ng gradua- Betty was born to Grover Cleveland and Ethel Low Eakman tion. During World War II he was called into the service and in Great Falls. She attended school there and graduated trained in California. He spent most of the time from 1945 to from the Great Falls High School. She went to the College of 1947 in Massachusetts. Great Falls for one year and then graduated from Montana After he returned from the service Leslie went to college in State in Bozeman. She also attended Oregon State and the Bozeman (Montana State) and Western Montana College in University[...]Betty has a brother, Herb Eakman of Billings and a sister, for eight years he decided to go back to college as he didn't Bonnie Fleshman of Great Falls. She came to Sheridan to like getting up at 4:30 in the morning for work. He went teach in 1947 and taught until 1956. She taught in Great back to Western Montana College i[...]in Falls for three years, 1965-68. When she and Les w:ere mll!- 1959. He later earned his Master's Degree in 1973. He ried she returned to teach Home Economics and Biology m started teaching the seventh grade and was also grade school the Sheridan High School. coach and assistant high school coach for twenty years. He was also Assistant Scout Master for about 16 years. Every summer they go to Great Falls to work on the fami- ly farm. They both like to garden and raise many vegetables . Les helped Lawrence Schulz with managing the Sheridan and beautiful flowers on their plot of land up Mill Creek. Frank and Leslie Jackson, 1945.[...]CHARLES EDWARD AND RUBY (DUNCAN) JOHNSON[...]tana in the 1890's and enlisted in the 7th Cavalry, Troop E. ,[...]in Missoula in 1898. He served a year, breaking and training horses, and was discharged in 1899. (Spanish-American War)[...]He worked in the smelters in Butte. Family records show[...]him to be the grand-nephew of Robert Browning.[...]Ruby Duncan, a daughter of James and Jeanette Gemmell Duncan and a granddaughter of Reverend Hugh Duncan,[...]was born in Sheridan and grew up in the Duncan District on[...]her grandfather's homestead. Her mother died when she was twelve and she helped to raise her younger sister, Hazel, and[...]Charles and Ruby were married in Sheridan on January 13,[...]1902 and lived in Butte where their two sons, Lloyd (1903)[...]and Paul (1904) were born. They moved to Sheri[...] |
| Ruby and Charles' wedding anniversary, 1952, L . toR. : Pa[...]family, 1940: Charles, Lloyd, Ruby, Paul .;. |
| [...], ... Audrey and Bruce Pearson Lester and Louise Johnson Madison known as the Yergey Ranch located at the mouth of moved to Washington and worked at the Boeing Company |
| [...]years ago, when her husband died suddenly. She has been[...]Oregon; Lawrence Duncan Paul and Freda Marie Paul of[...]Freda died in 1972 and Paul in 1975. Both are buried in[...]ouise Johnson Hackett Wedding picture of Paul and Freda Johnson, June 14, 1929. daughters were bor[...]ecember 14, 1930; |
| Mildred and Marian Johns ton. Ted Johnston and grandson, Lee, 1962.[...]Marian attended Sheridan Schools, graduated with the class of 1940. She married Les Switzler and they had two[...]and Linda (Mrs. Bill Johnson) of Seattle. Marian late[...]with the class of 1940. She married Walter Hill and they had one son, Lee, who resides in Belgrade. She married Austin[...](Mrs. Jim Williams) of Rexford, Montana; and Stephen, mar-[...]Mildred Johnston Carey and Harry Winslow[...]Bessie Helene Elser, the fourth daughter of Glenn and Four generations L. to R .: Front row: Connie, Stephen, Grandma Winslow and Penny. Back row: Mildred, Mabe~ Bessie and Paul Jones, Seattle, 1963. Lee. Marian, Lo[...] |
| [...]home in Brandon before remodeled in 1959. Wes on the walkway. Lydia Elser was born in Brandon May 27, 1922. She was educated in the log cabin in Brandon and the Sheridan school. In the eighth grade her sisters and she walked three Herb and Mary Jones and twins, Doris and Diane. miles to Sheridan, until their dad bought them a Model A coupe for transportation. She graduated from high school in 1940.[...]of August and Suzan Steiner. Mary was born September 9, For school expenses she did house work for Selma Spuhler, 1915 in Sheridan and graduated from Sheridan High School Mabel Halse, Boone Callaway, her aunts and one su=er at in 1933. She also played basketball and was a member of an the Fairview Mine for Gertrude Felton. She also picked all-star girls' team. huc~eberrie_s and sold them for a dollar a gallon. Mary and Herb first lived in Alder where Herb managed a When she was ten, they almost lost their home by a tor- na[...]ir Uncle Ray, made it home over washed out roads, the top caved down on the Model T, to find the family safe but the roof of the house blown off. She was a member of the Order of Rainbow Girls. After graduation she was employed in Sheridan by the Thomas Confectionary Store, Jackson's Ice Cream Parlor, the Forest Office and the Telephone Company. In March 1941 Bessie went to Seattle and worked four years at the Boeing Aircraft on B-17 and B-29 planes. She was thrilled when the first B-29 made her "Maiden flight". Bessie mar[...]ttle. He was a World War II veteran, employed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. They moved around Idaho, Texas, Washington and Montana. Living in Seattle in 1962 enabled them to see the World's Fair. Paul died May 14, 1965 in Columbi[...]ssie returned to Sheridan, lived with her parents and then rented an apartment from Louise Steiner. Her life brighten- ed the day Ted Darby asked her to work for him at the bank. She worked there for eight years. Herb and Mary Jones with Homer Bessie obtained employment at the First Metals Bank in Butte where she now resides. Jones': Jack, Diane, Mary, Herb, Doris. The Ruby Valley will always be home to her.[...]Bessie Elser Jones HERBERT AND MARY JONES Herbert August Jones was born Septe[...]ved to Twin Bridges with his |
| [...]erb worked for Clyde Rann. They Enlisted in the Army May 24, 1918, he served in England returned to Sheridan and Herb was employed by J.M. Mad- and France and was honorably dischar_ged Ju!y 26, 1919. dison and managed the meat market for about twelve years. During the 1919-1920 school term he taught commercial sub- A[...]Manhattan they moved to Anaconda. There jects and coached basketball at Wassau, Nebraska high he was a mechanic for the Intermountain Transportation school. The next two years he taught history and civics and Company and later at the Berkeley Pit in Butte. He retired coached baske[...], Nebraska junior high school. in January of 1977 and died October 22, 1977. It was in Hastings that he met Mildred. Mary and Herb became interested in artifacts and had a Mildred Naomi was born in Hastings May 27, 1899 to Em- large collection of arrowheads and other Indian relics. Theyma and William Pielstick. She attended the local schools, also collected different rocks, many of which Herb made intograduated in 1917, and became the clerk of the Hastings artistic pictures. school board. She and Robert were married May 13, 1921, at They had[...]1936. He married Mary Ina Jessen of Anaconda the following year, and that summer the family moved to and they have five children: Stanford, Jeffrey, Suzan, Ken- Havre, Montana, where he became the high school principal. neth and Jacquline. They live in Big Fork, Montana. The next year they moved to Chinook, Montana where he On July 22, 1945 Herb and Mary had twin girls, Doris and was superintendent of schools for six years. Betty was born Diane. Diane married Robert Everett of Anaconda and they there January 30, 1926. live in Livermore[...]e two daughters, Robert's career as editor and publisher spanned the years Darlene and Kristene. Doris married John Stipech of 1929-1952. The Madison County Forum was located in a Anaconda and they live in Denver, Colorado. frame building where the post office now stands. It was Mary moved to D[...]ry of 1981. moved to a building on the corner of Main and Mill Streets, and finally to its home on Mill Street in 1939. When the Madisonian came up for sale in 1943, and there were no other[...]value, and discontinued the Forum. Because of his efforts, the Madisonian carries to this day the byline "Montana's[...]restoring the Madisonian building in Virginia City, the Madisonian was printed at the Forum plant in Sheridan.[...]Every Thursday night, sometimes in the wee hours of Friday morning, he drove the papers to Virginia city to be mailed.[...]In 1950 he resumed printing the Madisonian in Virginia City. He sold the paper April 1, 1952. Mildred was active in the Sheridan community as charter member and past president of the American Legion Aux-[...]past matron of Arcelia Chaper 34 OES, officer in the Sheridan Women's Library Club, and primary teacher in the Methodist Church Sunday School. She was an excellent[...]1941. Robert Julian, 1962 ROBERT AND MILDRED JULIAN Robert Julian, his wife Mildred, and two small daughters |
| seamstress, did beautiful needlework, and was an excellent cook. She worked on the newspapers: gathering and writing news and keeping the books until she became ill with cancer in 1945. She died January 9, 1946. Robert was postmaster of the Sheridan post office from September 30, 1954 unti[...]efore enjoying his own Christmas. During his term the post office was moved to its present site. During his years in Madison County he was county chair- man of the emergency relief committee, Sheridan school board[...]ishing Anderson-Simpson Post 89, American Legion, and was a past commander. He was a past master oJ She[...]r I Montana Barracks 2599, Sheridan Kiwanis Club, and the Vigilante Council of Boy Scouts. He had a fine tenor voice and was often called upon to sing. After his postal retirement he spent the spring months visiting his daughters in Californi[...]f Mustang convertibles. He loved to have visitors and enjoyed showing off "his " country. He knew all about Madison County and Montana as well. Robert Julian was a man of great integrity and high moral Jim and Dalena Kaatz character. He had a very dry sense of humor and was sharp of wit. A perfectionist by nature, he always gave his best to the task. He was an avid reader. He had a life-long interest pany. They lived there for ten years. They have four in basketball and treasured a life-time pass to Sheridan Pan- children: Jack (Jim[...]n Hart- thers' games. For fifty years he lived in the place he con- ford; Annette Kaatz; and Lorie Ann, now Mrs. Dean Onasch. sidered to be the most beautiful of all he had seen. His death The family moved to Sheridan in 1965 and Jim worked for June 16, 1979, came quietly in his beloved Montana. the Montana State Children's ·center in Twin Bridges[...]maintenance engineer, later becoming the Chief Engineer. Jim was known as the handyman and plumber of Sheridan as[...]Claire Hitt He lost the election for two years and then was re-elected in[...]director for District 9 of the Montana League of Cities and Towns. He also belonged to Arcelia Chapter 34, Order of James[...]Dakota, Eastern Star, Toastmasters Club and the Sheridan Masonic May 17, 1929 to Alfred C. and Henrietta Kaatz. They moved Lodge 20. He enjoyed camping, fishing and hunting. to Sheridan in the Spring of 1933 and he could remember hunting for rubies in the river. He started school in Sheridan Jim and Dalena Kaatz family. L. to R.: Peggy, Jim, Dalena[...]te, Lorie, Jack. first degree burns over his legs and parts of his body when an old stove blew up and caught an old bunkhouse on fire. He had to have skin grafted from his arms for his legs. He was bedridden for months and had to learn to walk all over again. He worked in Idaho for B.R.C. for summer work during the war and for the Charles Walter Store in 1946. He worked after school and weekends to earn money for school activities and clothes. In 1949 Jim graduated from Sheridan High School where he had participated in basketball and track. He was president of the Student Council during his senior year. He then took a job as salesman for the R.J. Reynolds Tobac- co Company, living in Great Falls and traveling the border of Canada. Jim met his wife, Dalena Dean Lunt in 1947 and they were married April 5, 1952. They lived in Eureka, Utah for three years and then moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where he was employed by the Utah Oil company, now American Oil Com-[...] |
| Jim was known for his love of people and worked hard for his town of Sheridan, Montana.[...]Marguerite and Mildred Ball Mildred Ball Kay[...]OLIVER AND FRANCES KENDALL MILDRED (BALL)[...]up in Winner, South Dakota. Missouri. Marguerite and she came to Bozeman with their Frances[...]was born August 31. 1906 in Des parents, Everett and Dot Ball in 1907. They bot~ had Moines, Iowa. Oliver and Frances were married in Winner on chickenpox on the train. There was a flood the other side of March 6, 1926. Three daughters, Virginia, Lola and Peggy Bozeman which washed out a railroad bridge.[...]were born to them while living in Winner. In 1932 the family ried her and her mother carried Marguerite to get to the car- moved to Custer, South Dakota. On May 23, 1940 a son, riage that took them into Bozeman. They came to Sheridan[...]In October 1943 the family moved to Montana, settling on Mildred remembers the first cement sidewalk in Sheridan. Granite Creek with Oliver's parents, Ernest and Belle Ken- She was one of the first to roller skate on it in front of the Ell- dall. In the spring they moved west of Sheridan to the old ings Store, now Charles Walters, Inc. She also remembers Buck Ranch where they resi[...]ward's Livery Stable, Thomas's Ice Cream Parlor, and the Odell Hotel, early businesses in Sheridan. Her grandmother Oliver and Frances Kendall who lived to be 98 years old visited them for three weeks when she was small.[...]Mildred left Sheridan after her Freshman year. She spent some time in Butte and then lived in Washington and California. She married Thomas Kay in 1932. He was killed by a horse in 1934. In 1941 Mildred served in the Women's Ambulance Defense Corps of America for two years. She worked in shipyards for the rest of the war. She returned to Sheridan in 1946. She has been a member of the Royal Neighbors for twenty-eight years and a member of the American Legion Auxiliary. At present Mildred is living at the Madison County Nurs- ing Home. Note: Mildr[...] |
| [...]te. In 1950 Oliver was elected County Assessor and served |
| [...]Contributions were made in memory of both Doris and Doc by friends at the time of their My father, Harry Lawrence Kurfiss, was born June 11,[...]1898 and came to the Madison Valley from Dayton, Ohio Both had add[...]me with his family in 1907 when he was nine years old. They outstanding collections. Doris had collected hundreds of first lived on the Yellow Barn unit of the Jeffers Company pieces of china, salt and pepper shakers, cups and saucers, where his father worked. The first ranch they bought was glasswru-e and miniatures. Doc's hobbies ran to an exten- later known as the Saier Ranch north of the old Walter Long sive collection of clocks which hung both in his home and Ranch. Later they bought the McAllister Ranch near office. One room of his home housed an outstanding collec- Varney, known as the Beardsley Ranch. tion of miniature trains assemb[...]known by most as "Dutch", had a partnership in a the United States from the 1890's to 1973. They enjoyed large steam engine and threshing machine and did custom music in their home as evidenced by a collection of about threshing in the Madison Valley. He also did custom work four thousand records covering everything from Opera to with his gasoline-powered wood saw, and did his own brand Jazz. Although the records were used as back-ground music of chanting at auction sales. in the dental office, Doc had a planned procedure for My Dad attended school at Ennis and worked in oil fields in playing each record at l[...]the area until 1925, when he married a young woman from In addition to music and personal hobbies, the Kitts entered into other activities in the community. Doris was an active member of the Methodist Women's Society, the Gladys Hall Kurfiss Sheridan Women's Club and the Buds and Blooms Garden Club. She was a member of Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma[...]ry teacher's society. Doc was an active member of the Sheridan City Council for a number of years. The Kitts did not do any extensive traveling but enjoyed short jaunts throughout the state of Montana, as their busy life permitted. They especially enjoyed exploring off-beat highways and byways throughout Madison County and the Ruby Valley and found restful peace offered by the beautiful scenery throughout this area. Like so many couples, Doc and Doris were looking forward to the time when they would retire. However, in October[...]st unfortunate accident while on a school outing. She died October 17th in a Great Falls Hospital and was laid to rest in Sheridan Cemetery. Doc stayed on in the home on Ruby Street, which he and Doris oc- cupied for about twenty-five years. He[...]on February 3, 1973. He, too, was laid to rest in the Sheridan Cemetery.[...] |
| Butte who was teaching at the Varney school. She was Gladys Erma Hall, born in Butte in 1904, to her parents, Winnifred and Wilmer Hall, who later resided in Sheridan. She attended Butte schools where she excelled in French then later studied at Dillon N[...]ounger sister, Wilma. After working briefly in the Butte mines, and then as a mechanic in Dillon my dad and mother moved to Sheridan shortly after my birth in 1928. My older sister, Chloris, died in February the following year and my mother died the following December, both with pneumonia. Dad continued working as a mechanic in the Kurfiss Repair Shop and became an avid sportsman. Many Ruby Valley ranchers recognized him as he bumped across their fields in his old car, on his way to the river where the rain- bows and browns seemed eager to fill his creel. He also brought home ducks, pheasants and deer from the meadows and mountains around Sheridan. He was a member of the Sheridan Gun Club for many years and was a life member of the Montana Masonic Lodge 2 of Ennis. He received his[...]He married Anne Steck Thompson of Helena in 1952 and bought a home on Water Street in Sheridan where he resided Dorothy and Polly La Due until his death on January 15, 1973 at the age of seventy- four. He is buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. His widow Evelyn Ros[...]s, California. Dorothy's returned to Helena where she died in 1981. younger days were spent between Boise and the mining[...]country of northern Idaho. Her father and uncles, Chase and Lorraine Kurfiss[...]attorneys with investments in CHARLES MAYO AND DOROTHY LA DUE silver mines. She attended school in Boise with her older[...]sister, Lois, and her younger brother, Donald. Dorothy was Charl[...]5, 1897 at Luverne, valedictorian speaker and head of the graduating class. Minnesota. His parents were Albert LaDue of Rock County, Charles and Dorothy met at the University of Wisconsin Minnesota and Laura Huntington of Huntington Park, and after graduation married in June 1921. They lived in California. Charles was the youngest having three brothers: Luverne, Minnesota where the LaDue family worked in Jay, George and Russell and a sister, Laura. He grew up in banking and land investments. The young couple moved to Minnesota, his primary schooling was in Luverne. He at- Montana in the early 1920's and for a short time lived on a tended Culver Military Academy at Culver, Indiana and ranch south of Sheridan that is the Ray Elser property to- after graduating, attended the University of Wisconsin. day. The family purchased the Romulus Brown Ranch and Albert and four partners invested in ranches in the Dillon the Rowe Ranch, "Sunnyside" about 1926. Charles and and Ruby Valley area, Charles spent several summers there Dorothy lived there most of their married life with short before moving here permanently. On the Diamond O Ranch, times spent at Virginia City in the home north of town where just Southwest of the Point of Rocks, it was not uncommon Elvera Hansen resided recently. Charles' brother, Jay and to have twenty teams and eighteen to twenty men to mow, his wife, Luella, were associated with running the ranches for rake and stack the hay. Charles raked hay with a one-horse ten years, before returning to the Midwest about 1930. They implement. "It was not m[...]ad to dump hay settled in Sioux City, Iowa and resided there until their once in the morning and once in the afternoon." The winter death. During this time a family corporation was formed was busy too, with feeding cattle and sheep. called LaDue Sheep Company. The sheep numbered between Dorothy Clark LaDue was born January 28, 1898 at Boise, 2 and 3 bands, 1500 in a band at that time. The sheep were Idaho. Her parents were Nathan Clark of Mackay, Idaho and trailed about fifty miles to the Ruby Reserve and the Black[...]Butte areas for summer range. There were good and bad Charles M. (Chick) La Due times financially and the properties were sold out by 1946. The end of large sheep ranching was taking place in the[...]tucky on May 3, 1928. When she was two months old she was adopted by Charles and Dorothy and was brought up an[...]polliwog", her coal black hair. Her life has been spent in the[...]Ruby Valley except for several years in Minnesota and Iowa. She is married to Richard Todd of Ennis, Montana and[...]Dorothy LaDue died on May 17, 1945 and was buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. She started the Campfire Girls in Sheridan, belonged to the Episcopal Church and was active[...]in community affairs, especially the schools and the Public[...] |
| [...]n 1947 Charles married Helen Moran Baril Richards and lived in Sheridan. In 1948 Charles and Helen built and operated the Ruby Bowling Alley which he sold in 1973. Charles LaDue died August 18, 1976 and was buried in the Helen LaDue at her home in Sheridan. Sheridan Cemetery. He was a charter member of the Sheridan Kiwanis Club, the Episcopal Church and was a visited me once, staying for two days. Mom and Chick had member of Elks Lodge No. 390 of Virginia City for over fifty no desire to visit any of the tourist attractions such as the years.[...]Jack and Pat Piper's Bar in San Jose, and locate it we did. Polly LaDue Todd Helen and Leo were divorced in 1928 and she married Tiny[...]I was born in 1931. Helen and Tiny ran the store and bar un- HELEN (MORAN) LaDUE til it burned in 1936 and the Vigilante Inn which they rebuilt on the same site in 1937. The 1930's were good years for the Mom was born in Ruby, Montana February. 21, 190[...]was a time when everyone had to work very Charles and Katie Moran, the oldest of seven children. She hard. However, I know my mother loved to work hard and attended grade school in Alder and Sheridan High School. she did so throughout her life. (She was married to three In 1920 she married Leo Baril and lived in Sheridan where Frenchmen who gave[...]n was born in 1923. In 1940 Fay joined the Air Force, where he spent the next In 1924 they moved to Redding, California for two years thirty years and in 1941 Bruce enlisted in the Army and Tiny before returning to the Ruby Valley, Mom promising herself went to Anaconda to work in the smelter. Mom ran the not to leave the Valley again. She did her best to keep that Vigilante by herself, with much help from Ruth Miles and promise as I lived in California for twenty years and she Orville Kelly, for the next few years. Tiny returned to the Valley in July 1944 and died there August 12, 1944. Chick and Helen La Due The Vigilante was sold in 1946 and Helen and Chick LaDue were married that same year and moved to Sheridan. They built the Ruby Valley Bowl in 1947. Bruce and Joeen helped[...]her, and all of us, when he died in 1960. The LaDues leased the bowling alley several times over the next fifteen years and finally sold it in 1972.[...]They were well matched (as were Dempsey and Tunney) and both loved to party. They had an amazing and convenient ability to forgive and forget anything that might have hap- pened the night before and no matter how extensive their[...]usual at the LaDue cabin. Mom and "The Duke " as she lov-[...]A history of my mother would not be complete without[...]entioning one of her greatest pleasures, her yard and flowers. Every place she lived she took well deserved pride in having the best in town. Of all her accomplishments, other[...] |
| [...]George and Nellie Latus and children, Patsy and Dale taken about 1927. and admired by everyone who knew her (well, almost) when she died in Sheridan on April 18, 1981. death. Two other children were born: Arnella in 1921 and Patsy in 1923. Arnella drowned in Mill Creek at the age of two Mick Richards and a half while attempting to find her way to her fa[...]store. George ran a jewelry and appliance store for fifty[...]years on Main Street. He was actively involved in the civic[...]affairs including being a charter member of the Kiwanis club and also a Mason and Elks Lodge member. He also spent many hours playing poker with the old timers, Walt Ell-[...]and Bill McKenzie.[...]Nellie died on January 20, 1967 in Sheridan at the age of[...]hortly after her death George closed his business and[...]Missoula he suffered a heart attack and died in a Missoula[...]hospital on December 19, 1967 at the age of 76. Funeral ser- George N. Latus N~llie Latus vices were held from the Methodist Church and he was buried in the Sheridan Cemetery.[...]elena, Montana was born in GEORGE N. LATUS AND NELLIE LATUS Sheridan, educated in the Sheridan schools, graduated in the class of 1935 and served with the U.S. Navy during World George N. Latus was born[...], 1891 in Helena, War II. Patsy Latus Taggart was also born in Sheridan Montana, son of Hannah and Frank Latus. Hannah's family educated in Sheridan schools and graduated in the the clas; were pioneer Swedish immigrants who homesteaded around of 1940. She married Jack Taggart of Twin Bridges who was Boulder and Billings, Montana. Frank Latus immigrated a comme[...]or many years. Patsy lives in from England. Frank and Hannah Latus separated when Phoenix, Arizona. She and Jack had five children: Karen, George was a small child. George worked in the lumber Thomas, Linda, John and Jack Jr. Dale and his wife had two yards around Spokane, Washington and apprenticed with a children, George F. and Lenora. Spokane jeweler. In his twenties he became very ill and spent many months in a Spokane hospital. He becam[...]on February 20, 1894. Her parents were Christina and Mary was born January 16, 1898 in Virginia City. She was Nels Anderson also Swedish immigrants. She was one of six the second child of Robert and Catherine Donegan Funk. daughters raised by the mother following the death of their Her first school was the one room log school house at old father who was a brick mason and working in Peru for the Adobetown. When in the third grade her family moved to a Anaconda Mining Corp. He helped build the original smelter farm near Sheridan. She attended the Lower Wisconsin in Anaconda, Montana. Nellie attended Wesleyan College in Creek School where she passed the State Eighth Grade Ex- Helena prior to marrying George in Boulder, Montana in aminations and entered Sheridan High School, graduating in June[...]ed to Sheridan where George opened 1916. She passed the State Teacher's Examinations and was an ice cream parlor with Nellie's help. Their[...]ale hired to teach summer school at McAllister. She took the was born in 1918 in the two room house next door to the old money earned and enrolled in Montana State Normal School. Wright h[...], by going to summer tended. Later, they moved to the log house across from the school and taking correspondence courses. She was awarded Schulz ranch on Main Street where they resided until Nellie's her diploma in 1926. Mary took graduate studies at the[...] |
| [...]Mary resumed her teaching career and spent thirty-four years teaching, the last sixteen years in the Helena Public[...]ma, a teachers' honorary society. She served as Alpha[...]ill, she managed to teach until a few months before her de[...]October 9, 1958. As a memorial to her the students and their[...]showing happy children at play. This they hung in the hallway of the Bryant School in Helena. A small bronze[...]plaque bears her name and years of service.[...]Mary was a dedicated teacher. She loved children and her life was a life of service.[...]7, 1894 and moved to Butte, Montana when a small boy. Later the family moved to Red Lodge, Montana. He spent[...]his early years working for various ranchers in the Red Mary Funk and Clarke Leh 's wedding day, August 2, 1932. Lo[...]He enlisted in the U.S. Army on SeQtember 22, 1917 at the University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, New age of 22 years. He went overseas early in 1918 and served York University, and the University of Montana. On with distinct[...]was awarded her coveted degree, Infantry and was in six major battles in France and Ger- Bachelor of Arts from San Francisco State College. In 1929 many, beginning with the battle of Saizerais in April, 1918 Mary got her Elementary Life Certificate. and on through the battles of Montidier-Noyan, Aisne- August 2, 1932, Mary and Clarke F. Leh were married in Spokane, Washington[...]t Plant. They made their home in Tri- dent. Their life together was very short, as December 1933[...] |
| Arthur S. Long, 1970. Marne, St. Mehil, Meuse-Argonne and Cantigney. He was wounded in action during the battle of St. Mehil and was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action. He Ray V. Love later was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery during the battle of the Meuse-Argonne. ant associations continued for Ray even after Hazelle's sud- After the Armistice he served with the Army of Occupa- den death in 1954. The store was sold but he stayed in tion from Decembe[...]Montana until 1977. He always anticipated the opportunity having served his country during World War I for three to greet friends and serve the new generation. When he died years.[...]he held a license as the state's oldest practicing pharmacist. After being discharged, Art ranched in the Red Lodge Ray Love was born near De[...]later moving to Butte, Montana where he worked in the Scottish ancestors came to Virginia before the Revolution mines from about 1939 to 1947 at which time he came to the and his grandfather migrated from Carolina after the Civil Ruby Valley. His first job was with Dollis[...]gh school Ray came to Montana State Col- Sheridan and he worked as camp tender and sheep herder. lege, Bozeman, where he[...]Pharmaceutical He followed this line of work for the next 28 years, working Chemistry at 18 in 1[...]was granted in 1914. Anderson, Gilbert Livestock and others. He retired in 1965 Ray was much younger than his two brothers and one and lived for a number of years in a small trailer house at the sister. One brother located in San Francisco, the other took a west end of the Sheridan park and baseball field. ranch near Bozeman and later homesteaded near Havre. At He was a 25 ye[...]rican his suggestion Ray had come west and now secured his first Legion Post No. 89 of Sher[...]position at Boones Havre Drug. By 1933 he and another Art passed away at the Madison County Nursing Home in pharmacist had purchased the business which they operated Sheridan on March 24, 1977 at the age of 82. He was buried until it was terminated by a disasterous fire and Ray's in the Veterans Plot at the Sheridan Cemetery with Military serious il[...]hed violinist. Though Ray never mastered Montana. All of Art's medals are in the showcase at the an instrument he appreciated fine music and accumulated an Legion Clubhouse in Sheridan, alon[...]m his mother he inherited his uniform which shows the Distinguished Service Cross pin- love of nature and gardening. ned on his uniform.[...]9 from Minneapolis. They married in 1916 and built a house.[...]an Legion 1918 brought a daughter, Dorothy, and later a little boy, Lee, completed the family. RAYMOND VASCO AND HAZELLE LOVE Ray n[...]pharmacists on the "Home Front". The Episcopal church The small town pharmacist is akin to the legendry "Village became the center of activity for the whole family. Ray serv- Blacksrrith" as he becomes an integral part of the communi- ed on the Executive Committee for several Bishops and was ty. Probably to each person he has given coun[...]essions. hour of stress. So it was with Ray Love, the local druggist. Masonry was his lifelong concern. He joined as a young Ray and his wife, Hazelle, came to Sheridan in 1941 when man, served in the Blue Lodge offices, affilated with York they purchased the "Pick and Pan" Drug Store. As former Rite, completed the offices in all their degrees at local and residents of Havre, Montana they were accustomed[...]f two highest ranking ticipation in local affairs and were soon involved. These pleas- York Ri[...] |
| [...]funeral in Butte and Masonic graveside rites in Sheridan.[...]This quiet, kindly servant of God and man will long be remembered with love and respect by all who ever knew him. Ray and Hazelle Love, April 1953.[...]Madolyn Love Star Matron and Ray as Patron; she as Rainbow Mother and he as DeMolay Dad. He also was a Temple trustee. Mrs. EDWIN AND CECELIA LUECK Love was organizing Regent of DAR and Supervisor of Public Welfare.[...]win Lueck was born October 19, 1917 in Brandon at the By the time the Loves came to Sheridan, Dorothy had com- Hubner R[...]ed by Cecil Gibson. He pleted University, taught and was married. Lee was serving is the eldest son of our grandparents Carl and Lena Lueck. in the Air Force. They immediately assumed their place in He attended the Brandon elementary school. With the help the church, lodge and community. Mrs. Love became Red of Glen Elser, the kids from Brandon maintained their own Cross Fie[...]s of water from Mill Creek. Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. She worked in the In 1928 Dad's family moved to a ranch owned by Mrs. Women's Club and was an Eastern Star Representative. Swayze and Mrs. McNulty, presently the Edwin Lueck Ray began revitalizing York Rite Masonry. He also secured ranch. Dad and his brother, Jack rode horseback, walked or for Christ Episcopal Church the fine pews from the pioneer caught rides when possible to go to high school in Sheridan. church at Pony. Part of the funds for the new organ were Edwin graduated in 1934. After gra[...]azelle. They purchased a house to remodel home on the ranch. All neighbors helped each other out with and modernized the store. their threshing. In the winter Dad and Uncle Jack made ex- Ray served on the school board for thirteen years during tra money hauling wood and ore and working in the Uncle which time he was responsible for the acquisition of land for Sam and Buckeye Mines. A cord of wood, sawed stove length an athletic field and expansion. The school lunch program and delivered, sold for four dollars. They hauled ore for eight was also initiated. As a further civic service he fathered the dollars a day, supplying their 4 horse team and sled. Dad idea of a Kiwanis Club. He was approached to run for mayor. always liked to work with teams. He also liked to trap However he felt he could serve best by personal contacts coyotes. since the druggist, doctor and clergy become confidants of He then moved to Seattle and worked a few months at Boe- the people. ing Aircraft. He was drafted in 1941 and spent three years After retiring he enjoyed touring to visit his families. and six months in the Air Force. Three of these years were Dorothy, a librarian and her husband, Bill Hall, an airline ex- spent in the South Pacific. ecutive, are both retired and live at Lake Oroville, California. On December[...]ied our mother, Cecelia They have three daughters and three grandchildren. Lee and Hansen. She is the second daughter of Louis and Selena his wife, Luva, have two sons, one daughter and five grand- Hansen and was born in Alder at the present Max Miller children, living in Seattle.[...]pidemic quaran- family friend formerly of Bozeman and the widow of his tined the entire family for six weeks. Neighbors delivered friend, Herbert Lange. He later sold his house and moved to supplies and groceries to the Hansen's mail box. Mom, with Butte where she resided. Winters were still filled with her three brothers and three sisters walked two miles to at- Masonic and community affairs. Summers were spent at tend elementary school in Alder. Before the Ruby Dam was Flathead Lake where he indulged in gardening. built, the river would gorge creating a huge skating rink in After surviving several major operations, a broken hip and their back yard. a near-fatal auto accident through the years, death came Mom graduated from Virginia City High School. She then quickly from pneumonia on March 2, 1980. His family came moved to Butte where she attended McCaroll's Beauty and on his 88th birthday he was accorded an Episcopalian School. In 1942 she married Sgt. Edgar Parker and traveled[...] |
| [...]Vista, California in 1963 to go into the garage business wi~h[...]for all his working life and is now working for the San Diego[...]ing in the Chula Vista Schools as a teacher's aide and cafeteria worker. Elmer and Arline have a son, John, and Edwin and Cecelia Lueck. two daughters, Linda and Sylvia. Sylvia is married and has two sons, Tim and Shane, and a daughter, Candice. They live around the states from base to base. He was killed while ser[...]ntry on Normandy Beach in France. Mom returned to the Sheridan area in 1944 where she continued Arline Lueck her beautician work and later married Edwin Lueck. Dad and Mom lived in Sheridan for five years, where their first two daughters were born. Dad worked at the cleaners FREDERICK AND THERESA LUECK and Mom had a small beauty shop. They then moved to the Hansen ranch in Alder. In 1953 our family moved on to the Frederick Lueck was born in Eiserfelt, Wesphala, Ger- Lueck ranch. Mom kept chickens for many years. She sold many, the son of Antone Lueck. He came to the United eggs to Walters Store, the Rest Home and the cafe for 35¢ to States alone to check it out and went back for his family. 50¢ a dozen. She remembers when the creamery truck from They came in 1885 and settled in Sheridan, Montana where Twin Bridges p[...]0. They many friends were already living. Theresa and Rudolph kept a few milk cows, the chickens, some hogs and of course Flick, children of Henry Flick, came with them. Theresa and stock cows and horses on the ranch. Now they raise all stock Frederick were married in a double ceremony[...]and Johanna Braach in Virginia City, Montana April 20[...]ginia City Elks, American Legion- 1892. They were the parents of seven boys and one girl, Sheridan, Montana Stock Growers Assoc. and National Cat- Fritz, Albert, Hubert, William, Oscar, Gus, Antone and tlemans Assoc. Ruth. The oldest daughter, Carolyn Lueck Matzke, graduated from MSU and presently resides in New Mexico. Their se- Frederick and Theresa Lueck family. Standing L . to R.: cond daughter, Kathy Lueck Stone, worked for the telephone Fritz, Albert, Ruth, Hubert, William. Seated: Theresa, company in Helena and the post office in Sheridan and now Oscar, Gus, Antone, Frederick. resides in Twin Bridges. The third daughter, Terri Lueck Moltich ranches with her husband in Sheridan. The youngest child, a son, Dick Lueck, presently works on the home ranch with his wife, Jody. Carolyn, Kathy, Terri and Dick Lueck ELMER LUECK Elmer Lueck was the only son of Fritz and Blanche Lueck. |
| [...]Genevieve and Gus Frederick and Theresa Lueck Frederick worked with his father and brothers in the mines |
| [...]plan to retire and pursue their interests of hunting, fishing and prospecting.[...]Ross Lueck Vivien and Ross Lueck born at the Rossiter Hospital in Sheridan.[...]. |
| James A. Maddison, 1945. JAMES A. AND MARILYN MADDISON[...]to R.: Holl~ Debra, Jim, David, Marilyn, Mary W. and |
| [...]hool athletics, lettering in football, basketball and track. He was also a member of the Sheridan High School[...]Band. He graduated from Sheridan High School in the class[...]Bob traveled to California with the desire to attend San[...]War II broke out, Bob joined the United States Air Force and won his commission as 2nd Lieutenant at Carlsbad,[...]he was trained to act as a navigator, bombardier, and pilot of[...]Bob was with the 410th AAF Bomber Squadron and lost his life when his bomber was shot down while on a bombing[...]one years of age at the time of his death.[...]An unpretentious veterans headstone lies in the Sheridan[...]Jim and Marilyn Maddison James and Marilyn Maddison, 1947. dison, born November 24,[...]1951; Holli Maddison Hughes, born March 2, Jim and Marilyn Maddison[...]17. 1888, and came to the Twin Bridges area in 1905 to work[...]on a ranch. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Magee[...]came to Dillon that same year and he joined them there. He |
| nection with historic restorations in Virginia City and he made his home there. Patrick H. Magee died at a Butte hospital on February 16, 1951 at the age of 62. Funeral services were held at the Raper Funeral Home in Virginia City and conducted by the American Legion, Anderson Simpson Post No. 89 of Sheridan. Burial was in the Veterans Plot at Sheridan, Mon- tana with militar[...]ctive member of Anderson Simpson Post in Sheridan and served as Vice Commander of the Post. He was also a former member of the Sheridan Kiwanis Club.[...]The greatest achievement during his last ten years in[...]sonal Saviour and helped to build the Baptist Church.[...]His parents, Victor and Martha Magnus, lived close to Lindy Magnus graduation picture, 1946. Helena and operated a dairy. He attended first grade in the[...]depression times, hay was scarce and expensive, so his father LINDY MAGNUS sold all his dairy cattle and in 1932 moved to Alder, Mon-[...]tana. They rented the old Salmonsen farm and Nevin attend- Lindy Magnus, second son of Victor and Martha Magnus, ed second and third grades in Alder. As the Salmonsen was born in Helena, Montana, January 29[...]ranch was sold to Bert Paige they moved to the Jarvis Ranch moved to Madison County in 1932 and he attended school in northwest of Laurin, then later to the Simonsen Ranch. He Alder, Laurin and Sheridan. He started school in Sheridan in attended the fourth grade in Laurin with Rena McDonald as 1939 when he was in the fifth grade and graduated from high his teacher. school in 19[...]with a good team that won lots of tough games. He also played basketball and Maxine and Nevin Magnus participated in track. He remembers having to run the half- mile at a Track Meet in Twin Bridges when all the practice he had was running after their cows down in the pasture. With the spectators yelling and cheering him on he won the race. After graduation he joined the Marine Corps and received an Honorable Discharge in 1947. He then[...]e, Washington where he attended Kinman University and met Laura, his wife, whom he married May 8, 1948. Lindy work- ed for Spokane County as truck driver and grader-patrol operator. The family moved to Plummer, Idaho where he did some dry-farming and worked as a pole-maker and logger. He tried to purchase a sawmill but when t[...]oved back to Madison County in 1959 with his wife and five children. They were living at Robbers Roost[...]most of their belongings in a fire. They moved to the Moore home in Sheridan and Lindy operated a sawmill below the tracks which belonged to Dollis Hodges for several years. Next he worked for his mother and father in the Co-op Store in Alder until he moved to Anaconda n 1969. He began working at the Anaconda Smelter and worked there until 1978 when he received a[...] |
| His parents then moved to the Gainan Ranch south of Alder and for his fifth grade he went to school there. After that they moved to the Berard Ranch and later bought the Silver Spring Ranch. Nevin finished grade school and high school in Sheridan. He participated in boxing, football and track and was also active in FFA. He graduated in 1945. He did farmw[...]for college. He attended Montana State at Bozeman and Kinman Business College in Spokane, Washington.[...]okane, Washington. They have two daughters: Kathy and Pamela, who both graduated from E.W.U. Kathy is married to Roger Coombs and they have two little daughters. Pamela is mar- I ried to Bruce Thomson and resides in Medical Lake, |
| remembers the year 1938 when they had the Gainan place Richard was killed in an ai[...]e it was such a cold winter that year. Ray Nelson and Valdez, Alaska. Beverly returned to Harlowton and was he took a team of horses up Williams Creek for a load of employed by the Continental Bank for the next two years. wood. By the time they got back they couldn't see the horses She made her home with an aunt, Julia Box. because t[...]was fifty below that Beverly then returned to the University of Montana in day.[...]wever, before finishing In 1942 they purchased the Silver Spring Ranch from she married Robert Marsh, son of Glen and Maybelle Marsh, William and Luda Maude Dupuis. They sold the ranch to of Sheridan, a rancher. To thi[...]dren were Herb Skinner in 1947. In 1951 both Vic and Martha went to born: Jeffery William, Janet Marie, and Julie Ann. work as managers for the Farmers Union Co-op at Alder and This marriage was dissolved in December 1[...]eighteen years later. Vic is a past Master of the Sheridan Masonic Lodge No. 20. They are both past Matron and Patron of the Arcelia[...]of Eastern Star. He is a thirty-seven year member and past president of the Eagles Lodge, No. 664 of Virginia City. Martha was the first president of Eagles Auxiliary. They are members of the Methodist Church. They raised five children: N[...]ary Ann of Everett, Washington; John of Sheridan; and Victor (Dutz) of Casper, Wyoming. They have sixteen grandchildren and twenty-four great grandchildren. Vic has so many good memories of his nearly fifty years in the Ruby Valley. Martha and he have traveled a lot over the years but they always come home. The reason is they like the Old Ruby. They are now retired and reside in Sheridan. Victor and Martha Salmonsen Magnus BEVERLY ANN[...]as born July 11, 1929 in Meade, Kan- \' ·,~ |
| [...]m his mother late in February of 1945 telling him the bad news. · Be remembers that following his discharge from the army he immediately went to see Doug's mother, Flossie and she asked him what he thought of bringing Doug's body[...]really thought it would bring back too much grief and sorrow for her. He felt that Doug was where he wo[...]ie had a bronze memorial star erected for Doug in the Marsh plot at the Sheridan Cemetery.[...]30. Flossie received Doug's Purple Heart Medal and citation on April 2, 1945 and this citation reads as follows:- "In returned to Sheridan where he assisted O.J. Olson, the local grateful memory of PFC Douglas C. Marsh, who died in the mortician. Skeet also ran a dray business of his own. He Service of his Country in the Southwest Pacific area on played a lot of indepen~ent bask~tball on the l_oca~ team dur- January 29, 1945. He stands in the unbroken line of patriots ing these years in[...]ary who have dared to die that freedom might live and grow and of 1945 and Skeet purchased the business from Mrs. Olson in increase its blessings. Freedom lives and through it - he lives March of 1945 and changed the name to the Marsh Funeral - in a way that humbles the understanding of most men." Home. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States[...]his business, he had his own Ted had played on the same teams as Doug while in plumbing shop and followed this line for a number of years. Sheridan High School and said he was a real competitor. He he was also the Town Marshal for Sheridan for a number of was a credit to his family, his school, the community in which years. he grew up and to his country which he fought and died for.[...]ried Norma Young of Butte in 1946. They had In the 1st volume, Pioneer Trails and Trials, Flossie wrote two children: Paul and Charles. They were later divorced and her husband, Wilbur, and her history but no pictures were Skeet ma[...]civic organizations; he served as showing him in the uniform of the United States Army. president of the Sheridan Kiwanis Club, was a member of the Methodist Church, and was active as a member in the T[...]t) Marsh was born on September 23, 1912 to Wilbur and Flossie Marsh. He was the oldest son in a family of seven children. He attended the Sheridan schools and participated in high school athletics, lettering in basket- ball and track. He graduated from the Sheridan High School in the class of 1930 and after graduation had several jobs, one of these was driving bus in the Yellowstone Park for a couple of seasons. He then[...]Embalming in Chicago, Illinois graduating in 1934 and w~s licensed to practice in the state by the Montana Board m June of 1934. After securing his license, he was employed by the Pemberton Funeral Home in Livingston, and then he ac- cepted a position of manager of the Dier Funeral Home in Sidney, Montana. Later this business was sold and Skeet[...] |
| Virginia City Elks Lodge No. 390. He was a member of the Sheridan Volunteer Fire Department for 28 years and was Fire Chief for 11 years. He also took a lot of interest in local sports and umpired Little League, Babe Ruth and Town Team Baseball games for several years. Skeet died at the Ruby Valley Hospital in Sheridan on November 11, 1971 at the age of fifty-nine, after a long ill- ness with cancer. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Sheridan with Rev. John Rice and Rev. John Vickers conducting the services. Pallbearers were Howard Morgan, Doug Elser, Orville Kelly, Ted Darby, Larry Kieckbusch and Oliver Kendall. He was buried in the family plot at the Sheridan Cemetery. Ted Darby and Charles Murray[...]ranch. Among them are riding to town in the buggy assem- bled by Bob and drawn by " Old Blue," the gentle grey mare, also picnics up Mill Creek with homemade ice cream and fried chicken. In later years among the most pleasurable ex-[...]periences were those of family reunions during the sum.mer months, when in August the family was united. The eight grandchildren will never forget the experience of the grain harvest, haying and their grandmother's delicious Glen Marsh[...]Maybelle and Glen were active in Civic affairs. They were GLEN AND MAYBELLE MARSH members of the Methodist Church. Maybelle taught Sunday[...]School, sang in the choir and enjoyed her long membership in Glen William Marsh was born June 1, 1900 to Elijah D. the Ladies Aid Society. She was a past Matron of the and Amanda Marsh on what is now the 0.A. Schulz ranch. Eastern Star and Mother Advisor of the Order of Rainbow On this ranch he and his nine brothers and sisters grew up. for Girls. Glen was a charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Glen enlisted in the army while a senior in high school. He Sheridan, member of the Masonic Lodge, Past Patron of the and a friend, Ping Schneider, were sent to Missoula where Eastern Star and a member of the American Legion. they remained only a short time as the Armistice was signed. Maybelle's health began to decline in the early sixties and Glen returned to Sheridan and resumed ranching. He mar- she died December 12, 1970. Glen kept busy on the ranch un- ried Maybelle Lucille Shaw in November of 1923. til 1972 when he spent the winter in California with his Maybelle Shaw Mar[...]innesota on daughter. He returned home and died suddenly on April February 1, 1901. In 1909 she moved to Three Forks with 25th. her f[...]road engineer; her mother, Lizette Nienaber Shaw; and M[...]Marjorie Marsh Watson Maybelle attended the University of Montana for a short time and went on to graduate from the State Normal College in Dillon. She held teaching positions first in Bridger, Mon- JAMES VERNON MARSH tana near Bozeman and then in 1921 taught in the Duncan District where she lived with the Bullerdick family and later James Vernon Marsh was the fifth of seven children born with Flo Duncan at the Galusha home. After teaching there to Wilbur and Flossie Marsh of Sheridan on March 28, 1917. for two years she moved to Sheridan and taught in the "Shang" as he was known to his friends grew up in the Sheridan Public School until her marriage. She and Glen liv- Sheridan area and attended local schools. He loved the out- ed on the ranch east of Sheridan where their three children: of-doors and was an avid hunter and fisherman . He joined twins, Mildred and Marjorie (1924) and Robert (1926) were the U.S. Army in 1941 and served with the Field Artillery in born and raised. the 41st Division. He spent thirty-eight months in the South Maybelle resumed teaching in the Duncan District in 1931. Pacific defendin[...]was awarded several These were years of hard work and setbacks. The large red medals and ribbons along with the Bronze Star for actions barn burned to the ground. It is remembered the bucket and bravery above and beyond the call of duty for a soldier in brigade of fellow ranchers and people from town doing all the South Pacific. He achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant they could to help. Also, Glen raised acres of peas for seed before his discharge in August of 1945. and one summer the crop was completely destroyed by hail.[...]ss in Sheridan consisting of a soda Nevertheless, the children have many happy memories of the fountain, confectionary items and a pool table. He married[...] |
| [...]rginia Belle Kendall on May 5, 1946. Virginia was the daughter of Oliver and Francis Kendall. Four sons were born of this marriage: Douglas 1947, David 1949, Scott 1953, and Michael 1959. In the years between 1946 and 1955 Vernon worked at his business "Shang's Place", on various ranches, for the county department and for a bee business. In 1955 Vernon and family moved to Dillon and he was Scott, Mary Lou, Gene, Lauri Wag[...]ering at Glen, Montana. He later went to work for the Ow~n Trucking in Dillon and later for the Montana Power company as a groundman. He also from Montana State University in Missoula and Candy worked for the Chas. Pfizer Company. After an extended ill-[...]Vernon died on November 2, 1979. He is buried in the Mary Lou married Richard E. (Gene) Wagner of Billings, Marsh plot in the Sheridan Cemetery. Montana where they live. He is a Captain on the Billings His son, Douglas and wife, Leann and two sons, Travis and Fire Department. They have two children: Lauri and Scott. Matthew, live in Bellingham, Washington. David and wife, Candy married David Buck of Great Falls who was killed Kassie, son Michael and daughter Lindsey live in Sheridan. in an explosion. They had two children: Wendy and Chad. Scott and wife, Linda, reside in Dillon as do Michael and wife She later married C. Gene Miller of Texas who is a pi[...]dy, Candy, Chad, Adam, Jason. VERNON W. AND LILLIAN MARSH Lillian Kindschy Marsh was born in Lewistown, Montana |
| [...]Bartlesville, Oklahoma. They have two sons: Jason and Adam. Lillian Ki[...]Isabe4 Jill and Ted Marsh years and later was manager of Ferry-Morris Seed Company,[...]a seed pea-cleaning plant in Sheridan. The company was[...]In 1941 Ted married Isabel Kearney, the daughter of W.E. Ted Marsh family: standing: Dan and Sharon. Seated: Jin |
| Sharon Norse in June 1974 and lives in Salt Lake City. They have no children. Dale married Christine Gall in October, 1974, and they live in Carlsbad, California. They are the parents of two children, Autumn Marie, and Benjamin Joseph. Nancy Jill lives in Butte with her parents. They all consider Sheridan "home" and enjoy visiting there whenever possible.[...]Mary and Robert McCrea parents, William and Catherine McCrea until 1946 when ROBERT AND MARY McCREA Robert Erwin McCrea was born in Philipsburg, Montana |
| [...]business sent him to Montana and the Ruby Valley to[...]establish a seed pea production program. The high grade crops raised in the area prompted the company to construct a[...]warehouse in Sheridan for cleaning and packing the many[...]ing peas in the summer time. Mr. McGregor managed the[...]Walter. Lynn was the daughter of Charles Walter who established and owned the Charles Walter Store in Sheridan. She was born in Sheridan in 1898 and was a graduate phar- Duncan District School macist from the Montana University. Mac and Lynn ~he was Junior Princess and Senior Queen in high school and enjoyed ice skating and for years they maintained a skating graduated as[...]High School in rink which was enjoyed by the public. They were the parents 1937. of one son, Douglas, and one daughter, Mary Lynn, who died[...]in 1934. Mary worked in the Pick and Pan Pharmacy for Myrtle Hall for a few years and for the Ruby Valley Hospital for After her husband's death, Lynn spent twenty-four years twenty-five years. She is a Past Matron of Arcelia Chapter working in the Charles Walter Store as a pharmacist and No. 34 Order of Eastern Star and a member of the Duncan sales lady. Bad health caused her to retire in 1974. She died District Household Club.[...], 1948. He is married to Elizabeth Mary Ann Paull and they live in Deer Lodge, Mon- tana. They are parents of three children: William Robert, Christopher Michael and Emily Ann. Mary McCrea FLOYD B. AND ADELINE (LYNN) McGREGOR Floyd B. McGregor,the son of Scottish parents, was born Lynn and Floyd B. McGregor, 1950. JAMES G. AND BETTY McLAUGHLIN[...]Lark, Utah. He is the oldest child of James and Hannah[...]was eight months old. Jimmie attended school in Melrose |
| [...]; Lea Ann, LPN of Ft. Harrison December 11, 1957; and Dave of Sheridan July 21, 1965. There are nine grandchildren. After the war Jimmie had the dray service for awhile and then operated the Twin Bridges Garage and drove school bus. He now is a self-employed miner and mine promoter. He and his family moved to Sheridan in August of 1966 and bought the Holland place on Mill Creek where they still reside. James and Betty McLaughlin THE CHILDREN OF HUGO MILLER[...]Lloyd H. Miller: Mrs. Hugo Miller, Hul!o, Lula. Harry, Stella and Gerald Townsend.[...] |
| Harry and Clara Miller trade. Harry remembered the machinery for the shop was |
| [...]William Moltich, 1970. The Moltich family home, 1972.[...]MOLTICH Swanson Ranch. From there their brothers and sisters went on their own ways except Matt and Tony who stayed on the Carl John Moltich was born August 3, 1915 at Twin ranch. Their father passed away in 1944 and they took care Bridges, Montana, the second son of Matt and Veronica of their mother until she passed away in 1963. From then on Moltich and made his home in the Ruby Valley all his life. He they did their own housekeeping because neither of them attended the Twin Bridges schools and enlisted in the married.[...]Marines January 21, 1943, serving overseas with the Fourth From 1939 to 1972, with a lot of hard work, they made it Marine Division in the Southwest Pacific for twenty-two one of the best producing ranches in the Ruby Valley. They months. He participated in: the Battle of Roi and Naumer- were in the cattle and hog business and at the time they sold Kwajalein; Marshall Islands; Battle of Saipan; and the Bat- the ranch they had built their hog operation to sixty[...]was honorably discharged as Corporal in ing sows and sold from 900 to 1000 hogs a year. In 1972 they November 1945, holding the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon, the Good decided to call it quits and sold the ranch, but kept acreage Conduct medal and a Presidential Unit Citation with one on the ranch for a new home in which they still live and are star. enjoying their retirement.[...]born May 4, 1929 at Twin belonging to the Ruby Valley Flying Service of Twin Bridges[...], Montana. He was a G.I. student Bridges, Montana the sixth son of Matt and Veronica Moltich. He helped with the ranch work and attended[...]pilot at the Twin Bridges Airport. He possessed private schools in Twin Bridges and the State College at Bozeman. pilot's license and was flying to accumulate the required Since 1953 he has m~d_e his home in Spok[...]f hours for a commercial license. with his family and is employed by Pacific International Ex- press (P[...]1943. Tony and Matt Moltich Point of the Rocks SchooL[...] |
| [...]military honors by 1·1e American Legion are the parents of two children: Max, who is partner in the was made in the Sheridan Cemetery. ranches and is married to Terri Lueck; and Lois, who is atten-[...]ng Montana State University in Bozeman. Both Lois and[...]Fred Moltich Fred and Violet Moltich, |
| [...]always in her view from the kitchen window. The older children were at school in the Duncan District School.[...]In 1930 they moved to the "Bruggeman place" and began purchasing it. When school started the bus did not stop as it Wedding picture: Charles Franklin and Reta Brundage was only allowed to pick up childre[...]Creek. As Frank worked away from home and left early, the[...]ked over two miles to school. Due to sickness, no the year 1913. He got a job with the "P & 0" Company transportation to school and hard times they moved again in breaking horses, helping with cattle drives and working as a 1934 to the Foster Brothers' property up Wisconsin Creek camp cook on the trail. The P & 0 drove their livestock to known as the "Hart place ". the Centennial Valley for summer range and it was here that Frank continued working as a[...]his "Bride to be ", Reta. Reta's parents were by the "Cisler Ranch " near Brandon at the time of his un- homesteaders in the Centennial and her mother cooked for timely death at the age of forty-five. He passed away in the the trailriders when they were near the Brundage home. Murray Hospital, Butte, aft[...]na February 6, 1892, just a few days before Frank and Jim's graduation exercises the only daughter of John Holiday and Laura Isabelle Boat- at Sheridan High School. Jim was Salutatorian and he was man Brundage, pioneers of Madison County.[...]ial graduation day. nal grandparents were Hiram ·and Elizabeth Brundage and Reta with the help of the children always raised a large her maternal grandarents were George Thomas and Harriet garden and had a large strawberry patch. She sold Johnson Boatman. The Brundages arrived in the Virginia vegetables and berries and did lots of canning for food at Territory in 1863 and the Boatmans in 1864. Reta attended home, including the wild game killed during hunting season. schools in Dillon including the Montana Normal College and She continued this until all of the children were grown. In taught in the "Doyle" School in the Centennial Valley. 1946 she moved to Sheridan to make her home. Reta and Frank were married in Dillon September 1, 1915 Reta Brundage Moore, a Gold Star Mother of World War and moved to the Centennial where they homesteaded on a II, passed away in the Sheridan Hospital at the age of sixty- ranch below Red Rock Lake near her[...]was of school age they held him Cooper Moore, was the first Madison County casulty of back a year and started the second son, Jim, a year early so World War II when he was killed in action in the African that one little boy would not have to ride horseback alone to Theatre in August 1942. school several miles from home. Frank and Reta had twelve children: Franklin Charles Frank and Reta hoping to make a better living and be (Frank), Sheridan, Montana; Jim Brundage (Jame[...]to school, hearing there were ranches for sale in the Sheridan, Montana; Lamar (LaMar) Cooper, deceased; Laura Sheridan area, packed up their belongings and with eight Isabelle, Ruby, Montana; George Boatma[...]ren, including twins, headed for Sheridan by team and na; Robert Gene, San Antonio, Texas; Betty Jean,[...]tana; Everett Holi- home known as "York Ranch" in the Upper Ruby, spending day, San Antonio, Texas; Ett[...]n Sheridan Oc- Reta Claire, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Paul Hubert, Hardin, tober 1927 and lived on Mill Street in the Ewald Braach Montana. Betty and Robert (Bobby) and Everett and Etta house. The four oldest children attended school in Sheridan. were twins. They moved to the George Hermsmeyer place in May 1928[...]n children, twins having been born while in town. The creek was close to the house and the first twins would head F[...]en their mother let them outside to play. Feeling she had had enough of "this foolishness" she made them a Floyd Moore was born on November 19, 1891 in Sheridan, harness-like outfit and used a small rope to tie them to the Montana, only son of Walter S. (Dixie) and Fannie Moore.[...] |
| [...]nephews (The Albrecht boys) and also others like "Spud" Walter and "Harp" Darby. Floyd was very fond of dogs and always had one. It was his last dog "Alice" that alerted Raymond Smith that[...]something was wrong with Floyd. Floyd and the dog had walked from the Pool Hall (Stockman) to his cabin near the[...]evidently collapsed and died when he opened the cabin door. The dog went back to the Pool Hall and by her actions Ray-[...]mond Smith knew something was wrong. He and Skeet Marsh returned with the dog to the cabin and found Floyd[...]Floyd died on October 27, 1964 at the age of 72. Funeral[...]the American Legion of Sheridan and he was buried at the[...]Bud and Audrey Albrecht Pvt. Floyd Moore, U.S. Army 1918. |
| [...]y types of work • ranching, mining, working for the Forest Service, Manager for Ferry Morse Seed Company of Detroit for eighteen years, bus driver and custodian for the Sheridan Schools and manager of Williams Feed and Seed Store for nine years. He retired in 1979 and started driving school bus again for something to do to keep active. In the fall and winter he keeps score for the football and James and Roberta Moore. basketball games. He helped to start a training program for Freshman and Sophomores, teaching them to shoot trap JAMES B. AND ROBERTA (ARMITAGE) MOORE targets. He also teaches a Hunter Safety Course for in- terested youngsters. He is the Chief Hunter Safety Instruc- An eagerness for life brought James ,"Jim" Brundage tor of Madison County •· all volunteer work. Moore into the home of his parents, Charles Franklin and Frank has been very active in trap shooting since 1964, Reta Claire Brundage Moore, before the expected date. Jim the year his wife left him and later got a divorce June 13, was born January 18, 1918, at the family home near the 1966. He has won many trophies and made many friends. Brundage bridge in the Centennial Valley, Montana. He join- He likes to fish and hunt ducks. He does a lot of bowling dur- ed a brother, Franklin Charles. ing the winter, winning a trophy now and then. Jim started school at the Doyle School in the Centennial, where he and his brother traveled by horse and buggy for[...]summer terms. His mother started both of her sons the Standing: Forrest Karlsgodt,[...]Hofacker, J.R. Karlsgodt, Jodi and Jill Parker, Teri Jo Parker, Karen |
| same year and they continued being in the same grade through high school. The family with eight children moved to the Ewald Braach house on Mill Street, October 1927. The four eldest children attended the city school. They attended Duncan District School when the family lived on the William Bray ranch on Mill Creek. They lived on the William Bruggeman place before moving to the Hart place on Wisconsin Creek. Jim graduated[...]High School, May 1937. He was an honor student and was outstanding in sports. He was awarded an at[...]ted it to return home to help support his mother and ten younger brothers and sisters after his father's death in May, 1937. He worked for Walter Ellinghouse at the Sheridan Meat Andrew Stanford Karlsgodt, 2½ mo. Market with Sam Hagenberger. He also worked on several ye~s. She h~s earned many ribbons on her entries in sewing, area ranches. Jim always had a love and great patience with baking, canmng, houseplants and candy-making at the Coun- horses and has worked with them since he was a young boy. ty Fairs. Jim and Roberta Jayne Armitage were married on August Roberta was bookkeeper at the Charles Walter Store two 5, 1943 in Butte, Montana. years and was associated with the Bank of Sheridan from Roberta was born October 29, 1919, in San Bernardino, 1945 to 1978 when she retired. Jim has been the California to Rommell Joseph and Florence Ezmerelda maintenance employee of the Town of Sheridan since Magill Armitage. See Pioneer Trails and Trials. Roberta ar- December 1955. rived in[...]Roberta has enjoyed music all her life, having listened to Roberta attended schools in San Timoteo Canyon in Beau- her father play the old pedal organ every evening. She has mont, California, and graduated from Redlands, California shared her music at church functions, weddings and High School, June 1937. She attended Pasadena Business funerals. She was a Scout leader three years, a sponsor of the College, Pasadena, California, and graduated from Butte Methodist Youth Fellowship five years and has taught in the Business College, Butte, Montana in 1942. church school many years. Jim and Roberta have served on Jim and Roberta have lived in Sheridan since their mar- the Rainbow Board many years and Jim was the DeMolay riage. They have three daughters. The girls attended the Dad. They both have served in many ways with the young Sheridan schools and each were married in the Bethel United people of the community. Methodist Church. Margaret Edna was born November 9, 1946. She graduated from high school with honors in 1965. She attend-[...]Moore ed Montana State University, Bozeman, where she was the first woman to receive a Bachelor of Science degr[...]July 1, degrees so that it is no longer unusual. She married Michael 1919. He was the third child of Charles Franklin and Reta Allan Hofacker of Butte, Montana, September 7, 1968. Claire Brundage Moore. He lived in the Centennial Valley After graduation Margaret and Mike worked for Union Car- until the family moved to Sheridan in October 1927. bide, C[...]ana, LaMar attended Sheridan schools from the second grade November 1971, where they lived in Billings, Colstrip and through high school. He had been nicknamed[...]so that many did not know his real name. Michael and Karen Margaret. When he was about ready to join his brothers, Frank and Jayne Colleen was born October 11, 1949, and graduated Jim, in athletics some people wondered if the boys had a from high school in 1967. She attended Rocky Mountain Col- sister who wan[...]basketball. While in high school lege, Billings, and graduated from Eastern Montana College, Billings, in 1971. She taught first grade at Red Lodge where 2nd Lt. LaMar Moore. U.S. Army Air Corps, 1942. she met Thomas John Parker, a teacher in the Red Lodge High School. They were married December[...]North Dakota, where Tom was high school principal and taught commercial subjects. Teri Jo was born while they lived at Adams. Jayne returned to teaching and taught fourth grade and then second grade They moved to Tom's hometown, Nekoma, North Dakota, and changed pro- fessions, becoming grain farmers. They also have twin daughters: Jodi Corrine and Jill Marie. Mary Helen was born March 21, 1952, and resides in Dillon with her husband Forrest Stanford Karlsgodt, of Valier, and their two sons, James Torbjorn, (J.T.) and Andrew Stan- ford. She graduated from high school in 1970, and attended Montana State University later graduating from Great Falls Commercial College. She married Forrest July 1, 1973. She worked at the State Bank and Trust Company, Dillon, six[...] |
| [...]made him a student and officer that won respect from all who[...]James and Roberta A. Moore.[...]JAMES FRANKLIN AND VIRGINIA (COSTLE)[...]Artie and Rita Morris, was born in Alder, Montana[...]November 3, 1910, the oldest of three children. His sister,[...]Virginia, was born in Adobetown in 1912 and his youngest[...]fter a he with his two brothers added strength to the sports teams. time the family moved to West Yellowstone where his dad L[...]Sheridan High Sc_hool in 1938. worked and later drove freight teams, hauling cement for the He attended the State Normal College in Dillon, where he construction of Hebgen Dam. was on the staff of the college paper. While attending college Somewhere around 1914 his folks moved and took up a he worked on the Staudenmeyer Ranch and drove the school homestead on Wolf Creek on the Madison. In later years his bus to pick up the students of the Drummey District, driving dad bought the ground along the foothills to the Middle . back to the ranch each evening. Squaw Creek. As children Bus remembers that he and his After attending college for two years he enlisted in the Ar- sisters rode horseback three miles to the one room school my Air Corps. He received training to be a pilot at the located on Wolf Creek. There was one teacher for the eight Visalia Dinuba School of Aeronautics, in Visalia, California. grades. Also they never attended class during the winter He was sick for two weeks and was dropped from the pilot because of the snow, but made up for the lost time during the training but was transferred to train as a naviga[...]hen he was sixteen Bus ran a trapline for coyotes and few days visit in Sheridan with his family and friends he was badgers along the upper Madison. The hides were shipped to transferred to Fort Myers, Florida, where he joined the ferry L.P. Prouty in New York. Prouty offered[...]for each of the Montana and Wyoming hides received. 2nd Lt. LaMar Moore was killed in an airplane accident in Because of the winters on the Madison everyone got around the African Middle Eastern Theatre on August 2, 1942.[...]came death was not due to enemy combat. This was the first to the Ruby Valley in 1929 with his folks. His dad bought casualty in World War II for the Sheridan area. the Holgate Ranch, now owned by Ted Bacon, during the The pilot of the B-24 had worried a little bit about the new depression years and after seven years of hard times the navigator. "Slim" Moore was just out of school. H[...]in Sheridan Bus met Lillian Virginia Costle were all as planned. and they were married in Dillon in June of 1943. Virginia was Twice in two days the British Inteligence reported that a the youngest of seventeen children born to Michael and Nazi convoy was in the area, the crew went to investigate. Lillian Costle on April 19, 1926. She grew up around Leiter- They found the German cargo ship with four destroyers. ville where her dad worked and she attended school in They hit the cargo ship and returned to their base in Sheridan. She with her brothers and sisters spent many Palestine. The cause of the crash was never reported, the hours hiking the hills around Leitervile and Lake Shore. Her pilot said they had not been hit. He was the only survivor. dad made them pack a raw onio[...]was sit- characteristic of him, "I will go where my country needs me, ting in a rocking chair in the cabin when during a rainstorm and I will do my duty" . "His fine character and high ideals lightning came through the window and struck her mom's[...] |
| [...]Virginia had a special love for the mountains she grew up in and spent most of her spare time there. In the fall she and[...]Bus would ready: their camp at Leiterville for the hunting season and their door was always open to all who stopped by.[...]Many a hunting yarn was spun around the early morning[...]kfast table as Virginia busily cooked bacon, eggs and pancakes over the hot wood stove for the mighty hunters. This she loved doing and after breakfast she too would grab her gun and be off with the hunters. She enjoyed shooting and was very good at it. In later years she and Bus adopted an interest in snowmobiling and almost every weekend they were out mak-[...]ing tracks in the snow. Once again their door to the cabin was opened to all who stopped in and they had many a[...]snowmobile gathering there. They also joined a snowmobile club known as the "Vigilante Snowmobile Club" in Sheridan.[...]During the years Bus worked on various ranches around the valley. He was custodian for the Ruby Valley Hospital for eleven and a half years and after thirty-five years is still[...]caretaker for the Leiterville Mines. He is now semi-retired and resides at his home in Sheridan. Virgnia was cust[...]for the Sheridan Elementary School for eighteen years and "Bus" and Virginia also custodian for the Bank of Sheridan for over twenty-five[...]years. She died in June 1980. knitting needles. Bus and Virginia had two daughters and two grandsons. In February of 1946 Virginia's f[...]to Sheridan Margaret Ann was born in 1945 and Patricia Jean in 1948. and she and Bus moved up to Leiterville where Bus became[...]aretaker. They both became excellent on showshoes and they reside. They are both employed at the Warm Springs taught their two daughters the art as well. They lived at State Hospital. Patricia married Larry Houska and they Leiterville year round until the girls were school age. In the reside in McAllister, Montana. Larry works for Madison early spring Bus would come down to the valley to tag and County road crew. They have two sons: Laramie Lynn born shear sheep, following the sheep season he'd drive back and January 1978 and Jody Lynn born June 1980. forth from Leitervile to work on area ranches. Bus worked with sheep in both the Ruby and Madison Valleys for over[...]Patty Morris Houska twenty-five years. "Bus" and Virginia and grandson, Laramie.[...]14, 1915. She was number five of ten children. Her parents[...]were Daniel and Esther Murphy who had come from Ireland. |
| High School in September 1928 and graduating in May 1932. She attended Eastern Montana Normal School in Billing[...]f Education, from January 1933 until August 1934. She later attended Western Mon- tana College at Dillon and earned her degree the summer of 1967. Helen taught in rural schools in McCone County for two years and then came to the State Orphan's Home in Twin Bridges to teach in September 1936. She taught there for five and one-half years. In 1941 she married Willard Tolson. They lived in Idaho for about a year and then returned to live in Sheridan. Helen began teaching the first grade in Sheridan in 1944 and taught there until 1962 with the exception of ~ne y~ar. That year of 1954-55 she taught in Long Beach, Califorrua. Helen began teaching at the Russell School in Missoula in 1963 and continued there until she retired. Helen is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an honorary teacher's society, and ?f t~e Retired Teacher's Association. She returned to live m Sheridan July 1980.[...]n Murphy CHARLES B. MURRAY My history started in Murray, Utah where I was born[...]Sgt. Charles B. Murray. |
| of the club for the year 1949. At the conclusion of my teaching career my friends in Sheridan presented me with a fine Browning Over and Under trap shooting shotgun. I have won many trop[...]wo State Class Championships for Veterans in 1977 and 1979 at Great Falls and Missoula. I can still hit a few but the angles are getting tougher.[...]Simonsen, Mike and June Simonson.[...]Mrs. Gear would move to Adobetown while the children at-[...]the ranch on Granite Creek to the Adobetown school.[...]They were married in Sheridan October 20, 1923,and in[...]and who was killed in an accident October 16, 1965; J[...]Mabel born June 9, 1927; and Lauwanna Charlene, born[...]April 1, 1929, at Sheridan and who passed away September[...]Ray passed away June 15, 1978 and is buried in the Raymond W and Evalena Nelson. Sher[...]Evalena now resides at the Madison County Nursing RAYMOND WILLIAM AND EVALENA (WEINGART) Home.[...]orn at Sheridan, Montana DAN AND LUCILLE NOVICH October 21, 1904, the youngest child of John and Emma Nelson. His parents were born in Sweden and settled in Dan is a native of the Ruby Valley having been born on the Nebraska prior to making their home in Sheridan. Ray grew old Schulz Ranch located on the Big Hole River about four- up in the Sheridan area and attended the local grade school. teen miles southwest of Twin Bridges. He was the second of He spent his entire life working on ranches in the Ruby and four sons born to Tom and Doris Novich. At the age of two Madison Valleys.[...]he moved along with his parents to the home ranch about Evalena Weingart was born Apri[...]hat was then near Virginia City to Frederick John and Lucinda Jane Con- known as the Paigeville Community. His brother, Duke, and nor Weingart. Her mother passed away in 1900 and she and family now own that ranch. He attended scho[...]es through eighth grade but he "played hookey" so and Katherine Gear. While John and Evalena were small often that his dad de[...]scholar so at the age of fourteen he was tending sheep camps Delmar, June and Charlene Nelson, 1936. on the Gravelly Range where they had a sheep allotment.[...]Dan was indoctrinated at an early age to the rigors of ranch life. At age ten he was sent to the McCarty Mountain with a couple hundred ewes and lambs. Having not paid[...]enough attention to his dad's directions, he took the wrong road and became lost. It wasn't until the next day that his father found him and he still had all his sheep. He admits to being scared "a little bit", but not too much because he had[...]his horse and dog. Mostly he was hungry.[...]Sandy, whom he calls the best "cowman• he ever knew. San-[...]dy had a ranch on the Big Hole and lived there during the winter months. He also had a homestead on Long Creek in the Centennial Valley. In the spring he would trail his cattle from the Big Hole Ranch to the Centennial. Dan was always[...] |
| Dan and Lucille Novick. one of his cowboys. The trail drive was about one hundred miles long and took between twelve to fourteen days. Luci[...]t valued friendships was with a local Company and for the Forest Service for awhile. In 1958 he veterinaria[...]er for several years. In 1953 they were years and then decided "town life" was not for him. In 1962 faced with the huge task of blood testing the cow herds of Dan and Lucille bought the Martin Galiger Ranch, located Madison County. This was a compulsory program of the five miles south of Sheridan, where they still live. state for the control of Brucellosis in cows. This was to be Dan has always been an ardent horse lover and as a young Dan's "College Career" in life as he garnered much[...]man rode saddle broncs in Amateur Rodeos and used to thrill knowledge from his association wit[...]the crowds at the Beaverhead County Fair with his well- that he learned has been both valuable and profitable in his matched little bay mares in the Buggy Race. Dan still raises own livestock busine[...]Quarter Horses. He was the Horse Superintendent at the In December of 1944 Dan suffered a severe inju[...]Madison County Fair for twenty-one years. foot and knee when a horse fell with him. This injury was to He has been an active member of the Community. He was keep him out of the Armed Services during World War II, so elected to the Soil Conservation Service Board for nine years, he remained at home to work on the ranch. He stayed there was on the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Ser- until 1955 when he and Lucille were married and he moved to vice Board for six years and on the Westside Canal Water Dillon to make his home.[...]User's Board for six years and on the board of the Co-op Lucille Harrison Weaver was born to pion[...]t Alder for five years. Since 1965 he has George and Hazel Harrison in the Grasshopper Valley in been a Montana State Deputy Brand Inspector, a job that Beaverhead County. She was 'Widowed in 1951. She had really keeps him busy, particularly in the fall. three sons, Gaylord who lives in Arkansas and twin sons, In August of 1981 Dan had open heart surgery and has Raymond and Richard who, with their families, live in ~he found that he has had to "slow-up" some, but with the help of Big Hole Valley at Wisdom, Montana. Before she marned the hired man, can still carry on the ranch work and is also Dan she worked at the D and L Jewelry Store in Dillon for able to continue with the brand inspections. about a year, part time at Marie Anderson's Shop and then worked at Larson's Gift Shop for a little over five years. In Both he and Lucille are proud and happy to be a part of the 1958 and 1959 she and her mother managed the Snack Bar in Ruby Valley and find their hearts and roots are deeply the Student Union Building at Western Montana College[...]there until 1915 when the family moved to Sheridan where[...]his father was manager of the Montana Power Ruby Valley[...]branch. In high school Ellis was active in sports and lettered in football and basketball. In 1922-23 he attended school in[...]Twin Bridges but returned to Sheridan the folowing year and[...]Sports Editor for the school paper, the Passaman. During the summer of 1923 he worked for the Montana Power Company when the power line was built from[...]transferred to the Mystic Lake job out of Red Lodge.[...]in for Dramatics and Play Production. His play "Ingenuity[...] |
| [...]and one of the highlights of his life was being a member of the Elk's Ritualistic Team from Virginia City which won the Montana State Ritualistic Championship. The team then went to the National Finals in Philadelphia where they plac-[...]Ellis and Benita separated in 1944.[...]is died at his home in Sheridan January 20, 1981, she still lives in Sheridan. She has a daughter, Lucille Carr, of Orlan-[...]Charles B. Murray Ellis J. Oakwood and his dog in Arizona. and How" was presented on the occasion of the formal open- |
| Pauline and Jake Oakwood. blessing to her in obtaining employment. She had various HARRY ARTHUR AND MARGUERITE (HALSE) Harry Arthur Odden and Marguerite Halse were married |
| [...]moving with his parents to Sheridan at the age of eleven. He graduated from the Sheridan High School in 1953 and the[...]served six months of active duty in the United States Army Reserve and completed the program in Anchorage, Alaska for the next seven years. On July 3, 1958 he married Mari[...]Glafke of Anchorage, Alaska whom he had met at the University. For the next three years he taught in the An-[...]chorage school system. After working for the Goodyear[...]Rubber Company as a distributor during the summer vaca- tions, he became manager of the Commercial Tire Center on a[...]pany as their manager and representative throughout[...]thur III, Lelia Lucile, and Ruth Ellen. Ruth Ellen, Harry III, Father, Harry Jr., Lelia Lucile, and Mother Marian, 1981.[...]dge No. 20 serving as Master in both. He joined the Yorkrite Bodies in Virginia City: Royal Arch No.[...]n in Haugesund, Norway on April 14, cil No. 12, and Commandry No. 1, serving at the head of 1870. He came to the United States as a very young man each. He is a member of Bagdad Temple of the Shrine, Harry with his mother and an older brother and sister following the was a member of the Kiwanis Club for thirty years, the town death of his father. He attended school in Chicago, Illinois council for fifteen, and a member and president of the Senior and worked in a furniture store. He was also employed in St. Citizens. Harry and Marguerite are members of the United Louis, Missouri for a time before moving to Lake Preston Methodist Church and Arcelia 34 of the Eastern Star. Harry South Dakota where he made his home for several years, and served as Patron in 1951.[...]n in Sheridan, Montana November 13, Mr. and Mrs. Olson moved to Bryant, North Dakota in 1910 to Alfred and Emelia Halse. She received her early 1904 and he entered the undertaking business there and also education in the Sheridan school, graduating from the served as Mayor for eight years. They came to Montana in Sheridan High School. She went on to the State Normal Col- 1913 residing on a ranch[...]Sheridan four years later. graduating in 1932. She taught school in central Montana Mr. and Mrs. Olson came to Sheridan in January 191 7, pur- until her marriage. During World War II she taught at chased the Linderman furniture store and opened a funeral Shawmut, Montana for three years. During these war years home establishing the business which he operated in she served as Red Cross clothing production chairman[...]an for twenty-eight years. Wheatland County. When the family moved to Sheridan she did the bookkeeping for Texaco Service. When the business O.J. Olson was sold Marguerite taught at the State Children's Center in Twin Bridges for nine years, retiring in 1965. Marguerite was a member of the Madison County's Republican Central Committee for thirty years serving as Vice President and secretary and treasurer. Marguerite was appointed by the governor to serve on the board of the Children's Center. This board was later deleted. She was listed in "Who's Who of American Women" in 1962 for work at the Children's Center. Marguerite served as Worthy Matron of Primrose Chapter No. 20 of the Eastern Star. She was president of the United Methodist Women, and presi- dent of the Madison County History Association which pro- duced two volumes of Madison County history in 1976 and 1982. Harry and Marguerite enjoyed a trip to central Europe in 1972 with Marguerite's brother, Harvey Halse, and sister-in- law, Mabel. They visited the homeland and birth place of Marguerite's and Harvey's mother. Emelia Halse in Holzhausen, Germany as well as other central countries. They visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1978, as well as trips around the United States, with several trips to visit their son, Harry Jr. in Alaska. Harry and Marguerite are the parents of two children: Beverly Ann Marsh by a former marriage, and written elsewhere; and a son, Harry Jr.[...] |
| [...]as Madison County coroner for 22 years until 1943 and he was Mayor of Sheridan for 13 years, from 1926 to 1939. An ardent supporter of all community activities, Mr. Olson took particular interest in all athletic events, seldom missing a basketball, football or baseball game. His interest in the youth of the community was manifest by consistent support of the Sheridan School in all of its activities. He also spon- sored the local Independent Basketball Team known as "Olson's Undertakers" for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Olson had one son, Howard, who was born in 1924 and attended Sheridan Schools, graduating in the class of 1941. There were also three other children by a former marriage: David Olson of Twin Bridges, Edward Olson of Columbus and Mrs. Emil Steen of Brookings, South Dakota. Mr.[...]Sheridan on January 15, 1945 of a heart condition and complications from which he had suffered for about nine months. Six members of the Sheridan High School basketball team assisted in moving the body from the funeral parlor to the Olson home: Bob Schneider, Norris May, Bill Schowe, Russell Schulz, Leslie Jackson and Jay Stansell. Sheridan business places were closed and Sheridan High School was dismissed during the funeral services which was held at the Methodist Church. Burial was made in the Sheridan Cemetery. Mrs. Olson sold the Olson Funeral Home to Emmitt D. Marsh of Sheridan in March, 1945 and Florence M and Bert G. Paige, Boy ington G. "Dub" Paige, then la[...]Lowell M. Paige. Taken 1909. ed she died in the early 1970's.[...]e until his retirement in 1973. He is a member of the Ted J . Darby and Charles B. Murray West Gate Lodge, No. 27, A.F. & A.M. Twin Bridges and member and Past Patron of Virginia Ch. No. 9, O.E .S.,[...]Virginia City, a forty-six year member and past Exalted WWELL MARSHALL AND BOBBY (JACKSON) PAIGE Ruler of the B.P.O.E. No. 390, Virginia City and Past[...]Deputy Montana West in 1955. Lowell was one of The saga of Sam Paige which began with "yoked up the the members of the Ritualistic Team that competed in Na- bulls and started for Montana " continues in the life of Lowell tional Competition at the Elk's Convention in 1941 in Marshall Paige, son of Bert G . . and Florence Paige, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Sigma grandson of Sam and Minerva Paige. Born in Twin Bridges, Phi Epsilon Fraternity, was a member of the Alder Fire Montana February 16, 1907 Lowell attended school there Department, trustee of the Alder and Sheridan School and graduated in 1924 and went to the University of Mon- Boards, past president of the Sheridan Kiwanis Club, served tana for ten quarte[...]years were spent working thirteen years on the Ruby Valley Soil Conservation Service with his father in the mines in Bear Gulch and at the Paige Board and as member of the Board of Directors of the family ranch. In the summer of 1934 Lowell was with the Federal Land Bank Association for twelve years. He is a life- U.S.G.L.O. on a cadastral survey in the Bitterroot area. From 1935 until 1937 he worked in the County Superinten- Lowell and Bobby Paige family, 25th wedding anniversary, dent of Schools' and Treasurer's offices in Virginia City and July 1962. L . to R .: Alan D., Lowell Sr., Bobby, Lowell Jr., from 1937 to 1941 he worked at the Madison Abstract and Ray J . Title Company for Frank E. Blair and acquired his abstrac- tor's license. On July 29,[...]~ tia) Jackson. They lived in Virginia City and their oldest son, Lo'-Vell Marshall (Kayo), Jr. was born on February 7, 1939. In May of 1941 the Paiges moved to Twin Bridges where Lowell operated the Pitcher Garage until gas and tire ration- ing of World War II. August 1942 took the family to Anaconda where Lowell served as timekeeper for the A.C.M. Company for four years and for Reed Motor Company as ac- countant for two years. Their sons, Ray Joe and Alan Dwight, were born there January 24, 1943 and March 27, 1945, respectively. June 1948 the family moved to the Paige Ranch near Alder until May 1, 1961 when the ranch was sold. The family moved to the "Sutherland " house in Sheridan where they still[...]ntant for Maddison's, as owner of Ehlers ' Agency and as manager of the Montana State Liquor[...] |
| long member of the Episcopal Church. Lowell engaged in big-game hunting, fishing and bowling, adding golfing after retirement. He maintains a keen interest in high school sports and on mining activities in the area. Bobby Paige was born at the Jackson Ranch between Nor- ris and Harrison, the second daughter to Bessie Portia and Peter V. Jackson, Jr., both pioneers of Madison County. She attended school in Pony and Norris, graduating from high school in Harrison. In 1937 she worked in Virginia City where she met and married Lowell Paige. After the three sons were raised, Bobby attended W.M.C. in Dillon and received her degree in Secondary Education with majors in music and English in 1969. She did graduate work at the University of the Americas in Mexico. She taught one year at the Children's Center, one year at Twin Bridges High School, finished the year in Sheridan for Doris Kitt at the time of her death and taught one more year. Bobby is a member of the Grand Cross of Color, Order of Rainbow, member and Past Matron of Virginia Ch. No. 9 O.E.S., Virginia City, former 4-H Leader, president of the Madison-Jefferson Cowbelles, chairman of the Madison County Democrats, manager of the Sheridan Duplicate Bridge Club, president of the Music Boosters, teaches organ and piano and is organist for Christ Episcopal Church. Kayo attended grade school three years in Anaconda and all three attended grade school in Alder and graduated from Sheridan High School. Major Lowell[...]. Pearson graduation picture, class of 1941. from the U. of M. and is serving his twentieth year in the U.S. Air Force, presently stationed at Lackland A[...]iness College in Spokane, served three years with the Ar- which was located on Corral Creek in the Madison Valley. my, graduated from W.M.C. and is presently teaching in His father was Leo Pearson, son of Joe and Abbie Pearson Hobson, Montana. Major Alan Paige g[...]lf Creek. His mother was Irene Cowan Pear- M.S.U. and is serving in the U.S. Air Force, now stationed at son, daughter of James and Blanche Cowan. Andrews Air Base in Washington, D.C. where he is Bruce lived in the Madison Valley until 1936. At that time logistics engineer with the Cruise Missle. he moved to Sheridan in the Ruby Valley and attended the Lowell and Bobby have four grandchildren: Greg, Heather Sheridan Schools, graduating from the Sheridan High School and Sarah, children of Alan and Susan Paige, and Gina Rae, with the class of 1941. He participated in high school sports, daughter of Ray and Corliss Paige. Greg is the fifth genera- lettering in basketball and football. tion to carry on the Sam Paige's name and while Greg has liv- During the summers of '38, '39, '40 and '41 he worked for ed many places, he, like Sam, would "yoke up the bulls" and various ranchers in the Sheridan area, among these being head for Montana[...]Glen Marsh, Vernon Marsh, Carl Lueck and Jay McGlinch. He also had a part time job after school doing the janitor Lowell M. Paige work at the Bank of Sheridan for John Will, who was the[...]then in the summer of that year he went to Seattle, Research conducted for Pioneer Trails and Trials revealed Washington with his good friend, Greg Hall, to seek employ- the (previously unknown) information that Sam Paige,[...]ngeles, California where he Lowell's grandfather, and Henrietta Fletcher Jackson, Bob- worked f[...]l by's grandmother, had traveled from Nebraska on the same drilling equipment and when World War II broke out he wagon train to Virginia City in 1866. Sam settled in Alder returned to Sheridan and entered the U.S. Army in 1942. He and Henrietta made her way to Meadow Creek and Sterling took his basic training in California and then served in the on the Madison side of the county. It is prophetic that the European Theatre of Operations under General Bradley of two families should meet 77 years later in the persons of the lst Army. He received his discharge in December 1945. grandchildren in Virginia City. Virginia City and Alder After returning home to Sheridan Bruce married Gay Gulch were certainly a haven for Sam and Henrietta after Nelson on November 2, 1946. Gay was the daughter of their long arduous journey. For Lowell and Bobby, who have Eugene and Ida Hubner Nelson who owned a ranch east of a cab[...]in Sheridan on February 18, 1927, at- with family and friends, it is also a haven. Perhaps the souls tended the Sheridan schools, graduating from high school in[...]ents are there, too. the class of 1944. They lived in Sheridan approximate[...]year and Bruce worked at the Toledo Mine. In 1947 they BRUCE AND GAY PEARSON moved[...]worked in various mines there for the Anaconda Copper Min-[...]ng Company. Bruce was born November 11, 1922 on the Herndon Ranch, Renee, their oldest daughter, was born April 1948 and[...] |
| [...]Joseph's Church. He was buried at the Sheridan Cemetery[...]with military service by the American Legion, Anderson[...]Butte January 16, 1956. In September 1957 Bruce and Gay bought the Sheridan Bakery from Frank Jackson. They both worked at the bakery and had a successful business. Connie, their youngest[...]ter Connie was born, Gay's health started to fail and in 1976 they sold their business. Gay died in Mar[...]ruce later married Hope Long Felton. Hope, Connie and he live in Sheridan where Connie goes to school. She will 1st Lieutenant Robert E. Perry, U.S. Marine Naval Air graduate in 1985. Hope and Bruce both work for School District No. 5. He still likes to go big game hunting in the Force, 1952. fall and their hobbies are fishing and prospecting for gold. Renee is married and has two children. David works as a[...]Company. Bruce's sister, Audrey, lives close by and is employed at Robert E. Perry was the only child of James M. and the Bank of Sheridan.[...]Bruce E . Pearson on February 23, 1922 and attended school in both Brandon JAMES AND ELEANORE (PERRAULT) PERRY and Sheridan. He was a star athlete for Sheridan High[...]School lettering in football, basketball and track. He was on James Marion Perry was born August 16, 1888 and spent the Sheridan High Track Team that won the State Class B ~ost of his_life in the Sheridan area. He was a trapper, occa- Championship in 1939, and almost repeated in 1940, falling sionally mmed and worked in the timber and on ranches. ½ point short as Plains, Montana took the state champion- During World War I he served in the U.S. Army, went ship. He was a consistent winner in his special events, overseas and was in France and Belgium. Returning from hurdles, mile and half-mile. He also won the American the war he came back to Sheridan, married Eleanore Perrault Legion Post No. 89 Cross Country Run in the years 1937, in 1921 and they lived most of their lives in the Sheridan and 1938 and 1939. Bob did a lot of his training by skipping the ~randon vicinity. They had one son, Robert, who w[...]from Brandon to Sheridan m a plane crash while in the service with the U.S. Marine regularly, a distance of abo[...]Bob graduated from Sheridan High School in the class of Elenore Perrault Perry was born in Sheridan, Montana at 1940 and with the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the P~rrault ranch west of Sheridan on July 22, 1892 to the U.S. Marine Corps. He served six years in the Marine Magloire and Pamela Perrault, Madison County pioneers. Naval Air Force as a pilot. He attained the rank of 1st She attended the Sheridan schools and graduated with the Lieutenant. He was married to Margaret Walsh, a Missoula class of 1912. She died on March 13, 1937 after a lingering ill- g[...]d one daughter, Patricia, born in 1948. ness from the effects of cancer. She was in failing health for After World War[...]at St. discharged, but remained in the Reserves. He returned to Joseph's Catholic Church in Sheridan and she was buried in Montana with his family and was employed by the A.C.M. the Sheridan Cemetery. She was forty-four years of age at Company in Bonner, Montana and resided there until he was the time of her death. recalled to service during the Korean War. _James Perry died February 19, 1958 at the age of sixty- He was called back into service in July, 1952, was transfer- nme at the Veterans Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. His body red to El Toro Marine Base in California and was completing[...] |
| [...]training flight in his Corsair fighter plane when the plane crashed and Bob was killed January 16, 1953. Bob's body was r[...]ervices were held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church and he was buried in the family plot in Sheridan Cemetery with Military honors by Anderson Simpson Post No. 89, the American Legion. Ted J. Darby and Charles B. Mur.ray iI Clarence Pickett and passenger bus bought in 1932. |
| [...]igh school graduation picture, 1942. Nora and Jack Powers, 1980. CHARLES B. P[...]s born in Sheridan, Montana on Evelyn and Maurice Turner. Upon graduation she returned September 16, 1924 to Al and Olive Pillen, longtime to Seattle and lived with another sister and her husband, Ed- residents of the Sheridan area. He attended grade school in na and Charles Yeo. She worked at Boeing until May of Sheridan and Alder and attended high school in Sheridan 1945. and graduated with the class of 1942. Charles did not par- Retur[...]chool athletics but he was an excellent met the man in her life, Jack E. Powers, who was working in baseball player and played with the Alder town team when Sheridan for the power company. They were married he was in high s[...]t St. Following graduation he went to work for the Great Falls Joseph's Catholic Church in Sheri[...]ther Bureau. He later resigned his position there and they resided in Butte where Jack worked for the Milwaukee enlisted in the Army Air Force after World War II broke out. Railroad until January 1946 when they moved to Sheridan. He joined the Air Force in 1943, received technical training Jack worked at the Stockman's Bar. Their first daughter, at the University of Chicago in radio operations, then w[...]ugust 12, 1946. to gunnery school in Pyote, Texas and at Sioux Falls, South In November 1946 the[...]in March of 1944. Charles attain- until Jack took a position with the Anaconda Smelter. Their ed the rank of Tech. Sgt. and became radio operator and tur- second child, Sandra Kay, was born Februa[...]Anaconda. In 1948 Jack transferred to Butte and they five separate bomber combat missions over en[...]ton Street. Their family grew. continental Europe and was awarded the Air Medal and Oak John Arthur was born January 20, 1950 and twins, Michael Leaf Cluster. His plane was shot down over Germany on May 8, 1944 and it was reported all the crew perished in the Powers children: Cynthia, John A., Patricia, S[...]In June, 1949 his body was returned to Sheridan and burial was made in the family plot in the Sheridan Cemetery with Military Honors by the American Legion, Anderson Simp- son Post No. 89 of Sheridan. Charles had a twin sister, Roslind (Rosalie) and an older brother Albert G. Pillen who served with the U.S. Army in New Guinea.[...]EILEEN ELSER POWERS Nora Eileen Elser was born the fifth and last daughter to |
| Dean and Daniel Joseph, were born November 15, 1952. Dani[...]nthia Irene, was born September 20, 1960. In 1961 she helped set up the original Ben Franklin Store and worked there until the illness of their youngest daughter, Cindy, forced them to leave Montana on October 12, 1962 and move to Seattle where they now reside. Her workin[...]Seattle was nine years with Safeway as a checker and five years at the University of Washington, as a super- visor in the custodian department. Nora now is quite occupied with her five children, their spouses and twelve lovely grandchildren. Their Christmas is so much like the Christmas' that she remembers at Grandma Braach's. Sheridan will be "home " as long as she lives. No[...]was known as Preston Chevrolet. Larry had the garage for thirty years, giving up the Chevrolet dealership and selling the garage to Art Hardies in 19?4.[...]Two boys were born to Larry and Elaine: Larry Duncan and Gary Lee. Larry has six children: Duncan Lee, She[...]Evelyn, James, Michael and Elizabeth. Gary Lee has four:[...]Nora Jane, Peter Scott, David and Ruth. There are ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The Prestons are Navy people. Larry Sr. was in the Navy in World War II. His sons, Larry and Gary, served in the Navy during the Korean War. Larry's three sons, Duncan, James and Michael, are in the Navy now, as is Gary's son,[...]joined the Navy but will not go until he has finished this y[...]was honored at a retirement dinner at the Tobacco Root Lodge and presented with an engraved watch and a framed photo of the hospital, gifts from the staff.[...]JOSEPH JAY AND LOIS (FUDGE) RAMER Larry B. Preston, 1978.[...]In August of 1949 Joseph Jay and Lois Fudge Ramer, with[...]their two youngest children, Elmer and Bernice, moved to LAWRENCE B. AND ELAINE PRESTON Sheridan t[...]the job at the high school as commercial teacher and Lawrence B. (Larry) Preston was born in Colfax,[...]rk in 1954 they bought a house, remodeled it, and settled in for the Yellowstone Park.[...]nty-six years. Elaine Duncan, daughter of James and Jennie Duncan, Joe, as he was known, h[...]rests up Wet was born in Sheridan April 10, 1910. She was born in the Georgia, which kept him busy; but in later years due to being same ranch house as her father. She is the great grand- crippled on a job in 1951, had to give up most of the physical daughter of the Reverend Hugh Duncan. wor[...]ested in current events, keeping informed Larry and Elaine were married June 13, 1930 in Liv-[...]oe was born in Cooke City, Montana July 25. 1891, the months where Larry was employed as Transportation Agent. youngest of three boys to John and Ada Ramer. His parents From there they went to We[...]th died before he was a teenager. A foster family took care several months where Larry worked at the Rock Island of him for a few years, then[...]on to cowboying, far- Dam. They moved to Sheridan and opened a dry cleaning ming, joining the Navy and other jobs. While riding on a establishment which[...]train in Colorado he met a young woman and her mother Later in 1934 in partnership with Ji[...]o, Colorado to visit relatives. Two years started the Chevrolet Garage. It was first located on Main later on December 16, 1922 Joe and Lois Fudge were married Street and then moved to Mill Street where the present Mon- in Billings, Montana. This[...] |
| [...]Patricia Bausch Raymond Joseph J. and Lois 0. Ramer. 50th Wedding Anniversary, Algean B[...], 1972. She attended local schools and graduated from Ennis High |
| [...]Junod. He attended schools in Sheridan and Stanford University. CARRIE BELLE RAYMOND JUNOD |
| [...]She grew up in Sheridan, attending schools there, and also[...]tion she was employed in the State Capitol offices in Helena[...]She later married J . Earl Johnson, a mining promoter and[...]Sheridan, built a home and Mary stayed in Sheridan while[...]Mary was associated with her sisters, Delilah and Carrie, in the operations of the Raymond Ranch. Mary and Earl had no children. She was a lover of sports, especially baseball and basketball and had many parties for the local teams at the Raymond home over the years. She was very active in the local Women's Club and par- ticularly in support of the Episcopal Church. Mary died from[...]ere held from Christ Episcopal Church in Sheridan and she was buried in the family plot at the Sheridan Cemetry.[...]elilah E. (Lilah) R aymond were some hard times and more than a few tough years. It Mary was the youngest child of Winthrop and Ellen Ray- |
| [...]mfortable home for Vi. They enjoyed playing cards and had many friends who enjoyed the same pastime. They plan-[...]since he left, but Vi became ill and returned to Great Falls for treatment. She died there after a long illness.[...]Ed went to New York for a visit and there he met one[...]returned and cared for his uncle until Ed died August 18,[...]1963. He is buried in the Laurin Cemetery.[...]Ed helped many people during the depression years, but the assistance he gave was known only to those he hel[...]brecht, Donna Wude~ Alice Davis' Daughters, Joann and Fem. Horses: Pat and Dan. FERN AUGUSTA (SCHULZ) REEVES and friends.[...]r 7, 1923 |
| [...]when my mother and sister died shortly after I was born,[...]February 28, 1928, my dad and I moved in with my mother's Fem Augusta Schulz Reeves, 1944. folks, Wilmer and Winifred Hall, and youngest daughter,[...]of my mother's sisters, and sometimes she and her husband, worked at the General Hospital. In 1947 they moved to Harry, and Bonnie and brother, Jack, would live with us, too. Butte. Daniel was born August 27, 1947. In 1948 the mar- Times were hard and families had to pull together. Dad had riage was terminated and Fem and Dan came back to the the Kurfiss Repair Shop, "Papa", my grandfather, drove the Wisconsin Creek Ranch. Fem did private nursing in homes road grader, and my grandmother, "Mummie", cooked for and worked at the Sheridan Hospital. hay crews, Sis taught and Harry worked in sheep camps. In the fall of 1949 Fem and Dan moved to Helena where The funny part is, I don't think any of us knew we were poor. Fem worked at the Ft. Harrison Veteran's Hospital for five there was always so much love. years. In 1953 she married Leonard Reeves, who was born in Other than home and family, growing up in Sheridan is a Edgmont, South Dakota. Leonard was employed by the vignette of fond memories; the blacksmith shop, roller- Montana National Guard[...]hni- skating Mill Street, spinning dizzy on the oak stools in Mad- cian. Deborah was born June 5, 1954. Edward was born dison' s Store, watching my dad weld, first-camp picnics, five March 24, 195[...]pennies to spend at the Pick and Pan, graduating and get- Fem attended Carroll College and received a bachelors ting to go to college. degree in nursing in 1964. She worked at the Masonic Home Now, I do some writing and pottery-making. My husband, and in geriatrics at St. Johns Hospital, Helena. She taught George Remington, was born in Anaconda in 1925 on the practical nursing students for ten years at the Helena Voca- very day my folks were married there! Our children are tional Technical School until she retired in 1980. David (1954), Leslie (1959), Larisa (1968) and grandson, Dan married Gerri Woods of Helena and they have two Jeremy (1980). girls, Theanna and Thalia Rose. Deborah married Charles Dawes of Columbus, Ohio and they have two boys, Daniel Lorraine Kurfiss Remington and Jonathan. Ed married Vivian Spaulding of Helena.[...]horses. Every summer CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND MABEL RHODES she and members of the family take a long trip on horseback into the Bob Marshall Wilderness.[...]Vere Lenore was born April 11, 1904 to William M. and Fem Schu[...]old when the family moved from the Twin Bridges' farm to the Charles Hill property in Sheridan. With this move[...]SS) REMINGTON seemed that all that is good in life was to be had. When Vere was twelve years old her mother died and life was changed "We wanta fifty cent steak and a canna Hills Brother's cof- for the little girl. Her father hired housekeepers to car[...]ime, in unison, "Please!" his little family. When she became high school age she was Joe Garrett was used to Bonnie's and my shopping trips to sent to a school for girls in Walla Walla, Washington. In the Sheridan Meat Market. Grabbing a plump weiner that 1922 she married James Lewis and they made their home Sam Hagenberger had just mad[...]father at Clover Meadow Ranch. To this union two and hand us each half. Before we left, carrying our brown girls were born: Bessie in 1923 and Betty in 1925. The mar- sacks, we'd ask if there were any scraps for[...]r. In 1936 Vere bought the Monty Duncan home in Virginia Bonnie and I were more like sisters that cousins, just as City and equipped it for a hospital, and nursed for Doctors Normie was more my sister than my aunt. That's because Kronmiller and Farnsworth. In 1942 she sold these holdings[...] |
| [...]Meredith Rhodes Betty and Vere Bessie and Vere mother died December 27, 1916 in Ontario, California where and moved with her daughters to San Francisco where she she had hoped to regain her health. Meredith's grammar worked until 1947. Leaving there she and Betty bought a school days were spent in[...]r- high school in Bozeman. ryville, Arkansas. She named it Clover Meadow after her He left Sheridan in January 1925 to seek fame and fortune home in Sheridan. Vere married Kenneth A.[...]o be most Bessie Lewis married William Jennings and they had a fortunate. He married Patrici[...]tty Lewis married Michigan in November 1926 and they have two fine sons' William Spencer. They had two sons, William born in 1948 Willia~ and Robert, born May ~929 and January 1931: and Ricky born in 1950. respectively. They are both marned and have added four[...]very lovely granddaughters to the family circle. Vere still lives in Berryville with her daughter, Betty and grandson, William.[...]Fenner, at Caltech on design, layout and construction of elec- MEREDITH LYNN[...]c power systems for about ten years. Between 1936 and 1941 he was also assistant purchasing agent for Caltech. In[...]February 1941 he left Caltech to develop and administer an Meredith was born May 21, 1906 in[...]ng organization at Los Angeles Ship- an early age the family moved from Butte to a leased ranch building in San Pedro, California. In 1943 he performed the about seven miles out of Twin Bridges near Roches[...]an a new career raising livestock. On until the end of World War II. December 9, 1913 they were j[...]Their In November 1945 Meredith joined the newly organized Power Division of the Bechtel Corporation in Vernon, Vere, Mabe[...]with Bechtel until November 1950 when he joined the[...]at the age of sixty-five.[...]Mabel was born in Twin Bridges in 1913 and lived on the[...]when she was three. In 1928 her father sold the ranch and[...]Mabel Cheney (widow of Zebulon Cheney) and her family and also near his son, Meredith and family. Mabel graduated[...]Sheridan in the spring of 1930 and died in 1935.[...]Pasadena, where she worked as secretary from 1930-39. Dur-[...] |
| [...]moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1974. Bill is on the faculty of the University of Arizona.[...]Bill got his private pilot's license in 1940 and now has over[...]since 1954. It is used mostly for business trips and Mabel has accompanied him for the last twenty years. They[...]have traveled in western Europe, Israel, Japan and People's[...]David got a Ph.D at Cornell in 1969 and works for a federal[...]David and Shelby Anne, born in 1966 and 1968 respectively.[...]1967. She is a social worker in Indianapolis, unmarried, and owns an airplane which she flies for pleasure.[...]Mabel Jeanette Rhodes Sears Mabel and William Sears wedding p icture, March 20, 1936. ing World War II Bill was chief of aerodynamics and flight Mabel and Bill Sears in Tucson, 1981. CLIF W. AND PATRICIA (WELSH) RODGERS[...]Nelson and John J. Walker. Mrs. Walker died in 1910 and |
| [...]surveying for the U.S.G.D.O. near the Canadian border in[...]cornbread living during the depression as did ev~ryone else in[...]those days. Somewhere along the line he got an urge to study medicine and by using all the money he could earn and save through mining jobs and contracts managed to push through the premedical program at Montana State College and medical school at St. Louis University, graduatin[...]1942 in the midst of World War II. After an abbreviated in-[...]ternship in Los Angeles he entered the Army as a doctor and spent most of two years in the China-Burma-India theatre. Returning to the states he was discharged in Fort Lewis and set up a general medical practice in Sheridan whe[...]Bertha graduated from the Emanuel School of Nursing in[...]Portland, Oregon in 1941. During World War II she joined the Navy Nurse Corps and saw duty on the West Coast and Pearl Harbor. She was recalled to active duty for the Korean Conflict and served aboard M.S.T.S. ships, sailing to Alaska J[...]erman Brown trout caught by Clif, January 1, and Japan. 1967. Bertha and Dave have a son, Charles, born in 1954. He at-[...]tended Northern Montana College and Spokane Community Patricia still resides in their[...]In 1957 twins were born to Dave and Bertha. Jim attended[...]Northern Montana College and is a mechanic in this area. He[...]University. H.D. AND BERTHA ROSSITER[...]me a Radiologist but returned to Dave Rossiter, the son of R.W. and Mabel Rossiter, went Sheridan to general practice until 1959 when he practiced through local schools and entered the University of Montana Radiology full time unt[...]m nursing in 1928. His college career was erratic and checkered being in 1981. interrupted numerous times in numerous fields of employ- Bertha and Dave spent a year in the Peace Corps in ment, from ground man for Ma Bell in southern Utah, to 1973-74 in the South Pacific. They continue to live in[...]Sheridan as do all but Jane, who now lives in Kalispell.[...]Dave and Bertha Rossiter Charles,[...] |
| [...]wid~ in that period and was stopped ultimately by the Bank Holiday when Roosevelt took over in 1932 and the FDIC was[...]The little bank survived those years but it took its toll on[...]who lived only a few short years after retirement and died at the relatively young age of sixty, the night of Pearl[...]To the union of R.W. and Mabel were born a daughter, Janette Boone, and a son Henry David in 1909 and 1911[...]13, 1895, son of Charles (Carl) and Bertha Edelmann Runkel.[...]His mother died three days after his birth and he was raised[...]ti) Spuhler and they were known as the Spuhler twins. Harry spent aiI his life in Sheridan. As a young man he clerked at the Charles Walter Store and when World War I broke out, he joined the U.S. Army and served in France with Raymond W Rossiter[...]Sheridan and shortly became the Town Marshal for Raymond W. Rossiter was the only son of Henry Douglas Sheridan, a position he held for many years. He also acted as Rossiter. R.W. (Chick) was born in 1881 in Santa Clara, Water Commissioner and handled all the maintenance work California. He moved to Sheridan with his mother when he on the water system of Sheridan. Harry was an excellent was two and remained there life-long. In 1907 he married baseball player and played for the Sheridan Town team for a Mabel Boone Holloway who taught seventh and eighth number of years and in Volume I of Pioneer Trails and Trials grades in the local school. you will see him pictured with several of the local baseball Chick Rossiter was janitor in the newly-started Sheridan teams. Harry marrie[...]927. State Bank of which he later !>ecame cashier and ultimately Harry was very active in the American Legion and he was its president, in which position he served for thirty-five one of the Charter members when Anderson Simpson Post years.[...], so it was necessary to stay with mander of the Post in 1923 and he was elected as Adjutant banking, his last love, until the bank was taken over by North- and Finance Officer of the Post in 1925 and held this office west Bancorporation in the waning days of the great until health forced him to retire in 1950. depression and became the Bank of Sheridan. Chick worried He was also a member of Alder Gulch Aerie No. 664 FO all his managerial days in the bank that it would shortly have Eagles, and St. Joseph's Church of Sheridan. to close[...] |
| [...]he would try to find a way to been a patient off and on for several years. During the last establish a home here. While in Seattle he left the construc- few years of Harry's life he was confined to a wheel chair as tion work to move to Sheridan in 1943 and take over the both of his legs had been amputated. apiary he had been building up and operating by remote con- Funeral services for H[...]trol since 1939. Catholic Church in Sheridan and he was buried at the Edith and Walter were blessed with two sons: Paul Louis She[...]ted by born in Bozeman April 26, 1941 and Byron Thomas born in Anderson Simpson Post No. 89 of the American Legion. Butte June 30, 1944.[...]wife, Judy, near Sheridan and Byron is a surgeon in Klamath[...]Falls, Oregon. Byron and his wife, Kathy, have two children, Ted J. Darby David and Anita.[...]and state. He was mayor, engineered building the city hall, served on the airport committee, was president of Montana[...]Beekeepers and represented the industry in Washington,[...]D.C. He was a member of the Sheridan Trap and Gun Club, Masonic Lodge, National Wildlife and was an honorary[...]member of Montana National Guard. He served on the Vigilante Boy Scout committee and was a vestryman of Christ Church, worked on the cemetery board for twenty- seven years and was serving on the Sheridan Library board at the time of his death. As a member of the Kiwanis club,[...]one of his ventures was leader of the Kiwanis Park Project, dedicated in 1946. In the center of the park stands a hand-[...]built stone monument with an arrastra stone at the top[...]Walter G. Sagunsky, 1904-1977 whose efforts and rare abili-[...]ty made possible this Kiwanis Park. Presented by the[...]2 to 1963. He was on several important committees and was (Byron and Kathy's wedding day).[...]ed a memorial asking congress to "reject the Bureau of[...]Reclamation proposal to divert water from the Madison WALTER G. AND EDITH (SCHOENEK) SAGUNSKY River", saving the world famous fishing stream, local ran-[...]chers' irrigation water, Hebgen Dam and the Montana Edith Schoenek was born December 4, 1913 at the family Power Dam below Ennis. sawmill home on Sou[...]ections was traveling for votech training in 1973 and 1974 and helped several to at- with her mother and father to their homestead on the Missouri flat in a covered wagon. She nearly died with Paul and Judy Sagunsky Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in 1919. Her father built a small schoolhouse for the six neighbor children and her in 1920 and her parents paid the teacher. After the first year and during the winter months the next year she attended the Meadow Creek School 4½ miles below the sawmill. She either walked, rode horseback or stayed with her grandmother. She attended school in Ennis start- ing with the sixth grade and graduated from Ennis High School in 1931. She graduated from Normal College, Dillon in 1933 and taught school until 1939. The first horrific experience of her life was witnessing the unmerciful suffering and death of her brother, Louis, in June, 1939. Her[...]G. Sagunsky was solemnized December 28, 1939, by the Rev. William Reeves in St. James Church, Bozeman.[...]t grew up in Wisconsin. He had a rugged childhood and left home at the age of fourteen to start out "on his own". He bec[...]taught violin in a Duluth, Michigan conservatory and had a studio of his own in Milwaukee when the 1929 crash hit. He came to Montana about 1930 and Edith met him in 1931. He was engineer for McLaughlin Construction on the com- pletion of the Ruby Dam and also on bridges through the[...] |
| Byron, Kathy and David Sagunsky tain their desired positions. |
| L. to R.: Robert and James Schneider Montana upon his return and chose banking as his field. He WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH SCHNEIDER FAMILY[...]eider was born in Eisenfelt, Germany May 2, HERBERT (SHARKE[...] |
| The Schneider Home, Lot north of Ruby Hotel early age. She was a waitress at restaurants and hotels in Butte. She met Frank Van Wart who was born in Canada and Ellen and Raymond W. (Ping) Schneider. they were married. T[...]a. Mary passed away about born February 14, 1911; and Frank Jr. who was born in two months later. Ping was a twin and his twin sister died Meadersille August 6, 1922.[...]iage Frank freighted ore with a six horse team in the Butte area. He also operated ranches in the Elk ELLEN HANNAH SCHNEIDER Park area, Waterloo, Pleasant Valley and Pipestone. For a short time he worked in the mines. Ellen Sch[...]ridan December 8, 1891. Clara died January 1959 and Frank July 1959. All three of Ellen's twin sister, Annie, lived to the age of sixteen. Ellen their children still reside[...]died in 1902 she had to quit school at the age of eleven and RAYMOND W. (PING) SCHNEIDER[...]help support the familv. Raymond W. "Ping" Schneider was born in Sheridan Oc- Ellen worked for a long time at the Ruby Hotel. She was tober 8, 1898 and spent his teen years in Sheridan attending also a waitress for Paul Pomrenke at the Club Cafe, cleaned schools in Sheridan and Butte. He played baseball for the rooms above the Sheridan Garage and cooked for the Foster •Sheridan Tangos" before he went to California in the Brothers' and Schulz Ranches. Ellen never married. 1920's. He lived in and around Los Angeles for more that fif- After Ellen sold the Schneider home in 1971, where she had ty years. He was a professional baseball umpire in the Inter- lived for seventy years, she moved to Hemet, California for a national League in the Midwest and then in the Pacific Coast short time to live with her br[...]hree years. After retiring from umpiring so she became very unhappy and returned to Sheridan where he worked as a bartender at the Nikodel in Los Angeles and she lived in the Shermont Motel and in Louise Steiner's as electrician at Paramount S[...]She died at the Crest Nursing Home in Butte October 5, 1976 He always said that his best years in life were spent umpir- at the age of eighty-four. Funeral services were held at the K ing but he quit about the time the pay was getting good. He & L Mortuary Chapel in Sheridan with Rev. H.N. Tragitt of- knew many of the greats in baseball, having seen a number ficiating. Burial was in the family plot. Pallbearers were Ted of them come up through the minor leagues and the Coast Darby, George King, Frank Van Wart, Herb Atkinson, league which was next thing to the Majors. The two greatest David Birrer and Henry Walter. players he said were Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. He knew baseball from the ground up and could spend hours Mary Van Wart Graham and Ted J. Darby telling stories about umpires, baseball players and baseball managers.[...]Up until about 1972 Ping came back to Sheridan in the summer and early fall to stay with his sister, Ellen, at the[...]liam A. Schowe Jr. was born in Sheridan, Montana, old home for a couple of months, renewing old friendships March 4, 1928 to William A. and Hazel Belle (Cheney) and going fishing with his close friend, Fay Edwards.[...]An older sister died at hirth. Hazel passed away also liked to umpire a few games for the Sheridan Little August 15, 1979 and Bill Sr. on June 7, 1980. Leaguers and Sheridan Town Team. In about 1976 and 1977 Bill Jr. spent his first years on his parent's ranch on the his health began to fail and he was not able to make the trip Upper Ruby, which was sold prior to the construction of the anymore. His last trip to Montana was in 1975 or 1976. Ruby Dam. The farm land is now under many feet of water, Late in life Ping married Mary Nagy in the 1960's and they but the homesite and cellar stairway are still visible. spent their last years in a beautiful retirement center in An old school house, near Ad and Mollie Tate's, where Bill Hemet, California. Ping died there October 16, 1981 at the began his education from Margaret Tolson, still stands. The age of eighty-three and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial school was soon closed and the next year, alone, in an old con-[...] |
| Bil Schowe, taken on the Upper Ruby Ranch, 1933. verted bunkhouse on the ranch, Bill repeated the first grade, |
| Ed Schulz, Wisconsin Creek Ranch. the longest rattle m the middle and so on. A big job in the first years at the ranch was threshing. The huge threshing machine would come one day and thresh the grain. All the neighbors would come with their teams and wagons and feed the machine. Out would come the grain into the burlap sacks. The women would cook meals for the twen- ty or thirty men. Sumptuous fare was provided, fried chicken, roasts, lots of potatoes, vegetables and pies. There was rivalry among the men about who could work the fastest and among the women about who put on the best spread. Ed had a steer named Joe Lewis that the girls used to ride around the pasture. Since he was a steer his life was bound James F. Schulz to be short. The night before his demise, Fern spent some tearful hours with him and promised him she wouldn't eat JAMES FRANCIS SCHULZ any part of him, not even the gravy. She never did, but learn- ed not to become attached t[...]reafter. Jim Schulz joined the Frank and Grace Schulz family May One of the main events twice a summer was haying. An 29, 1920 at the Selway Sheep Company ranch 30 miles south overhead stacker was used. The hired man stacked the hay east of Dillon. He attended grade school in Twin Bridges and as it was thrown up on the stack by the teeth of the over 2 years of high school in Sheridan. He finished high school in shot. Ed had an old car reversed with teeth that he pushed St. George, Utah and attended Dixie College there. He had the hay on the stacker teeth with. Rose used a pole to pry the started his aviation education with John Fox in Butte and hay onto the overshot teeth and Fern drove the team of received his private pilot's license there. He took Civilian horses attached to the cable that threw the hay over onto the Pilot Training I (Federal Program for training pilots for the stack. The horses had a habit of stopping short so they[...]e, Civilian Pilot Training wouldn't get jerked at the end of the cable. If this happened, II at Nampa Idaho and Civilian Pilot Training III Johnson's much of the hay fell into the stacker. If the horses were Flying Service and the University of Montana, at Missoula. whipped up too much the hay landed behind the haystack. In Jim paid for all of this Government training by teaching either event it had to be pitched by hand onto the teeth of the Navy Cadets at Yakima, Washington for several years. He stacker before Ed brought in the next load. During World often said that through many years of flying and a lot of War II good help was scarce and one hired man built his hairy experi[...]ng was as frightening as turning out haystacks in the shape of tepees. Part of the hay rolled off half trained cadets. We were into war and these children had the front of the stack and part rolled off the back. The girls to be force fed a course that should[...]ing to buy a baler until they left times the time alloted. home.[...]estock, in- joined Pan American Airways and flew for them until his cluding one pregnant sow.[...]adine Harrell, April 23, 1944. his alfalfa fields and on the mixturf:l of grain that he raised on They had three girls: Sally Ann Schulz Scheid and Linda Lou the ranch. As was customary on ranches at that time,[...]. Sue Lee Schulz, Sally's twin sister is repaired all his own equipment. deceased. Ed and Velma lived on the Wisconsin Creek ranch for nine- teen years. In 1954, they sold the ranch and later bought a house in Sheridan on Hamilton Stre[...]ed May 21, 1957. Velma lived until July 29, 1976. She went on many trips to all parts of the world and LAWRENCE AND JUANITA (GLASSER) SCHULZ showed the slides of her adventures to many different groups[...]saw, Nebraska to William and Augusta Schulz. He was rais- ed and educated in Nebraska and came to Montana in the[...]Fern Schulz Reeves Lawrence and Juanita's first home was on a homestead th[...] |
| [...]Lawrence and Juanita, 1968. Lawrence Schulz, 1946. took up about three miles from Wisdom, Montana. son, Larry, was the star pitcher of some of the teams that Lawrence also ran a trapline while they lived in the Big Hole Lawrence managed. Basin near Wisdom.[...]Lawrence was an excellent shot with both rifle and Following about six years in the Wisdom area Lawrence shotgun. He was one of the better trapshooters in the state entered Government Service with the Department of In- and he was a member of the Sheridan Trap Club for many terior in the Fish and Wildlife Service in predatory animal years. He was instrumental in building up the City Park and control. He served in this capacity from April 6, 1939 until he Baseball Field into the fine facility it is at the present time. retired on September 1, 1965 with t[...]rvice Juanita Glasser was born March 3, 1913, the oldest child of spent in the rugged terrain of the Gravely Range and Tobac- Raymond and Mabel Glasser, longtime residents of co Root Mountains of Madison and Jefferson Counties. Sheridan. She had one younger sister Adeline (Tillie) and two In 1940 Lawrence and Juanita built the Shermont Motel younger brothers, Raymond (Bud) and Dale (Pete). on South Main Street in Sheridan along with a beautiful log Juanita and Lawrence had two sons, Norman, who present- home and lived there for twenty-five years. Selling to Bud ly operates the Exxon Station in Sheridan and Larry, who.is and Bev Smith in 1965 they then built a new home on the with the Kalispell School System as Principal of the Junior banks of Mill Creek on the eastern boundry of the city limits High. of Sheridan. After Lawrence and Juanita built the Shermont Motel it Lawrence was active in the Masonic Lodge No. 20 AF. & was pretty much Juanita's job to operate the motel while AM. of Sheridan and was past master and served as Master Lawrence was working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1946. He was past patron of the Arcelia Chapter No. 34, . and this she did for twenty-five years. Juanita was past Order of Eastern Star and served for several years on the matron of Arcelia Chapter O.E .S. No. 34. City Council of Sheridan. He managed the Sheridan Baseball Lawrence died on January 22, 1981 at the age of 76 and Team, (Town Team) in the 1950's. and they won several was buried from the Methodist Church with Sheridan Lodge Vigilante League Championships. Lawrence and Juanita's No. 20, AF. & AM. conducting r[...]at the Sheridan Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Russ Schulz, Lawrence and Juanita, 1967.[...]and Leslie Jackson.[...]LESTER AND NEV A SCHULZ[...]Nebraska to Otto and Dora Schulz. He came to Montana as[...]from the San Diego Army and Navy Military Academy. He also attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, Califo[...]Lester became associated with his father in the ranching[...]business in Sheridan in 1922. He was involved in the sheep[...]sheep and went strictly to raising Angus cattle. He was a life member of the American Angus Association and a charter member and first president of the Sheridan Kiwanis Club. He was also a member of the Montana Stockgrowers Association, the National Cattlemen's Association, the Virginia City Elks Lodge No. 390, and the Masonic Lodge[...]AF. & AM. No. 20, Sheridan. He was president of the Sheridan School Board when the present high school was[...] |
| [...]the sheep business with his father. As the ranching business grew, Neva left the store to[...]become more involved with her husband in the ranching business. She spent many years cooking for the lambing and haying crews. Cooking became an art that she learned to love and enjoy. Many of Neva's own water color paintings[...]showed her interest in the scenic beauty of our region.[...]Two children were born to Lester and Neva, a son, Russell Raymond, and a daughter, Sylvia Marie. Russell currently[...]resides on the former Rhodes Ranch north of Sheridan.[...]neth D. Campbell of Great Falls in 1954. Ken and Sylvia[...]ve four children: Karen Lynn, Laura, Brenda Marie and Craig Kenneth, all of Denver, Colorado.[...]NORMAN W. AND DONNA LEE (ROMEY) SCHULZ[...]Butte, Montana. Her parents were the late Harvey E. built in 1938. Lester continued in the pastime of his father, Romey and Vera E. Romey of Virginia City. She has two Otto, and shot trap for many years at the Sheridan Trap sisters and one brother: Betty Jane Romey Morck of Butte, nor[...]Honey Rae Romey Estes of Anaconda, Montana; years and enjoyed the natural beauty of southwestern Mon-• and Bud Romey of Anchorage, Alaska. tana while golfing and fishing with his wife, Neva, formerly They all graduated from the Virginia City High School. Neva Walter, whom he met in Sheridan and married on Oc- Donna took a secretarial course at the Butte Business Col- tober 27, 1925. Lester died in 1979. lege and worked for two years in the Selective Service Office Neva Walter was born of the wedlock of Charles Walter in Virginia City. She has been employed at the Post Office in and Eleanore LeGris Walter on July 29, 1898 in Sheridan, Sheridan, Montana as a clerk for the past ten years. Montana. Her father, Charles, was a pioneer merchant of the Donna married Norman W. Schulz on March 23, 1952 in Ruby Valley. Neva's mother was born in Montibello, the St. Paul Episcopal Church in Virginia City. Norman was Canada, a suburb of Montreal. She was of French decent and born in Sheridan, Montana July 20, 1930. His parents are the niece of Mrs. John Laurin. Neva was the fourth of the the late Lawrence Schulz and Juanita Glasser Schulz of children, having four sisters and five brothers. She grew up Sheridan. Norman was stationed at Forbes Air Force Base and was raised in Sheridan attending grade and high school in Topeka, Kansas at the time of their marriage. They lived here. Upon her graduation from high school she worked and in Topeka for two years until his enlistment was up and later helped manage the dry goods department of the Charles returned to Sheridan January 1954. Walter Store. She clerked for many years until wedding bells Donna and Norman have two children: Vicki and Mike. rang for her and Lester Schulz. She continued to work at the Vicki was born in Topeka, Kansas February 21, 1953 at the store for several years while her husband[...] |
| Vicki and Michael Schulz, 1964. Forbes Air Force Base Hospital. She attended the Sheridan schools for twelve years and after graduation attended two quarters at the Montana State University in Bozeman, Mon- tana. From there she moved to Great Falls, Montana and graduated from Dahla Beauty College. Vicki is mar[...]inia City, Montana where both are dispatchers for the Sheriff's Office. Mike was born at the old Sheridan Hospital December 7, 1956. He attended twelve years of school in Sheridan and after graduation he attended Western Montana Coll[...]four years. He has taught High School Literature and Journalism in Stevensville, Montana for the past three years. Norman and Donna have resided in Sheridan for the past Russell and "Mardy" Schulz twenty-eight years. He is part owner of the S & S Exxon Sta- tion. He is very civic minded. He has been a fireman for the RUSSELL AND MARGARET SCHULZ past twenty-five years and was instrumental in starting a snowmobile club. He is a member of the Ruby Valley Search Russell Raymond Schulz was born February 8, 1929 in and Rescue Unit and the Ruby Valley Ambulance. He was a Sheridan Montana. He was educated in the Sheridan Pbblic major force in the fund raising drive staged with the goal of Schools ~ntil he transferred to Gonzaga High School in purchasing a new ambulance. He also played a large part in- Spokane, Washington in 1947. He attended - ~ the fund raising program which was just completed for a new Business college, Carroll College and Gonzaga Umvers1ty.[...]while residing in Spokane, Russell met and, on June 17, building to house the ambulance and search and rescue[...]50, married Margaret Candler, daughter of Lane G. and equipment. He is a CPR instructor and also an advanced first aid instructor.[...]and "Mardy" joined Lester and Neva on the ranch and resid- Norman and she are looking forward to their retirement ed at the Brown Ranch northeast of Sheridan before moving years in the Ruby Valley. to the home ranch in town. Russell and Mardy were blessed[...]avid Christopher Schulz who resides in Norman W. and Donna Schulz[...]Marie Schulz who is currently in the U.S. Army; Susan[...]Michelle Quilico, who resides in Billings; and Timothy[...]are five grandchildren belonging to David, Cathy and[...]Carolina and Spokane, Washington where she graduated from Holy Names Academy in 1947. She attended St. Genevieve of the Pines Junior College in Ashville, North[...]Carolina graduating in 1949. She returned to Spokane and[...]Shortly after Russell and Mardy were married they began[...]Lester's retirement Russ and Mardy moved to the former[...]become well known in the registered Angus busmess.[...]registered Angus bulls. He also enjoys golfing with his wife,[...] |
| [...]Odessa and Lowell Shafer. 50th Wedding Anniversary.[...]in Brandon. He was the fifth of seven children born to VERA JUNE SCHULZ Nathaniel and Cora Shafer (sometimes spelled Shaffer). He[...]a ranch nine miles southwest of Melrose, Montana, and attending Brandon School, remembering well his first Vera was born June 14, 1913 to Grace and Frank Schulz. teacher, Wilhelmina Huber. Another fond memory was of When she was six years old she started school at Glendale, hunting pigeons at the old McKay Grist ~ill. Af~r twelye Montana. That spot is a ghost town now. The next school years his family took up temporry quarters m Shendan while term was spent in Dillon with her aunt and uncle, Dora and his Dad had built their big beautiful home, (the Mabel Halse Otto Schulz. She stayed in Dillon through grade seven and home), a nine room house with full basement for $9000. then moved with her family to Twin Bridges and finis_!led high school there. She returned to Dillon to Western Mon- Lowell's mother died when he was fifteen and he spent tana College.[...]most of his off-school hours working for the local ranchers, Lila Raymond was his favorite. He spent one su=er being In the fall of 1933 she got a job teaching in Melrose. She . a cowboy, herding cattle of the Centennial range for Otto learned more about children and teaching the first week than Schulz. About this time he also helped drive 800 steers from she ever learned in five years of college. She renewed all her Sheridan to Dillon. No Texas drive was any more pictures- childhood friendships through the area and had a really fine que or adventurous because upon[...]pected blizzard hit and they almost froze in the saddle before The next year Vera moved home to Twin Bridges to teach reaching home. for a year and a half. She then moved to San Diego where she Lowell graduated from Sheridan High School in 1926 and got a job in a doctor's office. Next she moved to Yuma, after graduation headed for Los Angeles with Lloyd Miller Arizona. She wanted so much to see the good old U.S.A. The and Lyle Wright. As they passed through Death Valley only possible way she could do it was to work in new places Junction, he went to the office of the Pacific Coast Borax and that interested her and where she could find a job. rustled a job. The other two continued on but Lowell stayed Vera met Dr. Neil J. Phillips in Yuma and they were mar- seven months at that borax plant. Hell could not be any hot- ried and moved to Oatman, Arizona. When Neil was called by[...]e was. Returning to Sheridan, mining Uncle Sam in the fall of 1939 to start examinng soldiers and became his main occupation and he worked at the Lake later was sent to Greenland to work in a hospital, Vera returned to Montana. She helped her father by being range Lowell Shafer fa[...]rd of black angus cattle. After (Patsy in insert) the war ended and Neil came home he wanted to live in the east where he was originally from and Vera wanted to stay in Montana. They both got their way. She continued to help her father with the cattle until he and her mother sold out and moved to Sheridan, Montana. Vera decided to build a dude ranch in the area where she had been herding cattle on Canyon Creek. Phil Smith fro~ Alder now has this place. From 1954 to 1961 she taught m Butte and ran the dude ranch at the same time for several weeks each fall. That took some doing as the round trip from Butte to the camp was ninety-six miles. Retirement came in[...]ht her Aunt Velma Schulz's home in Sheridan when she died in July of 1976 and has lived there ever since.[...]Vera J. Schulz LOWELL AND ODESSA SHAFER Lowell Shafer was born July 11, 1907 on the Cisler Ranch[...] |
| Shore, Toledo, Red Pine and Uncle Sam. As the mines petered out he worked some WPA, helped build the highway through Sheridan and was a ditch walker. On June 22, 1931 in Butte,[...]nderson Joky. Odessa had two small girls: Dorothy and Mildred. To their union three children were born: Nathaniel James 1932; Patsy Ann 1934-1977; and Bobby Gail 1936. They have twelve grandchildren and five great grandchildren. In 1942 Lowell and Odessa moved to Los Angeles where he entered int[...]moved to Weed Heights, Nevada, where he got in on the building of a townsite and an open-pit mine for the Anaconda Company. Those were seventeen very productive years for h,im, making important decisions and handling a crew of men. Upon retirement in 1969 Odessa and he purchased the Dode Schulz home on Mill Street in Sheridan and spent four years there. They returned to Yerringt[...]1). Lowell's only claim to fame is that he was the grand nephew of Bill Fairweather, who discovered[...]s only social membership was that of belonging to the DeMolay in Dillon during high school.[...]son was born September 12, 1904 in Deeth, Nevada. She was the fourth of seven children born to James and Anna Anderson, raised on farms in Utah, schooled in Shaffer Berryman were born to Will and Addie Stevenson rural schools and raised in the Morman faith. Odessa will Shaffer on August 24, 1902 and February 12, 1906, respec- long be remembered for[...]of humor, excellent cook- tively. They grew up in the town of Sheridan, Montana, on ing ability and her love of playing cards. While in SheridanRuby Street across from the lumber yards. The home still she belonged to the Ladies Aid and in Yerrington she belong-stands. They attended the Sheridan schools, Charles ed to the Eastern Star and Methodist Church. She helped graduated in 1920 and Harriet in 1924. start the Lyon County Hospital Auxilary and was eight Charlie played basketball and was · a fan in later years. times president of the Women's Club. After graduat[...]ed August 22, 1981. and played on the Sheridan town baseball team. He worked as printer and lineotype operator on the Sheridan Forum, the Lowel[...]e. He married Mary Tros- CHARLES M. SHAFFER AND HARRIET A. tle of Butte, Montana. She was working at the Orphans' (SHAFFER) BERRYMAN[...]ny years, then moved to Butte where he worked for the Charles M. Shaffer, also known as "Doug", and Harriet A. Butte Water Company at their South For[...]September 11, 1960 and is buried at the Sunset Memorial Charles M. Shaffer[...]ing Nurses Training at the Murray Hospital in 1930 at Butte, Montana. She worked for about a year at the hospital after graduating in 1933. Her class was the last to graduate from Murray Hospital. She married William Berryman in Helena,[...]Montana on July 28, 1934 and they made their home in[...]Butte. Four children, three boys and one girl were born to them: Gary, Beryl Rae, and twins, Brian and Brent. The family moved to Everett, Washington in 1945, rema[...]Montana in the fall of 1949. The next year they moved to Sheridan living there in the Episcopal Rectory for four years.[...]Harriet worked at the Sheridan Hospital for about two years.[...]Louise Steiner taught the twins in the fifth and sixth grades and Chick Murray taught them and Beryl Rae in the seventh and eighth. Gary and Beryl finished school in Sheridan. In[...]y's senior year he attended Boys' State in Dillon and[...] |
| an R.N. for fifteen years at the Columbus Hospital until retirement in 1972.[...]background. Roy and Stella Shaffer[...]ing illness at the age of sixty. ROY AND STELLA SHAFFER Stella worked as a waitress at the Lake Shore Mine, also as cook and waitress at the Club Cafe in Sheridan and for Frank Roy and Stella Shaffer are native Madison County Jackson at the Sheridan Bakery for a number of_years. Later residents, both being born in Sheridan. Roy was born on the she worked at the local hospital and was the night nurse's aid old Cisler ranch east of Sheridan on September 9, 1904 to at the Madison County Nursing Home for nine years and Nathaniel and Cora Shaffer. He was raised in and around still works there part time. Sheridan and educated in the Sheridan schools. He par- Roy and Stella had two daughters, Geraldine born in 1932 ticipated in basketball and track during his high school years and Doris born in 1934. but after finishing his junior year he joined the U.S. Nayy for three years.[...]mith Stella was born on May 31, 1909 to Michael and Lillian Costle. She was also raised in and around Sheridan and at- WILLIAM AND ADDIE SHAFFER tended the local schools. Roy and Stella were married on April 26, 1930 in Dillon.[...]April 28, 1862, on a farm near Sheridan that fall and have lived there ever smce. Stella still Green[...]e. Roy was a miner by trade. He olacer mined in the sur- William Shaffer rounding mountains and also worked in the various mines at Brandon, namely the Buckeye, Toledo and Tamarack. He also worked in the mines at Silver Star and trapped for several winters. He worked for the Forest Service in the Lima and White Sulphur districts for several years as well as Doris, Stella, Roy and Gerry[...] |
| [...]dishes used to serve the ice cream. Their mother also had a[...]Will and Than operated a livery stable located on the cor- ner of Rubv and Hamilton Streets and ran a stage line be- tween Sheridan and Butte for several years.[...]Will in later years followed the mining profession. He[...]worked as a Mill Operator in many mines of the area, lastly at the Lake Shore Mine and at the Leiterville property.[...]Five children were born to Will and Addie. Three of the babies died in infancy. They are buried in the Sheridan[...]Charles and Harriet along with their half brother, Doug,[...]grew to adulthood in Sheridan attending the local schools. Doug went into the printing business in Sheridan and also in[...]Virginia City. Later he went to Butte to work on The Butte[...]ner. Charles followed in his footsteps working on the local paper for a number of years. Harriet took nurses training in[...]83. Addie Shaffer died April 21, 1965. She was 91 years of[...]age. Douglas died September 10, 1936 at the age of 46 and Addie Shaffer Charles died September 11, 1960 at the age of 58. Will and Addie Shaffer are buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. was taught by his sister, Mar[...]Harriet Shaffer Berryman |
| [...]Loretto and Dewey Shaw,[...]as (Dewey) Shaw 20. The Master Mason degree was bestowed on him May 18,[...]1929. Loretto enjoyed art work and attended Montana State Loretto Marjorie Haines was born August 11, 1896 at University and studied in this field. During their younger Virginia City, Montana in the building that was later the years they had an orchestra and played around the valley. McGovern sister's dress shop. Her parents[...]of their partners was Chick Armitage from Ennis. and Jessie Wilcox Haines. Her father was sheriff of Madison Loretto died April 30, 1965 and is buried in the Sheridan county at this time. Loretto had five brothers and a half- _C emetery. Dewey died in February 1967 in Wickenburg, sister. The one remaining brother, Keith W. Haines, resides[...]always be remembered for his happy-go-lucky life style. a ranch south of Sheridan and she attended school at the Rob- There were two grandsons, Ray Livingston and Mark Allan bers Roost. Sometimes the teacher boarded at their home. Shaw. Dewey and Loretto were married December 10, 1917 in[...]Dewey worked as a carpenter in several locations and later moved to Laurin and clerked at Martin Johnson's Store until around 1940. After his father retired he took over the Shaw Ranch until 1947 when he sold to Chris Larse[...]the second daughter of Ed and Emma Knox. She completed[...]of Education and on April 6, 1947, she married Martin[...]1948 and started in construction work and raising a family.[...]Jessie has five children, all of whom live in the Ruby Valley. Gary Lee, with his wife, the former Susan Berry, live[...]h of Sheridan with their two children: Jason Beau and Melanie Kristan. Dean Martin with his wife, the former Debra Maurer, and their two sons, Joshua Dean and Lucas[...] |
| [...]rried to Dennis Miotke. They live in Twin Bridges and have a daughter, Mike, June, Monty, Jack Simonsen. Brandy Lee. Tony LaMar and Elaine Marie are still living at home.[...]Roost School and Sheridan High School. Jessie has enjoyed taking[...]in several He ranched with his Dad in the Bivens Creek country until organizations in Sheridan; the old Sheridan Women's Club, 1947. Following the sale of the Pete Simonsen ranch proper- Parent Teachers Assoc[...]of Eastern Star, Interna- ty he moved to Laurin and spent a number of years working tional Order of R[...]eridan Library Board of on ranches in that area and in 1952 moved to Sheridan. Jack Trustees, Madison[...]ing Home Auxiliary, went to work at the Sheridan Schools in August 1961 where Sheridan Music Boosters and Sheridan Athletic Boosters. he drove school bus and is the custodian. She enjoys singing and has spent many happy hours sing- June Mabel Nelson was born June 9, 1927 at the Weingart ing in the choir of the Methodist Church, the Ruby Valley place on Granite Creek which is near Virginia City, to Ray- Choralle and the Old Timers Concerts. mond and Evalena Nelson. As a young child she grew up in At present she is employed at the Madison County Nurs- the Ruby Valley, attending grade schools in Alder and ing Home in Sheridan. Laurin. She moved to Sheridan with her parents in 1944 and[...]Jessie K. Simonsen graduation she spent a year in Helena working in a clerical JOHN (JACK) JR. AND JUNE (NELSON) SIMONSEN field. June has worked at the Forest Service in Sheridan[...]since October 1967. Jack Simonsen, the son of John and Petra Simonsen, was They were married at the Methodist Church in Sheridan, born June 8, 1926, north of Laurin at the N.C. Simonsen June 9, 1946, and have made their home in this area since Ranch. He grew up in the Laurin .and Robbers Roost areas, 1952, and raised their family here. They are the parents of and attended eight years of grade school at the Robbers two sons, Michael Jack, born March 12, 1951 and Monty Ray born November 5, 1952. Jack and June Simonsen. Mike graduated from Western Montana College with the[...]and great grandparents, John and Petra Simonsen.[...] |
| Family picture taken at Mitchell and Lynette Gudmunson Siroky 's wedding, Aug[...]ea, Car~ Mitchen Lynette, Betty and Jerry Siroky, Ramona. Susan, wife of Leslie holdi[...]Peter. Front row: Clarence holding Stacy and Sherry, his wife Jeanne holding Wendy, Jenifer and Janice, stepdaughters of Leslie, Leslie holding son, Robert. 1946 as a secondary teacher. She was teaching school when she married Jerry Siroky of Roy where they continued to live ranching, teaching occasionally and raising their family, all of whom were born there. Their family consists of five boys: Laurence, an Agriculture Engineer and Bureau Chief of Water Rights Bureau, Helena, Mont[...]Mitchell, machinist, Billings; Carl, 18, Vo-Tech; and three girls: Nicholette Jean Buck, teaches Home E[...]reewater, Oregon; Ramona K., 20, attends college; and Clairetta, 14, is still at home. In 1968 they[...]two years earning a Home Economics teaching major and taught this in a number of different schools in M[...]ir ranch, in hopes that a warmer climate might be the answer to Jerry's rheumatic problems.[...]Betty Moore Siroky ADELBERT AND LUCILLE SMITH |
| [...]One highlight during Dell's membership on the[...]Senator and Ambassador to Japan, was the featured speaker at the high school graduation ceremonies, and Dell, as board chairman, was asked to give the introductory speech. Being[...]a very shy man this was one of the most difficult things he[...]Jack, was one of the graduating class.[...]In 1967 Dell retired from the cleaning business and joined the Ruby Valley Hospital staff as administrator. In 1[...]retired for a second time and shortly afterwards he and[...]they were able to enjoy seven years together Dell and Lucille Smith, Newport, Oregon, July 16, 1944.[...]idan beside his wife, Lucille. Charles Walter Sr. and others encouraged Dell to establish Jack and Delcine Smith the "Ruby Valley Cleaners" in a small building next to the Jim Duncan residence on Water Street. During the first few years, it was a "rough go" for the new business in Sheridan. On opening day there wa[...]s to be cleaned! Lucille helped out by working in the plant and looking after a number of roomers and boarders. In time the cleaning business prospered and for more than thirty-two years Sheridan, their home, children, grandchildren and the Ruby Valley Cleaners became Dell and Lucille's life. Lucille loved homemaking and was always busy making their home as pleasant and comfortable as possible. After the children were grown she worked for the last fifteen years of her life as a practical nurse in the Ruby Valley Hospital. All the work was rewarding to her, but her favorite assign- ment was caring for the babies in the nursery. She died sud- denly in the hospital on November 20, 1968. She was buried from St. Joseph's Catholic Church and rests in the Sheridan Cemetery over-looking the beautiful Ruby Valley that was her home for a lit[...]rs. Dell was interested in community activities and belonged Adelbert J. (Jack) Smith, Montery,[...]o several civic organizations. He was a member of the schoolboard for ten years · (1938-1948) and served as ADELBERT JOHN (JA[...]or from 1949 until 1969. These were busy years as the schoolboard, townspeople and the city council Jack was born April 12, 1923[...]view of Sheridan -came in June 1935 when their old Ford system, obtain natural gas service, a sewer system and a new bounced over the railroad tracks close by the ball park west hospital. of town. Dell and Lucille Smith, his sister, Delcine and he had[...]seemed like he spent most of that first summer at the[...]the field and filled with cold water. To a twelve year old,[...]Being a "new kid" in town he dreaded the start of school.[...]He had nothing to fear, however, because from the first[...]1942, the Sheridan School, its teachers and students made that period the happiest of his life. When the class of '42, his class, graduated in May they[...]marched onto the gym stage while Doris Kitt played "Pomp and Circumstance" on the piano. They listened while[...]Superintendent Frank Balogh commended them and ap-[...]orted them "onward and upward". That was a grand day in[...]After high school, Jack attended the University of Montana before entering the U.S. Army where he served[...] |
| Jack and Delcine Smith, 1934.[...]1951 from August 1943 until February 1945. After the war he delivery truck, Jack and she sat on a cushion in the back. By entered Montana State College at Bozeman and graduated the time they were past Las Vegas and into the desert, it was from Utah State College in 1950. Since then he has been getting very hot and traveling was tiresome. To pacify them, employed by various government agencies and for ten years her dad would let them out once in awhile to trot along by the Boeing Company in Seattle. At present he resides in behind the truck. Needless to say it was not the busy Oxnard, California where he works for the U.S. Naval highway that it is today! Their trip was happy and eventful, Weapons Systems Engineering Station as an electronics but they were all glad when they started for home again. engineer.[...]Adelbert J. (Jack) Smith and she found lots of interesting things to do and see. One[...]place that really fascinated her was the small local telephone office. She spent many hours watching and visiting there. Gertrude Glick Knaggs, the chief operator, always promised that when she was "old enough" she could have a job. True to her word she hired her as an operator when she turned six- teen. She worked there full-time in the summer and part- time throughout the school year until her graduation from[...]Sheridan High School in 1948 and then continued working[...]13, 1917 and was raised in Fort Benton, Montana.[...]In 1957 they purchased Delcine's parent's home. The big[...]Matthew Jon born December 7, 1955; and Joseph Lee born[...]mber 16, 1957. They lived in this home until Oria and[...]daho. In 1939, four years after her parents (Dell and Lucille Smith), her brother, Jack, and she arrived in Sheridan, they took their first family vacation together. Their destination was California and since they were traveling in her dad's pan[...] |
| she were divorced in 1968. Later, Delcine married Donald A. Hansen, a logger and trucker. They were divorced in 1976. At present, Delcine is living in Sheridan and works as a nurse's aide at the Madison County Nursing Home. Three of her sons and their families live nearby. Her oldest son, Sig and his family, reside in Pullman, Washington where he is completing his final year in the Veterinary Department at Washington State University. She has three grandsons and three granddaughters.[...](HILL) SPRAGUE Esther Hill, daughter of Walter and Edna Hill, was born at |
| Frank Spuhler Browns Lake and Stauffer Chemical Company at Har[...]ce Staten, 1961. Mary and Harry Staten MARY (BRUGGEMAN) STATEN |
| Frank, Lee and cousin, Charles Fenton and returned it to her after school. The spring before he died he drove a truck loaded with students up to Leiterville for the high school picnic. He loved to fish and to hunt ducks. Frank had a remarkably amiable disposition and with his winning smile was popular with young and old alike.[...]and Parr Construction Company of Spokane in the four states of Washington, Montana, Idaho and Oregon. He and[...]parents were Jim and Hannah McLaughlin. She graduated[...]from Twin Bridges High School in 1947 and attended Kin-[...]man Business College in Spokane. After graduation she was employed by the Washington Water Power Co. Lee and Nor-[...]Lee worked at the Minerals Engineering Tungsten Mine at[...]Browns Lake and at the Berkeley Pit in Butte. He was also employed by the Jacobson Construction Company and I[...]operated a backhoe when the sewer system was put in. In[...]1964 he became shovel operator for the Sierra Talc Company |
| [...]in Seattle working at Boeing, so after ten years she decided she wanted to move there. She taught at Port Lee and Nonna Steiner family: L. to R .: Ken and Max, Caro~ Angeles, Washington for three years and then because of her Doris, Kathy, Sandee, Sara.[...]years. After her father's death she returned to teach in April 24, 1967, Lee and Norma had twins, Karl August and Sheridan and to live with her mother. She earned her Kathy Ann. Karl died when he was twenty-one months old diploma in 1933 from Western by attending summer sesions and Kathy is a Freshman at Sheridan High School this year. and doing correspondence courses. In 1965 she received her[...]Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education in the same Norm[...]way. She also had her Montana Life Certificate. She finish- ed her forty-four years of teaching in the then new High School Building and the new Elementary School. She regrets that she did not keep a notebook with names of all the students (over one thousand) that she taught during[...]house and yard. She is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an[...]honorary teachers' society, the Episcopal Church, the Buds and Blooms Garden Club, and the Southwest Retired[...]She has done some traveling, including a trip to Hawa[...]and has several other trips planned. She spends some time in[...]Lowell August Steiner, son of August and Suzan Steiner,[...]Sheridan elementary and high school, graduating in 1930.[...]s an outstanding athlete, excelling in basketball and LOUISE STEINER[...]s father in Louise was born, February 10, 1910, the oldest child of the dray and transfer business. June 2, 1936, he married August and Suzan Steiner. She had one sister, Mary, and Evelyn LaCasse of Missoula who was teaching at that time three brothers, Lowell, Frank and Lee. She attended school in Culbertson, Montana. After a trip to Canada they return- in the old brick two-story building, graduating as Valedic-[...]djacent to his torian of her class in 1927. Later she taught the third and parents' home. In 1938 Lowell started his own l[...]rs in 1928. After another summer session in 1930, she companied by his wife and son, Terrence, who was born began her teaching career in Brandon. After two years she November 5, 1939. Lowell worked as a shipfitter in the Seat- taught the Lower Wisconsin Creek School for three years tle Todd Shipyard. Another son, Edward, was born on July and then taught in Sheridan. She had been spending her 3, 1945. The family returned to Sheridan in 1947.[...] |
| [...]chorage Airline and is residing in Alaska.[...]Evelyn Steiner Lowell and Evelyn Steiner wedding picture. Ben Stine and three children, Mildred, Harry, Dorothy. |
| [...]Ben and Mabel's Ranch up Mill Creek. Dorothy, Frances, Mi[...]He finally her husband, John, worked for the railroad. They are both got his family all together and raised them without a mother retired now. Their daughter, Sherry, and husband, Eddie until they were through high school. The children all started Flatt and three grandchildren live close to them in Liv- and finished their schooling in the Sheridan schools. ingston. Ben married Mabel Glasser who was a widow and Sheridan Harry E. Stine graduated from Sheridan High School in native in 1933. They resided at the Mill ranch until 1938 1933. He worked on dif[...]e years. They pur- heavy construction work and tunnels. He worked in New chased the old Hubner ranch above Brandon and lived there York, California and different states but usually came home until 1954. They retired and moved back to their house in for the summers in Sheridan. He was working in Pearl Har- Sheridan. Ben died May 1966 and Mabel died in 1978. They bor, Hawaii on some underground fuel storage tanks when are both. buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Ben's two oldest daughters, Mildred and Dorothy Harry then came back to the States when his construction graduated from Sheri[...]in 1932. Mildred at- contract was finished and enlisted in the Submarine Service tended the University of Montana in Missoula for one of the Navy. semester. She then moved to California to work. While there After Harry's discharge from the Navy in December 1945 she married Charles Moore and they had four children. They he returned to work in the construction trade. He married lived in Whittier,[...]ecember 1948 band retired, they moved to Missouri and bought a farm. and continued to work in construction in California, Oregon Mildred became ill with cancer and died in August 1975. and Minnesota. They moved back to Sheridan in 1954 where Dorothy went into nurse's training and graduated from the Harry worked at mining and ranching and Florence taught Bozeman Deaconess Hospital as a registered nurse. This at the Sheridan grade school. was the same hospital where her Aunt Cora Stine had Harry and Florence moved to St. Paul, Minnesota graduated f[...]ayden of Livingston, Montana in tion work and Florence taught school in St. Paul. Florence 1939. They lived in Montana, California and Washington became ill with cancer and died in July 1966. Harry then before moving perma[...]y, in September 1967 Dorothy worked as a nurse at the hospital in Livingston and and moved to Battle Ground, Washington where Betty gr[...]up and went to school. Harry worked at various jobs in the Ben and Mabel Stine Vancouver and Battle Ground area until he retired in 1977.[...]1935. She went to Montana State Teacher's College in Dillon[...]where she received her teaching certificate. She taught in Laurin and Philipsburg until World War II. During the war she worked in Seattle at the Boeing Aircraft Company. After the war, she went to teach in Deering, Alaska. There she met and married Sam Shafsky who was a bush pilot fly-[...]ing all over Alaska. Sam used to fly in all the supplies to Deering and also to Frances' school. Sam and Frances have two children: Ben Shafsky and Debbie Holiman and two grandchildren. Frances and Sam are both retired and live in Anchorage, Alaska. Their children and grandchildren live[...] |
| [...]ne was quite a baseball pitcher while he lived in the Jack, Anna, Jackie Stine, 1941.[...]Sheridan area. He played with several of the town teams along with his brothers Noah and Ben. They all enjoyed JACK AND ANNA STINE playing baseball and this was a lot of entertainment for their[...]families and friends. Jack also pitched a no-hitter game Jack (James Blaine) Stine, fourth son of Evander and while playing baseball for his ship in the Navy. Rebecca Stine was born at the Shaw ranch (later the Ed Schulz ranch) on Wisconsin Creek. He was born[...]Harry'E. Stine 12, 1892. He grew up and attended grade school at the r Wisconsin Creek School. His family m[...]ridan in 1900 where he continued his education at the Sheridan schools. As a young man, Jack worked at different ranches and mines in the Sheridan area. He was also a clerk at the Mad- dison' s Store in Sheridan. He then enlisted in the U.S. Na- vy in World War I serving as a cook. After his discharge from the Navy in January 1919, he went to work at the Lakeshore Mine. On July 6, 1919 he married Anna Green of Sheridan. Anna Green came to the Nyhart ranch at Point-of-Rocks in Twin Bridges from North Carolina in 1906 with her mother (Julia Green) and sister (Ida Green). (Anna's mother Julia was a sister to Dollis Hodges ' mother. Julia's brothers were Bynum and Odell Green.) The Greens moved to Sheridan in 1906. Jack and Anna spent their honeymoon and first months of their marriage at the Lakeshore Mine. They then moved back to Sheridan where Jack worked at the old Tamarack Mine in Brandon. Their only child, Jack Dale was born in Sheridan on October 7, 1920. Jack and Anna and son moved to Arcadia, California in 1922. Jack went into the cement and construction business with his brother Ross (Pat) Stine who already was living in Fred and Mary Grose and daughter, Beverly, 1931. California. They were in[...]MARY STINE Jack then joined the Arcadia Police Department where he worked until h[...]o Grants Pass, Montana to Sheridan natives, Harry and Mary (Minnie) Oregon and lived on the Rogue River (a well known fishing Copp. She attended the local schools and was active in many river). Jack became ill with cancer and died on July 14, 1967 of the school's events and projects. She was Girls Sports and is buried beside his son Jack Dale in the Willamette Na- Editor for the school paper "Passamari" whose first edition tion[...]Swift Creek Dam in Cougar, Washington. This is at the foot Walter, and Clif Rodgers. Mary played with the girl's of Mt. St. Helens.) basketball team and participated in the school plays. She[...] |
| [...]separated and Mary returned to Sheridan for about one year.[...]In 1946 she and her daughter Beverly moved to Helena,[...]where she was employed by Montana Blue Shield-Blue[...]Sheridan and she was buried in the family plot at the[...]Mary was a happy person, a bright personality to all who knew her, ever carinl? and bringing them a sense that life was a joy to live. She always had a humorous story, a hearty[...]laugh and a genuine interest in most everything she en-[...]Ted and Donna Darby Mary Stine, 1942. graduated from Sheridan High School with the class of 1924. |
| [...]children in Butte. She had just returned home for a two Isabel Sutherland Netland and son, PauL month vacation when she became seriously ill. Being a diabetic she went into a coma and died in a Butte hospital for a number of years. My daughters and their families six without regaining consci[...]Lola's cheerful dispostion and loving and helpful nature After a visit in Honolulu, my sister, Isabel, went on to endeared her to all who knew her and her untimely death at Hong Kong where she married Paul Netland in 1932. He was the age of twenty saddened the entire community. in the banking department of American Express. Their son, Paul, was born in 1937. When they returned to the states[...]ived in Minnesota. Isabel's husband died in 1980. She lives near her son's family and three grandchildren. My sister Jean was a public health nurse in Hawaii before she sailed for Shanghai, China. She was married in 1935 to Charles McClellan. They had a son, Michael, born in 1940. When he was ten months old Jean had to return to the states with him on a blacked-out ship after Japan attacked China. She lived in Seattle during the ensuing war. Her husband, a commander in the Navy, was Admiral Halsey's com- munications offic[...]years. They now live in Palo Alto, California. My mother visited Jean and Isabel in China a number of times. Later she lived with me in Palo Alto until her death in 195[...]Charleen and Alfred Talbott, 1963. ALFRED AND CHARLEEN TALBOTT[...]Montana in the house on Water Street. When he was about[...]three years old the family moved to the Knowlton place on |
| [...]Street. Alfred started working for the Wind River Honey[...]pany part time while he worked for two summers at the Lewis and Clark Caverns. In 1961 he started working steady[...]for the company and now that he is semi-retired he still[...]thritis. They remodeled the house with many conveniences.[...]March 1, 1972 they took her to the Idaho Falls Hospital[...]where they discovered that she had Semetic Lupus. She died April 26, 1972 and is buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. The children all have families now. Bill, who served two[...]hitches in Vietnam and is a career Marine has five boys.[...]Ellen has three boys and a girl and Ethel has six girls.[...]Alfred Talbott Alfred and Charleen Talbott and children: Ellen, Ethel and out to go to school. The summers were mostly spent getting |
| George, Idella and daughter, Doris Jean. Hill of Butte in February 1[...]958 in Minnesota. Four sons were born to George and Idella: Richard Everett (Dick) on April 23, 1939;[...]2; David Russell on January 28, 1959 in Sheridan; and Dale Albert on December 3, 1944 in Puyallup, Washington. In August 1943 the family moved to Puyallup, Loren and Thelma Thomas wedding picture, June 18, 1933. Washington where George found employment in the shipyards in Tacoma, Washington. They returned to lessons and was in the high school orchestra. He graduated Sheridan July 4, 1948. George was employed by the Sage from Sheridan High School in 1927 receiving a scholarship to Lumber Company until it closed and then worked for Otto the University of Montana at Missoula. He participated in Schulz and later Jim Winslow. His health began to fail while ROTC for two years and was the "best-drilled" soldier in his he worked for Jim and forced his retirement. He died sophomore year. Upon graduation in 1931, he received the January 11, 1969 in Great Falls of lung cancer. H[...]Pharmacy Award for excellence in scholarship. in the Sheridan Cemetery. This left Idella with four son[...]tion, Loren went to work as a pharmacist at raise and educate, the youngest being ten year old Dave. the historic Rank's Drug Store in Virginia City. He b[...]Idella Talbott Romance entered his life when he met Thelma Williams[...]flourished and on June 18, 1933 they were married in[...]they lived at Billings and Helena, returning to Sheridan in[...]In 1937 they moved to Butte where Loren managed the[...]AS Loren Lee Thomas, only son of pioneers John and Rittie (Marshall) Thomas, was born July 3, 1910[...]his early grade school activities was delivering the Butte paper. When he was about ten, he took violin[...] |
| [...]vices from the Marsh Funeral Home and burial was in the Loren's hobbies were fishing, hunting and doing carpenter Sheridan Cemetery. Pallbearers[...]Halse, Gene White, Albert Braach, Charles Buck and Martin for Rainbow Worthy Advisors and Masters of the Masonic Simonsen.[...]Ted Darby and Charles Murray Lodge in Lewistown. He enjoyed music and enjoyed playing the organ. RICHARD L. AND DOROTHY (POLLY) TODD He was past master of Mas[...]Royal Arch Lodge; belonged to Marie Chapter OES; and Richard L. Todd was born on March 25, 1923 at the Todd served on the Rainbow Board; and was selected to become a Ranch on Moore's Creek near "the rocks", west of the town member of the Grand Cross of Colors, an honorary Masonic[...]ennie H. Todd of organization. he was a member of the Lewistown Rotary Grayson County, Virginia and Mary Edwards Todd of Club for many years.[...]oren died July 7, 1968. Thelma continued teaching and nis and graduated from Ennis High School in 1941. The retired in 1972. She still lives in Lewistown, where her two Todd children always rode horses to school and the tradition daughters, Judith and Lillian reside. Her son, David and two was not broken when Dick rode Dempsey from Ennis to sons, live in Helena, and continue to perpetuate the name of Dillon to attend Montana Normal College. With World War the John Thomas family of Sheridan, Montana. II at its height he joined the Army Paratroopers and served in the Pacific Theatre, most of the overseas time being in the Thelma Wiliams Thomas Army of Occupation in Japan. After the service Dick return- ed to the Todd Ranch in the Madison Valley. He broke horses and worked on area ranches also.[...]and Dorothy LaDue. Polly, as she is usually called, grew up on the LaDue ranches spread around the county, mostly be-[...]ing at "Sunnyside" where Faye and Doug Elser now live on ·wisconsin Creek. She attended Sheridan Schools and[...]1947. Polly enjoyed riding horses and did not consider it[...]Richard Todd and Polly LaDue were married on November[...]23, 1947 at the Episcopal Church in Sheridan. They lived at the Todd Ranch until they moved to the Ruby side in 1948.[...]Their son, Ty, was born in the Ruby Valley Emergency Hospital as were the five other children, three boys and two girls. In 1949 Dick and Polly bought 160 acres, plus five[...]acres a quarter mile away for the home, from Carey Brother's ranch. The property had recently been purchased by the Carey's from the Flora McNulty and Mary Swayze estates. In 1951 the family purchased the old Whisman ranch from John (Scotty) Tinline, age 43. Photo taken in 1932. Minnie Wiggins and they lived there until 1977 when the ranch was sold to William Kemph. Dick and Polly did not[...]like to move from a new home but they had bought the John JOHN (SCOTTY) TINLINE and Joe Spear Ranch in 1973; so they moved into a mob[...]home on the Spear Ranch the year after selling to Kemph. John (Scotty) Tin[...]ugust 8, 1889 in Jed- burgh, Scotland. He came to the United States in 1913 and Dick belongs to the IOOF and the American Legion Post was hired in Butte, Montana to work on the Ben Green ranch No. 89 in Sheridan and to the Elks Lodge in Virginia City. near Sheridan. He worked there for a time, also worked at Polly belongs to Passamari Rebekah Lodge 127, The the Lake Shore Mine, and other ranches in the vicinity. American Legion Auxiliary No. 89, the American National Cow Belles, the Vigilante Toastmasters and Christ During World War I he went to the West Coast and work- Episcopal Church. ed in the shipyards. Following the War he returned to Sheridan and worked for the Montana Power Company until Ty Charle[...]Twin Bridges with his wife, Mardi Elford, and their children, Shawn and Brooks. Nathan Alan Todd was born December Scotty used to travel quite extensively during the winter 5, 1949 and he lives in Crawford, Nebraska with his wife, months and once told Bud Green that he always traveled Melonie Pasold, and their children, Clayton and Amber. Ter- steerage aboard ships and had touched every continent and rill Dale Todd was born September 24, 1951. He is married many countries during his life time, but never got to see to Julie Sneddon and lives in Alder. Their first son, Ryan, Alaska. He did make a few trips to Australia and New died when four days old. Their other children are Lanaie and Zealand where he had relatives.[...]orn June 19, 1953. He lives He was a member of the Sheridan Lodge No. 20, A.F. & in Sheridan with his wife, Penney McDuffy, and their sons, A.M .. having joined the lodge in 1922. Sean, Seth and Grant. Julie Marie was born August 8, 1954. He never married. Scotty died on February 13, 1967 in San She is married to John Malesich and they live in Dillon, Deigo, California where he h[...]Montana with their children, Justin, Jennifer and Brandon. was 78 at the time of his death. His body was returned to Tamara Jan was born December 2, 1955. She is married to Sheridan and Sheridan Lodge No. 20 conducted funeral ser- Bernard Hansen and they live in Alder with their daughter,[...] |
| Ty and Mardi Todd wedding, April 17, 1976. Back row L. t[...]lesich holding Justin, Mary Edwards Todd, Richard and Dorothy Todd. Kaylie. JAMES L. AND MARY (SWISHER) TOLSON |
| [...]is Grounds Superintendent a_t the Yellowstone Country Club and Kristin is an R.N. at the Deaconess Hospital. They have[...]two boys, James and Daniel.[...]JOHN C. AND DOROTHY (BAKER) TOLSON[...]ranch one and one half miles north of Sheridan. John was the eldest of seven children born to Frank and Lena Hill Tolson. Three years later the family moved to the town of Sheridan.[...]John attended school in Sheridan and graduated from High[...]ol in 1927. During his early years he helped with the milking and selling milk, hauling the milk in buckets from[...]door to door in a little wagon. He also peddled honey from the hives his father had. As he grew older he helped[...]father and grandfather, Charles C. Hill, at the lumber yard, James Tolson with one of his Registered Quarter Horses. setting up machinery and handling the lumber and coal. In the fall of 1927 John enrolled at Montana State College the years they have remodeled and improved and added to in Bozeman, majoring in chemical engineering. He attended their holdings and at present are engaged in the raising, college for three and a half years and then the depression breeding and racing of Registered Quarter Horses. caught up with him and he quit with two quarters to go and Jim has been actively engaged in mining most of his life. In went to work in the Post Office as assistant postmaster. It 1969 he w[...]re to prospect for gold. During his stay there he and his wife, Dorothy Baker. Dorothy was also a child of pioneer associates were at one time forced to flee the country due to stock of Madison County. Her father and mother, Charles C. hostile forces invading the area in which they were stationed. and Nellie Cole Baker had been good friends of John's He has been involved in mining development in the Pony parents during their early days in Virginia City, but John area and the Sheridan vicinity and at present is in charge of and Dorothy did not know each other till they met at college mining activities at the old Tamarack Mine east of Sheridan. in 1928. Between raising a family, helping on the ranch and remodel- Dorothy was the second child of Charles and Nellie Baker, ing their home, Mary has been activ[...]ginia City on March 10, 1909. Her early years For the past twelve years she has been Director of Nurses at were spent in Virginia City, Alder Gulch and South Ruby. the Ruby Valley Hospital in Sheridan. Her mother died in 1915 and she was raised by her father and Four children were born to this union. Carolyn, born in her maternal grandmother Ella Cole. The family moved to 1946, Connie Jean in 1948, Donald in 1950 and Ray in 1952. Whitehall in 1918 and Charles (Baker the Baker as he was Ray was kiled in a car accident at the age of seventeen. He known) opened a bakery there. The family lived in Whitehall was a senior at Sheridan High School at the time. Carolyn until Dorothy and her brother Kenneth graduated from high Tolson Ruppel graduated from Montana State University. She and her husband, Jack, live in Pennsylvania where Dorothy and John Tolson, 1935. Carolyn teaches in a headstart program. They have two sons, Christopher and Brandon. Connie Tolson Cedeno graduated from Washington Central University at Ellensburg, Washington and teaches in the third grade at Moses Lake, Washington. She also has two sons, Ray and Mathew. Don attended Montana State University in Bozeman. He and his wife, Kristin live in Billings where D[...] |
| [...]Internal Security for the American National Insurance Co.[...]with headquarters in Galveston, Texas. Charles and his[...]y live in Clancy, Montana. He is Group Manager of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Ser-[...]vice with offices in Helena. Patricia and her twelve year old son live in Everett, Washington. She is manager of Shepard[...]Medical Supplies in Seattle, Washington. Both Jon and Charles served in the armed forces of the United States; Jon in the Air Force as a radio operator on a bomber and Charles in the Navy Air Force as a navigator on a jet from the Car-[...]Dorothy and John C. Tolson Dorothy and John Tolson, 1975. |
| [...]eath, Bessie moved to Woodland Califor- nia where she now resides with her son, Frank. '[...]Madeline M Flick and Melain (Ed) Tracer. Wedding picture,[...]from here she walked to Brandon to school with her brother.[...]From this homestead they moved to Brandon and continued[...]school there for several years. Later the family moved to Sheridan and lived in the old Schultz Hotel which was located where the Standard Station now is. In 1923 they[...]into their own home on Water Street, now owned by The Tolson boys and their father in front of the family home Rev. Robert Grotzke. L . to R .: R[...]second class reunion with six of the class in attendance. For a year she attended Western College at Dillon, then known as[...]ood Tolson was born in Sheridan July 23, the Montana Normal. For several years she worked at the 1916 to Frank and Lena (Hill) Tolson. He was the fifth child Children's Center in Twin Bridges. and the third son born to Frank and Lena. Willard grew up in Sheridan, attended public school and graduated from the In 1932 Madeline married Melain (Ed) Trac[...]an High School. After his graduation he worked at the native, and moved to Butte where he was employed by the Toledo mine at Brandon and as millman for the Broadway Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. Their daughter, mine in Silver Star for many.years. During the war years he Gaylene, was born in 1937. She, her husband, Bill, who is worked at the government Atomic Gun Plant in Pocatello Principal at Gibson Jr. High, and their three sons, Bill, Brian and from there went to Long Beach, California where he was and Bradley, live in Great Falls, Montana. employed as an electrician. He was always a lover of the out- In 1949 Madeline started working for Firestone, doing all doors and the mountains and did not enjoy the hustle and inventories, clerking and in June of each year she went to bustle of city life so returned to Sheridan and operated the Salt Lake City, Utah to order all toys for the Christmas Standard Service Station for awhile. Sales. She only worked three days a week, working more dur- In 1941 Willard married Helen Murphy, a 'teacher in the L . to R .: Brian, Bill, Bradley, Bill and Gaylene Salonen. Sheridan schools and they lived together for many years but the marriage later ended in divorce and Willard moved to Colorado and later to Utah where for a number of years he was mill foreman for the Kennicott Copper Company at Eureka, Utah. Willard was a quiet gentle man, much loved by his family and especially by his many nieces and -nephews and in later years by his grand nieces and nephews. He died in June 1973 at the age of 56.[...]orn in Sheridan June 3, 1910, daughter of William and Clementine Flick (Hatfield). She had an older brother, Leroy. Miss Gersch taught her first grade. In the spring they moved to a homestead located north of the Toledo Mine,[...] |
| [...]ty; so after working twenty-three years She did odd jobs in Sheridan and there she met Maurice J. Madeline retired also. Turn[...]in Garden City, South Dakota to Allen and Thea Turner. He Madeline M. Flick Tracer came to Montana in 1935 and to Sheridan in 1938, working in[...]several of the local mines. Two daughters, Norma Jean and[...]Maurice worked for the Anaconda Company.[...]Their three daughters married and they have eight grand-[...]Maurice is now working for the Butte Water Company.[...]Evelyn M. Turner Evelyn and Maurice Turner, July, 1979. |
| Mabel and Camille in later years. L. to R.: Charles Jr. , Brian, Marybelle, Layne, 1945. and in Tucson, Arizona. She has one daughter, Patricia "It is not necessary to explain a successful business ex- |
| [...]He passed away July 6, 1965 at the age of 72. Services were held from the Chapel of Valente, Marini, Pera ta and Company on Mission Street and at St. Michael's Church[...]Post NO. 114 American Legion Services were held the even-[...]HENRY T. AND VIOLA WALTER Henry T. Walter was the sixth child of Charles and[...]and from Creighton University of Omaha, Nebraska with[...]Nebraska and Montana. After graduation he worked in the pharmacy department of the Charles Walter Store and Standing: Mary Copp Stine, Joy Bowden Chapman, Russ operated the drug department from 1926 until 1942. Chapman.[...]ra Walter, Megan Walter, In 1942 he joined the U.S. Navy. He was sent to Mare Marybelle Walter,[...], Andrew Island where he was assigned to care for the wounded from Walter, Ethel Bowden, Rose Ann Walter, Daisy Grose, Pearl Harbor. Later he was transferred to the Pharmacy Layne Walter.[...]Pharmacist on the APH Tryon. This ship was a transport and hospital ship and operated in the South Pacific. and has three step children: Willo Reid, Bozeman; A'L[...]iola Callaghan, a teacher Scott, Portland, Maine; and Kevin Scott, Portland, Maine.[...]ember of Frederick Brian Walter attended grade and high school in 1942 the Tryon sailed for the South Pacific and didn't return Sheridan and played catcher on the undefeated Sheridan until December 1944. After re[...]Brian graduated in Civil at Oak Knoll, California and had charge of the Pharmacy Engineering from Montana State College in 195'3 and since Department. that time has been employed by Texaco, Inc. in the construc- After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Henry was put on tion mangement of refining, petrochemical, and more another ship and was transfered to the Marine Corps. They recently, coal gasification plants. were to set up hospitals for the planned invasion of Japan. Brian maried Rose A[...]es, Indiana Shortly after this peace was declared and he was transferred on July 4, 1958. They now reside in Houston, Texas with to the Discharge Center at Oxnard, California. In Octobe[...]er 26, 1959; Benedict 1945 he was discharged from the service and he and his wife, born March 22, 1961; and"Martin born April 15, 1963. Viola, return[...]Henry went back to work as a pharmacis~ in the Charles[...]Manager and Pharmacist of the store until it was incor-[...]porated. He then became Pharmacist and Secretary-[...]Treasurer until his retirement in 1974. In 1974 the Phar- EDISON WALTER[...]macy Department was sold to George King in the Pick and Edison was the first child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walter. On a trip to Alaska, 1977. Viola and Henry Walter, Marion |
| [...]nry received his 50 year pin as a pharmacist from the Montana State Pharmaceutical Association in 1976. After retiring from the store he worked as a Relief Pharmacist for the Pick and Pan Pharmacy in Sheridap. and for the MacAlear Drug Department in Twin Bridges, Montana. Henry retired from all work in 1979. Viola Walter was the daughter of Mr. John J. Callaghan of Nils, Michigan and Elizabeth Lane of Three Forks, Montana. She was born April 21, 1906 in Willow Creek, Montana. She graduated from the Three Forks High School in 1925 and from the State Teacher's College in Dillon in March 1927. She taught school for thirty-six years. The last nineteen years at the Montana Children's Center in Twin Bridges, Montana. On June 20, 1942 she and Henry were married in San Fran- cisco. During his tour of duty in the U.S. Navy she worked for the War Labor Board in San Francisco until he was discharged from the service in October 1945. William (Bill) Walter. They returned to Sheridan and both went to work at the Charles Walter Store. Henry as pharmacist and Viola as bookkeeper and in the Dry Goods Department. In 1952 Viola went back to teaching at the Montana Children's Center in Twin Bridges retiring in 1971. Viola then went back to work in the Dry Goods Depart- ment after Lynn McGregor retired and worked until the store was sold to Mr. and Mrs. William Walter. She and Henry are now enjoying their retirement. Henry and Viola have one son, Paul Henry Walter, who was bo[...]a. He graduated from Sheridan High School in 1964 and from Car- roll College in Helena, Montana with a degree in Sociology in 1969. He joined the Navy in 1970 and spent four years as Quarter Master at Annapolis,[...]n Deigo, California. In 1974 he returned to Butte and entered the Butte Business College and was taking Court Reporting when the College closed. Paul is now working for the Montana Power Company in the Computer Division. Ed, Tom, and Bob Walter. He married Kathy Bannish June 29, 1980 in Westfield, Massachusetts and they are living in Butte. spent with the 45th Infantry Division. He was discharged at[...]On returning to Sheridan Bill met and married Irene Henry and Viola Walter Carolyn Starysky. They were mar[...]her brother, Ted, who had pur- WILLIAM AND IRENE WALTER chased the Ruby Hotel. They have three children: Bob, Tom,[...]Ed and three grandchildren: Trevor, Gayle Lee, and Michael William (Bill) Walter was born in Sheridan, Montana April 3, 1915, the youngest of ten children born to Charles Walter Sr. and Eleanore LeGris Walter. He attended school in[...]ing area in basement, 1979. Bill Walter. Sheridan and was active in basketball and track. After school and weekends were spent working for his dad in the family store of Charles Walter where he delivered groceries in a Model T Ford. Summers were spent working in the store or on various ranches around the valley or for the Ferry Morse Seed Company under the management of Mac McGregor. A number of young men were employed by Mac ~or the job of roguing peas. A few still get together and reminiscence about these days. Bill graduated from Sheridan High School in 1933 and enrolled in the Dillon Normal College, now known as Western Monta[...]. Three or four jobs later he returned to Montana and was employed by Dan J . Cavanaugh Construction Company until World War II. He went into the Army in 1941. Most of his service time was[...] |
| William. At the suggestion of his brothers Charles Jr. and Henry and his sister Lynn Walter McGregor they remodeled the store to self service. One big job for those days, the year? 1950. In 1975 Irene and Bill decided to buy the family business after working under the guidance of Bill's brothers and sister. In 1978 with the help of his wife, three sons and their families they remodeled and renovated the store again. In 1979 Irene and Bill semi-retired and now Charles Walter Inc. is under the management of their boys. At this writing the store is the oldest store in the state of Montana under the same family name. It started in 1889. Bill has been a member of the American Legion Post in Sheridan for thirty-seven years. He was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department for thirty years servin[...]r two years. In 1979 he was chosen Grocery Man of the Year by the Montana Food Distributors Association. Bill enjoys fly fishing on the Ruby River. He and Irene still reside in Sheridan in the home that he was born in.[...]Butte in 1932 and after a few months came to Sheridan and stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schulz, long time friends. In the spring of 1933 Howard bought half interest in the Ruby Hotel, forming a life long partnershp with John Cates,[...]who stayed with him until his death. The two men operated the Ruby Hotel and Bar until 1946, when they sold it to Ted[...]Starysky, and later bought the Stockman Bar. In 1954[...]failing health made it necesary for them to sell the bar and their home and move to Lewiston, Idaho. When[...]Howard bought in with John Cates, the Ruby Hotel was just[...]a hotel, but when liquor came back Howard and John did some excavating on the north side of the hotel and put in a bar. It had quite a following and many people knew it as "The Sump".[...]oward was an ardent sportsman, following baseball and[...]of the big fights held in Butte and other parts of the west during the early 1900's and was a past master in the art of telling and re-living his many and varied experi~nces. He Howard Weatherwax, 1951 was one of the top trapshooters in Montana and the North- west and won a number of medals shooting "blue rocks" or[...]Secretary-Treasurer of the Sheridan Gun Club from 1936 HOWARD AND NELLIE WEATHERWAX through 1946. He was a seventy year member of the Elks Howard Weatherwax was born on November 27, 1879 at Lodge No. 240, Butte, Montana and was also a charter Sturgis, Michigan. He came to Butte, Montana in the sum- member of the Sheridan Kiwanis Club chartered in 1941. mer of 1900. He often made the remark that he turned Nellie pass[...]n, Idaho on July 8, 1962 at twenty-one that year and what a town Butte was at that the age of seventy-two from a heart attack. She was born in time, "only Irish and Cousin Jacks". His first job was a bell Dayton, Washington on December 2, 1889. She was buried hop at the old Thornton Hotel. Later he owned the Plaza Bar at the Normal Hill Cemetery in Lewiston, Idaho. A number at 45 West Park Street. When the state went dry in 1919 he of people from Sheridan drove there for the funeral. We were moved to Los Angeles, California and operated the Casey unable to find a picture of Nelli[...]rite up. Hotel there. In 1924 he went to Chicago and purchased the Howard died on April 14, 1970 at the age of ninety. He had Howard Hotel and operated it until the big crash of the been at a nursing home in Lewiston for[...]nds that he got out of Chicago his death. He also was buried at the Normal Hill Cemetery in with just his shirt and train fare for he and his wife, Nellie. Lewiston, Idaho. Am not exac[...]rned to Sheridan many times to visit his many he and Nellie Feehan were married in about 1910. They[...]never had any children. After leaving Chicago, he and Nellie remembered by his many friends in Butte and Sheridan and[...] |
| throughout the state where trapshooting enthusiasts gather. broker from Boston, in 1904, in Sheridan and after living a[...]Coeur Larry B. Preston and Ted Darby d'Alene, Idaho where they built a home and lived until his death in 1927. Mr. and Mrs. Weeks had no children.[...]Sheridan where she spent the rest of her life. She was a member of Christ Episcopal Church and St. Mary's Episcopal Guild. She was an ardent student and spent hours with her books. She had a great love for the Sheridan Library, and many of its books were her personal volumes,[...]on loan. She was lovingly called "Aunt Nech " by her many[...]Mrs. Weeks died on May 4, 1966 at the Madison County Nursing Home in Sheridan at the age of 92. Funeral services[...]were held from Christ Episcopal Church and pallbearers were[...]Ted Marsh and Clif Rodgers. She was buried in the family plot at the Sheridan Cemetery.[...]Montana, during its heyday on February 21, 1874, the daughter of Henry Douglas and Janet Hall Rossiter, pioneers of Madison County, who came to Alder Gulch and Summit about 1865 following the Civil War. She attended local schools and then went to a boarding school at Robie Hall in Palo Alto, California. She entered Stanford University and Palo Alto and graduated in its first class. She then spent three years studying in Germany. Janette married George Forrest Weeks, a mining man and Janette Weeks Michael and Louise Sueltz Wessel[...]MICHAEL AND LOUISE (SUELTZ) WESSEL[...]years old. They homesteaded near Hazelton, North Dakota.[...]County, South Dakota. In 1901 the Sueltz family moved to[...]Mike and Louise were married November 7, 1907 and started farming on the outskirts of Hazelton, North Dakota.[...]there and raised their family of nine children. They are Al[...]Barnes, Oakland, California; and Claude Wessel, Mar-[...] |
| Michael and Louise Wessel 50th Wedding Anniversary. Standing,[...]they moved to a ranch south of Alder, Montana in the Upper Ruby on Lazy Man Creek. Two years later they purchased the Cheney home on Mill Street in Sheridan. Mike worked at the Harry Foster ranch until he retired. Louise cooked at the Foster Ranch for several years and also at the old Ruby Hospital. On November 7, 1957 they celebra[...]sary with an open house planned by their children and a family dinner at the Betheny Hall in Sheridan. Mike died on October 8, 1967 and is buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. Louise is a member of the Bethel Methodist Church, the Ladies Aid Society and the American Legion Auxiliary. In October 1980 she moved to an apartment in Shermont Manor and still resides there at the age of ninety-six.[...]Barbara and Crosby Willis BARBARA (ELLINGHOUSE) WILLIS The Ellinghouses: Ray, Barbara Willis, Shirley Desche[...]Bert. Barbara Ellinghouse, daughter of Grace and Walter Ell- inghouse was born in Sheridan, Montana on October 29, 1915. She graduated from Sheridan High School in 1933 and attended Butte Business College. After graduating from BBC she worked as a secretary in the office of the County At- torney in Virginia City. On October 9, 1936 she married Crosby Willis of Cowley, Wyoming who was[...]vell, Wyoming. They had a contract to resurface the main street through Ennis, Montana. Crosby followed construction work and railroad work until 1946 when they moved from Missoula to Fromberg where Crosby owned and operated a Husky Ser- vice Station. He bought an eighty-acre farm on the edge of town. In 1956 Crosby was appoi[...] |
| Barbara and Crosby had three children. Wanda was born secured employment in Seattle and they moved there with in Sheridan and is married to Dick Pacot, has three children their first baby, Charlotte, who was born in Sheridan, and lives in Laurel, Montana; Carol who was also born in September 1934. In 1937 they retu[...]dan is married to John Bowker, has three children and on the farm and to care for Grandma Nelson during her final they[...], born in Seattle, April 1936. Following children and they live in Colstrip, Montana. Barbara still[...]ath, Grandpa Nelson disposed of lives in Fromberg and retired in June 1981 after being Clerk the farm to live in Sheridan and they moved to Dillon, where of the School District Board of Trustees for sixteen years. George was employed by the Dillon Bakery before entering Crosby was a member and Past Master of Roman Eagle the army in 1944. Two boys had been added to their family, Lodge No. 77 A.F. & A.M. and the Alice Chapter No. 51, George F. born in Sheridan in 1939 and William B. born in O.E.S. Barbara is a member of[...]hey were Dillon in 1941. Returning from the service, George was Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron in 1956. employed at Eliel's and then Robert's Foods for eighteen[...]from their children, sixteen grandchildren and five great-[...]Sheridan Schoo~ 1929. GEORGE E. AND MABEL WILLISS George Elmore Williss was born December 30, 1907 in |
| [...]Whitehall in 1900. From there the family moved to Waterloo and then to the Al Holter ranch about 1905. "My dad was[...]In 1909 the family headed north for Peace River, Alberta,[...]wagons. One had a two-wheel trailer attached and was pulled by four horses. The other wagon was pulled by two horses. The family made it as far as Polson, Montana where th[...]up with a fellow by the name of Watermon. Plans were changed and the family ended up in Grangeville, Idaho.[...]They lived in the vicinity of Kooskia, Idaho until March 1918.[...]r. Winslow said, "We loaded horses, a cow or two, and fur- niture in a box car and headed for Sheridan, Montana, as my[...]born February 17, 1901 on Indian Creek. The Shafers moved to the Cisler ranch near Mill Creek where they ranched until In Galax, Lura earned a teacher's certificate and taught 1918 when the ranch was sold. They then moved to Sheridan school there for a number of years. She married a business and built a nice home. man, Victor Wilson. To Victor and Lura were born five children: Lily J:learl; Victor Jr.; Ellyson; Glen; and Rebecca. Ervin and Elizabeth Winslow lived in Sheridan until 1934 All of them live in Galax or the surrounding area in Virginia. when they moved[...]for the U.S. Forest Service as a foreman with the Civilian Lura passed away in 1974. Her husband[...]Conservation Corps program. Following the outbreak of preceded her. She leaves the five children and several grand- World War II, December 7, 1941, the CCC program was children as well as one brother, Fay E. Edwards of Sheridan. disbanded July 1, 1942. The Winslows then moved to a[...]"The place was very much run down," Mr. Winslow recall- ERVIN AND ELIZABETH WINSLOW ed, "We all worked together and made a very comfortable[...]the two-story wood frame home to the ground. Undaunted, Ervin W. Winslow was born July 1, 1898, in the Centennial the Winslow family built another home. It stands today Ervin and Elizabeth Winslow family, 1970, Standing:[...] |
| Ervin and Elizabeth Winslow Home near Troy, Montana. overlooking Savage Lake and the Cabinet Mountains. |
| for the Anaconda Company and Myrna at the Burr's Beauty Salon. In 1961 they moved to Sheridan. Fred helped his brother, Jim, on the ranch and Myrna had her beauty shop. She has been a beautician for twenty-five years and has enjoyed her many customers who are also her friends. Fred is now engaged in mining whic[...]Harry Winslow and his Satellite Receiving Dish.[...]has been in the Pasadena School District for twenty-one[...]LaVena and Harry have retired in Sheridan on Wisconsin[...]Creek on the same ground as the old Winslow home of 1918.[...]LaVena busies herself with her hobbies and taking care of the house and Harry has a bunch of hobbies, a garden and a[...]working harder now days than they ever did in the various[...]fun with the study of and building of Satellite receiving and[...]own a place in Mesa, Arizona and enjoy staying there for several months of the winter. It is always nice though to[...]Harry Winslow Harry and La Vena Winslow, Sitka, Alaska, 1979.[...], 1903. After a few years his father moved across the river close to Silver Star on what was known as the Holter Ranch. In 1909 the family started for Canada with two covered wagons drawn by two four-horse teams and a surrey. Besides preparing the meals his mother drove the two horses that pulled the surrey. His sister, Erma, and brother, Ervin, kept the loose livestock on the trail. (See p. 554 in Trails and Trials). After spending time in Idaho they returned to Sheridan in 1918. Harry finished grade and high school in Sheridan and attended Montana State for one year. In 1927 he w[...]ives in Long Beach with her husband, Carl Fleming and son, Scott. Ruth Ann is an accomplished musician, playing big organs in churches, the piano, accordian and also sings. Carl is deputy sheriff in the Narcotics Division of Los Tom and Ethel Winslow, 1981. Angeles. Young Scott is in h[...]TAYLOR WINSLOW Florence died of a brain tumor and Harry later married LaVena Brightweiser, whose husband was also deceased. Thomas Taylor Winslow, son of Ivan H. and Lucy Taylor LaVena had one daughter, Carolyn, one[...]was educated in together, studied music together and had many other things the Sheridan Schools, graduating in 1934. As a World War II in common. Carolyn is also an accomplished musician and Veteran he saw service in the 3rd Army in Europe from holds a masters degree in Education Administration. She December 5, 1942 to December 15[...] |
| [...]when they moved to Montana. They homesteaded at the base of the Ruby Mountains in Spring Canyon. In 1918 he[...]early days he herded sheep and eventually became camp-[...]In the mid-20's Clarence moved to the Madison Valley and Tom Winslow Family, 1981: Mary, John, Suzy. worked for the Call Sheep Company, better known as Stoney[...]s Clarence For thirty years he was employed by the Bishop Conklin remembered the days he worked for Mr. Call with fond Company, a[...]he was employed by Sears Roebuck on the Call Ranch at the head of Morgan Gulch. He con- where he was engaged in selling heating and air-conditioning tracted some of the first fence to be built in this country, systems in the Pomona Valley area of California. working with his brother, Lester, and George Hungerford, the start of a friendship with George which lasted tn[...]his life. In the next few years George and Clarence hunted Kristofek in Los Angeles. They ha[...]most of the Madison Valley on the Gravely Range. More Linda Given, Suzanne Lucy Chandler and John Michael than one elk ended up in the frying pan! Winslow. All live in the Los Angeles area. Mary holds a degree in accounting, Suzanne a degree in teaching and John In the early 1940's Clarence moved to the Ruby Valley and a degree in meteorology. worked for the Gilbert Ranch. In the late 40's he moved back to the G,ravely and worked for the Ennis Company Ranch. At present Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Winslow are retired and The Gravely had become his home. While he worked ther[...]sold the homestead and moved to Sheridan. As foreman for Thomas T. Winslow the ranch he managed the ranch in the country he loved for[...]many years. After leaving the Ennis Company he worked for the Hagenbarth Ranch, the old Cook Cattle Company in Idaho and Montana. He also worked for the Montana State[...]College out of Bozeman, again in the Gravely Range. In the[...]1970's he semi-retired, but was happy to work in the sum-[...]the Gravely Range. Clarence was a member of the Masonic Order, York Rite Bodies and Bagdad Shrine.[...]Lane in Sheridan. Clarence was married and divorced in the 1940's and had no children, but he had many nephews and[...]nieces to whom he bequeathed his legacy of love and respect for this Montana land and mountains. He was a true Mon-[...]tanan. He was a hunter, fisherman, trapper and rancher. He[...]mination and knowledge. The Gravely Range was his favorite home, and as one of his life long friends put it, "The[...]leen was born February 19, 1900 in Virginia City, the Clarence Furr Woodward was born April 4, 1900 at Green- third child of Robert and Catherine Donegan Funk. She at- wood, Mississippi, the son of John and Martha Furr Wood- tended school in Adobetown and Lower Wisconsin Creek. ward. His family moved to Diamond, Oklahoma until 1913 She graduated from Sheridan High School as Sal[...] |
| [...]born and six years later Lowell was born. Walter became an[...]educator and Lowell a Research Chemist in California.[...]PT A. They awarded her their Golden Acorn Life Member- ship. She served for sixteen years as Spokane Park Commis-[...]sioner and is an Honorary Life Member. In 1960 she was elected a member of the Electoral College, representing the Fifth Congressional District and cast their vote for the office of President of the United States, a distinct honor. Hei;[...]signature is in the archives of the Congressional Library,[...]In 1970 Myron retired and they took a "Trip-Around-The-[...]The crowning point in Eileen's life came in 1956, when she[...]tion of her contributions to the community at large. She is very proud of this honor and credits her ability to accomplish[...]etary to a mining company in North Carolina. When the company folded she passed that state's teacher's examinations and taught the eighth grade at Ad- CHARLES AND EDNA YEO vance, North Carolina. She returned to Montana and enrolled at Montana State Charles Robert[...]3. He Normal at Dillon, attending summer sessions and teaching is the youngest and only living of four sons born to Harley at Logan, Virginia City and Pipestone Springs. Here she and Luella Yeo. He attended grade school in Sheridan[...]mother died to live with his brother, Silver Cup. She received her college diploma in 1926 and Waldo. He graduated from Butte High School i[...]returned to Sheridan in 1930 purchasing the Tom Graham July 4, 1928, she and Myron C. Yeager of Cheyenne, home in Brandon, the former Addi Vincent pioneer home. Wyoming were ma[...]anch Manager for Bostitch Stapling 1916. She is the eldest of six children born to Glenn and Company for thirty-five years. In 1930 a son, Walter, was Lydia Elser. The Branham Lakes dam had gone out and her Yeager Family, September, 1972. L[...]wife of Walter, Rache4 Walter's dau hter and Walter.[...] |
| Edna and Charles Yeo, October 10, 1934. Dad had to don h[...]a doctor to come to their |
| William Rhodes wife and Children: Mother Mabel,, Vere, Mabel,, Mer[...] |
| [...]1960 a small gain brought the count to 509. In 1970 the[...]town had grown to 613. Businesses responded to the rise and fall of population, some stayed, some opened and closed,[...]The First National Bank was a durable enterprise. It[...]ed its doors on June 11, 1917. (the capitalization was $25,000.) In 1982 the bank had $8.5 million in total[...]resources. A.R. Smith owned the controlling interest for[...]banker, in 1969. The first bank had been opened in the building that is the Masonic Temple until the "new bank"[...]and it opened in September, 1970. In 1976 Steve Adams[...]with the bank since 1950. Bridge over the Beaverhead, 19.§0's. TOWN HISTORY--TWIN BRIDGES "The Roaring Twenties" - Twin Bridges didn't really roar, |
| [...]built in the 1960 's. In 1970 the town got a new Medical Clinic and Post Office. The Mason's celebrated their fiftieth anniversary at[...]Gate Lodge on October 3, 1933. The Eastern Star was seventy-five years old September 17, 1973. Rainbow[...](1929-1977) for girls and DeMolay (1949-1972) for boys were[...]Neighbors, chartered in 1915 with 210 beneficial and social members. The Juveniles, organized in 1932, have forty[...]members. There is also a Rotary Club which was chartered[...]in 1929. Firehall and Library Building, constructed 1960's. Land International, Blue Anchor Bar and Cafe, Diamond |
| PE Complex, constructed 1962. Domiciliary at the Montana Children's Center after its Lott'[...]ed, 1960. closure in 1975, but were unsuccessful. The Legion honored an ardent supporter and worker among their members by changing their post name to Dan Brockman Post No. 31. Pre- The school district since 1922 has consolidated with[...]Gulch, Glen, and the south portion of Waterloo. Sydney Smith Veteran[...]ere Memorial Day ceremonies are held. The school plant has expanded to take care of these addi- Flags are put on veterans graves yearly and the Legion work tions. 1921-22 was the date of the building of the old part of continues. The Legion Auxiliary, formed in 1940, assists and the high school. A bond issue for $57,400 seemed ampl[...]Girls State. soon the district was $12,000 in debt. The 1923-24 year began with all new teachers except Superintendent Austin. Charles M. Reis Post 3843 was chartered March 4, 1943. The day the teachers tried to cash their warrants and found It is named for the first soldier killed in World War I from they w[...]heir own hall, but now mass meeting was held and arrangements were made to pay meet at the Fire Hall. The Auxiliary was formed June 3, the warrants; and a special levy was passed. 1945, and assists the Post. Present Commander is Lucian Knitter, Emerson (Jiggs) High, acting, Membership is The Wisconsin Creek school house became the Vo-Ag thirty-five.[...]classroom in 1938. Seven lots were purchased from the Lott Estate for $600 to expand the playground and football field. The new grade school was built in 1954-55 for $178,40[...]1962 the PE Complex was built on land purchased from John[...]and Melvina Comfort for $1040. The bond was for $135,000.[...]In 1969 a $242,000 bond was passed to replace the 1912 building and to build an additional building for vocational[...]agriculture and a trades and industries program. A science complex and administration offices are in this high school[...]building addition. The home economics program required remodeling of the old science area. In 1969 a new football field and track was purchased. $6,000 was paid in three in-[...]stallments for twenty lots and a closure of the streets. The high school age students from the Orphan's Home had[...]always attended Twin Bridges High School. In the 1950's[...]re students in · this age group were admitted to the Vocational Agriculture and Trade Building, constructed, Children's Center and the state began paying a tuition fee for 1969.[...]each student. In the 1960's as many as seventy students[...]came from MCC to the town high school. The Center closed The Fire Department has two trucks, trudatest one pur- in 1975 and enrollment dropped to less than 100. Town chased in 1965, and they are housed in the new fire hall. A Superintendents have been Roy[...]of Comer, Lester C. Reynolds, Thomas Everett, and Frank Hughes Mining Company. The city meetings are held in the Nelson. Fire Hall with Mayor Gene -Shipp presiding. Mayors from As the last entry in Twin Bridges history the sources of 1920 have been: W.D. Heller (1920-22), Jas. Shannon employment were the Sage Lumber Company, Tom Marshall (1923-25), Bert[...]ay (Jay Jack Seidensticker (1935-41), George Reid and Fred Jenkins and Son Lumber Company) of Longview, Washington. In ([...]961-63), 1961 he brought a new sawmill from the coast. He sawed for Sylvan Donegan (1963-67), Russ Edwards (1967-71), Dan local trade and the Forest Service and sent lumber to other Brown (1971-73), Jemima Cook[...]and Leinweber who moved to Sheridan. The Post Office has been located in many buildings and The Maidenrock Phosphate Mine (Stauffer Chemical) at[...]Mailey as Divide employed many from the whole area as did several Postmistress. Others have been Mrs. Lucille Knight from other mines and mills. 1915-1947, Howard Lemm, 1947-1976,[...] |
| [...]Frank and Mary Louise Balkovetz, 1980. Edward and Matilda Aeisenbrey[...]to Twin Bridges, Montana 's ranching community on the[...]Hole River, with his parents when only two years old. EDWARD AND MA TILDA AEISENBREY Frank received his education in the country Pageville School, and after consolidation with Twin Bridges School E[...]t th-9re for a time. 1885. When he was four years old he came to this country with his family and settled in Parkston, South Dakota. Frank purchased the Elmer Page ranch on the Dillon-Twin Bridges road in 1937 and in 1938 married Mary Louise Han- Matilda Wudel[...]94, in Mississippi. cock, daughter of Walter and Ruth Hancock, who was born Her family moved north from Mississippi when she was a in Twin Bridges and received grade and high school educa- young girl and settled in Parkston, South Dakota. tions there. Edward and Matilda were married in Parkston when she In 1942 they sold the Page ranch and purchased the was sixteen and moved to the Ruby Valley shortly after their Gorshe ranch.[...]age. They homesteaded with her paren~s, Christian and Lydia Wudel, near the McCartney Mountams. Maralene and Frank Balkovetz with Shane, Jana, and Soon they were able to lease the Owsley place, about three Shauna Chris tmas, 1977. miles from Twin Bridges, from Mrs. Owsley and gradually bought it. They had no children of their own but raised two of Matilda 's sisters, Bertha and Hildegarde. Bertha married George Frazier and remained in the Twin Bridges area. Hildegarde who is ~eaf, attended_t~e school for the ·deaf in Boulder. She married Everett Gilliam from Cardwell, whotn she met in school. She now resides in Van- couver, Washington. For over fifty years Edward and Matilda lived on the farm they had purchased and loved. They farm_ed, using horse- drawn vehicles for all those years. Matilda was always afraid Ed would hurt himself on those "new contraptions ". The finally decided to sell their farm to Ed Elford and mov- ed to Twin Bridges to one of the houses they had purchased years ago. They continued to live in town until their deaths. Edward in 1973 and Matilda in 1975.[...]rn in Butte, Montana, December 6, 1906, to George and Mary Balkovetz and mov-[...] |
| 1942 and after finishing school joined his father in ranching. daughters Mary Bird, Twin Bridges, and Ann Storey, Ennis, They purchased the Wilbur Whiting ranch which joined their Montana. ranch and they have had a very successful father and son, George and Mary retired in 1942 and bought the Jack hay, grain, cattle and hog operation. Frank W. is taking over Seidensticker home in Twin Bridges where they lived until more of the work as Frank B. is trying to partially retire. George passed away in April, 1949, and Mary passed away There are many pleasant memori[...]y, 1956. ranching area, going to a country school and seeing so many Louise Balkovetz changes in the area. Probably the greatest change occurred when Rural Electrification came to the area in 1939 and also when the highways to Dillon and Butte, Montana, were oiled. Frank is a member of the Pageville Canal Company, and trustee for that group over 30 years. Frank served as a com- mittee board member for the Farmer's Home Administration from Madison County in the 1960's. Frank also is a member of Half Century Club of Modern Woodmen of America and is a charter member of the Ruby Valley Senior Citizens.[...]George and Sally Balkovetz, wedding picture, 1930.[...]GEORGE AND SALLY (FULWOOD) BALKOVETZ[...]eorge Balkovetz was born March 4, 1903, to George and[...]migrated separately to the United States in 1900. His father[...]directly to Butte. They met in Butte and married in 1902.[...]1910 to Ivy (Mosey) and William Fulwood. Ivy and William George and Mary Balkovetz[...]Dakota. In 1917 the Fulwood family moved to the East GEORGE AND MARY (SAGE) BALKOVETZ[...]Balkovetz Sr. was born in Austria April 17, 1876, and came to the United States in 1898 with three other 50th Wedding Anniversary, 1980. George and Sally brothers, John, Marcus, and Matt. Balkovetz. They first settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and work- ed in the steel mills. John settled there, but George, Marcus, and Matt came to Butte, Montana, and worked in the mines. In 1902 George met Mary Sage, also from Austria, who was working in Butte, Montana. They were married April 26, 1902, and moved to Twin Bridges about 1907 where they purchased the Wilcomb ranch on the Big Hole River. George's brothers Marcus and Matt lived on the ranch, too, and helped with the work until the family was grown up and could work. George and Mary lived on the ranch nearly fifty years. They raised six of thei[...]o died in 1973, Frank B. Balkovetz, Twin Bridges, and l;arl Balkovetz of Dillon, Montana; and[...] |
| [...]University of Montana, Missoula, 1953. Virginia M and Frederick W. Balkovetz.[...]BATISTA JOHN (TESTE) AND BERTA (TALBOTT) George Balkovetz and Sally Fulwood were married in BASOLO 1930. Their first home was the former Bird Ranch by Penn- Teste was b[...]29, 1909 in Meaderville, Montana, ington Bridge. The two story log home had four rooms--very and came to Twin Bridges with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. simply constructed. Their daughter Virginia was born here Henry Basolo, when he was eight and one-half months old. in 1932. They farmed and ranched there until 1934, then moved to the former Belser Ranch (now Steve Novich's) for a[...]a was born on June 21 , 1911, in Stuart, Montana, and few months. They moved to the former Wagner place (now came to Twin Bridges with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert the Elford ranch) that same year. Their son Fred was born in Talbott, when she was three and one-half years old. 1936. They operated a dairy for ten years, and they delivered Teste lived on the Alaska Ranch and up Bear Gulch the milk in Twin Bridges. early part of his life and attende~ the_lower grades in _s~hool. In 1917 the family moved to Twin Bndges where he frmshed I[...]ridges. the elementary grades and attended high school, graduating with the class of 1928. When their daughter Virginia Bal[...]62, they reared her three children: Julie, Victor and Jenifer When Teste was ten, he was accidentl[...]John· the .22 bullet entered his left cheek and lodged m the[...]ly missed his teeth Sally worked at Woodward's (also Anthony's, then and passed between his jugular vien and spinal cord. Dr. Oberg's) department store for over twenty years. The follow- Baker removed the bullet and Teste always said, "That was ing ten years she prepared lunches at Twin Bridges Public one time it paid to have my mouth open. " School.[...]ootball in junior high George worked as a miner and carpenter until his retire- and with the high school, with very inadequate gear by to- ment. He helped build the Sheridan Hospital and Rest day's standards. He played basketball all four years in high Home and the dormitories at the former Children's Center school was captain of the team his senior year; he was a as well as several homes in Dillon, Sheridan, and Twin memb~r of the track team and held several records in shot Bridges. put. In the summer he played baseball with the town team Although both George and Sally are retired, they have con- and was catcher for many years after high school. tin[...]other people's children in their home. They The Talbott family lived on one of the L.A. Thompson ran- have also continued gardening, and Sally still cooks and ches and Berta walked three miles to attend school at preserves the garden products.[...]a regular country school, one room Both George and Sally "starred" as extras in the movie the and one teacher for all eight grades. One time there were Missouri Breaks. George was the storekeeper and Sally was forty-eight pupils for one teacher. Some of the teachers were Mary, the rooming house manager. Nellie Minkler, Miss Hogan, who came from Texas and thought you branded sheep in the same manner you did cat-[...] |
| [...]and in 1952, daughter Verta Anne arrived to complete the[...]into the new house on April 19, 1941. Teste and Berta worked together at the station. When he[...]decided he would drive school bus for a year, she worked at the station in the afternoon from three to five. Verta Anne[...]was not in school when he started, so she spent the time with[...]Teste was a Volunteer Fireman and was secretary for 42 years. When the new fire hall was built, he spent evening and weekends working with the other firemen. They took one vacation, spending ten days in Nevada and California. It was enjoyed by all of them, however, Teste was[...]anxious to get home and to work. Nick was married in 1969 and his daughter, Nikki Kay,[...]was born in 1973. Nikki Kay was the "apple of her grand-[...]father's eye". Verta Anne was also married and is an elemen-[...]1976, and on AprU 9, 1976, he died suddenly of a heart atta[...]at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Larry and Verta Berta and Teste Basolo, 1974. An[...]Circumstances were not the same as they were when Teste took over after his father's death. Gas was higher, le[...]ensticker Taylor, Mr. Joy L. Couch, Thelma Madsen and and everything was more expensive. But, with Larry's help, Jenny Stalcup. There were fun years and also lots of work. they kept the gas station going for a year. Berta then leased All have left their mark in her memory.[...]hree year option of buying, but after a Her mom and dad spent the month of January, 1924, in year they[...]anything happened to him, she was not to try to run the sta- Harrison, Montana, where Mr. Talbott was suc[...]tion, so she put it up for sale and in less than a month Ted and Mary Ann Nelson were the new owners. In 1926 Berta started high school in Twin Bridges and Time makes many changes. Berta had a hard time ad- graduated with the class of 1930. In 1980, six of the class of justing to the ones in her life. She now has two grandsons, eleven, of which eight are[...]Thomas John Ba solo and Lars Batista Dorseth and grand- and dinner.[...]daughters, Julie Maxwell, Nikki Kay, and Breanna Celeste In 1935, on June 20, Teste and Berta were married in Dorseth. With the love and help of her family she has learned Dillon. This was her parents' thirty-[...]their home with Teste's parents for several years and after Mr. Basolo's death,,fu 1941, Teste took over Berta B. Basolo the business of running the Basolo Texaco Service Station and Twin Bridges Shoe Repair Shop. Their son, Hem:y[...]JOHNBASOLO Berta, Teste, Nick and Verta, May 25, 1966, Nick's gradua- tion.[...]John Basolo was 32 years old when he was shot in the ab- domen on the afternoon of September 12, 1935, in the Texaco Gas Station and Shoe Repair Shop in Twin Bridges. He was[...]rushed to Butte to the hospital where he passed away just[...]before midnight of the same day. John had opened the Sheridan Shoe Shop in July and had[...]come to Twin Bridges on that day to take care of the station[...]wife, daughter Margaret and daughter-in-law Berta Basolo,[...]had gone to Galen and Butte to spend the day. They were in- formed of the tragedy while in Galen and rushing back to Butte they arrived at the same time as the ambulance. The[...]John was born in Italy on December 4, 1902, and came to the United States with his mother when just a baby. T[...]came to Butte to the home of relatives and later moved to Madison County and lived at the Alaska Ranch where Mr.[...]Basolo was employed. The family then moved up to Bear[...]his education there and in Twin Bridges, where he graduated[...]from high school with the class of 1925.[...] |
| [...]olo, 1930's Whi_le attending high school, J oho and his brothers Teste and Pete were all members of the basketball team. PETE T. AND JOSIE (GREEN) BASOLO One of John's fondest dreams was never realized, he was very slim and it was his greatest hope to be able to put on Pete and Josie were married on December 31, 1934, in some[...]s removed, his Virginia City. New Year's Eve and their wedding were weight remained the same. celebrated together at the Gould Hotel (now Mac's Place) He was employed on various ranches in the area and also which was operated by Philip and Jemima Cook. had worked in Butte for a time prior to his opening the Shoe Pete was born in Meaderville, Montana, on March 29, Repair Shop in Sheridan. At the time of his death he was a 1907, to Henry and Martha Basolo. When he was two years member of the I.0.0.F. Lodge of Sheridan. old they moved from Butte to the Alaska Ranch where they[...]Berta Basolo father was employed in the mines. They moved to Twin Bridges in 1917 and Pete attended Basolo brothers on basketball team at Twin Bridges. L. to R. school and participated in football, basketball and track. His : Pete, John, Teste, 1925. most outstanding achievement, and the one he was most[...]County except shotput, and his brother Teste beat him in[...]At the age of sixteen he was employed by Frank Reid and remained on the ranch just south of Twin Bridges for several[...]the mine at the head of Bear Gulch and in 1950 he went to work at the Maiden Rock Mine at Melrose and remained[...]and Edna Green. When Josie was two years old her mother passed away and she and her brother Bud were raised by[...]employed as housekeeper and she and her son Melvin resided at the ranch. Josie was an outstanding cook and when she was ten years old, won a baking contest. She did the cooking for threshers and haying crews, kept house and attended grade school at Wisconsin Creek and high school in Sheridan.[...] |
| Pete and Josie on their front porch,[...]aseball scholarship. He obtained a degree After she and Pete were married they resided on the ranch in business and accepted a job in a Minnesota bank with the for a time and it was there that their son Jack was born on stipulation he play baseball for the town team! In 1906, he December 7, 1936. They moved to Twin Bridges where they decided to go West and homestead. He was 22 years old had purchased a home on Madison Street, and on May 20, when he arrived at Lavina,[...]. Land commissioner. He later accepted a job with the When the boys were small Josie remained at home. She en- first bank to open at Lavina. This was to become his home joyed young people, their interests and activities and for the next several years. especially the young people who came to her home, and there Elizabeth Dwyer Bayers was born Feb[...]Kankakee, Illinois, to Elizabeth and William Dwyer. At the Later years Josie was employed at the Blue Anchor Cafe age of 19, she left her teaching job behind and decided to join and from there she was employed for twelve years at the a sister at Lavina and homestead there in 1910. Post Office when ill hea[...]re. It was here that Elizabeth and Art met and were married When the Maiden Rock Mine closed, Pete was offered[...]ir first ranch situated a few miles employment in the Soda Springs, Idaho, but Josie's health from Lavina. They had Percheron horses and started their did not permit his accepting, so he[...]Hereford cattle business in 1918. This was to be the the Ruby Valley area until he retired in 1975. He and his next consummation of their lives for almost 50 years together and door neighbor and close friend of many years, Tom Marshall, for Elizabeth in 1981, it was 63 years observing the ups and spent the past several winters trapping together.[...]ch 18, 1969, following an extend- Through the years there were many moves to what ap- ed illnes[...]red to be more lucrative ranching areas including the Big[...]elow sent Art looking for a more pleasant area to and they are parents of sons Scott, Terry, and Lon. Jim and raise his beloved family and his almost equally beloved Betty Wood were married in February, 1963, and have a Herefords. daughter Cynthia, and sons Kevin and Shawn. Josie and Pete enjoyed their grandchildren like most grandparents do. In 1933 the family came to Twin Bridges where they fell in[...]love with the beautiful Ruby Valley and it was here they Pete died suddenly of a heart[...]ablish their roots. 1981, which was five years to the day after his brother Teste's death. They bought the old Armstrong Ranch situated three[...]miles north of Twin Bridges. It was known as the Round An added note of interest is that Pete, Teste and Margaret Barn Ranch where Spokane, the 1889 Kentucky Derby win- all celebrated their birthdays on the twenty-ninth day of the ner was born and trained. Armstrong, a successful mine month of th[...]operator had purchased the ranch as a home for his race Berta B. Basolo horses and made it into one of the show places of the West.[...]This show place set by Armstrong's horses in the 1880's was in the next century to become the show place for the Bayers' Herefords. Today this herd is the tenth oldest in America. ARTHUR AND ELIZABETH (DWYER) BAYERS From a humble begmning and often adverse years of strug- gle, the family 's move here was to see the cattle herd thrive Arthur C. Bayers was born in Forest City, Iowa, in 1884. and their fortunes change. Art's keen perspective in the An ardent sportsman all his life, he attended Humboldt Col- breeding[...] |
| [...]demanding office work involving registry of the purebred[...]the ranch, relinquishing the family residence to her son who[...]is successfully continuing the Bayers Hereford enterprise.[...]Her house was built on a hill overlooking the meadows[...]ing the sun majestically rises over the Tobacco Roots to the east and often there is the spectacular glory of a sunset slow-[...]ly sinking behind the McCartney and Big Hole Range of the rockies to the west. Far over in the meadows, the Big Hole River joins the Beaverhead, and the Jefferson River is form-[...]ed as it slivers like a strip of ribbon to the north.[...]life. She was a vibrant, gracious lady who found her life full of the many things still to be done. She died December 12,[...]The Bayers family are Helen Paige of Philipsburg,[...]Bozeman, and Byron Bayers of Twin Bridges.[...]vis of Nebraska in 1940 named Evan Mischief. Over the next Pendleton, Oregon, Linda Lemm K[...]Junction, Col- for Art outstanding recognition in the national Hereford orado, Lisa Lemm of Lake Tahoe, California, Charles and business that was to continue from beyond his life span. Jim Rossiter of Sheridan, Montana, Mary Jane Rossiter of Ironically, Evan Mischief died the same year as Art in 1960. Kalispell, Dan Ellig of Chicago, Illinois, Mike, Clay and In later years when Art's success enabled him the power Tracy Ellig of Bozeman, Kathy Bayers Jones of Billings, and comfort of a Cadillac, he could be seen jolting up and Rich Bayers of Twin Bridges, and Jill Bayers of Denver, Col- down in it over the cattle range, often picking up a calf that orad[...]Jeanne Bayers Lemm Art was unremitting in the time and enthusiasm he gave to civic affairs. He served for many years, often chairing, the local school board, the Madison County Fair, and the Rotary Club. He was founder of what is known as the Futurity BYRON AND PAULINE (OBERG) BAYERS Show and Sale among Hereford breeders. His many trophies and awards attest to his acumen both in business and public A. Byron Bayers was born to Art and Elizabeth Bayers in service.[...]zabeth was active Beatrice, Jeanne, Bertha and Wanda. His father ranched in in raising their six children, cooking for large ranch crews, the Big Hole and the family lived in Dillon where they could tending the chickens and garden and finding time for the attend school. In 1933 the family moved to Twin Bridges[...]where the old, famous "Round Barn" was located. Art Arthur and Elizabeth Bayers, 1944. Bayers raised purebred Hereford cattle and Byron got an early start in working and learning this business. He[...]active in athletics and still holds a school record in track for the 100 yard dash. He graduated from the University of[...]Montana in 1952 with a degree in Business Science and from there he went directly into the Air Force where he served as[...]White Sulphur Springs to Ross and Oubri Oberg in 1931. She has an older sister, Marian and a younger brother Robert (Bob). In 1943 the family moved to Twin Bridges. She[...]graduated from Twin Bridges High School in 1949 and went on to graduate from the University of Montana with a[...]Bachelor of Music Degree in 1953. After marriage and a tour of duty in the Air Force - most of which was spent at Yaak,[...]Montana - Byron and Pauline returned to Twin Bridges to[...]make their home and to work on the Bayers Ranch. The Bayers Hereford Ranch is one of the oldest, continuous[...]Hereford operations run under one name in the United[...] |
| [...]edding party Billings, 1980: L. to R.: Rich, Jill and Elizabeth Bay ers, Oubri Oberg, Kathy and Marshall Jones, Pauline, Byron and Mary Ann (Mrs. Rich) Bayers. and the Montana Hereford Association. He is also a member 1953, Missoula L. to R.: Ross and Oubri Oberg, Pauline and Byron Bayers, Elizabeth and |
| called the Ruby Valley Chorale. She is active in the ranch operation and in 1981 got her pilot's license and became the first \"Oman in Madison County to get a pilot's l[...]In addition to their ranch at Twin Bridges, Byron and Pauline also operate a commercial cattle ranch at Windham, Mon[...]purebred cattle ranch is a never ending challenge and all of Byron and Pauline's energies continue to go into this endea[...]are made for records in these days of computers. All the cow herds have computerized records and the breeding stock have gone through carcass evaluati[...]s, maternal breeding value tests, fertility tests and other performance tests. All these things go together to help the breed im- prove the cattle and together with these things and the ex- perience of a master cattle breeder, the Bayers are making the old "Round Barn" famous for quality cattle. It was the Mike and Michelle Boken - Bitterroot, 1955. 100th year birthday this year for the barn. dix; Milton (Mitch) of Twin Bridges; and Angela, now Mrs.[...]In 1940, after many years of hard work and frugal saving, |
| Stevensville, Montana. She taught second grade that year in Twin Bridges and in May, 1950, they were married. Elaine was born in Beulah, North Dakota, the daughter of James A. and Myrtle Holliday Thompson. Mr. Thompson mined in Dakota and Montana and later ranched in the Bit- terroot. In 1936 the family moved to Butte and then to Stevensville in 1941. Elaine graduated from high school there and took some training at Colorado Women's College in Denver. She then attended Western Montana College in 1949-1950 and taught second grade at Twin Bridges one year. Her interests include ranching and horseback riding. The Boken's son, Michael, was born April 16, 1951 , and their daughter, Michelle, March 21, 1953. They attended school in Twin Bridges and both graduated from Montana State University at Bozeman. Michael works in construction and resides in Sun Valley, Idaho. Michelle is married to Jim Van Dyke and they ranch near Bozeman. In 1956 Mitch had the opportunity to enter government service. He accep[...]onservationist Edith Bowen, June 1976. with the Soil Conservation Service in Dillon, Montana. The Bokens didn't want to give up ranching, so with the whole family's help they managed to run the ranch and Mitch spent contracts; they trusted each other implicitly and were never the next 20 years with the SCS. Mitch received the Range disappointed. Man of the Year for Montana A ward in 1978. This honor 1s[...]originally given yearly in several catagories by the State Agencies and of Nebraska, but then of Grass Valley, California. She was the plaque is furnished by the Burlington Northern Railroad. born June 6, 1908, to Nathaniel W. and Grace L. Wilson of In reflection, it is interesting to recall when hay was Nebraska. She lived in Texas and moved to California in harvested with horse machinery. A horse mower cost $250 1932. She assisted her husband in the bee business and when and today's high speed, high-priced haying equipment, such he died July 3, 1959, she took over his business for a time. as a $30,000 swather, is common. One wonders what the Mr. Nydam had died of a heart attack S[...]l bring. The Bowens had purchased the old Amos Galahan home and lived there several years. Edith had a honey house con- Mitch and Elaine Boken structed on part of the ground, but soon sold the business. She worked at the Montana Children's Center until she[...]retired in 1968. Edith was an excellent bowler and was a member of the Ruby Valley Hardware bowling team. She died August 20, 1976. Her brother, Roy Wilson, 70[...]Oregon, and two grandchidren.[...]BPOE. He was an ardent hunter and fisherman. He had one[...]Both of the Bowens are buried in Twin Bridges.[...]e Bird hunting, L. to R .: Russell Bowen, Ed, May and Gale Lunger, 1953. RUSSELL AND EDITH (WILSON) BOWEN CHARLIE AND VIVIAN (PITCHER) BRIDGES |
| [...]High School graduation: Lanette and L 'Dean Bridges. inger and daughter Sandra Hansen, and Lanette Gaught's daughters Rhonda and Charlene Holland and son Shane[...]Cnarlie was a skillful table tennis player and a crack shot. He held the state record for several years in pistol shooting[...]and had many ribbons and medals for rifle competition. In[...]late years he used a muzzle loader also. He instructed for Charlie and Vivian Bridges W edding Day June 10, 1940. twenty years in the Hunters Safety Program. Charlie enjoyed the outdoors and worked for many years at Butte when he married V[...]nt's home in Twin Bridges. slides, movies and tapes. He trained and outfitted himself in Vivian Lucile was born March 19, 1916, in Twin Bridges. photography and had hopes of coordinating a comprehensive Her parents, Walter and Alta (Dean) Pitcher were in the wildlife program that would be instructive and pleasurable garage business. Vivian attended local schools, graduating to young people, especially. The tapes and pictures include from high school in 1937. She attended Butte Business Col- scenes of animals, such as the buffalo and events such as the lege for one year. Following her marriage she lived in Butte joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, in where the Bridges' first daughter. L 'Dean was born realistic settings. He and Vivian attended the 100th anniver- December 29, 1941. The family moved to Twin Bridges and sary of the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory, Utah, a seco[...]tte, was born December 16, 1943. where he took many pictures of the recreating of the joining In the 1940's Charlie started guiding big game hunters in- of the tracks. He was in several re-enactments of the Custer to the Pintler area on the Big Hole and the Bear Creek and Battle at Hardin, and the "rendezvous" of the mountain men Cabin Creek drainages on the Madison. During these years at Big Piney, Wyoming. The Bridges went several times to he also started a radiator business which he ran from 1949 to the Flathead River Country to get pictures of bald eagles as 1979. He built camp stoves, cattle guards, and did lots of they gather to feed on £he salm[...]hers. In 1950 he became a night mar- film the buffalo herds and roundup. shall, a job he held for eleven years. In 1968 he gave up the Charlie taped interviews with old timers all around the radiator work because of the bad effect of the fumes on his state and even outside Montana. He had a great interest in health. He worked from 1971 to 1979 as a custodian in the mountain lore. He was coordinating his pictures and sound local school. Charlie died at home February 13, 1982, after tapes in the last several years. This quote is from a record h[...]on Jessie Bass- "Poems of a Mountain Man, " and serves as a proper tribute[...]to his lifetime interest in the woods and animals. Charlie and horse, 1970's. Then I sit before the campfire When the shades of night draw down, And the world without is growing cold and drear.[...]And a hand to give me welcome and good cheer. When I worry of the strife |
| [...]John. Seated: Anna and Frank with Sam. George enlisted in the Air Force at the beginning of World |
| [...]George Jr. and Louise Broksle, 1970's[...]and they reside in Butte. They have a daughter, Desir[...]Louise Broksle Ross Marian Ann and George Broksle, wedding picture, Octo[...]on a ranch near Twin Bridges. George worked on the home ranch and also had an apiary and extracted honey for several years. He entered the service in January, 1942, serving in the Army Air Force. He trained at Sheppard Field in Witchita Falls, Texas, and served at several other air bases in the states, before going overseas, where he saw duty in England, France and Germany as an aircraft mechanic. He was a Staff S[...]e moved back to Twin Bridges, where he ranched on the home place. He married Marian Ann Lasich, daughter of George A. and Isabel Costle Lasich, of Twin Bridges on October 19, 1949. They lived on the home place, where George built and sold calf branding chutes. A son, George Michael,[...]hem on May 6, 1950. In 1951 they moved to Brandon and May, 1980. he worked for the Forest Service. In 1952 they bought the Couch place, five miles southeast of Twin Bridges[...]orn on February 18, 1954. JOHN J. AND GLORIA (GEORGE) BROKSLE George built a planer and operated a sawmill, cutting house logs, in addition to farming. In 1956, the Broksles John J. Broksle was born on the family homestead at bought the Thompson place. During this time he built Blaine, near the Point of Rocks, on August 31 , 1913. His various farm equipment from old vehicles and parts. He built parents were Frank and Anna Fortune Broksle. In 1919 the several buildings from the logs he sawed. In December of family moved to Dillon and Apex and to Glen in 1921. In 1960 he had his leg broken in an accident with a wool-blind 1924 they moved to the Twin Bridges area, lived on several ewe. He was in a cast for eleven months but still did the ranches and finally bought the Wheat Ranch south of town. ranch work, irrigating and other work. He attend[...]n Twin Bridges, graduating from high In 1966 he and Pete Staudahar built a new house on the school in 1934. He worked at home until January 1, 1949, ranch. George and his son George did the finish work. when he married Gloria Ge[...]George continued operating his 1700 acres with the help of on the home ranch and then moved to the Mule Shoe Ranch. the family and one seasonal ranch hand when the money was They then bought the Brooks Ranch on the Beaverhead handy to hire a man. He died on June 2[...]ver, where they still ranch. prospecting, hunting and fishing. Marian sold the ranch John was a thirty-eight year member of the Virginia City holdings after his death and moved into Twin Bridges. Elks Lodge No. 390, the Southwest Cattleman's Association, George Jr. still works in the area and lives with his grand- the Montana Potato Improvement Association and was a mother.Isabel Lasich. director of the East Bench Canal Irrigation Project.[...] |
| Sherri Broksle and Dan High 's wedding day, January 19, 1980. L. to R .: Emerson and Roberta High, John and Gloria Broksle. John, Sherri and Tom Broksle, 1978. Gloria George Broksle was born March 29, 1922, in llamas and Afri_c an pygmy goats and have a mule oddly |
| George and Sam got in business of their own and Rudy and John operated the ranches for a number of years until in 1968 when[...]Schneider Beardsley. In 1973 Rudy sold his ranch and moved to Dillon to retire. Pearl Schneider Broksle was born January 20, 1906, in Butte, Montana, the fourth child in a family of eight born to John N. and Kate Schneider. The family moved to the Ruby Valley in 1909 where they bought the Taylor Ranch. After graduating from the Butte Business College she worked for the Madison Abstract and Title Company where she was a licensed abstracter. In 1948 the County Commissioners ap- pointed her Clerk and Recorder of Madison County, a posi- tion she held for seventeen years. In 1935 she married John Beardsley; two children were born to this union: Gayla Allhands who lives in Alder and John Joseph Beardsley who lives in Willow Creek. In 1965 she married Rudolph M. Broksle. Rudolph and Pearl were both born in Butte, Montana, but it took them over fifty years to find each other. Rudolph and Pearl Broksle[...]After leaving Laurin, Cy, Helen and their two children[...]moved to a ranch west of Laurin known then as the Goddard Ranch, where he operated the ranch for Charley Goddard of[...]Butte for several years. After the Goddard Ranch was sold,[...]Cy moved his family to the Ora Smith Ranch south of[...]Sheridan. They stayed there for two years and then made[...]and John Anderson. He also worked for a time at Nye, Mon-[...]another daughter, Naomi Glenis was born. She now lives in[...]Cy was a very kind, gentle man and everyone was his friend. According to the ladies, he was quite a dancer and he attended all the dances around the country and danced with all of the ladies. Cy passed away in 1948 at the family home in Alder and Cy Brown as a young man[...]and son-in-law Burton Whiting. JOHN CYRUS AND HELEN (BOCK) BROWN |
| was laid to rest in the Sheridan Cemetery. reside[...]born February 26, 1903, to John D. were the late Jordan (Jurd) Nyhart, 1863-1945 and Frances and Jean (Wilcox) Bock on a ranch up Ramshorn Gulch. She Nyhart, 1878-1945, early day settlers near the Point of was born into a large family of two brothers and seven Rocks. sisters of which only two, Dan Bock of Billings and Hazel Perhaps some of the most memorable and frightening Van Slette of Washington survive. times when she was a child were when the Gypsies came through. They lied and begged and very often stole Helen received her schooling at the Robbers Roost School. whatever they could get their hands on. She was afraid they She met Cy Brown and they were married. Shortly after[...]of their friends decided to give them a charivari and they took Cy and put him in a hog Lillian attended Twin Bridges schools. Her first teacher crate on a wagon and drove him all over the country return- was Verna Dillet. She was also the first grade teacher for ing him to his bride two[...]Lillian's son, Layne. She rode on a cold school bus the first years of her schooling. One morning she became so cold, As a young girl Helen and her sister Hazel spent many of despite her sister and other students trying to keep her their free hour[...]h horses, either breaking, warm, that the bus driver had to stop at a farm house and trading, or hunting lost horses in the hills behind their home. put her feet in water[...]h fill an empty pop bottle with baby rattlesnakes and tor- After completing high school she attended Montana State ment some old prospector or sheepherer with the snakes. College in Bozeman for one year and then went to Kinman[...]gton. After Helen lived her entire life in the Ruby Valley. After Cy finishing her schooling she worked for John W. Graham Of- passed away she worked for Chick McClain and also worked fice Supply in Spokane and later returned to Twin Bridges to quite a few years at the rest home in Alder. When they mov-[...]work as a secretary at the State Orphan's Home. ed the rest home to Sheridan, Helen continued working there until she suffered a heart attack and had to retire. She lived On September 16, 1950, Lillian married Fred E. Carlson in her trailer home in Twin Bridges at the trailer park owned who was ranching southeas[...]Leadore, Idaho, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O.F. Carlson She died at the age of seventy in May of 1973 and is buried and sister, Arlene. Fred was born at their homestead near beside her beloved Cy in the Sheridan Cemetery. Leadore, May 19, 1927, and attended schools there. His[...]Betty Whiting Star; and Ella Vezina Alexander, Georgetown Lake.[...]The Carlsons are parents of two sons, Layne, born[...]December 13, 1951, and Lloyd, born September 7, 1959. A[...]eterinarian practicing at Burley, Idaho, where he and his[...]Fred and their sons are lovers of wild life and enjoy hunt- ing and being in the mountains. Fred is a member of Garden[...]Creek Stock Association and has served as their secretary-[...]treasurer since forming the association in 1954.[...]They are glad to have known so many of the old timers of this community. The associations leave them with many[...]Layne's wedding day. Layne, Lillian, Fred, and Lloyd Carlson, May 13, 1979. OSCAR AND MARIE (BARROW) CARLSON[...]September 10, 1878. When he was 10 years old his uncle ask- ed him to go to the United States with him. His parents FRED E. AND LILLIAN (COX) CARLSON di[...], Nebraska. Later he moved to Lillian was born the third child of C.J. (Jeff) and Opal Cox, Idaho. He returned to Sweden only onc[...]Frances Bell, brother Don, In 1913 he and Marie Irene Barrow were married in Butte, younger sister, Virginia Gayle and she were raised on their Montana. She was born July 6, 1897, the daughter of George parents ranch south of Twin Bridges which her father pur- and Anna Olstead Barrow, who were engaged in ranching[...]his serving in World War I. Don still the U ranch south of Leadore, Idaho, on Texas Creek. Oscar operates the ranch. Virginia Gayle Beck passed away in and Marie Carlson lived in Gilmore, Idaho, where he was September, 1975, leaving a husband and four children. Her employed as a blacksmith at the mine and in 1918 father died at the age of 86 on August 15, 1977. Her mother[...] |
| Wedding picture, 1913, Oscar and Marie Carlson. Don and Carolyn Carroll wedding picture, in 1914. A daugh[...]ember, 1944, hav- ing bought what was then called the Swartz ranch three miles southeast of Twin Bridges. Their daughter, Ruth had also worked part-time at the Twin Bridges Theatre for Bob married Axel Nelson and lived in Silver Star. Their oldest Gohn, and later on for Cecil McClure, running the movie daughter, Ella, and her husband, Leo Vezina, had moved machines. In 1956 Don started working for the Twin back to Butte after World War II, so the family could be Bridges School System and remained there until his retire- closer together. They sold their ranch in Idaho and relocated ment in 1978. Don passed away on O[...]in Bridges, with their two younger children, Fred and greatest joy was his wife, children, grandchildren and Arlene. They had also bought the Fred McCrea ranch and in numerous friends. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, and all March moved into a two story brick house erected in 1899, sports. A car accident at the age of twenty-three restricted known as the Wigmore home. Here countless family gather-[...]play many sports, but he was active in town ings took place. team baseball and coached the Little League Teams for many They were engaged[...], until years. He followed athletic events all the years he lived in Oscar Carlson's death in Decemb[...]t her Twin Bridges. Though he was proud of all the youth in the ranch home where she continued to take an active part in the county and surrounding towns; he was especially proud of ranching business. She had a great love for the outdoors and those in athletics like John Scully of Ennis, Dan Marsh of animals which she showed throughout her life. She and Sheridan, Nolan Murphy of Willow Creek, the Pallisters of Oscar had ten grandchildren, thirteen great grandchildren Boulder, the Pooles of Lima, Jim Seidensticker of Dillon, and and one great great grandchild.[...]Fred Balkovetz of Twin Bridges, to name a few. The young[...]ol kids of Twin Bridges were a special joy to him all the Marie Calrson passed away at her home November 1, 1973. years he was associated with the school. Oscar and Marie are buried in the Twin Bridges Cemetery. Nancy Jo, Tom Rau and children, Crystal and Tracy, 1980. DON AND CARLOYN (JACKSON) CARROLL My father Don (Corky) Carroll, was born June 3, 1917[...]lina, to Lottie Carroll. He was one of three |
| [...]Easton "Barney" Claridge was born in the mining camp of[...]Rochester, Montana, to Earl "Dude" Claridge and Bess[...]quadruplets, three boys and a girl. Easton was the only child to survive. However, the two other boys lived for three[...]Easton attended grade school in Rochester and Twin Bridges. The family moved to Utah in 1920 and he finished[...]worked for some time at the Motor Inn Garage and later for Asa Ellis in the Ruby Valley Hardware. In 1942 he was in-[...]ducted into the U.S. Army, serving in the 497th Infantry and was stationed in Germany. Easton was awarded the Bronze[...]is accuracy in record keeping while serving Patsy and Clyde Carroll and daughter Brandy, 1981. as company clerk. He was a member of the Disabled[...]American Veterans. He died August, 1975, at the age of 64. He married Carolyn Jackson, daughter[...]Phyllis Claridge Darnutzer Jackson, Jr., and Besse P. Jackson of Norris on August 20, 1943 in Pony. Carolyn is presently in her nineteenth year at the Twin Bridges First National Bank. Two children were born to this union, Nancy Jo and Clyde Fredrick. Nancy is married to Thomas Rau and they reside in Denver, Colorado, with their two children, Crystal and Tracy. Tom is an ex- ecutive with the Phillip Morris Company. Clyde is married to Patsy Worm of Stanford, Montana. Joelle, age 16, and Brandy, nineteen months, are their pride and joy. Both Pat and Clyde work for MSU. Pat is an Administrative Secretary with the Animal and Range Sciences Department and Clyde is the Finance and Budget Officer for the State Extension Service. The Carroll family will always call Twin Bridges thei[...]I have written this history for Madison County of the state of Montana.[...]Top row L to R: Caro~ Vern, and Jean. Bottom L to R: Josephine and Ole V. Clark. Easton "Barney" Clarid[...]and Mary Eliza (Stark) Mercer on the original Mercer[...]stead located nine miles south of Twin Bridges on the |
| CHARLES AND JULIA (SPINNER) COCANOUGHER The Cocanoughers came from Butte, Montana in 1911. |
| L to R: Vivian McKinnon, Wendy, Suzie {in door) Chris and Bob McKinnon, Great Falls, 1981. Don and Dolores Cox "easy touch" for anyone in trouble. He also was full of fun. For years every New Year's at twelve o'clock and at 4:00 a.m. July Fourth, he, with the help of some friends, shot off dynamite to celebr[...]en on his escapades. Jemima continued operating the business and keeping up the standards they had established. The pace for one person became unbearable and in 1969 she sold out, presumably to retire. Retirement soon became a bore and she missed contact with the public. Jemima went to Cooke City to manage the Watuck Lodge. That position didn't work out, so she return- ed to Virginia City to manage the Wells Fargo Coffee House. In 1971 she took a position at Twin Bridges High School and taught food service and junior high home economics at the Children's Center for four years. Though she loved teaching, with the closing of the Center, this position was terminated and again she retired. In the meantime she had been literally drafted as the Mayor of Twin Bridges. She thought she did a good job and made a lot of changes. The town evidentally didn't think the same as she was not elected for a second term! For a couple[...]flowers, did water- Don Cox in the Navy, 1943 colors, and kept house like a normal person, but soon again grew bored and in 1978 she took over the position of Secretary-Manager of the Madison County Fair. At this He attended Twin Bridges schools and enlisted in the writing, she still has this job, trying to make it bigger and Navy October, 1943. Don served in the Asiatic and Pacific better.[...]While he was in the Navy, Dolores Babcock of Dillon, Mon- Jemima Cook tana, and Don were married on August 1, 1944, in San Fran-[...]Dolores, with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Howard Babcock, brother Bernard and sister Patricia, lived in Twin Bridges DON E. AND DOLORES (BABCOCK) COX where she attended high school. They later moved to Dillon,[...]Montana, where she graduated from high school in 1944. Don was born August 4, 1924, the only son of C.J. (Jeff) Dolores was born April 10, 1926, at Winlock, Washington. Cox and Opal Nyhart Cox. He has three sisters, Frances They lived at Oxnard, .California, and after his discharge Belle Holland, Lillian Carlson, and Virginia Gayle Beck, who returned to his paren[...]1967 they replaced the old two-story house, which burned, He grew up on his parents' ranch south of Twin Bridges with the home they are now living in. and has remained there his entire life except for the time he They are the parents of two daughters: Mrs. Butch (Patsy) spen[...]iving in Dillon, Montana; ranch now with his wife and youngest son, Carson, since the and Mrs. Steve (Donna) Davis, born November 30, 1949,[...]. Twin Bridges and two sons; Tom, born September 30, 1952,[...] |
| [...]Cox-Vietnam War. living in Seattle, Washington; and Carson, born July 27 , She was musically inclined as she had a gift few people |
| [...]Paul and Hope Cushman, 1943 After Joe's death in 1948,[...]their home in Twin Bridges. In April of 1954 Red and Lucy went on a vacation trip to Oregon to visit T[...]Oregon, they were involved in an Paul drove the Star Mail Route that summer of 1939, and accident and Lucy was seriously injured and died on April 10 helped his parents on the ranch at the Birrer place. from her injuries. Red was not inju[...]Hope went to Butte to McCarrolls' Beauty College and April 16th. Ladora was in Richland at this time and was graduated in 1940. She opened "Hope's Beauty Shop" on home for the funeral. Norton was in Europe and was not able May 9, 1941, in the old Southern Hotel at Twin Bridges. to fly home until[...]On October 9, 1941, Paul and Hope eloped to Butte, Mon- · Norton has been employed with the Anaconda Company tana, to become man and wife. They both worked, Hope as a for 25 years. H[...]d to Evaleen Heinrich Talbott on busy beautician and Paul driving the school bus, mail route November 4, 1969, and they made their home in Butte until and he1ping his dad on the ranch. her death on December 9, 1980. He then moved to Whitehall In 1943, Paul and Hope's brother Budd went into partner- to reside.[...]ship with her dad, Bill Seyler on the home ranch.[...]Berta B. Basolo born, and later, November 1, 1948, daughter, Tana Louise[...]Cushman was born. The Cushmans were such a complete[...]Bill Cushman PAUL AND HOPE (SEYLER) CUSHMAN Paul was born in Oilton, Oklahoma, to Clement and Addie |
| Shae, Polly, Tana, Terry and Jenny Bea Sanderson Hal,, Virginia, Claude and Valora Dale. Bell Canyon, 1981. and happy family during these years; it was a great time and |
| [...]Christmas, Bell Cany on, 1980. Virginia and Hal with daughters Ginny and Paulette Dale Hal and Virginia live part time in Bell Canyon near[...]Waterloo, where they have a mountain home and mine, and |
| [...]Bear Gulch, and moved in.[...]her parents and two brothers, Kirk and Frank, moved to Dillon and then to Argenta in 1924, staying until 1928. The[...]child, but everyone welcomed the purchase of a Model-T. Alice finished grade and high school in Dillon and attended Normal College, graduating in 1939. She taught swimming at the Orphan's Home during the summers. She taught school at Bannack, Medicine Lodge, and Melrose and rode[...]In 1942, with both sons in the service, Mr. and Mrs. Fox[...]forced her to return home. Mrs. Fox died in 1946 and Mr. Fox in 1965. Paul and Hal "Frosty" Dale, 1959. A[...]to the Dales. They moved to the McCartney Mountains where Dick and his father mined the Herman Mueller lead[...]27, 1949, and Thomas Andrew (Tad) August 22, 1951. Lead ed with his father and worked at various mines. He was an prices dropped and Dick and family moved into town. He electrician for Humphrey Gold Corporation at Chico, Califor- worked at the Sage Lumber Company and the Maiden Rock nia, for two years. Home base was alw[...]where his parents resided. Mrs. Dale died in 1938 and Mr. quit mining and he joined the crew at the First National Dale in 1964.[...]ntil arthritis forced his retirement in Joining the army in 1941, Dick served five years in the 1973. Coast Artillery; three years as commander o[...]Hal Forrest (Frosty), September 4, 1956; and Kittridge Mat- He returned to mining, and in 1947 he married Alice Audry thew (Kitt) April 12, 1960. Kitt was one month old when a Fox, daughter of Charles D. and Jessie Jurgens Fox of Twin great family tragedy occurred, Frosty was electrocuted in a Bridges. The Dales purchased the Jennie Pollinger cabin in Back two rows, L to R: Rick Dale and wife Jo Ann (Murray), John Dale and wife Bridget (Ferryman, Wall), Bridget's son, |
| [...]. Alice taught at Twin Bridges from 1962-1979. She receiv- BILLY DILLET ed a Masters Degree in 1970. She is a Past Matron of Daisy Chapter, Order of Easte[...]Billy (William J.) Dillet, son of Roscoe and Ella Matthews bridge club, and past president of Alpha Delta Kappa, a Dillet, was born March 10, 1926. He has lived on the same teacher's sorority. ranch all his life. Dick served 12 years on the City Council, filled out one He attended schools in Twin Bridges and excelled in 4-H term as mayor, has been a Ruby Valley Hospital trustee work; he had the assistance and inspiration of his father in since 1956 and has Masonic affiliations: he is Past Master of his endeavors, who also was a 4-H leader. Billy raised West Gate Lodge, P[...], Past Presi· registered Hereford cattle and registered Poland China pigs dent of the Vigilante Masonic Association and has progress· and won a trip to Chicago with his pigs in 1945. He was a ed through all the York Rite bodies at Virginia City. He junior leader in the 4-H for a number of years. served many years on the Bishop's Committee, Christ Mrs. Dillet was also a help to Billy on the ranch, which Church (Episcopal), Sheridan and as a lay reader. they continued t[...]e's death in June, 1962. Three sons, Rick, Tad and Paul are mining engineers and Mrs. Dillet was a good hand with horses and drove a team as Kitt is pursuing mining at Montana Tech. John graduated late as the 1940's. She rode horseback also into her 70's but from the University of Montana at Missoula and taught finally became too stiff to ge[...]school three years. He is a Second Lieutenant in the Na- tional Guard, having joined after three and one-half years in Margaret Ehlman Lawyer, who came to live with the the Army. A foster son, John D. Skates, New York, works Dillets in 1944, at age 13, was also a good help on the ranch. with the mentally retarded. Rick and J oAnn have three She later married Harry Lawyer and moved to his ranch. daughters, Heather, Amy and Becky and Tad and Marilyn Billie continued, with Mrs. Dillet, raising stock and running have a daughter Shannon and a son Jeremy. the ranch. She died Thanksgiving Day, 1979. He never mar· In spite of limited health, Dick and Alice enjoy their moun· ried but has made a su[...]ter tain cabin. Mining is still a prime interest and the Tobacco sister's daughter. Roots are still[...]Margaret Ehlman Lawyer FLOYD E. AND GLADYS (NYHART) DAVENPORT With the marriage of Floyd Elvis Davenport and Gladys |
| Clarence of Spokane; and J runes of Chico, California. Willirun Doak, his brother, lives in Federal Way, Washington, and his sister, Della Mae Babcock lives in Granite Fa[...]John C. Donegan and mother Inez Donegan Inez Donegan homestead, Ra[...]Virginia City. She was an employee of the State Welfare |
| [...]City, was one of the first representatives in the legislature in[...]1865, when Montana was a territory. In 1866 he and other residents purchased the first Catholic Church at Virginia[...]When their family was young Sylvan and Effie lived in the[...]and care for a large herd of cattle for a large packing and slaughtering company in Kansas City. The snow was quite deep and they couldn't get out except with the horse and[...]in Bear Gulch and Boulder Canyon, as well as other loca-[...]had a mine leased in Dry Boulder and was pulling the com- pressor up the mountainside when the chains shipped and the compressor rolled over the cliffs and rocks to the gulch below. The compressor was a vital part of mining, as it was[...]needed to drill the holes for the blasting powder to break the Helen Donegan, 1962 Marsh W. Donegan, brother of John, wrote a poem about The Homestead house in fallen We used to climb the Hoqiestead Trail Some morning as the sun shall rise |
| [...]THE EDGHILL FAMILY[...]in Twin Bridges on February 'i..7, 1901, at the home of her aunt and uncle, Jane Dempsey Seyler and John Seyler, with[...]teen years later she was introducted to Mrs. Wilson, who[...]ty! My husband promised to take me, then you decided to[...]ing, she ducked to the other side of the street. Her grandparents, the Edghills, came from England, and[...]ma, and Doris believes his name was James, as was the name[...]very strict with his children. For instance, the children usually were required to eat at the second table, standing, af- Della Triplett, Wanda and Jim Birdsill, Sylvan Donegan, Jr. ter the adults had finished their meal-not that there weren't Seated: Sylvan, Sr. and Effie Donegan, 1981. enough ch[...]Carrie learned to sew for the family. Ed was in the field help- ing with the plowing when he was seven. He liked that kind spring. One of the horses, there were six, caught his hoof in of work because he loved horses and knew almost instinctive- his tug and almost caused all of them to be drowned. The ly how to handle them. Jim knew enough about farm work to current took horses and wagon downstream, but Mr. Todd get a job[...]th whom he being an expert driver, managed to get the horse loose and lived and for whom he worked until he decided to strike out they all swam across and pulled the wagons to safety. on his own. Much of his life he lived in Flagstaff, Arizona,[...]where, in his later years, he was gardener for the city park. After hauling ore to Iron Rod for so[...]Jim remained a bachelor throughout his life. Bear Gulch. There was a large mine there called the Bielenberg and Higgins. For years it produced high grade Kate, one of the three daughters, married a farmer, Robert ore, and Mr. Todd did hauling for the owners. During this Courtney. They had three sons and a daughter. Their time Effie and Florence never lacked for something to do. ranches were near Pony and Norris. Travel was not easy, so They had play houses out in the pine trees, they climbed the the rest of the Edghills seldom saw them. Two of the younger mountains, and waded in the clear streams. Edghill children died of smallpox. Mr. Todd worked long and hard hours. One large piece of Art, Tillie, and Charlie were the three youngest. Grand- machinery he hauled to the mine took twelve horses pulling mother Edghill died giving birth to Charlie and his twin and twelve behind pushing. They fastened a large pole to the brother-the baby brother also died at birth. Tillie was four load so they could push. The wagon would bounce off one at the time of her mother's death. rock onto another. Effie always helped unharness the horses, put their oats in the oat box and put hay in the manger. She Some time later Grandfather Edghill married a widow, loved horses, and still thrills to see a beautiful animal, even Mrs[...]oved to Nebraska, giv- more so than a lovely car. She was raised with them and they ing Ed five dollars to "take care of the family!" Carrie began worked hard for their keep. Effie's mother and father always taking in sewing, also doing the housework and taking care made sure the horses had plenty to eat. of Tillie. Ed got a job he enjoyed on the Larabie Horse[...]busy helping deliver babies or tak- ing meals to the ill or handicapped. Holidays were busy As soon as they were old enough, their love for Montana times. The family always had anywhere from twenty to thir- brought all the children back from Nebraska. Tillie married ty people at their home to share in the feast. No one was ever Charles Kammerer, superintendent of the dredge boats at left out. . Ruby, and where Ed worked when he married Kathryn Effie's[...]mpsey on New Years Day, 1895. Later, he worked at the New York. She came from Germany and her husband from Fine and Pankey Mill at Adobetown. Italy. They were married in New York and then moved to Tillie had two daughters and a son. Emma, the oldest, Hecla, a mining camp near Melrose.[...]lives in Dutch Flat, Effie was a busy housewife and mother, but after her fami- California. Charles, the son, died several years ago. Art's on- ly was grown she worked at the Montana Children's Center ly child, Gladys, died in childhood, and Charlie had no for twelve years. Little did she think when she was a child children. Carrie was a successful dressmaker in Dillon all her that she would live to see television, jets, men on the moon, adult life. She remained single. cars powered by gasohol, or the East Bench irrigated. Shortly befo[...]ght a ranch What Effie remembers with great joy and love are her near Dillon and moved there with her oldest brother, parents, her sister and brother,the happy home life, her own Will. They lived there until 1910, moving to Idaho for a few marriage, home and family. months, and then returning to Montana; there were now four[...]children in the family, Miles and Glenn born before they moved to Idaho. The family owned and lived on a ranch near[...] |
| When Doris was ready for high school, for three years she became a part-time resident of Twin Bridges, living with her Aunt Jane Seyler; loving all her relatives, getting to really know them, going to the Methodist Church with Aunt Jane driving old Chub, both of them tucked in under the buffalo robe. On occasion, her son, Ted, would le[...]lly Wilkes, who won more than one harness race at the county fair. On school days, Doris rode to school with the Tash children in the buggy behind old Maude. Those were happy days, and her roots ran deep. At eighteen, Doris was asked to teach a country school near Ovando, which she did for a year and a half, then return- ing to high school in Deer Lodge for her senior year. There she met and fell in love with Philip Attwood, son of the Reverend and Mrs. W.J. Attwood. Reverend Attwood was rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Deer Lodge. Philip and Doris were married on Christmas Day, 1925- over fifty years ago. Their entire married life has been spent in Califor- nia, he as a high scho[...]ragg since his retirement. Doris' brothers Will and Glenn both died as a result of ill- Pearl and Russ, September 6, 1972 ness and injuries suffered in the two world wars. Miles ' two sons carry on the Edghill name. B[...]6. Pearl attended schools in Silver Star Philip and Doris have one daughter, Phyllis Attwood and Twin Bridges. She graduated from Montana Deaconess Miller, a public health nurse; also two granddaughters and school of nursing in Great Falls in 1945. two grandsons, all of whom are much interested in their[...]e they resided in Twin Bridges. Russell ancestry, and who encouraged her in writing this history. was employed in a number of jobs, the state highway depart-[...]ment, Ruby Valley Hardware, and the Post Office. He began working at the First National Bank where he has been[...]ty years and retired from the department in 1981. He served on the city council and helped with the Little League. He is a[...]Pearl is a member of Daisy Chapter OES and is employed part time at the Ruby Valley Hospital. The Edwards have four children: Diane M., born[...]born March, 1953; and Earl I., born January, 1958. As a[...]family they enjoyed fishing and camping in the mountains of[...]Russ and Pearl currently reside in Twin Bridges.[...]ail L To R : Russell Ed- L To R: Diane (Edwards) and James Lenington, Russell and wards, Don Carrol~ Pete Basolo. Pearl Edwards, Janet (Edwards) and Rick Kuntz, Helen (Van ---- Vynk) and Clayton Edwards, Earl Edwards. RUSSELL IRA AND PEARL (WOODS) EDWARDS |
| [...]hird row: Vern-, Orrie Estlin, band director, and Charles Monroe. EDWARD ELFORD F[...]d he found it difficult to get up to go to school and his[...]ly 12, 1902, at Brandon, him. Naturally the truant officer came around and finally |
| [...]Edward still enjoys riding and has a few head of Appaloosa[...]The Edward Elford Family[...]Beach, Florida, 1960's. Middle foreground: Asa and Alfreda[...]d children, 1953. L to R: Robert (Bud), Edward B. and Mardi. ASA R. AND MILLIE (SANDERS) ELLIS AND ALFREDA ELLIS them the Sweet Pea Carnival at Bozeman, the State Fair in Helena, and many more. He left the Orpahn's Home at Asa was the only son born to Alfred and Lizzie Smith Ellis, about age fourteen and went to work at the Davis Ranch at pioneer ranchers in the Twin Bridges area. Mrs. Ellis was a Waterloo for[...]. After leaving there he worked for niece of John and Mortimer Lott. Asa, born on July 9, 1901, ranchers in the Waterloo and Twin Bridges area as ranch had one sister, Alfreda, born January 12, 1905. hand and bronc buster. His brother, Bill, and he went to Asa attended local schools and Missoula Business College. Idaho, between Kooskia and Darby, working for the forest At the age of 19 he became associated with the Ruby Valley service fighting fires for a year. hardware and owned the store for 50 years. During part of Edward married and three children were born to this that time he was a director of the First National Bank of union. Leslie, born 1923, perished in World War II on the Twin Bridges. destroyer, U.S.S. Jarvis, in the battle of the Coral Sea; He married Millice (Millie) S[...]born 1924, was killed in a bus accident in 1980; and Helena. She was born on January 20, 1903, in St. Austel, David, born 1928, rode the rodeo circuit for 26 years and England, and came with her parents to Butte as a youth. presently resides at La Center, Washington, with his family. She was employed first by the county extension agent, Edward divorced and he and his three children returned to Howard Burgess, and then became an employee of the bank, Canada where he spent a year and met Ethelyn Brooks. They a position she held for many years. Millie also kept books for married December 16, 1937. They returned to Waterloo the Ruby Valley Hardware and was town water clerk. She where they leased some land and after some time moved to belonged to the Trinity Methodist Church of Butte, and the lower Jen.kin's ranch at Twin Bridges, which is now part Daisy Chapter No. 20, OES of Twin Bridges and Tirzah Tem- of the Tash ranch south and east of the Twin Bridges ple No. 3, Daughters of the Nile, Butte. She died June 14, Cemetery.[...]1960, of cancer. While living at the Jenkin's ranch several rattlesnakes Asa belonged to Elks Lodge No. 390, Virginia City, and to were encountered. Ethelyn having a dreaded fea[...]st Gate Lodge, No. 27, A.F. & A.M., Twin Bridges, and and afraid for the smaller children was horrified to find one in Bagdad Temple A.A.0.N.M.S., Commandery No. 3, Deer the garden one day. After pitching several rocks and pieces Lodge Chapter No. 3 of the Royal Arch and the Royal Order of wood at the snake, she sent one of the older children to the of Jesters No. 23, all of Butte. He and Alfreda attended a field for Ed, who upon arrival, remarked there was enough National convention of the Shrine at Miami Beach, Florida. wood to last the winter piled on top of one, very dead, rattler. For several years Asa was associated with Harold and A ranch on the Big Hole River by the Pennington Bridges Carol McMurtrey in the Barkell Hot Springs, Silver Star. was purchased in 1944, where Edward and Ethelyn presently The men were also associated in a placer mining operation reside.[...]with Bill and Buster Whitney. He was an avid gun collector Three children were born to Edward and Ethelyn. Ed- and enjoyed deep sea fishing, making several trips to the[...]ong illness; Robert (Bud), born in 1943, operates the ranch at Twin Bridges; and Asa died on December 19, 1970, of injuries[...]f town. His passengers, Camilla Gage sons, Shawn' and Brooks, a baby girl, Traci, and reside on the and Theresa Lancaster, were also injured. home ranch. Alfreda Ellis graduated from the local high school in 1923,[...] |
| [...]Fern and Kirk Fox, Milpitas, California, 1970's. and aunts, Stella and Lu, who ran a cafe.[...]and sister Alice had been born during Kirk's first si[...]Work became scarce and Mr. Fox moved his family to Dillon CHARLES KIRK AND FERN (COVINGTON) FOX Charles Kirk Fox, born in Butte on March 22, 1912, to |
| a secretary-bookkeeper. The couple now live in Dillon. Ron is married and works for Mountain Bell. He and his wife Diane and daughter Rochelle also live in Dillon. Alice Fox Dale GEORGE AND BERTHA (WUDEL) FRAZIER George Jordan Frazier was born October 15, 1906, in Pearl, |
| [...]Gage, second from right. War I she was a member of a volunteer group of ambulance Ce[...]lies will remember a bleak Christmas |
| [...]born to them: a daughter Gayle, October 30, 1939, and son Jerry, February 18, 1943. Sylvan ranched in p[...]at Twin Bridges, Montana, for 16 years. They sold the ranch in 1954. Amos retired and bought a small place on the highway between Twin Bridges and Sheridan. He resided there for a few years then sold and moved to Sheridan. Sylvan, Doris and children moved to Sheridan in 1954. They bought and operated the Sheridan Theatre for 15 years, until July 1969. They then sold and moved to Seattle, where Sylvan still works as a t[...]2. They have a dual membership in Eastern Star and are af- filiated with a chapter in Seattle, where they are both very active. They are also active members of the Haller Lake United Methodist Church in Seattle. Gayle is married to Byron McKenzie and they reside in Kirkland, Washington. Jerry is married to Glenda Casteel, of Washington, and they reside in Seattle.[...]Walter and Bessie Galahan wedding[...]picutre, 1907. WALTER AND BESSIE (LOGAN-HULSIZER)[...]ventures, operated a merchantile and feed store. Walter was born to William J. and Isabella Galahan, Bessie Logan-Hulsizer was born to Etta Mae and Earnst pioneers of Madison County, in 1887 at the Thomas Ranch Logan in 1889 at David City, Nebraska. After the death of on Wisconsin Creek. After receiving his education at the Mr. Logan, Etta Mae brought her two child[...]he joined his father in business in months, and Harry, two years, to Glendale, Montana, via one Twin Bridges. The Galahans, in addition to their ranching of the "'last wagon trains west. There she married John Bessie's home in Rochester[...] |
| Arthur (Buzz) Galahan and Walter Galahan, 1915. Wedding, June 3, 194Z L to R: Tom and Ann Doyle, Leona (Bette) and Steve Gall, Emma and John Gall. Hulsizer and moved to Rochester, Montana, where Bessie Dakota on the family farm, along with his 13 brothers and spent her formative years and attended school. It was during sisters; eleven[...]still living. His parents, John this period that she met Walter Galahan, often referred to as and Emma Gall homesteaded on their farm after im- "The Dapper Young Galahan •. They were married in migrating to the United States from Hungary. January, 1907. The young Galahans made their home in Steve entered the Air Force serving from August 1942 un- Twin Bridg[...]January 1946. After returning home to New England the rison on September 20, 1907, and Arthur Harry on Galls were married on June 3, 1947. They operated the farm September 25, 1909. Unfortunately Walter did[...]o Butte, where Steve worked on raise his sons. At the age of thirty-two he became ill and the railroad for two years. died. Bette was born and raised in (Walkerville) Butte, Montana. Bessie moved to Butte with her sons and there she remain- Her father, Thomas G. Doyle, was originally from Butte and ed until her death February 28, 1977, three days short of her her mother, Ann M. Kunst, moved there at the age of three eighty-eighth birthday.[...]rom Calumet, Michigan. Her dad started working in the cop- Son Arthur, better known as Buzz, was married and had per mines at the age of 13 and retired after 45 years. She has two children; a daughter Beverly Galahan Hayes, (Mrs. Em- one sister, Ann Nelson of Butte. met) and mother of Nancy, Margaret, Elizabeth, Colleen, The Galls raised five children: Diane, Tom, Ginny, Ken and Michael A., Edward J ., and David. Beverly is also City- Nancy. They attended elementary and high school in Twin County Commissioner of Butte-Silver Bow in addition to Bridges. They were all active in school functions, sports, operating "Beverly's Fabric World" in Butte. Arthur E. 4-H, and they participated in the Notre Dame Catholic Galahan has one daughter, Sherrie, and resides in San Fran- Church activity. During[...]at the Montana Children's Center, eight years as a cook and Young Walter was married and had six children: Shirley four years as nurses aide in the hospital. Galahan Johnson, mother of Cindy, Patty, Walter and Diane attended Montana State University. She worked at Deborah; Marlene Galahan Kent, mother of James and John; Metal's Bank in Butte. She then moved to Dillon and was Patricia Galahan James, mother of Mark and Michelle; Bon- nie Galahan Johnson, mother of Richard, Ronald and Stacy; Gall family, 1959, L to R: back: Dia[...]m, Walter, Jack, Sean to R: Ken, Ginny, Tom and Nancy in front. and Latricia; Tanya Galahan Randels, mother of Brian.[...]her two sons; Arthur died January, 1960, age 50, and only six months later Walter died in July, 1960 at the age of 52. The families of these three men suffered a profound loss due to the early death of father and both sons. Beverly Galahan Hayes STEPHEN P. AND LEONA E. (BETTE) (DOYLE) GALL In 1958, Stephen P. (Steve) Gall and Leona E. (Bette) |
| [...]AY) NAUGHTEN GELHAUS Back row L . to R.: Francis and Diane Schindler, Steve Gal4 Mary (May) N aughten Gelhaus was the daughter of |
| [...]1973. They moved to Twin Bridges and took over the family[...]ranch. They have one daughter, Lindsay Ann and a baby[...]tended school at the University of Montana on a track scholarship and graduated with a degree in Econometrics.[...]Dale made the All American rating at the National Track[...]Meet in Detroit when he placed fourth in the 500 meter in- door. During the summer of 1981 he ran in track meets in[...]James belongs to the Masonic Order and is a Past Master of the West Gate Lodge No. 27 A.F . & A.M. and is a Past[...]Matron of Daisy Chapter No. 20 O.E.S. and belongs to the Methodist Church. She has been active in the Ladies Aid of that church and has been president for the past two years. James was a member of the school board for thirteen years[...]during which time the grade school and gymnasium were back L to R: Loren, Marcia, Norman. Front L to R: Jim, Dale, built. He served on the board of the Soil Conservation Ser- Viola, 1963. vice when it was formed and was secretary of the Rural Fire[...]at James worked in Spokane, Washington, in 1937 and 1938 board. where he met and married Viola Mason on November 12, 1939. Viola w[...]Viola (Mason) Giem When she was one year old the family moved to Troy, Mon- tana, where she lived until graduating from high school. She then moved to Spokane, Washington, where she went to Kelsy-Baird Business College and worked in the accounting department of Cowles Publications until her marriage. James and Viola moved to Twin Bridges and engaged in ranching on the Dorhofer ranch south of Twin Bridges on the Beaverhead River. They made their home there until 1972 when they purchased and moved to the Virgil Smith ranch. To this union were born fou[...]na College with a degree in elementary education. She married Bill Tyson and teaches fourth grade in Gardiner, Montana. They have three children: Lance Elden, Schalene Viola, and Calvin James. Norman James was born August 21 , 1[...]1 in Peru. His work has taken him to countries in the Far East, Europe, Caribbean, South America, Middle East and Hawaii. They have two children, Kelly Norman and Elkie Viola and make their home in Hawaii. Loren Henry, born Febr[...]General Electric in Peru, Mexico, several states and in New York where he married Carol Elizabeth Tibb[...]Lolo Gillies Taggart, 1942. Giem ranch on the Beaverhead River. THE CHILDREN OF DOUGAL AND LEAH (TEMPLETON) GILLIES The year 1900 was eventful for the Gillies family. The[...]was a happy home for Leah and Dougal and their six[...]It all began January 1, 1900, when Leah and Dougal were |
| Hazel (Gillies) Olson and W. Ora Olson 1932. great treat. She taught at York, Weingart District, and |
| them. A kindly old miner made a trap for the girls. Wal.ks were taken to the Big Hole River to pick rubies and to picnic. Margaret and Hazel slept in a trundle bed. They cooked for the haying crew on Alvin Reid's ranch. Nearly all of the family worked down there. One summer lightning struck a big haystack near the buildings. Before and after school Hazel worked for Mrs. Cowan's dry goods store where hats were the most fun! Growing up in Twin Bridges was a happy experience--oh yes, there were many sad times too. That's life! "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it s[...]Dr. George and Jess Routledge and[...]horse he was riding in the Fourth of July races at Ruby fell[...]for the Forest Service as a packer in the Cabinet Forest near[...]shop mechanic for the American Express Company until his[...]retirement in 1965. The Grays had two sons, James and Budd and a daughter Helen (Mrs. William Houck). Jim[...]and Linda. Budd lives in Kent, Washington and he and his wife have four sons: Mike, Pat, Tim, and Terry. Helen is a nurse in Renton and her husband works for Boeing. They Alfred and Lenora Gray, 1904 have four children: Susan, Scott, Shelly, and Steve.[...]Ross died on October 28, 1978. He is interred in the Gray ALFRED A. GRAY FAMILY plot. Linnie died September 28, 1981. The Grays spent their[...]Davenport, Iowa. He came to ing, taming the deer, racoon and other animals and birds on Montana in 1889 to join a brother Herbert Gray and both the Island. Linnie enjoyed people. took up land on the Upper Madison near Hutchins Bridge. Jessie attended the grades at the Wisconsin Creek School, In 1893 Alfred married[...]graduated from high school in Butte in 1920, and went into Norris. They returned to Iowa and farmed at Grinnel from nurse's training at the Murray Hospital, graduating in 1924. 1893-1903. The family then moved back to Twin Bridges to She worked at various hospitals and married Dr. George L. the Castle Ranch and a year later to the Gray Ranch, Routledge of Edmonton, C[...]rch 17, 1897; Roscoe C. (Ross) on March 16, 1899; and moved to Dillon. When World War II started, he entered the Jessie Gray Routledge on February 20, 1902. Navy as a commander and was stationed in San Francisco. The Grays purchased the ranch from Sarah Jane Ri<,h- He return[...]pplement his income Alfred history buff and spent his retirement years in Dillon. He worked a[...]Pulver in Wisconsin died January 22, 1965, and is buried in Dillon. Creek.[...]yn graduated from high school in Dillon, attended the In October, 1908, Fred C. was born. The family ranched in- University of Montana, University of Nevada and Western to the '20's. Montana College. She married Harold (Hal) Fields in 1952. Alfred had a twin sister, Ida, and a brother, Bert Gray in He is a dentist and they have lived in Gold Beach, Oregon, Thompson Falls, Montana, and other sisters and brothers in Guam and Pago Pago in the South Pacific. They are present- Iowa. He died May 30, 1939, and is buried in the Twin ly located at Elko, Nevada. They have a son Clifford and a Bridges Cemetery. He was a member of the Masonic Order. daughter Jenifer. Leno[...]1899, with her parents, a sister Stella, ing in the South Pacific. She resides in Dillon, enjoys (Mrs. Dan McGinnis) and a brother Clyde. She became a visiting the senior citizens at the Rest Home and taking very popular and well-loved matron of the Twin Bridges area. them riding. She died February 16, 1922, in Butte and is buried here. Carl Fred finished high school in 1926 and graduated from the[...] |
| [...]L to R: William (Bill) Hamilton and Ciaude Dale, Bear Gulch,[...]lways shining clean with white, white dish towels and face towels hanging on the rack. He was handsome, even in[...]lder years with his graying brown hair, blue eyes and ruddy complexion. He had a friendly manner and liked children, but he was also a man of mystery. One story that Alfred A. Gray, Ross and Fred, 1938. will proba[...]covered the vein, buried the float and marked the spot with a[...]r a time. He mar- ried Catherine Bates of Dillon and they had one daughter,[...]s. Noel Turner), born August 8, 1943, in Dillon. She died December 24, 1978 in Oregon. The Grays reside at Grants Pass, Oregon, where Fred was an administrator and Catherine taught until their retire- ment. They occasionally visit friends and relatives in Dillon and Twin Bridges.[...]IAM (BILL) HAMILTON William Hamilton, miner in the Bear Gulch area, was born |
| [...]a sister Minerva was born. James later re-married and the family started for the ~ontana g?ld fiel_ds in 186?. A fever hit the wagon train kill- mg many, mcluding Mary s stepmother and infant son and leaving Mary almost deaf. The now smaller family, Jame~, Mary and Minerva arrived and stayed briefly in Ban- nack m 1863 and went on to Virginia City arriving April 20,, 1863, four days before Mary's eighth birthday. Mary's early life was very colorful and she often told stories of Indian raids, buffalo stampedes, lynchings, and she knew Henry Plummer. The family later moved to Deer Lodge valley where in 1870 at the age of 15 Mary was married to James McAndrews. Five children were born of this union. After the death of Mr. McAndrews, Mary was married to James Butler. Five children were also born of this marriage. In November, 1888, Mary was married to James Hancock at Woodville, Montana. The family lived for a time at Elk Park and then bought a ranch at Waterloo. Mr. Hancock ran a saw mill in Bumby Canyon and suffered a fatal accident at the mill in 1897. With the help of her sons, Mrs. Hancock continued to run the ranch until it was sold in 1907. With the help of her son Will, daughter Maude Bogart and Don Bogart, she rented Walter Hancock, 1917 and ran the Cooper House, a boarding and rooming place, in Butte. In the later part of 1908 Mrs. Hancock and son Will Walter served with the Wagoner Supply Co. 362 Infantry. rented a ranch i[...]Mihiel, Hancock came back to Madison County where she spent the France, Meuse-Argonne and Lys Scheidt. He was discharg- r~st of her life. She lived in Virginia City, Twin Bridges, and ed at Fort D.A. Russell, Wyoming, on May 2, 1919. Luna where she was living with her adopted daughter, Hazel[...]ng: "It is with pride in our suc- Bertelsen, when she took ill. She passed away at the home of her daughter Sadie Switzler, Twin Bridges, on September 20 cess that I extend to you my sincere thanks for your splendid 1933.[...]' service to the army of the United States and to the Nation."[...]Walter and Lillian Ruth Davis were married August 18, Maude[...]1920, at Twin Bridges, Montana, and have lived all of their Citrus Heights, California. Her adopted daught~r H~zel Bertelsen, Pocatello, Idaho, also survives. married life in that vicinity. Mrs. Hancock's life was surely a colorful one and one of They raised four children all of whom survive: Mary Louise[...]; Phyllis R. Byers, Great Falls; much h8:1"dship. She may be remembered by some of the older residents as a nurse and mid-wife who worked with Dr. Allan G. Hancock, Twin Bridges; and Roderick Hancock, Edwin Wilson for many years.[...]Walter enjoyed the out-of-doors as a trapper, big game She was a grand lady and my grandmother! hunter, fisherman, and waterfowl hunter. He also was a very good baseball pitcher and belonged to the local baseball team in the 1930's. Walter pitched several shut-out games in[...]Walter was a carpenter and painter for the State Orphans' Walter and Ruth Hancock, 1970 |
| Home at Twin Bridges. He also built several houses in the Twin Bridges area. Walter and Ruth were both charter members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Walter was an active member of the American Legion for years. The Hancocks celebrated their sixtieth wedding annive[...]s, nephews, grandchildren, great grand- children, and many friends at an open house. Walter passed away in his sleep February 19, 1981, at the age of 87. Ruth continues to live in the family home in Twin Bridges.[...]ley Harvey - taken when he worked for Tom Call on the Louise (Hancock)[...]the boys were brought to Montana to live at the Selway[...]a dry good store in the town of Armstead. Selway sold the Horse Prairie ranch and entered into a[...]tnership with a man known as Hample, thus forming the[...]there Charley and Ronald attended schools at Willow Creek.[...]graduated, and Charley went to school for one year at what[...]was then known as the College of Montana at Deer Lodge.[...]took the name of Selway and continued his schooling at Ann[...]aduating from college he served in Todd, Donegan and Moe Families, 1954. Back ro w L to R: the first World War. George Todd Jr., Everett Moe, H[...]S y lvan Charley stayed on with Selway, and after a time Selway Donegan. Front row L to R: George Todd, Florence (Todd) bought and operated a ranch west of Virginia City where he[...]rchase, Selway bought out Hample, thus dissolving the[...]nership. Charley worked for Selway as camp tender and with the lambing until Selway sold out to a man known as[...]through that summer and into the fall. He then left and went Florence Todd was born August 24, 1905, in Melrose, Mon- to work for the Best and Call ranch on the Madison. This tana. Her parents were George and Harriet Todd. She mar- ranch was later leased to the Elling-Buford Company and ried Everett J. Moe in 1934. Two children were bo[...]them for over a year. union. A daughter, Estelle and a son, Lamar. Estelle was Around this time he met Mable Seidensticker and they married and had two children. Lamar was killed in a mine ac- were married August 20, 1920, in Butte. cident at the Maiden Rock Mine near Melrose in 1953. Charley had a great interest in mining and leased several In the early thirties the family moved to Conda, Idaho, claims. He established several claims of his own at the min- where Everett worked as a blacksmith. He also worked in ing town of Rochester, located west of Twin Bridges. the mines there. The mines were connected with the Ana- Charley and Mabel left for California where they lived for co[...]ontana. several years during the depression. Mabel found employ- Later the family moved to Soda Springs, Idaho, where ment as a school teacher at Tranquillity, California, and Everett resumed his work as a blacksmith. Charley worked for the Deacon Lumber Company. After the death of Everett, Florence married Karl Harris, They returned to Montana and in time started ranching who passed away in 1963.[...]with a few head of cattle. They later bought the Hammond Florence returned to Montana and lived in Twin Bridges Grocery Store in Twin Bridg[...]named Harvey's Cash Grocery Store. It also contained the local liquor store and was located at the present site of the[...]years at which time they purchased the ranch three miles[...]south of Twin Bridges known as the Jacobs ranch. At this[...] |
| [...]in 1892. He entered World War I and was a Sergeant in the[...]Camp Utility Detachment, Quarter Master Corps at the time[...]running machinery. He was an employee of the county and operated the first county track-equipped tractor-grader. He[...]also worked several years in the county shop in Virginia[...]City. He mined in Cole Canyon, Dry Gulch and Wet Georgia Gulch, where he owned the Union Mine. He later purchased the Wisconsin Creek teacherage and[...]make a comfortable home. He was in the real estate and in-[...]Harry belonged to the West Gate Lodge No. 27 A.F. &[...]A.M., Elks Lodge of Virginia City and the American Legion.[...]ister, Mrs. Blanche Goss of Rock Falls, Illinois, and a nephew and nieces at the time of his death. He is buried in the Twin Bridges Cemetery. Mabel and Charley Harvey, 1920. Harry[...]received and returned. One of his favorite expressions was continued to manage the grocery store. After five years or "He's better than a greenhorn" , a remark he used when so, they sold the store to Cecil and Bertha McClure, and some one showed particular insight or acumen. Simplifica- Mabel retired to being a full time housewife and mother. Her tion was his style and when making a cash deal, he referred full life ended in March of 1971.[...]KSH, cash. Charley still lives in Twin Bridges and owns and operates Richard 0. Dale the cattle ranch. He is a member of the Butte Shriners Bagdad Temple, is widely known, and has many friends throughout the area. He is a thirty-two year member of the Elks Lodge, Virginia City. Charley and Mabel had one daughter, Charlene Kay, born[...]4 5 6 78 lJ 11 in April, 1937. She married Thomas Hammerbacker of Miles City and they have two children: Randi Kay Hammerbacker Eppe, age 24; and Scott Charles, age 20. All now reside at Conrad, Montana.[...]Don High was born March 5, 1929, the seventh child of Esther and Mark High. The family was living on the Grey[...]ce about three miles southwest of Twin Bridges on the[...]when he was four years old. A younger brother Delbert was born in 1931, and the last of the nine children, Margie, was[...]born in March, 1937. Charley and Mabel Harvey, George Selway. Don started school in the fall of 1935 at Twin Bridges and Charlene Harvey Hammerba[...]completed high school there in 1947. His first and second grade teacher was Verna Dillet and his third and fourth grade teacher was Lucy Ruppel. The junior high and high[...]After Don enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in Billings, Mon-[...]AFB, Wyoming, to attend clerk-typist school and upon com-[...] |
| [...]Jiggs, Babe, Don and Delbert High, 1967.[...]training as a legal clerk and court reporter. He attended the[...]Naval School of Justice at Newport, Rhode Island, and for three years was assigned to the Fifty-first Combat Support[...]at Naha Air Base, Okinawa, as a legal technician and court reporter in the absence of the civilian reporters. Don returned to the U.S. in June, 1963, and was assigned to the Base Legal Office at Lowery AFB, Denver, Colorado[...]r Base, November, 1968, Don AFB, California, and was retired from the Air Force as a High on the right.[...]and for a short time, a ranch hand feeding stock. ple[...]instructor squadron un- He has been active in the Twin Bridges High School Alum- til May 1, 1951. H[...]for a ni Association serving a term as president and secretary- special assignment to Wright-Patterson[...]treasurer for five years. He is a member of the American On his arrival with some 1800 other airmen, they were in- Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. In addition to holding formed that the special assignment had been filled by office in the American Legion at the post level, he has been civilian clerks and they were to be reassigned to other bases · active at the district and state levels working on the in the Air Material Command. · Oratorical and Boys State programs. During this time Don had been called home by the death of He is also associated with the Point of Rocks and Twin his father. His first night back to Ohio he[...]nd, Indiana, approximately one hundred miles from the base, to act as guard on one of eight F-82's that had crashed in the area the day before. Out of the eight Donald High pilots, only one survived the crash; he was thankful that he was guarding the plane the surviving pilot had been flying. A few days la[...]ohoma, Japan, then by train to Ashiya Air Base on the southern island of Kyushu where they were flown i[...]ioned at Taegu, Korea, with EMERSON AND ROBERTA (REEVES) HIGH the Rear Headquarters Fifth Air Force. Taegu was approx- imately three hundred miles south of the battle lines so other Emerson (Jiggs) High was born in 1921 at the Brazill place than false air raids caused by radar picking up the noise of on Rochester Creek west of Twin Bridges. He was the se- flocks of geese flying over, he never saw or was in a combat cond son of Esther Mailey and Mark High. When Jiggs was situation while in Korea, although they worked seven days a . a year old his family moved to the Herb Gray place on the week. While there he was given three rest and recuperation Dillon road (now where Oliver Smith and family live). Later leaves into Japan meant for all personnel in Korea, although he lived at Blaine near the Point of Rocks on the Mower it is doubtful the men on the front got them. Ranch (the Turner Place later on), the Alfred Gray Ranch On returning to the United States Don was assigned to du- (Metully place) and the Thompson place. In 1933 Mark mov- ty at Moody AFB[...]ed his family to their present home on the White Swan Lane signed to Cadet Selection Team Du[...]in Twin Bridges. Other children of the family are Eugene Chanute AFB, Illinois. The team covered central Illinois (Babe), Margaret, Don, and Delbert High and Helen (Sally) and the southeast corner of Iowa. Their job was to visit high O'Dell, Betty Barkell, Patricia (Tish) Bogue, and Margery schools and colleges in the area to interview and take applica- McDonald. tions for aviation cadet training and administer the Jiggs attended school until his ju[...]work on ranches .•.In early 1942 he was on the state highway the cadet selection activity was absorbed by the USAF crew but entered the army in July of that year. He served recruiting service and he was assigned duty as recruiter in with the Engineer Corps in the South Pacific doing service in Evanston, Illinois. the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Leyte, Paupa and In August, 1955, Don returned to Chanute AFB and began New Guinea, where he served two years. In New Zealand the[...] |
| [...]Roberta was born in Billings on November 7, 1936, and moved with her parents Howard and Mildred Reeves from[...]and for the State Water Board on the Ruby Dam. Roberta has two older sisters and a brother: Lilah Gee of Rapelje;[...]JoAnn Brown of Butte; and Philip Reeves of Dillon. The Highs have two sons, Dan and Jay. Dan attended[...]years in the Army at Colorado Springs, training in heavy[...]equipment. He married Sherri Broksle in 1979 and is atten-[...]dges High School in 1978. He served three years m the Army and is stationed in Munich, Germany, in Military In-[...]igence as a sergeant. He recently was an extra in the making of a CBS television movie, "The Third Reich", which[...]Roberta High Jiggs and Roberta High, 1977.[...]BABE) HIGH |
| She started the first grade at the Blaine country school and also attended the Wisconsin Creek School before entering the Twin Bridges school system in 1933. While still in high school she began working at the telephone office as a telephone operator. Margaret joined the U.S. Navy Women's Corps (WAVES) in 1943. She received her basic training in the WAVES at Hunters Women's College in New York City. On completion of basic she was assigned duty as a telephone operator at the Hawthorne Naval Station, Hawthorne, Nevada. In late 1945 she was reassigned to Oakland Naval Hospital as an out- patient and was discharged from the Navy at Oakland in 1946. After returning to Tw[...]lephone operator until April, 1949. In May, 1949, she went to visit her brother Don at Cheyenne, Wyom- ing. While visiting Don, she learned that there were open- ings on Warren AFB for telephone Qperators in the base telephone office. About a month after arrivi[...]e, Losee Hillier, 1956-57, 4th she entered the Civil Service at Francis E. Warren AFB as a grade teacher Twin Bridges telephone operator. She is now the Chief Operator at the Elementary School base and in her thirty-second year in civil service.[...]Margaret High in Butte. The couple settled in Twin Bridges after a short[...]spent at West Yellowstone. Mr. Hillier worked for the[...]taking a job as a watchman at the Montana Children's[...]Center. He was a member of the local Pioneer Club and the[...]to Frederick T. and Sarah C. Henderson Counter. She at- tended school at Twin Bridges and was the first four-year graduate from the Twin Bridges High School. She then at- tended the Montana State Normal College at Dillon, received[...]her teaching certificate, and started to teach at the age of twenty. She taught at the Montana State Children's Center and later taught fourth grade at the Twin Bridges Elemen-[...]tary School for a total of forty-one years. She graduated[...]Losee was a life member of Lhe Church of the Valley, (serv- ed as a board member) and of the Past Matrons Club, was a[...]Eastern Star, a fifty-year past matron, member of the[...]tion Association, past member of the State of Montana[...]Library Board, a long time member of the Twin Bridges Hillier family, 1949. L t[...]Library Board and a member of the Retired Teachers and Elmer. Association. She received the Grand Cross of Colors of Rain-[...]bow Girls in 1965,and the alumni award from the Twin Bridges Schools in 1959. She was also a member of the senior citizens. ELMER AND LOSEE (COUNTER) HILLIER[...]The Hillers had one son, Tom R. who was born October[...]ontana. He received his schooling in Twin linois, and lived there until he was about nine years old. The Bridges and graduated with a Bachelor's in Education from family moved to North Dakota and a few years later to Western Montana C[...]inued his schooling. State President of the Order of DeMolay in 1953. Elmer homesteaded, at the age of nineteen, in Henry's Lake, He married Lois Arlene Peters of Dillon in 1955 and moved Idaho, and alternated between Henry's Lake and Butte, to Livingston, Montana, to teach school. Five children were where he worked as a miner the next few years in order to put born to that un[...]tember 18, 1960; Kimberly Ann, born September 12, and was a victim of the financial crash of 1929 and lost his 1960, and is currently student teaching at Eastern ranch. He returned to Henry's Lake and West Yellowstone Washington University i[...]31 , 1961, and currently studying law at the University of On June 29, 1929, Elmer and Losee Counter were married Montana in Missoula; Lana Losee and Lisa Arlene (twins),[...] |
| [...]more ready for her new job. The trunk, however, went to the Deep South and didn't arrive in Big Sandy for six months.[...]Mrs. Shaw started sewing again and somehow found the[...]family named Osterman and became a friend and helpmate as well as teacher. She attended the Osterman's sixtieth[...]Flora left the prairie country to work near Twin Bridges at[...]Paigeville. One big boy whom she reprimanded waited out- side the school and took a shot at her as she left the building.[...]He missed, but Flora gave him a "licking" the next day and[...]e never made trouble after that. During this time she rode from Twin Bridges the several miles on horseback to the[...]She had a good alto voice and played the piano so she was active all through school and her adult life performing in musical programs and shows and participating in church[...]She married Fred Hirschy of the Big Hole Basin who had[...]come there from Indiana in 1894. She had given her family the impression that the wedding would be a formal one, but Hillier family, 1968, Missoula. L to R : Todd, Kim, Losee she and Fred eloped. The minister's wife and a neighbor (grandmother) Tom and t wins, Lana and Lisa. were witnesses and the young couple took the train from[...]m that Fred had left there at born July 22, 1964, and currently graduating from Central the Dillon livery stable and drove in a buggy to the ranch in Vall~y High School in Spokane, Washington. the Big Hole. They lived there forty-three years. Flora died Tom Hillier entered the insurance business in 1959 in Liv- October, 1958, and Fred lived until June 21, 1975. ingston. , He moved his business to Missoula in 1964 and is To the union were born two sons and two daughters. Jack currently the owner and manager of his own firm in that city. Hirschy and wife Ann (Carl) who came from Salmon, Idaho; He married Elizabeth C. Hillier on April 13, 1971, and Jill (Mrs. John Eliel); Joyce, (Mrs. Melvi[...]reside in Missoula. and Shirley (Stocker) who came from Grant, Montana. T[...]Flora worked with others for several years and was in- Tom R. Hillier strumental in getting the highway from Divide to Wisdom paved. She was an active Republican, serving as Beaverhead[...]County Chairman and State Committeewoman. She was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago[...]in 1954. She was also a member of the Order of Eastern Star FLORA SHAW HIRSCHY and the Church of the Big Hole. Flora Lodema (Shaw) Hirschy was born in Hawarden, |
| Howard and Leona Holbert Marie Hance. They moved to Wallace, Idaho, and Howard . |
| In 1951 they returned to Mt. View, California, where she continued to nurse in the Bay area. They later moved to Oroville in northern California, where they now own F.B. Holland Realty. She worked as a nurse for thirty years and as a real estate associate with her husband for seven years. The Hollands are parents of three sons: Jeffrey, born June 11, 1959; and twin sons Fredric and Rex, born July 10, 1960. All three boys are attending college. Frances Belle is active in church, a member of the VFW Auxiliary No. 1747, American Legion Post No. 95, the Grange and Daisy Chapter No. 20 O.E.S. in Twin Bridges.[...]Hopper family, February 5, 1950: Billy Jo, Eula and Patsy Ann, John, Jackie Rae and John Warren. February 6, 1937, and three more children born in Montana:[...]1945; and John Warren born May 31, 1946.[...]Billie Jo married Richard Woods and lives on a ranch at[...]Waterloo. They have two children: Ben Raymond and Clara[...]Jackie married Bing Ashcraft and lives near Twin Bridges Eula and John Hopper, March 17, 1973 Eula Marble was born Nov[...]on |
| ed the Jenkins ' Garage and worked with Fred Jenkins until and William Lewis, and Rosa and John Mailey, early pioneer Labor Day, 1962. Due t[...]'t work until residents of Madison County, and daughter of William later summer of 1963 and found he had no place to work. He Thomas Lewis and Dolly Mailey Lewis, was graduated from talked to ranchers and built a shop on a lot he owned next to Twin Bridges School with the class of 1944. Margaret his house. He catered to local people, mostly ranches, and went on to graduate from Colorado Women's College and the worked there until he retired at age 65 in 1977. University of Denver. She was married in Denver, Colorado, Eula and John like wild animals and birds. They feed the in 1950, to.Thomas P. Houck of Cox's Creek, Kentucky. She birds and have two beautiful golden pheasants in their back resided in Louisville, Kentucky until 1969 when the family yard. John likes to hunt, take pictures and build things like moved to Madisonville, Kentucky. wind mill chimes and wood articles. He collects old things The Houcks have six children: Karen, who married Bruce like bottles, guns, and cars. Eula fills her time with cooking, Crandle[...]; Greg; Brad; Marcia, who married Don- crocheting and taking care of her house full of plants. nie Allison; and Mary Kay. They also have two grand-[...]children: Erik Crandlemire; and Jennifer Allison.[...]The whole family was together for a family reunion in[...]August, 1980, to celebrate the 30th wedding anniversary of Margaret and Thomas Houck.[...]JOHN C. AND THELMA (HA YES) HUCK[...]and worked as an engineer at the Orphan's Home for many[...]. He had previously been an engineer in Wisconsin and[...]- - Tom_ and Margaret Houck, August 30, 1980, 30th wedding ann[...]MARGARET (LEWIS) HOUCK Margaret Lewis Houck, the granddaughter of Margaret |
| [...]Lila's parents, and in more recent years, the wedding scene of some of Ed and May Nicholls' descendants. Mel and Lila lived in and near Twin Bridges, and with the[...]log; an occupation he has followed part-time into the present.[...]They, with their three sons, Edgar, Bill and Bruce, moved[...]to Ennis in 1946. Mel trained for the Jumping Horse Stock[...]Ranch, at that time owned by Wetmore Hodges. The boys attended schools at Twin Bridges and Ennis, and are graduates of Ennis High School and Montana State Univer-[...]and Jodi. Bill married Georgia Hoyt, their children a[...](married Mark Chaboyer); Karilynn; Gina; and Marty. Bruce[...]married Elana Osgard, their children are: Radd and Deri. They all live in other areas in the state. Mel and Lila moved to Bozeman in 1957. Mel designed Dillo[...]dle Bronc, Mel Icenoggle. and built the first portable Rodeo Arena in the new M.S.U.[...]Fieldhouse. He remained to work in the Fieldhouse for the[...]jack fence. MELVIN R. AND LILA (NICHOLLS) ICENOGGLE Though Mel enjoys all sports, horses and rodeo are first.[...]onc, Melvin was born July 2, 1912, in Bozeman, the son of Bareback, and Steer Wrestling. He rode in horse races, in- Joseph Cleveland and Mary Redfield Icenoggle. His father, cluding Relay and Roman races. He won the last race he rode "Joe" died June 14th, 16 days[...]ace, riding "Buf- As a small boy, Mel lived on the Redfield family ranch of falo Grass", owned then by Rufe Ingersoll. He was a horse Twin Bridges, and at Bozeman. Mel had trained for the Jumping Horse Stock Ranch. At age six, he move[...]tired in 1976, working last for fourteen years in the ing often in summers with his grandmother, Elvira Redfield. M.S.U. Library. The days aren't long enough to accomplish He returned when he was fourteen, working to get through all she hopes to do. high school. He attended high school[...]Lila N. Icenoggle Park and Twin Bridges. Lila was born January 30, 1914, at the ranch home of the grandparents, Owen and Sarah Thomas. The eldest of four children of Thomas Edgar and Annie Thomas Nicholls. Her sister, Rowena and brother, Bill, still live at Twin Bridges. Their[...]ther died in 1923 of pneumonia. Lloyd was 2 years old. Lila received all her education in Twin Bridges schools, liv- ing i[...]il her death, June 1933. Melvin Ralph Icenoggle and Lila Marian Nicholls were married August 14, 1933[...]- ,I This lovely old rock church, so like those of Sheridan, Icenoggle family, 1945. L to R:[...]ville, Silver Bow County, to Thomas and Martha Jane In- |
| [...]None of the Richmonds survive and none of the Jacobs at the time of this writing.[...], 1974 Mrs. Tom Jacob died on June 13, 1898, and Mr. Jacob died |
| also belonged to Madison County Pioneers, Daisy Chapter 20, Order of Eastern Star, Cowbelles and t he Garden Creek Cattle Association. Una passe[...]R: Ronald Holland, Fawn Jerome, Shirley Holland, and Russell Jerome, 1952. Alfred and Hazel Sill and daughters Olive and Leoda, 1955. Olive later was divorced and moved back to Twin Bridges where she married Clifford (Bud) Jerome, born December 7, CLIFFORD AND OLIVE (SILL) JEROME 1916, in North Dakota. Bud had come here from the Big Hole where he worked on stock ranches and broke horses. Born in Sheridan on April 13, 1922, to Alfred and Hazel The Jeromes ranched near Whitehall and Twin Bridges. Sill, Olive was the oldest of two girls. Leoda was born They both worked Ifor the Montana Livestock Yards in September 29, 1925. They started the first grade in a one- Butte. room country school known as the Duncan District, west of Two children,[...]es near Mt. St. Helens, Sheridan. Olive remembers the country area children coming Washington, and Lea Fawn Powell, who lives in Deer Lodge, to school on horseback, including the Simonsens, Hansens, were born to Bud and Olive. Bud was a horse lover; he broke Robisons and Edmistens. The horses were kept in a barn on and trained Morgan horses for the Jackson Ranch near Har- the school grounds. A large pot-bellied stove stood in the rison and owned some nice horses, also. He also rodeoed in rear of the room and wood was supplied by the ranchers and his earlier days. stored in a wood shed. Bud served in the Navy during World War II. He was sta- The Sill girls finally entered the Sheridan schools and later tioned at Whidbey Island, Washington, for a time and later moved to Twin Bridges. Olive graduated from[...]served on a destroyer. He was discharged in 1945 and 1941 and Leoda dropped out as a freshman. She is now Mrs. returned to Twin Bridges. James Sevey and lives at Colville, Washington. Olive worked as a cook at the Blue Anchor Cafe. Bud died After graduation Olive went to Butte to work. There she September 13, 1963, and she continued to work at the An- met and married Roy Holland. Two children were born to the chor until 1968, when she moved to Butte. She is presently Hollands: Shirley (Mrs. Sandmere of Forks, Washington) and living there. She has six granddaughters and four grand- Ronald, who lives in Butte. Ronald was married to Lanette sons. Lori and Richard Sandmere, Rhonda and Charlene Bridges of Twin Bridges and their two children are Rhonda Holland, Sheri and Ronnie Holland, Jeremy and J.C. Jerome and Charlene. and Kim and Shannon Powell. Bud Jerome, 1940's.[...]CHARLES AND CHRISTIANE (HOLM) JESSEN[...]26, 1889. He immigrated to the United States in 1909 and |
| [...]llis, George Hurd, Clarence Doak, Howard Holbert, and others, who met regularly for coffee and conversation and oc-[...]Christiane had a beautiful singing voice which she shared[...]ith her community as a soloist on many occasions. She was 50th wedding anniversary, 1967. L to R: Seated: Christiane a helpmate to her husband and was quietly involved in many Jessen, Charles Jessen, unknown guest and Don Carrol~ community affairs. She was a member of the "Helpers back to camera.[...]p of civic-minded ladies returned to Helena where she attended Helena Business Col- of the community. She also belonged to Daisy Chapter 20, lege and became a bookkeeper. Order of Eastern Star, the Episcopal Church, and Veterans The Jessens moved to Twin Bridges in the early 1930's of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. Christiane was a Gold Star when they purchased the Madison County Creamery, which Mother. She died April 11, 1982. they operated for over twenty years. In 1938 Virgil Smith The Jessens had two children, a daughter Virginia bought out Mr. Olsen's (the original partner) interest in the Ellsworth, who presently lives in Tucson, Arizona, and a son business and remained the Jessen's partner until the sale of Jerald Keith who was killed in Belgium during World War the creamery, although he was an active partner only three II. There are five grandchildren and thirteen great grand- years. children. The Creamery was famous for the delicious ice cream, butter, and buttermilk made from cream purchased from[...]Alice Dale local farmers and ranchers as well as the fresh eggs which they also purchased locally. Don Carroll, who worked at the Creamery for many years, ran a pickup service to the area farms in addition to his other duties. They also sold butter and eggs to a number of stores in Butte and made a weekly trip to supply these stores. The counter at the Creamery was the local ice-cream parlor where Alice Pasley served ice cream cones, sundaes, and milk shakes. Many people in the community remember being assisted with their dairy and egg produce while being charmed by the kind, good-natured Charles Jessen. He had a fine sense of humor and was a member of the "Raspberry Club", (so called because the members teased Madison County Creamery-1940's. Don Carroll and Charles EVAN E. AND BLANCHE (PAIGE) JONES[...]Montana, to Evan J. and Margaret Ellen Jones, early day[...]with his two brothers and six sisters.[...] |
| [...]Blance Jones and grandchildren L to R: Donald and Dorothy Jones, Phyllis, Bob and John Masolo. cessful, the hides were removed, dried and sold to a Mr.[...].. . In 1928 the family moved to Waterloo where they con- |
| tana. He began his education at the Wisconsin Creek School until the fifth grade when his parents moved to Waterloo. He finished his eighth grade education at the Waterloo schools and attended Whitehall High School where he graduated[...]a, to Helen Christine Nordberg, daughter of Linus and Gwyn- dolyn Williams Nordberg. Helen was born November 9, 1918, in Helena, Montana, and moved to Madison County when she was three weeks old. She started first grade at Iron Rod School. The family then moved to Silver Star where she finished her eighth grade education. She was graduated from Twin Bridges High School in 1937. They lived in the Waterloo, Silver Star and Twin Bridges areas until the latter part of 1946 with the exception of about two years spent in Tacoma, Washington, where they both worked in the shipyards during World War II. They are parents of two children: Donald Charles Jones of Bozeman and Dorothy Rae Kenney of Helena. Four grand- childre[...]enney; Laurie Lea Kenney Tobol; Ronald Lee Kenney all of Helena; and Christine Ann Jones of Bozeman. They have one gre[...]reside in Bozeman, Montana, where they have owned and operated a water well business since 1957.[...]Samuel E. Jones, Spanish American War and sons, Frank and Ear~ World War I. 1865 on the ship Caledonia which sunk on the return voyage.[...]of triplets and two sets of twins, seven of whom survived. The family made their home at several places in Penn-[...]sylvania and following service in the Spanish American War, Samuel came to the Ruby Valley to visit his uncles, Evan,[...]David and Griffeth Jones near Sheridan and his aunt, Mary M. Jones in the Gallatin Valley. His grandparents John E. and Jane E. Jones had made their home with Evan but h[...]and later moved into Twin Bridges. In the early 1920's several of the children moved on to California and in 1927 he hitched up the team and wagon to follow them and made his[...]s, two children were born of this marriage: Harry and row: Earl and Ethel. Ethel, both in California. She died February 5, 1971, at[...]Sara (Sadie) married Albert Nelson. The couple made their[...]Two children were born, Merle (deceased) and Harry of[...]21, 1974. Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania, the oldest in the Margaret was born April 11, 1888, in Pennsylvania. She family of John and Martha May Evans Jones, both of whom mar[...]n Bridges, December 27, 1911. were born in Wales and came to this country as children with The couple lived all their lives at Twin Bridges. The daughter their parents.[...]Keenan at Blossburg, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. She was James Keenan was born March 21, 18[...]862, in Glasgow, Lanark County, Scotland. and was married to Genevieve Pitcher of Twin Bridges. Two She was the oldest in the family of James and Bridget Mellon children were born, Mildred, (deceased) and James Keenan of Kennan. She came to this country with her family arriving in Seattle. He died during the Spanish Flu epidemic at White[...] |
| [...]wo daughters are Meriam Sprankling in California and Eloise Sigmiller of Ronan. He died January 28, 1960, at LaCanada, California. The twins, Earl (also known as Samuel) and Ethel were born February 16, 1895, at Patton, Pennsylvania. Ethel mar- ried Jack Vandertuin in California and was widowed at the Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II. She died in Dillon on March 1, 1976. Earl married[...]ted Earl's Cash Grocery. He married Julia Larson and a daughter Mary Margaret of Spokane was born. He died at the family home in Twin Bridges January 3, 1953. Both Earl and Frank answered their country's call during World[...]Company, 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st Division and Frank in the 91st Divi- sion.[...]Wallace and Betty Jones and Beth, 1951.[...]graduation he re-entered military service and served two[...]He was with the Soil Conservation Service for a number of[...]District Conservationist at Ennis. During the time that he worked with the Soil Conservation he returned to school and[...]the fourth child of Ras and Bessie Bullerdick Hansen of Sheridan. She was born on the family ranch four miles west of Sheridan and attended the Sheridan Schools and Wes tern Wallace and Betty Jones family, September, 1979. L to R:[...]Ray, Jim, Doug and Beth (seated). TVedding picture June 26, 1950, Wallace WALLACE AND BETTY (HANSEN) JONES Wallace Earl Jones was born November 3, 1926, in |
| [...]in 1951, a Graduate Registered Nurse employed at the Veteran's Hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota; James, born in 1954, graduate from Mon- tana State University and employed at Cyprus Industries in Three Forks; Douglas Alan, born in 1959 and a Horticulture student at the University of Minnesota; and Raymond, born in 1962, a Chemical Engineering student at Montana State University. Betty and Wallace now reside at Three Forks, Montana. Her parents lived in Sheridan and celebrated their sixty- first wedding anniversary[...]llow some friends to Boise, Idaho. However, their old Whippet broke down in Sheridan, Montana, and because of the friendly community, they decided to stay and they lived in the Ruby Valley the remainder of their lives.[...]Alfred immediately got a job herding sheep at the Silver Springs ranch near Sheridan, and Henrietta cleaned Emma[...]In 1934 Alfred received his citizenship papers and in 1944[...]become American citizens and very seldom spoke German in[...]Thanks to Dr. Dyer and his daily applications of alcohol and many skin grafts, the boys both survived. Alfred owned and operated the Sheridan Shoe Shop in the late 30's and the early 40 's, but because of the war years and[...]as a hoistman in the Toledo Mine and he worked at several mines above Sheridan and Silver Star until they were closed Henrietta and Alfred Kaatz wedding picture, November 15, down. Meanwhile, Henrietta was a cook for the Sheridan 1927.[...]In the early 50's Alfred was a hired hand and Henrietta cooked on the Bert Paige ranch and the Otto Schulz ranch. ALFRED AND HENRIETTA KAATZ (DONEGAN) In 1954 the Kaatz family moved to the Montana Children's[...]as born July 10, 1906, in Berlin, watchman and Deputy Sheriff and Henrietta started as a Germany, to Ida Kruger and Clemans Kaatz. Because of his cook and later became a nurses aide. family's wealth, he received the best schooling and being an Alfred died June 20, 1959, of a gun accident. accomplished violinist, he attended the Berlin Conservatory Music has always played a big part in the Kaatz family. of Music a year before coming to America in 1926. Alfred played the violin frequently on weekends for dances Alfred met his wife, Henrietta Kerstan, daughter of Maria and special occasions. He played with the Pharmer' s Or- Zollens and Fredrich Kerstan, who was born February 19, chestra and with Esther Steiner and many other small 1908, in Seeguten, E. Germany, while she was a maid for his ensembles. Henrietta also loved music and would often sing mother, but because of class differences, they were not allow- with Alfred's violin and they would sing duets together. ed to marry. Consequently, in order to separate the love af- Henrietta sang in many local chiors and for special occa- fair, Alfred's family sent him to work on his uncle Gusto£ sions. She was especially noted for singing "Silent Night" i[...]ever, German. Alfred saved his money and a year later, in 1927, he sent for In 1966 Henrietta married John C. Donegan. She often his sweetheart, Henrietta, to join him in America. They were mentioned how blessed she'd been to have had two wonder- married in Carrington in 1927 and were immediately ful families . John's family includes a son Jack and a disinherited from his family in Germany.[...]On May 17, 1928, a son, James Gerhardt, was born and on After she retired from the Children 's Center in 1970, April 5, 1931, anothe[...]red was born. Henrietta returned for the first and only time to Germany to Times in North Dakota became very tough during the visit her home town. depression and dust bowl years so in 1933, they decided to In 1980 James G. Kaatz, then the mayor of Sheridan, died[...] |
| John and Henrietta Donegan, wedding, June, 1966. Back row:[...]Barbara Mercer Maichel on the left as a welder during WWII. Kaatz and Henrietta Donegan.[...]Mary Eliza (Stark) Mercer on February 1, 1924. She lived[...]h her parents in various places in Madison County and at- of lung cancer which triggered Henrietta's having several tended school in Pony and Harrison. She graduated from strokes. She died January 1, 1982. She especially enjoyed Harrison High School as valedictorian of her class. cooking, gardening, plants and flowers as well as her music She married Victor Maichel of Harrison December l , 1946, and singing. She was loved by all who knew her and was well and they lived at Norris. They had two children: Charles known for her kindness, sympathy and great religious com- (Chuck) Maichel of Portland, Oregon; and Kathy (Maichel) mitments.[...]Carroll of Long Beach, California. Later she married Earl[...]WALTER AND LOIS KITSON Walter and Lois Kitson were married May 29, 1969.[...]Ethyl and Walter Kitson. He has one brother, Roy and |
| [...]Rae Lynn, 13. Michelle had daughters Amie, 10 and Lisa 5 and one son, Ryan, 1 ½. This gives them 6 wonderful[...]much when her children were young. She worked for 5 years[...]at Raymond's Supper Club in Butte and three years at Fred and Millies. After she married Walt she worked with him in the garage he leased the first two years they were together.[...]After they moved to Twin Bridges in 1971, she worked for seven years at the Wagon Wheel Cafe and a total of three years at the Blue Anchor Cafe.[...]They are both driving school bus at the present time. Walt[...]is starting a business of his own and we pray it will be a suc· cess and that we will continue to spend many more years in[...]this beautiful valley among the lovely people who live here.[...]Lois Mantha Kitson Walt and Lois Kitson[...]ART AND CELIA (MERCER) KLOOS[...]rn in Butte, Montana, on June 13, |
| [...]With the exception of three years that Art spent in Ohio[...]working and getting acquainted with his father's relatives,[...]whom he had never met before, and two years he spent at Divide working at the Maidenrock Mine, he has lived in[...]Madison County since 1925 and he can truthfully say that he[...]Arthur and Celia Kloos Celia Kloos, 1981. His mother passed away in 1972 at the age of eighty-one |
| near Waterloo. When the mine shut down he hired out to He serv[...], North France, Earl Pulver in Goodrich Gulch at the Elenora, Topeka and Rhineland and Central Europe battles and campaigns. He adjoining claims where he mined and worked in the mill. holds the European-African Middle East Service Medal and Besides mining, he also got out timber and sawed it, first a Unit Citation was awarded the 332nd. he also holds the with "Frenchy", George La Porte's steam sawmill,[...]while a more efficient electric one secured from the Pittsmont Mine I was in the Army." Lou was discharged on August 14, 1945, in Butte. For his cutting and skidding and sawing of timber from Fort Douglas, Utah. He returned to Twin Bridges and he received $22.50 per thousand feet. His partne[...]been here ever since. His mother died in 1959 at the age out timber was Joe Gribben. Ed Nicholls was the teamster. of 94. He went to Pulver's mine at the mouth of Hell's Canyon He belongs to the American Legion, having joined first at where he[...]ere he met a Rugby, North Dakota, in 1919 and later at Twin Bridges young German engineer from the Montana School of Mines Post 31. He has also been a long standing member of Charles who was hired to survey at the mine. His name was Hans M. Reis Post No. 3843, Veterans of Foreign Wars and is Fietche. Later Lou was to hear of this young[...]presently Commander. He enjoys gardening, hunting and unusual circumstances. When serving in World War II, he fishing. heard a voice on the radio he recognized as that of Hans He says he was glad he went overseas and tells of one night Fietche. He was a commentator for the German Army under in Great Britain that gr[...]was walking along a street look- Lou mined in the Corncracker on the High Ridge and quit ing at the sights when he came upon an old rock building. He the lease to go to the war. Right close to where he and his could see in the window that it was a ladies ready to wear partner had stopped drifting, a third partner took out a shop, although the store was closed. His glance caught a $4,000 shipment of gold ore that he had known was there all date on the front of the building and it read 1492. Lou said, the time, but he had shunted the others away from purpose- "Why, that is when Columbus discovered America." ly. So are the fortunes of mining.[...]thday with a sur- On May 8, 1942, Lou joined the 332nd Army Engi_n~ers. prise party given by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. About He was sent fro[...]40 friends were there to wish him more healthy and happy From there the entire unit was sent overseas. He left from years. New York on the Argentina, a troop ship, seeing again the[...]in America. He landed at Glasgow, Scotland, and went on to Newport, Wales. He then went to Engl[...]ed to a general service regiment, he worked day and night at many jobs, for the army was getting ready for the invasi~n of Europe. He left from Weymouth, England, for France man amphibious landing. The break through at St. Lo came some time later and as a Motor Sergeant Lou recalls that he work- e[...]close for comfort, at one time nipping his ear and killing some of his fellow engineers. Lou K[...]Harold Lancaster and children: Gary (in truck), Hallie, |
| [...]Search and Destroy Unit. He was in intense fighting along[...]the Mekong River in the Phnom Penh area.[...]had always been interested in working with stock and also at building.[...]took a job with Ernst Hardware Stores in Spokane and has since been located in Seattle and Kenniwick, Washington, Salt Lake and Logan, Utah, and Pocotello, Idaho. He is[...]1973. They have a daughter, Jenifer Dawn and a son,[...]~regory David. David enjoys hunting, fishing, and camp- ing, and spends his vacation at Twin Bridges.[...]ancaster Theresa Lancaster, 1980. She married Harold Lancaster of Great Falls and lived |
| [...]L to R: Isabe~ Marian and George Lasich, 1947.[...]898 , when he came back to Butte to George Lasich and Kate Lasich. The family lived in Butte, he entered school in chemistry just to be eligible to Butte where his dad worked in the mines. In 1898, the fami- play on the team. He played football a couple of years, "until ly moved to Dillon where they ranched. I lost my wind. " That's what kept him from playing much George entered the service on September 17, 1917. He basketball. He did play center on the Butte basketball team landed in England on July 18, 1918, and served in the in about 1905. machine gun battalion of the 91st Division in France. He As a construction worker in Butte and then later as a dry ~articipated in t?e Battle of Argonne Forest at the front un- goods dealer for Symons Store, he was l[...]ges camp, he worked ~s a guard m a POW camp until the end of so he leased the McCartney Mine in 1916 and said, "I've been the war. :1Je ~as discharged on February 19, 1919, and arriv- broke ever since .,.[...]o Twin Bridges as he stayed H~ then lived and worked on the home ranch. He married there the rest of his life. He married Alice Seyler of Twin Marian Isabel Costle on September 11, 1926, in Dillon. She Bridges in June of 1906. His wife shared his love for sports. was born May 20, 1907, daughter of Michael and Lillian May She had brothers and nephews playing in all the games and they followed the Twin Bridges teams everywhere.[...]Lane too. They elected him City Marshall in 1926 and he served three years. He was Madison County Unde[...]or more teams in Twin Bridges. His mind was sharp and his knowledge of sports was far wider than his ho[...]tball, basketball or baseball game on television, the old man would watch and was always ready for a discussion on the team and individual team members. After his wife's death and the progression of his arthritis the old man began to stay home more. But whenever the team played in town he was sure to be there. The Twin Bridges School authorities granted him a free pass to all games and gave him a special chair as climbing to the bleachers became impossible. You could always see the en- thusiastic, happy expression on his face as he was a true sports fan of the Class C tournaments in Twin Bridges. Dode always loved living in Twin Bridges and his memory was sharp as a tack into his 90 's. He always had family and friends gathered round as age never stifle[...] |
| Costle, early day residents of Laurin. The Lasich family liv- ed in Ramshorn where he and Frank Birrer operated a sawmill. They had a son,[...]a ranch four miles south of Twin Bridges. George and his brother Jack, operated a threshing machine until 1936. He ranched until 1960, when the ranch was sold. They kept the house. George died on November 8, 1966, five days before his 76th birthday. Isabel and her grandson, George Broksle, still live in the house on the Dillon road. George was with Charley Reis, wh[...]ans of Foreign Wars, was named for Charley Reis, the first man from Twin Bridges killed overseas. Geo[...]entry on February 22nd reads thus: "Went to the chili wagon, had some chili. Had to answer a lot of questions. Then went down to sis', she went down home, got in the car, rode down home with me, also Swopes' girl was with him. Came home, the folks were surprised. Jack J. , John W , Ida Mae, and Marjean Lasich,' Memorial Whoever may chance to[...]writing it. Just remember this one thing, ed for the Diamond O Ranch. Here their daughter Marjean that if you should ever have to go in the trenches or in any Amelia was born on October 18, 1922. kind of skirmishes, don't forget that the fellow that is next to you is entitled to as much of the glory as you are, if he wasn't In the spring of 1925, the Lasich's purchased a ranch seven or if he was th[...]Bridges. On this ranch they raised returned off my trip expect to stay home. I am going to stop hereford cattle, sheep, and pigs. The cattle on the ranch have writing in this book. Used to be Corp[...]ich. been branded with a Heart Lazy Three on the right ribs from Now I am George A. Lasich of Dillon, Montana." 1925, to the present. They rented outside pasture until the[...]in the community and purchased grazing ground and started Louise Broksle Ross the Garden Creek Grazing Association.[...]and Ida Mae at the ranch which has been his home ever since.[...]For over thirty years John W. and his brother ran a custom JOHN W[...]reshing machine from Dillon to Twin Bridges. They also, in earlier years, had a sawmill and custom grain grinder. The John William Lasich was born on the George Lasich ranch threshing machine that they u[...]ears was north of Dillon on July 31, 1896. He was the fourth child sold by Jack Junior to Lloyd Harkins for his machinery col- born to George and Katrin Lasich who had come from lection. Austria and were married in Butte, Montana. They had their fi[...]ildren, George Anthony, Kathryn Elizabeth, John W and Ida Mae Lasich, 1954. and Rudolph Andrew there. They moved to the ranch north of Dillon before John W. was born. Fo[...]rancis Joseph, Anna Rosella, Matthew Alex- ander, and Peter William, who was born after their father died in 1905. Katrin Lasich remained on the ranch and raised her children there. The boys went to work at an early age. John W. hauled freight with his brother and worked at the Valley Garden Ranch in Ennis. While he was there[...]ing at Jeffers. Ida Mae Wiant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wiant, was the oldest of five children, Garrison, Gladys, Aretta, and J ef- frie. She was a native of Silver Star, born May 22, 1898. The family lived near Iron Rod where she attended school. She went to the State Normal School in Dillon and taught school for several years in Madison County before she met John W. Lasich. John W. and Ida Mae were married June 23, 1921, in Dillon, Montana. Following their marriage they lived at the old stage station at the Point of Rocks where John W. work-[...] |
| [...]and had enough to do there.[...]In 1941 he married Doris Rankin, the daughter of Thomas and Flossie Rankin. They were the parents of two boys:[...]Robert, who was born in 1942; and Jimmy, who was born in[...]1947. Doris passed away in 1961. Bob and his wife Gay are living in Twin Bridges and Jim and Carol and their two[...]the Roscoe Dillet family. They were blessed with the birth of[...]Harry had a lot of work to do on the ranch to get it in shape and do it he did! He drained all the swamp areas and fixed up all the ditches so he could get the ground irrigated proper- ly. He increased the hay crop from about 100 tons to approx-[...]imately 350 tons. After 43 years of hard work on the same • John W. and Ida Mae Lasich on front steps of ranch home.[...]ranch he sold out in December, 1981. He and Margaret have[...]them attending In addition to raising a family and their work John and Ida school and looking forward to going to college when she com- had many other interests. John was in the army during pletes high school. World War I; he didn't have to serve overseas as the war end- Harry's brother, Francis, lives[...]with his ed before he was sent out. He served on the Twin Bridges wife Billie. His sister M[...]x making a home for School Board, was a member of the board of directors of her two sons Lyle and Herbie. Sister Clara and her husband Vigilante Electric Co-op and served on the board when the Walter Sokoloski live in Anaconda and she has a daughter, first electric lines were put up in the valley, and he was coun- Helen Rose in Butte and another, Florence in Washington. ty commissioner.[...], makes her home in Dillon with charter member of the Paigeville Home Demonstration Club, her husband Cliff and youngest son J aymes May and his and a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Laurin. wife Teddy. All of them are in reasonably good health and Ida Mae died August 10, 1955, following a peri[...]isiting is not possible. health. John W. lived at the ranch until 1961, when he sold the ranch to his son Jack, Junior. He moved to Sherid[...]Leslie and Margaret Lawyer Marjean Lasich attended school in Twin Bridges, graduating in 1940. She attended Montana State College graduating in Home Economics in 1944. She was appointed Home Demonstration agent to Dawson County where she met Clarence Wolff whom she married on June 22, 1948. DAWES AND JOY (BOYCE) LOTT They have a farm at Lindsay, Montana, where their son Bob lives with his family. Clarence and Marjean now live in Glen- 1922. The year the Twin Bridges Bank went broke and dive. They also have two daughters Bonita Jeane and Dawes Lott was born. His dad alway[...]r for those two reasons! Jack J. was raised on the ranch and attended school in Harrison Dawes Lott was the third child born to Mortimer Twin Bridges graduating in 1943. On December 8, 1945, he John and Bess Dawes Lott; he was named for his maternal m[...]er 28, 1917. A They have six children: Dixie Ann and husband Russell Lien sister was born on April 24, 1920; she died the following day, of Wolf Point; Douglas John and wife Sharon on the ranch; April 25, which was to be his birthday two years later. A Deanne Rose and husband Jim Moore of Helena; Dallas Lane third boy, Robert Carson, was born September 25, 1925. and wife Terrie of Billings; and Dusty Claude and Dana The three brothers have made their homes in Twin Bridges. William at home. They also have five grandchildren: Shawn, At the present time Dawes and Mort, Jr., operate the family Jodi and Tye Lasich of Twin Bridges; Jamie Moore of ranch and Bob is the local veterinarian. Helena; and Billy Lien of Wolf Point.[...]Sharon Lasich the expert coaching of his teacher Miss Waldon--now k[...]State College he played on the Bobkitten team. After World[...]War II he played on the Bobcat team. HARRY LEWIS AND MARGARET (EHLMAN) I[...]class. After a year of college he volunteered for the Ar- my Air Force where he was trained as a navigator. At that Harry Lawyer was born to Frank and Rose Woodside graduation of about[...], 1918. He was at home until age eighteen and was named the outstanding athlete--an award which he when he we[...]d more for hard work than talent. a wood camp, on the Ruby Dam and at Gregson Hot Springs. Dawes' overseas service was in B-17's with the Eighth Air Harry and his brother Francis bought the ranch from their Force stationed in England in 1944 and 1945.[...] |
| [...]was told that his crew was ranked among the top ten in the[...]Dawes returned to the States in the spring of 1945 and was Joy and Dawes Lott wedding, June 30, 1946.[...]the fall, he played basketball, was elected president of the In- dependents, and was named to Who's Who in American Col- On December 24, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge--[...]ing so many days for decent weather-2,034 bombers took off. His plane was the "lead" of all those In June 1946, he married Joy Bo[...]onsibility for They attended college again the following year and Dawes the following planes took their directions from the lead crew. graduated that spring of 1947. He accepted a job as county That was the largest number of planes ever engaged in a[...]re they lived for single aerial attack. Twenty of the forty B-17s in Dawes' two years. Th[...]1949 they moved to Charlo where Dawes epaulet; at the same time another hit his flak vest and pierc- taught veterans farm training. ed his s[...]issed his Dawes was anxious to return to the home ranch so, with a head and his heart.[...]han eight expanded to be more profitable. In the fifties he drove school or ten leads. Dawes had t[...]ads, of these two were bus. In 1952 he became the school clerk, a job he held nearly air force leads, five were division leads, and the rest were twenty years. During that time the school had three major group leads. Lt. Lott[...]ntary building, se- Distinguished Flying Crosses, and one Purple Heart. He cond came the physical education building, and third the high school addition and the ag-shop building. When Dawes Dawes, 3rd from righ[...]1 the town council asked him to run a bond issue for bu[...]town sewer system, since the two previous attempts had fail-[...]During these years Dawes has also served in various volunteer areas including the fire department, the Children's Center Board, and the County Planning Board. Church work[...]is important to him and he has served in many capacities[...]there. He was Bishop of the Sheridan Ward of the Church of[...]Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for many years, and now serves on the Butte Stake High Council. Dawes and Joy have a family of nine children. Besides[...]Marian and Margaret there are Loie, Bonnie, Joyann, Laree,[...]Boyce, Lynn Marie, and Janell; there are eight grand-[...]children. They all love Montana--the Ruby Valley in par-[...] |
| [...]head of cattle. Mort also raised saddle horses until the last Mortimer John Lott Jr. was born on September 28, 1917, year or two, and in years gone by raised work horses and to Mortimer J. and Bess Dawes Lott of Bozeman. He was broke them himself. educated in Twin Bridges, graduatin[...]uch time is spent in ranch work, other activities the class of 1936. He worked on the ranch and for a year was are necessary. Mort belongs to and is chairman of the incapacitated with rheumatic fever. Bozeman Branch of the Federal Land Bank, the Twin He attended Montana State University from 1936-1940, Bridges Cemetery District, and Twin Bridges Cemetery majoring in agriculture. He later got a clean bill of health Association, the Ruby River Water Association, Montana from his ea[...]do needed ranch work Stockgrowers Association and Madison County Study Com- and trapped on the side in his younger days, doing really well mission. during the depression just on muskrat catches on the ranch. The American Hereford Association sponsored a trip to Mort and his brothers, Dawes and Bob, ranched after their Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina in 1979 and Mort went on father's death in 1957. Bob also is a practicing veterinarian. that trip. It was the World Hereford Conference at When Mrs. Lott died in 1973, they formed Lott Brothers and Montevedio, Uruguay. He is also a member of West Gate since they had expanded the[...]n 1965 by buying Lodge No. 27 A.F. & A.M. the Marcinkowski Ranch, they continued to raise Heref[...]a conservative, who has cattle. Their new ground and range enabled them to run 600 known hard work. He believes in neighborliness and fair[...]Robert Carson Lott, youngest son of M.J. and Bess Lott was born on the family ranch September 25, 1925. He at-[...]tended Twin Bridges public schools and graduated from high[...]Bob spent two years with the United States Army Moun-[...]and M for two years and Montana State University for a year and a half before enrolling at Washington State Unive[...]Bob attended WSU for four years and received a BA in Biological Science and received his Doctor of Veterinary[...]1960 he built the veterinary hospital which he uses as a base[...]for his practice at the present time. Bob is a familiar sight in[...] |
| Dawes Lott on seat of "Bug", Bob and Mort Lott, 1939.[...]j his specially equipped truck going through the valley Elaine (Lunger) Wilkerson, May, Linda in Belton, Texas, treating sick livestock. As is the case so often in an isolated April,, 1979. community, he treats everything from sick dogs and cats to horses and cattle. Living on a ranch was a good life for children. There were Bob married Nora Holla[...]n 1955; Daniel Carson make their own fun and games. born in 1957; Holly Jean, born in 1959; and Thomas Charles, born in 1962. He and Nora separated and she is now married In June, 1929, May married Ed Lunger in Dillon. Since to Jack Morgan and lives in California. that time she has made her home in Twin Bridges. Ed pass-[...]ed away in 1967. Two daughters were born to the couple: Bob i~ a partner in the Lott Brothers Corporation and lives Elaine (Mrs. R.L.) Wilkerson was born July 17, 1930. She on a part of that ranch. now lives in Texas. She has seven children. Gale (Mrs. Don)[...]Holly Lott Murray was born June 24, 1940. She lives in Dillon, Mon- tana. She and Don have five children.[...]May has always been active in her community. She has been on the election board for many years, helped in organiz-[...]ing the local PT A and getting the hot lunch program in the school, is a charter member of the American Legion Aux- iliary, Unit No. 31, and has been a Girl Scout Leader. Several[...]Back L. to R .: May holding Amy, Gale and Don Murray.[...]EM) LUNGER May Lunger, daughter of George Giem and Pearl Corn- |
| years ago she accepted the position of librarian of the Public Library, a position she still holds. At this time she is secretary of the Twin Bridges Improvement Association, is a member of the Ruby Valley Senior Citizens. She also found time to work on the first volume of the Madison County history, Pioneer Trails and Trials, for two years. It has been a busy, active life and very rewarding.[...]Fred and Edna Mailey the day they were married, July 17.[...]June 26, 1940. Fred then moved the family to a cabin on[...]While living and working there a second child, Dawn Arlene[...]After World War II the sawmill was relocated to the Birch Creek area of the Pioneer Mountains and Fred, along with brother Bill, operated the mill at that location until 1948. He[...]could recall riding the steam tractor which pulled a wagon of wood and water from Trout Creek to Birch Creek, a trip tha[...]took almost three days to complete. At Birch Creek the Fred Mailey at the cabin on Trout Creek. steam engine was retired and sold for scrap metal and a new[...]modern gasoline engine was used to operate the mill. Around 1948 Fred set up the sawmill in Twin Bridges near FREDERICK SIDNEY AND the railroad tracks on Madison Street just north of S[...]OSTER) MAILEY Garage. The logs for the mill were obtained from Hell's Can- yon and a large electric motor was used to power the mill. Fred Mailey was born September 24, 1898, at Blaine, Mon- During the winter months when the snow or weather tana, the son of John and Rosa Mailey. He grew up on the prevented Fred from logging in the high mountain areas, he family ranch and attended school at Blaine. As a young man would often work for the highway department keeping the he had a great fondness of horses and would break and train roads open during bad weather and for several winters he horses for many of the local people along with helping to run was the sawyer for the Sage Lumber Company whose mill the family ranch, which was also a post office and stage stop was located near the Iron Rod Bridge. for mail and passengers. In 1950 the sawmill was once again relocated, this time to He homesteaded on McHessor Creek in the Ruby moun- the Upper Ruby Valley at Bear Creek. It was here that the tains and along with his brother Bill Mailey, who homestead- logging operation became fully modern, the work horses that ed on Trout Creek in the same mountain range, began the had faithfully skidded the felled trees, were retired and business of cutting and milling timber. Fred built the mill replaced by tracked vehicles and the gasoline engine was from parts salvaged from other old mills and purchased a replaced by a more powerful and efficient desiel engine. The wood burning steam tractor which provided the power mill continued to operate until 1962 at which time it was necessary to operate the mill. As a young boy Ron recalls sit- dismantled and Fred retired. During that time a third child ting at that steam engine blowing the whistle, much to the Kathie Ann (King) was born, December 28, 19[...]useless in Fred was well known throughout the valley for his fine order to conserve steam power. lumber products and his easy going manner. Much of the Following the sale of the family ranch at the Point of plank use~ for d?cking of many of the bridges in the county Rocks (now known as the Maynard Nyhart ranch), Fred and was cut from the mill operated by Fred. He was also a his brother Gus purchased and operated a nearby ranch (now member of the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star. known as the Walsh Ranch). It was during this time he met Following the closure of the sawmill and the sale of the Edna Oster who had arrived in the valley to live with ranch. Fred retired. building a new home in Twin Bridges. relatives and was working on a nearby ranch. They were[...]1965. married July 17, 1938, in Dillon, Montana, and moved to the Edna still lives in the house they built together. ranch where the oldest child, Frederick Ronald, was born, Edna Pauline was born April 20, 1917, the oldest[...] |
| Fred Mailey and Charlie Whitney bucking up logs for the mill on Trout Creek. daughter of George and Emma Oster, at Ismay, Montana. |
| John and Jo Mailey Jo and John Mailey on the right, 1960. ultimately settled near Sandpoint, Idaho. Republican rallies and conventions at the state and local |
| [...]Charles and Wilma Masolo, May, 1956. pound and fat cows for two and one-half cents, but somehow managed to survive. As Jim stated, "I recall one time we went into the bank to have our loan renewed. The room was full of people. The CHARLES AND WILMA (JONES) MASOLO banker says right out so they could all hear, 'Yours is the worst damn paeer we have got, so you had better do Wilma Frances Jones, daughter of Evan and Blanche something about it sometime. ' "[...]Jones married Charles Masolo, son of John and Martha "Later, due to a couple of breaks, we[...], Montana, on March 20, 1937, in Butte, off. Then the same guy says, 'What the hell are you fellows Montana. trying to do, put us out of business?' But they survived and Charles and Wilma have three children: Phyllis Marie, we was[...]time we needed it. " Charles Robert and John Evan. In 1945 Jim had a heart attack which "put him on the They ranched with Charles' parents at Waterloo, until shelf " for about five years. In the meantime Frank con- 1941, at which time they purchased the ranch. In 1946, they tracted rabbit fever. Once when the two were out trying to purchased the Antone Meyers ranch near Winston. There fix fence, they were weak and staggering around, barely able they started a purebred Hereford business, in addition to to stand up, and decided it was time to get out of the ranch their commercial herd. The ranch is now run by the boys, business. In 1956 they sold out their 100 head of good cattle Bob and John. Phyllis and her family reside in Townsend. and machinery for a good price and Jim returned to Twin Charles passed away on August 24, 1980, and Wilma still Bridges. resides in her home on the home ranch. Jim's brother-in-law Chris Carsten[...]married Wesley Diehl of Townsend. They have five the home ranch and when he died, Jim helped his sister Cora children: Douglas, Jeffrey, Connie, Greg, and Shauna. (who also had her mother-in-law with her) to farm the place. Robert (Bob) married Gay Ann Sullivan of Townsend. Chris had bought all his feed, so he used the land just for They have one son, Daivd. pasture and it was in bad shape. Jim had a couple of tractors and other machinery so without any agreement, he just[...]had its effect on him, but sons: Craig, Kurt, and Kyle. being his own boss enabled him to regulate[...]Wilma Masolo the land back in shape, got some stock together and farmed. In 1979 his sister Madge Low came from California and[...]me. Jim is very June, 1951. satisfied and happy with his comfortable new home, but Madge never got to live in it much. She fell, broke her hip and arm and had to go to the nursing home in Ennis. Frank Marshall also has a new house on the old Marshall home site. At the present time Jim has the land rented and raises a big garden. He is 93 years old. Another brother Tom is 89 and Frank is 86. Tom still traps but this very winter (1982), fell into the Beaverhead River trying to pull a beaver out of a trap. He came home, changed clothes and went back to get the beaver. They are a remarkable trio and an inspiration to all who know them to see such vitality and self-reliance. Frank Marshall died Feb. 6,[...] |
| [...]brother, but through the urging of an uncle of Suzie's who[...]hauled lime from Hinch Creek. He found a home at the[...]and baby daughter Ella who had been born while he was[...]away in Boomer, Iowa. She was only a few months old when they arrived. So began life in Montana. Maybelle was born[...]on Granite Creek in 1904. The family moved into Alder.[...]During this time Charles helped build the Episcopal Church[...]When the mining boom began in Rochester Gulch there[...]and moved his famiy to a spot near a nice spring at the[...]outh of Rochester Gulch. They had a cow, chickens and horses and plenty of coyotes. The children called the place the "chicken ranch" but had a happy life there for three[...]This is where Charlie was born in 1907. He loves the spot and returns there when he can. When the mines in Rochester closed down, Charles had to[...]seek a new job. He found employment at the Orphan's Home[...]rpenter. They moved into a little square house in the !o.31!9_ _ __ ___ field south of the Children's Center. No sign of the little[...]. Charles worked many years as a Charles and Suzie McElderry wedding picture, July 1, 1901. carpenter's helper at the Orphan's Home and helped build many of the cottages there. The family had a happy life there and enjoyed a lasting friendship with the Ruppels' who[...]When it came time for Ella and Maybelle to attend school CHARLES HENRY AND SUZIE (VECKORY) the family moved in to Twin Bridges. Ella was seven y[...]MCELDERRY old and Maybelle was five. Guess they weren't particular[...]about ages then. The girls started to school in the old Nor- Charles Henry McElderry was born on a farm near Fair- mal School building and can remember when the plaster ceil- field, Iowa, on December 31, 1865.[...]was this farm. In 1901 he married Suzie Veckory. She was also in the new red brick building. born in Iowa in 1871. They decided to start their life The McElderrys were living in a house at the corner of South River Street and 2nd Avenue when Harry arrived in[...]1913. Ella and Maybelle McElderry 1906.[...]th a one room log cabin on it. It had a dirt roof and was surrounded with brush. It is the place where Ella still lives. Suzie took in laundry and the children delivered the clothes in a little wagon to pay for it. The seven members of the[...]have a home of their own. Charles cleared away the brush and built a big swing, teeter-totter, and merry-go-round. They raised chickens here, too. The children had great fun swimming in the river and playing hide and seek in the[...]Company. He herded sheep and tended sheep camp for them[...]Madison and Beaverhead Counties. Charles Jr. joined him[...]when he was old enough to help. The tales they tell would[...]In 1916 Suzie learned that she had cancer. With no hope of cure she decided to return to Iowa for her last days. Char[...]and Charles found work in Iowa. Ella took over as cook and housekeeper for the family for several years. In 1919 the family returned to Twin Bridges and took up life in the little house again. They resided there during the[...]finished high school in 1924 and finished the two years at[...] |
| [...]en, Nancy, Rosalie, Ron McLaughlin. Ella, Charlie and Maybelle McElderry, 1907 Twin Bridges.[...]Falls in 1944 where he worked as fireman for the Great Nor- Dillon Normal. Charlie quit after the first year of high school thern Railroad. Later as the railroads merged to the present to work for Reids. Florence finished high[...]Burlington Northern he became an engineer and has been in Harry also quit high school in his junior year to go to work[...]Rosalie worked as a nurse's He was always sickly and most of his life had a struggle to aide at one time. She was past worthy matron of Helen C. breathe. He married and had a son. He went to Arizona in Robert'[...]tern Star, past mother advisor of his later years and died there in 1980. Rai[...]ges in 1928. They cooked on ran- member of the Green Thumb Garden Club and was affiliated ches. Ella became a wonderful cook. She was Asa Eilis's with the Locomotive Engineers and Fireman's Auxilaries. cook and housekeeper !or 20 years. Henry died in 1949.[...]married Maybelle married Willie Steiner in 1930 and lived in again in 1979 and he and Mae make their home in Ulm, Mon- Sheridan for 40 years. She had two children: Ella May tana. McDonald and William C. Steiner, a sergeant in the highway patrol. Willie Steiner died in 1935. Maybelle later worked for A.C. Smith. They married in 1970 and retired to Arizona. He passed away in 1977. Charles married an Iowa girl and lived many years in Libby, Montana. He had two boys. He also retired to Arizona. Florence married Cecil Robbins and had four children. She spent most of her married life in Butte, Montana. She and her husband are both deceased and are buried in Twin Bridges Cemetery. Charles Henry McElderry passed away in 1940 at the age of 75. He is also buried in Twin Bridges Cemetery. He was a tough man with a strong will and a fighting spirit. Maybelle McElderry Smith CARL AND ROSALIE McLAUGHLIN[...]lin was born in L~k. Utah, on Oc- |
| [...]The following is a poem dedicated to him by his Sis,[...]Life is but a garden In which we plaut the seeds Of hope and love and tenderness Of kindly thoughts and deeds. And when the sun has risen And the seeds begin to grow[...]But when the sun has settled Beyond the distant hill And the tender blooms have vanished With the dear heart that is still We must keep the garden blooming With courage, faith and trust[...]In the heavens, as we must.[...]Norma McLaughlin Steiner Don and Irene McLaughlin wedding picture. his left leg but that did not stop him from skating, dancing, |
| Jane Tafolla and Kinnell Sullivan, 1981. Judy and Chad Mattfeldt, 1981. Ervin (Bill) was born o[...]Norton was a very special sheep Faraker McMillin and Charles Henry McMillin in Ken- herder. He owned a ranch in the Bear Paw Mountains in Hill newick, Washington. H[...]heep for hire. He was a real classic as he 1945, and joined his parents, sister Marian and brother had a mouth full of gold teeth and carried an umbrella to Chuck on the Hodges Place near Cameron. He worked at the shade him as he watched his flock. In later years he also Jenkins Ranch (at the foot of Fan Mountain) for John and herded for the Jenkins Ranch where the McMillins worked Olga Jenkins. In January, 1948,[...]when they were first married. He later retired and moved in- to become a hardware store manager for[...]Dorothy recalls seeing the Gravelly Range and Black Jane Yvonne was born in Bozeman on Augu[...]in a time when motorized vehicles could not make and was fifth living generation on the maternal side. the rough going that horses could in the spacious Gravellys. McMillins moved to Twin Brid[...]Little did Uncle Roddy (now dead) know of the impression Bill managed the Marshall Wells store for Dar and Hal such a memory left upon such a sma[...]nn was born September 6, 1950, in the same country by vehicle with her family she renews old Bozeman. In 1951, Bill went to work for Ruby Valley Hard- memories of a grand and beautiful part of Madison County. ware and Grocery. The only son, Ervin Eugene was born It makes Dorothy both proud and happy to be a part of the June, 1953, and died shortly after birth. He was buried in Madison County which has held some long family lines in the the Twin Bridges Cemetery. time of settlement of the territory and state and also to be a In 1960, Bill left Ruby Valley Hardware and took a job for native daughter of the beautiful and stupendous Madison McCulloch Chain Saw Corp. whe[...]During these same years Dorothy worked for Phil and Dorothy Jane Hungerford McMillin Jemima Cook at the Blue Anchor Cafe, at the Twin Bridges Meat Market for George Frazier and at Frank's Sport Shop for Frank and Isabella Rose. Upon the retirement of Frank Rose from the State Liquor Store, Dorothy worked there un- til[...]CLIFFORD AND ELIZA (STARK) MERCER Bill and Dorothy purchased the Wagon Wheel Cafe in February, 1970, and operated it until August, 1971, when it Clifford Arlington Mercer was born May 3, 1891, on the was sold. To date the McMillins own rental property in Twin family homestead nine miles above Twin Bridges on the east Bridges and enjoy being near family and friends. There are side of the Beaverhead River. When Clifford became of age tw[...]an born April 9, 1969, he continued ranching the home ranch after his father died. in Sheridan to Jane; and Chad Russell Mattfeldt, born April June 17, 1917, he married Mary Eliza Stark. She had been 26, 1975, in Great Falls to Judy. Jane and Kinnell live in born in Osceola, Missouri, October 22, 1898. She moved with Twin Bridges while Chad and Judy live in Great Falls. Both her parents to the Bozeman, Montana, area about 1905. The grandchildren are also the fifth living generation on the family moved to the Twin Bridges area when she was fifteen paternal side. years old and they lived on the Redfield ranch three years at Dorothy's family on both sides of parentage are all pioneer which time her parents William and Celia Stark purchased families of Madison County. As a small girl Dorothy spent the Martin ranch which was adjoining the Mercer many hours on a ranch owned by her maternal grandmother, homestead. Hetty Bennetts and an uncle, Horace (Roddy). She spent Eliza went to Dillon Normal College and was awarded a summers with Roddy riding in a horse-drawn buckboard teaching certificate. She taught a year or two at the Center- tending camp for the T. J. Call Sheep Ranch. The pair called ville School before her marriage[...]One Eyed" Murphey, Jack After Clifford and Liza were married they continued the Wooten and Bill Norton, all too soon forgotten shepherds in ranching operation for several years until the ranch was sold.[...] |
| [...]Clifford and Eliza (Stark) Mercer family, 1938.[...]1929; and Andrew Paul, born June 20, 1936.[...]Eliza died December 28, 1951, and Clifford died May 5,[...]1952. Both are buried in the Stark family plot in the Twin[...]emetery . ..-.· j Clifford and Mary Eliza Stark Mercer[...]born there, Josephine (Clark) on April 16, 1918, and Frederick on June 22, 1920. After this Clifford ranched and mined in various locations in Southwest Montana.[...]Butte, Clifford was injured in a cage acci- dent and was disabled for several years. The going was pretty rough for a while, but they were[...]years. Top L. to R.: Barbara (Mercer) Kirkendahl and Josephine |
| [...]just up the road a quarter mile from where he was born. He[...]and his wife still live there at this writing.[...]While working for Paul, Fred had a cream and egg route in Butte on Saturdays--the cream farm fresh from Paul's cows.[...]One day a customer came out and said, "I'm going to quit[...]thick I can't even pour it!" She was very upset and wouldn't listen to reason so she was the real loser.[...]About 1965 when Paul quit milking cows and his dairy route in Dillon, Twin Bridges, and Sheridan area, Fred went to work for the Dillon Creamery and he and Maxine started delivering the dairy products in the Twin Bridges and[...]As of this writing Fred and Maxine still operate this milk route and since 1971 Fred has owned and operated his shoe and boot repair business in Dillon. Their son Dan has[...]be taking over the dairy route in the spring and learning the Mercer family, 1958 L to R: Diana, Maxine, Fred, Donna, and boot repair trade. Daniel. One of the most exciting events for Fred was killing a[...]trophy bull elk while hunting in the Upper Ruby the season of 1958. According to Boone and Crockett measurements events were swimming in the Muleshoe ditch, ice skating on[...]his trophy bull was recorded as second largest in the world. the slough, fishing in the Beaverhead, and many evenings of It still remains the largest trophy elk recorded in Montana. games while consuming home grown popped corn by the dish[...]tered this trophy elk head in worldwide pan full and homemade root beer. wildlife trophy competition in the World Museum of Natural Fred entered the army in July, 1942, and took basic train- History at New York City. The contest personnel called ing at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky. He served four years Fred and asked him to be sure and come to attend the awards and three months--twenty-six months of this in the China- ceremony and dinner and told him only that "He wouldn't be Burma-India th[...]is discharge he lived in Bozeman. He married Max- the money together and with a sack lunch to last several ine Halverson of Belgrade, August 4, 1946. Fred was a milk days boarded the train for New York City. The "Montana delivery man for.the old Kessler Dairy of Bozeman. Later he cowboy", as they called him back there, was awarded the dairy farmed on his father-in-law's farm at Belgr[...]re Hill Medal given in memory of Theodore Fred and Maxine have three children all born at Bozeman: Roosevelt, which meant his troph[...]orn May 12, 1947, married to Evan Claus An- among the 2300 entries of various wildlife from all over the dren of Waterloo, December 26, 1970; Donna Faye born April world. This remains the only Sagamore Hill A ward ever to 9, 1949, marrie[...]me to Montana--an honor for Madison County. 1969; and Daniel Frederick born April 5, 1952, and married Fred and Maxine have thirteen grandchildren: Kimberly, to[...]ontana, on September 4, 1971. Krista, Robb, Cory, and Kourtney Sager of Butte; Heidi, In 1954 the family moved to the Twin Bridges area and Holly, Hope Elaine, and Aaron Andren of McAllister; and Fred worked for John and Rudy Broksle. In 1958 he went to Scott, Heather, Tamara, and Jana Mercer, now of Twin work for his uncle Paul Stark and built a home for his family Bridges. Fred Mercer sits on the head of his trophy elk taken in 1958 Maxine Mercer |
| GEORGE H. MERCER AND LURA ELLEN (STARK) MERCER Geor[...]23, 1886, right near Twin Bridges on what is now the Myron Morris place. He helped his father run the place for a while. Ellen Stark and her family lived on the adjoining place. She was born January l, 1896, in Osceola, Missouri, the oldest of nine children. Her family came to Montana early in the 1900's because a doctor told Mr. Stark it would b[...]ettled in Bozeman, where he ran a blacksmith shop and worked for others. Later they came to Twin Bridge[...]anch. Eventually Mr. Stark bought his own place - the present Paul Stark holdings. Ellen met Mr. Mercer and the couple married June 23, 1915. They ranched locall[...]l~ Ellen, Mildred Mercer, Myrtle time for himself and also worked for others. He was later Mercer Haxby. Front L to R: Jim Mercer, Celia Mercer employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad and upon his Kloos. retirement, moved his family back to Twin Bridges in the[...]t of Thompson Falls on: a farm. early 1960's. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer resided in town. He died September 3, 1968, and she died June 18, 1970. Mildred Mercer The couple had five children. William, born July 29,[...]Haxby was born July 28, 1907, an~ MYRON AND NORA (SULLENDER) MORRIS died September 19, 1961.[...]yron Morris was born February 17, 1913, to Walter and Celia E. (Mercer) Kloos was born April 7, 1930, and lives in Maude Mailey Morris on the present Devers Ranch. His Twin Bridges with her h[...]o retired from mother died when he was eight and a half months old so he ranching at Waterloo. James C. Mercer, born[...]went to live with his grandparents, Rosa and Jack Mailey. 1933, died September 20, 1966.[...]uardian. Celia Kloos and Mildred Mercer Myron attended grade school at the Blaine country school and was acquainted with few other children. He rode a[...]the nearly three miles to the school daily. When Myron finished the eighth grade he asumed that he was through[...]make a fuss, but the next summer it was arranged that the Blaine district would buy a new car and Myron could drive the two first graders living in the district into Twin Bridges to school and he would attend high school also. So Myron[...]Chevrolet--he says he was bribed! The next year there were[...]in town with John and Jo Mailey for the next three years and[...]He worked on the Mailey ranches during these years through the summer and helped out when he could on the MILDRED MERCER neighboring ranches such as the Nyharts. October 8, 1940, Myron and Nora Sullender of Whitehall Mildred Mercer was[...], 1920, to Lura Ellen were married. Nora, the daughter of John and Grace Stark Mercer and George Hiram Mercer at Twin Bridges at Sullender, was born at Whitehall March 15, 1915. She at- her grandparents' ranch home nine miles out of town. They tended Whitehall schools and came to cook at the Mailey moved to Whitehall to the Johnson ranch when she was Ranch in the summer of 1935. seven years old. She went to school in Whitehall from the se- The young Morris couple began their life together on a cond grade until she graduated from high school. The family ranch across the Big Hole River from the Pennington moved to Twin Bridges in 1962 and have lived there for nine- Bridges which they[...]d at Norm's Laundramat in Twin were tough and Myron worked at jobs on other ranches Bridges for five years. She worked at the Borden Hotel and which allowed him to return home each night because they Cafe and the Trail for several years. milked cows and sold the cream. Myron and Nora recall ra- Mildred has two sisters and two brothers, one sister, Myr- tioning and the difficulty in getting tires and enough gas to tle Mercer Haxby and one brother, James C. Mercer are get the cream to town to sell before it soured. Myron said he deceased. Her sister Celia Kloos lives in Twin Bridges and a avoided only two jobs, digging potatoes and shocking grain.[...] |
| [...]nk belonged to Alder Gulch Aerie No. 664, F.O.E. the valley beginning at Cornforths, now Swans, and hitting (Eagles). He was a kindly and generous man to the children just about every ranch to Matt Lasich's within 12 miles of of the town, loading them down with candy and attention. Dillon. He made $4.00 a day at this job--a big increase in He also had a strange superstition about one dollar bills, ac- wages from the $1.25 a day he made for stacking hay, or the cording to those who frequented his saloon. "Murph " died $1.00 a day to mow and rake. on November 9, 1943, of a lingering illness and is buried in In 1944 Clarence Talcott bought the ranch where they the Twin Bridges Cemetery beside his wife, Hilda. were living so Nora and Myron moved their young family to the Gus Mailey ranch, currently owned by the W alshes, where they ranched for the next fifteen years. In 1959 they purchased the place where they continue to live from Elvis Stephens. Myron and Nora have two children: Barbara, born August 29, 1941; and Walter, born March 2, 1944. Barbara is mar- ried to Bob Cottom and lives in Dillon. The Cottoms have two children: Brad, born November 5, 1965; and Brenda, born December 29, 1967. Walt is married to the former Helen Redicker of Hamilton. They have two sons, Larry, born April 26, 1964; and Scott, born April 14, 1967. Walt owns a ranch adjoining Myron and Nora. They live there in a new house built in the early 1970 's and work together. The Morris ' also raised Nora's brother Owen, who came to live with them when he was in the fifth grade, and her sister, Hilda and Frank Murphy 1930's. Vivian, who came when she was ten after their mother had died. Owen works for the federal government and lives in Hilda (Nicholls, Powell) Murphy[...]ecember 24, Olympia, Washington. Vivian works in the dining room of 1894, in England to John and Mary Ann (Maine) Nicholls. the LDS Temple in Idaho Falls, where she lives. She moved to Leadville, Colorado, with her parents when she Nora went to work at the Montana Children's Center in the was 6. Two years later they moved to Butte. There were two early 1950's, first in the nursery, then in the dining room. other girls in the family, Edith and Ethel. Edith became She began working only during the school years, taking off Mrs. Harvey of Butte and Ethel, Mrs. Richards of Tum- summers to be with her children. However, she began to water, Wisconsin. work full time after awhile when her summer replacement When she was 15 Hilda .married Jim Powell in Boulder. beca[...]After a short time the Powells came to Twin Bridges in 1911.[...]He operated the Blue Front Saloon. Mr. Powell died in 1929. My[...]d his community in a number of ways. He served on the school board of District No. 7 for nine years. It Hilda married Frank Murphy and managed the Mint Cafe was during this time that the grade school was built. He is a and also the Fountain Cafe for many years. She also worked past Master of Wf.st Gate Lodge No. 27 A.F. & A.M. and has at the Orphans' Home for 10 years and was for a time served as secretary of that organization for over fifteen employed as a housekeeper and companion to an elderly cou- years.[...]ple in Anaconda. He drove a school bus for the Twin Bridges Schools for six- teen years. This meant hours and miles in all kinds of weather and under all sorts of road conditions to transport the children of the district safely. His early experience in that '28 Chevy served him well! Myron is a charter member of the Snowline Grazing Association at Lima where he grazes his cattle in the sum- mer. He assists with the sorting and shipping each fall. He also belongs to the Southwestern Montana Marketing Association which transports and sells cattle at Columbus, Nebraska, each fall at[...]s to Eastern Star, Past Matrons, Royal Neighbors, and Rebeccas. The pair keeps busy with their various organizations, enjoying their grandchildren, and par- ticipating in the various card parties sponsored by groups in the community.[...]Nora Morris of the Reid home, 1950's. FRANK AND HILDA (NICHOLLS, POWELL) MURPHY She was a member and Past Oracle of Royal Neighbors of |
| FRED AND NORA (GRANDSCHAMP) NAUGLE The Red River Valley was the birthplace of Fred Naugle, Fred became associated with the Ruby Valley Hardware[...]e died in 1965. Three children were born to |
| Nora is enjoying her retirement. She likes to do sewing, cooking and canning. Fred and Nora Naugle[...]broke out. This sub was mostly in the Aleutian Islands and |
| [...]to finish school, as she remained home to be with her mother[...]someone with her. Clara was attending high school and[...]May was employed as a cook on some of the local ranches during the summer. When her Mother was improved enough[...]to go out nursing around the county, May would take care of the home during her Mother's absence.[...]Twin Bridges in Butte. He was a widower and had four children: girls, Lila and Rowena and boys Bill and Lloyd. They lived on the Owen Thomas ranch until 1928 when they[...]moved to town to get the children in school. The children[...]during the week and spent the weekends at the ranch home. As Grandma got older and there were three attending school,[...]Ed and May moved into the house now owned by Mrs.[...]Nydam when they first came to town. They then Mr. and Mrs. Talbott on their 50th wedding anniversary. moved into the home with Grandma Thomas, a brick house Back L to[...]y, Clara Osborne. the only three story house in town. Grandma's health[...]ed to go down and two years later she passed away. May and Ed and family lived in the place until 1979. By this time the Nicholls family had grown from four to MAY (TALBOTT) NICHOLLS AND FAMILY ten with the addition of Lucy, Harold (Squeak), Edna[...]Mae, Tom, Bernard and Richard. May was the third daughter of Bert anp. Jane Talbott and May was busy at home with her children and as always was born December 15, 1904, in Stuart, Montana, and moved where there is a· big family there was always "room for one to Twin Bridges with her parents and sisters in 1914. more." Often someone would be staying with them, a friend She attended school in Stuart and after moving to Madison of one of the children or someone working who needed a place County attended school at Wisconsin Creek. She was unable to stay. L. to R.: Richard[...] |
| [...]Bert Talbott on L to R : Milan, Roya, Nick and Sam Novich. Nicholls wedding anniversary. Ll[...]Those years hold some fond memories--trailing the sheep |
| [...]school in 1930 in the old red school house that was torn down for the new high school office. When he started school[...]had to repeat the first grade. He was fifteen before he could[...]Schulz and Losee Hillier, fifth grade; Melvina Reyner, sixth[...]grade. Seventh grade and up was in the high school so the students had various teachers. The bus driver was Nat[...]ark when Steve began school, then Dode Lane drove the bus for many years. Steve left school after the eighth grade as the language was still very difficult and he truly didn't find it all that interesting. Steve helped at home on the ranch. Most of the ranch work and haying at that time was done by a team of horses[...]although they did have gas vehicles. Most of the time L to R: Ron, Nick, Ann and Linda Novick. September, 1929, when Nick was given the chance to spend |
| [...]and Ready Redfern, Lucille Nolte, Carol (Nolte) Owsley and great cutting horse. Steve never had to put her i[...]. Front row L to R: to load her into a pickup ... she would jump up on her own. Robert 0., Edward W. and Douglas C. Nolte, Jane Nolte and Jean Ann (Nolte) Pickert. Steve and Margaret Alice Holmlund from Anaconda, Mon- tana, were married October 4, 1945, at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte, Montana. Steve's best man was George Sekovich from Butte and Marge's maid of honor was Edna[...]Y NOLTE Mae Nicholls from Twin Bridges. Following the wedding a traditional Serbian barbecue, where a[...]Robert Stanley Nolte was born May 3, 1922, on the Davis open pit, was served. Marge had been a telephone operator Ranch in Waterloo to Otto Carl and Bernice Jane Bonawitz at the Twin Bridges Telephone office. Nolte. His early life was spent on his grandfather's ranch at In 1946 Steve worked in the Toledo Mine in Sheridan. In Silver Star. He went to school in Silver Star until the fifth 1947, he drove school bus on the Big Hole River route and grade; then attended school in Twin Bridges. After the went into the tire recapping business where Mrs. Gage's of- death of his grandfather, George M. Bonawitz, Robert and fice was for years. In 1948 Steve worked at a sawmill at the his older brother Fred continued to operate the ranch with Iron Rod until he received a back inju[...]z. He married Lucille surgery in 1954. In 1950 he and Marge went back to ranch- Jean Redfern of Butte o[...]hey Ann was born May 17, 1946. Robert was farming and travel- started out with sixteen milk cows along with a few sheep, ing to Butte to work in the mines. He also worked at the hogs, and chickens. For many years they sold milk, cream Maiden Rock Mine in Melrose for 15 years. and eggs until they could build up their herd to sell a calf Carol Louise was born March 14, 1948, and at this period crop. Steve has sold calves at prices varying from fourteen in his life Bob was employed by the sawmill and also was log- cents to a dollar during the years he has ranched. ging in Hells Canyon. He purchased the ranch from his In 1966 Steve was instrumental in forming the Big Hole grandmother and continued to farm and mine. On February Grazing Association which is between Jackson and Wisdom, 12, 1953, Robert Otto was born and three years later a Montana. He was the first president and served on the board brother, Douglas Carl, was born in the Sheridan hospital on of directors for a number of years. He also helped form the December 4, 1956. Another son joined this union, Edward Southwestern Montana Marketing Association, and was a Wayne on May 8, 1960. Robert and Lucille then sold the director for many years. The organization was formed to Bonawitz ranch and moved to Twin Bridges where they built market the cattle from this area at a "Special Montana Sale" their home. in Columbus, Nebraska. The calves are shipped on the Robert worked for the Montana Children's Center and was railroad from Dillon, Montana, straight through to Colum- in partnership with Hal Powers in the P & N Co. as electri- bus. cians. Hal and Robert built some of the homes in Twin · In 1980 the family became involved in the Diamond Three Bridges and the Drive Inn, which they sold. Robert con- Bar (old Mint Bar) and bought the laundromat building next tinued building with Paul Mantha. The last few years he has door. After much remodeling, the Diamond Three mined near Silver Star where he and Sylvan Donegan are Steakhouse opened its door on August 19, 1981. The name partners in the Antler Mine. He mines chlorite and his son for the establishment came from the brand that Steve's Edward works for him. father u[...]Robert is an outdoorsman and has trapped, fished and Steve and Marge have four children: Marcia Gae Novich hunted most of his life. Jean and Fred Balzar live in Reno Gibson, born July 24, 1946; Thomas Arthur Novich born and have one daughter, Charlotte. Carol married Dan D[...]1947; Steven John Novich, born November 4, Owsley and they have three children; Marilyn, Helen and 1948; and Donald Frank Novich, born February 27, 1950.[...]and Brittany Lee, the only girl. Douglas Carl married Karla[...]Barnosky, their two sons are Isaac Robert and Ames[...] |
| [...]friendship was illustrated when Bob broke his leg at the Maiden Rock mine in a cave-in and was in a cast for a year. The neighbors in many ways showed their kindness. Ed[...]Redfern came (with his ankle in a cast) to do the night lamb-[...]as did Charlie Miller and Otto Bausch. Rudy Balkovetz[...]ed credit for groceries and many other kindnesses were ex- tended. The Nolte family feel they could never repay their[...]friends for all their thoughtfulness. They hope to live soon in[...]Silver Star and built an earth home on five acres they own.[...]Robert is a Mason and volunteer fireman. Lucille and Robert were Worthy Matron and Patron of Daisy Chapter No. 20 in[...]1968-69. Lucille belongs to the 500 clubs in Silver Star and Twin Bridges, Past Matrons, Rebeccas and is Oracle of Eugene Redfern, Lucille Redfem Nolte[...]st Camp No. 7738, Royal Neighbors. his sons, Ames and Isaac, 1978.[...]as a Fullerbrush sales gal for over fifteen years and had worked at the Children's Center also. Robert's mother passed away in 1980, and he has only one uncle living, Edward Nolte of Silver Star. There are two other brothers, Frederick and George and a sister, Jane Man- ANDRIES AND ADDIE LOREAN (LOVE) NYDAM tha. There are many double birthday dates in the Nolte Andries (Andrew) Nydam was born in the town of families: Robert S. Nolte and Donna Mantha celebrate May Hoogkerk in the province of Groningen, The Netherlands, on 3, Don Mantha and Paulette Mantha Allen - May 11, Fred October 9, 1904, to Andries and Hiltje Horst Nydam. He Nolte Jr. and Scott Allen - May 13. Other May birthdays was the youngest of seven children. are: Edward Nolte - M[...]proudest moments was when he became a citizen of the 22. Double wedding anniversaries are also prevalent: United States on October 14, 1935. His patriotism for his Edward W. and Theora Nolte - May 17 adop[...]some of us native-born citizens to Robert S. and Lucille Nolte sham[...]before her death in 1938. Robert and Paulette Allen - May 18[...]s an apiarist under Chris Buitenhoff. He Fred and Jean Ann Balzar came to the Ruby Valley in 1939 and worked the bees for Walter Sagunsky in Sheridan. The government needed the Otto and Jane Nolte - May 19[...]bullets, etc. Andy reported for service, Don and Jane "Bebe" Mantha but missed the draft by being seven days too old. Larry and Donna Mantha Jackson[...]rom Russell Bowen at As one can tell by reading the list of birthdays and anniver- Twin Bridges and ran the bee business until he died of a saries there were many cakes, dinners and good times. The heart attack on September 22, 1959. Noltes are looking forward to many more and appreciate Addie Lorean Love was born on a farm in Pleasant Hill, their wonderful family and numerous good friends. This Missouri, on November 23, 1911, the fifth of six children born to Frank J. and Zada Zerilda Hilton Love. At the age of Bob and Lucille Nolte on their 35th anniversary. three or four years she moved with her parents to the mining[...]to work in the mines because of his health. When Lorean was[...]which he had leased. It is named "Love's Lake" on the maps.[...]ed the Denver Bible Institute, graduating in 1935. She went to Bozeman, Montana, and worked at Montana State College as a cook in the Quadrangle until she married Andy on May[...]They had four sons, all born in Sheridan. The first baby[...]14, 1944, and is now an ordained minister in the Evangelical[...]Free Church in Rogers, Minnesota. He and his wife, Sharilyn[...]Christian Henry was born July 28, 1946, and was named[...] |
| [...]vens, Ruth Long, Lois Cook. Lorean Nydam, Phyllis and Peggy Reynolds. after Andy's sponsor. After grad[...]in Butte; then to St. Patrick's in Church of the Valley stained glass window depicting The Church of the Valley stained glass window Good Shepherd |
| ball, taught a Sunday School class, belonged to 4-H and Boy Scouts. He was a National Jamboree Scout in 1[...]a special certificate for meritorious service by the Twin Bridges Post 31 of the American Legion fo~ his assistance in establishing scouting under the Legion spon- sorship. He was an alternate Boys State delegate in 1963 and the salutatorian of the Twin Bridges High School class of 1964. Immediately after the war the people of Twin Bridges and the neighboring communities generously contributed over half a ton of clothing, which was sent to the war-ravaged relatives in Holland. At first it wa[...]package weighing only five pounds, which included the box, the wrapping paper, the string and even a list of the contents with an estimated value of each article. When Andy had heart attacks in 1957, and at his death in 1959, the bee keepers from throughout Montana came to his aid. Andy was a member of the Rotary Club, a faithful backer of the Little League, president of the PT A, was teacher of the adult Bible class in the old Presbyterian Harry and Alta Redfield Nye on Church (now Church of Christ), and was the Sunday School their wedding day, Oct 3, 1925. superintendent of the Church of the Valley, where his many friends gave memorials. A stained glass window was pur- chased for the Church of the Valley depicting the Risen Christ. Also, Pete Narancich made a beautiful pulpit which is Winifred was born. Mrs. Redfield was the nurse. used in the church annex for the pre-school children. Andy's In the spring of 1931, the Nyes moved to Fromberg in Car- favorite song was "No One Ever Cared For Me Like Jesus." bon County and tried running a garage there, but business When Chris died, again memorials were given and the was too slow. Two weeks after arriving they moved[...]chased a stained glass window in his memory house and decided to buy it. Their first son, Russell showing the Good Shepherd rescuing the lost sheep. Adelbert, was born the next morning, March 5. Sixteen mon- Andrew Gle[...]chnician working for Datsun in Olympia, never got the little sister she wanted. Washington. His wife, Mona Lee Goulet, of Helena. Mon- Harry worked at the "going" garage for several years until tana, works as a private secretary for the telephone com- it changed hands, then did many jo[...]the early 1930 's. They were poor but always had enou[...]y children in eat with a big garden, cherry trees and chances to pick ap- the Sunday School over the past forty years as well as an ples on shares in the county. A friend peddled their adult Bible class part of that'time. She also has "sweetened" homemade butter in town at 25 cents a pound. They had many lives by the hundreds and hundreds of birthday and hens and sold eggs at 10 cents a dozen. wedding cakes she has baked and decorated. The Nyes worked in church wherever they lived. Harry[...]was musical and sang in the choir always. At Clyde Park he[...]orean Love Nydam was town marshall for two years. The sheriff said that if he only had the size to go along with his courage, he'd be great.[...]his obtaining U.S. and Canadian patents for a riveting device HARRY AND ALTA (REDFIELD) NYE |
| The Will and Amy Nye home, later the home of Harry and Alta Nye.[...]gent for State Farm Insurance twenty-seven years, and in 1940 earned a free trip to St. Paul for them[...]EARL JENNINGS NYHART both. He was active in the Odd Fellows Lodge, going through the chairs at Red Lodge and serving as state The oldest child of Jordan Luccins and Frances Karf delegate at Butte. He also served a year as County Farm Nyhart was born on his grandfather's (G. Washington and Bureau president. He was Boy Scoutmaster several years in Mary Nyhart) ranch at the Point of Rocks on August 21, Twin Bridges, and had served previously with the scouts in 1897. Fromberg. Another activi[...]Earl's education consisted of four years at the Point of ing as a Notary Public so he could regis[...]. Rocks school, two years at Blaine school and two years at the In 1934 Alta took Alta Jr. to California for Alta's mother's Centerville school. 67th birthday. When they returned Harry and Alta's Being the eldest son, he had to help with almost brothers went to Chicago to the World's Fair and to Detroit everything on the ranch. When he was nine years old, he was to get a new Chevrolet for a Laurel dealer. Years later Nyes helping his father cut timber on the Joe Zeigler place over on traveled by car to North Carolina to visit their daughter and the Big Hole River. When a tree started to fall, Earl[...]was afraid the tree was going to fall on Earl, so he ran and Alta had lived in California for four years in the 20's, as pushed him out of the way. His father was caught under the seven of the ten Redfield children had followed their oldest tree. It broke his arm and crushed his foot. Earl managed to sister's family to Palo Alto. She had finished a three-year get his father into the spring wagon and to their home over course in Home Economics at Montana State College, after the hills. They called the doctor who had another doctor ac- only a half-year of high school. In the fall of 1920 she entered company him to the ranch. The doctors had to cut off his a Missionary Training[...]become a father's foot. Earl held the old kerosene lamp and his mother deaconess, but before the first term was up, a little sister and he held his father while Drs. Baker and Band operated. needed surgery. She quit, believing that Missions begin at They laid his father on the dining room table as it was the on- home, and went back to work as a household maid, turning[...]n December, 1979. At 84 years Alta Earl and Doris Nyhart, 1965. feels privileged to live in the house where Harry was born on the Nye farm, now sold. She likes being in the country and having relatives near by. In her daughters's f[...]hool science teacher in Pembrook, North Carolina, and sons, Donald Ray, age 20, and Gordon Dale, age 15, were killed instantly in an auto crash. Russell's children are Amy, Katharine and Dean Allen. Stanley's children are Terri Ann Nye Durham and Jennifer Elaine. Terri Ann also has two children, Christopher James and Michelle Briann, who are Alta's great gran[...] |
| [...]Maynard and Thelma Nyhart, 1932 at the old Jordan Nyhart Nyhart home at the Point of Rocks. Ran[...]In 1931, Maynard married Thelma Anderson, also of Twin Earl helped his father with the irrigating. By helping his Bridges, on December 10th in Dillon. They lived on the father onto a horse he would ride along beside Earl to show George Washington Nyhart Ranch until 1942 and then pur- him how to make the dikes and put the dams in. Earl did the chased the John Mailey Ranch and Post Office of Blaine, plowing with a walking plow and team of horses during the Montana, and have ranched and raised cattle ever since and day. Morning and evening he helped his mother milk the still own the ranch. cows. Born to Mayhard and Thelma were two daughters, He went to Salt Lak[...]r where he was fit- Therlean Joy Nyhart Merrick and Lela May Nyhart Van ted with an artificial foot. It was a real treat as it was his Meter. Maynard and Thelma also have seven grandchildren: first trip away from home, and it was by train. Maynard Henry M[...]Working for his parents until he was twenty years old, he then went to work for Moses Smythe and worked there for Meter, Lela Duana Van Meter and Chaini Raylean Van one year until he got married to Julia Barnosky from Twin Meter, also one great grandson, Randon Lee Van Meter. Bridges. They were married on August 21, 1918, and homesteaded on Trout Creek for seven years. Julia and Earl had two sons: Leland B. Nyhart, born in 1920 and Willis H.[...]hart, born in 1925. Both sons are deceased. Julia and Earl were divorced in 1925. On October 1, 1934, Earl married Doris Eder from Reed Point, Montana. Doris and he have one daughter, Evelyn, born in 1940. She is married to Jerry Dodd from Dillon, and ORRIE AND MAE (COCANOUGHER) NYHART they have one son, Earl Jordan and one daughter, Petra Lee. Th~ Nyharts acquired the Austin Linder ranch in 1945, Orrie Nyhart was born October 28, 1898, to Jordan and and lived there until they retired in 1967. They built a home Frances Nyhart on the McKiney Ranch, which is now owned in Twin Bridges, where they are living at present. The Benny by Nyquists. A short time later they bought the Patrick Reynolds family purchased their ranch. place, now the home of Jerry and Clarajo Nyhart. They mov- ed again to the George Washington Nyhart Ranch near the Earl has been a member of the McHessor Creek school[...]en homesteaded in 1866. Orrie board, President of the Garden Creek Stock Association a and Mae still live at this location. member of the Madison County Fair Board·, a charter member of the American Legion, Dan Brockman Post No. There were many rural schools at the time and Orrie went 31, World War I veterans, and Modern Woodmen Lodge. to several: the Centerville, Point of Rocks, and Blaine Schools. He finished the eighth grade. Then he and his[...]Earl Jennings Nyhart When the older Nyharts died, Orrie and Lester continued[...]ranching and farming and owned a great deal of land. They[...]Butte and they moved to their present homesite at the Point Maynard A. Nyhart, the fourth and youngest son of Jor- of Rocks. dan and Francis Nyhart, was born April 9, 1910, in Dillon, Mae was born to Effie and William Cocanouger on May 12, Montana.[...]1904, in Butte, where she lived until she was six. In 1910 Maynard attended school at the Point of Rocks District the family, consisting of Charles, Mae, and the parents, mov- No. 12 until 8th grade, then went to Twin Bridges where he ed to the Twin Bridges area to the ranch now known as the graduated in 1930. Paul Eblen place. The first summer the Cocanoughers lived[...] |
| [...]Clarajo, Jon,and Jerry Nyhart, 1981. Mae and Orrie Nyhart, 1981. Valley on Pintlar Creek. Mae and Orrie are now Nyhart Ranches and include their children in the corporation.[...]ter, Sherry Marie, born April 9, 1944. in a tent. The ranchland was all sagebrush and had no Sherry Nyhart Smith lives at the Point of Rocks with her fences. Mr. Cocanougher got out the posts to fence the ranch three children, Heidi, age 13; Chad, age 8; and Brian, age 6. in Big Dry Canyon and did all the work by hand. All attend school in Twin Bridges. That fall he moved his family to the present Ed Elford Jerry Lee, the only boy in all the Nyhart families, was born ranch just for the winter. He was occupied in building a log on November 10, 1947, and lives with his wife Clarajo (Wink) . house on the Eblen ranch. That building later burned. The Shara Nyhart and his three year old son Jon at the former Cocanoughers then built the house Mrs. Eblen now lives in Lester Nyhart Ranch. Needless to say, all were very pleas- and also the barn that is presently used. ed when Jerry was born to carry on the name. In 1915 William Jr. was born. Mae went to[...]Orrie was honored on January 24, 1981, by the Ruby Paigeville and then attended the Pennington School on the Valley Stock Association for his fifty-year[...]Orrie's nephew, Don Cox, president of the stock association, In 1917 the Cocanoughers bought the Zeigler Ranch, near presented his uncle with a nice speech and a beautiful plaque the old Zeigler Hot Springs, now the Biltmore. Mae lived at from the group. home and worked on the ranch until her marriage to Orrie. The Nyharts have other holdings: The Lester Nyhart Ranch and the Bushong Place in the beautiful Big Hole[...]Sherry Nyhart Smith L to R: Chad, Heidi, Brian and Sherry Nyhart Smith, 1981. |
| [...]arian, Ross holding Bob, Pauline. them together. She graduated from Missoula High School |
| the music department. She taught several classes of chorus and had a string ensemble class, which was unusual for a small school. She served as church organist for the com- munity church and later for the Lutheran and Methodist Churches. During this time she had over thirty piano students. She continued this work into the 1950's and re- mained active and interested in music in Twin Bridges. She is famous for her homemade Almond Brittle, having started this business in 1943 and selling the boxed candy to a local realtor, Camilla Gage, wh[...]atty, an avid reader, attended schools in Melrose and Twin Bridges and is presently living at home helping care for[...]and spent four years in the Navy. He was trained in radar and manned fighter planes on a carrier. He returned h[...]and attended Montana State University, graduating in[...]tronics. He has since spent eight years in the Army Signal[...]many. He is now in Frankfort and is presently serving in[...]to Twin Bridges when he can and enjoys hunting.[...]O'DELL Sally was born October 2, 1922, to Mark and Esther High, |
| Murphy O'Donnell. The family moved to Ririe, Idaho, where Bill grew up and attended the local schools, graduating fyom Ririe High School[...]burg, Idaho. During World War II Bill served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater. He returned to the Rexburg area and worked until he moved to Twin Bridges. He ranch- ed with his brothers on McHessor Creek and lived in town. He went to work for Camilla Gage as a secretary-manager in 1952 and worked for her until the time of his death. Bill was able to assist Mrs. Gage in her real estate business and min- ing endeavors by keeping files, preparing business papers, mapping and platting land. He belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Charles M. Reis Post No. 3843 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Dan Brockman Post No. 31 of the American Legion. Bill served as Adjutant for 25 years, and as District Historian for Mining District 6 of the American Legion of Southwest Montana for 20 years. He had an interest in the Boy Scouts, the American Legion Contest and served on the Twin Bridges Library Board. He possessed a fine c[...]:ti. '. .. ••,l. .... of stereo records and other material for his music library.[...]1980, at Fort Harrison Veterans Hospital, Helena, and was buried at Twin Bridges with military rites. Two brothers survived him; Albert of Pocatello and Don of Myrtle worked for the telephone company as an operator Ririe, Idaho. and in 1923 married Otto J . (Butte) Ohlrich in Seatt[...]had come from eastern Montana and was a carpenter and[...]Alice Dale the infantry. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Con-[...]gressional Medal of Honor. He died in Seattle and is buried[...]The Ohlrichs had one son, Burton Kenneth, born April[...]Twin Bridges and graduated from high school. He entered the Navy in 1942, serving three years in the Pacific. Upon[...]his release he returned to Dillon and married Val Williams of[...]Townsend. He lived in Great Falls and Seattle. A daughter,[...]Nina Kay, was born in Seattle and joined an adopted son, Timothy. The family returned to Dillon where Burton died[...]the Moose Lodge in Great Falls. He is buried at Twin[...]Bridges in the Gray plot. Myrtle was empioyed by the Montana Children's Center as a house mother. She belonged to the Order of Eastern Star and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. She was killed[...]in a car wreck on June 10, 1967, three and one half miles Otto and Burton Ohlrich, 1943. Gray family Christmas, 19[...]enora, Jessie, Car~ THE OHLRICH FAMILY Myrtle Gray Ohlrich was the oldest child born to Alfred A. |
| south of Twin Bridges, very close to the turn off to her old home. She is buried in Twin Bridges next to her son.[...]Clara and Emmett Osborne with baby[...]son, Mary Woodward, Pat Decker, Glen Jr. and Donna Woodward and six great-grandchildren at the time of her[...]On December 22, 1901, in Stuart, Montana, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Talbott became parents of their first[...]ALVIN S. PAIGE Clara Agnes. She attended school in Stuart, and in 1914, when she was thirteen years old her parents and sisters came to Madison County and made their home on one of the L.A. Alvin S. Paige was born in Ruby, Mon[...]ar Twin Bridges. 1900, the eldest son of Orrin S. and Frances Bell Dorrell[...]Clara then attended school at Wisconsin Creek and one year of high school in Twin Bridges. She then went to He attended school at the Centerville School, located on Sheridan where she attended school for the next three years the Dillon road. when she graduated after working hard for her education. He spent his life working on ranches and mines here in the Following her graduation she was employed for several valley. Alvin did some rodeoing in his younger years at the years at the Frank Reid Ranch in Twin Bridges. rodeos at the Madison County Fair. On December 20, 1929, Clara and Emmett J. Osborne were He married Lillie Chaney in 1936. She passed away in united in marriage in Dillon. They[...]ow he lives in Twin Bridges, Montana. Sheridan in the home they had purchased until 1933 when they went to Waterloo and were employed on the A.J. Davis Ranch where they remained until 1953 w[...]ghter Lola was born. Clara was fond of flowers and wherever she resided she had flowers outdoors and houseplants. She always had huge gardens that she would share with relatives and friends, usually giving away more than she used. BOYNTON AND HELEN (BAYERS) PAIGE She was a member of the Eastern Star Chapter in Sheridan Boynton George "Dub " Paige was born in Twin Bridges and had been a member of the American Legion Auxiliary for on October 5, 1905, to Bert and Florence M. Paige. He many years.[...]ricity was put into Emmett passed away in 1968 and on December 5, 1981, the homes and street lights were erected. He attended Twin Clara joined her son who died in infancy and her husband Bridges schools and graduated from Twin Bridges High after a short il[...]chool in 1923. He studied business administration and She had one daughter, Lola, who is married to Glen Wood- economics and received his B.A. degree from the University ward, six grandchildren, Barbar[...] |
| Bert and Florence Paige with Boynton and Lowel~ 1908. Lowen Boynton and Bert Paige, 1940. Boynton then returned to Twin Bridges. He worked on the ranch with his father for a year. He taught economics, and commercial subjects and coached athletics from 1929 until Bagdad Shrine. He served sixteen years on the State Board April 1, 1935, at Twin Bridges High School. During his of Education and was vice-chairman for fourteen of those years as a coach, the Twin Bridges basketball team went to years. He was a member of the Montana Council on Correc- the state tournament three years, won the district champion- tions. He served four years on the Montana State Liquor ship twice, and won third place in the state Class B tourna- Control Board and was its chairman for this term. He is past ment the spring of 1935. Several of the boys he coached later president of the Western Montana Bankers Association and attained prominence in college athletics. was president of the Montana Bankers Association in 1973. Boynton and Miss Helen M. Bayers married December 26, He was a member of the executive board of the Montana Or-[...]phans' Home in Twin Bridges. 1934. The couple moved to Ronan in the spring of 1935 when he accepted a position as assistant cashier at the Ronan Boynton continues his work with the Flint Creek Valley State Bank at Ronan, Montana. Their son Ronald was born Bank and is still active in community affairs. He is proud of there February 28, 1936. B.G. continued with the bank and his Madison County heritage and his pioneer forebears. advanced to the position of cashier before resigning March l, 1940. The Paiges' daughter Gail was born April 5, 1940, in[...]Boynton and Helen (Bayers) Paige The young family moved to Philipsburg and B.G. set about financing and organizing a bank to replace the Montana State Bank of Philipsburg which had voluntarily liquidated into the Metals Bank in Butte in October of 1939. ELMER CLARENCE PAIGE The doors of the Flint Creek Valley Bank opened for business in rented quarters April 15, 1940. Since then the Elmer Clarence Paige was born at Bantry,[...]nk has been moved to its own new building in 1955 and is February 5, 1908. His parents were Ervin and Minnie Mae now adding additional space to accomo[...]as about three when they moved to Nashua, Mon- The Paige family ranch at Alder which was owned joint[...]father farmed. He had three brothers, by Boynton and his brother Lowell was sold in 1961. Chester F., Henry G. and Floyd E. and two sisters, Dora, the Boynton Paige has been active in the business community, eldest, and Bertha. local and state posts, and is a member of several organiza- In 1918 his father died and sometime later Elmer and his tions. He is a director and chairman of the board of the Flint sister Dora were taken to the Twin Bridges Children's Creek Valley Bank. He has been a member of the Hospital Center. Later he was taken out to help on the ranch by the Board, president of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Rinaldis. They lived near Sheridan. He stayed there until Rotary Club. He is past president and has served as a he was eighteen. delegate of the University of Montana Alumni Association While working for Clarence Talcott he met Myrna and in 1969 received the Distinguished Service A ward. Stephens.[...]Butte November 19, 1934. B.G. is a member of the Masonic Lodge, was Master of The first winter they were married he worked at the A.R. West Gate Lodge No. 27 at Twin Bridges in 1933 and is a Smith ranch, later moving to Austin[...]first son fifty-year member of that body; he is also a member of the Ron was born while they were living[...] |
| [...]there on July 22, 1977, and was buried at the Point of Rocks[...]n Duane preceeded him in death July 19, 1961 , at the[...]Elmer had two grandchildren, Audie and Rhonda Paige and one great grandchild, Brandt Paige.[...]d by a brother Duane. When Ron was six months old they moved to Spokane for one winter. But during the depression work was very scarce so Twin Bridges looked really good on their return. Elmer worked on the Madison for two years, then after returning to Twin Bridges worked one summer on the Bayers ranch. He also worked for Matt Telin before renting a small ran[...]up a real good fight, but not quite good Luther and Frances Paige. Golden Wedding Anniversary, enoug[...]1976. Elmer really liked music and in later years became a musi- cian playing some[...]astma at Salmon, Idaho. They LUTHER WILLIAM AND FRANCES (KNUCKEY) lived at Wisdom, Montana, for a[...]Luther Paige, son of Orrin S. and Frances Dorrell Paige,[...]he was a Elmer Paige with his grandchildren Audie and Rhonda Paige small boy the family moved to a ranch near Twin Bridges. about[...]He took his first job at 14 working for William Wallace f[...]$15.00 a month. Luther later worked in the mines of Butte and for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Whitehall. He work-[...]ed on ranches throughout the Ruby Valley. On September 10, 1926, Luther and Frances Knuckey[...]February 14, 1911, daughter of Frank and Maude Knuckey. She received her education at the Webster and Garfield schools of Butte. She moved to Twin Bridges as a young[...]The Paiges have spent their married life in the Twin Bridges area. Luther rode in the rodeos of the Madison[...]and trapper. The couple had five children: Helen Paige Porter of[...]Walter Paige who is working in the oil fields of Wyoming and[...]children and 2 great grandchildren.[...] |
| Luther and Frances Paige, Juanita Matt, Walter Paige, Helen[...]ased an acreage south of Twin Mae Cornforth Paige and Orrin E. Paige Bridges where they now live. They enjoy their yard and garden and having their children and grandchildren visit. The Paiges celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on September 10, 1976, and their fifty-fifth in 1981. which her father[...]She grew up working on the ranch and helping her father with the cattle. She attended grade school at Iron Rod, Mon- Luther and Frances Paige tana, and graduated from Twin Bridges High School in 1937. ORRIN E. AND MAE (CORNFORTH) PAIGE Orrin E . Paige was born October 15, 1915, to Orrin S. and |
| [...]eous. come_etent service were greatly appreciated and[...]h missed by Twin Bridges residents when John left the[...]Having a nice new T-Bird or LTD and traveling the coun-[...]Nashville, Tennessee, to see the Grand Ole Opry. He also has toured the East Coast, Canada and the West and Southwest. John belongs to the West Gate Lodge No. 27, A.F. and A.M., Daisy Chapter No. 20 OES, the Elks Lodge of Virginia City, and the Twin Bridges Alumni Association.[...]Alice Dale John Peters, Violet and Lou Rayl, 1952. VIOLET (SKILLICO[...]sa, Rose. John H. Peters, son of Thomas Henry and Violet |
| L to R: Theresa, Katie, Adiline, Jennie, Rose and Christine, 1980 in Seattle. Light, a local utility company. He is interested in electronics |
| [...]Both Julia and George are buried in Twin Bridges.[...]George Pulver as a young man. GEORGE A. AND JULIA (STOHR, MacDUFFIE) |
| [...]Mike, Frances Rebich and Bertha and Walter Rebish, 1946. <rt- . George and Mary Rebich of Dillon. Others were Lucy, Arnold Purves and Claude 0. Dale ready for camping, 1959. George, John, Frank and Joe. He was educated in Dillon and ranched, coming in 1918 to the old Maurer place three miles with them. He made willow whistles and wooden swords for from the Point of Rocks on the southeast side of the Dillon the boys and let the little girls play house and make mudpies road. He married Frances Malesich on August 31, 1919, and all over the backyard and porch and even in the house. He they ranched there for many yea[...]their family on always had a companion, a hunting dog, as he was an avid that ranch. They grew hay and grain and raised sheep, cat- hunter and fisherman. The people who remember "Purve" at tle, pigs, workhorses and chickens, geese and ducks. the motel tell of the time he had to be gone for several days. Fr[...]sich was born March 9, 1901, in He left a note on the kitchen table explaining the rates and Butte to John and Angela (Miller) Malesich. Her father asked patrons to please leave the money in the can on the worked in the Washoe Smelter When Frances was two years table. old they moved to the Stauduhar Ranch on the Dillon road. During the time he ran the motel he was active on the Frances had nine brothers and sisters: Mary (Mrs. Joe Town Council, the Volunteer Fire Department, (he worked R[...]ike Stefanatz); John (married to Ann very hard on the new fire hall), the American Legion and was Stefanatz), Agnes (Mrs. Bud Carlisle); H[...]); Rudolph or "Scotty " (married to Sally Davis); and was appointed Chairman of the Civilian Defense for the area Philip whose wife is Frances Coleman. and served on that project for several years. He and George The Malesich children all went to the Drummy School near Pulver, also of Twin Bridges, started the beautification pro- ject on Main Street. Purve spent endless hours and furnished Josephine and Jim Bums, January 23, 1950. materials to landscape "Purves Park. " He was forced to retire from the motel business because of ill health in 1964. He[...]s last years gathering gem stones, polishing them and making jewelry, which he gave to friends. He had[...]d from Montana agate that were very beautiful. He also made furniture and decorated some of the table tops with polished stones. Mrs. Purves, Arnold's mother, lived with him at the motel for several years. Purve died on August 21, 1973, after a long, painful illness. He is buried in the Twin Bridges Cemetery. He left a host of friends and acquaintences who deeply felt his loss, as he was a fair and high-minded citizen. He was survived by a sister, Gwen Fisher, of Superior, Wisconsin, and a brother, John H. Purves, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Gwen Purves Fisher and Alice Dale MICHAEL AND FRANCES (MALESICH) REBICH Mike Rebich w[...] |
| Anderson Lane and worked on the ranch. The older ones Mrs. Rebich managed very well on her own, but did not helped raise the younger ones and learned to do all kinds of drive a car. Her house was neat and pleasant and her coffee work. good and hot. She looked out on the fields and livestock and To Mike and Frances Rebich five children were born.[...], born January 22, 1921, spells his name Rebish, and is married to Bertha Oster, who came to Twin Brid[...]live at Oroville, California, where he works for the P and G Electric. They have one[...]Frances Malesich Rebich daughter, Gayle, and a son, Mike. Elmer was born July 23, 1923, and at two years old drown- ed in an irrigation ditch that ran behind the house. His mother had a new baby, Edward T., born July 18, 1925. She was staying at her former home and her sisters were caring for her and the baby and Elmer. Mike was lonesome for his little son and so took him home for the day. Elmer got out of sight for but a short time and fell in the water. He was swept down the ditch and found shortly afterwards. It was a very tragic experience for them all. Josephine was the only girl. She was born July 12, 1927. She married Jim Burns and they lived in Oroville. Their children are Linda[...]son, Kevin Duane; Eddie, who owns a bar in Chico, and Dan, who is in school. Linda and family and Dan live in Palerno. Jim Burns died very sudde[...]ave one child, Casey Jay, born March 21, 1982. The Rebich family all attended Twin Bridges schools. When Mike died, February 10, 1957, the two brothers, Ed- ward and Ernie continued ranching. They sold out on April 7, 1976, and arranged with the new owner for Mrs. Rebich to Back L. to R .: Ruth, Harold, May, Charley. Front L. to R.: live in her old home as long as she wishes. Clara, Viola, Frank at the State Orphans' Home, 1914. Edward now works fo[...]Company of Dillon. He has never married. Ernie and Billie have built a new house on the point across the river from the Point of Rocks. Ernie farms for others, runs a few cows and trucks. Billie works in Dillon as a[...]908, on her parents' Back row L to R: Mike Rebich and Jim Bums. Front L to R: ranch near Belt, Montana, the sixth of eight children. Her Ernest and Billie Rebich, Ed and baby Linda Bums, Frances mother, Kathleen Suell N[...]and Jack and George took their sister on to Sand Coulee,[...]1849, in Iowa. As a grown man he worked in the Black Hills, later he went to the Sand Coulee area and married Clara's[...]to care for them so the six younger children: Harold, May,[...]Charley, Clara, Viola, and Frank, were placed in the State Or-[...]ried and her fifteen year old sister Ruth went to the Home to be near the other children. Each of them stayed in a separate[...]noons, but Ruth and May were allowed to bathe Viola and[...] |
| L to R: Bud and Jeannette, Bob and Eileen, Shirley and John Magnus, Patricia and Keith, Penny and Mickey Nettik, Clara and Ralph, Floyd and Pat Wheeler, Betty and Lee Rampy. 1973 at Redfield 's 50th wedding anniversary. The next year their father again tried to keep them. When |
| [...]eith married Patricia Keene, September 12, 1957; and Penny mar- ried Mickey Nettik, May 9, 1959. There are now thirty-one grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren. Pat Wheeler lives in Dillon and the other children live in Madison County. The large family get-togethers are very special to all of them. Ralph and Clara's fiftieth wedding an- niversary was held at the Church of the Valley; all the family were present but one granddaughter, a teacher. Visits with her family, raising flowers and attending to ranch business keep Clara busy.[...]L to R: Paula, Frank, and Linda Reid, 1968.[...]folks which made the trip a little more endurable. This drive[...]continued until 1973 by both Charlie and Dale's family. Charlie and his brother Dale took over their folks ranch and ran it along with a commercial livestock hauling[...]France, Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland before returning home to the ranch in 1945. Charlie remained on the ranch with his brother and played the part of a good bachelor just home from the service. Guess[...]you might say Charlie "burned the candle at both ends ". His[...]would say he would get home just in time to start the chores and put in a hard day's work. Then love hit Charlie.[...]In 1950 he married Sally Jo Telin, the daughter of Matt and[...]Sally grew up on the family ranch along with her brother[...]Matt who now is the Registrar of the University of Idaho in Moscow. During the depression years she would collect paper, even climbing up on the fence to harness the team. Charles and Sally Jo Reid wedding day, 1950. Then in the evening she would complain of her back hurting,[...]the reason. She loved her horses and was in the Madison[...]County Saddle Tramps when it was first organized and con- CHARLES FRANK AND SALLY JO (TELIN) REID tinued riding with them. She loved ranch life and working with livestock. Also, music was a very important part of her Charles Frank Reid was born May 22, 1917, to Alvin F . life. She kept busy by teaching piano lessons to children, and Norma Cornforth Reid in their home in Twin Bridge[...]singing with a group of ladies commonly known as the Charlie has an older sister, Helen Lund, who had made her "Chug-Chug Girls ", and helping out with school, Eastern home in Mobile, Alabama, and a younger brother, Dale Reid, Star, and church functions. who lives on their folks ' original ranch in Twin Bridges. Charlie and Sally had three children, a daughter Linda in Charlie spent his childhood and most of his life as a normal 1954, a daughter Paula in 1957, and a son Frank in 1959. ranch boy would. Every Easte[...]uld swim across They made their home in the basement of his brother Dale's the Beaverhead River here in town, even if there was ice on home on the ranch until 1958 when they jointly purchased the river. Charlie completed the first through junior years in part of the Old Ruppel Ranch where Charlie made a home for the Twin Bridges Public School system. his family. Later Charlie and Dale expanded by buying the Every spring, starting when Charlie was eight years old, Allen Dean Ranch which was formerly called the Marshall was spent with the annual cattle drive to the upper Ruby for Ranch. the spring and summer pasture for his folks' cattle and then Ranch life was his life, but after the hard winter of 1969, again in the fall for the drive home. For at least a week, camp Charlie and Dale decided that maybe there was a better life was made of a single tent that they would have to pitch each and so in the fall of 1972 they sold the Old Ruppel Ranch, re-[...] |
| [...]George and Laura Reid showing a friend from Illinois L to R[...]y Jo holding Tara Virginia City, 1950's. Metully, and Frank Reid. 25th wedding anniversary, 1975.[...]George and Laura lived in their home on the bank of the tained the original ranch for Dale and the Allen Dean Ranch Beaverhead River for over 40 years. Mr. and Mrs. Bill for Charlie's family .[...]McGregor call it home now. George and Laura enjoyed the With the family raised Charlie and Sally were just begin- large yard. Laura loved flowers and spent many hours in the ning to enjoy life in their new home when Charlie suffered a garden making the yard a beautiful place to see. stroke in 1973 whi[...]iked traveling. He had visited almost every state the joy of every parent's dream: Linda was married and had in the U.S. including Alaska. He especially liked trips to the two girls, Tara Kay Metully and Tracy Lynn Metully. mountainous area of Twin Bridges, the Ruby Valley, and Charlie lost Sally to a brief illness in 1979, leaving him and the Highlands. Frank to run the ranch. Charlie has no intention of leaving George died in January 1955 and Laura died in February this valley, as this has a[...]Linda Metully GEORGE H. AND LAURA (STOCKER) REID George H. Reid was born in Twin Bridges, the youngest |
| [...]Frank and Charlotte Richards, 1980. Top L to R: Sylvester and Marie Handley, Cindy McAdoo. Seated L to R: Rod Handley, Paul McAdoo, Melvina and Max Reyner. Melvina went on to receive teacher training at the then FRANK AND CHARLOTTE (RAYMOND) RICHARDS Frank Richards was born in Butte, Montana, the son of |
| thirty-one years. Charlotte is interested in gardening and flowers and has improved the grounds around the house. Frank and Charlotte have three children: Bob, Mary, and David. David married Marilyn Loughran of Butte in[...]Lucon in 1975. Both families have built homes on the ranch and enjoy living away from the city. The children attended the Buhrer school for eight years and then went on to Dillon to attend Beaverhead County High School and Western Montana College in Dillon and the University of Montana in Missoula. Bob, after receiving a B.S. degree as a pharmacist and working for eight years as a practicing pharmacist, went to full time working the ranch with his father. The Richards have four grandchildren, Benjamin and Peter Lucon and Angela and Marissa Richards. Frank A. Richards LoRoyce Nelson and Sharon Anderson, 1966.[...]owned a grocery store and Isabella worked for her father on[...]In 1933, after Frank had surgery several times and - .., |
| Frank and Isabella Rose, 1971. ed, housing was a problem, in fact the only vacant place was |
| [...]ositions in a number of Nettie retired in 1973, and Evert in 1974, and spend their Westinghouse construction subsidiaries including an assign- time gardening, visiting, and relaxing at their home in Twin ment as pres[...]ear Service Division, responsible for maintenance and has been difficult.[...]ion services to commercial nuclear power plants The children have married and begun their lives. Leta is a world wide in Los Angeles. dietician, and has three sons: Ted, Tom and Tim, and lives in Married December 15, 1946, to No[...]Jose, California. Craig, a sales representative, and his daughter of a pioneer Kansas family engaged in wheat farm- wife Joanie, have one daughter, Sharon, and live in Billings, ing and livestock enterprises. Montana. Bernard, a school teacher, and his wife Eldora, Four children: H. G[...]ust 5, 1948, Troy, N.Y. have one daughter, Shana, and live in Galata, Montana. Graduated in journalism from University of Colorado and, At the time of this writing, .there is talk of the Orphan's after Viet Nam service, from University of California, Santa Home, which was renamed the Children's Center, being turn- Barbara in[...]amman, Saudi Arabia. ed into a Retirement Center. The Roslings may even return Peter H . bo[...]c Institute, Troy, N.Y. 1948-1950, receiving BS and MS degrees in civil engineering. Subse- quently[...]vil engineer corps of U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor and Hutchinson (Kansas) Naval Air Station until res[...]Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1957 with the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. Key assignme[...]ave included par- ticipation in construction of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier; management of the pro- totype for the U.S.S. Nautilus at the National Reactor[...] |
| [...]58, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, presently a student at the University of Pittsburgh.[...]Henry and Gladys Ruppe~ 1980. Back L to R: Robert W., Edwar[...]Schools, District No. 1, Deer Lodge, Montana, and Principal[...]igh School. In 1957, Henry resigned as HENRY G. AND GLADYS M. (THOMPSON) RUPPEL[...]M. Thompson, 1898. His father was William Ruppel and mother Margaret Fort Morgan, Colorado, who had also worked as a chemist for (Ammon) Ruppel. At the time they had a ranch at Big San- Great Western. They lived at Pierre, South Dakota, until the dy. end of the school year, moving to Twin Bridges. Their first In 1900, the Ruppel family moved to Twin Bridges, Mon- son, He[...]s, September 10, tana, here Mr. Ruppel had bought the John Wilhart ranch. 1923, followed by son[...]at Fort Henry completed his elementary education and two years of Morgan, Colorado, on October 26, 1925, and Robert W., also high school. Then in 1914, completed high school at the born at Fort Morgan, May 6, 1928. Twins, Byron D. and academy of the College of Montana at Deer Lodge. In 1916, Barbar[...]orn at Twin Bridges, January 14, 1936. he entered the University of Montana at Missoula, and in All of their children are college graduates. Henry D.[...]with a B.A. in chemistry. the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, who also holds an In the fall of 1920, Henry worked as a chemist for Great[...]mpany, Pittsburg, PA. ty, Ithaca, N.Y., went East and completed a year of post Edward T. hold[...]M.S., University of Wyoming and Ph.D from Yale. He is a In the fall of 1921, he took a position as Special Analyst for past branch chief of the Geologic Survey and presently a Great Western at Fort Morgan, Colorado. On completion of Field Geologist working in the Northern Rockies of Eastern the sugar run he became a science and math teacher at Pot- Idaho and Western Montana. He lives at Evergreen, Col- ter, Nebraska, and in the fall of 1922, went to Pierre, South orado. Dakota, as Head of the Science Department at the high Robert W. has four degrees from the University of Mon- school there.[...]tana: B.A., B.S., M.M.E., and ED.D. He also has an A.A. In 1923, Henry became the science and math teacher at the degree in Real Estate from Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, Twin Bridges High School and also acted as the Assistant California. He lives in Santa Cruz and has his own piano Principal. He remained there un[...]t Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- tian Schools, and also has an advertising business, Action vallis, Orego[...]of Sunnyvale, California. He holds a B.S. in Math and[...] |
| [...]. Ruppe~ 1976. Physics, Oregon State University, and a M.S. in Geology Lucy Seidensticker Ruppel was born on the Seidensticker |
| [...]n there over seventeen years, running a saw mill. The place he owns is on Rochester Creek below the old town. He saws cottonwood for pallets and sells the wood to local sawmills. The trees he uses he has to buy from ranchers and cut himself and haul to his sawmill. His sons Bill and Dick stay with him at times and Erwin Jr. also visits. His son Bill[...]was married to Judy Stone of Twin Bridges and he has one[...]sawmill. He has an old engine that was used for a steam[...]powered sawmill a long time ago, and he is getting it to run.[...]huenemann, 1982. He wanted to see what was in the mountains so he drifted |
| [...]of Dr. John and Gladys Seidensticker.[...]In 1957, because of economics and becoming tired of hav- Gladys B. Seid[...]The following year it seemed expedient to move his ne[...]home to Dillon also, which he did. This event created a con- father was section foreman for the Northern Pacific Railroad. siderable amount of interest in the community, stilling any They later moved to Twin[...]be done. Gladys was employed as an operator at the telephone ex- In Dillon Gladys was busy raising the family and assisting change for two years and then worked at the First National with the necessary paper work in her husband's office. Bank of Twin Bridges until her marriage. She was with her Another child, Jeffrey Alan[...]continued to be acitve in community affairs; the Barrett thwestern University and his internship in Fresno, and after Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, the Parkview Acres Auxiliary, his commission as medical officer in the U.S. Army until he March of Dimes, the First Lutheran Church. In 1978 she was sent overseas in February of 1944. was selected "Woman of the Year" by the Dillon Sorop- John had been commissioned into the medical corps in tomist Club. July, 1943, and was licensed to practice medicine in Montana Dr. John served on the State Board of Medical Examiners that same year.[...]from 1969-1979. He was active in establishing the Parkview he served at Station Hospital, Ft. Lewis, Washington, until Acres Convalescent and Nursing Home and in building the January, 1944, when he was transferred to the Eighty- new Barrett Hospital. He is still practicing in Dillon and the second General Hospital and sent overseas where he worked grandchildren number four--James Anthony Jr. (deceased), until the war's end. Then he was sent to France and into the Sara Beth, Scott James, and Rachel Amy. Army of Occupation in Austria until he was sent home in Dr. John's activities over the years have included hunting, March, 1946.[...]fishing, camping, hunting Indian artifacts and studying Gladys had returned to Twin Bridges and was employed as nature. He was active in the gun clubs in Twin Bridges and secretary at the State Orphan's Home after the birth of John Dillon and has engaged in competition shooting, winning a C., IV. She was employed until her husband's return. By number of medals and trophies. He has conducted many this time, John C., IV, was almost two years old and had not classes of instruction for young shoot[...]Bozeman, Dr. John started his prac- brother, and sons on many hunting trips outside of Montana tic[...], born May 17, including four trips to Alaska and trips to Alberta and 1947, Judith Ann, born Ju!y 7, 1949, and twins Jeanne A. British Columbia, twice to Africa and once to India. He has and Jerry D., born September 10, 1955, joined the family. fished in these places and also in the Caribbean, Pacific, in- These were busy years in which Dr. John supported Dr. cluding off the coast of Ecuador and Gulf of Southern Dave Rossiter in his endeavor to[...]ber of babies; 106 North American sheep. were the most in one year, many of whom still live in the He has been a member of the Rotary Club since 1946, and valley. During his practice he was physician for the is a 32 Degree Mason and Past Master of West Gate Lodge Orphan's Home and also County Physician for a time. No. 27, A.F. & A.M., Twin Bridges, and is a member of Daisy Gladys was busy raising a[...]Chapter No. 20, O.E.S., Twin Bridges. affairs, and for a number of years was secretary and In 1978, the Twin Bridges Alumni Association awarded treasurer[...]eir plaque in appreciation for community service. She was one of the group of women who worked so hard on He has always been interested in the family ranch in Twin the Million Nickel Campaign, which established the Church Bridges, so his interest in the outdoors is a natural develop- of the Valley in Twin Bridges. She took part in the Madison ment. His interest in shooting was es[...]r of prizes. Julian Knight and his stories of early day Madison County[...] |
| and the historic figures who lived in Virginia City in Mr. ing the probation era. Knight's youth. They left a lasting impression and an in- In his later years he began writing a book about his flying creased interest in the early history of Montana. Gladys died advenu[...]to man's first step on the moon, an event he certainly would[...]sticker with his air craft, just after landing on the bench at the Seidensticker Ranch, early 1950's. K[...]Gustin Seidensticker was born November 28, 1912, |
| [...]originally from Hysham, Montana. Chris moved to the Twin Lowell Wesley Seidensticker, Sylvester J. Seidensticker, Bridges area in 1960 operating the Bill Lewis ranch and later 1937. built the Big Sky Motel south of Twin Bridges. She had three children, Jerry, Ronald and Dolly. Siv has served his community in many ways. For eleven years he was Dad Advisor for the Ruby Valley Chapter Order of DeMolay. A joint chapter was formed between Twin Bridges and Sheridan, bringing the boys of the two towns working together for the first time. During the ten years on the local school board the new elementary school building was completed. It was quite an improvement from the two story red brick building with a bell tower. Two classes were assigned to one room and one teacher. Classes were large due to World War[...]teacher had from fifty-five to sixty-five pupils. The small 10 x 10 school library on the second floor located under the bell tower has memories for Siv. One morning just before mounting the old swayed back horse he and older brother John rode to school the three plus miles away, a skunk was found to be in the chicken house. The skunk was taken care of with the trusty .22 and they were quckly ori their way to school. It took the teacher about thirty minutes to sniff Siv out and inform him to spend the rest of the day in the library studying. Who do you think he found in the library--brother John! The physical education building was also constructed while Siv was si. member of the school board. Some im- provement over the old narrow~ ow ceilin~ gym ne·a played many a ball game under the guidance ot J::Soynton "Dub" Paige, who coached top teams in the state tournaments, before ending his coaching career at the end of Siv's senior[...] |
| year to enter the banking business. Siv is also Past Master of the Masonic Lodge and Past Patron of the Order of Eastern Star. In 1968 he was elected as a supervisor for the Ruby Valley Conservation District, a position he[...]local control, he worked very hard to help write and get passed into law the Natural Streambed and Land Preservation Act of 1975. From 1977-1980 Siv served on the land-owner sportsman advisory council to the State Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Returning to the ranch in 1942 he found the full effects of the drought and hard times of the late '30's. The range land was depleted beyond description. Livestock water was scarce. In the Rochester Basin area he dismounted from his horse one afternoon and walked for two miles looking for one spear of grass and failed to find it. Hard to believe, but true. B[...]a, Jean, 1953. sagebrush control, water pipelines and spring developments, once again the grass is waving and the springs are producing abundantly.[...]born to Edwin Earl (Ted) Seyler Sr. and Lillian Rose (Bar- Siv's dad Jack was an ardent hunter and he followed in his shaw) Seyler. Bill spent all of his younger days growing up foots~ps. They always enjoyed the local hunting above all, around Twin Bridges. He attended elementary[...]S1v was fortunate to be able to hunt with his dad and and May 28, 1937, he was awarded his diploma to enter[...]Bridges High School Bill was both active Canada, also Alaska, Africa and India were also highlighted. and well-liked. As a freshman, Bill was President of the On the India trip they traveled around the woila vislting Class of 1941. In his sophomore year, he was in the school twelve countries. They had sixty days from the time the play, "Hold Everything" and he was on the track team. In cows were shaped up for winter until calving started. The his junior, he was Student Body Vice President and par- first calf showed on the day they returned. A foot of snow ticipated in both basketball and track. Bill's senior year in was quite a shock after India and the Hawaiian Islands. 1941 was by far his most[...]Body President and was in the school play "Meet My[...]Siv Seidensticker High School this year and Bill was captain of the team. Bill was center on the basketball team and again participated in track during the spring. Along with all his other activities,[...]till managed to have time to be sports editor for the[...]Shortly after Pearl Harbor Bill enlisted in the Naval Air[...]his war years in the United States repairing Bombsights. After the war, Bill returned to Twin Bridges to live and raise[...]Jackson, daughter of Edward Daniel and Carmen Myrle[...]Canada. He came to the United States as a young man settl-[...]was the daughter of Irvin Boyd, a rancher, scout and buffalo[...]hunter who died in Butte in 1952. Edward and Carmen were[...]blessed with four children who were all born in Butte. Bill Seyler, 1942. 1. Robert - born in 1920 and died on June 12, 1930 in[...]2. Doris - born June 13, 1921, and is the wife of Sylvan |
| [...]during a domestic argument with her boy friend. The children were split up and raised by various relatives over the years, but they always remember their father and mother with compassion and love. Their spirit lives on in their five[...]Jean and Steve Bridges and Patrick L. Seyler L to R : Jean, Jane, Pat, Linda, Nancy Sey ler, 1966. Unfortunately life for the Jackson family was not to be easy. The family life that Bill and Margaret had hoped to have |
| Budd married Gloria McLaughlin, the third oldest child of James and Hannah McLaughlin, on July 17, 1943. Gloria was born in Salt Lake City on September 24, 1924, and came to Montana with her parents as an infant. Gloria graduated from the Twin Bridges High School. To this union four chil[...], 1947; Joan, Mrs. Norman Wicks, in August 1951 ; and Susan, Mrs. Scott Jones of Dillon, on April 3, 1953. Budd operated the Seyler Ranch with his two sons. He is a member of the Garden Creek Association and the Moose Camp Creek Association. He is a member and Past Master of West Gate Lodge No. 27 A.F. and A .M. Gloria is also a member of the Eastern Star lodge and is an avid vegetable and flower gardener. She enjoyed her granddaughter, Stacy Wicks, while Stacy's mother, Joan, was on the Twin Bridges teaching staff.[...]Don and Frances Seyler, 1970's. Townsend area. He and Ruth were divorced in 1949 and Don[...]-Darlene and Wayne. In 1952 Don won a superior ac-[...]lishing critical work requiring exceptional skill and Donald was born on the ranch just south of Twin Bridges |
| [...]eyler, 1954. where Lil went through grade school and high school. Archie basketball and track. |
| Bill had just started to college at the university in the fall of 1941. He left school and enlisted in the Naval Air Force. He made an outstanding record in the service and became a bombardier and then a Nordson Bombsight Specialist. After the war he came back to Twin Bridges and was in the cafe business with Lil and Ted. Then he went back to work for the State Highway Department. Bill died in Twin Bridges November 25, 1953. Ted and Lil sold the ranch to Lee Tash. They lived and worked in Tacoma, Washington during World War II. After Jim and Bill got home they moved back to Twin Bridges where they operated the Valley Cafe for seven years. Lil passed away Octo[...]The Seyler family, 1977. Back L to R: Ken Seyler, Ear[...]Seyler, Mary Seyler, Shirley Ovrcast, Lesa and Brenda Over- cast. Front L to R: Mark and David Seyler[...]Earl worked on ranches and mines in the Ruby Valley area.[...]Their first home was made in Twin Bridges and they had two children. Shirley, born in 1936 and Kenneth, born in[...]per with the Bureau of Sports, Fisheries and Wildlife. The first position paid $100.00 a month salary and $35.00 max- imum for the use of a pickup and $5.00 a month for the use of one horse. The job was to cover four counties: Broadwater,[...]Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Meagher. They chose to live in Townsend and enjoyed the three years they were there.[...]so the family moved to Havre and raised the children there. In the thirteen years as a Supervisor he was overseeing the[...]ue, Alaska, to coordinate animal control Earl and Mary Seyler operations for the protection of reindeer from world predita-[...]tion. The flight was made to Point Hope as a request of the[...]l Fisheries to determine if Humpback EDWIN E. AND MARY J. (ALBRECHT) SEYLER salmon were spawning in the Kukpuk River. The other trip was to the New England states where he Edwin Earl Seyler,[...]ed training programs on cable foot snares to take the first born to Ted and Lillian Seyler. At that time the bear. Bear control requires the talent of an expert and Earl family lived on the John Seyler ranch, located one mile south designe[...]nimal deliberately catch himself. During a School and attended Western College in Dillon. field demonstration two bear were seen at the time that they Always interested in sports, he played football and basket- were actually snared. ball in high school. He also pitched for the Independent After thirty years of continuous service with the Bureau of Baseball Team in Twin Bridges for many[...]ldlife in Montana, he retired in February of 1972 and con- was managed by his uncle, Dode Lane. In college he refereed tinued trapping for ranchers around the Billings area. for the M.0.A. around the Ruby Valley. He was often a In 1974 Earl and Mary moved to Townsend where he is referee for girls basketball games between Sheridan and still trapping predators on ranches in the area. This is where Twin Bridges and occasionally called a foul on Mary Jane he first began in the work in 1948. They are happy to be back Albrecht when too aggressive against a cousin from Twin in the area with lifetime friends. Earl continues[...] |
| [...]Jim Seyler, 1939. Lee became a Government Trapper and they settled in 1938 he set a new record in broad jump and tied old records Chinook were they raised three daughters. Later they in high jump and pole vault. Jim was elected Delegate from transferred to Sheridan to continue the trapping career. the Senior Class to Central Board, the student governing Tana, their oldest daughter, is a Medical Laboratory Techni- body at the State University. He also was voted the boy on cian in the Dillon Hospital. Lesa is an Elementary Teacher the campus with the prettiest legs. That was an honor he in Bozeman and Brenda is a Senior in Sheridan High School[...]s in Tacoma, Washington. Shortly after Pearl Har- and coach from Eastern Montana College in Billings. H[...]bor he went in the Army. He was a Field Sergeant at Fort married Karen Humbert in Scobey and they settled in the Ord, California, for about a year then went to the South Helena Area. Karen died in October, 1981, of cancer and Ken Pacific as a member of the C.I.C. attached to the Fourth is raising two fine sons, Mark and David Seyler. Cavalry. He was with the first group to go into Manila, and then again into Tokyo at the end of the war. Shirley Seyler Overcast After the war, Jim came back to Montana and worked at[...]Anaconda for awhile, then worked for the County Highway[...]JAMES A. SEYLER Jim Seyler was the second son of Edwin E. and Lillian R. |
| [...]father, Samuel Ellsworth Jones, in 1908. She was accom-[...]she was employed at Paige's Store until her marriage. She was active in community affairs including The "500 " Club, John and Margaret Seyler, 1944. Red Cross, Helpers, and was a fifty-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star. John passed away in November,[...]1962, and Margaret passed away August 8, 1972.[...]yler, born in 1913. JOHN T., MARGARET (JONES) AND FRANCES She attended Twin Bridges schools and graduated from the SEYLER School of Nursing in Pasadena, California. She later received[...]a Public Health Nursing degree from the University of John T. Seyler was the second son of John and Jane Demp- California at Berkeley, was employed by the Montana State sey Seyler. He was born July 18, 1879. He attended school Health Department and did Public Health Nursing in in Twin Bridges and Montana State College of Agriculture in Yellowstone, Hill, and Jefferson counties. Bozeman, and was on the first football team fielded by this She entered the U.S. Army Nursing Corps in 1942, and institution. served in France during World War II. She was discharged He ranched in the Ruby Valley until 1922, when the ranch in 1946. was sold to his brother, William. At that time he was Frances then returned to the Montana State Health employed at the State Orphan's Home as an .engineer. He Department and worked with the program for Crippled[...]Children until retirement. She now resides in Helena. Margaret and John Seyler with Frances about 1960.[...]FRED AND FLORENCE (COX-TALBOTT) SCHULTZ[...]Fred Schultz, early day miner and laborer, was born in[...]Fox, and step-father, Charles C. Fox, in the fall of 1896. The |
| [...]in WWI and served with Troop B, the 4th Cavalry Regiment in the Philippines.[...]In April, 1927, he married Florence Cox Talbott and they resided in Twin Bridges. Florence and Fred worked at the Strawn Mine in Bell Canyon and Goodrich Gulch for the Pulver Mining interests and operated the Stark Hotel, which was located where the Phillips 66 Station now stands.[...]Florence died in Se~tember, 1959, and Fred died at Fort[...]a member of West Gate Lodge No. 27, A.F. & A.M. and the[...]Fred and Florence were very good dancers and enjoyed the dances held in the vicinity weekly.[...]January 24, 1895. Little is known of her early life, but in 1917 she and her husband John moved to Virginia City from[...]eastern Montana and established the first abstract company Florence and Fred Schultz at the Strawn Mine in Bell Ca- there. They lived in Virginia City until 1929 and moved to nyon, late 1920's.[...]Butte where they started another abstract and title[...]y. They later had abstract offices in Philipsburg and[...]. Fred's mother married Ben Schultz of Anaconda and Fred Hazel later returned to Virginia City and worked for Frank was raised by his stepfather. His own father married again E . Blair. She also worked for Frank Hazelbaker in Dillon and in Wyoming and little contact was had with him. Fred work-[...]ed with his uncle, Charles D. Fox on construction and he also She and Harry Heller looked after each other in their later mined in the Butte-Twin Bridges areas. He joined the army years. They both liked children and enjoyed having them[...]R: Fred Schultz, Jessie J. Fox, Charles D. She died November 4, 1965, at Moses Lake, Washington.[...]She suffered from multiple sclerosis. She had one son Kenneth of Othello, Washington, and four grandchildren. She is buried in Twin Bridges.[...]JEAN A. AND MELVA (WARDEN) SHIPP[...]and Florence Statler Shipp in Billings. Jean lived wi[...]parents on several ranches in the Yellowstone Valley during[...]The family moved to the Flathead Valley where _Jean entered the Army in 1944. He served in field artillery and was stationed in the Philippines until his discharge in 1946. The next move took him to Twin Bridges to work at the[...]Jean Shipp and Melva Warden were married June 1, 1951,[...]Christopher, and live on the family farm near Sheridan.[...]Mark Allen and Curtis Michael and live at Casper, Wyoming.[...] |
| Jean and Melva lived in Twin Bridges until 1964 when they bought a farm and moved to Sheridan. Jean wprked at a number of jobs in his early life in the lumber industry. He helped fall the first trees that were cut to make the Hungry Horse Dam. He had various jobs after working at the sawmill; he worked as a mechanic at the Twin Bridges Garage and as a ranch hand at the Bill Marshall ranch in the Upper Ruby as well as at the smelter in Anaconda for a short while. He worked for the State Highway Department for several years until[...]ears. Melva worked for Mountain Bell for seven and a half years; she stayed at home the next few years to raise the family. Then she went to work at the Madison County Nursing Home where she worked for eight years. In 1976 Jean and Melva purchased the Three Rivers Exxon which they ran for the next three years. They sold so that Jean could devote more time to the Conklin business Shular family (back row[...]n, Walter. (front which he had been building over the years. row): Dave, Newton,[...]Sr. They bought a home in Twin Bridges in 1979_and moved back here. Jean was elected mayor in Novemb[...]It was here he met and married Lillian Dean in 1925. They[...]Melva Warden Shipp time and had during these years a daughter, Alicia Ann, no[...]Mrs. Donald Orr of San Jose, California, and four sons:[...]Newton, P. Jr., who lives in Great Falls and works for the School for the Deaf; Dean of Honolulu, Hawaii, a retired col-[...]onel in the Air Force, now in the real estate business; Walter[...]ucky" of Twin Bridges, a shop teacher, carpenter, and con- struction worker; and Dave of Yellow Springs, Ohio, who[...]children and three great grandchildren. The Shulars moved to Jefferson Island in 1949. He die[...]Whitehall, December 3, 1956, at the age of 73 years. Lillian[...]taught school before her marriage and continued teaching[...]after his death in Whitehall, until she retired in 1974.[...]Billy and Elizabeth Weingart Dean. She attended school in[...]died in 1913. She returned to Twin Bridges and made her home with her sister and brother-in law, Alta and Walter[...]Lillian Shular, Whitehan 1965. NEWTON P. AND LILLIAN (DEAN) SHULAR Newton Pattison Shular was born September 8, 1878, in |
| Pitcher. She finished high school here. She attended the Nor- mal College at Dillon and graduated in 1919. She taught school at Choteau and Kalispell and married Newton Shular there. She was past matron of Randall Chapter No. 97, O.E.S. of Jefferson Island, a member of the Ladies Aid Circle of the Methodist Church of Whitehall and a member of the Na- tional Retired Teachers Association. She died May 19, 1981.[...]Back: John and Monica. Front: Henry, Tom, and Evelyn Simpson, 1951.[...]cows calving, etc. They put their laying hens in the chicken[...]house which had no windows, their canned goods in the cellar, which had an open vent; and moved into the house[...]ch was in need of many repairs. This was known as the "old Thompson place ". Alfred and Hazel Sil~ 1960's. In about two days a north blizzard hit the valley. The can- ned fruit and vegetables froze in the cellar, the chickens froze their combs and quickly quit laying. The milk cow had her calf, and of course the lambs arrived in due course. ALFRED AND HAZEL (RICHMOND) SILL The next day Mr. Wudel came to deliver fuel oil. Mrs.[...]Simpson had lambs and the calf in the kitchen and she had Alfred Sill came to Ruby Valley in the early 1900's from her feet in the oven. She told Mr. Wudel that Mrs. Bray in Milwaukee, Wisco[...]ond, Sheridan sure told a tall tale when she said the north wind daughter of Clint and Kate Richmond, who had come west in didn't[...]Sheridan, go up the road a couple of miles and there won't be They spent their entire lives ranching in the Sheridan area. any wind. " Mrs. Simpson thought[...]to them: Olive, now Mrs. Clifford Jerome of Butte and Leoda, Mrs. James Sevey of Colville, L to[...]Simpson Tash, and John Simpson, 1952. The Sills gave up ranching and moved to Sheridan in 1949, where he bought a lot and built a house on Mill Street. Alfred died in 1964 and Hazel in 1970. They are buried in the Sheridan Cemetery. Olive Sill Jerome HENRY AND EVELYN (FAIRBANKS) SIMPSON Henry and Evelyn Simpson, with their three children, |
| [...]machinery for a time after leaving the ranch. He then work- ed in maintainance and drove a school bus at the Twin[...]and many of the building around the area show the work of[...]He was in bad health, due to asthma and emphysema for[...]several years. He passed away with lung cancer at the age of[...]After leaving the ranch Evelyn got a job as head cook for the Twin Bridges Hot Lunch Program. She remained with[...]Since his death she has worked at the Madison County Nursing Home, The Three Rivers Exxon, the Ruby Valley Grocery, and later for McAlear's in different departments of[...]the store.[...]Evelyn has become interested in painting and has sold many paintings in acrylics and water color, several of which[...]were destroyed by fire when the Wagon Wheel Cafe burned.[...]Evelyn Simpson Henry and Evelvn Simpson, 1962. Well, the Simpsons lived many years on that ranch and |
| [...]years, raising sheep and cattle and putting up hay, working[...]l, Redfield, Alaska, Nigger Ranch (named after an old[...]ro, Charlie McIntyre, who had been a slave before the[...]short time when he became ill with pneumonia and passed away on March 1, and was buried the next day in Twin[...]Jess and Elva had two children, Melvin Jess, born August[...]11, 1914, and Wilma Irene, March 2, 1918. Jess and Elva were both musical and at dances he played fiddle, Elva piano[...]While Prohibition was in effect, Jess and his brother[...]In 1923-24 Jess and Jim Harvey were partners in a butcher[...]fter 16 or 17 years of marriage, about 1930, Jess and Elva separated and she moved to Dillon where she resided Elva Slater[...]until her death in 1960, where she is buried.[...]with Frank ("One Arm") Murphy in the Mint Bar in Twin soda works, and at ranches and mines in Madison and Bridges. Beaverhead Counties; until he met and married Elva (Butts- That year his son, Melvin[...]ice Dell of Pony, Mon- England) while working on the Dunstan Place near Dillon, tana and his daughter, Wilma became the bride of Charles where she cooked for the ranch crew. ("Bub") Bowen.[...]an, Montana, eldest Jess was a victim of asthma and upon advice of his doctor, child of Geo. and Carrie (Leach) Butts, who came west from Melvin and Alice took him to Walla Walla, Washington Nebraska by wagon[...]sister Elsie where a sister Lura lived, in hopes the change of climate and a brother Claud. Then later, Wilbur and Hazel Whiting might help his condition, but he became worse and passed by Carrie's second marriaga after the death of Mr. Butts in away August 1936. His body was sent home and he is buried 1894. Carrie died in 1936.[...]ry beside his father. Elva married Roy England and had a son Lee, born March Melvin, now deceased and Alice had two daughters, Judith 9, 1902, who in his early manhood was a bronc buster and and Susan. ranch hand. He married Reiland Giem and they lived in[...]an auto mechanic for many years Steven, Melissa, and Jim. until his retirement. Lee passed away in 1973. Reiland resides at their home in Dillon. She is a distinguished Susan married Robert Ren, their children are: Lola (deceas- member of the Rebekah Lodge and each year manages the ed) and Jess. flower department of the Beaverhead County Fair. Elva also Elva's sister Elsie Butts, married Ira Williams and they belonged to the Rebekah Lodge and to the Royal Neighbors. ranched at Wibaux, Montana until his death. Elsie later After Elva and Roy separated and she married Jess, they married Grey Covey and they lived in Bozeman. As health moved to the Twin Bridges area where they ranched over the failed, they both went to the Gallatin Nursing Home. He has passed away and she still resides at the home. Claud Butts (brother) has also passed away since the writing of his story in the "Pioneer Trails and Trials" book. Lee and Relland England, Jess and Elva Slater, Melvin and Wilma Slater.[...]To Fred W. and Gertrude Sommers four sons were born.[...]Edward Frederick was the eldest, born March 3, 1911. He[...]went with his father and brothers to Stuart, Florida from[...]power line construction on the Hoover Dam. He worked also for the Los Angeles Transit System. He settled in Seattle[...]and became plant manager and head estimator and purchas- ing agent for the Square D Electric Company of that city.[...] |
| [...]Ulet Bollen was born March 6, 1915, and died October 18, 197 4, at the age of 59. He lived all his life in the Twin Bridges area except for the years in Florida and his service time. He served with the Army engineers in Europe. He was in[...]England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Belgium. He was[...]with General Patton's Tank Corps and was honored by both Howard, Ulet and Edward Sommers, 1915. Patton and General Marshall, receiving the Legion of Merit.[...]asked what he did in Europe to be singled out for the honor he said, "When the shooting started, I just saved the He is retired and lives at Emerald Lake with his wife, the biscuits." He returned to civilian life December l, 1945, and former Marcella Wilkinson of Eureka, Utah, whom he mar- worked as a carpenter and miner. ried January 26, 1940. Their three children, Eddie Jr., Nolan The American Legion presented him with a Testimonial of and Eunice live in Washington. Appreciation and the Silver Star citation on August 14, Howard Somme[...]The United States of America[...]honors the memory of L to R: Jack, Ulet, Howard an~ Edward S[...]recognition of devoted and selfless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United[...]President of the[...]The youngest Sommers brother, Jack LeClaire, was born[...]September 24, 1917, and was a track star in his high school[...]Machinists Mate and got in on the action at Gaudalcanal, and Kwajalein and was on the USS Sturdivant when it was[...]twenty-six years. Two children were born to Jack and Regina, Brenda Jean and Joseph Frederick. He is now in[...] |
| [...]aduation, Filer, Idaho. Esther, Peggy, and Button Sommers, 1940[...]They lived off the land as they could. Across Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois, corn fields provided food, sometimes[...]fishing was rewarding and furnished a meal. Trees hanging HOWARD AND ESTHER (BROBST) SOMMERS over the road provided fruit. As they got further south af[...]t freely came along. Born on August 3, 1913, in the Sommers house on Main The Model T motor home went through Kentucky, Ten- Street (later the Alvin Reid home), Howard Willet was the nessee, Alabama, Georgia, Jacksonville, Florida and on to second of four sons of Fred W. Sommers and Gertrude Willet West Palm Beach, where the family stayed with A.J. Thornton Sommers. He started school in the building now Wilcomb, a former Twin Bridges banker. The cost had been known as the Church of Christ; his teacher was Mrs. Dibble. $125.00 for the five of them. They went north to Stuart. It The building burned badly so school was held above the Blue had taken one month and twenty days of travel on twenty- Anchor for one year. Fred built the old school house in 1911 five cent gas. In 1928 they returned to Twin Bridges in a (torn down in the 60's) and the high school in 1921. Howard Stutz-Bearcat in five days, but the car had a thirty-gallon attended classes in both[...]as tank which had to be filled three times a day. and his father (widowed in 1917) and three brothers took off Mr. Sommers, Superintendent of Matthew[...]in Geneseo, Illinois, where Fred had five sisters and five . high school and other buildings. While living there, Howard brothers. and his brothers brought home sea turtles, wild turkeys and The trip by Model T was perhaps the first cross-country perch. He learned to get around in the bayou country. trip ever made in a mobile home. F[...]Benny, a Negro tap dancer, entertained them and took Ed on on the car which included the front seat. In it were double- as a student.[...]y in his teens! decker bunks, a gas stove, chairs and table and all the When they returned to Twin Bridges, Howard finished necessities to cook. The boys took turns riding in the front high school. He married Esther Brobst o[...]ges on August 2, 1924. Mrs. Ham- served in the CCC's in the Upper Ruby and at Paradise, Mon- mond had made a birthday cake for Howard and he had that tana. A daughter Peggy (Gertrude Ann) was born August the next day with brothers, Ed, Ulet and Jack and, of course, 28, 1933, in Dillon. Later Howard[...]tana Auto in 1934. Others in the area were moving to Stuart, Florida, where[...]employed by McAllister Fuel in Bear Gulch and was shop machine on the train along with the Sommers' household fur- foreman f1r the W.P.A. (Works Project Administration) from nishings. A Mr. Lauderback from Waterloo took his dairy 1938 to 1941. In 1941, he and his family, now consisting of a cows and household goods on the train. In fact, a part of a second daughter,[...]n) born March 27, 1939, left train was made up of the families' goods going to Florida. for California. He worked at the United States Naval Depot The Sommers "Winnebago" went through Yellowstone at Vallejo, as the head mechanic and as a civilian instructor Park and Cody, Wyoming, arriving there on the seventh of on diesel engines for the Navy. Upon his return to Twin August. They contin[...]anging news about years. He belonged to the fire department for over twenty what was ahead on the road and other conditions. The only years, retiring in 1978. He served on the National Executive pavement was twenty miles of brick. west of Omaha, Board of the Steelworkers Union.[...] |
| [...]Inez cooked on the Ben Green ranch for many years. She also cooked at a ranch near Ennis for several years.[...]except for the years in California. She worked as a clerk and with Holbert Insurance Agency through the years, retiring[...]She enjoys travel. She belongs to the Veterans of Foreign[...]Wars Auxiliary. Peggy died June 11, 1976, at the age of forty-two after heart surgery. She was married to Ivan Bushman of Wolf Point and had one son, Gavin, born June 26, 1963. She is buried in Twin Bridges.[...]Sandra married Bruce Nash of Twin Bridges and had two daughters, Leann (Mrs. Mike McGinnis) and Christy. She was later married to Hyrum McLain and now lives in Filer,[...]Esther and Howard have one great-granddaughter, Selena[...]Esther was born June 15, 1915, at Redstone, the daughter LOGAN AND HAZEL (STILWELL) SMITH of Herbert and. Inez Wigmore Brobst. Two sisters, Grace (Theige) and Audrey (Triplett) and a brother Duane made up In the summer of 1929, Logan Smith came to work for his the family. brother Sidney putting up hay. In the fall of 1929 he accom- They attended school at[...]Logan Smith, youngest son of Effie Calvin and Edwin Bridges where Mrs. Brobst had relatives. Es[...]h school here. They leased their farm at Redstone and Hazel Stilwell, daughter of Luther Stilwell and Anna Van Logan Smith Family, Christmas 1976: Back L to R: Duane Eller and Jerrod, Martha |
| [...]least once a week taking supplies and moving camp to the different locations required by the forest service. The herders only companions were his dogs, horses, and sheep;[...]dependable herders (and the problems with predatory[...]animals), they no longer run the band of sheep on reserve[...]ll. Each year a large vegetable garden is planted and harvested. David Smith's and Duane Eller's families now help run the expanded ranch. Added to the original 511 acres, is land on Trout Creek,[...]which is pasture and dry land grain, East Bench farmland,[...]plus grazing lands up Rochester and summer cattle grazing in the Big Hole Grazing Association near Wisdom.[...]In 1982 Logan and Hazel will celebrate their fiftieth wed- Logan at[...]p wagon where they lived part of ding anniversary and fifty years of Montana living. the time in the winter of 1932-33. Dusen, was born April 5, 1913[...]Hazel Stilwell Smith |
| [...]L to R: Janice, Oliver, Edna and Belinda Smith, 1982.[...]illion, billion, or a trillion years. Yet this is the only story[...]know how my bones were framed in my mother's womb, but[...]happened. For this reason I accept the existence of a creator, and that he has revealed himself in the Word of God.[...]Therefore, I have been active in the Church of Christ most of my life. Oliver and Edna Smith on their wedding day, 1956.[...]lorida before returning to Twin Bridges to lease and finally buy the home ranch on which he was born. The old log house in which he and his brothers and sisters were born was moved to Nevada City by Bovey Restorations and is preserved for posterity in case any of them sh[...]Born to them were Janice Danielle, May 12, 1960, and Belinda Christine, October 5, 1961. Edna's father sharecropped around Garland, Texas, when she was very young and later moved to Fort Worth where he worked and drove truck for McElroy Construction. After finishing high school and attending college at Abilene Chris- tian College, now a university, she worked in the payroll department of Greyhound Bus Lines. Since the ranch never seemed to be capable of self-support, the balance was made up by shop work and Oliver Tractor sales and eventually an irrigation business which installed sprinkler systems from Townsend and Manhattan to the Family of Sidney and Opal Smith 1936 or '37. Back ro w L to Dillon are[...]Sidney, Juanita, Naomi. Janice attended grade and high school at Twin Bridges graduating in 1978 and then graduated from York College in York, Nebraska in 1980. She made the National Dean's List of Who's Who. Belinda also finished grade and high school SID JR. AND LENORE (CAMPBELL) SMITH at Twin Bridges in 1979 and went on to York College to graduate with the first Associate in Applied Arts awarded Sidney F. Smith Jr., September 29, 1923, was the oldest of by that institution in 1981. Since graduation both girls have six children born to Sidney and Opal Booth Smith. James taken additional classes[...]in Patrick, October 27, 1924, (killed in WW II in the Battle of Dillon. the Bulge, January 3, 1941); Oliver Calvin, April 20, 1926; Since depth in history is not complete without the expres- Juanita Lee, February 8, 1928 ( died May 21, 1941); Virginia sion of our feelings about the times we live in, laugh at this if May, June 8, 1[...]1931. Opal you can. We have double digit interest and inflation with a died April 20, 1959. government still trying to spend itself rich. Science (so call- The family lived on a ranch three miles out of Twin ed) tells us this great universe just happened. I have no Bridges. The children attended the Twin Bridges schools. reason to believe th[...] |
| Lenore and Sidney Smith, 1952. pendicitis and was in the hospital three months before she |
| Virgil and Hazel Smith, 1935. Harold and Marlene Smith, 1975.[...]They lived in town They had a honeymoon trip to the East Coast, then left by until spring of 1941, when Virgil's parents moved from the car to visit Virgil's relatives in Illinois, then[...]was born November, 1943. Bridges. They arrived at the Smith ranch November 1, 1935. After the Clark Canyon Dam furnished water for the units Virgil and Hazel moved to the Alaska ranch east of Twin on the east bench, Virgil and Harold developed the Virgil Bridges to spend the winter. It was 40 degrees below zero Smith and Son feed lot which they operated until 1970. They most of the winter and very bad road, so they came to town sold the feed lot to Sidney Smith Jr. once a week. Virgil's father went up occasionally to bring Rebekah Smith and Clyde Donaldson were married on their mail and supplies. February 9, 1958. They have three children, David, Paul and In March, 1936, they moved to the Utley ranch, south of Sara Donaldson. The Donaldson family lives in Bozeman Twin Bridges. Their first child, Rebekah, was born July, and Rebekah and Clyde are employed by Vann's Electric. 1937.[...]Harold Smith and Marlene Logan were married on The Smiths operated the Utley ranch until 1938, then September 20, 1975. They have two children, Jennifer and Virgil bought an interest in the Madison County Creamery, Brian Smith. They live near Whitehall and Harold is employed by the Anaconda Co. in Butte.[...]Virgil passed away February 2, 1971, and Hazel sold the Rebekah and Clyde Donaldson, 1958. home ranch to James and Viola Giem. Hazel retired and[...]HUGH AND DORIS (SWAINSON) SMYTH[...]Hugh Smyth was born to Carolyn and Moses Smyth on a[...]cold winter day in February, 1918, in Dillon. The family moved shortly thereafter to the old Swanstrom ranch near the Point of Rocks. When the Beaverhead country school[...]aduating high school in 1936. Hugh graduated from the[...]tried the Marines and returned to ranching with his brother[...]to Missoula High, Idaho Falls High, and on to California[...]Marshall, Patrick,and Shannon and four grandchildren.[...] |
| [...]1916; Helen Anderson, born July 11, 1918; and Alice Hesser, born November 15, 1920. All the children of Frank and Clara[...]Clara completed raising the children alone, working at any job she could get. In later years while living in Twin Br[...]she enjoyed her seven grandchildren who all called her Gran-[...]She lived a long and useful life leaving us forever on March[...]26, 1971, having passed away at the age of nearly 90. Both she and Frank are buried in the Sheridan Cemetery.[...]Gwen Spinner Hugh and Doris Smyth, 1948. Hugh has fond memories of the Beaverhead Valley and JOHN AND GWEN (NORDBERG) SPINNER John Spinner, the only son of Frank and Clara Spinner was |
| most of the property in May of 1979 and retired only keeping a small acreage and the home where they lived. John was president of the Robb Creek Cattle Association for 15 years and devoted much time and attention to this grazing corporation of which they were members. John and Gwen have one son, Jack Spinner, born July 26, 1946, who has always made the Twin Bridges area his home. He married Sandra Pat[...]have two daughters, Tanya Kae, born July 4, 1977, and Trista Joel, born April 19, 1980. Having young grandchildren has added to the enjoyment of life and keeps Grandpa and Grandma Spinner busy.[...]Margaret and Ray Sprague on their wedding day, 1951.[...]in Twin Bridges. Ray was chef at the Blue Anchor Cafe prior[...]to their taking over the Mint Cafe, which they operated for[...]Ray suffered a stroke in February, 1956, and was partially[...]paralyzed on his left side for four of the eight years of their[...]marriage. On April 13, 1960, Ray died from the effects of the stroke. Margaret has continued to live in the home they[...]ased when they were married. Back L to R: Jhn and Pete. Front L to R: Teste, Margaret RAY AND MARGARET (BASOLO) SPRAGUE[...]'l 'win Bridges, Montana. |
| [...]Pau~ May, and Tammy. Bridges, Dillon, and Sheridan for twenty years. |
| [...]ark Stephens. parents as a small child. |
| [...]September 1980. Clarence and Marian Stephens and grand- children Kristen and Stephen Baker. I remember Thanksgiving and Christmas at Grandma's |
| [...]Fern, Dorothy. First row (seated) Della and Claude Swartz. Willamina, Oregon; Betty McLaughlin who lives in background for some of the more intimate details in the lives |
| [...]ton Some years prior to his marriage, Austin and his two |
| [...]ta and Shannon. day School and belonged to several clubs and organizations. |
| [...]family, 1981. Back row L. to R.: Debbie For- dham and Tyler, Joanne and Authur Alleger. Front row L. to R.: Alan Fordham, Allyson and Kevin Alleger. ' Clarence passed away May 1, 1970, in Twin Bridges. Helen stayed on the ranch four years, found it hard to get good help, so sold the ranch, which was a land grant to her father-in-law, and moved to Twin Bridges. She enjoys the home she had built and does a lot of traveling. Her most en- joyable trip was a two months stay in the Philippines. She loved the kind, humble Philippine people. She served four years on the Montana Senior Citizens board representing Lee Tash and sons, Edwin and Ronald, 1965. Beaverhead, Granite, Deer Lodge, Madison, Powell, and Silver Bow counties and is still active. When Lee was four years old his father left the gold dredg- ing where he was an engineer and bought the old Clausen Helen Narancich Talcott Ranch from the Nesbitt Brothers, 2¼ miles south east of[...]Twin Bridges. He attended the local grade school where his[...]sister Vera was teaching, and after graduating from high[...]short time. He ran out of money and came home to work on the neighboring ranches and saved up enough to go to Los[...]Leland Abbott Tash, 1926. LELAND AND EDITH (FRAZIER) TASH Leland Abbott Tash was born in Ruby, Montana, June 13, |
| [...]was born May 8, 1916, in Sheridan, Montana, Ezra and Della Smith Frazier who had moved to Montana and attended schools in Sheridan and Twin Bridges. from Pearl, Illinois, in April, 191[...]dry land For a time they operated a ranch in the Ruby Valley and farming in the Horse Shoe Hills, north of Belgrade, Mon- then moved to Yerington, Nevada, in 1953 to work and make tana, before moving to this area in February[...]heavy equipment operator in Nevada They leased the George Utley Sr. place from Mrs. Fraziers' for[...]t. Wal ton forced him to retire. Petersons are the present owners. T[...]to make their home in Nevada, returning Leland and Edith had three sons, one died at birth in 1931, to Montana each summer and spending the winters in Ronald Lee, born 1932, and Edwin Earl, born in 1948. Ronald Arizona. has been in the trucking business for thirty years, is now af- John died in Yerington, Nevada, on April 25, 1982, and is filiated with a branch of Tripp Trucking Company and lives buried in Twin Bridges Cemetery. at C[...]. He married Patricia Fauver Anderson of Roundup, and has eight children. Edwin married Donna Hollis, December 1, 1979, and they are living Gwen Spinner on the home ranch which he and his mother have operated since his father passed away, July 13, 1972. Leland served on the Twin Bridges school board for 19 years, was President of the Warm Springs Stock Association in the upper Ruby, served on the F.H.A. board for four years, and was a director of the First National Bank of Twin Bridges and Federal Land Bank at the time of his death. He operated the first drag line in Madison County, bought when his father was County Commissioner. He was employed on the Fort Peck Dam when they first started construction. After Homer and Nora Tash died in 1943 and 1944, respec- tively, Leland and Edith bought the home ranch from his brother Lowell and sisters Vera Muench, Mildred Clark and Edith Ramsey (deceased). Later they added the adjoining ranches of Ted Seyler and part of the Flora Jenkins' estate.[...]Matt and Val Telin, April 15, 1979. MATI'HEW AND VALBORG (PETERSEN) TELIN[...]Matthew Telin was born to Matthew and Carrie Telin on[...]July 27, 1900, at New York Mills, Minnesota. He also had a |
| [...]Sally Jo and Matt E. grew up and helped on the ranch. Sal- ly Jo was Matt's favorite cowgirl and Matt E. liked the trac- tor and field work. Neither one minded milking the cows. They were lucky to have good help on the ranch. One sheep[...]herder would get drunk every so often and when Matt[...]brought him home he would end up on the front room couch and stay there until he sobered up.[...]Later she worked at the Twin Bridges Bank. She married[...]rles Reid. They had three children: Linda, Paula, and Frank and two granddaughters: Tara and Tracy. Sally Jo loved and worked on the ranch. She also gave piano lessons.[...]Dillon. He coached at Belgrade one year. He and Karen Hull[...]the Idaho Nuclear Corporation, Idaho Falls, until he[...]be Registrar and Director of Admissions at the University of[...]have three children: Wanda, Brad, and Shawn. Sally Jo Telin Reid and granddaughter Tracy Metully, April 15, 1979.[...]In 1970 Matt and Val moved to their new home in Twin[...]Bridges after selling the ranch to Harry and Shirley Grose. Matt managed the ranch and the two bands of sheep as In May, 1979, their beloved Sally Jo passed away quite sud- well as some horses and cattle. The sheep were run on the denly. Graveley Range in summer and Spring Creek, Mellon place, Point of Rocks and the home ranch the rest of the time. Easter Sunday, April 21, 1935, Matt marr[...]Val Telin Petersen McKeehen, daughter of Peter J. and Anna Margrethe Petersen, early day ranchers in Beaverhead Coun- ty. She had a little daughter, Sally Joan, who was four years old. Matt E. was born January 20, 1936. They lived at the Mellon place in an old log house which was very warm and cozy even though there was no electricity or running water. All drinking and cooking water was brought in buckets from the spring some distance from the house. The wash water was taken from the ditch that ran by the house. In 1940 they moved to the home ranch. Aldan passed away in 1942; he was the county assessor. Now and then a rattlesnake would venture close to the house. On one of Matt's birthdays in July, a close relation came to help him celebrate. The children played all afternoon . in the yard. After they had all gone home, a rattlesnake was heard by the bedroom window. There was a cat slapping with his paw at the snake. That same evening there was another rattlesnake by the bell post; the cat was striking at it also. The snakes were killed and from that time on there were always seven or eight cats around the house. Telin family back row L to R: Brad and Wanda. Front row: Karen, Shawn and Matt Jr. Grace and Frank Schulz wedding picture,[...](History in Pioneer Trails and Trials) THE TERRY AND MADDOX FAMILIES My mother Grace Elaine Maddox Schulz family on her[...]ana in 1863. Dave Terry's father organized family and[...] |
| group migrations down the Ohio River on flatboats to the and Babe live seven miles southwest of Twin Bridges. Mississippi. There Dave Terry and a brother met them and James W. Maddox's family came from Peori[...]into was born June 22, 1869. Other members of the Wiliam Mad- wagons, obtained horses, oxen or mule teams plus livestock dox and Mary Adline Frances Maddox family were Charley, like chickens, pigs and milk cows and other needed supplies. 1887-1954; Oscar, 1886-1936; May 1877-1906; Amy and Ahl. Dave Terry started his covered wagon train for the Oregon An Uncle John Maddox 1822-1890 was drowned in the Big Territory. A lovely young lady, Elizabeth Mi[...]se. Where he was drowned is still Mad- member of the group. Dave and Elizabeth fell in love and dox Hole. Zed Maddox 1851-1887, another uncle, was shot in were married and that's how I got a great grandmother. the back and killed while mowing hay on Camp Creek just Elizabeth stayed at Corrine, Utah, while Dave took his east of Melrose. The killer was never known. wagon train on to Oregon[...]Charley Maddox married Josephine Dillon and after her organized a train to go to Bannack, Id[...]eath he was married to Marion DeLadd who is alive and Elizabeth and belongings and headed north. I have driven well in Seattle. Josephine and Charley often played for through the Corinne to Bannack area many times and marvel dances in the Melrose area. Amy married Edwin Hardisty; at the courage of the people that came through in wagons. Edwin's father, John Hardisty, built the Hardisty Hotel in They stopped a short time at Bannack, moved on to Virginia Rochester. One of Amy and Edwin's daughters, Mary Har- City, didn't find w[...]ved on to disty Stevens McClean is still alive and resides in Santa the Trapper Creek drainage west of Melrose to try their luck Maria, California. Mary and her son Tom McLean are min- at prospecting. ing consultants and represent the McCune interests in When Hecla and Glendale got going Dave was deputy Rochester. sheriff of Glendale for a number ot years ana also worked in The Maddox name was originally spelled Maddeaux and the smelter at Glendale. I have one of his paychecks[...]ounced Maddu (oo). It gradually became Maddux out and signed by George Conway, treasurer of the Hecla and then Maddox. Mining Company. George later leased the Hecla Mining Company properties and subleased part of them to miners who wanted to w[...]Vera June Schulz Dave Terry liked and respected the Indians he had met in his days of guiding wagon trains. He became friends with many Indian families and tribes in southwestern Montana. Elizabeth Miller Terry distrusted the Indians, didn't under- stand their culture and in truth hated and feared them. Dave welcomed all Indians to camp on their place which was just east of the Florence and Don Goody place at Glendale, Mon- tana, five mile[...]n remember Great Grandmother Terry growling about the Indians. Children born to Dave and Elizabeth Terry were sons Ray, Carl, Ahl, and Dave, and daughers Grace, Ida, Della, and Lou Ella. Ray and Carl did not marry. Ahl probably married as he wa[...]Seattle. Dave Jr. as a very young man, drowned in the Big Hole River near Melrose. He was not married. Grace married a man named Mitchell and moved to California. Della married Sam Davis and lived in Orchard Homes, a suburb of Missoula. Ida married an Arbour from Dillon and then a man named Bins of Butte and then George Seymore of Butte. They lived in Butte. Lou Ella, my grand- mother, was born June 22, 1877, in the Trapper Creek area. She married James W. Maddox. Jim was a teamster for the Hecla Mining Company. Jim and Lou Ella lived in Glendale for a few years and then moved to Rochester in Madison County, Montan[...]work as a teamster. Their two oldest girls, Grace and Maude, went to school in Rochester for several years. After working in Rochester for seven years the family moved to Butte and Todd family L to R: Tim, Bertha, Linda McCallum and Mag- Jim worked in the mines. The family tired of the big city and gie and George. moved back to Glendale. All of the children graduated from the eighth grade of the Glendale School. Grace was born October 11, 1893, at Glendale, Montana. GEORGE E. AND BERTHA TODD She married Frank J. Schulz November 6, 1912. She died January 23, 1973. Maude was born November 19[...]d was born in Twin Bridges on September Glendale. She married Gilbert Quilici of Melrose. She died 13, 1915, to George and Harriet Todd, pioneers of Madison April 9, 1973. Velma was born May 15, 1898. She married County. He attended schools in Me[...]of Melrose. Velma died June 8, 1981. Bert and Twin Bridges. Mr. Todd was a freighter and moved his was born September 28, 1902. He married[...]was working. Narancich February 2, 1938. Bert is the only living member George E. worked on construction and was driving of the James W. and Lou Ella Terry Maddox family. Bert Greyhound Bus when WWII started. He enlisted in the[...] |
| [...]Lakeshore, 1949, Glenn Turney an Seabees in 1942, and was stationed most of the time in the grandson, Terry Cullinan Al[...]areas. He was an accomplished hunter, fisherman and trap- tanker and lived in Billings and Laurel. He and his wife per and enjoyed sharing this knowledge with his family Be[...]lstone, whom he married in 1940. members and young friends. He also played baseball for the owned a grocery store in Melstone for a few years. Silver Star team in the early 1930's. In 1952 George went to work drivi[...]r Safeway At one time, while living in the Silver Star area, the Turney Stores and lived in Laurel until 1960, when he and his family family befriended an elderly lady w[...]awakened late one winter night to discover that the after 45 years as a commercial driver, having dri[...]temperature had fallen many degrees below zero and that it 3,000,000 miles. He and Bertha then moved back to Twin was bitt[...]came concerned about his elderly friend who lived alone. Children are daughters Marlene (Todd) Elmore of West Knowing she would be unable to help herself, he walked Lynn,[...]n to her home to find that her fires had been out and son Tim Todd of Houston, Texas. There are six grand- many hours and she was in great discomfort from the intense children; Maggie and Kevin McCallum; and Mike, Matt, cold. He stayed with her several hours, administering to her Julie and Jeff Elmore.[...]idges. very special person to his family and friends. Another sister, Florence Harris, passed[...]1946, Graduation from beauty He enjoys fishing and often drops by with a catch for a[...]Bertha Todd GLEN AND NORA (PILKINGTON) TURNEY Glen James Turney was born January 2, 1905, to James |
| [...]John Pool U'ren Nora and cousin Fred Pilkington at her beauty shop. The family name, U'ren, pronounced with the accent on the[...]in history the "w" was contracted to a "u ", to form a two- In[...]f a one-syllable word. in Virginia City, Montana. She was born in Liberty, Kansas, Born in Madron[...]on January 31, 1904, to William Grant Pilkington and John Pool U'ren met and courted Elizabeth Ann Oates, who Genevieve White[...]ohn family moved to Montana to make their home in the Trout came to America and became a U.S. citizen on October 16, Creek area. She, with her brothers Raymond and Ronald and 1880. After a few years he sent for his intended bride. The sisters Florence and Nell, were among the first children to at- marriage of John and Elizabeth took place in Washoe Coun- tend the school at Trout Creek. Mr. Pilkington later moved[...]many years. Lauretta Liberty, was born on the Fourth of July, 1885, in In the early years of their marriage, Glen and Nora lived in Virginia City, Nevada. Two other daughters, · Neva and Silver Star with their children, Vivian (Van Raam), Glen, Hilda, were born to the couple. All three children are now Jack, Helen (Cullinan), Rita (Summers), Doris (Cottrell), and deceased. Gary. While living there Glen was disab[...]Twin Bridges in 1943. Nora worked in of Lauretta and David Monteath), Lillian Elizabeth Mc- the nursery at the Montana Children's Center. Cauley (wife of Keith McCauley) of Hamilton, Montana, and In 1945, she enrolled in McCarroll's School of Beauty in Dolor[...]h), of Whittier, Butte, Montana. After graduation she returned to Twin California; and one great granddaughter, Diane Lynn Bridges and established "Nora's Beauty Shop " which she Shellman (daughter of Dolores and Don Koch), who lives operated for more than thirty years. Nora belonged to the Ladies Aid in Twin Bridges and at- Elizabeth Ann U 'ren tended local Bible study groups. She was an Episcopalian by affiliation. She did hand work which she sold. She made bed pillows of fancy lace-bedecked dolls, afghans, doilies and she did other crocheting and knitting. Friendly and cheerful and well-known to all, she and her shop were always a bright spot in town. Nor[...]Helen (Turney) Cullinan JOHN POOL AND ELIZABETH ANN (OATES) U'REN John Pool U'ren, a resident of Twin Bridges and Virginia |
| [...]Lawton, Oklahoma. John himself survived his wife and one daughter, Neva, living out his life - when not visiting in his eldest daughter's home - in a small apartment upstairs over the First National Bank in Twin Bridges. On June 9, 1[...]services as a child. accident, which claimed his life shortly after. The remains of the old village blacksmith are buried in the Twin Bridges Cemetery.[...]JOHN AND MARY ALICE (STATEN) WARDEN[...]Kingston, Missouri, to Jess and Isabelle Warden. He left[...]Kingston as a young man and spent time in North Dakota, At the age of 53 Verna Varnadore died on Good Friday, Alaska, and Washington before coming to Montana. He April 4,[...]the Twin Bridges area and also for the city of Twin Bridges. She was born in Sheridan to Mr. and Mrs. I.D. Moore on February 4, 1901, and moved to Twin Bridges in 1913 and Mary Alice Staten was born November 10, 1912, at Irwin, made her home here for the remainder of her life, except for a Idaho, to William and Caroline Staten. She came from Idaho time when she and her mother Katherine Moore lived on the with her parents and lived in both states until her marriage. West Coa[...]Mary Alice and Jack were married in Dillon on November Verna had many talents. She was a beautiful seamstress 30, 1929. They started married life in Glen, Montana, where and was capable of doing most anything she made up her they ranched for a short while before moving to the Twin mind to do. She was very dependable and a good friend. She Bridges area in 1931. They moved to a farm known as the was held in high esteem by those who really knew her. Thompson place and stayed there until they moved to town[...]in 1935. She was employed for many years by Hart Pease in the Drug Store, and later worked for George M. Hurd in Hurd's Mary and Jack raised a large family of six daughters and Drug Store. She was correspondent for The Montana Stand-. four sons. Melva (Warden) Shipp lives in Twin Bridges. She has two children, Tom (Bimbo) and Brenda and three grand- dard and Madisonian for many years. She was employed at children. Cora (Warden) Wininger of Sheridan has four the Post Office in Twin Bridges when she was forced to retire children and six grandchildren. Caroline (Warden) due[...]Campenetti has two daughters and two grandchildren; she She was married to Roland P. Varnadore who preceded h[...]Idaho, has five children and five grandchildren. Tommy Funeral serviced for Verna were held in the Episcopal Warden died as a teenager. Walter (Bob) married Harriet Church in Sheridan where she had been christened and had Detmering and has four step children and eight grand-[...] |
| [...]married Pat Back; they live in Phoenix, Arizona, and have one son; Pat had four children when they married and they have three grandchildren. Clarence Dean Warden married Colleen Guinnane and they live in Butte with their four children. Mona[...]rents as a child lives in Dillon with her husband and two children. Jack Warden passed away on May 15, 1948. Mary con- tinued to live at the famiy home surrounded by family and friends until her death June 1, 1971.[...]Earl and Virginia Watts honeymoon trip in Essex Coupe,[...]brother Howard, a Helena CPA, in 1906). She loved her years on the farm, with her dog Trixie, cat Toodles, and pony Babe. The life was also harsh, with the children riding the[...]was working for Skeets at his Dillon Cafe (the highlight of[...]He was active in all the college sports, earning letters[...]football, basketball, softball, and dramatics. Virginia's aL[...]tivities ran more to the musical variety, and she was a senior class officer and carnival queen runner-up, also enjoying ten- nis and softball. In the 1929 operetta production of[...]Lelawala, Earl played Sgt. Bilks and Virginia was cast as a[...]at Dillon Normal, the two young people accepted teaching jobs at the Twin Bridges Public School. Earl taught seventh[...]and eighth grades and grade school basketball, and Virginia taught the first and second grades, grade school music, and Earl and Virginia Watts, 1963. coached the first and second grade boys in basketball. During the summer of 1930, Earl and Virginia took jobs at the State Orphanage in Twin Bridges; Earl as boy's su[...]visor and Virginia as playground supervisor. They worked EARL AND VIRGINIA (WALDEN) WATTS for George Davey who was Superintendent of the institution[...]ressive, sports-minded, highly sincerity and hard work during that summer. motivated and handsome young fellow arrived on the cam- That fall, the young people accepted permanent type jobs pus of the Dillon Normal College in the fall of 1927. He had at "The Home" under Mr. Davey; Earl as the seventh and just graduated from Hardin High School where he l[...]hth grade teacher, boy's supervisor, storekeeper, and his guardians, Isaac and Viola Kephart. (Kephart was the swimming and basketball coach; and Virginia at third grade Crow Indian Agent at Lodge Grass.) Earl's parents -Thomas and girls basketball. By this time the two of them were deep- and Anna Watts - had both died during his childhood. He ly in love, and they were married by Reverend R.O. Shannon was born in Shelton, Nebraska, on September 2, 1908. at the Baptist Church parsonage in Dillon on February 27, Also arriving on the Dillon campus in '27 was Virginia 1931. Lowell Paige and Glyde Pease stood up for their wed- Denise Walden, a beautiful, talented, shy, curly-headed girl ding, and the following summer the newlyweds took a honey- from Helena. Virginia's parents, Charles and Nellie Walden, moon trip in their new '31 Essex coupe, extremely happy and brought their two children, pets, farm animals, equipment, with high hope for their future together. and furniture to Montana on an immigrant train from In January of 1933, Earl accepted the position of grade Wisconsin in the early spring of 1914. They had purchased a school principal at Boulder, and Virginia took a rest, as she section of land near Shawmut. They dug a well and built a was now pregnant. Their first born, son Charles Earl was cabin in which the family lived, while Charles worked on born in Dillon, June 24, 1933. A second son, Thomas building the two-story house, the grainery, and a barn, but Richard, was born in Dillon April[...]ally, to leave their place in 1919. Mr. most of the years they both continued to carry on their Walden became an IRS supervisor in Great Falls, and careers in education, spending the early forties in Bozeman. ultimately moved[...] |
| [...]Burmington County, Missouri. She came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Richmond, by wagon to Alder, Mon-[...]four miles south of Twin Bridges. She married August[...]Wehrle. They homesteaded in 1890 on the Belknap Indian[...]Henry Wehrle, Irene Wehrle Seyler and Una Mae Wehrle[...]Chinook,Montana, and there two children were born to them.[...]Earl Dewey Davis in 1898 and Lillian Ruth in 1900. Virginia Watts with first and second grade basketball team, The family then moved to Alder, Montana, in 1900 and re- 1929-1930. L to R .: Jackie Farnes, LeRoy Swi[...]Austin, Dawes Lott, Bill Seyler. 1931, and Mary on October 17, 1944.[...]Louise Balkovetz own educations--Earl worked at the University of Montana, and finally in 1962 they both received degrees on the same day, Earl his Masters, and Virginia her Bachelors. During the years 1943-1953 Earl was the Superintendent of the Montana State Orphans Home. Virginia was likewise employed there as Housemother's Supervisor and school principal. Earl's philosophy was that the home should be a place where the children could learn how to make a living for themselves. As the years progressed his philosophy became increasingly unpopular with a majority of the Legislature the Social Welfare Department, and the "powers that be". He found himself battling constantly in order to run the in- stitution up to his standards. "The Home" at this time had a complete farm operation,[...]dry, hospital, nursery, gymnasium with music room and swimming pool, school with auditorium, and home-ec building with sewing room. In many ways "The Home" was at this time self-sustaining. All the older children had daily chores to do and jobs as well as attending school. It was quite a place and a huge responsibility for Earl and Virginia Lu and Cal Wheatley, 1976. with its kitchen and bakery,and storerooms, taking complete care of up to 300 children and fifty employees all living on the premises. Earl could see the "handwriting on the wall ", and his constant battling with the Legislature, and the Welfare Department was taking its toll on his health. He resigned in 1953, and the Children's Center (as it became known) declined steadily until the Legislature closed it in CAL VIN AND LUCINDA (ROBINSON) WHEATLEY 1975. Earl Watts was the grade school principal in Twin Bridges, Calvin[...]Thomas and Rhoda Wheatley. He came to Montana in 1934 as well as either the sixth or seventh grade teacher, until his death,[...]ginia taught working on ranches in Beaverhead and Madison Counties and went back to Utah when World War II began. either the fifth or first grades those years, and after Earl's death she taught remedial reading for four years. She Lucinda Robinson was born to Hyrum and Mary Robinson assisted her son Chuck in his art gallery in Twin Bridges. in Kanab, Utah, in 1924. Lu and Cal met in Utah and mar- Son Tom is an orthodonist living at Broken Arrow, ried there. They came to Montana in 1945, and lived at Oklahoma. He and his wife Nean have three children: Mary, Augusta and Simms where they had a small farm. Their sons Brian, and Tim. Virginia died July, 1983. Tom and Leo were born there.[...]Cal wanted to come back to the Beaverhead and Madison[...]area so they sold their farm at Augusta in the spring of 1949. Chuck Watts In August of 1949 they moved to the Ruby Valley where[...] |
| Back L to R; Kyle, Ben, Tom. Front: Cindy and Leo (children Cal bucking hay, 1977. of Lu and Cal Wheatley). they bought the Thomas Brothers ranch. At that time the of Dillon where they live. Cal rides a li[...]ll sons: Kyle, six; Ben, four; Tom, three; ple, and they enjoy traveling to spend time with their and Leo who was six months old. Cindy, their only daughter, children and family in other parts of the country. was born in Sheridan in 1951. The Wheatley children all attended the Twin Bridges Elementary and High School. They were active in most of[...]Lucinda Wheatley the school activities. Kyle went into the Navy in 1962. He married Shirley Kurley of Penso[...]five children: Kyle Jr., Angela, Keith, Michelle, and Rachel. He works for Mountain Bell and lives in Sheridan, Wyoming. Ben, after working in and around Twin Bridges, now lives in Idaho and works for the government of Utah. He married Jolene Steed of Stone, Idaho, in 1978. They have two children, Charlotte and Jody Ben. Tom married Jean Bargar of Twin Bridges in 1965. They have two boys, Thomas Jr., and James Calvin. He went to school at Western Montana College in Dillon and now works at the University of Montana in Missoula where they live. Leo ranches at Roundup, Montana. He is married to the former Linda Haggard of Twin Bridges. They were married in 1967 and have two girls, Lisa and Leann. Cindy went to Vo-Ed in Helena and Billings Business Col- lege. She now works in a bank in Hardin, Montana, and is married to Robert Haug of Billings. They live[...]..r Fort Smith, Montana, and have one son, Calvin. Whiting family: Betty, Chery~ Sheila, Bruce, and Burton. While Lu and Cal lived on the ranch at Twin Bridges they were active in Parent Teachers Association. in the LDS Church and Cowbelles. Cal helped to organize the Bi~ Hole BURTON WILBUR AND HELEN BETTY (BROWN) Grazing Association.[...]WHITING Cal has helped trail cattle from the Centennial Valley to Waterloo and when they sold the ranch in 1979, they were[...]Burton Wilbur Whiting was born April 17, 1926, on the using horses to buck hay and to feed the cattle in the winter. Whiting Ranch southeast of Twin Bridges to Wilbur C. and One time Cal was planning to break a horse and Lu and the Grace McCoy Whiting. Their only child, he attended grade children wanted to be there the first time he rode her. He school in Twin B[...]1936 when chose a day when they had gone down to the river to swim he was only ten years old. After that Burt and his dad mov- and as they were coming up the road they could see Cal's ed to Virginia[...]Dad, Wilbur, worked as under head coming up above the shed. By the time they got there sheriff under Lloyd W. Brook who was Madison County Cal was riding the horse around the corral, so they didn't get Sheriff. After losing his father in May, 1941, Burt. went to to see the horse buck with him. Later, this horse was used as live with his Uncle and Aunt Frank and Hazel (Whiting) a bucking horse in an Idaho rodeo[...]f Dillon. He attended Beaverhead County High Lu and Cal are now semi-retired and own an acreage south School and graduated from there in 1944 after which h[...] |
| [...]'the Army sent him to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for[...]een months. It was while there he met and married his wife[...]Bruce is working at the Rehabilitation Center and also work- ing on his doctorate from the University of Colorado.[...]Another daughter, Sheila Lea, was born to the Whitings on December 30, 1958. She graduated from Twin Bridges as[...]Valedictorian of her class and attended the University of Montana for three years and then she went to Denver and at- tended the Cliff Mann Floral School. On April 11, 1981, she married Jeff Strozzi of Dillon and they now reside in Darby[...]During Burton's thirty years working for the school district maintaining and driving school bus, he has driven[...]a lot of kids a lot of miles around the country. He has also[...]Driver of the Year" for the state of Montana by the Montana[...]with a beautiful plaque by the Twin Bridges Letterman's[...]Club for dedicated service and support of the Twin Bridges[...]In 1980 another honor was bestowed upon Burt by the[...]tion of services to youth of this community and its schools. L to R: Betty Brown Whiting, Grandfa[...]Burt retired from the Twin Bridges Volunteer Fire Depart- Brown, Naomi[...]which he was Fire Chief the last nine years. He also spent eighteen years on the Twin Bridges City Council.[...]Whiting was born in Laurin, Montana, enlisted in the U.S. Navy for two and one-half years. He saw March 7, 1929, to John Cyrus and Helen Brown. She has liv- action in the Pacific Theatre. He was discharged in May, ed all her life in the Ruby Valley, most of it in Twin Bridges. 1946, and returned to Dillon to stay again with the O'Keefes, She started school in Laurin and then went to the Robbers this time only for a couple of months. Roost School for two years and finished her grade school in Burton and his friend, Marvin Brook, took over the Alder. She attended high school in Virginia City and Vigilante Service Station in Virginia City after his return graduated from there in 1947, after which she married Bur- from the Navy. It was here that he met his wife, Betty[...]chool in Virginia City. In 1964 after the Whiting children were all in school, Betty They were married in Dillon, May 31, 1947,and made their opened her home to the care of children of working mothers home in Dillon for a year where Burton worked for George and is still continuing her much appreciated service. Heikkila and Vern Nelson learning the mechanic trade. They then moved to Twin Bridges where Burt went to work for Melvin Slater and John Stevens in their garages and along Burt and Betty Whiting with a correspondence course finish[...]duating in 1967. After graduation Cheryl attended the Butte Academy of Beauty Culture and received her beautician's license. The CHARLES AND MARY GERLEAN (WICKHAM) following year Cheryl and Rueben Briggs of Manilla, Utah, WHITNEY were married November 10, 1967. They live in the Ennis Valley and have two daughters, Michelle Marie, age 13,and Charles Edward Whitney came to Twin Bridg[...]parents, Alfred M. and Marietta Whitney and brothers Bill In 1951, Burt worked for the Bureau of Reclamation up at and Buster from Ypsilanti, North Dakota, in October of Chester, Zortman, and Big Sandy returning to Twin Bridges 1913. The family homesteaded on Trout Creek where the in the fall of 1952 when he took over the job of school bus boys completed the eighth grade. Charlie went to work for supervisor for the Twin Bridges School District where he is the Darnutzers on McHessor Creek at sixteen doing far[...]une 19, 1952, a·son Bruce Allan was born to Burt and cluding Nyharts, A.R. Smith, "Skip" Reid, and Mina Holt Betty. Bruce attended t_he Twin Bridges school and and her daughters, and for the Northern Pacific Railroad out graduated in 1970 as salutatorian. He then attended the of Melrose. In May, 1941, he enlisted in the Army and was University of Montana graduating with honors[...]l months was one of eighteen students from across the U.S. accepted in the Army Hospital with a leg injury, he was given a disa- into the Army program to earn his Masters in[...]Mary Gerlean Wickham, born in Butte to Byron Earl and[...] |
| [...]Gerlean Jensen Wickham, lived in Butte, Waterloo and Anaconda before Mrs. Wickham came to Twin Bridges with Mary Gerlean, five, and Billy, three, to cook on the Mule Charles and Mary Gerlean Whitney, 1976. Shoe Sheep Ranch. Mary Gerlean and Charlie had met several times, but she where the water lines were located that he had worked on and thought of him as one of the Whitney brothers, until sh~ ~et could tell almost exactaly the spot to dig in case the water him one evening in Silver Star when they w[...]or repairs made. After his retirement troduced. The next day Charlie stopped to visit and repaired Charlie worked for the Rochester Mining Enterprises. Carl's 1930 Chevy. He was invited in and after a whirlwind In December, 1961, the family purchased the brick house courtship Charlie and Mary Gerlean were married, July 21 , on Main Stre[...]rked on ranches c<>?k- master. He was adjutant in the American Legion for many ing and baby sitting during the summers. Followmg years. He enjoyed hunting and being out of doors as well as graduation she worked in the local telephone office, in Helena making inlaid cedar tables and chests. Charlie passed away as a clerk-typist for the Merit System, and at the Montana in his sleep December 29, 1977. State Or[...]Mary Gerlean was den mother for the first Cub Scout Following their marriage, Charlie worked on the Twin group organized in town, assistant junior girl scout leader, Bridges railroad section and as a mechanic in Dillon. He also leader for Cadet Girl Scouts, and served on the Girl Scout drove ore truck for Vic DeNeal from the High Ridge Mine. Council. She was assistant 4-H leader and director for the In the summer of 1946 he laid up the log walls for the Mid- Royal Neighbors Juveniles for twenty years,[...]y had founc:I so~eone to America, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars put up the rafters for $6 a day. Charil~ always wanted_ it Auxiliaries. In 1968 she became correspondent for the known that he had nothing to do with the roof which Madisonian, Dillon Tribune-Examiner, and Montana Stan- developed a sway. dard. She spends much of her time doing handicrafts and en- Charlie returned to ranching, working for Dr. Utley, Otto Schulz, Gus Mailey, and the Critchfields. The Whitneys,[...]Mary Lou and John. and Susanne, born December 3, 1948, moved to Ypsilant[...]~, when Michael, born January 30, was three weeks old. Charlie worked on the Hubbard ranch on McHessor Creek. That fall he went to work for the Broksle brothers. Mary Lou was born May 21, 1952, and John on June 24, 1954. In May, 1955, the Whitneys purchased the Peterson house at the south end of Main Street. Charlie raised potatoes and work- ed for Sidney Smith Sr. Later he worked for Madison Coun- ty for four years and for the town of Twin ~ridges for sixteen years until his retirement. He was a special deputy for the county and Township Constable as well. Charlie helped with many improvements to the town in- cluding the new state highway, th~ sewer system, n_at1;ll'al gas installation and the City Hall-F~e Department _building. When i[...] |
| joys baking and decorating cakes to surprise friends. Charles Jr., after spending six years in the Marine Corps with two tours of overseas duty, met and married Carol Romero of Chula Vista, California. They have a son Wayne, and Charles is a superintendent repairing ship engine[...]Oregon with their children Douglas, Donna, David and D.C. Michael has worked for Paul and Bob Stark since serving in the Marine Corps. Mary Lou married Dale Clark of Whitefish and they live at Lothair with their children Charlean, Bernice, Ronnie and Sherie. John married Bonnie Ruff of Shelby where they live with their children Tim and Tonia. He works on oil rigs in Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana. Mary Gerlean[...]Spokane, Washington, the Zahns had to leave the valley |
| vice. Pat entered college and David took up his fencing and post and pole business, until 1976 when he moved to Washington. He is now working as an industrial insulator and is the father of one son. Jennifer is now married to Thomas Broksle and enjoys the ranch. She is employed part time with the Three Rivers Exxon. In 1981 Paul and Lucille sold their station and cabins to Lewis Larson of Colorado. Paul is now employed with the State Highway Department and loves his job. Lucille is en- joying just staying home and is looking forward to Sandy Jo's graduating in 1982. Rick is in the sixth grade, a really helpful and energetic boy. The Zahns are also helping raise two of their nine grandchildren. Paul and Lucille have had lots of hard times, lots of unemployment, sickness, and have lived much of the time without bathroom facilities or even running[...]But, they are really thankful to be able to live and raise their family in this beautiful and peaceful valley.[...] |
| [...]arly as 1877. Ben's saloon was destroyed in the fire that destroyed the[...]el. He moved to Hamilton to reside with a brother and the cabin remained empty for many years. During the 1950's[...]mained empty until 1971 when the OxBow Antique Shop SILVER STA[...]was set up there. The cabin still boasts its original floor put[...]down with square nails and its original roof which after one[...]ll does not leak. Mark J aines Delaney crossed the plains in a covered Mr. McNeece, owner of the antique shop, wired the wagon in 1872 and settled in Silver Star. He bought land building for · electricity, added a few wooden shingles to the from A.J . Little of the Green Cainpbell Mining Company and roof and jacked up the back corner which had a tendency to built and ran the hotel plus livery stable. In 1877 he hauled slide down into the irrigation ditch. For the most part, this logs from the hills and hand-hewed them for his cabin on the fabulous old cabin requires very little maintenance, stays banks of the Jefferson River. In 1878 he completed the cool in summer and attests to the sound practices of Mon- cabin, married Mary Ann Pittman and they moved into the tana early day builders. cabin. Following the death of their first child, Walter, they sold out and moved away in 1882. The livery stable and cabin were sold to Joseph Demaise Mrs. McNeece and Alphonse Poirier and the hotel was sold to John F. Dullea. In 1883 Mr. Dullea acquired. the livery stable and A hobby that started in the 1950's of preserving and rescu- cabin. The cabin was resold to Ben Yarbough who operated a[...]at were destined to disappear into nearby saloon. The cabin remained in the hands of Ben until salvage and scrap piles, in later years blossomed into a collec- his death in the 1940's. Old timers report that during Pro- tion that is n[...]that hibition Days Ben operated a "Speak Easy" in the cabin. By will display, educate, inform and in some cases ainuse those that time the Creeklyn Irrigation Ditch had been dug behind who view it for as many years as it exists. it. The out-house was separated from the cabin by the ditch This is the intention of Lloyd and Ann Harkins who are in and Ben's customers were forced to walk a plank across the the process of setting up the National Museum of Machinery ditch when "nature" called, resulting in several sudden cold at Silver Star. The idea Caine about in just the past ten years baths to tipsy customers. They also report to having dances as relatives and friends expressed a desire to see the collec- in the cabin to liven up business, although its small si[...]chain link fence and the |
| In 1980 the first was erected, consisting of five rope drive compressor wheels that were originally installed at the Leonard Mine in Meaderville at Butte, Montana. They are twenty-two feet tall and weigh twenty-eight tons each and command a spectacular display along H{ghway 41 at the center of Silver Star. Adjacent to these are two centrifugal balance wheels used on mine hoists at the Leonard and Anselmo mines of early Butte; weighing fifty-four and seven- ty tons. In 1981 another major accomplishment was realized when the last wood headframe in existence from historic Butte was once again standing, in the museum grounds. The twenty ton, fifty foot tall headframe from the West Grayrock originally constructed in 1888 had been preserved. It was dismantled in 1977 and brought to Silver Star where Lloyd spent one summer utilizing all his spare time rebuilding it. Then on December 11, 1981, it was raised with the help of Ralph Huckaba and his fifty one crane. It was brilliantly decorated[...]ilver Star bridge built about 1912 by petition of the people. face, including a Bucyrus Erie Steam Shovel used in the con- struction of the Panama Canal. No others are known to ex- ist. Steam generating plants from the major hotels of As with time, businesses come and go for one reason or Yellowstone Park, steam trac[...]station Roper's Repair Service, the Sew N Sew Upholstery Shop. memorabilia. All historical and educational for future Other businesses were established and through different cir- generations.[...]ong time. They are still Exhibits now standing and future ones will stand in mute thriving. T[...]operated by testimony to one man's determination and dedication to Dale and Karen Nicholls. Previous store owners have been p[...]f an era gone by. Bernard and Lil DuMonthier and George and Florence Bryant. The post office is in the store and Lil DuMonthier is the postmaster, having taken over the position from George Ann Harkins Bryant in 1963. The Star Bar is run by Mr. Weightman.[...]l's Hot Springs is a tourist attraction that over the past year and a half has been remodeled into an attractive[...]and restful area. It came into being in the very early days of Silver Star and the name has not changed even though[...]there have been various owners and managers since any of the Barkell family has had possession. Among them wer[...]Ben Fayle, Harold McMurtrey and Gary and Marty[...]The large community hall that was on the east side of the one and only highway through town was moved to the west[...]a time-worn reminder that in earlier years it was the very center of community social life. Once a week it was used for[...]silent movies .. all kinds of programs (there was a stage[...]bridal showers, meetings, card parties, funerals and[...]The Fraternal Order of Eagles held meetings into the 1940's and a boarding house was run by Edna and Alfred Hunt when the mines were working. The two schools that were in Silver Star consolidated with Time witnesses change. Progress pushes forward--and so Twin Bridges. The Harbison (Silver Star Station) District in the Silver Star area. The building of a bridge, paving of a No. 42 was l[...]bile, a railroad, electricity-• known as the Weingart School and later was changed to Har- change in practically every area of life has moved people bison. The district was never recorded as Weingart. The around so that the center of activity is in the larger town and school was built as there was no bridge across the Jefferson city. River until about 1912 and the children on that side needed a _A s the mines gradually ceased operation, families that did school. Also. people needed easier access to town than to not[...]those whose roots were well those days. The school building was eventually moved into establi[...]a result some have Waterloo, renovated and used as a home. driven quite a distance to a job. There has been prospecting The other school, District 17, was right in town. It was off and on through the years and at this time some mines are originally a log structure and at one time through the years being revived. Farming and ranching is the main industry was replaced with bricks. This building still stands and is here now.[...] |
| [...]wise: Cheese factory, Depot, Community Hal~ Store and Post Office, Church steeple and DOUGLAS ALLEN the Egger residence.[...]1926, to Frank and Margaret Allen. Named George after his[...]grandfather, his first name was never used and he was called[...]Doug. His boyhood was spent in Silver Star where the famiy IRON ROD[...]moved when he was small. He attended school at the old brick schoolhouse through the fifth grade. When his family There are a few homes at Iron Rod. A housing develop- moved back to the old Iron Rod ranch, he completed his ment called Jefferson Acres was established near there. The elementary schooling at the Iron Rod School. sawmill was moved to a few miles[...]egan early in his interest of livestock, ranching and The school is gone and only the remains of an early day mill politics. In final county tests for rural students, his average attests to the activity and mining of days now passed. was highest in the county, with highest in agrfoulture and[...]econd highest in civics. He worked with livestock and horses and with his parents corralled the last of the wild horses in Hells Canyon in 1958. He also hunted big game and bagged many mule deer and elk over the years. He also ex- celled in bowling and target shooting. WATERLOO[...]Working on various ranches in the area, he and his parents[...]ir own ranch where after his father's death in The stock industry has remained a permanent part of 1967, he and his mother continued the operation. Waterloo history. Ranches and farms have changed hands and most businesses gradually faded away over the years. In 1970 his interest in politics prompted him to try for The store and post office was probably the last business to Madison County Commissioner. In a field of six candidates be phased out and discontinued. This was in 1971 and Mrs. from both parties, he lost the primary by seven votes. The Viola Deering was postmaster at that time. She and her hus- law then allowed filing an independent candidacy by petition band Bernard operated the store. He passed away while they after the primary. He did so and defeated both party can- were living in Waterloo and not long after the business clos- didates in November. ed Viola moved to Twin Bridges and makes her home there As County Commissioner he addressed the problem of ob- now. solete bridges and with concerted effort managed to solve The wind had continued to play havoc in Waterloo. In June part of the problem by working with the board to replace five of 1980 a tornado touched[...]tructive force. It came from a southern direction and moved northeast out of Doug Allen in 1937 on horse (Cub) with dog (Shorty) horse town. Damage was extensive and fortunately no one was (Molly) with pack in Hells[...]killed. A very terrifying experience for those in the tornado's path. Children have attended school either in Whitehall or Twin Bridges for several years. The church has been moved from its original location and there are no services there any more. A co[...] |
| [...]ajor bridges in his district. He served six years and five Allen and Douglas Allen is the little boy. months, probably the longest single term of any Madison County Commissioner, replacing an appointment one month early and serving four months additional when the Montana Margaret Agnes Turney was born Ma[...]Rod to James H. and Mary Turney. Margaret spent her ear- Constitution[...]childhood here. Her father was involved in mining and served a four year term under the Charter voted in sawmills. She often went into mines and up in the mountains November 1976. Becoming dissatisfied with the charter with him. He died at Christmas time in 1913 when she was structure, he did not run again, instead, he ran for State twelve. She and her sister, Doris, and brother, Glen, then liv- Senator in 1980 for Madison and Beaverhead Counties, but[...]ith their grandmother Margaret Turney for awhile. She was unsuccessful also spent two years with her other grandmother Julia[...]eAnn (Franklin) Vaughn, a Redfern Turney in the Centennial Valley, until 1916 when native of Washington state and they make their home on the she took a job at the Basin Creek Reservoir near Butte. ranch at Iron R[...]It was here she met Frank, who was then employed by[...]always a rider and this quality caught Frank's eye, as horses[...]Butte as a teamster. He often visited the ranch and the[...]heir marriage in Butte, January 9, FRANK AND MARGARET A. ALLEN 1917.[...]reek Basin near Lemhi, August 20, 1890, to George and Ella Allen. Frank was ten Idaho. Margaret's mother and stepfather, Mary and Chris years old when his father died, His mother later married Kingsbury, were then living in Salmon City. Also Frank's Benjamin F. Landies and they moved to a ranch in Blacktail cousin lived near there. At this time he worked on the Ed Park.[...]orn October Frank's father had been a teamster and horseman and this 8, 1917, a son who died at birth. influenced his work in life. Much of his boyhood was spent In November, 1918, they and the Kingsburys returned to handling horses, riding, hauling mining timbers and Silver Star. They went on to the Landies place in Blacktail firewood to the Butte mines. Park where Frank took a job hauling mining stulls near the[...]ittle Pipestone Creek. After this he helped build the Margaret and Frank Allen in 1917 at Salmon,_!_daho. road known as Roosevelt Drive and then went back to Butte[...]ime Frank joined his brother-in-law, Jack Porter, and[...]teamster hauling mining timbers and cordwood near[...]They moved back to Butte the summer of 1921 where on[...]Early in the year of 1924 they came back to Iron Rod in[...]Madison County to ranch at the Ernest Barkell place. It was[...]Frank continued teaming, hauling ore, and timber for the[...]came in, he got the tougher jobs in the mountains where the[...]f that day couldn't go. He was a skilled teamster and[...]horses and handled them well.[...] |
| Frank and Margaret heading for the range at Glen, Montana in June of 1947. In the early thirties the family moved to Silver Star and |
| [...]September 21 , 1890. She was educated there and worked for a year in Switzerland before she came to Butte, Montana in the spring of 1909. In October 1909 she and Andrew Kloos were married in[...]Carl, Arthur, Paul (deceased) and Ruth S. (Nelson). In 1924 she was widowed and in 1925 she was married to[...]Sophie died June 22, 1972 at the age of eighty-one.[...]THE CARNEY FAMILY The Andren grandchildren • standing: Heid~ Travis,[...]The Carney family has been in Madison County for over They have two children: Jennifer and Travis. They live in one hundred years. Pat Carney migrated from Ireland when Waterloo on the Byron Wickham place and operate the An• he was eleven years old. He first lived in Boston, but at the dren ranch. age of seventeen years he joined a wagon train and crossed the plains in 1868. He lived in Alder Gulch and Butte before[...]in 1878. Evan and Paul Andren He married Armunda Butts and had five children by this[...]marriage: Tom, Lillian, Rose, John and Ella. Tom stayed[...]with his father until his father died in 1928 and continued farming at the same ranch until Tom passed away in 1945.[...]He was a bachelor and a colorful individual. He was loved by all who knew him. He was always ready to help a neigh[...]and loved children. He and his buddies loved to play pranks and jokes on the poor "green horns" from the city. Sophie and Otto Bausch, February 28, 1954.[...]Lillian married Walter Brook and lived most of her married |
| [...]she hopes it will remain in the family for another one hundred[...]THE WILLIAM CURNOW FAMILY[...]William Curnow (1873-1948) and Katie Butler Curnow[...]1906. They came to Butte, Montana in the same year where he worked in the mines. Their first child, Arthur, was born in[...]erville in 1907. Cement building destroy ed by the tornado in June 1980 on Trees uprooted near the Ca'mey house after tornado. years old at this time.[...]hey homesteaded a |
| Frank and Margaret Duffey shortly after their marriage in H[...]ozeman, Montana April 21, 1940. FRANK AND MARGARET DUFFEY Frank and Margaret with nine of their ten grandchildren[...]camping at Mill Creek. |
| [...]Soo, when he was living on the Martin Hall ranch.[...]would be away from home at least three nights and four days[...]so would have to hire someone to stay on the farm and care[...]for things there. After about twenty years Mar~in and Mamie decided to retire and move back to Butte to live and Martin Slocum Hall as a soldier in[...]In those days there were Chinese gardeners at the nine the Spanish American War. mile east of Butte farming and raising vegetables for the public. Two Chinese came out to the valley looking for more Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1865. She became a territory to farm. They were very good and honest men. dressmaker, a trade she followed for a few years until she One was called Soo and the other was nicknamed Dago was told by doctors that[...]d be much improved China. When they came to the Noah Williams ranch they if she moved to a higher altitude. She had a brother Frank in never failed to stop and give the Williams children Chinese Butte, so she decided to move there. Frank was then work- candy and nuts and maybe a package of tea from China for ing at the Colorado Smelter and was well acquainted with Mrs. Williams. Soo rented the Hall farm and lived there and Noah and Elizabeth Williams. Frank, a single man, did not raised vegetables for about six years. Many farmers and have a home of his own, so it was arranged that h[...]ables to transplant on their own farms Mary (whom the family called Mamie) would live with Noah instead of caring for hotbeds of their own. and Elizabeth and she could carry on her trade.[...]Soo was shot in the chest and became very ill. He Martin and Mamie Hall lived in Butte for many years[...]e before buying forty acres of unimproved land on the east side had a family in China ... a wife and three sons. Soo was a cook of the Jefferson River in Madison County where they built a by trade. When the Spanish American War broke out he log home and other buildings to carry on their farming. They[...]work as a cook on Admiral George Dewey's flagship also planted shade trees and lilacs around the house and an and was chief cook there during the Battle of Manilla Bay. orchard. They dug a well f[...]he was given a certificate for his citizenship in the cellar. The farm land had a water right. United States by the President. Martin and Mrs. Hall and They lived on their farm twenty years raising chiefly grain some close friends saw the document. and potatoes and would load a car of potatoes on the Nor- Len Nordberg used to cut and put up the hay with help. thern Pacific Railroad and ship it to Butte. They then took Gwyn would cook dinner at home and take ~t over hot _for their team and a heavy wagon to peddle in Butte. They[...]referred his own cooking Wedding picture of Mamie and Martin Hal~ December 25, and always ate with chop sticks. 1900. The Halls did not have children of their own, but had[...]two boys from the Orphan's Home and reared them. Henry[...]earning his own living. Later he enlisted in the U.S. Arl:°Y· The second son, Willie Aiken, was six years old. He lived with Mart and Mamie until he was grown and learned to be[...]lectrician. He was in California with a sister at the time[...]21, 1933. Martin was taken to live with Len and G~ Nord-[...]berg on their ranch where he lived most of the remamder of his life. He died in the Silver Bow General Hospital March[...]17, 1951, at the age of ninety.[...] |
| Lloyd and Ann Harkins[...]j • ~ LLOYD AND ANN HARKINS ' ,[...]g beside 1910 Case, 75 H.P. This L. to R. front: Marilynn Ann Harki[...]Harkins, Ann. Back: Larry Lloyd, Lloyd. Buckeye and the Victor Chemical Mine at Maidenrock. In |
| [...]CHARLES M. AND RUTH B. MILLER[...]rles M. Miller was born December 7, 1909 to Sarah and[...]up the family lived in several homes in Ruby and spent time on a homestead in the hills above Alder. The Miller boys told many tales of life around the dredge boats, such as the time a man lost a toe in an accident and the boys found a shoe with the toe still in it. There was the day the bucket brought up a nest of rattle snakes and the[...]Fourth of July there was a snow storm that left the decks lit-[...]them away. It was said that one time the riffles over-flowed with gold and no one knew how much was lost. Louis nar-[...]beside him and started to reach out to help them. He claimed the incident caused his hair to turn white overnight.[...]The family moved to a small ranch near Silver Star in[...]1935 on the ranch belonging to her mother. Less than a year[...]later Charlie took over management of the ranch and spent the rest of his life there. Hazel Eunice (Cochran) Lund before she was married. Ruth Boyd was born February 24, 1914 in the family home[...]about four miles southwest of Twin Bridges. She was the oldest daughter of Charles and Theora Mercer Boyd, who Montana Pioneers, George Washington Blackman and Laura was the daughter of early day residents Fred and Eva Page August (Stewart) Chase Blackman. Hazel was born in Silver Mercer. The other Boyd daughters are Fern (Mrs. Floyd Star, Montana, August 24, 1896, daughter of James Rollen Kirley) and Wayve (Mrs. Wesley Boyd). The family moved Cochran (an early Montana settler) and Adelaide Beryl to the old Dean ranch near the Silver Star railroad station in (Blackman) Cochra[...]-wife, delivered Hazel. 1929. Hazel was raised in the "Woods " house, next to the house Charles C. Boyd came from Marion, Ohio in 1906 with the which her Grandfather Blackman constructed by him[...]lder Gulch. Hazel's father, Jim Cochran, owned and operated the Ruth started school riding in the first bus operated by the General Store, assisted by Hazel's uncle, George C. Twin Bridges School District. The Pageville District had Blackman (a Montana pioneer). (The old saloon was con- consolidated with Twin Bridges the previous year. She verted into the store.) Jim ~as Postmaster and provided graduated from Twin Bridges High School in 1932, attended entertainment by playing the 'fiddle' for town square dances college at Eastern in Billings and taught school in Silver Star and sing-alongs. He was instrumental in the bridge span- the year before she was married. ning the Jefferson River at Silver Star. Ruth and Charlie had six sons: William, Robert, Charles[...]t day at school, when Grace We- Jr., Mark, Edward and Carl. Carl died in 1959 and Edward in ingart (Mrs. Woods today) warmly greeted her and they 1980. William lives in Fullerton, California[...]became fast friends. Their teacher, Mr. Mahoney, also Montana; and Mark in Madison, Wisconsin. Charles Jr., now taught Hazel's mother there. The log cabin, where John liv- operates the home ranch. ed, still stands in Silver Star today[...]Ruth and Charles M Miller with three of their sons-Charles Bertha Smith, Lucy Erick and Ben Weingart. Hazel studied Jr., William L. and Robert-in 1943. piano from Mrs. Merk. Each win[...]to Twin Bridges for dances. During Wodd War I she moved to Bozeman, learned the millinery trade and later attended Montana State College (Home Economics). She drove her mother and her deaf cousin, Thelma Blackman, all the way to San Diego, Califor- nia in 1922 in a Model T Ford. She married G. Louis Lund on June 27, 1923. Their children: Marjorie (Lund) Crump and James Louis Lund. Their grandchildren: Constance, Scott and Craig Crump and Eric Lund. Hazel lives in Long Beach, California in the house which she and her husband built in 1929.[...] |
| [...]James H. Miller and Sally on their 40th wedding anniver- The Miller family in 1978. Seated L . to R .: Charles M ., Ruth sary. B., Robert and CaroL Standing L. to R .: William, Linda, Ed- ward, Mark, Tammy, Patty and Charles Jr. He spent his first six summers on the homestead northeast[...]of Ruby where they farmed. He trapped in the dredge ponds, During the years they changed the principal type of farm- hunted ducks and fished. James learned the names of wild ing several times. They raised potatoes for the State Or- flowers, plants, animals and trees while up in the hills-- phans' Home (which were picked each fall by the youngsters something he has enjoyed all his life. Some of his best times from the Home who considered it a great outing). For several were trips via team and spring wagon to the Madison with years they operated a dairy, selling the dairy cows in 1950 his brothers, Charles and William. and thereafter raised hogs and stock cattle. James attended high school in Virginia City and Twin Through the years they gradually added to the home Bridges as the family had moved to Silver Star in 1930. He ranch[...]another small ranch originally helped on the farm and worked on local ranches. He put in owned by the Hancock family. Later they acquired summer one season in 1932 in northern Idaho with the Forest Service range through membership in the Snowline and Waterloo building fire roads. Grazing[...]Many changes in farming methods occurred between the Silver Star. They were married June 29, 1935 in Virginia Ci- 1930's and 1970's. In the depression years of the early ty. Six children were born to them: James, Thomas, Richard, 1930's, horses were still the principal source of power. Barbara, Bonnie and Sarah. They have twenty-four grand- Charlie had one of the first modem tractors in the Jefferson children and five great grandchildren. Valley. Man-power was p[...]working in jobs on farms. Then came World War II and suddenly the the Silver Star area between 1935 and 1940. He was able to surplus help was gone. Charl[...]was short, so he built a small house. John Deere) and was besieged for weeks with pleas to cut They had a cow, old Suzie and a garden. In 1940 he bought grain. He went as far as the Nine Mile near Butte and to his first new car, a Ford. Alder. Both labor and equipment were hard to obtain during They moved back to Ruby in 1_946 where he purchased the the war. The addition of larger machinery was a welcome old Newt Rogers home. The neighbors, Bill, Joe and Margie change. O'Connell enjoyed the children. Two of their boys worked for Charlie loved to hunt and fish. Camping trips for the entire Joe in his honey house. John Rogers, Tillie Hansen, Maude family were highlights of the year. He and Ruth were active Dupius and Henry Carey were all good friends and in the Farmers Union, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the neighbors. Church of the Valley at Twin Bridges and several Masonic Orders including the Eastern Star. The Miller family - L. to R.: Sarah, Richard, Bonnie, Sally, Charlie's healt h failed in 1973 and he died in 1979. Ruth James H., Thomas, Barbara and Jim at the 40th wedding an- lives on the ranch near Silver Star. niversary for Sally and James.[...]James was born July 13, 1912 in Ruby, Montana, the youngest son of Louis and Sarah Miller. His early years were spent in that area. He attended school there and graduated from grade eight in 1925. His most influential teacher was Mrs. Wassel. She taught him to respect his elders.[...] |
| In June, 1947, James started work in the phosphate mine near Garrison, Montana. The family moved there in 1948. He retired in 1975. He joined the L.D.S. Church in Drum- mond, Montana in 1957 and has been an active member since then.[...]James H. Miller AXEL T. AND RUTH V. NELSON Axel is the youngest of five sons born to Nils and Anne[...],~,- "'!), |
| In 1972 Axel was honored by the Jefferson Valley Soil Conservation District when he was given the "Outstanding Conservationist A ward" for the conservation practices he had employed at the ranch. The following year, 1973, he and Ruth made a trip back to Norway to see his homeland. His brother Nick and a friend Hjalmar Mydland made the trip with them. They spent six happy weeks re-discovering Axel's boyhood home and visiting family and friends. He had wanted to fish in the lake by his home and take Ruth out to pick "those beautiful Norwegian Blueberries", but the lake had been polluted by industry from other countries, killing all the fish and there were no Blueberries that year. Nevertheless, the weather was beautiful and the people were wonderful. It was a truly memorable t[...]ugust, 1981, a Stacy son, Charles, stopped to see the old log house which he told Ruth he had been born in Nick and Ruth S. Nelson on their wedding day, seventy-eigh[...]June 24, 1942. bought the ranch north of Silver Star he went back and dismantled the house and brought it to the ranch and rebuilt it log by log. Just a bit of history ....... . married Otto Bausch and the family moved to the Whitehall Axel and Ruth are now engaged in raising cattle with area. In 1930 the famiy then moved to the Silver Star area Gary. Axel has retired and when asked what he does, Ruth where they lived on the Campana, Muller and Dem ranches. says, "As he pleases ". Nick and Ruth were married June 24, 1942 at the home of Helen and Alois Schai near Waterloo, Montana. They lived[...]worked in the mines. Their first child, Paul Alfred, was born[...]Nikki Anne, was born August 18, NICK AND RUTH S. NELSON 1946. Nick worked at the Buckeye Mine near Sheridan, Mon-[...]tana until June of 1948 when the family moved to a ranch Nick Nelson was born in Norway and came to Butte, Mon- near Melrose. tana December 14, 1929 at the age of nineteen. He first In the spring of 1949 they moved to the Herman worked in the Butte mines until April of 1930 when he Boedecker ranch near Waterloo and from there to a ranch started working for the Northern Pacific railroad at Card- then owned by George Hunt. In 1953 the ranch was sold to well, Montana. Ernest Egger and the family moved to Divide, Montana October 16, 193[...]s born February 10, tin, on a ranch near Iron Rod and went to work at the Golden 1954. Nick worked at the mines owned by the Stauffer Rod Mine until 1941 when he started working for the Broad- Chemical Company. way mine. The family moved to the Alfred Nelson ranch near Silver Ruth S. Nelson was born in Butte, Montana, the daughter Star August 16, 1958. Nick drove to work at Melrose until of Andrew and Sophie Kloos. When Ruth was three years the mine shut down in 1967. Nick went to work for Jay and old, in 1924, her father passed away. In 1925 Mrs. Kl[...]ranching full time. The ranch has Black Angus cattle, sheep Nick N[...]The Nelson children. Top to bottom: Paul, Nikki and Dan in the fall of 1954.[...] |
| and pigs. The cattle are wintered and calved out at the ranch and are trucked to the Snowline Grazing Association near Lima, Montana for the summer. Ruth S. Nelson LINUS AND GWYNDOLYN NORDBERG Ernest Linus (Len) Nordber[...]He was one of twelve |
| [...]also. in Tacoma, Washington. Dean married Patricia Narancich William and Eva Pink later moved to Silver Star where Halse. Sheridan is their home. Marjorie and her husband they reared their family of[...]December 3, 1892; George, born March 24, 1895; and Arthur,[...]Helen C. Jones for several years and had three daughters. Later they moved[...]to Vallejo, California. George left Silver Star and went to THE JOHN PINK FAMILY Pas[...]They reared three children, Maryann, Fred and Howard. George owned and operated the Pink Transfer Company un- John Pink, born October 22, 1839, and Catherine Lauter- til his retirement. It is[...]ons. Mildred back, born November 2, 1842, grew up and married in Ger- passed away in December 1979. Arthur married Frances many. They emigrated to the United States and settled first Pahl of Twin Bridges. They spent most of their married life in in Chicago, Illinois, where their eldest son W[...]70. They later moved to San Francisco, Pink and a little daughter who was drowned in the Russian Californa, where son Frank was born in 1872, and a daughter River in California. Their home w[...]n in 1876. and operated a service station. They moved to Montana Territory and settled at Silver Frank Pink, son of John and Catherine, married Gertrude Star in 1879 where they lived near the Green Campbell Mine. Burger who was born in Virginia City on January 6, 1890. The family later homesteaded on Cherry Creek about one She and Frank, married September 13, 1906, had one and one-half miles west of Silver Star. A daughter Ka[...]Star. They now live in Arizona. larkspur blossom. She is buried on the top hill. John Pink Frank Pink died in 1936 and Gertrude died December 13, died May 4, 1906. Cath[...]1975. Both are buried in Silver Star. buried in the Silver Star Cemetery.[...]eat Britain. He was interested in mining in Butte and Butte at the Centennial Brewery. During that time he[...]me acquainted with his future wife, Eva Williams. She moving to Butte. Two daughters were born d[...], Wales in 1871. As a years, Helen in 1896 and Emily in 1898. William died in 1923 young woman she joined her father John Williams, who had and Lillian in 1945. Helen married Jack Trewin, nativ[...]t Britain. He died in Butte in 1963 with a nephew and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Williams. and Helen passed away in 1966. Emily married Ewart Oa[...]ith Mrs. Adolph Speckard whose field. She died in 1973 and he died in 1975. Neither Helen nor husband was as[...]Leopold Schmidt, Emily had any children. All the Hendra families are buried co-owner of the Centennial Brewery. In 1889 Leopold in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Butte. Schmidt with one horse and a top buggy drove out to Olym- In the early days of Montana, John Pink's brother Frank pia, Washington and built a brewery and started the making Pink drove stage from Corinne, Utah, to Fort Benton, Mon- of Olympia beer. Later he had the Olympia Brewery in Butte tana where they could go by river boats and be taken east.[...] |
| One of the rest stops was at Gaffney Station later called Salisbury. It is now the Tash Ranch near Twin Bridges, Mon- tana. The old painted building used as a barn in recent years was the Salisbury Hotel. Gwyndolyn Nordberg THE JOHN T. POGSON FAMILY John T. Pogson was born[...]delphia, |
| was a Mason and belonged to the Twin Bridges Lodge.[...]JAMES D. REYNER James D. Reyner is the present day owner of the Reyner Lou and Hazel - 1981.[...]the sixth grade, after which the district consolidated with |
| The five Reyner brothers. L. to R.: Millard, Ellis, M[...]Wedding of David Roper and Irene Chester, February 17,[...]1929 at Hinsdale, Montana. High School that she'd had for eight years and they moved to Alder where they built the KOA campground - one of the 1934 and a girl in 1935 died at birth and are buried in Fish first units of the Kampgrounds of America chain which had Cre[...]d to be a successful enterprise which During the thirties David worked as mechanic on the road they enjoyed very much. However, during the tourist season contracts from north Silver Star to Twin Bridges. The family it involved long hours and hard work for t wo older people and then moved to Alder where he was head mechanic for the they sold the operation in July, 1972. heavy duty machinery until the Dam was finished. The fami- In 1966 while living at Alder, Lou accep[...]d as employment as an Engineering Technician with the Soil Con- mechanic and lathe operator for the ·New Brighton Arms servation Service and continued in this capacity until his Plant and the Northwest Aeronautical Works until those retirement in December, 1980. Hazel and Lou have no facilities were closed at the end of hostilities. David then children and they are enjoying retirement in a home which returned to heavy-duty construction mechanic on the Gar- they built in the fall of 1972 on an acre and a quarter of the rison Dam in North Dakota. The family remained in Min- old family ranch at Silver Star. They are active members of neapolis as all three children were in high school. He also the Church of the Valley in Twin Bridges, enjoy gardening worked on the construction of the Alcan Highway in Canada. and yard work, roaming in the hills, fishing and have various During this time Irene worked six years as sewing machine and sundry hobbies. They have many friends up and down operator in dress factories in Minneapolis. In 1950 William the valley - this is home and they love it! was in the Air Force, Carolyn married, Lois · was out of[...]school, so the Ropers moved back to Montana. In the spring of 1951 Roper Repair and Service opened in[...]to college and a teaching career becoming the breadwinner for the next thirteen years when she also retired. Because[...]warmer winter climate, Irene taught in THE DAVID EARL ROPER FAMILY Nevada, returning to Silver Star for the summers. David Earl Roper was born August 2, 1904 at Gregson |
| David remained active in the Church of the Valley, dairy business. Then came "The Great Depression". It was Masonic Lodge, and community affairs up until his death on a struggle to keep the farm going; so all plans to return to September 29, 1977. He is buried in the family plot in Fish Switzerland were forgotten. Creek Cemetery. Irene remains active in the Church of the On May 4, 1938 Alois and Helen A. Kloos were united in Valley, Eastern Star, and community affairs. She lives in the marriage. Four children were born of this union[...]ar. Lee, Neal and Mary Ellen (deceased).[...]Irene Roper Much to his pleasure, in the fall of 1938, he became a[...]naturalized citizen of the United States. In the fall of 1940 the partnership was dissolved and the Schai family continued to live on the farm, developing it into[...]The farm was sold to Paul Christensen in April, 1967.[...]Alois and Helen Schai are now retired and living in[...]The Schai barnyard. ALOIS SCHAI[...]was born March 25, 1905 in NOAH AND ELIZABETH CHRISTINA WILLIAMS Switzerland. He grew up and was educated in the canton of St. Gallen where his father owned a che[...]lan- his father, he became interested in learning the trade of voches, Wales, Great Britian. Eli[...]America for a two- father was William Williams and his mother's maiden name year stay in this countr[...]was Eleanor (Ellen) Williams, no relation to the William Swiss, Frank Geisser and was employed for a time making Williams f[...]s cheese factory. Williams and her mother's maiden name was Mary Williams, Later that year Alois and Frank decided to go into partner- no relation. ship to purchase a farm from Carl Henrich to go into the Noah was reared on a small farm. He was[...]he went to the neighboring town of Wenvoe to apprentice as[...]a blacksmith. After serving his apprenticeship and working Holsteins on the Schai Dairy Farm. at[...]and have a sheep ranch, as he had relatives in Pennsy[...]here he went to work for his uncle, Moses Shields and a cousin Moses Shields Jr., who owned and operated a large blue stone quarry. The stone was used as window trimming and cornices on large buildings. Elizabeth Christina[...]and a friend Woodman Craddock decided to come west.[...]The men arrived in Butte, Montana August 20, 1887.[...]The Colorado Smelter had recently moved into Butte on[...]ed Henry Williams. The property was mining claims west of the smelter site. It was owned by two natives of Germ[...]John B. Sattes and William Sincil. When they decided to plat the property for a townsite, Noah and Elizabeth pur- chased the first three lots and built the first new home in the[...] |
| Noah and Elizabeth Williams area. Due to this, the owners asked Elizabeth to name the The Williams family in 1920 · Standing: Charles Williams, |
| Wedding picture of Alfred Thomas Woods and Ruth[...]ozeman, Montana for a short time. He came back to the Methodist Church of Sheridan and the Church of the Valley. ranch and it has been his livelihood ever since. She enjoys her work on the steering committee of the On June 13, 1953 he married Ruth Corienne Massey at the Madison County History Association. Mt. Vie[...]rch in Butte, Montana. Ruth was Tony and Ruth built their home on the ranch site. A son, born in Butte, December 20, 1930. She grew up and attended Douglas Leroy, was born July 31, 1[...]school there graduating from Butte High in 1949. She at- Silver Star and attended school in Twin Bridges. He enjoyed tended Butte Business College and was employed in the of- athletics in high school and was selected to play in the East- fice of the Waite Oil Company as a clerk typist until her mar- West Shrine football game at Great Falls the end of his riage.[...]Farmers of America Ruth is an active member of the Church of the Valley in and attended Boy's State. He graduated in 1972, then went Twin Bridges and has served on various boards there. She to Montana State College in Bozeman and graduated from belongs to the Women of the Church and has served as there with a degree in Ag Production. He came back to the church organist since 1963. She has played for numerous ranch and is now in partnership with his father. funerals and weddings in the community and is a piano Doug married Patricia (Gullings) of Great Falls on teacher. She is accompanist for the Ruby Valley Chorale, an February 5, 1982. He[...]e Lynn by a ecumenical singing group sponsored by the Bethel United previous marriage. Kacee w[...]Tony served on the Twin Bridges school board for nine years and is a director on the Farmers Union Trading Com- Tony with his son Doug at home on the ranch. pany board of directors out of Butte. He is a member of the Church of the Valley. He has served as a trustee there f[...] |
| [...]The old Jefferson Island Hotel and Store was destroyed by Looking back over the years there have been many fire Thursday morning. The Whitehall fire department changes in the South Boulder, Jefferson Island-Cardwell received the call at 1:05 a.m., but fireman had to wait for a[...]second call to determine the location of the fire. By the time The Milwaukee Railroad has discontinued service throu[...]ed at Jefferson Island, which is about nine miles the area. The rails are idle, and the station has been hauled southeast of Whitehall, only the walls of the building were away to a location near Willow Creek. The station and sec- standing. tion crews a_n d their famil[...]A grove of large cottonwood trees surrounding the the Milwaukee Railroad brought mail twice a day. Discon- building also caught fire, creating a circle of flame. Firemen tinuing this service caused the demise of the post office. The doused the trees and soaked down the area adjacent to the first post office was at Arthur Shaw's store, which is now the Masonic Temple building and several haystacks on the Doug Masonic Lodge Hall of Riverside Lodge No. lll. From there Shaw ranch behind the building. it was moved to the Harvey Noble store, which had been The hotel was built by Shadan Lahood in 1909 as a general operated formerly by Shadan Lahood when the old merchandise store. When the Milwaukee Road went through Yellowstone trail went that way. When Highway 10 was the area, a branch house was opened up in 1913 for coal, fuel, built through the Jefferson Canyon, Dan Lahood built grain and produce which was sold by area farmers. Later Lahood Park. Harvey Noble had the Post Office until 1954 rooms were added for area teachers. The area originally was when it was transferred to Cardwell. The old Noble Store was called Lahood, and later the name was changed to Jefferson destroyed by fire i[...]Island. Mr. Lahood pursuaded the government to transfer the post office to the store building. In May 1912 the[...]ter Arthur Shaw. Cardwell.Jefferson Island Bridge-old and new. Mr. Lahood sold the property in 1933 to Harvey Noble who ran the store and was postmaster until the post office was[...]sold the property to Dee Ramey, who ran it as a grocery st[...]of Helena. Hammerbacker had begun remodeling the[...]Next to the Masonic Lodge Hall stands a weather-beaten[...]building, which was originally a hotel and eating place, and later converted into a garage and living quarters for those who ran the garage. Among those who ran the garage were Archie White, Jack Winton, and Levi and Bobby Woodside[...]Next to this old building at one time was a lumber yard[...]which was run by Tucker & Bullis. On down the Milwaukee[...] |
| Bismarck Mill above Mammoth (1948). Railroad track near the stock yards was an elevator run by and Mrs. Bob Rickabaugh of Bozeman appeared on the scene Mr. Finch. This is where the farmers in the surrounding area and became the first Pastor. For seven years the sold their grain and hay. Rickabaughs commuted. Roy Anderson of Bozeman filled All of the rural schools in the South Boulder area have the pulpit for the next few years. Shel Helsley came from disappeared, the South Boulder, Ramer Lone Pine, Bone Helena for one year and with the hiring of Dan Simmons, Basin, Hubbard, Mammoth, Lyon, and Jefferson Island. The who drove from Billings each week-end for one year, the first grade schools consolidated with Cardwell, and the high "full time" pastor began his minis[...]o-m ed Harrison, Pony, Cardwell, Whitehall and Nigger Hollow. Whitehall and Cardwell to pick up students, but Harrison After seven years here, the Simmons returned to school and sends a bus to transport those high school students wishing Francis J. Dupuis took up the torch in November, 1978 to go there. Bus drivers now have to pass rigid tests, not on- The little school house and land was purchased from the ly in driving skills, but also first aid, whereas formerly Rundell heirs and two additions were added, and later a Sun- anyone could drive a bus regardless of qualifications. day School building was built and now a iiew sanctuary is The Summit Valley School house has been renovated and under construction. painted and remodeled, and added onto for the Cardwell Community Church. Recently, a Sunday Sch[...]Arcylle Shaw recreation room, bathrooms, and kitchen. Because of the large attendance a new sanctuary is being built on the west side of the church. The old Summit Valley hall still stands beside the road next to the L.F. Scheytt place now owned by Clovis Hinton.[...]It afforded a meeting place for social events and dances. It CARDWELL COMMUNITY CHURCH[...]hasn't been used for over 50 years. The stark weather-[...]group of local citizens made an idleness and neglect. agreement with the Cardwell School board to lease the Sum- The old Isaac Westmoreland place has completely mit Valle[...]eared--no trace of house or buildings or orchard! The meeting place for worship. During the initial renovation, Mr. beautiful Whiting-Alex[...]of disrepair after the Leo Carmody family moved to the Nan-[...]nie Wetzel ranch. Cattle pens were built in the beautiful or- Cardwell Store - Dick & Laura Alsop, owners. chards, trees and shrubs died because of neglect. One house[...]was torn down, the other stands in sad neglect--unpainted--a[...]sixty acres of land along the South Boulder River in 1947. The first students arrived in 1949. The station was founded[...]Charles Deiss. After a twenty-year career at the University[...]field station, because of the tremendous variety of rock types[...] |
| [...]Indiana University Geologic Field Station and structures in ~ relatively small area, and because of his week in May and ends in mid-July; the second five-week |
| [...]When the Lodge received its Charter, its membership had[...]The building was started and completed between January 19th and February 27th that year. This building was locate[...]in the back and adjoining the Shaw Store. The first Masonic funeral was conducted for William[...]In the early 1940's Riverside Lodge purchased the Shaw store and the dance hall and converted it into a Masonic Hall. The store is the present dining room. Bi-monthly[...]meetings are held in this hall by the Riverside Lodge and[...]Bruce Landis South Boulder School which was later the home of George and Helen Patrick.[...]RANDALL CHAPTER NO. 97, ORDER OF THE[...]EASTERN STAR These are installed and operated by the use of less man- power.[...]JEFFERSONISLAND,MONTANA Varieties of hay and grains have been improved. They are Fifty-six persons met in the Masonic Hall in Jefferson more disease resistant, and better adapted to the climate. Island on March 19, 1921, for the purpose of instituting a More emphasis has been placed on weed control--especially new Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, this Chapter to wild oats. Malting barley has been introduced. The South be known as Randall Chapter No. 97.[...]re effective Willis E. Piper, presided over the meeting. grazing on more efficient ranches. There[...]The Charter members forming this Chapter were: John l[...]and Kathleen Mountjoy; John and Essie Craine; John, Susie, benefit from the Veterinary Clinic established close-by. Phil and Ralph Hatfield; Ada E., Gladys and Jean Franks; More beef cattle are being raised. There are fewer horses and D.S. and Lettie Whiessel; Ray and Lela Southern; Lisabeth, sheep and dairy cows, and very few chickens. May, Eugene and J.C. Brownback; George L. Johns; W.S. Highway 359 is oiled from Interstate 90 to Harrison, and Belle Tucker; Anna Lubke; Pearl Lubke Rogers, Lydia replacing the old Yellowstone Trail, noted for its dangerous, Edwards; D.V. and Ella Ogan; Minnie Shaw; and John muddy, rutted roads, which were impassable days at a time. Wetzel. We have a daily mail service and United Parcel Delivery. Installed to serve as officers were: Ada M. Franks, Worthy The Cardwell Woman's Club, established in 1909, is st[...]Worthy Patron; Essie Craine, active, working for the betterment of the community. Associate Matron; Susie Hat[...]Minnie Shaw, Sentinel. On the 7th day of November, 1916, W.J. Rankin, O.G. The Chapter flourished with one or more initiates at[...].F. Church, C.E. Black, W.A. Drake, meeting. The meetings were well attended with many arriv- I.A.[...]cles. Tucker, A.S. Kyle, J.W. Powell, F.A. Tebay, and A.C. Mann- The original Masonic Hall was an annex to the Shaw store. ing petitioned and were authorized to open a lodge at Jeffer- In 1945 Riverside Lodge No. 111 purchased the store and the son Island, Montana, under the name of Riverside Lodge No. hall was moved into what was once a dance hall and the an- 111 U.D.[...]rn down. This hall is still in use by Riverside The appointed officers were: W.J. Rankin, Worshipful Lodge No. 111 and Randall Chapter No. 97, Order of the Master; O.G. Shenk, Senior Warden; and W.S. Stephens, Eastern Star. Junior War[...]At a special communication held on November 16th, the following officers were elected: W.J. Rankin, Wor[...]eacon; A.S. Kyle, Junior freedom to go and come as we choose, freedom to worship Deacon; W.S[...]terference, public schools, a voice in W.A. Drake and A.F. Church, Stewards and C.E. Black, our government. Most of all, we have people who care about Tyler. each other. The meetings were held in the Arthur Shaw Hall. The Lodge was constituted on November 22, 1917. There were 19 petitioners while the Lodge was under dispensation.[...] |
| CARL AND MARIE ALGER Carl Alger was born in Lakeview,[...]ith his parents at one year of Richard Alsop (Dick) was born in England in approximate- |
| Waterloo store, and Dick was appointed Postmaster for Waterloo. They sold the store in 1936 and bought Harris Inn at McAllister. They had boats which they rented out for migratory bird hunting and also fishing. They also had cabins and a place where they served meals. In 1946 they sold Harris Inn and bought the Cardwell Store. Dick was Postmaster until his retirement in 1954. Laura assisted him in all of his enterprises. She passed away in 1953. Mr. Alsop was an ardent hunter, even while he was a young man in England, and up to his death in 1961. While hunting in the Boulder-Basin area he suffered a heart attack and had to be taken out of the mountains on a stretcher. They stopped a train and he was put on the train to be taken to the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Alsop led a colorful and active life in every community in which they lived. Both were[...]Charles, John, June, Lucy, Peter, Edward and Thomas. CHARLES AND JUNE ARMSTRONG[...]Charles Molten Armstrong, son of Charlie and Lucy Arm-[...]rong, was born October 1916. He lived most of his life in |
| [...]· fine care of the Madison County Rest Home in Sheridan.[...]Frank Armstrong, son of Charlie and Lucy, attended schools in Cardwell and Whitehall and served in the Army 1 during the war. He is married to Billie Brown and they have a son, Brad, and two daughters, Ruth and Candy. They live[...]in Renton, Washington. Frank is a supervisor in the con-[...]( I Charles Armstrong, driver, Jennie and Ed, Edwin on |
| Wm. Harold, George, Edwin & Robert, sons of Edwin and Jennie Armstrong. Edwin and Jennie Armstrong and children. Washington, leaving Ed and Jennie at the ranch. They had George and Juanita and children.· George Melvin, Jennie Lee,[...]Janice, Gay, Forrest and Jim. Harold Armstrong children: Wm. Jr., Eddie, Dorothy, Jennie and the younger boys operated the ranch for several |
| the misfortune to have a tractor run over him. Their neighbor, Donald Powell, helped with first aid treatment and splinted George's broken leg. After a long siege in the hospital where he almost died from the complications of the accident, George recovered. He and Juanita moved on to be the Cardwell School custodian, where George discovere[...]stairs is very good therapy. Juanita worked for the State Park sign shop and was Clerk of the Cardwell School District for many years. They are ac- tive in community affairs and are longtime members of Riverside Lodge and Randall Chapter, O.E.S. George and Juanita are now retired in a double-wide on their son's pro- perty, and are working very hard on a beautiful yard and garden.[...]ow: Al Patrick, Chuck Patrick. GEORGE NORTON AND ADDIE ARMSTRONG ed in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, from June,[...]1942, until October 1945, in the South Pacific. December,[...]Patrick, daughter of long-time Back Row: Diane, David, Bonnie. Front: Harry and Peggy ROBERT F. AND GLADYS ARMSTRONG[...]bert Franklin Armstrong was born January 7, 1917, the |
| Robert and Gladys and twins.[...]worked until it closed in the 1940's. He died July, 1982, and[...]In 1975 he came back to the South Boulder to care for his[...]Nina's parents were Sarah Ann and William Howard[...]Newkirk, who came from Missouri in the 60's. Nina came to the Jefferson Island area when she was ten years old and has Robert and Gladys and twin babies. spent most of her life here. She went to grade shcool in Sum- mit Valley and high school in Boulder. She and her husband Robert worked for Neiford and White Motors, and later for a ranched, except for a short time, when they managed the J ef- farm machinery company. They are now retired and con- tinue to live in Townsend. Robert helps his son, Monte, in a Left to right, Cleta, Nin'!, Marian, Ed and Eldon Black. cabinet making shop. Monte married Kathy Bucy, and they have four children, Angel, Wendy, Debbie and Wayne; Montana was married to Steve Naegle, and has one son, Craig. Steve was killed in an auto a[...]J auanita Armstrong ELDON AND IRENE BLACK |
| [...]Leo and Verna 50th wedding anniversary.[...]LEO AND VERNA CARMODY[...]Wisconsin, to George and Elizabeth Collins Carmody, pioneer farmers in the area. .[...]mond, Wisconsin. Her parents were Frank Springer and Lot-[...]er. Mr. Springer was a one-time teacher, Nina and Ed Black 's wedding picture. salesman and business manager for the Mammoth Mine in[...]Romance bloomed when the couple were on the teaching[...]in Wisconsin in 1924. Verna ferson Island store and Post Office. Nina is well known and taught science and math and Leo was the 8th grade teacher much loved by all. She has been very active in her church, and coach. They married a year later in Brussells, in 1925. the Eastern Star, and the Cardwell Women's Club. During the next five years, their combined take-home pay Ed's mother, Mary Moore Black and Ruby Streeter was $4,000, which was pretty good w[...]Shaw's (Mrs. Harry Shaw Sr.) mother were sisters, and were early signs of the Great Depression. Looking back to- daughters of Amos Prouty. day, the congenial school teachers were unsure why they Eldon's sister, Clela, was born November 17, 1904. She gave up teaching security for an annual income of only $300. graduated from Dillon High School and attended the Normal But hard workers that they were and not afraid of the future, School for three years. She taught school in Whitehall, and they made out. Leo worked part-time for the state game Whitefish. After teaching two years in Whitefish she mar- farm, worked with a silo-filling crew and cut and sold ried Emil Hinderman, who was Superintendent[...]ir own schools. They have two children, a son Dan and daughter meat and accepted a free milk supply from Leo's folks. Marcia. When they retired they bought a cherry farm on the "Guess we were people with a lot of optimism and guts, but east shore of Flathead Lake. Mr. Hinder[...]economic sense, " Leo confessed. 1965. Clela sold the farm and moved to Kalispell. She now In 1935, Verna's father talked them int[...]family to Cardwell and join him in a ranch venture. The Eldon's youngest sister, Marian, was born Augu[...]Nine years later, in 1944, they expanded 1915 on the home ranch. She attended Summit Valley their holdings and bought Jim Wetzel's place in Summit school and graduated from Cardwell High School in 1933. Valley, near the Tobacco Root Mountains. She worked for the A.S.C.S. for fourteen years and retired in The beautiful old, rambling white frame hc_m se was their 1977. She married Roy Marshall November 28, 1935. He home on the new ranch until they retired. The second son, was the son of L. L. and Belle Marshall of Pony. He had two Jim, and his family occupy the " big house " and Leo and Ver- sisters, Willa Carey and Frances Clowes, and three brothers, na live nearby in a modest mobile home. Kenneth, Harold and Clare, all Pony natives. Roy drove ore truck for Mammoth Mines until it closed. Roy and Marian The couple were blessed with five children: Tom born June bought the John Newkirk ranch and Roy worked for the 17, 1926; Jim, April 3, 1930; Peggy (Burt), November 13, county on the roadgrader. After their retirement they mov- 1932; Terry, December 1, 1934; and Kay (Spackman), ed to Harrison. Roy died September 5, 1977 and Marian died February 27, 1936. With their help, t[...]1980. and productive operation and were involved in community affairs. The Carmodys always maintained the world could be[...] |
| [...]director of the Bozeman Production Credit Association[...]For their hard work and community spirit, the couple have[...]ceived awards in recognition for their leadership and[...]faced in 1970. During a high school reunion in the school where she taught for six years, her former students voted[...]her their favorite teacher and presented her with a gift.[...]Summing up his observations on life, the retired Cardwell[...]rancher said, "I never learned anything from the person who[...]agreed with me, but I learned a heckuva lot from the ones[...]argued. Mr. Carmody was a dedicated servant and informed[...]They are extremely grateful to the many fine people of the community for the gracious and cordial way that they were ~-r[...]- accepted, and honors or success that they have attained are[...]attributable to the many fine people of this area. They think Leo Ca[...]among some of God's chosen people in the finest part of that Verna was a long-time member of the Cardwell Women's Great State of Montana. Country Club and spear-headed many worth while communi- Leo Carmody died April 26, 1982 and is buried in South ty better-ment projects. She was active in 4-H work and serv- Boulder Cemetery. Verna moved to Whit[...]ne. ed as a leader. Blest with a beautiful voice, she was a regular soloist and organist at St. Theresa's Church in Whitehall for[...]thy Brooke 35 years. In addition to performing in the Cardwell area, she sang and played for weddings and funerals in surrounding communities.[...]BERNARD CLARK Leo served on the Cardwell School board in 1944, '45 and '46. He was a member of the old Triple-A (Agriculture Ad- Bernard Clar[...]n Renova, Montana, April 13, justment Act) during the late 1930's and '40's in Madison 1912, the youngest of twelve children. He is the son of W.S. County. He also helped launch the Jefferson Valley Soil Clark (born July 12, 1860 and died March, 1940) and Cecilia District. But through the years, his main interest was the Fergus, born in 1869, and died in 1952. Vigilante Electric Co-op, headquart[...]ting from Whitehall High School he traveled It all began when his father-in-law, Frank Springer, resign- over most of eastern Washington and northern Idaho with ed from the Vigilante Rural Electrification Co-op, and Leo Periodical Publishers. After spending a winter in Seattle, he was elected his successor. The original Co-op was founded shipped out on the U.S.S. Guide, a Coast and Geodetic by Mr. Springer, Guy George of Waterloo, and Frank Survey ship. The crew surveyed about two thirds of Unimak Reyner of Silver Star, and was credited with bringing rural Island. Two and a half years later, he quit the survey and electrification into the valley. Since his election, he has serv- went to Anchorage, Alaska, where he worked at the head of ed continuously as a director at local, state, regional and na- Matanuska Valley in a gold mine until Pea[...]or of Basin Electric Power Sup- enlisted in the Navy and spent most of his Navy time in ply co-op, during[...]for Japanese submarines area. He was president of the board of Central Montana which they never found. He was discharged from the Navy G&T and board member of Midwest Electric Consumers for[...]5 at Camp Shumaker, California, as a 15 years. He also served 21 years on the National Rural Elec- Boatswain's Mate, 2nd[...]shoreman, he joined the Carpenter's Union. Leo Carmody[...]where he lives with his wife Mickey, whom he met and married in South San Francisco in 1952. She was born on a farm in Kansas and is the daughter of Littleton and Anna[...]THOMAS EDWIN AND LILLIE CRAINE[...]Thomas Edwin Craine was born on the Isle of Man in t he[...] |
| [...]years of age, and Lillie on September 6, 1963 at 79 years of[...]1929 and married Melvin Brittain in 1930. They have one[...]homas, born January 9, 1933. He has four children and still lives in Seattle. Evelyn and Melvin Brittain reside in[...]Ruth graduated from the Cardwell High School in 1931. She attended Butte Business College for one year, and on[...]field, Ill. He was born August 12, 1909, and after spend- ing four years in the Navy, came to Butte to visit his aunt.[...]Ruth met him on a "blind" date, through the efforts of Edith Douglas, whom she had gone to school with in Cardwell, and[...]Richard, born August 22, 1935, and Bernard Jr., born December 13, 1940. The Mannings left Butte for Seattle Front Row; Nina B[...]le. January, 1941 , where Bernard was employed in the Back Row: Alice Powel~ Helena Howard, Verna Carmody, ship-yards all during the war. He later became involved with Marian Marshan Cora Sacry. Lil Craine 's going away party Unions,and until he retired in 1978, was Business Agent for[...]Ironworkers of Seattle. When Richard and Bernard Jr. were[...]n high school, Ruth went back to business college and earn- ed a degree in Accounting. She went to work as an Accoun- tant and Director of Finance for Seattle King County Council this country from "inflamation of the bowel ", which they of Camp Fire Girls, which post she held for twenty-two years later said was a ruptured appendix. Thomas had graduated until she retired in 1974. She inherited a love for music from from high school before arriving in Butte. Schooling in the her parents, and began lessons in 1956 on the organ. She has Isle of Man began at age five and went continually for eight been playing the organ in their church, at weddings, funerals, years, no summer vacations, which was commensurate to and parties for a long time. She and Bernard sold their home grade and high school both. He and his brother, John, did on Pipe Lake in 1979 and bought a condominium in Renton, odd jobs to help[...]le. They have a summer place at Priest James Todd and moved to the South Boulder, probably Lake, Idaho, where they spend their summers and during the about 1913.[...]s they go to Arizona. Thomas had absolute pitch and his great love for music The Manning's son, Richard, was married to Carolyn inspired him to learn to play both violin and cello, mostly Freeley on February 23 , 1957. They[...]h 5, 1958, who is an el~ctrical engineer in wife, and who loved music as well. Lillie Pauli, of German[...], 1981; Leigh, born April 19, 1962, at present in She had three brothers and three sisters. Her parents were school; Bernard Jr. is unmarried. he operated a Health Food Peter and Johanna Pauli, who were born in Alsace Lorraine, Business for a number of years, and is employed handling ages unknown. Both died in M[...]charter boat trips on a cruiser in Puget Sound in The family moved to Butte when Lillie was just out of Seattle. school. She worked in a department store, and also studied Boyce Craine was married to Hollie Lanmon February, piano in her spare time. Thomas and Lillie were married July 1948. They have one adopted son, Danny Keith, born 23, 1907. The Craines played in theatres in Butte during the November, 1950; Dean, born June, 1952; Kytt, born days of silent movies and earned their living as musicians. September, 1961. Boyce lives in Seattle and is Superinten- Thomas' brother, John, and family had moved to the South dent for Leckenby Co. Boulder to take up ranching, and induced Thomas and Lillie There is little knowledge of Grandmother Todd, Thomas to give up city life and move to the South Boulder as well. Craine's mother. She was 89 years old when she died in 1933. They moved here in about 1912. The Craines' first child, Evelyn, was born April 18,[...]Ruth Craine Manning 1913, in the old Remund ranch-house on the South Boulder. The Craines became discouraged with ranching and moved to Jefferson Island, where they built a house and lived there for many years. Mr. Craine worked as a carpenter and painter to earn a living. He and Lillie kept up with their[...]DGE music, playing for dances, funerals, weddings and other occa- sions. Ruth says that one of her earl[...]There are many elements of interest entering into the life sleeping behind a piano while her parents were playing for a record of this prosperous and influential stock grower of dance or whatever. Boyce, their son appeared on the scene, Madison County. He traces his lineage to old colonial stock. July 17, 1923.[...]He gave his country a soldiers' service during the Civil War, In 1955 they sold their home to the Dale Sacry family who and he was also one of the pioneers of Montana. Mr. Dodge had the house moved to the Sacry ranch where it stands to- was born i[...] |
| [...]1866, except for the time he served in the Civil War. In 1866[...]Mr. Dodge came to Montana with mule teams by the Bozeman cut-off and arrived in Helena on the 4th of July. He engaged in prospecting and mining until September with meager success, and then went to Highlands, in the Red Mountain district, until the fall of 1870. In that year, Mr. Dodge took up land at South Boulder and engaged in farm- ing and stock raising. he supported the Republican Party and was elected a school trustee. His efforts were we[...]directed and he gained public confidence and respect.[...]born in Quicks Bend, Pennsylvania, and she, too, was from colonial stock through the Winslows and Quicks. Their fami-[...]M. married Hattie Cummings, and they lived in Oregon;[...]All these have descendants. The other two children, Charles and Albert, lived and died bachelors and both are buried in the South Boulder Cemetery. Benjamin died in Jefferso[...]Island on June 3, 1909, and Abigail died May 7, 1906. Both are buried in the South Boulder Cemetery.[...]Benjamin Dodge's son Walter, farmed in the Summit[...]Valley area until his death September 19, 1950 at the age of[...]89. He has a son, Lester, who lives in Butte and a daughter,[...]by and Emery are deceased. Abigail and Benjamin Dodge[...]6, 1836. His father, Israel W. Dodge, was born in the same LESTER AND AGNES (ALEXANDER) DODGE town, the son of Nicholas Dodge, a Revolutionary War Vetera[...]Lester Auld Dodge was born February 28 1910 at the then) from Beverly, Massachusetts and was the fourth home of his parents, Walter Scott and Lavina Sutton Dodge, generation of Dodges in America, William, from England, in the South Boulder Valley. He lived there until 1930, when was the first Dodge in America, who came in 1629 and Ben- he left to work at Moise. From there he went[...]direct descendant from him. ' and while there he attended the Chicago World Fair. H~ came back to the home of his parent's farm in 1933 where he Benjamin F. Ddge had the invigorating discipline of the Main farm, and the education of her schools. At the age of met Agnes Alexander. He later went to California and eighteen he secured employment in the sawmills at Oldtown Washington. Lester and Agnes were married in Butte until he attained the age of legal majority when he then mov- November 8, 1934. They lived on various farms in the Lester and Agnes Dodge and great grandcildren. Warren and Albert Dodge[...] |
| [...]HERBERT AND ALETHA DUTTON[...]of Big Timber, Montana. He lived there the greater part of his early life. Herbert married Aletha Alice Walters in 1923.[...]a was born in Billings, Montana, August 12, 1903. She lived in the Yellowstone Valley until her marriage. The Dut- tons lived in the Boulder Valley where their daughter, Lois[...]The Herbert Duttons moved to Madison County in 1940,[...]settling in the Cardwell Community on the Clifford Noble[...]with Indiana Univer- John, Agnes, Wyatt, Beth and Ella Alexander. sity Geologic Field Station in 1954. Herbert and Aletha were living at the Field Station near Mammoth when Herb passed[...]9 when they moved to Butte. He Herbert and Aletha's daughter, Lois, married Eugene Hin- worked underground in the Butte mines for 34 years as a ton. They ha[...]rn January four children, Stacy, Travis, Sarah, and Darcey; Gary Hinton 26, 1936, and John Lester, born March 29, 1937. Their grand- married Mary Sue Tilley, and they have two children, Hope children are: Terrie Haggerty, Provo, Utah; Cheryl Drake, and Duston. Eugene Hinton is Resident Manager with In[...]a; diana University Field Station. Connie and Kathleen Sundberg, Butte; Berg, Douglas, Gary, David and Maichel Dodge of Butte. Aletha Dutton is living in Bozeman. She is very active in the Senior Citizens. Agnes ' parents were John W. and Ella Rundell Alexander. John W. Alexander was bor[...]Aletha Dutton Wisconsin, and died July 16, 1954. When he was five years old his mother died. His grandmother, Mary Tomlinson, raised him. When he was eleven years old he came, with his cousin Fred Tomlinson, by ox train to the South Boulder where he grew up. He married Ella Claire Rundell December 24, 1901. Ella was the daughter of Rev. George Rundell, who NEV A ARMSTRONG ENDICOTT died in the Summit Valley area in 1917, and Sarah Spillman Rundell who died in 1928. Both were buried in the South Neva Armstrong Endicott was born in 1914, in the South Boulder Cemetery. Ella was a Christian lady, a Methodist, Boulder Valley to Charlie and Lucy Armstrong. She had four and a busy housewife. She canned, and helped people, and brothers; Carl, born in Washington; Charles, Frank and was a mid-wife in the Harrison area. She was born in Harry born in the south Boulder Valley. Waterloo, Montana October 26, 1885 and died of a heart at- Neva attended grade sc[...]one-room school on the Ramey place. She graduated from Immediately after their marriage, they spent their honey- the Cardwell High School. After graduation she worked in moon in Butte. John went to work in the Butte Mines. They Butte for seven years. She moved to Portland, Oregon, came to Madison County in 1902, where they settled on a where she met and married Ellis Endicott, who worked for ranch (now owned by the Bays) where he farmeq until 1939. Boeing Air Craft for thirty years. They then went back to Butte and worked at the Butte Her husband, Ellis, was a soft-ball pitcher most of his life mines until 1942, when they bought a chicken . farm at and his name is in the Hall of Fame for outstanding sport- the Four Mile in Butte. They moved to Wickenburg, Ari[...]stian in 1944. He died in Arizona members of the Holgate Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon, in 1954 and is buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Butte. They where Neva teaches a Sunday school class and works in the had four children: Volney Park (April 2, 1905 - A[...]Neva Endicott 1965). He married Blanche Comer and had two sons, Clyde of Eugene, Oregon, and Sidney of Deer Lodge; Agnes Alex- ander Dodge, who lives in Butte. - Ella's brothers and sisters were: Glen Rundell Patrick, Beryl Rundell Patrick, Ruby Rundell Merritt, and Carl JESSE H. AND ETHEL GAMBEE Rundell, all deceased. John's half-sisters are: Peggy Alexa[...]e, Polson, Montana; to Montana in 1915 and took up a homestead in the Cliff and Edward Alexander, who passed away in Hawaii.[...]1924; and Alice Gambee Capp, born in 1926. All three Lester and Agnes Alexander children were born i[...] |
| Jesse's wife, Ethel M. Gile, came to the White Sulphur Springs area where she was reared. She graduated from Teachers' College in 1912 and married Jesse Gambee on July 1, 1912. They later moved to Harrison where he worked for the Sam Young Store for 29 years. Mrs. Gambee died in 1930 in Harrison. The family lived in Harrison while growing up. Dorothy graduated from the Harrison High School in 1940. On September 3, 1940, she and Frank Shaw were married in White Sulphur Springs. Dorothy's grandfather, R.S. Gile, was Justice of the Peace at that time, so he married them. Jesse Gambee worked for the Army Engineers from 1943-1946. His son, Paul, joined the Marines at that time. Daughter, Alice, lived with the Frank Shaws. She attended and graduated from the Whitehall High School. Frank and Dorothy Shaw have lived at Cardwell ever since their marriage. They have one daughter, Gail Ann Fouts, and four grandchildren. Mr. Gambee was a Mason, bel[...]Nan Ruth Greene at Whiting-Alexander ranch. ed to the Eastern Star, and was Worthy Matron at the time of her death. After the war ended, Mr. Gambee lived with the Frank December 21, 1899. She is the daughter of William Jonathan Shaws at Cardwell until his death on November 22, 1963. Alexander and Mattie Blackiston Alexander. William J.[...]mbee Wotorring, May Husband, Grace Smith and Annie Whiting.[...]aynette, Wisconsin, March 31, FRANCIS AND GRACE GIBSON 1874, w[...]. Francis Gibson, born September 18, 1902, was the son of On February 8, 1893, Mr. Alexander married Mattie Orville and Alice Cox Gibson. His father, Orville, was born[...]tober 7, 187i. He came to Mon- Missouri, the daughter of Rev. G.C. Blackiston (who was rec- tana shortly before the turn of the century and homesteaded tor of St. John's Episcopal Church in Butte) and Martha on Antelope Creek near Harrison, Montana.[...]- A.M. No. 22, a 32nd Degree in Scottish Rite, and a Member ed was added. He and Alice Westmoreland Cox were married of Algeria Temple, and Mystic Shrine, Helena. He died February 14, 1898.[...]orn to them R. Gibson, now residing in Whitehall, and a daughter Helen were: Edward Blackiston Alexander, born in Butte, Alice, deceased. His mother also had a son by a previous mar- February 28, 1894, died in Hawaii, November, 1947; and riage, Leonard F. Cox, also deceased, and buried in the Crow Margaret Alexander Rutherford, born in[...]Nan Ruth attended school at South Boulder, and as a child Francis married Grace Pomeroy in 1930 in Yuma, Arizona. rode a donkey to school. At the age of ten, she recalls that She was born in Nogales, Arizona, the daughter of John she could hitch up and drive any team of horses on the ranch Henry Pomeroy and Mary Elizabeth Pomeroy. They had and ride any horse. She also recalls Mr. Whiting had the first two children: Mary White (Spolar) born June 16, 1932 and car on the South Boulder. It made much noise, and really lives in Sacramento and has a son and a daughter; Frances scared the horses, but it was a great thrill to ride in it.[...]rned Thomas Greene, who was born July 29, Canada, and has three children, a boy and two girls. 1895 in Hutchinson, Kansas. He was the son of Thomas Francis's wife Grace, passed away[...]1973 in Greene of Terre Haute, Indiana and wife of Boston. They Whitehall. Francis lives in Whitehall and has been retired moved to Kansas, Texas, and came to Whitehall in 1907 and for several years.[...]Robuska with his wife Kay (Spetz) and two sons, Thomas G. Francis Gibson and Bruce; daughter Patricia Ann and her husband Leonard[...]Salomon, who live on a ranch near the Mission Range at Polson with sons David and Dennis. William J . Alexander and Volney C. Whiting ranch was located in the South Boulder Valley in Madison County,[...]twelve miles from Whitehall. Whiting and Alexander had NAN RUTH (ALEXANDER) GREENE[...]rn in Butte, Montana, before engaging in the farming business on the former T.T.[...] |
| [...]Marietta and Ralph Harrington Black ranch. Here they raised vegetables, berries, and fruit and other farm products which they disposed of in the Butte numerous places here. market. They acquired a high standard of excellence, a Ralph and Marietta had Walter J ergesen take them to tribute to their knowledge of operating the 1,643 acre ranch. Pipestone flats where they flagged down the train which There were two large white houses, one for each family, with took them to Bozeman where they were married April 21,[...]ey had gone to a show. ed of their ranch property and both families moved to Ralph and Marietta had five children: Doris Helms of Whitehall and built homes there.[...]nia; Melvin of Astascadaro, Volney C. Whiting. In the spring of 1880, Alexander and California; Donna of Yakima. They had 22 grandchildren and Whiting left Wisconsin and made the trip up the Missouri 23 great grandchildren. River to Fort Benton, Montana Territory, and thence by Ralph died March 22, 1981. M[...]. wagon with their household goods via Deer Lodge and to Butte. Nan Ruth and her husband, Tom Greene, moved to Polson in 1953[...]olson. Peggy Ruther- ford lives in Hamilton. Old Pat (horse) at Whiting-Alexander ranch.[...]Pau~ Carrol~ Marietta Sacry. Marietta Sacry Harrington was born to Will and Mazie |
| [...]of Virginia Swaggerty and Walter Hedges who had come[...]from Missouri to Bozeman. Other children in the family are[...]Emmett, Ella, Mae, Chuck, Clarabelle and Ruby Jane, and two brothers and one sister who had died. Howard served in the Navy from 1942-1945 seeing service between Hawaii[...]and Alaska. After he was discharged, Howard and Lulla[...]Valley. They leased the Wilbur Smith ranch, also known as the Bobby Burns ranch. They built a new home on the Shad-[...]duck ranch, which they bought from Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. Both Mr. & Mrs. Rogers and daughter, Betty Jo, are now[...]Bill Brown, have two chilren, Kimberly and Kenneth;[...]children, Tammy, Tracy and Tawni; Mike, who has two sons, Shane and Jason.[...]Lulla Belle Hedges Frank Hart tion in the Butte schools. He worked during the summer of HOWARD AND LULLA BELLE HEDGES |
| [...]CLOVIS AND ZONA HINTON Clovis Hinton, the oldest child born to Hollie and Myrtle[...]1891 to Jefferson and Julie Hinton, who raised a family of |
| Jose, California with her husband Mel Estes, and they have two grown children, Roy and Judy. His brother Gene Hinton, has been custodian[...]ted 12 miles south of Cardwell, for several years and is still holding that position. He has two grown children, Sharon Hinton Sant and Gary Hinton. His sister, Colleen lives in Los Gat[...]ne Richards. They have two grown daughters, Penny and Holly. Clovis Hint on HAROLD AND AMELIA JOHNS L . to R .: Ralph[...] |
| Harold Johns and deer. WILLIAM D. AND MARY (AKIN) JOHNS[...]Mr. and Mrs. Johns, August, 1963. |
| Mr. and Mrs. Johns on 64th wedding anniversary. Some interesting highlights about the couple are first, they LE ROY AND DORIS KYLE On October 12, 1899, John LeRoy "Roy" Kyle was born in |
| [...], 1975. Roy passed away on October 17, 1976, at the age of 77 years.[...]Faye and Bruce Landis - 50th wedding anniversary.[...]until 1953 when she started to work in the Whitehall State Bank, where she was employed for ten years ang held the[...]position of assistant cashier until 1963 when the family[...]Bruce and Faye have one child, a daughter Lois, born[...]September 9, 1937. She is a registered nurse.[...]e were many relocations due to employ- Faye, Lois and Bruce Landis ment transfers, the Bruce Landis family has considered[...]dwell to be their home since 1946. They purchased the Northern Pacific depot at Cardwell and moved it to the pre- sent location and remodeled it into a residence. ROBERT (BRUCE) AND FA YE LANDIS[...]Faye Landis |
| [...]Hazel moved to Whitehall where she still resides. She is busy with Senior Citizens, Eastern Star, and visiting her many[...]CHARLES AND ANN METULLY[...]Michael Metully and Catherine Micone Metully, who had[...]family of nine brothers and three sisters. He began to work[...]at an early age. In 1914 he worked at the Gypsum Camp which was the old Charlie Lyon's place. He was sent[...]numerous times to get buckets of beer for the men from Pete Hart's saloon in Cardwell. He also worked at the Blewett Williard and Haze~ Homer and Aileen McComb. place close to the Mayflower Mine. Charlie recalls that while[...]living there he attended the Hubbard School. Sweet Grass County. They were mar[...]One day, he recalls, he was hunting from the Blewett place They had one son, Homer, who was born March 19, 1920 in towards the Mayflower Mine. By night-fall he was close to a S[...]t, They moved to South Boulder Valley in 1938, and set- and even though he passed the Ed Black place he was too tled on the Koestlin ranch, across the river from the George bashful to ask for food. Ed and Nina would have gladly fed Frank's place. They were encouraged to move to the South him, had they but known. He decided to go to the cabin of Boulder area by the Donald Powell family. Earl[...]m for a handout. Their son, Homer, enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and served Upon opening the door there, the sight of a dead horse in the until 1945. He married Aileen Johnson, a Cardwell school middle of the room, surrounded by seven hungry hounds, teacher,[...]not to partake of the horse meat. He traveled back to the Willard and Hazel operated the ranch until 1951, when Blewett place where he col[...]re he they sold it to Frank Kountz. They moved to the old Noble awakened. Mrs. Blewett carefully tended him and he had to place for a year, then on to a ranch at[...]paringly at first. they returned to South Boulder and bought a home at Jeffer- Charles also worked at the Ralph Shaw place and attended son Island in 1956. The years that followed found them school in Bone Bas[...]he working at various jobs. Willard did combining and haying told of working at Limespur for the plant run by East Butte for neighbors, and Hazel worked 22 years as summer cook at on the Jefferson River. The mattresses in the bunk house, Indiana University Geologic Field Sta[...]his mattress on to an ant hill. After three days the winter at Montana State Dorms in Bozeman. there wasn't a vestige of a bug. The next year he came to Jef- Willard was an active member of the Riverside Masonic ferson Island and worked on the Lank Ranch. He also work- Lodge at Jefferson Island and was Worshipful Master in ed for Frank and Louis Kountz. After this he worked in the 1954. Hazel is still active in the Randall Chapter of Eastern Butte mines. Star at Jefferson Island. She was Worthy Matron in 1950 Charlie married Ann Lasich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. and has been a musician for several years. John Lasich of Butte. She was born July 2, 1905 in Butte. Willard passed[...]hey moved to Jefferson Island in a house known as the old John Shutey place, on the banks of the Jefferson River. He began to work on the Milwaukee Railroad in April, 1930. He Willard McC[...]was employed by the Milwaukee Railroad, first on the sec-[...]tween Tacoma, Washington, and North Dakota. After his day's work on the railroad, he would walk to the Wm. Stephen's ranch and work there. He retired from the railroad[...]The Metullys built a new home on ground purchased fro[...]thur Shaw. They lived there until 1972. They sold the house and moved to Whitehall. Sangrays now own that[...]The Metullys have one son, Charles. He and hj.s wife, the[...]shington, with their three children, Karen, Keith and[...] |
| [...]ollywood, Florida, with children Joseph, Cathleen and twins, Gary and Greg.[...]Homer and Selma Miller (1946) Clyde Miller and Uncle Herman Miller HOMER AND SELMA MILLER[...]er Clifford Miller was born November i6, 1917, at the old Miller homestead on the South Boulder, to Albert H. and CLYDE AND HELEN MILLER Bertha L. Miller. Homer attended the first three years of school at the old South Boulder school house, which has Clyde Mi[...]902. He came to Mon- since been moved to the old Ramey ranch and is being used tana with his parents, William and Ella Miller, and his sister, as a garage. The next eight years were spent at Cardwell Mildred ([...]e. They lived in Butte a few School until the high school was moved to Whitehall in 1933. ;year[...]ched at various places. Clyde attended schools in the That summer he was employed at the Jumping Horse :south Boulder area. Ranch at Ennis, Montana and in 1936 at the Fort Peck Clyde married Helen Houston in Fort[...]sland, B.C., Canada. Dam, in Washington, and later that year went to Eugene, She came to Butte in 1921. She and Clyde met at the Jump- Oregon and worked in the logging and piling industry. In ing Horse Ranch, Ennis, Montana where they were both 1938 he went to Idaho and cut mine timber. In the fall of that employed. Clyde later worked at Fort Peck, and that is where year he started working at the Boaz Mine at Norris., Mon- he and Helen were married. tana as a hoisting engineer, and was there until 1940 when They moved to the South Boulder and ranched on a place he went to Aero Indus[...]California. He married Clyde bought it. They then took over the ranch until his Marcelle Burns in 1941, and a daughter, Dannysue, was born death.[...]to them July 16, 1943. Homer and Marcelle were divorced. Helen jokingly tells now how she and her good friend and Homer volunteered for the Marine Corps during World neighbor, Nina Black, were " the first to go into orbit. " They War II, from November 1943 to 1946. After joining the were going to Eastern Star one evening. Upon getting in the Marine Corps, he was sent to school in Chicago, Ill. and car and turning on the key, away they went roaring, barely was later assigned to V.M.F. 923, the Night Fighter Group in missing the garage, hitting the "outhouse" and taking it off numerous bases in North and South Carolina. He was the foundation, going through the air and landing in the tops transferred to the west coast and to the Carrier Air Support of willows which grew alongside the South Boulder Creek. Detachment Group, where he served aboard the Aircraft Car- Clyde had to get a ladder to get them down out of the car rier USS Puget Sound in the Pacific, until shortly before he which was held up by the willows. The throttle on the car was discharged. They covered most of the Pacific such as the had stuck and the car was in gear. They had to get a crane to Philippines, China, Japan and many of the Islands. He was lift the car out of the willows. discharged at Merimer Marine base with the rank of Sergeant. Helen sold the ranch to Charles Carveth of Butte, and is now living in Whitehall. She is active in Eastern Star, the On May 1 7, 1946, he and Selma Smith of Los Angeles were Christian Church and the Senior Citizens. Clyde passed away united[...]Joseph, Missouri, October 23, 1918, to Elvis and Tillie[...]1951; Marlene L. November 10, 1952; and Kathy Ann June[...] |
| [...]After serving eighteen and one-half years with the Anacon-[...]old. Robert came to live with the Miller family. Homer and Selma live a quiet life in their neat little home[...]ROY AND ARLONE NEWKIRK The John Newkirk branch of the Newkirk family began in |
| 1920, the Western Electric Co. of Chicago employed him as a George and Helen Wegren were married in 1927 and to this telephone exchange equipment engineer until 1932 when the union four children were born: Robert Georg[...]tember 3, 1930; Michael Neil, February 21, Roy and Arlone were married in 1932 and lived in the 1937; and Lawrence Dale, June 3, 1943. Summit Valley area for the next four years, after which it George left the South Boulder Valley in 1942 and became was back to Chicago and the Western Electric Co. With the an engineer on the Great Northern Railroad in Butte in 1942. country in the doldrums of the big depression in the early He passed away July 21, 1966 in Butte, Montana and is in- 1930's, those years were not easy, but with some effort they terred in the Whitehall Cemetery. made it, the same as a lot of other families.[...]wife, Helen Josephine Wegren, was born In 1965 the company transferred him to Aurora, Colorado. December 14, 1906 to Sam and Hulda Oleson. Both parents This was almost like c[...]ain came from Sweden - Sam from Stockholm and Hulda from see the Rocky Mountains. During their stay in Chicago,[...]n in Butte. They moved to their sons Glenn (1937) and Larry (1944) and their daughter Cardwell in 1914 and bought a small ranch from Bob Burns. Vera Jean (1939) were introduced into this world. She attended grade school and also high school at Cardwell, After retiring from the company in 1969 their thoughts graduating in 1926. She went to Normal in Dillon three were turned to some long overdue fishing. To facilitate this quarters, and taught school at McHessor Creek for one year; des[...]ettled in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1974. and at Mammoth. They plan on spending their remaining days in the western George and Helen bought a house in Butte in 1956 and slope of Colorado, where each day they can see the Grand lived there until his death. Then Helen sold the house to her Mesa, and in the distance, the San Juans. son, Jack. Helen[...]HERBERT AND VIOLA PATRICK[...]as one of eleven children born GEORGE AND HELEN PATRICK to Charles and Martha Bryant Patrick. The father migrated from Kansas, and the mother, Martha, from California. The George Otto Patrick was born October 12, 1906, to Charles family later moved to a ranch on the South Boulder now Lincoln Patrick and Martha Bryant Patrick, on a ranch be- owned by Doug Shaw of Jefferson Island. tween Twin Bridges and the Point of Rocks. George and his Herbert married Viola Coffey, a Butte native, on January family moved to the South Boulder Valley about 1910. 17, 1[...]one daughter, Marjorie, was born. George attended the South Boulder School in the early Marjorie married Forbis Chambers of the North Boulder grades of his education. In 1920 he attended the Cardwell Valley on December 26, 1933. They[...]s in Arizona; Christi Chambers (Buhl) living fu The year George was a freshman (1922) he drove the South Whitehall with her husband, Leonard, and two children, Brit- Boulder school bus that picked up students from the Sparrell ton and Erin Kaye. Marjorie's husband, Forbis, passed Ranch and Jefferson Island area to the Cardwell School. In away in June, 1981. his[...]l in 1924-25, he drove a rural One child of the eleven in Herbert's family survives, Laura mail route. George drove the South Boulder bus to Cardwell Patrick Ramey, who spent most of her life in Madison Coun- Consolidated School and on to Whitehall High School for ty. She now resides in Livingston to be near her son, Wil[...]Laura is 82 years old.[...] |
| Herbert worked on ranches, was janitor at the Cardwell Sam and Josie raised four children: Peggy, born School for several years, and drove school bus for the ' November, 1927. She married Harry Armstrong, and they Cardwell School prior to his death in September 2, 1960. have three children. Harry and Peggy live in Sheridan. Viola Patrick passed away[...]Chuck, born November 1937, married Nancy Graham and they have three children and live in Dillon. Margaret, mar-[...]ried Nick Maeirt, has two children, and lives in Washington; Marjorie Chambers and Al, born in 1943, married Bonnie Budweiser, and they have three children and live in California. Sam and Josie retired in 1966 and moved to Sheridan.[...]ssed away in 1970. Josie still lives in Sheridan. All of the Patrick children went to grade school at Cardwell and graduated from the Whitehall High School.[...]Peggy Armstrong Josie and Sam Patrick SAM AND JOSIE PATRICK |
| Alice and Donald Powell and family. son of William J. Hay and Kate Osborn, who were original child, Alice O[...]in Kalkaska, Michigan, daughter of William Palmer and December 30, 1917 in Livingston; Coral Kate was born Oc- South Boulder Schoo~[...]Donald Powel~ Judith Noble, Leo Williams, Lester and |
| [...]s military service was spent in Korea 1955-57. He and his former wife, Shirley Nickels, have one son,[...]work- ed for Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, Laurel and Fremont, Nebraska. He accepted a job as Agricultural Agent for the National Bank in Glendive, then transferred to the Red Lodge Montana Bank. Robert John was born F[...]1941 in Whitehall. After graduation he ranched on the South Boulder. He mar- ried Glenda Hinson of Phoenix, Arizona and they have four children, Laurie, a student at New Tribes Institute in Wukesha, Wisconsin and Linda, Jennifer, and Joel who are with their parents on the Mission Field in Paraguay. Coral Jeanne was born June 13, 1942 in Whitehall. She spent eight months as an International Farm Youth Ex- change student in the Republic of China in Taiwan in 1961-1962. She taught Physical Education and History in Red Lodge, Stevensville and Missoula Sentinel High Schools. She and her husband, Steve Lowery, have two sons Stephen and Tim. They live in Sun River, Montana. ' Frances (Shaw) and James Powell. William (Bill) Hay was born Marc[...]ter graduating from college he spent two years in the Peace[...]l Corps in Venezuela, South America. He is buying and operating the home ranch which his great grandfather, Thomas Po[...]ber 1, 1907. He attended schools in South Boulder and Cardwell. He left THOMAS AND CATHERINE POWELL in 1929 for New York, where his mother was living. he mar- ried Eva Brookman, and they have two sons; Charles and his Thomas J . Powell was born in Utica, New York, October wife, Sally, and three children live on the home place near Ar- 18, 1822. Early in life his parents moved to Michigan, where cade, New York; and Russell and his wife, Carolyn, and their he was married to Mary J . Summer. Ch[...]June 3, 1849; Arthur W. born October 3, 1855 and James Donald's sister, Catherine, was born Jan[...]Sylvester born November 22, 1862. the home of her grandmother, Kate Powell, in Whitehall. She married Clarence Hay, brother of Alice and lives near James Sylvester married Frances Shaw. They had two Missoula. Their son, Ron, and his wife, Sue, have two sons and two daughters. One son, George, was the father of dau_ghters, Jamie and Jennifer; daughter Barbara and her Wilbur Powell. After James' first w[...]Bennett, live at Lakeview, with daughters Bonnie and Stacey; sons, Douglas and Steven are deceased. Steven leaves a son Eric Pal[...]well was born in Iowa, November 22, 1862. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Powell. After his mother passed away he came with his father, Thomas J . Powell, and his step-mother, Catlierine Grantier Powell, to Jefferson Island. He was 17 years old at that time. In 1885 he was united in marriage to Miss Frances Shaw, daughter of Loren and Clara Shaw. She died on her 40th birthday. He later married Mrs. Pearl Almendinger, who also preceded him in death. He died August 7, 1942 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bert Purdom, of Clarkston, Washington. She and her brother, George Powell, of Couer d 'Alene, Idaho, accompanied the body to Pony where he is buried.[...] |
| [...]to the South Boulder Valley in 1879. They bought more la[...]to add to their homestead under the Desert Land Act.[...]Thomas Powell died April 3, 1903 and Catherine Grantier[...]Powell died February 3, 1916. The Cooleys and the Powells are buried in the South Boulder Cemetery.[...]After his father's death, Jonathan Powell took over the[...]mas J . Powell Pearl Almendinger. They lived in the Harrison area until his |
| [...]family: Willard, Joyce, Father Dee, Mother Laura and Ruth. Store. They operated it until 1974, and due to Dee's poor |
| [...]Pau~ Ruth, Cora, Carroll Sacry, Marietta and Ralph Harr-[...]m, Douglas, Dora, Don- na. Children of William and Doris were: Daniel Ronald, born to help keep them warm, besides all the clothing and quilts Doris Richards CARROLL AND CORA SACRY Cora Jeannette Oien Sacry was born[...]ar- |
| Cora Sacry and grandchildren. Back row L. to R. : Dennis, Susan, Kenneth, Brian, Brenda, Randy and Carla. Front row: Kerry, Jim, Roger, Cora, Diane, Carol Ann and Steven. Cora's folks milked about twenty cows by hand and the and Roger, all teen-agers. Even though he has his practice in |
| Dale and Nonie Sacry 's nine children. Back row: Kerry, Ra[...]iane, Susan. Montana, to Carroll Forrest Sacry and Cora Jeannette Oien negan Electric and the Mile Hi ~lectric for Jim Kenworthy. |
| [...]Marietta, Carroll and Paul Sacry. ARTHUR AND MINNIE SHAW Arthur Shaw, one of the ten children of Loren L. and Clara |
| Cora Oien, Clarice and Mildred Shaw by Shaw's store.[...]Buzz and Clara Shaw. Shaw (deceased); Arthur Shaw Jr.; Alma Shaw Winton (deceased); Ross Shaw (deceased); and Leita Shaw Brickman. bought by Clara and Buz. In the 1940's Loren's farm was Along with the farming Arthur purchased a general store sold to Charlie and Ann Metully. Today, 1981, Jack and from Ed and Nina Black in 1909. The Blacks had the store Carolyn Sangray own and operate that farm. built by Bill Lawrence and Jim Todd in 1906. This building Clara and Buz had three children: Janet Shaw Pawley, also included the post office which the Shaws handled for Douglas L. Shaw, and Patricia Shaw Clark. There are 12 many years. Minnie and Arthur added a building of equal grandchildren. size to the original and then took in boarders. These high school students milked cows and did other chores and labor Life for the Shaws was typical of the times-lots of hard for their board and room, and thus were able to attend high work. There w[...]and playing cards kept the community close-knit. In 1960 part of the Krein place, plus some area of Jeff~rson Isl~nd During the 1930's one potato crop sold for 35¢ per 100 lbs. township, was added to the farm. It was at this same trme out of the field. Two thousand sacks were brought into the that Douglas took over the operation of the farm. Buz and cellar. Not one was sold, so in the spring Loren and Artbur Clara secured jobs at Warm Springs State Hospital where Jr., hauled them all out and dumped them. That was they worked[...]ed Clara Mae Douglas was born to John and Margaret regularly and most times you could find Tom Smith, Walter Walgreen Douglas on May 27, 1918 at the Burns Ranch Rankin and John Douglas, along with Arthur, gathered (Howard and Jody Hedges run this place today). Margaret around the infamous pot-bellied stove, catching up on the Douglas was killed in an automobile accid[...]very young. Her father re-married and moved to California.[...]during World Minnie, a diabetic, died in 1937. The following year in July, War II. She had two sisters, Edith Douglas Shanholtzer Arthur was struck by lightning and lived for two days. His (deceased) and Grace Douglas Meagher. Clara married Jim store became the Masonic Lodge Hall and his farm was Curtin May 17, 1980. Th[...]Douglas Leslie Shaw, only son of Clara and Leslie (Buzz)[...]Arcylle Shaw the family farm, except for one year of college and a six- month hitch in the U.S. Army. Douglas calls Jefferson[...]daughter of George L. and Mary Jackson. Five children were[...]Kelly Jo, David Blake, Julie CHARLES LESLIE AND CLARA MAE SHAW Ann and Douglas Paul. These five children are the fourth[...]farm. Charles Leslie Shaw, oldest son of Arthur and Minnie Shaw was born April 9, 1903 and until illness caused him to[...]Arcylle Shaw quit, he farmed on his father's farm and al~o was a rural ~ail carrier. He was a quiet, shy child, but enJoyed a good trme and assumed a lot of responsibility in the family business. He DONALD[...]June 22, 1935. Following his father's death "Buz" and his brother Loren continued to Donald C. Shaw, son of Gerald and Dema Reid Shaw, was milk cows and operate the farm. Arthur Jr.'s portion was born October 2, 1929 in Pony, Montana. He attended the[...] |
| first grade at the Summit Valley School and then went through the eighth grade at Cardwell Grade School and graduated from Whitehall High School. He earned a[...]at Dillon. He received his two-vear cer- tificate and taught school at Fergus for a year or two. Then[...]s basic training he was shipped to Japan to spend the rest of the tour of duty. After his discharge from the Army he returned to Dillon to get his degree. Upo[...]her's degree, he taught school in Laurel, Montana and then taught at Conrad for several years. He gave up teaching and came to Missoula to help care for his mother afte[...]tute teacher in Missoula. He is now self-employed and living in Centralia, Washington.[...]School bus, Roy Wilkinson, driver and Mary Jane Shaw.[...]FRANK AND DOROTHY SHAW[...]proud, self-reliant and rugged, usually a little bowlegged, full[...]of rawhide humor, murders the King's English, chews snooze and wears tall boots, western hat and fancy belt buckle.[...]This pretty much describes Frank Shaw of the Candlestick[...]nch near Cardwell, with one exception, instead of the familiar snuff tin in the shirt of his pocket, Frank was a " roll[...]made cigarettes. He is rarely without his old Stetson. His forehead is bleached and his face is leather-tough, caused by the wind and sun. His horseback riding began at the age of 10, his first trail[...]ranch homesteaded over a cen- Elroy and Ada Shaw with Mary tury a[...]me to Cardwell Valley Jane, Kathleen and Walter. with only one horse and a team of oxen. With only a meager ELROY AND ADA SHAW Dorothy Shaw and daughter Gail (1945). Elroy Donald Shaw (Ram) was born on the South Boulder, |
| [...]up land for the night camps. The toughest job was keeping the cows and calves mothered-up and doctoring sore feet.[...]There were sore horses as well as weary riders. The weather[...]always managed to be nasty, cold snow squalls in the fall and rainstorms in the spring. The fellows who punched all day took their turn night-[...]hawking too. It was strictly all business until they camped near one of the small towns, and the wranglers would stop and test the local watering holes to ease their parched[...]throats. Though they nursed a hangover the next day, they[...]The most respected helper on the road quite often was the cook, sometimes a member of the family and sometimes a friend who offered to help out. The first chuck wagon was an old sheep wagon hooked up to a truck. It was stocked[...]home-canned meats and bakery goods. Frank said it was real[...]living when the old wagon was retired and replaced with a[...]pasture, Frank and his wife, the former Dorothy Gambee and their daughter Gail, settled in the herder's cabin on the pro-[...]t wasn't too bad--you made do with Dorothy, Frank and Harry Shaw Sr. -1950.[...]what you had." Besides keeping track of the cattle and ir- rigating the fields, Frank estimates through the years he roll- start and grit, the Shaw cattle holdings grew into one of the ed up about 20 miles of old barb wire and built 35 miles of largest family operations in Madison and Jefferson Counties. new jack fences. His mo[...]Kansas schoolteacher who came to teach The family was at the summer camp the night of the eart h- in the Summit Valley School. She married Harry Shaw, and quake in 1959. They described it as the biggest nightmare they raised three sons, Harry Jr., Frank and Vern. The they ever had to live through. Frank recalled, they couldn't monarch of the family, Ruby Shaw was a shrewd, hard-[...]wait, so they killed a fifth of working helpmate. She rode horses up until six weeks before whiskey and sat up the rest of the night. Frank was born, and at 88, shared the cattle-weighing job, perched on a kitchen stool in the scale area. She carefully On the subject of broncs, Frank carries a few scars from[...]many bouts attempting to break an ornery critter. The recorded the weights, then added the long column of figures "without a fancy computer[...]slow-moving cowboy is "all stoved up" with arthritis. "My[...]left foot won't let me hardly walk on it anymore and my dog- The three sons grew up and married and settled on ranches gone neck aches 'cause my head has been planted too many nearby, the Shaws continued to expand the ranch operation. times in the ground." But he isn't ready to quit. They bought 4,000 acres of grazing pasture called the Missouri Flats in 1943. They later bought up othe[...]eak, then I think I'll have homesteads increasing the spread another 5,000 acres. They enough you[...]ast 'til I die. Besides, " he laughed, "I trailed the cows and calves from winter range to summer sure as hell ain't going to ride anything that ain't broke. " pasture in the spring, which was hard work. They arranged Nowadays, the cattle and the many acres have been split to have stop-overs where the cattle could _graze and bed down into separate family operations. There are no more big brand- about every 15 to 20 miles. It took five days and four nights ing p~ties or long lines of cattle dotting the highway. The to reach the end of the trail. Good neighbors let them stop entire herds are now trucked both ways in big 18-wheeler and use their pastures at first, and then they got so they rigs. However, until Frank is sure he wants to hang up his didn't want them, and it was tough. They later had to buy chaps and spurs for good, he'll keep waiting for "when the work's all done this fall," higher cattle prices and time off to[...](Taken from the Montana Prospector) GERALD AND DEMA (REID) SHAW[...]1972, the son of Highland Shaw and Johanna O'Neill Shaw. |
| Gerald Shaw home in winter. - 1955. was a descendant of the Patrick family, a cousin to Sam |
| [...]meron,· Nolan Lockridge, Cameron. 5, 1916 on the L.L. Shaw home-stead ranch near Jefferson[...]Frankie and Rachel Mae Held, and Laura Lee Levengood |
| [...]5, 1948 married Linda Cline, and they have a son Steven and[...]Messenger and they have a son Jeremy and daughter, Jamie;[...]Dannie and Tasha; and Shelly Kay, born August 12, 1960.[...]Harry Shaw Sr. In looking back at the hardships of pioneers such as the |
| Jean and Vern Shaw. L . to R .: Nina Black with Harry and Ruby Shaw on their 50th[...]anniversary. - 1965. L. to R .: Carol, R[...] |
| in Bozeman; Carol Marie Shaw (Patrick) born April 5, 1952 and has two sons, and lives at Havre, Montana; Richard Wayne Shaw born[...]ased); Verna Lou Shaw (Poore) born June 11, 1956 and lives in Helena, Mon- tana; and Ronald Vern born October 7, 1963 and lives at Cardwell. Vern and Jean and son, Ronald, continue to live on and operate the original L.L. Shaw homestead at Jefferson Island, Montana. They are engaged in the cattle business. Many of the older pioneer buildings of L.L. Shaw are still in evidence on the ranch, with the square nails and antiques of the forebearers. Vern is the youngest son of Harry and Ruby Shaw. He has continued to reside on the old home place. Ron and his sisters make the fourth generation, and with Vern's four grandsons makes the fifth generation on the same land. Shaws are one of the oldest cattle permittees on the West Fork Stock Association - permits dating back to the early I 1900's.[...]ng, Roy There is a new modern look taking over the old homestead, Wilkinson and Vonnie Wilkinson. - 1916. and they are sure Grandfather Loren would look on with pride to see his family still there and improving.[...]lived on the Smith farm for thirteen years. In 1954 they[...]Jean Shaw bought the store at Cardwell, which was known as Wilkin-[...]son's Store, and which they operated for eighteen years. Elva[...]was appointed Postmaster in September, 1954 and held that[...]position for twenty years, retiring in 1974. She helped with the running of the store while Roy drove school bus. Both[...]enjoyed helping people out and serving the public.[...]1937 and who lives in Helena with her son, Scott; Ronald,[...]Elaine and daughter, Crystal; Robert, born November 18,[...]Faye Miller Landis and Elva Miller Wilkinson. Roy and Elva Wilkinson - 1979. Roy Wilkinson was born in Butte, Montana December 28, |
| 1947 who lives in Three Forks. His children, daughter Kasey and son John, also lives in Three Forks. The Wilkinsons sold the store in 1973 to Eldon and Afton Fell. They bought a piece of land at Cardwell where they built their home and now live in retirement. Both lived most of their lives at Cardwell. Roy spends the winter months working with wood and Elva does handwork.[...]and later moved to the South Boulder Valley in 1913. Here[...]Peter did dry land farming. He also worked in the Mayflower and Mammoth mines which were nearby. PETER AND THELMA WILLIAMS[...]1917; Myrtle January 1918; Floyd April 1919; Ray- the age of 16 he was a stow-away on a frieghter. Afte[...]mond July 10, 1921; and Tom February 10, 1923. ing in New York City, he made his way to the home of an aunt in Cripple Creek, Colorado. When[...]Mrs. Williams later married Joe Nelson in 1926 and they Lead, South Dakota where he ran a boarding house for the had one daughter Josephine. She was born January 24, 1928 Homestake Mining Co. From there he went to Park City, and died in 1956. Utah and there he met Thelma Hampen, who was born[...]In the early years (1915-1916) their daughter Verna[...]remembers being sent into the hills after the milk cows. She recalls the coyotes and some wolves being everywhere. They L. to R .: Ray[...]ound L. to R.: Mother, were unafraid of her and just stood in her path. Needless to Josephine, Ma[...]say the experience was terrifying to a little girl of fiv[...]Verna also recalls an incident with her brother Leo, who[...]was trying out his new .22 rifle. The Clark and the Kontos[...]serious feud. While Verna age 5 and Leo age 6 were target[...]practicing, two Clark cowboys came riding through the[...]decided to see if they could scare the Clarks by shooting near their horses. As the bullets began kicking up the dust, the cowboys pulled off their hats and flogged their horses into a[...]dead run, believin_g the feud was on again. It is said that[...]between the families. In the early years of homesteading, range cattle roamed[...]will over the open range and fencing was difficult in the rocky soil. However, the rainy years before 1921 enabled[...]such as beans, barley and alfalfa produced well on the dry land. Unfortunately by the 1920's the rainy years turned in- to drought that ended the hopes of the home-steaders. Many[...]families simply walked off the land that would soon return to[...] |
| [...]. Verna Caudle lives in Auburn, Washington Verna and Leo found that by collecting wool from the barbed with children Lylon, Patti and Madge. Myrtle and her hus- wire fences deposited by grazing sheep[...]ll band, Vern Chapman, live in Whitehall and have to children, several burlap bags. They also discovered that if the sheep Carol and Ione. were encouraged to cross back and forth through the fences by enticing them with carrots, the wool crop grew even more[...]Williams rapidly. Winters were unusually harsh and unforgiving for man and beast. Verna recalls the 18 days of the blizzard of 1919-1920, when the temperature hovered near 59° below zero. When skies cleared the fields were dotted brown with dead cattle. When o[...]footwear included RAY AND HELEN WILLIAMS burlap wrapped around overshoes, and scarves that covered the face. Fortunately, the harsh winters were followed by Ray Williams was born July 10, 1921 at the family home in delightful springs. the South Boulder Valley. He was one of eight children of Built along the Yellowstone Trail at the crossing of the Peter and Thelma Williams. In Ray's words he tells what it South Boulder River, the one-room school stood for 40 vears. is like to be raised on a dryland homestead with eight The school was nearly 3 miles away and travel was by brothers and sisters. "Life consisted mostly of attending the horseback cart or on foot. It served as a school and com- South Boulder School, grovelling for a living, and doing munity center. The students came from neighboring ranches without. There were good t imes, too. Giving the teachers a and we:e not always well disciplined. Verna recalls riding her bad time was a favorite past-time. Romping the hills horse mto the school room around the desks out again. barefooted in the summer was another. Food was scarce. Organized games were not in evidence, consequently fights The winters were cold and bleak. Somehow, by the grace of were common, and sex education was learned in the barn God and a loving mother, the family grew up and became located at the school. productive citizens. At Christmas the teacher usually had an extensive evening Ray married Helen Kontos, daughter of Nick Kontos and schedule of Christmas plays. Mrs. Williams would mend, Lyla Redfield Kontos. She was born November 4, 1931 at alter, and sew old clothes into new ones for the Christmas Vendome. They have three children: Lyla Held born play that was the highlight of the year. November 11 , 1952 and lives in Butte with her two children Madalyn remembers large herds of cattle that took all day Craig and Annette; Nick born March 27, 1955 and lives~ to pass the school on their way up the Yellowstone Trail to Sweetgrass, Montana; Thelma born March 27, 1957. She, summer ranges on the upper Madison and South Boulder. with her husband Brian Mazier, and their two sons, Joshua and Jeremy, live in Enderly , British Columbia. Floyd Williams and his wife Margaret live in Draper, Utah and have two children, Susan and Tom. Leo attended the old Ray and Helen reside in Whitehall, Montana. McKeow[...] |
| [...]LIAMS Tom Williams was born February 10, 1924, the eighth |
| [...]For the lack of business, the railroad was discontinued in Pony, the early day mining camp, has had its ups and 1945; the rails were pulled up and the new highway was built on the old railroad bed. downs as far as mining is concerned. The little town was also the hub of ranching activity and continued as such until the The decrease in population and fewer children caused the emphasis turned to big equipment and irrigation systems. schools to close and later to consolidate with Harrison The Northern Pacific Railroad had a spur to P<;>ny and Norris schools. which came up from Sappington to Harrison. From there the The Community Church in Pony, built about 1895[...] |
| [...]both garages. The Pony garage was recently sold to Pat and Pattie McCann who operate the Ten-and-a-Half Builders. After the Big Fire in the 20's took the old Crews Block and all but the Masonic Hall in that block, Leo Lau built a radio[...]Green of Green's Contracting bought the Crews property, house and lots. He has built a concrete block garage.[...]Some grandchildren of the pioneers with a special love for[...]Pony have returned to remodel the 'old house' for a perma-[...]residence or just a vacation home. Others, seeing the beauty of the mountains, have built new homes. An earth[...]sheltered home facing the Witch's Navel (named by miners)[...]families--and a new log home with hot water heat. The Hollowtop Senior Citizens, organized in 1972, hav[...]renovated and modernized the first floor of the Masonic Hall.[...]is served once a week; activities are offered to the The Old Sunberg House · now the home of Eva and Virgil retired people of Pony, Harrison and Norris. The health care Davis[...]The school building and gym were purchased by the Pony in the summer; in winter, services are held in the Harrison Homecoming Club for the use of the community and where Church. Some Pony folks go to church in Whi[...]rks or Bozeman where other denominations Recently the school has been used by the J.C.'s and for art have services. and hand craft courses and town meetings. The old homesteads have been combined into larger Many of the beautiful old homes have been moved or holdings. Now, in 1982, ranchers in the Pony area are: J.J. demolished; the McKaskle and Hanson houses, and the Reel Chalmers, R.R. Edwards, C.B. Brooke and E.J. Brooke. house west of the church to name a few. But, many are en- The Isdell Mercantile Company was established in 1876[...]owners. Katharine Adkins Bierrum lives_in provide the people's needs for hardware, mining and her family home, the Wesley Ore family reside in the Carmin ranching supplies. It contiunued for many years. Later, Joe house, the Hortons own the Reel house. Virgil and Eva Mae Webber opened a store in the old Fred West Unde!~B:- Davis have the Sunberg house, while Bill Bailey has his Parlor. In 1946 he sold to Billie and Zeke Grant and Alex Grandma White's house. The Brooke family have the Morris Parsnick. Owners down through the years were: the house on the flat; Bud and Anna Lou Purdy have the Leah Newkirks, Donald and Elsie DeFrance, the Babcocks and Morris Mendenhall home up in the canyon. Joe and Lillian then Elsie and Emmett Clary. The store was sold to Jan and Kemp Foster have her family home by the creek and Laura Bill Hart who finally sold and closed it in 1981. Other stores Fisher Young, age 97, visits her home now the summer house were operated in different times by McLeod, MacDaniel and of Bob and Mildred Jones of California. Curry. Pony still has the clean air, blue skies, bright sunshine and Alex Parsnick built the two story garage across from the a climate less harsh than nearby places because it is nestled Masonic Hall. Later, he bought the MacMillan property in at the foot of Old Hollowtop. Harrison and built the garage presently owned by the Dyk.man family. After WW II, Harry Tinsley worked[...]The Pony Public School building that still stands in[...]was built in 1902 at a cost of $10,000. The high school was[...]Stock, Allie Bell, Laura Fisher and Lemie Wickham. Before the gym was built in 1920 basketball games and other athletic events were held in the Masonic Hall. Enrollment in the school increased steadily as many families took up homesteads around Pony. In the ear- ly 20's the dry years came and one by one the families had to move out, so the enrollment declined. When the Depression came along, mining increased and[...]population and the school again had a large enrollment.[...]During World War II all gold mines were ordered closed and so Pony once again declined. In 1943 the high school was discontinued and the few re-[...]About 1955 the grade school was also closed and the school[...] |
| Today, the school building and the gym are owned by the A mortuary has facilities for the last rites. Pony Homecoming Club. They are used for community The fire of October 1972 destroyed a grocery store, a bar gatherings. Every three years a reunion is held and the and claimed a life. Now, a new building with groceries and school and gym come to life once more. hardware available continues near the place where the former[...]building stood. A new building houses the bar. Ol[...]rrison, there is a place to eat, a place to drink and a place to sleep. And Harrison Lake is the fishing hole for many local folks and neighboring anglers. The many scattered homesteads of early days have been[...]lidated into larger holdings. They raise Hereford and Angus cattle, Morgan and Arabian horses, swine and sheep as well as grow wheat and barley. Sons and daughters of the ranchers and farmers are con- tinuing in the family business and are rearing their children to follow in the footsteps of their of their ancestors. Some of[...]the family names are: Anderson, Cline, Dyk, Jackson[...](William and Peter V.), Maichel, Myhre, Ohs, Rice, Sitz,[...]Smith and Ypma.[...]and a few mobile homes have been set up recently.[...]All in all, folks who live in the Harrison area find it has all that they desire plus a beautiful view of the Tobacco Root[...]HARRISON Harrison, built on the east side of the direct north-south The present District 23's first school was a three-ro[...]structure built on a acre of land secured from the Isdell- |
| [...]Wyatt Alexander, Adylene Houghton, Fred Carmin and Francis Miller. As the book-learning standards improved, th_e school mov- ed ahead with other activities. The first school paper, The Echo, was published in 1928·. And who could forget the first Junior Prom in May? Proms were held in the old gym that originally had served the 1905 elementary graders. The social affair was later moved to a dance hall downtown until a new gym-auditorium was added to the south side of the building in 1955. Free school lunches were provided for the children. Parents hauled in potatoes, milk, garden produce and other staples for cook, Elizabeth Brownback. Later, the Women's Club sponsored the noon meal. Points of interest back then: Myrtle Martin J acktton was . the only graduate in the class of 1933. Football was deleted in 1947 because there weren't enough players for a squad. The class of 1949 had the record--largest class with 15. The Harrison Wildcats won their first tournament bask[...]David and B/,a.nce Almendinger Wed-[...]ding Picture - March 14, 1939. And in the early 60's consolidation of Norris and Pony with Harrison was completed and the enrollment increased to almost 100. Although the school population always was small, as were[...]was other schools in Madison County, it wasn't the measure of[...]es City, Montana, October 20, 1920, daughter of the students or curriculum. Some students settled and raised A.K. and Agnes May. The May family had lived in Billings families in the community, while others sought careers and Big Timber before moving to Harrison in February[...]1938. The 1981-82 enrollment is: high school- 35; junior hi[...]David and Blanche lived first at the Powell place. Two and the elementary grades number 38. There are presently[...]Pearl Ann born in 14 teachers, 4 staff members and 4 bus drivers. School Three Forks, April 14, 1940 and Gerald Wesley born in busses travel about 16 mil[...]ng didn't prove too pro- Anceny, 6 miles to Pony and 7 miles up Norwegian.[...]fitable so Dave went to work at the Boaz mine. From there In 1981, voters in District 23 approved a request for the he worked in Big Timber, Moat Chrome mines, the Anaconda building of an addition to the present gym. The upper l~vel Smelter and the Bozeman Tunnel. to provide space for junior high classrooms and concessions Wilma Kay was born in Big Timber on November 22, 1942. and the downstairs will be used for locker rooms and other facilities. Based on the 1981 taxable valuation, the school During the war they moved back to Harrison. Blanche re- mills were expected to increase approximately 14 mills for the improvements. B/,a.nche and David Almendinger at home in Harrison.[...]Dorothy c. Brooke DAVID AND BLANCHE (MAY) ALMENDINGER David Wesley Almendinger was born in Dayton, |
| mained there while Dave put in a short stint with the Navy. Two sons were born: David Arthur on September 27, 1945, and Charles Edward on June 25, 1947. Both were born i[...]947 they moved to Avon where Dave was employed in the mine. They spent fifteen years there with a short[...]n was killed in a tractor accident August 8, 1954 and Gerald drown- ed in Harrison Lake May 25, 1958. In 1961 Dave had his hip crushed in the mine and went through a series of operations in Deer Lodge. The family moved back to Harrison in June 1962. Dave went into the Ennis Hospital for his final operation. He has ma[...]r Bob Rice; he lived on what is commonly known as the Moger place for seven years. When Dave became the Harrison school janitor and bus driver, he moved into Harrison and built a new home. He spent nine years at the school, retired and now has a hobby - Beulah Bailey with two favorite horses, beside the old Pony making cedar furniture.[...]r of St. Ignatius, Montana homesteaded in the Pony area in the early 1900's. Fred came on July 1, 1960. They have five children: Tommy, Debby, to Pony about 1914 and became engaged in ranching, haul- Jerry, Shawn and Joan. ing timber and ore for the mining companies, horsetrading David Arthur married Claudia Flick April 1, 1969 while he and horsebreaking. was stationed in Hawaii; they now[...]her little daughter, innocent of all danger, teasing a coiled[...]the Summit Valley area was never erased from the mind of B[...]1900, Beulah was one of two daughters and four brothers of Richard Homer White and Winona Gray White (Winnie). The family moved to Pony in 1913. Beulah's sister was[...]Elton, and brothers: Dewett, Harold "Red", Fay and Richard. Fay is the only surviving member and resides in[...]Fred and Beulah were married in March of 1917 and began their married life in Pony. To them was born one daughter,[...]Eva Mae, and two sons, Bill and Russell Fay. For many years they lived in the home presently owned and occupied by the Harry Tinsleys. Beulah and Fred both loved horses. Fred was a skilled[...]ore wagons. Descending the steep grades required "rough locking" the rear wheels to serve as braking power. House[...]moving with horses was also a feat accomplished by Fred and his associate, Jesse Devine, using as many as 16[...](8 teams), to get the job done. It has been reliably reported Fred Bailey and wagon with four head of horses, Main Street that Fred and Jessie took over with horses, where two - Pony, 1930's.[...]Rumsely steam tractors couldn't get the job done.[...]Beulah spent a great deal of her life outdoors, helping with rarich work and enjoying her riding horses. At one time[...]Beulah and Fred operated a guest house, (the Bud Watt place) serving meals and providing trips on horseback to FRED AND BEULAH (WHITE) BAILEY Hollowtop and Potosi Hot Springs. In the early 1930's Beulah and Fred operated the Pony Hauling poles, equipment and laying wires with horses and Hotel on Broadway Street. This was during the great wagons for the first electric power line over the mountains to depression, when the only employment was provided by the the Boss-Tweed-Clipper mines, typifies the life of Fred Japanese American company which operated the Clipper Bailey when living and working in the Pony area. Mine. Many of this company's officers and employees resid- Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma near the turn of the century, ed at the Hotel. Later they operated a cafe in the building he was the youngest of five sons and three daughters of John which is presently the Pony Bar operated by Bert Welch. Wesley and Ellen Elizabeth Honssinger Bailey. His brothers Fred and Dick Newkirk owned and operated the Silver were William Guy, John Cyrus, Horace and-Omer. Sisters: Dollar Bar during the late 1930's, which was located in the Myrtle, Goldie and Edna completed the family. They building adjoining the present Pony Bar. Their sponsored[...] |
| dances in the Masonic Hall were very popular and they book- ed good orchestras, including Fred Harvey's out of Butte. A large round wood stove in a comer of the dance hall warmed those who didn't keep warm danc[...]ssed away very suddenly on February 13, 1938. Her favorite song, "There's a Gold Mine in the Sky" was sung at her funeral by Lee Martin. She is buried in the family plot of the South Boulder Cemetery. Fred returned to Ardmore, Oklahoma, later remarried and raised another family. He continued to follow his life long work with horses and mules. He passed away May 13, 1977 and is buried in Ardmore. His wife, Beth, survives him. His sister, Edna, the last of the brothers and sisters, followed him in death about a year later[...]d's grandfather on his mother's side is buried in the Pony Cemetery.[...]Mother Ida Mason Benson, Jo and Albert. now retired from the service as a Lieutenant Colonel and Albert Benson - 1927. First suit[...]Retired - Jo and Albert Benson. |
| [...]DA (MASON) BENSON Ida Mason was born to Albert and Abbie Louise (Sparrell) Ready to go - William and Albert Benson The young couple lived in the frame house on the hill aboye |
| [...]J . Peter Jackson and Inez Olin Reynolds and Bonnie Mac-[...]In 1942 Katharine moved to Butte where she taught until her retirement in 1961. She returned with her parents to the family home in Pony where she cared for them until their deaths. She continues to live in the home built in 1903.[...]Her niece, Katie Joseph Rudfelt, and her nephew, Frank[...]A note for history: The corporation formed in 1892 by[...]Henry Adkins, Eli Adkins and Major Nelson J. Isdell was[...]Katharine A . Bierrum - teacher. Willet, Peter and Mildred Jackson were among her students. |
| [...]Fred and Oleta have been active in community activities.[...]Fred was a member of the school board in Pony for several[...]years. Oleta contributed many hours helping the Pony 4-H Club. They both were active in the Pony Homecoming Club[...]for several years with Fred as President of the Club for[...]twelve years. They participated in the creation of Pony[...]Park. Fred has been a member of the Elks in Virginia City,[...]After their retirement, Fred and Oleta made several trips.[...]They have: toured most all of the United States, vacationed[...]football game in Hawaii, flown through the Bermuda Triangle to the Bahama Islands and visited Mexico. Fred and Oleta have one grandson, Clyde Foster Jackson,[...]born in Bozeman in 1954. He is the son of Colleen and Tim Oleta (Carmin) B~x - 1929.[...]born in 1979 and Sierra Colleen born in 1982. Colleen died and the only language spoken there was Italian. Quite a[...]challenge for her first teaching experience since she spoke on- Daughter Carmin married Bob Hansen of Tulsa, Oklahoma ly English. Her second year she returned home and taught on February 15, 1961. They have two daughters: Carmella in the Pony School. Marie Hansen born in 1964 and Clarissa Colleen Hansen Fred and Oleta have spent most of their married years in born in 1980. Pony. They now live in the old Dr. Smith home in Pony. But, in their younger mar[...]lived at various mines around Pony. They enjoyed the mountain cabin living[...]Oleta Carmin Box at it's finest. Dirt floors were the fashion and long trips to haul water exemplified the plumbing. But the beautiful view and visits from the friendly creatures made it a pleasant ex- perience. During those years they lived in cabins at the CORNELIUS B. AND ALYCE (O'CONNOR) BROOKE White Pine, Union and Strawberry mines. Two daughters were born to Fred and Oleta: Colleen Rae Cornelius B. was born January 1, 1922, the fifth son of born in Bozeman, Montana in 1936 and Carmin Lee born in Marvin and Rachel Murray Brooke, at the ranch which he 1939 in Whitehall, Montana.[...]arrison Fred has always made his living working the mines around High School in 1939. Following his graduation he attended Pony and is the owner of the Cleveland, Old Joe and the Atlantic & Pacific. During WW II when the government Alyce and Cornelius Brooke Wedding shut down all the gold mines they left Pony for one short[...]of Helena. At various times during her married life, Oleta taught school. She taught in Pony a total of nine years and then in Oleta and Fred Box at Grandson's Wedding, 1978.[...] |
| [...]She feels perhaps that the fact that Paul and Dan became in-[...]Alyce O'Connor Brooke The Brooke Family 1978. Back row: Paul, Dan, Alyce, Cor- |
| The Ed Brooke Family -1967. John, Dorothy, Ed, Jerry and Murray. Front: Kevin and Brian. child born to John and Clara Capp. (The family later grew to |
| [...]Western Montana College in Dillon in the spring of 1937.[...]rt Leslie Comer, Jr. was Albert L., son of Tom and Mary Comer, was born March born. The Comers accepted a teaching position in Great 27, 1910, in Pony. He attended school in Pony and Harrison. Falls that fall; and all looked rosy. $1400.00 looked like a He has one brother Sidney, and three sisters: Blanche, Alma fortune; but then they faced $50.00 per month rent; and there and Bertha. wasn't much left. Henrietta M. is the oldest of four children, born to Peter V. After four years in Great Falls, they moved to Shelby, and Besse P. Jackson, of Norris. She was born April 22, where Al accepted an administrative position in the schools. 1916. Her two sisters are Eva P. (Bobby) and Carolyn. Peter While living in Shelby, Wi[...]the Comer family. Al received a teaching certificate from the college in Dillon Following Shelby, the Comer family returned to Madison in 1931, and was teaching in Harrison when they were mar- County and, in time, accepted a teaching position in the Twin ried. The next several years were a series of struggles, secur- Bridges Schools. One year there and Al accepted a position ing degrees from college. It meant teaching in the winter and as an educator with the Juvenile Department of Los Angeles attending college during the summer, or securing a job to County, helping to educate the young criminals. Now, that is help with expenses. The first year in Harrison found the a different story, but full of educati[...]nces. Al newly married couple paying $12.50 rent; and that was became a real estate salesman in Inglewood while down steep! The next year they found cheaper housing. The there; and this little venture netted enough to see them September grocery bill that first year come to $6.00. The through an~ther year of college. So they[...]teaching position in Twin Bridges; and Al spent the next three summers at the University of Montana in Missoula,[...]e recieved a Masters Degree in School Administra- The Comers - 1948. Les, A~ Detta and -BilL tion in the summer of 1948.[...]Twin Bridges, a position he held for the next ten years. In 1960 the Comers moved to Belgrade to a similar position.[...]Also, in the summer of 1960, Al taught on campus at[...]wholesome experience. By this time Les was in the Air Force and Bill was headed for college; so, the family was grown. During all these years of activity, Detta ran the[...]household, stayed active in community work and still found[...]time to spend some hitches in an insurance office and as a[...]After four years in the Belgrade Schools, the Comers head- ed for Sunny Cal again, into the real estate business and the excitement of competing for a share of the freeways. Both of[...] |
| Yellowstone for a few years, and had a real estate broker's members of the family who had to work for her, she was a license also. When they sold the motel, they moved to tough task master, demanding first class work. After she Sheridan and Al went full time into real estate. Detta worked gave up the hotel, she was much in demand as a practical in Walter's Store for awhile, then became office receptionist nurse, and delivered babies, nursed the sick and took care of for Dr. Swager. Two summers Detta ran a g[...]al emergencies. After a devastating fire in Pony, she Cooke city, just for variety. took a burn victim into her home and cared for him for mon- Real estate broadened into mining interests; and the mines ths. were in Pony; so what better than to[...]Her sister was Katie O'Brien Knudson Shields, and they life of real estate and mining. Since they are both graduates were extr[...]gh School, they believe they are back home. and although she lived in Pony and ran a boarding house at Detta has spent the years so far in helping out at the Pony the Clipper Mine, she also lived for a time in Omaha and in Cash Store, along with activity in community affairs, Butte. She was married to Barry Knudson and had one son, holding an office in the Pony Homecoming Club, working Mahlon, later marrying Bill Shields of Butte. She died at the with numerous hobbies; and both of them spend time keep- age of 76 in Butte in 1953, leaving her son Mahlon and two ing the Hollowtop Senior Citizens group going full blast. daughters, Betty Corbitt and Mary Carroll Thomas, all of Out of all their wanderings they hold dear to the concept whom live in Butte. that Education KEEPS US FREE; and we must stay ever There were two O[...]ls functioning with adequate of appendicitis and Edward, who died in 1930 in Butte, and a facilities and competent staffs; that all youth may develop a sister who died in infancy.[...]ssie Connor was postmaster in Pony for many years and yet to be. was a staunch Democrat and a devout Catholic. It was a family joke that she thought Irish, Catholic and Democrat[...]Al Comer if you were all three, it was a guarantee of heaven.[...]she made her home with her daughter, Catharine Sahine[...]Sisters Katie O'Brien Knutson Shields and Bessie. 0 'Brien Connor. BESSIE[...]Bessie Connor was born in Pony on July 21, 1880, the |
| [...]Rosa Iglehart Corbin - 1970 Helen and Harold (John) Corbin - 1981.[...]g her sister, Mildred Lineberry in Whitehall when she Harold helped to extend the telephone line south of Har- met Al. rison to the edge of Norris. Rosa and Al worked on the Pruitt Ranch near Whitehall From 1933-36 Harold and his brothers, Howard and Jody, for six years. The twin boys, Harold R. and J. Howard were worked at the Ben Harrison fraction about Pony. born November 17, 1914 and Francis Jody was born in 1916. The family moved to Pony in 1918 to help her parents. It Harold married Helen Murray from the North Boulder was in Pony that Keith was[...]ontana. Helen was born September 3, 1917, to Roy and Olive Quinn Murray in The next year, 1919, Rosa and Al moved the family to Har- Boulder, Montana. Roy Murray, from Bellingham, Min- rison. The twins were ready to start school. Rosa operated ne~ota, was a rancher and noted trapper of mountain lions. the Harrison Private Telephone Exchange which was a p[...]ve of Boulder. of the Iglehart telephone service. After a short while in Seattle they returned to Whitehall In 1926 Rosa and Al were divorced: Al was to raise the where Harold worked in the Mayflower and Mammoth twins and Rosa was to take Keith and Jody. In 1927 Rosa Mines. Later, they worked for Helen's family and in Har- married Harry Smith. She bought out her sister;s (Bessie's) rison for Erni[...]interest in the exchange and extended the line to Norris. The Caddells operated the Ennis exchange which included the Harold and Helen had two sons: LeRoy Alvin and John town of Norris. Harold. John Harold[...]udith Rose Schutte December 30' Rosa and Harry ran the telephone company until 1936 1961 in Butte. Their children are: Kathryn L~. Gary M. antl The Corbin Brothers - 1964. Keith, Harold (John), How[...]and Jody. In 1945 Harold went to work for the Montana Power Co. serving in Boulder, Canyon Ferry in the old plant where Hele~ ran tJie boarding house. The next years, 194 7-5? they were m Helena before moving to Philipsburg wh~re Harold was the manager. In 1967 they left Philipsburg for Butte and in 1968 Harold retired due to health. S~ce retirement they have lived in Boulder Valley and in Whitehall. Harold needed a milder climate so they moved to Green Valley, Arizona, to Sequim, Washington and recently they returned to Montana and make their home in Polson.[...]N Rosa was born April 10, 1894 to Edward McCoy and Laura |
| when she sold out. They moved to Whitehall in 1944. Harry[...]children are Marjie Lou Thomas Kent of Ennis, and Gayle In 1980 Rosa died • aged 86 years.[...]married Loren Two sons have died: Jody in 1981 and Keith in 1980. Almendinger of Harri[...]Richard, Catherine and David. The Almendingers now live[...]Harold R. Corbin Bert and Clare moved to Harrison in 1939. Bert bought a[...]house and worked at mines in the area. In 1941-42 the Crit- chfields and Rens went to Needles, California to work at the[...]Darwin Mines; Bert as Engineer, Clare as cook and Ralph[...]Ren as miner. When Ralph was injured, all moved back to[...]as a cook, for she was known all over the country for her cooking. Two of the biggest jobs for Bert were the Stagecoach Inn at West Yellowstone and the new gym-[...]nasium in Harrison. Bert retired and took the job as caretaker for the Harrison Cemetery for nearly twenty years.[...]Both Bert and Clare are buried there; Clare on April 8, 1971[...]and Bert on October 19, 1978.[...]Susan Slater Ren Clare and Bert Critchfield BERT AND CLARE (McPHERSON) CRITCHFIEID The Critchfield family came to America from Wales in the |
| [...]a few years, they leased the Mason Place, and in 1951 they[...]To help out, Lena May worked from 1954 to 1957 in the Cafe in Three Forks, then at the City Drug for two more years. The girls went to school and graduated from Three[...]Forks High School. Shorty was working for the telephone company and running the ranch at this time. After the girls graduated, the family was together again except for the eleven years that Lena May worked for the Talc Mine.[...]Shorty sheared sheep for many ranches around the country.[...]1946. Shorty also restores and refinishes furniture. The children are:[...]on May 18, 1936. She and her husband live near East Helena and have Stanley, Anita and Janice. Curry's 25th Anniversary - 1959. Bonnie,[...]ue (Curry) Norville was born in Glorieta, New May and Sue. Mexico on March 16, 1940. The Norvilles live near Cardwell and have Timothy, Wesley, Michael and Sally Sue.[...]in Pony. They now live near her parents and have Roderick, Lena May and her two older brothers were educated. The Douglas, Amy and Calvin. four younger children were educated in Gl[...]Calvin Bailey Curry The two met while he was riding fence; Lena May was driv- ing the cows to pasture. They were married in Gail, Texas, on October 8, 1934. They went to the area around Silver City where Shorty worked on ranches, worked on oil rigs, drove truck, rodeo-ed and farmed near Rencona, New Mexico.[...]ALFRED AND NELLIE (GORDON) DA VIS In 1941 when a friend, Pete Coleman, bought the Pete Grant Ranch near Pony, Shorty helped bring the cattle and household goods to Montana. They unloaded the cattle at Alfred was born March 2, 1882 in La Plata, Missouri, the the "Tinsley Spur• and drove them to the ranch. The youngest and a twin son of James W. and Elizabeth Wilgus "emigrant car" was unloaded~ Pony. Davis. He grew to manhood in the area of Brashear,[...]Missouri. His father served in the Union Army during the Later, C.B. worked for Laura Young and still later, for Civil War. His mother died when he was four years old. Marvin Brooke. After operating the Curry Cash Grocery for[...]In 1909 Alfred followed his twin brother, Alvah, and older[...]cowhand in the Musselshell area, north of Billings. He was[...]later employed by the Neeble livery company in Bozeman, as Curry's 40th Anniversary. C.B. and Lena May Curry a hack (taxi) driver.[...]Alfred met his future wife, Nellie Gordon, while she was visiting and working for her aged aunt, Julia Fletcher (Mrs.[...]Towney) who lived on the Norwegian between Pony and Nor-[...] |
| Nellie Gordon setting type for the Pony Sentinel - 1912. ris. The Davis brothers ranch operated by Lynn and Alvah was also on the Norwegian. Nellie Maria Gordon was born in Rushford, New York on July 1, 1886, the only daughter of five children of Frank W.[...]Alfred and Nellie Davis - 50th wedding anniversary - and Cora L. Burr Gordon. She spent her young adulthood life with her family at the Rushford home and yrorked as a Pony - 1963. typesetter for the area newspapers. In 1911 she _and another witnessed the fatal accident that took the life of his nephew, young lady, relative and teacher, Mary Gordon, Journeyed to Vivian Davis, while working as partners in the Clipper Mine Montana by train to help relatives who were some of the ear- in the early 1930's. ly pioneers in Montana. They were the William (Billy) Fletcher family on Meadow Creek and the Towney Fletcher After retirement Alfred and Nellie spent their remaining family on Norwegian. Mrs. Towney Fletcher was the former days at their home in Pony and working for their youngest Julia Gordon of Rushford, New York. She came to Montana son, Clair, who had purchased the Davis Brothers ranch on earlier by wagon train. (pp. 237, Pioneer Trails and Trials). Norwegian. Alfred passed away on May 6, 1968 at the age of[...]ears later in February, Mrs. Will Fletcher was the former Ellen Gordon, also of 1979, a few months prior to her 93rd birthday. Both are in- Rushford New York. She, too, came to Montana in 1874 in a terred in the Valley View Cemetery in Pony. wagon tr~n and as a bride. Some ~f her lette~s written h~me and parts of the diary she kept dunng that tnp were publish- ed in the book, "Bride on the Bozeman Trail".[...], Nellie went to help her Aunt Julia on Norwegian and Mary went to the Fletchers on Meadow Creek to help in furthering the education of the chidren. Nellie also worked as a typesetter for the Pony Sen- tinel Newspaper. After making a trip back to New York'in VIRGIL FRANKLIN AND EVA MAE (BAILEY) DAVIS 1912 Nellie returned to Montana. Alfred and Nel,lie were married in Billings, Montana in 1914 and for the nett several The second of three sons of Alfred and Nellie Davis, Virgil, years operated ranches in the Pony-Harrison ~ea, including was born in a ranch house two miles north of Pony during a the Phillips and Monroe places. In the meantune three sons blizzard on December 27,[...]ses to a were born to them: Alfred G., Virgil F., and Clair W. In 1923 bob sled, his father made the round-trip to Harrison to bring the family moved to Rushford to help care for Nellie's aging Dr. Sacry for the occasion. parents. During the next six years Alfred was a cheese- maker in Rushford and Clarendon, New York. Virgil spent the first few years with his parents on seve~al[...]ranches between Pony and Harrison. In 1923 the family In 1929 the family returned to Pony, Montana driving the moved to New York State returning to Pony on the eve of the entire distance by way of Brashear, Missouri, in a 1919 Great Depression in 1929. The trip from New York was r~- Studebaker, a seven pa[...]a seven passenger open tounng They found some of the roads (US Route 10) m western Studebaker automobile. The family purchased the Sundberg North Dakota and eastern Montana little better than a cattle ho[...]lic School, graduating in 1935. They purchased the Sundberg house on. Reel Street in He work[...]Lynn Davis, Pony in 1930. It is still retained in the f~y. F'.rom 19~9 Cousins, Cecil and Winnifred Reel; a clerk in the Pony Mer- Alfred worked as a miner and rancher until his retrrement m cantile operated by Les McLeod and he teamed for Dad 1947. He was a 50-year member of the Pony Masonic Order. Salmon who operated a drayage business. Virgil recalls the Nellie was a member of the Eastern Star for 45 years. She time when fighting dogs caused his team to run away. They also served on the Board of Education in Pony. headed up Broadway Street and were running pretty good by Over the years she became better known to everyone in the the time they reached the Pony Hotel. The town barber, Art community as "Aunt Nellie ".[...]ys Alfred was involved in serious ac- pole did the job and miraculously, neither horse was serious- cidents while working at the Clipper Mine above Pony and at ly injured. The team and wagon were replaced with a 1929 the Mayflower Mine south of Whitehall, Montana[...] |
| [...]va and Virgil Davis and family - 195Z Gary, Ronald and Nancy. Front: Christine, Eva and Virgil. Clark Caverns) in 1934 Eva and Virgil started dating. Eva |
| [...]On the way to town from Grayling. The DeFrance family. Don and Elsie DeFrance - 1940. Charlie, Gladys (between) Bertha and Don on Bertha 's lap.[...]GLADYS VIOLA DE FRANCE DONALD JAMES AND ELSIE (MAACK) DE FRANCE[...]was born March 30, 1914 at Belgrade, Minnesota The life of long time Pony resident, Donald James in the farmhouse of her maternal grandparents, Christian[...]on July 13, 1915 in Belgrade, Minnesota and Regina Johnson, who had immigrated to America fro[...]ar Hebgen Lake, Her mother, Bertha .. and Charles DeFrance were married in where she and her husband, Charles Duffy DeFrance lived in[...]ader, a hunter's cabin. (pp. 233, Pioneer Trails and Trials.) When trapper and hunting guide at Grayling near Hebgen Lake. Don and his two sisters, Gladys and Wanda, were old enough West Yellowstone was the nearest town to take care of to start school, the family moved by covered wagon from business and shop. Most of it was done during the summer West Yellowstone to Pony. In Pony they settled into the months. In the fall supplies were bought to keep the family large frame house down the hill from the Bank. The house through the winter. was occupied by their grandfather, James, who had been in the Pony area a long time. (pp. 223, Pioneer Trails and The children, Donaid, Gladys and Wanda, each had a pair Trials.)[...]of skiis made by Uncle Oliver Johnson. $kiis, dog sled and Don attended the Pony Schools and was the only member snowshoes were means of transportation. Sometimes, there of the 1934 high school graduating class. In high school were parties at the neighboring ranches or hunting lodges. Don, at six feet tall, played center on the highly successful When Donald and Gladys reached school age the family "Five Red Head " basketball team. He also was divisional moved to Pony where they lived in Grandpa James winner in the mile run at Bozeman during the time when all DeFrance's house. Robert and Betty Lou were born in Pony. schools were in the same league. Like many promising Wh[...]a, Don was forced to turn down an offer to for the weekend. Others drove. He contracted 'black lung' attend college and immediately began his working career as a farm hand for the Maichel brothers at Harrison. DeFrance children: Donald and Gladys. Eager to become self employed, Don later took on the Front: Wanda. business of de[...]Mammoth Mines. In 1940 he married Elsie Maack and in 1943 their elder son, Dennis Donald, was born. During WW II the govern- ment closure of the gold mines took Don and his family to Portland, Oregon, where he worked for the Gunderson Brothers in the ship yards. Their younger son, Daryl Louis was born there in 1944. With the close of the war, Don and Elsie moved back to Montana in 1945 with their tw[...]contracted to dig holes for power lines until he and Elsie were able to pur- chase the Pony Cash Store in 1949. Don also served as clerk of the Pony School until it closed in 1959. Don became diabetic in 1948 but the disease was never ful- ly controlled. He remained a hard worker and enthusiastical- ly enjoyed the outdoors around Pony until his death in January of 1966. Daryl and Anne DeFrance[...] |
| [...]Mona and Bob Edwards shortly after[...]their marriage. and was transferred to Galen Hospital where he died in 1941. Bertha continued at the family home (below the Bank) until her death in September of 1975.[...]1937 Gladys married James Carter in Jima, the Marianas, Tinian and Okinawa. He received an Butte. Carter was working[...]ioned Carter was born August 14, 1938. He married and had two in Tinian he received a telegram from home telling him of the boys, Roy and Shawn. In an accident near Basin, Ron was[...]er husband adopted fourteen, who drowned in the Jefferson River. Bob's mother the boys. had died only a month before he left for the service, leaving Gladys divorced James Carter in 1942. In Seattle she seven younger brothers and sisters. worked for Boeing Airplane Company and for General Elec- When the home ranch was sold the family moved to tric Supply Corp. She lived briefly in Portland, Oregon. Whitehall in 1947. Bob worked for Joe Kountz on the ranch In 1964 she returned to Pony. On December 29, 1964 she for several years. was appointed Acting Postmaster; on December 22, 1965 she On March 17, 1955, Bob married Mary Ramona[...]a. Pony. (pp. 224 Pioneer Trails and Trialc,.) Mary Ramona was The Pony Post Office was 100 years old on February 28, born to Billie and Zeke Grant in Pony on April 13, 1933. She 1977. A birthday cake was made and a commemorative started school in Pony where she finished the eighth grade. envelope was printed for the occasion. In 1951 she graduated from Harrison High School. Ramona[...]Debbie. Front: Robbie Edwards. ROBERT ROSS AND MARY RAMONA (GRANT) Robert Ross (Bob) Edwards Jr. was born to Robert Ross |
| -- Bob and Mona Edwards. 25th wedding anniversary. studied n[...]ollege, graduating as a registered nurse in 1954. She worked as a graduate nurse at St. James Hospital in Butte. After her marriage to Bob they made their home on the (Boyd) ranch in Pony. Herman (Dinh) Erie -1925. Robert and Ramona Grant Edwards currently own and operate the ranch homesteaded in the late 1880's by Mr. and Mrs. James Patton Boyd. (pp. 224 Pioneer Trails and Trials.) After the James Boyd family moved to Stevensville in HERMAN JOHN AND DOROTHY MAY (BUELL) ERIE 1902, the ranch was taken over by son, Harlan and wife, Mary Durham Boyd. (pp. 234 Pioneer Trails and Trails.) For On October 8, 1910, Herman John Erie was born to John the next thirty-five years Harlan and Mary divided their and _Minnie Goetchius in a small square house in the draw time between ranching and the mining claims which offered west of the Pony School house, and like his sister, Gladys, hopes of riches, but nev[...]spent his entire childhood in Pony. He roamed the hills, trap- The next generation to own the ranch was daughter Billie, ped coyotes, and for a while let Harry Drackert try to make a who,[...]Grant, managed cowboy out of him. About the time he thought he was to more than triple the size of the original homestead by buy- mastering the art he would break something that would slow i.ng out the holdings of Alvah Davis. Billie and Zeke his progress. Drackert went on to become a champion, operated the ranch until Zeke's death in 1953. though, and Herman still hasn't got it all out of his system. After remarrying in 1955, Billie and her husband, Glenn At the age of twelve he started working as a hay hand fo[...]p with daughter, Ramona; Charlie Walter on the old Mason Ranch that was owned by and son-in-law Robert Edwards. The partnership continued Basil Tinsley. From there he worked for Pete and Zeke after Billie's death in 1972 up until Glenn's death in 1978. In Grant, then for Eli Adkins where he broke horses and did 1981 Glenn's ranch was bought and added to the holdings general ranch work during the summer months. He also now run by Robert and Ramona Edwards. Their three followed a threshing crew one fall with a team and bundle children are now the fifth generation of family to live on the wagon for Charlie Durham. original homestead.[...]gh school he rode trap line with Two daughters and a son were born to Ramona and Bob: Donald Stevens, and was taught the art of coyote trapping. Penny Lee, born October[...]r year he had a trap line of his own which 1957; and Robert (Robbie) Grant, born December 1970. was quite successful, and during this year somewhere he Penny Lee married Tom Suhr and lives now in Bozeman, picked up a smallpox germ. The only one in town! Nobody Montana. They have two b[...]adys came home from Missoula in September 4, 1980 and Bobbi Lee, born August 21, 1981. the spring and came down with smallpox. The Professor Debra Ann taught school in Cardwell[...]money trapping coyotes that winter and still graduated from Robert is a fifth grader[...]chool on May 16, 1928. Bob is an ardent hunter and fisherman, living nearly all his After graduation Herman went to school in Salt Lake City, life in Madison County near some of the finest hunting and worked in the CLIPPER-BOSS TWEED and Mammoth fishing areas in the world. mines until he injured a foot in the Clipper. He finally went He is a member of Riv[...]to see Dr. Burns (former Pony doc.) in Sheridan and the Doc- ferson Island, Montana. tor suggested he get out of the mines. He headed for Alder, Ramona is a 30-yea[...]Lodge Montana where he trapped coyotes the winter of 1930-31. In No. 82 of Pony, Montana. the spring Herman's father wanted him to help move to[...]nis where he was going to start the ERIE CASH Frances Edwards Fenton GROCERY. Sam Young, who owned the Harrison Mercan-[...]tile loaned John his 1 ½ ton truck for the move from Pony to[...] |
| Herman and Dorothy Erie home at Wigwam Ranch - 1982. E[...]p with Roy Taylor that year. John and Minnie Erie He helped Rollie do refrigeration work, putting in the Birds Eye Frosted Food Plant for Whetmore Hodges at the Jump- ing Horse Ranch. Next, he worked for Charlie Saunders in the Nelson Garage. That job paid $65.00 a month for 7 days States with only a smoked goat leg to eat on the way over. He a week and 12 to 14 hours a day. Nothing came easy in those came on the Lusitania, the ship the Germans sank in 1914, days.[...]starting World War I. On January 1, 1933 he took over the ERIE CASH He attended schools in Wisconsin and later studied for and GROCERY and his dad moved on to be Sheriff of Madison became a telegrapher. As an agent for the Northern Pacific County. He added State Liquor Store No. 60 in 1934 and en- Railroad in Iron Mountain, Michigan, he w[...]to several Montana stations, including Park City and In April of 1938, Dorothy May Buell was shipped into En- Whitehall. In Whitehall he met and married Minnie Maude nis by Mrs. Bates of Three[...]uty Goetschius on August 6, 1907. Shop in the back of Art William's Barber Shop. Herman, be- Minnie Maude was born at the Point of Rocks, near Twin ing a good friend of Art's, wound up with the Beauty Shop, Bridges on January 31, 1887. She was a daughter of Jeff and operator and all. Ma[...]is marriage to Minnie Maude ended his career as a and had been living with her mother and stepfather who own- railroad man. He and his bride moved to Harrison where ed the City Drug in Livingston at that time. John worked as a ranch hand. They filed and proved up on a The beauty shop was soon sold to Berniece Norskog and homestead about three miles west of Harrison. Their Dorothy helped out in the store until that business was sold daughter, Gladys was born May 27, 1908 in the Old Isdell in January of 1941. Herman and Dorothy bought the Rio Hotel that used to stand across the road north of the Nor- Theatre in Columbus. They ran the Rio until it was sold on thern Pacific Depot[...]al Estate Broker. In 1909 Minnie, John and Gladys moved to Pony where 1982 marks his 25th ye[...]John worked as a hard rock miner and mill man at the In the fall of 1949 Herman and Dorothy bought the Clipper-Boss Tweed Mine. He walked the six miles each way Wigwam Ranch two miles south of Columbus, built a new for each shift and packed his lunch. This was a seven-day-a- house in 1952 and are living there now. They run a few week job. On October 8, 1910 they became the parents of a Angus cattle, have a few good saddle horses and lots of son, Herman John. friends and pets around at all times. In 1917 John became Manager and Bookkeeper for the[...]for fourteen years. He was also clerk for the Pony School Sam Leath System, and for a time he was Town Marshall for Pony. He[...]gave up this position to become the City Clerk for the Town[...]f Pony. John loved to fish but not hunt. He loved all animals, both wild and domesticated. He loved children, was JOHN P. AND MINNIE (GOETSCHIUS) ERIE everybody's friend and had no enemies.[...]7, 1904 as did her daughter, Gladys on Norway. At the age of fifteen he came alone, to the United May 20, 1925. Herman graduated May 16, 1928. All three[...] |
| [...]Irene and Bill Ferguson - 1927 In 1931 in January, John and Minnie moved to Ennis where they started and successfully operated the Erie Cash Grocery until January 1, 1933, when Joh[...]rms as Sheriff they returned Albert Hayden and Floyd Louis. After working on ranches to Ennis where they built and operated the Madison Theatre in the Big Timber area for a few years, Bill and Irene until John passed away on October 10, 1953 of a massive operated a small ranch up the East Boulder River south of heart attack. Minnie continued to operate the theatre alone Big Timber. They worked the ranch until prices for cattle until November 29, 1957 when she sold to Jess C. and Grace and everything else hit rock bottom besides fighting dry H. Armitage. She lived in Ennis until the last few years years, no water, grasshoppers and Mormon crickets, and be- when she had an apartment in Absarokee for the winter mon- ing four miles from a small country school. They decided ths. Her daughter, Gladys, also lives in Absarokee. She died there had to be a better way to make a li[...]On April 17, 1937 they loaded all of their belongings, a dog and a cow into a truck and headed west. They knew the[...]that time, and through them Bill and Irene found a job work-[...]lived in the house where Elmer Visser now lives.[...]Will worked for Mr. Jackson on the ranch in the summer and at the Revenue Mine in the winter for a couple of years. In the fall of 1941 the Fergusons moved to Harrison. Will worked in the Boaz Mine until he was injured and the mine closed down soon after because of the war. He worked on various ranches and wall papered many homes in the Pony-[...]Will went to work on the State Highway in 1944 and work-[...]Grauman, Norris Mercantile Co. delivering gas and fuel oil to the many homes and ranches in the valley. He continued un- The John Erie family. John, Gladys, Herman and Minnie. John was a member and Past Master of Mount Jefferson Ferguson Boys - 1940. Hayden and Floyd. WILLIAM H. (BILL) AND IRENE (EWAN) FERGUSON William and Irene were married in Big Timber November[...] |
| [...]Brown and Elizabeth shortly after their marriage in Virgini[...]England and then by wagon train from Missouri. Brown and Elizabeth were married in Virginia City on[...]ey lived in Helena, Boulder Valley, Irene and Bill Ferguson - 1970 Hamilton and Pony. The Ferrells had 10 children. These were long time[...]residents of Pony, Harrison and vicinity: Rose Ferrell Bren- til his health faile[...]rrell McCauley, Margaret Fer- Irene was one of the first cooks to prepare hot lunches at rell Smith and Clarence Ferrell. the Harrison School. After several years there she cooked for the Construction crew that built the overpass at Sapp- ington, also for the same crew when they built the bridge across the Madison River out of Norris. In November of 1954 the Fergusons took over the Har- Elizabeth and Brown Ferrell - 1915. 50th wedding anniver- rison Cafe and ran it until 1965. Irene's mother and father sary. were living with them at that time so the cafe became a fami- ly affair. When Will wasn't on the gas truck he was cooking and serving hot cakes to the many fishermen and farmers who stopped in for a very early breakfast. The Fergusons gave up the cafe in 1965. Her father, Carl, died in 1965. Mother Lydia died in 1966. John Martin built the Jo & Jon's Drive Inn and in June of 1966 Irene went to work there and worked steadily for three years. She still works there when she is needed-fifteen years later. Hayden graduated from Harrison High in 1943 and Floyd in 1949. Both sons served 2½ years in the Armed Service. Hayden is married and lives in Bozeman. They have a mar- ried daughter,[...]in August 1975. Floyd lost his wife in 1976. He and his two small sons, Gary and Shawn, live in Great Falls. Will passed away in December of 1975 at the age of seven- ty-nine. Irene continues at the family home. Irene Ewan Ferguson BROWN AND ELIZABETH (DENNING) FERRELL Bruno Ferrero (Bro[...]r from his bir- |
| [...]ly - 1915. Back row: John, Francis, Jim, Clarissa and Bill. Front: Rose Elizabeth (Ferrell), Rose, William and Mary Alice Brennan. ROSE FERRELL BRENNAN, eldest daughter, met and in 1954 and his wife, Eva, died in 1958. They are buried in |
| W.B. and Amanda Fisher home in Pony - 1900. and Bertram W. They left Pony after finishing high school. Ida died in Pony in the summer of 1964. Bertram G. Fisher, born on the family ranch, lived in Madison County always. He worked on the ranch which grew to include forty acres of desert claim and 160 acres of homestead which his mother took up. His other jobs were Bert Fisher and sister, Ida Crowell many and varied; on the Hundred Stamp Mill when it was built on the hill above Pony (never finished); on upper Alder After selling the ranch, Bert and Liza lived on Meadow Gulch with John Dulentry trying to find the source of Alder Creek, in Ennis, then moved into his mother's home in Pony. Gulch gold and in the Clipper Mine. Liza p[...]winters with his sister, When his father sold the ranch about 1910 the area had Laura, in California and long summers in Pony. He died in just been opened for hoemsteading so he took up a Yucaipa, California and was buried in the family plot in Pony homestead on the upper Madison River across from i[...], 1973. Cameron. He married Liza Marshall in 1912 and the next years were hard--building, fencing land, planting grain and hay, and in company with some neighbors, digging an irriga[...]Roscoe W. Crowell tion ditch from Wall and Horse Creeks. Clarence Lichte was one of the partners. As one drives along the roads one can see on the bench on the west side of the river two patches of green trees a half mile apart which mark the sites of the Fisher and Lichte homesteads. Sisters: Ida Crowell and Laura Young James and Edith Flint[...]to pioneer attorney James A. Flint and Johanna R. Flint. |
| James Flint family: Margaret, Russell and Roberta. Schools, graduated from Three Forks High School in 1931 Lottie and Russ Flint · 1980 |
| in the mining industry. For fourteen years he worked on the electrified Rocky Mountain Division of the Milwaukee Railroad in the substa- tion department, living at Missoula, St. Regis, Alberton and Gold Creek, Montana and Avery Idaho. In 1956 he was employed by the Bonneville Power Administration in Hot Springs, Montana and Redmond, Oregon. Russell retired from the BPA in 1978 with twenty-four years of government service and presently lives in Redmond, Oregon.[...]The Gandenberger Family. Back row: Ken, Don, Al Jr., and Bob. Middle row: A~ Alma, and Tom. Front: Bob's Brian.[...]Safeway for 19 years and is now manager of the Havre store. They have children: Ricky and Vicki.[...]have children: Shawn, Corey, Brian, Joshua and twins, Jason and Sundai.[...]e are four great grandchildren. Alma and Al Gandenberger · 1934 Alma and Al moved to Pony in 1965 after Al retired in[...]1963. They purchased an older home and remodeled it. ALBERT AND ALMA (COMER) GANDENBERGER[...]1911 in Pony, Mon· |
| [...]two children: Gladys Viola and Herman John.[...]diana, and passed away at her home in Pony, from a broken[...]hip and pneumonia on February 21, 1918. Jeff died May 22,[...]1929, at the Erie home in Pony, from an enlarged heart.[...]Marvin and Mae Carver, Jeff, Maria and baby Harvey Goetschius are all buried at Pony. Minnie and John Erie are[...]Jefferson Goetschius - a young man. and worked in the Alder and Laurin area for five years, retur- |
| [...]At the age of seventeen Harriet met and married Harry[...]When Alice was four months old, he purchased a sheep wagon and with a string of trading horses began touring the country, stopping along the way to work when they ran out[...]of money. Later, they graduated from horses to old cars and for the first ten years of their marriage, they tramped a[...]all over the western states, working on ranches or any menial[...]jobs along the way as livelihood demanded.[...]Wyoming, and Twin Bridges, Montana the fourth year. They stayed in the Pony area the next six years working three dif-[...]ferent ranches. It was a hard life and money was scarce.[...]on the horse, Harriet holding. Center - Harry Dell. Far[...]-Beulah and Fred Bailey. Harriet Jackson[...]OHNSTON Harriet was born June 17, 1897 to Bert and Ann Jackson |
| [...]John Clyde Kneedler. Paul and Pat Johnston at Pony Homecoming - 1979.[...]y herd they ran for a bringing her young son and daughters, Mary, about 6 years couple of years. old and Catharine, 5 years old. Harry got into a fight one night in Harrison and had an eye Clyde was educated in the Pony schools, graduating from put out. They bought a little place on the east side of Pony high school there in 1923. Soon after graduating from high and it was while living there that Harry and "Pat" school he moved to Butte, working for the Continental Oil separated. Alice was sixteen or seventeen years old. Company, the Ardsley Butte Mining Company and Spillums In 1933, Harriet married Jerry Smith who operated a bar Cigar Store. Upon the death of his step-father, M.L. Connor (the old Lake Saloon of early days) in Pony. She became in January 1932, he returned to Pony to be with his mother postmaster and managed that office for twenty-two years. and was employed by the Boss Tweed and Clipper Mining In 1944 Jerry became ill with a ruptured appendix. He pass- Company. ed away in the Whitehall Hospital.[...]in 1946. They were married Switzer at the Switzer home in Jeffers, Montana. He was seven years when he also passed away. George was a employed by the U.S. Forest Service, building drift fence in Veteran of World War II and was not well as he suffered Jack Creek Canyon, and in the construction of a ranger sta- recurring attacks of malaria contracted while fighting in the tion in Bear Creek Canyon, both in the Madison range.. In jungles. 1935 the Kneedlers moved to Helena where Clyde was In 1959 Harriet and Paul Johnston were married. Paul employed by the Montana Water Conservation Board, a was a miner, carpenter and a widower. They lived in Pony position he held until his death, with the exception of two until they retired, sold their home and purchased a mobile years during World War II when he was employed by the Ar- home in Ennis near her daughter, Alice. Alice lost her hus- my Engineers and the family lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. band, Melvin Slater, in 1977. The Kneedlers were the parents of one daughter, Patti Harriet has two granddaughters (Alice and Melvin's); Elizabeth, born November 10,[...]na; two sons, David Clyde, born December 20, 1938 and are: Steven, Melissa and James. Susan Slater Ren of Im- Gregory J[...]way in Helena, July 19, 1961 after An update on the Bert Jackson story. Bert passed away at two years illness with a heart condition. He was buried in the Sheridan Nursing Home shortly after his 102nd birth- Helena. day, March 26, 1976 and is buried b~side his wife, Ann, in the Valley View Cemetery at Pony. Harriet's sister, L[...]ti Switzer Gibson since remarried to Gus Schaefer and resides at Mercer Island, Washington. Brother, Charles Jackson, died in LEO AND FRANCES (TATE) LAU Arizona in 1977.[...]Leo Lau was the eldest child of Leo and Pearl Rew Lau. He[...]ater 10, 1913. During grade school he attended the Pony school for four years and Harrison school for four years. Leo at-[...]class in May of 1933. He was in basketball and track; his JOHN CLYDE KNEEDLER[...]During the next few years he worked for the United States John Clyde Kneedler was born January 9, 1906 in Har- Forest Service, and at several ranches. He studied radio and risburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Bessie A. and Boyd Alton electronics, and started repairing radios and appliances. In[...] |
| [...]tana; Lee Frances Connally of Corvallis, Montana; and Bet-[...]Frances Tate was the oldest child of Earnest (Peck) and Mary Mullen Tate. She grew up on the home ranch thirty miles south of Alder, in the Upper Ruby Valley. She was[...]Frances and her sisters attended the Home Park School,[...]which was taught by Faythe Marshall Larson. The bunk house was used as a school the first two years, then the[...]ing the 8th grade and high school the family moved to Butte during the week and back to the ranch on the weekends and[...]Frances attended St. Joseph's grade school and graduated[...]from Girls Central High School in May, 1942. She attended Western Montana College and taught school in Argenta and[...]In 1955 Frances returned to college in the summers and taught the rest of the year. She recieved her B.S. degree in both secondary and elementary education from Western[...]Montana College, with majors in history and education and a minor in English. She taught in Pony, Toston, Ennis and at Leo Lau - 1942 Townsend where she taught fifteen years before having to[...]anic. In 1969 Leo closed his business and worked in the sum.mer In February, 1942 he joined the Navy where he served in operating farm machinery. Due to illness he retired in 1973. the South Atlantic and Mediterranean areas until October, Though[...]as again employed as mechanic by In 1974 the Laus sold their home in Pony and moved to Parsnick Motor in Pony and later in Harrison until 1954. He Townsend as Leo needed to be at a lower altitude and close to also opened his own appliance and radio service which later medical care. developed into T.V. , plumbing and house wiring. On March 2, 1946, he married Fran[...]l Leo and Frances Lau Bethke of California; Virginia Ann Wo[...]bara, Vern, Mary. Front: Ward and Mary Catherine.[...]Mary Brooke Lewis, the third child and only girl of six children of Enoch Marvin and Rachel Genevieve Murray[...]226, Pioneer Trails and Trials.) She attended school several[...] |
| [...]Ernest and Keosa · 1938. New Mr. and Mrs. and Edna Olind. She was the second child and first daughter |
| Alaska; Karen Maack Koch, Helena, Montana; and Debby who lives in Billings, Montana. Tony and Rosalie started school in Harrison, Montana. All four children graduated from High School in Hardin, Montana. Debby attended the University of Montana at Missoula and received a Masters Degree in Political Science. Ernest and Keosa have eight grandchildren, one of whom is stationed in Heidelberg, Germany in the U.S. Army.[...]M Buyan and Dolly Harrington.[...]lovingly to his friends as Woody and resides at the Baxter[...]May 1922. She and her husband, Joe Buyan, live in Dillon.[...]Their youngest child, Bonnie, was born in the family home on June 7, 1925. She and her husband, Bob Rice, continue to run the family ranch in Harrison.[...]In 1945 Pete MacMillan and Fernie Hubbard purchased the Loren Shaw property, which originally had been[...]homesteaded by O.W. Jay in the 1800's. He became the sole owner shortly after and ran it until 1948 when he leased it to[...]son, Woodrow, and daughter and son-in-law, Bonnie and Bob[...]passed away in 194 7. Pete MacMillan resided at the home Elsie and Peter M. ranch until 1957, when ill health forced him to retire to the ding picture• 1910.[...]away there on July 2, 1960. The remains of both Mr. and Mrs. MacMillan are in the Harrison Cemetery. PETER MYLES AND MARY ELSIE (PERIMAN)[...]Millan - 1950. |
| [...]was born in Pony, Montana on December 31, 1921 , the son of Wilford (Bill) and Clela Hanson Manley. He was the second of three children, a sister, Barbara, now deceased and a younger sister, Naomi. He attended school in Pony all twelve years while helping Hartman Ma[...]airy farm. After graduating in 1939, he worked in the mines at Pony, Norris and Whitehall until enlisting in the Navy during World War II. During that time HARTMAN AND HELEN (MILLER) MANLEY he served three years as a[...]nic. He married Arlene Grove, daughter of Lloyd and Neva Hartman Manley was born in Pony,[...]on November 15, 1941. He was discharg- 12, 1896, the son of Wilford D. and Margaret Darby Manley. ed from the Navy at Bremerton, Washington in December Hartman homesteaded in Pony and also had mining claims. 1945, and resided in Seattle for several years. Their Helen Miller came to Pony in 1922 to teach English and daughter, Martha, was born in Seattle on March 7, 1949. Home Ee. She taught for a year and a half. Their marriage was dissolved in 1963. Hartman and Helen were married December 29, 1926, in Byron worked at selling insurance and later managed a Pony. They had two children, Marcia and David. Marcia chain of Home Portrait Studios in Washington, Oregon and California. Still yearning to return to Montana, his favorite location of all, he seized an opportunity to purchase Hartman and Helen Manley and daughter, Marcia. half interest in a grocery stor[...]. In 1965, with two other partners, Clyde Davis and Tom Findley, he built a new Super Market. In 1974, having lost both partners in death, he sold the Super Market and went into full time ranching near Big Timber where he raised Limousin Cattle. He is a charter member and past president of the Montana Limousin Association and also served as a National Director for North American[...]. He married Daphne Hansen of Billings in 1965. She pass- ed away, after a long illness, in January 1980. In June of 1980 he and two other partners started a small loan business[...]ng which has expanded into Real Estate, Insurance and Mortgages. Byron has always been very active in community projects and service clubs. Fraternally, he has been especially active in the Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Shrine work. In October of 1981 he and Audrey Powell, his friend from school days[...] |
| David and Thelma Manley with children - Quinn and Jeana, 1981. was born April 17, 1929 and David was born February 12, HARVEY DEWEY AND MADGE ELLEN (JENKINS) Harvey Manley was born January 25, 1898, in the town of |
| Harvey and Madge Manley, 1980 Creek); Madge; John (living in Ennis); and Charles (resides in |
| vasions in the South Pacific. Jack married Audrey May of Harrison, daughter of Arthur · and Agnes G. May, ranchers in the Harrison area on July 29, 1945. After Jack was honorably discharged from the Navy in November, 1945, he went to work for Sullivan Electric in Bozeman, then later worked for the Phosphate Mine in Avon, Montana where he played baseball for the Avon Town Team in the summers. Later, he went to work at the Cement Plant in Trident and worked for them about two years in 1949-1951. He went to work for the Milwaukee Railroad from 1951-1962 working in fourteen different Sub-stations between Avery, Idaho and Harlowton, Montana. In 1962 he switched tracks to follow his trade as an electrician for the Anaconda Mining Company in Butte and he presently holds that position with the company. Audrey has been employed by the Woolworth Department Store in Butte for the past twelve years. Jack and Audrey have two children: Kenneth, born November 14, 1947 and Jacqueline Manley Todd born April 17, 1949. There are two grandchildren and two step- grandchildren.[...]was born in Otter, Montana on September 2, 1923. She moved with her family to Harrison, and received his education in the Pony schools. He worked Montana in 1936. She attended school, graduating in the on ranches in the Pony area until about 1917 when he went to class of 1941. Her mother, Agnes May still resides in Har- Butte and worked in the mines and for the Butte Stove and rison.[...]pair Company. M.D. married Theresa Kelly in 1917; she Jack's hobbies over the years have been fishing and hun- died in 1919. He then married Rita Hildebran[...]up golf. 1921. He later moved with his wife and family to Taft, Butte is home for the busy couple but weekends are spent in California where he worked as a body and fender man. their Harrison home.[...]They returned to Pony in about 1928 and M.D. worked as a[...]during his life: Never Sweat, Black Rock and Emma Lou in Jack and Audrey Manley Butte and the Boaz in Norris and the Clipper in Pony. When the Clipper closed down in the early 30's the short- in-stature but tough Manley was one of the unlucky fellows that walked down the hill without his final paycheck.[...]Manley and father of Manley Children -[...]Clifford and Nellie.[...]MD. Manley - about 1918 M.D. AND RITA (HILDEBRAND) MANLEY M.D. Manley was the oldest son of Wilford David and |
| Although the money was very much needed during those depression years, he never collected the money owed to him. A miner in Norris at the Boaz until 1941 be was hired by the F. & S. Construction Company in Butte, Montana as[...]966. Rita Hildebrand was born in April of 1900. She was the daughter of Arnold and Nettie Hildebrand. He was a newspaper man in Helena, Montana for many years. M.D. and Rita had three children: Jack D. born March 1, 1922; Bill A. born November 23, 1923 and Rita Ann born December 31, 1930 and died August 1 7, 1958. M.D. Manley died on October 15, 1968 at the age of 77 in Butte, Montana; he was buried in the family plot in Pony. Pallbearers were: John Corbitt, Jim O'Neill, Byron, Dave and Joe Manley, nephews, and Ted Darby, cousin. Rita Manley still lives at her home in Butte and is active in the Veterans of Foreign War Auxilary and spends her time doing fancy work for her family: 7 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.[...]a Manley Jack and Audrey Manley Philip M. and Isobell Phelan Manley,[...]Nashville, Tennessee in the winter of 1946-47.[...]Bozeman. Phil and Isobelle moved back to the ranch, where they remained for the next three years. While there, two[...]sons, Philip Martin Jr. and Lyle Robert were born. The young family moved to Long Beach, California in l[...]1950. There Phil worked for Douglas Aircraft and Todd[...]Phil and Isobelle returned to Montana in 1959, living in[...]cleaning the Buttrey Store in Bozeman. He rose through the[...]any ranks to become president in 1974. Meanwhile, the family moved to Great Falls to be near the center of company[...]operations in 1967. Phil is retiring from the presidency, the summer of 1981 and moving to Port Townsend, Washington.[...]Philip and Isobelle _Manley Philip Martin Manley[...]WILFORD AND CLELA (HANSON) MANLEY |
| Clela and Wilford Manley Clare Marshall and nephew Red Clowes - 1969. born December 31, 1921; and Naomi who was born in Butte CLARE D. MARSHALL |
| [...]March 11, 1923. He is the son of Louie and Belle Marshall.[...]Ken started school in Harrison and transferred to Pony[...]grew up enjoying fishing, hunting and wandering through the hills and mountains in and around Pony. He graduated[...]Soon after, Ken enlisted in the United States Army Air-[...]force. After a thorough training, Ken became the pilot of a B-24 bomber known as the "Little De-icer ". He flew many missions in the Pacific area while based at Darwin,[...]Australia. He achieved the rank of Captain.[...]Ken returned to Pony after his discharge from the service. He joined the highway crew for a time, worked at Trident,[...]en married Shirley Patrick. They have five Harold and Agnes Marshall[...]born in 1956; Tracy born in 1958; and David born in 1966. As operator of the Pony Hotel. Mrs. Welch was well known for happens to many couples, Ken and Shirley have gone their the outstanding meals she served and according to Harold - separate ways. taught[...]l. Ken at the present time is employed by Montgomery Harold and Agnes have two children. Harvey who was Elevator Company and resides in Missoula. He plans to born in 1939 and resides in the Helena Valley and Doris, born retire some time in the future to Harrison where he owns a in 1949 and has settled in the Gallatin Valley. They have two home. grandsons and one granddaughter. From 1934-1939 Harold and uncle, Art Berg, leased the France[...]until 1945 when he moved to Deer Lodge. Through the years he worked as a fireman (Milwaukee Railroad), as a truck driver, a miner and in 1976 he retired from the Powell County Road Crew. Harold and Agnes now live in Elliston and return to Pony often where they have a home. And most importantly, they visit with his mother, Bel[...]s Clowes. Harold and Agnes Marshall Ken Marshall - 1944.[...]Harold and Ken Marshal~ Belle {Berg) Marshall {mother)[...]LEWIS EDWARD AND ISABELLE (BERG) MARSHALL[...]Radersburg, Montana and took room and board at the[...]and Stina Johannesgotter Berg, was born October 13, 1[...]in Radersburg, Broadwater County, Montana. She com- |
| [...]Ken, Frances and Clare Marshall. Walla Walla, Washington,[...]lunch out to the Marshalls and spend the day ice skating.[...]~ater they would sip coffee, gather aroung the old organ and[...]smg. Belle fondly remembers a neighboring rancher and his Lewis (Louie) and Belle Marshall in enthusiastic bass voice - "How Old Man Goble loved to front of their homes[...]Afte~ several years of falling wheat prices the Marshalls finally left the homestead in 1923. Bill Buttleman later took over the acreage. (The organ was bought by Ralph Rose who years her seni[...]The next year they leased the Williams Ranch and also ' Soon after the wedding the young couple was encouraged bought their[...]del T Ford costing five hundred by Belle's sister and brother-in-law, Hannah and Julius dollars. Then followed a series of different jobs and Hargrove to join them in Superior, Montana. There they residences until 1931 when they moved onto the Mason leased a ranch for a time before deciding,[...]Mammoth where he worked until the mine closed in 1944. In[...]1945 he was employed by the Montana Division of Highways Although life on the homestead was hard, it was still the and the Marshalls traveled with the crusher crew for the next source of many happy memories for Belle and Louie. Morn- eight years. They then decid[...]always began with a delightful chorus warbled by the birds which inhabited the area. A nearby pond was home to Six children were born to Belle and Louie: many geese, ducks, cranes and herons. In the winter, when Lewis LeRoy (Roy) born 1907; married Marion Black- the pond froze over, friends and relatives would bring their died 1977.[...]arold Elwyn born 1913; married Agnes Welch. Lewis and Isabelle Marshall - 50th wedding anniversary[...]Pony m the home she and Louie bought in 1946.[...]LEWIS LEROY (ROY) AND MARIAN (BLACK)[...]Roy was born May 14, 1907 in Radersburg, Montana, the eldest son of Belle and Louie Marshall. A few years later his[...]p~ents moved to the Harrison area where Roy spent his childhood and teen years. While living on the homestead[...]rison, leaving after two and a half years of high school to go[...] |
| [...]Martin house in Harrison in the mid 1970's. After Roy retired from the County Road Department he worked during the summers on the ranches around Harrison while he and[...]Roy belonged to the Masoxµc Lodge and Marian was an[...]Frances Marshall Clowes Roy and Marian Marshal~ July, 1938. to work.[...]graduation picture - 1927 Roy Marshall - 1968[...] |
| [...]carpentry for people in the area. Dick was President of the Harrison PT A. He helped start the Harrison Fire Department, was a school trustee and was on the Cemetery Board for 20 years.[...]Dick Martin In 1922 Dick, 13 years old, was hurt very badly in a haying |
| Hazel and Lee Martin 1978 Before Lee retired from the park in 1967, his seasonal work |
| Agnes continued at the ranch for the next two years, then sold to William Bohrman in April of 1964. She moved into Harrison in December of that year and continues to live in her home there. At age 82 Agnes does her own yard and garden work, takes care of her flowers and enjoys her children who live in Three Forks, Butte and Harrison Mon- tana and Morrisville, Pennsylvania. She has 8 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.[...]bought in with Curly Robinson on a bar and dance hall. In a[...]Wisconsin to James and Fidelia Smith Parsons. She moved with her parents and sister, Editha, to the Gallatin Valley in[...]Montana in March, 1909. They lived about one and a half[...]At age seventeen, she won an Arion Cabinet Grand piano Edna[...]in a newspaper contest. This piano is still in the family. Presbyterian College, Deer Lod[...]. She attended the Presbyterian College in Deer Lodge,[...]she still preferred cooking and housekeeping which was to CHARLES EDWARD AND EDNA (PARSONS) OLIND shape her later life.[...]In 1916 Edna came to Harrison to work for the Jackson Charles Edward Olind (known as Ed Olind for most of his family, and here she met and married Ed Olind. life) was born in Kloor, Sweden on January 31, 1881, to Eric Prohibition put an end to the saloon business. The and Anna Johnson Olind, (Swedish spelling Okerlund). He building became a store and meat market and finally was came to the United States with his parents in 1887 at age 6[...]After closing his saloon, years. They settled in the Duluth-Superior area of Min- Ed went to work for J.C. Jackson and lived on what was nesota. His family consisted of two older sisters, Ina and known as the old Purdom place. He also rented some land Anna, and a brother, Herman or Carl. Little more is known[...]n. ed the Richardson place north of Pony. The family lived He grew to young manhood in Minnesota, married and had there until moving to the Rundlett place nearer Harrison a daughter, Anna or Alice. After the death of his wife, he Charles Edward Olind and first grand moved west.[...]child - 1942. Ed came to Montana about 1900 and did grade work for the Milwaukee Railroad. He lived at Saleswille (Gallatin Gateway). He did freighting with horses and wagons be- tween Gardiner and Mammoth, taking hay to a soldier's camp located at Mammoth, Yellowstone Park. He also drove stagecoach in the park, being the driver for Teddy Roosevelt's daughter when she toured the Park. Ed had a string of work horses for dirt moving and excava- tion in the Bozeman area. He was sub-contractor for excava- t[...]te University Cam- pus. About 1912 he moved to the Cardwell area where he did construction work and sharpened steel for the Bismarck mine. He also had a saloon with Pete Hart. A move to the Harrison area came about 1915-1916 when he came t[...]bought Tom Foster's saloon located in what is now the HelenAllen[...] |
| about 1933-34. Ed was living there at the time of his death, September 24, 1943. Edna died August 1, 1959. Ed and Edna had a family of seven children: C. Edward, O[...]eynolds, October 5, 1925; George E., May 13, 1927 and Theodore Douglas who died shortly after birth, 19[...]was Sunday School superintendent for the Presbyterian Church for many years. Ed, Kay, Inez and George Olind[...]George Olind's Family. Jimmy, Joene, and Casey. Wendy[...]F.M. (DICK) AND AUDRA (VANSYLKE) PARKER[...]Model T Ford and brought two small daughters and a bull |
| bartending, janitoring, and railroading. Audra cooked at the school many years and was a ranch cook at various area ran- ches. Her[...]r master for 5 years until 1981. They are active and in good health. Dick still hunts and usually gets a deer each fall. They truly have the pioneer spirit of hard work and make do. Their daughers attended and graduated from Harrison High School. Jacqueline married E.D. (Mike) Maichel. Mike is the son of another old Madison County family. They live in Billings.[...]son, Richard, is a Montana Highway Patrolman in the Ronan area. Her youngest son, John (Bud) is a race-plater on various horse racing tracks. Dick and Audra's oldest son, Jackie Joe, is a law student[...]J oAnne Parker Schmauch decided to give the squaw the mush she asked for, so, she fill- ed her hand with hot mush. The squaw ran shrieking back to camp. The braves came prepared for battle. As the defenders of the train exchanges shots, one of their young[...]men was killed. The one who gave the mush to the squaw[...]The Handley family settled near Willow Creek.[...]of Michael Handley of Wisconsin. The Pattee family moved[...]ony where he ran a store for two years. They were the[...]Nash 1875-1937; Charles D. 1878-1967; and Paul D.[...](author's mother) and told of her life in Pony. There were In-[...]dians camped down by the creek who would not bother the[...]whites. Indian squaws would often come through the yard[...]with them. No one ever knew what the Indian women were[...]The first piano was freighted into the territory by Mr. Pat-[...]County and was a member of the school board almost David D. Pattee[...]Froi;n Pony the family moved to Three Forks where Mr.[...]Pattee opened a store and remained in business for twelve DAVID D. AND NANCY AGNES (HANDLEY) PATTEE years. Mary E. was allowed to serve behind the ribbon counter (the only place where a young lady would be allowed David D. Pattee, born February 12, 1836, the son of John to work). She measured and weighed gold dust from the little and Eliza Ann Daggett Pattee of Cassburn, Canada, joined buckskin bags. friends in Wisconsin and traveled west with them. At St. She told of a friend of her father 's who visited frequently. Paul he became a member of a wagon train under the care of He was a short, stocky, rather unk[...]h Mary had to pluck) or some other General Sibley and 5000 troops. He arrived in Virginia city[...]wild game. The man was X. Beidler, later known as Captain in 1864 where he became a freighter and prospector. He was a charter member of Pioneers of Montana, 1864. of the Vigilantes of Montana. Nancy Agnes Handley also was a member of a wagon train The family moved to Great Falls where they remained for in the year 1864, along with her sister, Elizabeth, and other four years, then to Bozeman, where David became a rancher members of the Handley family. Their trail was not so well and helped his brother, J oho, in a hardware store. He died in guarded, consequently they had more trouble with the In- Bozeman, October 11, 1909. dians. The natives were not hostile but they followed the Mary E. Pattee married Joseph Patrick Nash on pioneer train begging for food. The word the squaws used November 28, 1902 in[...] |
| The children of Joseph P. and Mary E. Pattee Nash are: William David November 2[...]) February 2, 1916; Donald Anthony April 4, 1918; and Helen May 11, 1920 - June 13, 1920. Elizabeth Nash married Horace C. Luhn and their children are: Judith Kathryn Luhn (May 25,[...]1970. Children: Brian Keith Sneed August 29, 1975 and David Allen May 25, 1978. Grace Esther Luhn (No[...]Elizabeth Nash Luhn Joleen and Douglas with thier mother Esther Box Peterson[...]The Peterson family moved to Three Forks in 1946 and opened Peterson Plumbing and Heating; in 1953 they moved[...]Esther and Jim had two children:[...]James Douglas and Nancy Alice.[...]ashington. They have two children: David Sinclair and[...]Esther still lives in Spokane and visits in Pony often.[...]on was born on October 13, 1916 in Pony, Montana. She was the third and youngest child of Dave and Mabel Box. (pp. 223, Pioneer Trails and Trials.) Esther attended the Pony Elementary and High Schools, graduating in 1936. After attending the Deaconess School of Nursing in Bozeman, Montana and graduating from the Mc- Carroll School of Beauty in Butte, Montana, E[...]Helen and Fred Phillips - 1943 James E. Peterson on October[...]Peterson was born at Grangeville, Idaho. He spent the first years of his life in Spokane and Coeur d 'Alene Lake. He worked for the Milwaukee Railroad as sub-station FRED AND HELEN (WALTER) PHILLIPS operator during the war. The family returned to Pony after the war and Jim started Fred Phillips was born August[...]isconsin. He made his way west in 1933 working in the lines into all ranches that didn't already have electricity. He Wolf Point and Vida area of Montana. In 1936 he arrived in worked Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Counties. He built Three Forks, Montana and worked for Johnny Lane and lines to Elkhorn and Rainbow ranches in Gallatin Canyon William Buttleman. Then in 1937 he came to the Pony area getting power to 125 more customers for[...]xtention where he worked for Bazil Tinsley and later for Marvin from Spanish Creek (3 phase; 12,000 volt). Mike, the pet elk Brooke. of the 320 ranch almost ruined the whole thing when he took On September 7, 1943 in Salt Lake City, Utah, he married a liking to the Blueprints.[...] |
| [...]He was also a licensed guide and outfitter for over twenty[...]Fred and Helen had two children: Ann and Joe who reside[...]llon, Montana. Ann has three children: Gary, Lisa and[...]Travis. Joe has four children: Jason, Brian, Kim and Chris.[...]Fred now works and resides at Sitz Angus Ranch south of[...]illips Reynolds On top - Fred, Joe and Ann Phillips the daughter of Pearl and Galen Walter. She attended Pony |
| build paths and steps until 1937 when he was discharged. That same year he married Marjorie, daughter of Albert and Clare McPherson Critchfield of Whitehall, Montana. Ralph was a member of the Montana National Guard from 1938-1940, a machinist in Bozeman, Montana. He was also a miner and carpenter until the end of World War II. Carpen- try became his principal work for the Forest Service at West Yellowstone. He also worked in Butte, Bozeman and Madison County, Montana. The family moved to Harrison in the early 1940's where Marjorie and Ralph raised three sons: William of Ketchikan, Al[...]each, California married Susan, daughter of Alice and Melvin Slater of Ennis, Montana; and Clare of California. Ralph spent the remainder of his life in Whitehall, Mon- tana after marrying Mrs. Alice Ward in 1966. He died September 2, 1977 and was buried in Indiana.[...]Bonnie and Bob Rice, Apri~ 1947 to Peter M. and Mary Elsie Periman MacMillan. She was |
| Becky and Barry 's wedding April 1978. Karen, Greg, Becky, Barry, Bonnie and Bob Rice. Bozeman. Somewhere in the midst of their activity they |
| [...]Gladys died in 1982 and was buried in Ennis.[...]Herman J. Erie Shields and Gladys Sanders At the University at Missoula she was very active in |
| [...]1928. They both worked in Yellowstone Park during the for her brother, Joseph Ferrell, in his lumber yard. They summers of 1927 and 1928. They were married in August of were married in Hamilton, October 19, 1904 at the home of 1928 just before they left for Pittsburg. He worked for Margaret's parents, Brown and Elizabeth Ferrell. Westinghouse there and later in Chicago--then for the Power The Smiths had a long and happy life in Pony from the Systems Division of McGraw Edison Company in Denver, time of their marriage in 1904 until 1927 when the bank went Salt Lake City and Spokane where he retired as Northwest out of business--summer camps at Potosi-fun in the yellow Division Manager in 1971. Wilbur and Mildred continue to Kissell Car--trips to Butte for the operettas and other enter- reside there. tainment that came from the East--fishing on the Madison-- Their older daughter Marilyn, w[...]duck hunting on Watt's Lake--hikes to Hollow Top and, in February 26, 1931. She married John Elliot in Spokane, winter, storing ice for summer, sleigh riding for the kids. August 18, 1950. They have nine children: Margaret, John, Fred and Margaret had two children, both born in Pony: Marie, Yvonne, Patricia, Theresa, Laura, Cheryl, and Wilbur on August 8, 1908 and Elizabeth on April 10, 1911. William. Fred and Margaret moved to California._ He died in The younger daughter, Lois, was born in Chicago, April 19, Everett, Washington on August 25, 1950 and she died in 1935. She married Ken Mallory June 21, 1958 in Los Livermor[...]Angeles; Michael, born in Gautamala City; and Matthew, Wilbur Smith married Mildred Becker of[...]. Elizabeth Smith attended grade school in Pony and various high schools in Bozeman, Spokane and California. Wilbur F. Smith She married John McCormick of Livermore, California o[...]They had two daughters: Sandra who died at birth and Marilyn Frances who was born January 21, 1944 and who married Charles Foscalina Jr. They have four children--Cynthia, Debra, Mi~hael and Lori. Elizabeth died July 23, 1979 and is buried in Livermore with her husband.[...]born in Pony, Montana August 8, 1908, son of Fred and Margaret Smith. He attended grade school in Pony and went there for the first two years of high school. Early Wilbur and Mildred Smith - December, 1980. summers were spent at Potosi and later years on his Uncle Clarence Ferrell's ranch. He finished high school in Bozeman and there met his EDWARD AND MILDRED (MILLER) TERRY future wife, Mildred Becke[...]Edward Terry was born in Ekalaka, Montana in 1896 and[...] |
| [...]the Mountain ranch. They had fun gathering a piece of[...]niture here and there to furnish it. In 1940 they bought the Hanson ranch at Pony from Bill[...]Manley. They raised sheep and later, Angus cattle. They sold the ranch in 1964 to Mike and Dixie Myhre and bought the old Salmon house in Pony from Howard Amber-[...]son. They also bought a small acreage from Cora Ray where[...]Ed spent time in the summer with a few calves which he[...]would sell in the fall. They spend the summers in Pony and the winter months in[...]and shuffleboard with the other "snowbirds." They are[...]pt when he was away at school in Seattle, Bozeman and in Minnesota. He enlisted in the Air Force in World War I and spent a year and a half in the Ser- vice. When the Armistice was signed, he returned home, then drifted farther west where he worked on the Lawrence J ef- fers ranch near Jeffers. Later, he worked on the Emmitt Douglas ranch near Whitehall and the Liberty Montana Mine at Mammoth. Ed had two sisters and one brother. Mildred Miller Terry was born in Pomeroy, Ohio in 1904. When she was six months old the family moved to Butte, Montana where they lived five years. She returned to Ohio with her parents, William and Ella Miller and brother, Clyde. In 1913 the family came back to Montana and Madison County. Mildred's fµ-st school in Montana was in Summit Valley which is now the Community Church. Her teacher was Ruby Streeter, who later married Harry Shaw. Ed and Mildred were married in 1930 and started housekeeping on the Richardson ranch then owned by Frank Springer and Ed DeChamps. In the spring of 1931 they mov- ed to the Jumping Horse Stock Ranch south of Ennis, owned b[...]Edwin J. and Buenos (Noble) Tinsley - 1903 Mildred and Ed Terry in 1979_....,..___[...]Edwin J. was born August 23, 1878, the son of William B. |
| [...]Buenos died March 1, 1957 and is buried in the South[...]Ed lived across the street from his son, Harry and his wife,[...]k - 1890 In 1903 Ed married Buenos Noble. She was born August |
| Harry and Aletha (Klein) Tinsley Wedding picutre 1962 The newly marrieds remodeled Harry 's house in Pony and |
| At home on Willow Creek· Joe and Martha Tinsley. ly to their new home. WILLIAM BAILEY AND LUCY ANN (NAVE) TINSLEY William B. Tinsley was[...]ns County, Ken- |
| [...]Retired· Daisy and Bud Watt[...]Elizabeth was of Scottish descent. Granddad Watt took up a ranch at the Jefferson Point of Rocks near Renova. To[...]clear the land of willow stumps he would chop the roots while[...]B. Tinsley family. Back row: Floyd, Teria, Lillie and BilL Middle row: Enoch, Ida, Lucy Ann (mother), Lucy and In 1895 Bud's parents came to the Shoemaker ranch near Wm. B. (father). Front: Edwin. Pony. They ran a dairy and cut ice for meat markets, grocery stores and saloons. They cut 280 tons of ice per year from[...]the Shoemaker Ponds. In 1905 Bud's father built Dry Lake Lucy Ann and two sisters were working in their dress shop in from a buffalo wallow where Horatio Hanson and Thomas Virginia City just across the street from the Wells Fargo Of- Carmin had hunted buffalo in ea[...]this ranch that Bud was born. He attended Pony The young couple settled down on Will's homestead on the schools and graduated in 1924. Eddie Dennis came to live lowe[...]with the family when both boys were about 16 years old. They had a large family ·and in 1888 the two youngest "Now we have a couple of broncs hitched together", Bud's boys, Enoch and Ed, hauled fir logs from the Mammoth area father commented. Bud's dad located the stock raising to build a two-story home with eight rooms. The house is homestead at the head of Beck Creek while R.H. (Bert) Watt, still[...]Bud's uncle, took up a similar homestead at the head of The children were: Floyd Harvey born in 1868, Quiteria Boyer Creek. In 1918 Uncle Bert moved away and Willard Phene in 1870, Lillie Florence in 1871, Ida May in 1873, (dad) proved up on both places and fenced it. In the mean- William E. 187 4, Enoch Wilson in 1877, Edwin J . in 1878 and time the Phillips stock brand had been bought. Lucy Mary i[...]In 1934 Bud married Daisy Lee Foster. She was born in William and Lucy Ann reared their large family on the Jordan, Montana on February 16, 1911 to J[...]and Maggie Etta Holcomb Foster. Foster had been educa[...]in Mount Green Cemetery in Willow Creek, took up a homestead near Jordan where he was injured i[...]run-away. He lost a leg and later died. Daisy's mother mar-[...]ton into the Little Rockies to Landusky and Zortman. The[...]In 1935 Bud worked in the mill at the Atlantic and Pacific[...]as a flotation operator. He continued there until the[...]in two weeks to get work. He became the foreman of 126 WILLARD JAMES AND DAISY LEE (FOSTER) WA'IT men building the Victory and Liberty ships. He stayed four[...]12, 1905 in Back in Pony, Bud threshed and worked for the Mike Pony, Montana to Willard J. and Bessie Cleo Smith Watt. Horse Mining and Milling Company located about 20 miles Bud's grandparents George D. and Elizabeth Micheljohn up the Blackfoot River from Lincoln, Montana. Bud and Watt crossed the plains; he came from Illinois and she Daisy purchsed the J.D. Land property of 34.91 acres at the started from Independence, Missouri. Her wagon tr[...]der Indian attack three times. George was English and In 1968 they moved to Bud's mo[...] |
| in Pony. Since then they have retired, and due to health they spend the winters in Three Forks and the summers in Pony. Daisy died December 6, 1982 and buried in the Valley View Cemetery in Pony.[...]- ----- ' Homer, one of eleven children of Richard V. and Sarah A. On March 21, 1897, Homer and Winona were married in |
| Virginia and Frank Woirhay e Virginia Woirhaye FRANK AND VIRGINIA (SALMONS) WOIRHAYE Frank and Virginia raised four boys and one girl: Dick who[...]ungerford of Ennis, died April |
| Laura Young and Olga Jay -1947 At age 97 she still enjoys coming to Pony. She recently |
| [...]There is no store in Norris. The old Mercantile Store[...]building was bought by Wilbur Grauman, and is used for Many changes have taken place in Norris since 1920. storage. The Krauss Garage is now a Conoco Station, also Three of the old landmarks are gone - the Norris Hotel was owned by Mr. Grauman. He also has a trucking service and a torn down, the old Red Depot has been moved to Virginia Ci- bulk plant. ty, and the tracks have been taken up; the Klondyke Saloon, There is one bar in Norris, owned by Bill and Darlene Mar- one of the first buildings in Norris,was partially destroyed by quis and their son, David. They have re-modeled it and have fire, and is in the process of being torn down. The lot is own- added a dance hall and community hall, combined. ed by Albert Hokanson,[...]w Post Office was built in 1975 by Johnny Willis, and Alice Willis is the Postmistress. The post office in Norris, built in 1975 by Johnny and Alice The Norris Hot Springs is owned and operated by Mike Willis. Alice on the left is postmistress. and Doris Zankowsky, who have added a small store, tr[...]park and picnic tables.[...]A grain elevator was built several years ago, and is now[...]Joe Reynolds built a work shop and garage, and he and[...]The old school building, that was vacant for so many[...]years, was bought by Tony and Vivian Degel, who have re- modeled it, and it is now, a fine Cafe. The old church building was bought by Pete Lewis and it is[...]There is very little mining activity at present - the town is supported by the surrounding ranches and the tourist trade.[...]There has been little change in the population, through the[...] |
| [...]Hazel and Ford Bailor in their back yard in Illinois.[...]and married Ford Bailor. She returned to the ranch at Norris[...]She and her husband moved to Whitworth College in[...]After leaving there they lived in Mundelien, Il- The Sterling School built in the early 1900's. Pupils: L. to R.: linois for seve[...]. Front row: husband worked with schools and churches. They moved to Cora Ree4 Bruce Landis, the Austin twins, Hazel Ree4 New York City where he was associated with the National Cecelia Northey, unknown, Mamie Landis. Council of Christian and Jews.[...]She was interested in antiques, and had a shop in Spokane[...]Hazel had a beautiful singing voice and she sang with the Bel Canto Club in Spokane, also other organizations Hazel Crandall was born March 22, 1901 to Mac and Mae wherever she went. She painted and wrote poetry - some were Crandall, at Sterling. When she was quite young, her printed in a book of Contemporary Poets. parents were divorced, and her mother married W.A. Reel.[...]During their life, she and her husband took a great interest He adoped her and her older brother, Cecil.[...]in young people, and helped many to acquire an education, She graduated from the eighth grade at the Sterling school and to get a start in life. and went to Bozeman High School for a year, then to Mon- tana Wesleyan in Helena, where she graduated from high They always loved the mountains around Pony, and it was school. their wish, that they "rest at the foot of Hollow Top". She went to college in Helena for several years; then met Hazel died June 3, 1979 and was buried, beside her hus- band, in the Pony Cemetery.[...]ALBERT E. AND ANNE LEMON BARTER[...]Canada with his parents, Albert J. and Jane Barter, at the[...]time was a mining town. He mined and freighted ore from[...]daughter, Evelyn, who married Guy L. Warren, and now[...]land, and later, bought a ranch from Ethel and Helen[...]Prince Edward Island, Canada, the youngest, and only[...]daughter of four children born to William and Marjorie Lemon. She received her education in Canada, and at the age of twenty seven, journeyed to the United States to visit her[...] |
| 1 brother, John, who had previously moved and settled near Norris. George P. and Margaret joined their father in his fid- Norris, Montana. The visit turned into a fifty-six year stay, dle playing. George played the banjo and guitar and as she never returned to her homeland. Margaret played the piano. Anne's first year was spent with her brother and family George P. Carter married Irene Dunn in 1947. Their three near Norris, where she worked for Dan McLeod in the children are: Mary Christine, George Arnold, and Anne McLeod Mercantile. In 1926, she went, wit h her husband, to Marie. his ra[...]r married Jack Cain. Their two children Ed and Anne had two children, Marjorie C. (Bowersox) and are Clinton Arnold and Harold Leroy. Donna L. (Owens). Marjorie and William Bowersox live on Clinton married Gwendolyn V. Bradley. They had two their ranch on the North Meadow Creek, and Donna and children, Mary Christine, George Arnold, and Anna Byram "Dee " Owens operate the Bar~er ranch. divorced. He lat[...]iana Pearl, Carmen Lynn, Rex Ar- tuberculosis and was bed-ridden for the last two years of his nold and Robert Francis. They were divorced and he married life. He died in 1943 at the age of 65. the former Norma Nash. They live on Cherry Creek near the Despite living in a remote area and having two children to old home place. raise alone, Anne stayed on and managed the home ranch, Harold married Luella Mae M[...]Kay and Reed Dyle. They were also divorced. He later mar-[...]d Vicki Monteverdi. They have two children: Caleb and Anne C. Barter and Donna L. Owens Daniel.[...]ge W. Carter arrived in Virginia City, Montana in the fall of 1876. He spent that winter hauling timber with a team ROY AND CHARLES DRINGLE of oxen. The following summer was spent on the Washington Bar as a hired hand for people by the name of Roy Dringle was born in 1920 at McAllister, Montana. He Fletcher. In the fall of that year he and another man by the was the sen of Mike and Irene Dringle. He attended schools name of Yo[...]Cherry Creek. They hauled at McAllister and Norris, and worked at the Galena and freight, that next summer, from Fort Benton to Virginia Ci- Revenue Mines. He spent four years in the Navy and ty, Montana. He then moved to the Gallatin. became an electrici[...]n They have two children: Roienell Virginia and Thea Marie 1889 at Salesville, Montana (now G[...]ee. married Mae C. Stephen in 1912. George P. and Margaret C. Charles (Ched) Dringle was bo[...]McAllister, Carter were born to them. Arnold and Mae were divorced in Montana. He attended schools at McAllister and Norris. He 1922. He married Emma Dringle Rice in 1937 and moved to worked at the Boaz and Revenue Mines, drove a truck for Cherry Creek where he bought the old Manning place in A.M . Welles and put four years in the Navy. He became ace- 1940, and where Emma still lives. ment finisher. He fell off a bridge and was disabled. He He was interested in mining and ranching. He was a great retired in 1975. fiddle player and played for many dances in and around Madison County, especially at the old Klondyke Saloon in Roy and Charles Dringle Back row: Mae Stephen Carter,[...]rter, George P. Carter, Margaret Carter Hebel and George W Carter.[...] |
| He married Dessie Elwear in 1941 and they were divorced in 1945. They had two children: Charles Kenney and Maritta Francis. He married Margery Schletsba[...]They have five |
| L. to R.: J. Pete, Willet, Chester and their mother, Bertha B. Jackson. Washington, the son of M.W. and Bertha Jackson. He resid- J. PETER AND HELENE. JACKSON J. Peter Jackson was born at[...]ome |
| who teaches in the high school at Harrison. They have two daughters, Jolene and Lorie.[...]son III was born May 18, 1927 in Butte, Montana, the youngest of the family of four children of Peter V. and Bessie Portia McLean Jackson of Norris, Montana. Peter grew up on the family ranch three miles north of Nor- ris. He attended grade school in Norris and Harrison, and graduated from Harrison High School in 1946. During grade and high school years, he was very active in 4-H work, competing in many sheep and soil conservation projects. In addition, he serve[...]years. He won a National Award trip to Chicago to the Na- tional 4-H congress for his work in Soil Conservation, in addi- tion, he won the National Wilson Award for Leadership in 1946.[...]arted when he purchased a small ad- joining farm, and developed a small flock of purebred Hamp- shire s[...]February 1949. His 4-H experience served him well and he was given the honor of Grand Champion of the Montana Little Interna- tional Livestock Show. Upon the death of his father in 1949, Peter returned to the family ranch and managed it until 1956. Peter V. and Johnneta Jackson, wedding. On April 29, 1949, he married Johnneta Pierce of Whitehall, Montana and Washington, D.C. To this marriage five children[...]Michelle In 1956 he was instrumental in the construction of the Louise (1951), and Jonathon Ray (1953). All are married and Norwegian Creek Reservoir, the largest privately owned dam have college degrees. in Montana at the time, in cooperation with three neighbor-[...]ing ranchers. In 1956 Peter purchased the ranch property from his mother, and added lands, until 1971 when he sold his base Peter served ten years on the Norris and Harrison School property to Robert Sitz of Harrison. Boards, and during this time, the consolidation of four School Districts took place. Peter V Jackson III 1966. In 1957 he became active in the Madison Conservation District and Montana Association of Conservation Districts,[...]and still serves as a local supervisor. In this field[...]the position of the Madison Board State Directors and Presi- dent of the State Association. He held the position of Area Vice-President of the National Association, and held several[...]He held several offices in the Society of Range Manage-[...]nt, starting as a local section Director, then to the office of[...]International President. In 1974 he presided at the Annual[...]Peter was given the Renee Award for his writing, and im- plementing of the Montana Rangeland Resources Program.[...]In addition, he served three years on the National Advisory Council to the Secretary of Agriculture for Soil Conservation[...]ty and served in the 1971 session. He did not run for a se-[...]cond term as he accepted the post of Chief of the Grass Con- servation Bureau of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. In 1973 he resigned from the State Government to[...]establish a full-time office for the Montana Association of[...] |
| [...]Virginia and Washington schools, where the family later mov- ed. His family farmed and raised fruit in Yakima,[...]ashington. Ted was always interested in mechanics and worked at various shops and garages around Yakima.[...]February 1, 1906. She was the oldest of five children born to Fred and Carrie Barrett. Her maternal grandfather, P.J.[...]Taylor, was one of the original eight Texas Rangers. She received her early education in Lewiston and Kooskia, Idaho. She had to quit school after her sophomore year, beca[...]heart trouble, but after two years of rest and recuperation she returned to school and graduated in 1926. Louise went[...]to beauty school and also helped with the family fruit ranch. She had belonged to book clubs since her early high s[...]days and was a very well read person. She also had a beautiful singing voice even though she had never had any[...]Ted and Louise were married February, 1931, in Ephrata,[...]Washington. They began their life together during the depression, so both of them worked when and where they Peter V. and Johnneta Jackson in Germany, 1973. could. Ted still did a lot of mechanical work and both of[...]them worked in fruit packing houses during the season. conservation Districts and served in this capacity until 1975. Their son, T[...]w organization was established as a Coalition and a daughter, Virginia Caryle, March 11, 1933. Both of Labor, Agriculture, Business, Industry and Recreation children were born in Yakima, Washington. In the spring of Groups, who were concerned that the environmental groups 1939, Ted took a job offer at the Boaz Mine near Norris, were causing a slow-down of the State's Economy. He was elected Executive Director in 1975, and serves in this capaci- ty today.[...]led his local responsibilities. He is a member of the Elks and Masonic Lodges, and has served twice as Master of the Masonic Lodge in Pony. He was appointed to the Madison County Fair Board in 1950, and because of his dedication to his community, and his love of children, he still serves on the Board to this day. His current appointments are: Membership on the State Extension Service Advisory Council, and is a member of the Old West Region Public Lands Council. Peter has no intention of curtailing his efforts and is always willing to help in any cause that benef[...]munity, state or family. He has always adhered to the rule, that family comes first, and he gains much satisfaction in the company of his six grandchildren, and the careers of his children and wife, who are equally active in public affairs. He and his wife live in Harrison and have expanded their ranching operation in that area, in conjunction with their son, who is acting manager of the ranch. Ward Jackson THEODORE AND LOUISE JONES Theodore (Ted) Jones was born in Chilhowie, Virginia, |
| [...]JOHN E. AND FLORENCE DAEMS KRAUSS[...]1900. He came to Montana when he was eight years old. He and his parents, Simon and Elsie Krauss, two brothers, Dave and Lewis and a sister, Flora, arrived in Norris in 1908.[...]They visited their friends, the Curtemans, before moving to[...]th Dave Loertcher, Elsie's brother, then moved to the Elling ranch at Varney. The children attended the Varney[...]In 1909 they bought a ranch south of Alder and lived there[...]worked at various ranches, and also worked in the woods in the Bitter Root Valley. In 1925 he married Florence D[...]Florence Daems was born March 31, 1903 to Levinus and The Jones family, 1957, L. to R.: Red, Louise, Ted Jr., Mary Daems, at Virginia City, Montana. She had three Virginia and Eileen.[...]Huber and Edna Daems Shabarker - two brothers, Leonard Mon[...]of that year he moved his family to Mon- and Clarence are deceased. tana and began his thirty year mining career. They joined Louise's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ed (Lucille) Stevens, and her brother, Lyle Barrett, who were also living at the Boaz Mine. Although Ted had just a 9th grade educa- tion, he was self taught about many jobs he did. During the ten years spent at the Boaz, Ted had many jobs; mechanic, welder, electrician, hoist engineer, surveyor, diamond driller, and miner. Louise spent much of her spare time making braided rugs and sewing for her family and other people as well. Their third and last child, Eileen Margaret, was born December 11, 1939, at Bozeman, Montana. The Jones family had many memorable experiences while living at the Boaz, and spent many winters snowbound with the other residents Florence Daems Graduation 1921 (center). of the mining camp. After the closure of the Boaz Mine, the family moved to Pony for a short time, while Ted[...]She moved to Varney with her parents and sisters, where she In 1950 Ted and Louise purchased the Texaco garage in finished grade school. She attended high school in Virginia Harrison. They were very active in Mason, Eastern Star and City, finishing her last year at Sheridan[...]n Pony. During these years Louise sang the summer months, she worked at the Meadow Lake Hotel for all occasions: baptisms, weddings, funerals and gradua- in McAllister, for Mr. and Mrs. Potter. She attended the tions. They leased the garage in Harrison and moved to State Normal College at Dillon, then taught at the Eight Whitehall where Ted worked as a garage mech[...]Mile school on Eight Mile Creek between Ennis and Virginia back into mining when he operated the Margaret Ann Mine City. in Walkerville[...]After she and John were married, he went into the trucking rison to operate their garage before, then bought a home and business with his brothers and A.M. Welles. After a few land in Pony and retired. They were both very active years, he bought his brothers out and he and Mr. Welles members of the Presbyterian Church in Pony. operated the business until 1935, when he sold his interest to Their son, Ted, married Muriel Lucy and they have two Harold Helt. children, Janet and Tad; daughter Virginia married Max He took his family to Oregon where they purchased a dairy Salazar II and they have fifteen children, Michael, Tony,[...]ark, not rlairy people. They sold out and moved back to Norris, Steven, Kerry, Jenny, Kelly, Max III, Jacquline; daughter where he bought the Texaco Service and Repair Shop from Eileen married Donald Hartzog and they have two sons, Bill Johnson. Donald and Robert. At this time, 1981, the Jones' are surviv- ed by eight great grandchildren, Tara, Michael, David, Sean He and his family continued running the service station and Stacey Salazar, Ryan and Eric O'Leary and Daniel until his retirement in 1960[...]John was county commissioner for eighteen years, and Louise died May 4, 1969 and Ted died July 4, 1970. The trustee of the Norris school for thirteen years. greatest gift they ever received was the many wonderful Florence and John still live in Norris. They spent several fri[...]winters in Arizona and California, and several months - at in-[...]They have two children, Roy L. born in 1925 and Carole[...]llister. They live in Moscow, Idaho, where he has the[...] |
| The Krauss family: Casey Love, Cathie (Gary 's wife),[...]ve, Florence Krauss, Roy Krauss and Shonda Love, Beverly Krauss (Roy's wife), John Krauss, Carole Krauss Love, Earl Love Jr. and Jeff[...]Reel. He went to school in Norris, Harrison and Ennis. During World War II, he enlisted in the Marines, and was sent with the 1st Marine Division to the South Pacific. He John and Florence Krci.~ s, 50th wedding anniversary. Good Year Tire and Repair. He and Beverly have two |
| [...]rence Fisher, Walter Pfc. Clarence Kelley, (left) and friend Jack McLean in South Mason, Francis Ma[...]l years. He returned to Spokane, where he ed from the Madison River. works as a mechanic and rebuilds old cars. They had no tractor[...]Bill Reel The highlights of entertainment were going to a dance[...]the Barney Google school house, the Fourth of July picnic FRANK AND KATE MASON and the school picnic.[...]-room school house where school was held Frank and Kate Mason and family came from Butte to from three to five months a year. The children either walked Norris, Montana in the spring of 1919. They moved to the or drove a team and wagon the four miles to the Cold Spring homestead of Will Fisher (he had died with the "flu" in 1918). School. Jim Fisher met them in his Maxwell car. (Jim and Will were There were six children: Edith married Julius Olsen. They Kate's brothers). He took them to his homestead on Cold have two girls, Lyla (Mrs. Dean Schedel) and Judith (Mrs. Spring Creek, then on the next day to their two-room cabin. Henry Hecker); Grace married Oliver Roberts and they have There was a forest fire at Bear Trap, and the smoke was so two children, Lawrence and Lorraine; Harold never married; thick, all summer, that they could hardly breathe. Their Walter and Viola have no children; Francis married Georgia home was on the west side of the Madison River, just across Estes. They have two children, Mary (Mrs. Le Roy Miller) from Cherry Creek and close to Red Mountain. and Douglas; Ethel married Cecil Lemrick and they have They raised wheat, corn, oats and spring rye for hay, also four children, Meryle (Mrs. Ray Fitzpatrick),[...]veral kinds of beans, which they threshed by hand and William Duding), Wayne and Cheryle. cleaned by the light of kerosene oil lamps. These were sold to[...]s store at Norris for eight cents per pound. They and they had to sell out in 1941 when Harold and Walter raised pigs, chickens and turkeys, which they had to herd. were drafted into the Army. He was bed-fast for the last nine They also milked a few cows. They drove to Norris in a team and one-half years of his life. and wagon to take cream which was shipped to Manhatta[...]a spring, but most of it was haul- passed away at the age of 66. Kate passed away June 27,[...]1976 at the age of 88. The Mason family in front of their house - 1953. Back row: Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Roberts (Grace Mason), Lena Bales. Mi[...]Edith Mason Olsen dle row: Frank and Kate Mason, Edith Olsen, Frank (Bud) Mason. Front[...]to W.A. and Mae Reel. She attended schools at Sterling,[...]Helena, Whitehall and Norris. She took nurses training at[...] |
| [...]the discomfort of winter.[...]Growing up in Norris was an exciting experience - the[...]operation of several mines offered security and help for many[...]people. (At one time there were two hundred and fifty men on the payroll.)[...]Great Uncle Dan McLean lost a leg when he was young.[...]he was a fine blacksmith, carpenter and barber. George and Arvilla were divorced in 1934. He married[...]George passed away September 3, 1946 and was buried in[...]hilipsburg. Arvilla passed away February 21, 1976 and was buried in the Red Bluff Cemetery. Eva Mayo's sisters, Haze~ Helen and Cora. They always cherished many pleasant thoughts and memories of their years on the Madison. the Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls, but left before she graduated. She went to Helena, where she worked in a[...]aret McLean Decker hospital there, then went to the hospital at Warm Springs, where she worked as an attendant. She returned to Norris, · where she met, and married Stuart Mayo. They lived near Norris where Stuart worked on ranches and in the mines. It was there that several of their childre[...]ed to Butte, where they made their home. When the Korean war broke out, three of their sons enlisted in the Marines, Stuart, Glenn and Donald. They were known as "the fighting Mayos". All were wounded and received the Purple Heart. Eva died in Butte in 1949 and was buried in the Pony Cemetery. They had five sons: Stuart, a TV repair man, lives near Seattle, and has two sons. Jack, a miner, lives at Silver Star, has three sons (one killed while surveying for the railroad). Glenn, a barber and hair stylist, lives in Los Angeles, and has three children. Donald is employed by the Air Force, and is sent to many countries. Richard, an Air Force Major Violet Dringle McLean and sister, Henrietta Reynolds (retired), has two daughters, and lives in Texas.[...]iolet Dringle was born 1909 at Chestnut, Montana, the daughter of Mike and Irene Dringle. She attended schools at George Wiliam McLean was bo[...]ed McAllister, Cherry Creek, Norris and the Murray Hospital in Bluff, Montana. He married Arvilla Pauline Means Butte, Montana. She worked at the Pine Wood Hospital in February 22, 1922. Arvilla was born September 3, 1902 at Bozeman, Montana. She married George McLean August Lansing, Michigan.[...]this union two childrn were born: William Eugene and born in 1926, Jack Neil, born in 1929, and Glen Harold, born Clara Montana. in 1930. Between George and Jack, twin girls, Dorothy and Doris, were born, but they lived just a short tim[...]Retta Reynolds George and Arvilla homesteaded near other relatives, sister Mable and her husband, who lived at Bradley Basin[...]uary 12, 1894 in where George leased hay meadows, and raised a few twenty Butte, Montana, the son of Dan and Jessie A. McLeod. dollar cows. He also broke horses. Father Dan was a hard rock gold, silver and copper miner During some of the worst winters, he kept a team of horses who worked wherever he could get the highest wages. in the barn ready to pull cars out of the snow drifts. If they Dan became ill with miner's consumption in 1900, so the could pay, he charged fifty cents to a dollar. He also pulled family moved to Norris to start a Feed and Livery stable. out those who were unable to pay. The livery stable rented buggies to salesmen and visitors go- Small town people were close, friendly and understanding, ing to Ennis, Jeffers, Virginia City, Cameron, Harrison and therefore, they suffered little effect from the depression and Pony. It flourished until the coming of the automobile.[...] |
| [...]ndays. One time a lone miner came in to get warm, and died while sitting at the stove. During the depression, many drifters came to Norris to get[...]work in the mines, and the store was a haven for everyone.[...]ordon extended credit to almost everyone, helping all to get[...]The Montana Power Company had their telephone in the[...]emergency, a long and short ring brought information that[...]Gordon married Ruth Betters of Butte, Montana, and together, they operated the store until he sold it to Ed and[...]Gordon kept the Texaco Oil Company until 1955, then he[...]rdon returned to his beloved Montana, residing at the Hill[...]Crest in Bozeman. He can see, from his window, the beautiful Tobacco Root Mountains and Spanish Peaks, and breathe the fresh clean air, and enjoy visiting with his Mon-[...]Gordon and Ruth, married forty years, until her death, had[...]has four children and three grandchildren, and Gordon D. John Gordon McLeod on his 13th[...]five grown children and resides in Metuchen, New Jersey.[...]Gordon D. McLeod The lack of business caused the McLeods to start a small grocery store to survive. Jessie A. McLeod became CECIL M. AND WINIFRED REEL postmistress for the Norris area. Because of lack of money, Gordon[...]Cecil M. Reel was born September 11, 1899 to Mac and working for Uncle John McLeod and going to school. He Mae Hine Crandall. came back to Norris at the age of fourteen to work for Mac came to Montana in the 1870 's. He drove the stage another uncle, Jack D. McLeod, owner of McLeod Lumber between Three Forks, Sappington, Ennis and Virginia City. Co., a bar and cafe and ranch near Norris. Here Gordon He was a great horseman, and broke and sold horses for the worked unloading two car loads of coal a week and one car British army during the Boer war in Africa. load of nails which were sold wholesale to merchants in the Mae Hine was born on the plains of Nebraska. She told of county. There was a great need for building materials during the severe winters, when they had to burn cow chips for fuel. this period, because of the influx of homesteaders. Gordon worked in the lumber and coal business, becoming Cecil and Winnie Reel at Sterling. a partner with Jack D. McLeod. The Mercantile Company, under the manager, Jack Eastlick, burned down and the foundation was later purchas- ed by Gordon, who built the Krauss Garage on the property. When World War I broke out, Gordon joined the 163rd In- fantry, going with a group on the Leviathon (Fatherland) ship, arriving in Liverpool, England on Christmas Eve. Because of the shortage of food, they ate frozen cabbage leaves from the English fields, before leaving. They arrived in La Havre, France on New Year's Eve. The group boarded box cars for the war front at Montrichard. After the war, fourteen months later Gordon returned to Norris. He sold his partnership to Jack McLeod and went in- to business with his aging parents. He became postmaster, and expanded and established a General Store. The store was unique - selling everything from whiske[...]othes, patent medicine, mining supplies, hardware and tools. He also had a State Liquor Store. The McLeod Store was a meeting place for hundreds of miners, farmers and settlers, coming in to pick up their mail, buy supplies, visit and get warm. The store was never really closed to any one knocking at the back door after hours or on[...] |
| [...]Today, he keeps busy, working in his garden and raspberry Mae Ree~ Cecil 's mother.[...]Together, he and Winnie are slowly tracing their steps down the western slope of the Horizon in quietness, peace Her parents died when she was just a child, and she was sent and tranquility, thanking their Gracious Heavenly Father to Montana to live with the Pinkneys on their ranch near for all the blessings and benefits that are their lot. McAllister.[...]one daughter, Shirley McDaniels, of Hermiston, She married Mac Crandall, and they moved to Norris. In Oregon, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. 1899, she went to Chicago, Illinois in search of her sister[...]was just a small boy, his parents were divorced, and his mother married W.A. Reel of Sterling. Here Cecil grew up and attended school, the first year at Midasburg, C.W. (BILL) REEL taught by M. Richards, the second year, also, under Pet Fain. The next six years he attended school at Sterling. At[...]born January 21, 1910 to W.A. about this time he and his sister, Hazel, were adopted by and Mae Reel at the home of his grandmother, Eva M. Reel, W.A. Reel, joining a family of three sisters and one brother. who lived at Pony, Montana. He came as the youngest sibl- His mother died of pneumonia July 4, 1912, when he was ing, with four sisters and one brother. twelve years old, leaving six children at the mercy of Bill grew up on his father 's ranch at Sterling and attended housekeepers. In 1913 Cecil entered high school in Pony for half a term. The school closed for a short time as Lester McLeod had dip- theria. He attended the Preparatory of Montana State Col- lege in Bozeman[...]untain Union College half of a year. He came home and worked on the ranch until March 22, 1927, when he and his wonderful partner, Winifred Davis, were married in Bozeman. They spent their first year at the ranch at Sterling, and the following year, they rented Harlan Boyd's near Pony. They came back to the Reel ranch for another year, then purchased the Roland Ferguson property at the mouth of Potosi Can- yon. They lived here for thirty years, raising sheep and dairy cows. In the fall of 1930 they moved to Pony and bought lots from the "Dad" Salmon estate. This is their present home.[...]spent seven years irrigating on large ranches in the Pony-Harrison area. He has worked for the Government Weather Bureau for the past twenty years. He and Winnie celebrated their fiftieth wedding a[...] |
| schools in Sterling, Norris, Helena and Whitehall, The family moved to Red Bluff in 1918 where they ranched graduating from the Norris High School in 1928. He attend- unt[...]ed Coyne Electrical College in Chicago, Illinois and Whit- tana State University. worth College[...]George attended school at Norris and graduated from Har- On January 3, 1939 he marri[...]Power Company. engineer at the Josephine and Boaz Mines. One summer he He did electrical work for 38 years. He worked in Montana mined and hauled freight up the Yukon in Alaska. He drove and Minnesota, working on the Titan Missles in Cheyenne, for Welles and Helt Trucking all over the state of Montana. Wyoming and Rapid City, South Dakota. During the war, he The Rowe brothers played basketball in high school and wired guns on the ships in Portland, Oregon. He also worked later, on the Norris Town team. on parts of the Atomic bomb in Hanford, Washington. His Henry, Ray, George and Ted became Past Masters of the last work was with the oil refineries for Exxon and Continen- Masonic Lodge in Pony. tal Oil compa[...]In November, 1941, George enlisted in the Air Force where In 1975 he retired, and with his wife, moved to Melrose, he served[...]as a school teacher in 1940. They spent a year in and drives to Butte several days a week to work with the Florida before George was discharged. Aft[...]George and Doris have three daughters: Linda married to[...]Don Breeden, had two daughters, Jennifer and Samantha.[...]Anne and Terry Lee. Deanne married Tod Brandenburg, has[...]two sons, Justin and Braxton. The Rowes now live in Bozeman. This year he retired f[...]One of the family 's favorite trips is to the "Madison" where they all recall the stories about the area as told by[...]RAYMOND R. AND EDITH J. ROWE Marj and Bill Ree, 41st wedding anniversary.[...]Raymond R. Rowe was born July 7, 1911 at the ranger sta-[...]tion at Pony, Montana. His parents were George B. and Ella His children and grandchildren are amazed at the stories, D. Rowe and he was the third of a family of six children. He pranks and songs that he remembers from his early life with attended grade school at the Red Bluff and Norris schools his beloved wife, Marj. and graduated from the Norris High School in 1928 with a They have been married forty two years and have five class of ten students. children. Lieutenant George W. Reel, retired from the Navy after twenty three years of service and now lives with his Raymond and Edith Rowe, shortly after their marriage. wife in[...]seven children. Robert D. Reel is a counselor for the Forest Job Corps and lives in Butte. Bradley Reel works for Westinghouse as an electrician. He lives in Butte with his wife and five children. Michael Anne , Adamson lives in Helena with her husband and two children. M. Jayne Trythall, the baby of the family, lives with her hus- band and two children at Ramsey, Montana. C.W. (Bill) R[...]GEORGE B. ROWE JR. George B. Rowe was born at the ranger station, a few miles |
| [...]William and Henrietta Rey nolds and granddaugter.[...]HENRIETTA REYNOLDS Raymond and Edith Rowe. H[...]-the daughter of Mike and Irene Dringle. She came to Madi- |
| [...]Bill and Inez Reynolds, 25th wedding anniversary: L. to R.[...]David, Inez, Bil~ Joe and Harvey.[...]Northey in Butte and Pony.[...]Clara Mae, and half-brother, James William, were born to[...]illiam Reynolds. died at the age of fourteen. they were divorced in 1978. She moved to Philipsburg, Mon- Bill served in the army from January, 1941 until June,[...]1945. He saw action in the South Pacific during World War tana, where she still lives. II. He recieved the Bronze Star in New Guinea. Three children were born to them: Beverly Lynn, Becky Lou and Jackie Jo.[...]and followed construction for a number of years. He w[...]at Montana University Field Station at Red Bluff, and then Field Maintenance Supervisor for lOA, lives[...]r Cyprus Industrial, retiring in 1979. is married and has three children: Lou Ann, Charles James and Connie Sue.[...]tana, to Edward and Edna Parsons Olind of Harrison. She was the fifth of seven children of which six are living.[...]Inez attended grade school and high school in Harrison, WILLIAM JR. AND INEZ OLIND REYNOWS graduating in 1943. She attended colleges in Havre, Bill-[...]ings, Dillon, and Bozeman. Her education was interrupted as William (Bill) Reynolds was born in Norris, Montana to she married and started a family. Later she returned to William Reynolds Sr. and Cecelia Northey Reynolds on March 11, 1917. After his mother's death in 1922, he and his The Reynolds family, L. to R.: Joe, Ann, Harvey, Travis, Bill and Inez Reynolds, 25th wedding anniversary, May 3, Lisa, Gary, Inez, Bin Mary and David. 1970.[...] |
| graduate from Western Montana College at Dillon. She taught for several years, among them three years in Norris and eleven in Harrison. She retu-ed in 1969. Travelling has always appealed to Inez. She spent a month in Europe in 1973 and seven weeks touring Alaska and Canada in 1979 with a sister and brother-in-law. Bill and Inez were married in Bozeman on May 3, 1953. Their entire married life has been spent in Madison County, except for a few months here and there, following construc- tion. They had previou[...]hree sons, Harvey Dean (1945), David Mark (1948), and Robert Joel (1950). All are graduates of Harrison High School. Inez and Bill are the proud grandparents of Travis Dean Reynolds and step-grandchildren, Gary and Lisa DeFrance, all of Dillon.[...] |
| [...]general store where anything from tobacco and candy to horse halters and formaldehyde for treating potato seed[...]could be bought. On the platform under the long front awn- ing were stacked the empty as well as the full five-and-ten gallon cream cans, and large trunk-sized bread cases. Three John Ormiston who donated the land for the Meadow Creek doors opened to the porch--one to the back of the post office, Cemetery. Mr. Ormiston was Commander[...]a double set of narrow glassed doors to the general store, and G.A.R. in 1899. the third to the family living quarters. Beside this door a[...]neat sign was tacked: "Meals", for the wayfarers who were[...]The store was also a gathering place for nearby ranchers[...]TOWN HISTORY during the cold weather. With their chores done for the day, they could visit and exchange news while waiting for the tri- McAllister is an interesting little commun[...]ekly mail, or stage, which was due anytime during the of the early 1860 settlements. It is situated seven mile[...]large set of scales was located just in front of the store Many changes have taken place and the early buildings are where livestock or hay could be weighed. The fee for a load of used for other purposes if they have remained at all. The hay was 25¢. general store, including the post office, was located just ea~t This country store is now a residence, and a new grocery of the crossroads. It was a typical old-time establishment, a store which sells beer and wine replaced the old saloon on the Members of the Welfare Club 1933: L . to R.: Edith Fletch[...] |
| [...]Norris-Ennis highway before 1902. Old school records The land for the Meadow Creek Cemetery was donated by dating from the fall of 1902 to 1905 show that 27 students John Ormiston in 1886 on high ground with a full view of the were enrolled during some months, and as few as 14 other valley. Work was done by volunteers who paid for their lots parts of the school year. Edith Evans taught the school from that way. Many donations were made by people living on the 1902 to 1904. Florence Mackel took over in the fall of 1904. east side of the river, as this area, before the dam was put in, Family names apperaring on the records include Vincent, was probably closer to them than the Ennis area. Bess, Rogers, McAlli[...]Stewart, McAtte, Wilson, with names of owners of the lots wr-itten on it and, as many Crowley, Thompson, Brown, and McKinnon. A census list of those people had died[...]ided that a indicates that there were 30 children and youths between the more efficient record should be kept. All graves are now cor- ages of six and twenty-one living in the district in 1903. rectly marked. The school was consolidated with Eilllis in the early A lot with room for eight graves was first sold for $5.00. A 1950's. The building was moved to the south end of the old lot for a single grave now costs $25.00. Graves were dug by hall to serve as a kitchen for the Welfare Club. It served as a friends of the deceased. A potters field was located on the community meeting hall, and was used for card and bingo east side, but as it was never used it was then included with parties. When the Welfare Club disbanded in 1970, the the regular cemetery. One lot was owned by the church and a buildings were sold to Bud Wilson, and the land returned to minister's child was buried there. Another lot was bought by the original homestead. a mining company for a victim of a mine accident. Other schools in the community were District 13, Mackel, The secretary-treasurers through the years were C.B. Gor- Greenacre, Washington Bar, and in the 1930's a small school don, John Ormiston, Wm. Fletcher, Ira Linthicum, and at the Montana Power Dam. Harry Wilson. The Welfare Club cleaned and cared for the The original telephone system in Meadow Creek consisted cemetery until the county took charge. A well has been dug of one line. Nearly every ranch had a phone with wires and a caretaker hired.[...]strung along fence posts or any convenient place. The For many years the church was the gathering place on Sun- telephone was a rather la[...]ining two dry day to exchange news, especially in the summer time when cell batteries and its own cranking system. Each ranch had everyone[...]- its individual signal which was made up of long and short tion for the young people which seemed to be quite popular. rings. The general ring, which could mean an emergency, During World War II, Charles Raper, a mortician, bought was five rings, and it didn't make much difference whether the paint for the exterior of the building and the people of the they were long or short, just so there were five. Rings went community painted, repaired windows, and put linoleum on into all neighborhood ranches, and of course everyone listen- the floor. Previous to that time, the building and church ed. The only disadvantage was that the receiver cord was so yard had been kept in repair by the members of the Welfare short that listeners had to stand at the phone on the wall, Club. and close enough to keep their hand over the transmitter, to Originally, 15 acres had been donated to the church, and a listen in on the neighbor's conversation. parsonage built. A long shed was located west of the church Marguerite, the oldest girl in the McAllister family, receiv- where teams could be s[...]her. ed a wood burning set for Christmas and she made lists of The church is now used for occasional funerals and communi- the patrons and their rings on boards from apple boxes. One ty meeting. The parsonage burned in 1943, and the land sold. of these boards with twenty-six phone[...]held in 1937. treasured. The red brick schoolhouse, District No. 48, with its[...]fish hatchery was located about one mile east of the cor- bell tower was built about a Quarter of a mile west of the ner or crossroads. Water was piped from springs on the old[...] |
| [...]pie who have become life-long friends. In 1945, they operated the Madison Cafe there. They also spent several[...]nters in Tucson, Arizona, going there with Ernest and Grace Miller from the Elkhorn Ranch. In 1947 Mary and Nellis Dale Adams of Kimberly, Idaho[...]were married and spent one winter in Sun Valley, Idaho,[...]mother and other relatives who lived in that area. Her fathe[...]a trip to Europe where she visited France, West Germany,[...]Austria, Bavaria, and Switzerland. In 1980, she toured the Scandinavian countries • "Land of the Midnight Sun". There she enjoyed Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, and another delightful trip down the Rhine. She also visited Odense, the home of Hans Christian Anderson. She found the trains, ferry boats, and subways to be interesting ex-[...]an Sprout, Jeanne Mary saw a lot of beautiful and interesting countries, but Blondet, Jean Wilson,[...]Mary Till,, Betty Sprout. decided that after all, the Madison Valley, and "good old[...]rd to beat! Wilson ranch for about a half mile to the hatchery. When the wooden pipe began to decay, the hatchery was moved to the Mary Bausch Adams Varney area where there was a larger and warmer supply of water.[...]The David Bausch family · 1970. L. to R.: Ronald, St[...]Barry, Catherine with Mother Bonnie and Father David.[...]nis, Montana. His parents, Mamie and Charles, resided on the Charles Bauer ranch on North Meadow Creek at the time. Mary Bausch Adams The family moved to the Higbee ranch on South Meadow[...]Creek when he was five years old. He attended the grammer school at Meadow Creek and high school at Ennis.[...]David worked at various ranch and construction jobs in the valley, including herding cattle in West Fork for[...]Frye and in the construction in Anaconda for two years. He[...]SCH) ADAMS enlisted in the Air Force in 1950 where he was trained as a[...]spent 25, 1918, one of twin girls born to Algean and Glen Bausch. the next two years at various Air Force bases in the South She attended a country school near her home through the and Central States. Upon discharge in Louisiana in October eighth grade and graduated from Ennis High School in 1936. 195[...]d back toward Montana. They got as far as Mary and her twin sister, Helen, spent several summers in[...]zard, in Montana, in- West Yellowstone, Montana, and met many interesting peo- duced them[...] |
| [...]d. Douglas Aircraft was initiating production of the B-47 John and Donna Bausch[...]the daughter of Henry C. and Marcella McAllister Templin.[...]Her father was in the first world war so it became necessary |
| [...]Helen Bausch Coppinger The Carlson's had one son, Claude E. Jr., born Septem[...]h of Livingston. They they made silver beads and Photographic Silk Screen Signs-- have two chidlren, Kimberly Sue and David Mark. At pre" everything had to be pe[...]cle, Montana where he teaches English After the death of her husband in 1977, Helen returned to and Drama. Ennis to help with the care of her elderly parents. In 1978, she accmpanied a younger sister, Patricia[...]England, France, Spain, and Italy.[...]mother. She is active in community affairs, and enjoys grooming and caring for her friends' pets, and believes there[...]is no better place to live, than in the Madison Valley.[...]Helen Coppinger Marion Ethel and Claude Carlson[...], on a ranch one mile |
| [...]k County High School in Livingston, graduating in the spring of 1924. Transportation being what it was, Christmas vacation was the only time during the school year that he could return home. It was necessary to take the train from Livingston to Logan, transfer to the "stub" in Logan, Jean and Clinton Frisbie going through Harrison to Norris,[...]high school he went to work in . by Jesse and Maggie. The teacher was paid by the parents of Bozeman at the Flint-Field Hardware as a bookkeeper. After children attending the school - she was "boarded around" two years of this he started clerking and doing outside sell- with the various families of her pupils. ing of Hart-Par and Cletrac tractors, Red River Special Cl[...]nton, of McAllister. They had threshing machines, and haying equipment. In the early a younger sister, Ethyl, who died at age 4. 1930's Mr. Alex Shadoan bought the Flint-Field Hardware Clinton went 2 years to Butte High School and graduated business and changed the name to "Gallatin Hardware " with from Galla[...], born in 1932, Freddy in 1934, who died tana. In the fall of 1942 he enlisted in the Navy spending at 10 months, and Ellen in 1935. two years in Corpus Christi, Texas[...]served as a flight engineer on PBY patrol planes and also Dennis and his wife, Willie, have 5 children and live in taught air-sea rescue classes which inclu[...]e he is a practicing M.D. specializ- students. In the fall of 1944 he was transferred to the Naval ing in psychiatry. Air Station in Alameda[...]king as an airplane Ellen has 6 children and lives in Mobile, Alabama. propeller inspector. In September 1945 when World War II The family spent many years at McAllister ranching and ended he returned to Bozeman to go to work at McCay mining but also lived at Ketchikan and Anchorage, Alaska; Hardware. Butte, Belgrade and Helena, Montana, where Clint followed In 1953 when McCay Hardware quit business, the General his trade as an electrician. Clint is retired. Electric Company gave him the franchise to sell appliances He and Jean live in Sheridan, Wyoming, and still enjoy and Donald worked as the manager of the appliance depart- hunting, fishing and camping and seeing the country with men in Brown's Hardware in Bozeman.[...]avel trailer. 1956 he started his own business as the General Electric dealer. The business continued to grow and on January 1, 1965 he moved into his new building[...]Clinton C. Frisbie Bozeman. In 1973 he sold the business, retired and moved to Ryegate, Montana. ST ANTON AND KATHLEEN (MULHOLLAND)[...]Stanton Firsbie was born April 22, 1912 on the Remington[...]bought the James ranch on North Meadow Creek in 1915 and CLINTON FRISBIE[...]James, the famous outlaw. Clinton C. Frisbie was born in 1910 to Jesse and Margaret In 1917 Stanton started school at the Pinkney place. This (Maggie) Parent Frisbie at the Remington Ranch later is now owned by Bill Bowersox. He went to school here for known as the Bert Frisbie place, up North Meadow Creek. one term. Jess Frisbie donated some land near the Green He spent his boyhood at the Jesse Frisbie ranch on North Acre ranch for a school house and Stanton went to school Meadow Creek. He started school at the Green Acre Ranch here through the 7th grade. This school building is the one in the bunkhouse. He went for a while to the Meadow Creek where he and his bride Kathleen started their married life. School until the Green Acre School was finished, which was Stanton went to school in Butte for two years and then to built entirely by members of the community on land donated Bozeman whe[...] |
| [...]n a neighboring ranch for $2.00 tana. Both of the other two members of the original board a day stacking hay, and $1.00 a day for other work. I:a~r are deceased. he went mining and ranching with his father. The rmrung When the campaign was started to raise funds to finance took place on the Revenue property and the Twin Lakes mine the building of the hospital in Ennis, Stanton was selected to on No[...]4 Stanton bought 151 acres be a member of the board of trustees. This board convassed from Harry Wilson. This land was located on Meadow Lake the community for financial pledges to the fund. Approx- (Ennis). At this time Jess and Stanton bought the first com- imately $50,000.00 was pledged and the building ~as bine to operate in Meadow Creek. St[...]arted. This board selected Dr. Ronald Losee to be the first bine work for eighteen different ranches. In 1945 Jess and physician to work in the Madison Valley Hospital. Stanton bought the old Sicard Ranch. Stanton moved his[...]fers to the new temple in Ennis, Stanton was Serµor Warden. and Jess Jr. from the Green Acre schoolhouse to this proper- The next year he served as the first full time worshipful ty. In 1974 Stanton decided to sell the ranching operation master of the Lodge. This was in 1951. except 20 acres of the Sicard place and Parent place. He built a home on the 20 acres and with his wife, still resides Kathleen Mulholl[...]from Butte, Montana in 1938, the bride of Stanton Frisbie. Stanton served on school boards of McAllister and Ennis They started housekeeping in a remode[...]consecutive years, without missing a meeting. He also North Meadow Creek. Stanton had attended school here as a has served on the Madison Valley Cemetery board since it child. Stanton and Kathleen had three children: Mary was organized by the State Legislature in 1944, financed by Kathe[...]MaY: 8, county taxes. This board is appointed by the county com- 1952, and Jess Richard, born July 2, 1944. Mary Kathenne missioners. The board had no money to operate the first year is married to Jay Willett and they reside in McAllister on since the tax money was not available until the next year. Stanton's property. They have five children: Mitchell, During this period the board, consisting of Jack Northway, Christine, Jeffrey, Andrew and Phillip. Barbara Helen mar- Earl Love and Stanton Frisbie secured scrap iron left over ried Leroy Edgmont and they have four children: Brent, Sue, from a drive put on during the war and were able to sell the Cindy and Peggy. They reside in Bozeman, Montana. Jess scrap for $1400.00. This money was used to drill wells at the Richard is an orthodontist and lives in Sacramento, Califor- Jeffers Ennis and McAllister Cemeteries. Power was also nia. At this date he plans to move to Missoula, Montana. install~d. Stanton is still active on the board, being the oldest member on a tax cemetery board in the state of Mon-[...]WILLIAM AND RENA HARRIS[...]William 0. Harris, son of Jacob and Emma Harris, was[...]grade and high school in Butte and graduated from the Butte Business College. He worked in the service department at[...]Murray Motor. Bill then met Rena Paul, and they were mar-[...]Rena Paul Harris, daughter of Ann Meriah Hora and Ed-[...]Montana. She attended school in Walkerville, and worked in[...]Symon's Clothing Store in Butte, until she married William[...] |
| [...]Bill and Rena Harris on their 50th Wedding Anniversary,[...]August 14, 1974. William and Rena Harris 1, 1964, when they bought the Wilson place on Meadow Creek, and where they still make their home.[...]t, William Harris. Center row: Rena Harris, Paula and Terri Hughes, Colleen Durocher. Front row: Ronald[...]Edwin and Margaret Hughes EDWIN AND MARGARET (HOWELLS) HUGHES |
| [...]Lewis and Midf(e Huf(hes weddinf([...]Mildred's mother, Clara, and her grandfather, George Edwin and sons, Lee and David. Wellman, supplied the music with piano and fiddle, while her father Earle "called" the square dances. In 1926, the family moved to the Gallatin Valley near the Butte mines. He met his future wife, Margaret How[...]lgrade, where Mildred began high school. In 1928, the in that city. family moved again, this time to the Madison Valley near When the 1929 crash came, all single men were laid off, so Ennis. Mildred attended Ennis High School, graduating in he went back to the Madison where he farmed with his 1930. It was here that she acquired the nickname, Midge, father. In 1930, he went to work for the U.S. Bureau of which has stayed with her through the years. She enrolled in Fisheries.[...]Montana State Normal College at Dillon and received her On September 5, 1931, Edwin and Margaret were married diploma in 1933. in Butte, Montana. Edwin was 21, and Margaret was 19. At It was the middle of the "Great Depression" and no job that age, she was manager of the Metro Golden Mayer Movie was to be had without experience, and how was a new teacher Company, Butte office. She had graduated from Butte High to gain experience if she couldn't get a job? To meet that in 1930.[...]dge accepted a job at Riedel, Montana, (a Edwin and Margaret had two sons, Lee, born July 6, 1933, post office and store) near the Missouri River Breaks, for and David, born on Edwin's birthday, October 23, 1936. $20.00 a month plus room and board. She lived with the family and taught their two children in the bunkhouse. After mining, for a short time, Edwin and Margaret ranch- ed from 1938 to 1957, when they sold the ranch and he work- ed for Owenhouse Hardware for five years, then for Kaiser Midge and Lewis with grandchildren Creyton and Tracy, Cement for 13 years. They now spend their summers in Mon- 1980. tana and winters in Black Canyon City, Arizona.[...]Edwin Hughes LEWIS A. AND MILDRED E. HUGHES Mildred Ellen Sprout was born in Geneva, Nebraska, |
| [...]and Midge on the ranch. They have presented Midge and[...]1968, and Tracy Renee, October 21 , 1972. Through the years, Midge continued teaching the first grade at Ennis. She retired in 1978 with a total of 41 years in the classroom. Lewis has slowed down since a heart at[...]and open heart surgery in 1976. Larry and Caludette have taken over the management of the ranch, leaving Midge and[...]hobbies, and take a trip once in awhile.[...]Midge and Lewis Hughes Larry and Claudette with children Creyton and Tracy. Things were really looking up the next year when she got the |
| [...]For a time they operated the McAllister ranch, while her[...]brother James was in the service, during World War II. In[...]6, they purchased some property in Mesa, Arizona, and[...]After returning to Norris in 1949, they bought the Mercan- tile store and Lorena was appointed postmaster, a position she had previously held at McAllister. They operated the store and post office for 18 years, until the sudden death of Mr. Denke. He is buried in the Meadow Creek Cemetery.[...]After living over 50 years of her life in the Madison Valley, where she was born, Lorena sold the Norris Mercantile and[...]Since the death of her husband, Lorena has traveled exten-[...]sively in the United States, and foreign countries. She is now[...]living in Mesa, near her twin brother, Leonard and his fami-[...]na Denke-J ones Thomas Hughes on Piacho. Terry and her husband, Cliff Reed, have two sons, Cliff and |
| [...]ember 14, 1905. He attended schools at McAllister and Santa Monica, California. He served in the Army for several years. He learned the barber trade and barbered until his health failed . He died in a s[...]April 14, 1908. He attended school in McAllister and Ennis, Montana. He took over the J .A. McAllister ranch with time out to serve in the Navy, during World War II. He was Postmaster at McAllister for 25 years. He also served at Postmaster on board his ship. After his[...]March 15, 1970. He was married to Thelma Evans. The McAllister children are buried in the McAllister Cemetery.[...]rista, Mary, Brian, Michael. school at McAllister and worked on the McAllister ranch. He moved to Nevada, near Reno, then later to Tempe, electric arc and was in the Murray Hospital in Butte for Arizona. He married[...]e child, Joyce. seven months. After leaving the hospital, he was transferred She is married to Jerry Hurr, a widower with two chil[...]Polson, Montana, at Kerr Dam as a plant operator and Joyce has a daughter, Belinda, by a former marria[...]He and Clara Box were married January 30, 1926. Clara Leonard and his family live near his twin sister, Lorena was the daughter of early pioneers of Pony. Jones, in Ari[...]ara was born November 20, 1906, at Pony, to David and Mabel Lloyd Box. She attended school at Pony and the Nor- mal College at Dillon, and later taught school at Mammoth, Owen McAllister Montana. She played piano and violin in the Box dance or- chestra. She was a charter member of Madison Chapter,[...]Order of Eastern Star at Ennis, Montana. She was also the[...]Owen and Clara had three children: Marian, Owen Jr., and OWEN AND CLARA (BOX) McALLISTER K[...]Madison Canyon, Pony, Polson and Montana University. Owen McAllister was born August 6, 1903, to Alex and She married Tom Powell, a pilot, who was killed in a[...]hey had one daughter, Karin. Marian later married and Santa Monica, California.[...]o children. On May 23, 1923 he went to work for the Montana Power Owen Jr. was born May 18, 1931, and died in a car accident Company at the Madison Power plant near his home as an in Madison Canyon at the age of 13 months. assistant operator. In 1939, he[...]s born November 13, 1933, attended school at Owen and Clara's Golden Wedding. L. to R .: Marian, Owen, Polson and Montana and Washington Universities. He serv- Clara, Kenneth. ed in the Army for nearly three years. He and his wife, the[...]Christa, and Mary. Owen retired in 1968, and he and Clara live at Kerr Dam during the summer, and Mesa, Arizona in the winter months.[...]LLOYD AND ALICE (ARNETT) McDOWELL[...]Maurice and Myrtle (Schabarker) McDowell in Bozeman,[...]Montana. He attended the Meadow Creek Grade School and[...]Lloyd enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corp and was[...]tationed at Superior, Montana, later returning to the[...]worked on the Norris Hill Project, at which time he met[...] |
| [...]born September 6, 1937, has two children, Tamara and[...]children, Timothy, Rusty, Cynthia and Misty. Patricia Jo,[...]born June 14, 1952, had two children, Robert and La Gina Jo.[...]Lloyd M. McDowell Alice and Lloy d McDowell tana. While he was working on a bridge construction job |
| [...]death in March, 1945. At the time of his father's death in[...]July, 1951, he purchased the interest of the other heirs. Ora and Rose continued to operate the ranch with part-time hired help to the present time - 1981.[...]1946. He atended high school in Ennis and had two quarters[...]at Western Montana College in Dillon. He loved the out of doors and preferred this life of working on the ranch to attend-[...]ing college. At various times other nephews and nieces and[...]the summer months on the ranch. The Megee family have always been faithful in church[...]Ora and Rose Megee JOE AND LAURA (McALLISTER) OLIVER |
| [...]ted Ruler of Elks Lodge No. Wilma and Jeanne Blondet 390, in Virginia City. He and Marie are both members of the and Patricia Paugh. Senior Citizen's Organization in Ennis. Marie Paugh's daughter, Wilma Blondet, and Vernon McLean were married in St. Patrick Catholi[...]Ennis. They had three children, Caroline, Verna, and Jim. Jeanne was a graduate of Cadet Nursing Corps at Caroline married Ken Pitcher, and they had two children, Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls, Montana. Kim Marie and Dawn Kathleen.[...]ed Marian Verna married Chad Holland of Dillon, and they have three Redfern. sons, Kenny, Koy and Koby. Leonard Moran's grandfather, the Hanifan girls' (Butte) Jim married Karen Lee in Sacramento, California. grandfather and Marie Paugh's grandmother, Mary[...]sins. In July, 1960, Wilma became suddenly ill, and passed away within 24 hours. Jeanne Blondet married Charles Mettler, and had two Marie Paugh daughters, Susan and Sally. Susan married Harry Miller, and had three children, Craig, Travis, and Sasha Marie. Sally married Tom Grote, and had two children, Douglas and Jessica Lynn. MAX AND KATHERINE (ARMSTRONG) ROBISON Marie P[...]Katherine Armstrong was born in Ennis to Frank and Zora[...]the Madison, one of the second generation whose parents[...]came to Montana following land and gold. Frank came to the[...]When Katherine (Kate) was two, the Armstrongs moved to Kansas. The family returned to the Madison when Kate was ten. She attended schools in Ennis and graduated from En-[...]nis High School in 1946. In high school, she competed on the Ennis High School girl's basketball team and track team. Some of the earliest memories her children have are of the blue and red ribbons she had won in track events and the[...]mother in the front row, kneeling, one hand resting on a[...]After high school, she worked in a bank in Twin Bridges[...]Max Robison. She and Max were married on March 28, 1948.[...]Max Robison was born on October 1, 1925 to Heber and[...]Jennie (Bybee) Robison of Bone, Idaho. During the Depres- sion, Herber lost his ranch and the family moved to Iona,[...] |
| The Max Robison family. Back row: Frank, Lee, Vern. Front row: Molly, Jennie, Max, Kate and Max Jr. 1963. Idaho, near Idaho Falls. But, to Max, town life was not In his first years in Montana, Max rodeoed in the Montana |
| When it had cured, they hired Slim Rennewanz and his threshing machine to thresh the grain. Max and Kate gave their children all that love, land and a home could offer. They gave them values to live[...]sed six children, Lee, Frank, Vern, Jennie, Molly and Max James. Lee married Kathleen Wood. They have two children, Melani and Dru. Frank married Kaye Milkovitch. They have two children, Charlie and Lura. Vern married Yvonne Conlrn. They have three children, Shauna, Terry, and Clinton, Molly married Don Philpot. They have one[...]other at this writing. At this writing, Max James and Jennie are not married.[...]Wayne and Floral, with their daughters drove the sheep to the summer range. This was a fun time for the family and friends often joined them to ride and camp along the way. They were able to trade the sheep right for a cattle right[...]above Hidden Lake. The sheep were then pastured at home and the cattle moved to the summer range.[...]In 1948 they purchased from Wayne Dees the ranch that lay between the Bausch and Green Acre ranches. Max and his family moved to the new location. In 1961 Wayne and Max dissolved partnership. Wayne and Floral then purchas- ed the Jess and Maggie Frisbie p}ace just west of the Green[...]Acre from Reve Smith. In 1963 Wayne leased the Green Acre Wayne Lee Robison to Keith and Erma Evans and Lloyd and Doris[...], Floral, youngest daughter Becky, WAYNE LEE AND FLORAL JUDY ROBISON daughter Jerry, and her husband Don Lower went to British[...]Columbia, Canada to manage the Gang Ranch, owned by Wayne Lee and Floral Robison with their family came to Floyd Skelton of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Bill Studdard of the Madison Valley in March, 1946. Phillipsburg, Montana. In July 1970, they all returned to Wayne was born at Lyman, Idaho, June 5, 1913. He grew the Green Acre ranch to operate it. Don Lower died here of a up and went to school in Rock Creek, a ranching area eas[...]birthday and their 15th wedding anniversary. Floral Judy, wa[...]December 13, 1972 from a heart attack. Both 1916. She and Wayne were married January 11, 1935. are buried in the McAllister Cemetery. Wayne served in World War II in the Marines. He was Wayne and Floral had five daughters. Dixie Lee married hono[...]James Edward Marosok of Sheridan, Wyoming at the Green Orr at a livestock sale in Idaho Falls, and she told him of a Acre in 1958. She has a Masters degree in Elementary beautiful ranch for sale in the Madison Valley near Education and is presently a Reading Resource Teacher in McAllister on North Meadow Creek. Wayne looked at the Sheridan. Dixie and Jim have four children, Mike, David, ranch, returned home, sold his property in Idaho Falls, and Sandra and Cary. bought the Green Acre Ranch in the fall of 1945 from D. Jerry Lynne was married to Donald Lee Lower on March Dillenberg. The family moved in March 1946. 10, 1956 at the ranch. They had four children, Wayne, Judy, Wayne's brothers, Max and Keith were also serving in Nancy and Bert. After Don's death Jerry worked at the World War II. When they were released from the Navy they First Madison Valley Bank, then as secretary for the joined Wayne at the ranch. Wayne's father and mother, Madison Valley Consolidated schools. She is presently Heber and Jennie, came from Iona, Idaho and helped on the employed by Madison County as Deputy clerk[...]d Arthur Wing on May 26, 1979 in In 1948 Wayne and Floral purchased the Charlie Bausch Bozeman. They reside in Ennis. place, as it was called at the time, from C.W. and Isabel Patricia Ann "Patty" married Gary Lyle Dusenberry of Chapman. It was two miles east of the Green Acre Ranch. Bozeman, Montana[...] |
| [...]eattle, Washington. They have two children, Guinn and Sheryl. Vicki Mae married Curtiss Hugh McNally of British Col- umbia in 1964. She graduated from Montana State University Sarah and Lloyd Smith as an English teacher. She has two children, Kimberly and Matthew. Rebecca Jo, "Becky" married David Alfr[...]"Sunny" (Lloyd Jr.), who is manager of the C.B. Cattle 1974. She graduated from Montana State University with a and Guest Ranch on Indian Creek. He and Jan (Rustad) B.S. in Elementary Education. Becky, David, and their have two children. daughter,[...]Jerry Lee is a mechanic on the Kamp Grain Farm out of Wayne loved rodeo and helped start the Montana Amateur Three Forks. He also helps with the grain crop. He and Rodeo Association. He helped in promoting and funding the Roberta (Roberts) have two girls. Madi[...]Lloyd worked for area ranchers most of the time. He drove and entered the Ennis Fourth of July parade with freight the school bus for the 1949-1950 school year. He worked on wagons and two teams of horses dressed up in fancy the Ennis Grade School, and for the Talc Mine, and then harnesses. went to work on the county road crew for almost fifteen After Wayne[...]1972, Floral continued to operate years. the ranch. She leased the Jess Frisbie Ranch to Jerry, her He decided it was time for a job change, so bid on the U.S. daughter, who bought it in May 1974.[...]Mail route from Butte to Ennis. He recieved the contract and Floral purchased the Stanton Frisbie ranch at McAllister started the job July 1, 1968. Lloyd and Sarah then moved to in 1974. In 1978 she sold the Green Acre Ranch to Shining Butte in December 1968. While he drove the mail route, he Mountains West. Floral is retired and is presently living five also shod, broke, bought, and sold a few horses during his miles south of Bozem[...]Sarah remained in Butte most of the mail route years main-[...]al Robison her time along with their childen and grandchildren. LLOYD AND SARAH (MIZE) SMITH[...]James Smith was born March 10, 1919, to James N. |
| The mail route ended June 30, 1980, and they moved back to their McAllister home near Ennis Lake, where they enjoy horseback riding in the hills and helping with brandings and cattle drives. Lloyd is busier since retiring t[...]Oh Yes! He is still shoeing, breaking, buying, and selling a few horses.[...]Roy and George. tana, Earl, Clara and baby came west by Northern Pacific to the little town of Wilsall. From Clara's first glimpse of the white-capped "Shining Mountains", she has never lost her love for the rugged peaks. The move west proved not to be the bonanza advertised. Earle, Clara and growing family[...]lived in several locations between Wilsall and Sedan during the next thirteen years, having their hopes shattered[...]drought, hail, grasshoppers, and other misforturnes. During[...]Elizabeth (Betty), April 17, 1922; and Norma Jean,[...]along side Earle in the fields, sometimes driving as many as[...]six to eight horses harnessed to the various farm machines necessary for the planting and harvesting of crops. She also helped with the milking, planted gardens, raised chickens, Earle and Clara Sprout wedding picture. sewed most of the children's clothing, plus all the day to day[...]ks of cooking, baking, washing, ironing, canning, all with none of the modern conveniences we take for granted, like[...]running water and electricity. H. EARL AND CLARA A. (WELLMAN) SPROUT In the summer of 1926, Clara, Earle and family moved to the Gallatin Valley near Belgrade. They remained here[...]Wellman was born October 18, 1895, in the spring of 1928 when they moved to the Madison Valley. Geneva, Nebraska, the oldest of six children of Augusta Here the children grew to adulthood and went their various Elizabeth Huston and George Graham Wellman. Other ways. Mildred (Midge) was married to Lewis Hughes in children in the family were: Lynn, born in 1897; Fred in 1902; 1936. They have one son, Larry. In 1940, George and Elaine Irene in 1906; Huston in 1910; and Donald in 1911. All have preceded her in death.[...]Jean. Seated: George, Clara, Ray, Midge. · The family lived on a farm near Geneva where the pre_domi- nent crops were wheat, corn and pigs. All the work was done with horses and the water was pumped by a windmill. Clara has told of sleet storms where the roads would become so covered with ice that they could skate all the way to school She also told of tornadoes which were very terrifying ex-[...]n in Geneva, Nebraska, July 2, 1891 to Mary Ellen and Charles Edward Sprout. Earle had one brother, Lyle, who was two years younger. They also lived on a farm and were neighbors of the W ellmans. Earl was fond of horses and knew how to manage them. He always drove the fastest, well-matched teams in the com- munity,hitched to good looking buggies. Perhaps this helped persuade Clara to elope and they were married in Clay Center, Nebraska, Octob[...]October of that year, drawn by tales of free land and op- portunities to obtain great wealth by[...] |
| (Gretchen) Bausch were wed and have two sons, Lee and Dick. Herbert married Martha Elaine Vincent in 1942. They have two children, Connie and Dale. At Christmas time, 1941, Helen and Owen Lade were married in Sumas, Washington and their three children are Susan, Michael, and Wendy. Raymond and Audrey Hubner Sprout have five children, Bill, Debbie, Tammie, Laurie and Don. Betty met and married Wallace Alm in Seattle in 1945. Their three sons are Gregory, Geoffrey and Kelvin. Jean and Jack Henderson were married in Cut Bank in 1.947 and have one son, Curtis. Besides these seventeen grandchildren, there are fifteen great grandclµldren at the present time. _ After living on several ranches in the southern part of the valley, Clara and Earle bought a place on Meadow Creek near Meadow[...]ntil Earle's death April 2, 1955. He is buried in the McAllister Cemetery. Clara then moved to Sumas, Washington, where she makes her home with her daughter, Helen Lade.[...](son-in-l,aw), and grandchildren: Kimberly Laine Meuchel,[...]Alice, daughter of Lowell and Betty (Murphy) Snyder,[...]both teach for the Plains, Montana school system, she in the elementary and he as coach and English teacher in high[...]Herb and M. Elaine now enjoy traveling, visiting relatives[...]their children and grandchildren and pursuing their hobbies. L. to R.: Herbert (father[...]M. Elaine works as a substitute secretary and in her spare[...]time works with crafts. Herb golfs, plays piano and organ at (Snyder) Sprout, daughter-in-l,aw and R. Dale Sprout (son).[...]s locations around southwest Montana. HERBERT L. AND MARTHA ELAINE (VINCENT) Herbert L. and M. Elaine Sprout Herbert Lynne Sprout, second son of H. Earle and Clara JEAN WILSON THORSON[...]ut was born in Wilsall, Montana, April 14, |
| [...]Marcella Bee and Dave Tudor. Jean Thorson[...]y make their Marcella McAllister or Bee as she was known to everyone |
| [...]there was a second story which was the Lodge Hall and the[...]that time was working at the Revenue Mine. He continued[...]there for several years. Later he worked for Jess and Stanton Frisbie and the Sinton Ranches at Manhattan.[...]Walter and Helen are buried in the McAllister Cemetery.[...]Ernest Vincent and M. Elaine (Vincent) Sprout Walter Vincent homestead west of McAllister on the ranch now owned by Helen and Walter Vincent and children: Ernest and Elaine. THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS J. AND MARY WILSON[...]nesota, August 25, 1896 to Thomas J. and Mary Wilson. The |
| Bud and Jean Wilson In earlier days there were no local markets for livestock so the cattle were driven by horseback to the railroad at Norris. Occasionally an animal would break from the herd and cause considerable trouble before being corraled again. The local ranchers, including Harry and his brother Bob, would drive[...]Ferguson who has two to either Butte or Spokane. The hogs usually drove easily sons; and Kathleen who recently married Douglas Gauf. after getting headed in the right direction. Hanna Martha, the oldest of the children of Thctmas and In 1950, Harry and Bud Wilson and Earl (Pat) Paugh built Mary was born in Minnesota in 1894 and came to Montana the jack fence east of the highway over the Madison. as a small girl. She attended local schools and later taught at Harry was a 50-year member of the Masonic Lodge No. 2 Sterling and Reed Point, Montana. In 1915 she married at Ennis and the Royal Arch at Virginia City. He had been a S[...]a for a few years, then moved to Califor- Harry and Doris had two children, Jean Thorson, who lives[...]ntil shortly before her death in 1928. in Bozeman and Thos. J. (Bud) who married Diana McGuire.[...]l years later. They had two children, They bought the Deuble place and ran a few cattle. He also Thomas R. who died in 1978 and a daughter, Lois, who lives has a small saw mill. Diana was cashier at the Madison in California. Valley Bank for a short time. She is now a C.P.A and has her Ralph Thomas Wilson was born May 4, 1898. He also at• own Business Management office near her home. They have tended local schools in McAlister and Bozeman. He married four children: Jay, who lives in Bozeman and has four Frances Morgan of Bozeman and they made their home at Donna Wilson and sons, Jay and Dick. McAllister for a short tim[...]where he was employed by the Post Office. During World War II both he and his son, Ralph Jr., served in the Army un- til the end of the war.[...]buried. His widow lives near their son and his family at Lake[...]1900. He attended local schools and Bozeman High School. In 1927 he bought the acreage now known as Troutdale[...]which he later sold. In 1947 he and his wife, the former Loula[...]in the Meadow Creek Cemetery.[...] |
| [...]- ~ . Ennis Consolidated High School and Gymnasium ENNIS - TOWN HISTORY modern dentist office and professional staff take care of den-[...]tal needs. United States Post Office 59729[...] |
| [...]Madison Valley Complex and Town Hall.[...]nice log church with Sunday School rooms in the basement,[...]eted in 1975. A Lutheran mission has been started and Clancy Memorial Library holds Sunday services in the Catholic Church but have plans for building. The Christian Scientists hold services in the F.N.I. office building. Since 1869 when the Reverend George Comfort came to Servic[...]hildren's Meadow Creek to hold Methodist services and 1876 when playground and fish pond, landscaping, annual celebrations, Bish[...]stablished Trinity Episcopal Mis- scholarships and volunteer services. There's the volunteer sion in Jeffers, the people in most of the Madison Valley fire department, the Lion's club, Commercial Club Chamber churches hav[...]Christian way of Commerce, Masonic Lodge No. 2 and Eastern Star, the of life. Veterans of Foreign Wars No. 1723, and its Auxiliary. The The present mission church building was built by the Commercial Club-Chamber of Commerce sponsons the an- Episcopalians in 1902. A frame Methodist church built in nual Ennis Rodeo July 3rd and 4th, which attracts large 1915 served that congregation until it became Presbyterian crowds. The Rodeo evolved from "Bucking Contests " held in and built a fine new building on Hugel Street in 1955[...]atrick 's Roman Catholic Church was built in 1951 and in August and were sponsored by the townspeople and became a parish together with "Our Lady of the Pines" in ranchers. The date was chosen to coincide with the most like- West Yellowstone in 1980. The Rocky Mountain Baptist ly time between haying and grain harvest for the ranchers. Church has a new building constructed i[...]pular subscription. Some their former-building to the Latter Day Saints who now hold children's events were included such as foot and three legged services there. The Assembly of God congregation built a races. Inside the Nearly New Shoppe. L. to R.: Margaret Daems, Bobb[...]opf Marie Paugh, Irma Manley. |
| [...]or Madison Valley. There are active 4-H Clubs and a Madison Valley Woman's |
| [...]CHARLES J. (CHUCK) AND[...]STRONG) AABERG Maybe somebody earlier lived on the section line where the road crosses the Madison Valley from east to west, ten miles[...]Springs, South Dakota in 1914, in south of Ennis, and Spring Creek meanders to meet the river, the southern foothills of the Black Hills. His father, Albert, but history pic[...]named Osmond V. Varney came from Norway and his mother, Laura, from Ireland. for the honor of using his name. Chuck began riding and working with horses at an early age Varney and a friend, Tom Farrell, built up a large ranch by looking after cattle and · working horses in the fields, as operation near Varney Bridge in 1882 and continued in the well as helping his father on the ranch. area until the era of the horse ended. There have been two Chuck[...]arby ranch, which his uncle manag- Varney bridges and two Spring Creek bridges, and much ed. It was owned by F.O. Butler from Chicago. They raised valley history has run under and over them. Government cattle and a large number of thoroughbred horses. Mr. Butler maps show an altitute of 5,200 feet at the bridge. was a Polo enthusiast and raised horses for polo prospects and for his own string at Oakbrook, and to sell. Here Chuck ,In 1883 young Henry B. Daems and his brother. Levinus, saw the training of a polo horse or "pony " from halter break- came and settled along Spring Creek with their wives and ing to a finished horse ready to play. They had polo matches children. Paul, with his wife and sons came a few years later at the ranch, playing Army teams from Fort Robinson, in to manage the Economy Power Plant, built by Mr. Elling to Nebraska and Fort Meade, near Sturgis, South Dakota. supply Virginia City and the mines. It operated from 1908 to 1926.[...]k worked for his uncle when he was in high school and[...]l in 1889 with ten pupils. Later one was built at the comers. The first school was burn- He was then hired[...]id, by a young swain whose "lady fair" said and playing "green" horses. They spent winters in California she didn't want to go to school. The community promptly and summers in Ill. at Oakbrook, the lovely estate farm and rebuilt, this time with brick made in the area, and that school polo grounds, maintained by the Butler family. house was used until 1948. The first time Chuck saw Ennis was at daybreak. He had One of the outstanding figures of the area was Tom Call driven all night and the first thing to greet his tired eyes was who came to the Madison about 1914. He leased and bought Emmett Womack's Brahma bulls, us[...]le to run as many as 6,000 sheep. He in the street and the bars were open. married a charming widow from Tex[...]ntana to take writer. Her book Golden Fleece made the valley known far over the management of the 7-11, a dude ranch in the and wide. The Call Ranch was sold after Tom's death to Gallatin Canyon and also the Rising Sun Ranch in the upper Sumner Gerard and it is now a cattle spread known as the Madison Valley, the name was later changed to Sun Ranch Bar 7.[...]erica went to war with Japan. Paul had planned The 1920's saw excitement of a new kind. A promoter[...]short while but that started drilling for oil at the comer. For about five years the time stretched to more than 30 years. The 7-11 was soon sold work went on, subject to mechanical troubles and financial and the Sun grew from 8,000 deeded and leased acres to difficulties. One of the men who worked on the rig was Hugo 23,000 acres deeded and 7,000 leased as other buildings and Aronson, who later became governor of Montana. A[...]ranch sites were added. named Slim McMullen also made his mark here as his For a number of years the haying was done with work daughter married Roy Daems. Her family comes often to horses as was the feeding in winter. This was sometimes put visit. Alas: machinery broke down, money ran out and the off a bit when moose would come early in the morning to eat well was abandoned and Varney went back to thinking in off the hay racks that had been loaded the night before. terms of sheep and cattle. This ranch was also raising thoroughbreds for polo pony The population grew and so a Post Office was established prospects[...]m Wilcox as postmaster. He were halter broke, but many were sold as stock or roping was follow[...]ms in 1915, Henry Daems in 1916, horses. and Agnes Eikeland in 1940. In 1944 a mail route was The ranch also raised Hereford cattle, building from a started and service was eventually discontinued in favor of small herd to 1,000 head. private boxes in the Ennis Post Office. Rural delivery has Chuck was inducted into the Army in 1944. He was sta- now been re-established and Varney is on Star Route 2 with tioned at C[...]this time he and Virginia Saunders were married and later At one time there was a move to make a town of Varney. returned to the Sun Ranch via Oakbrook where they lived for A nice plat with streets was designed and for a long time it one and a half years. They had two sons: Jan lives in Seattle was displayed in the court house in Virginia City. It was a and Dana lives in Bozeman. Virginia lives in Bozeman. brave idea in advance of the time. Not until 1958 did the ranch have a telephone nor did the Change continues in Varney. Old families die out but rest of the Valley south of Cameron. The Montana Power population grows. Real estate developers have seen the brought electricity in in 1954. The ranchers, between hunger of people for a place in the stunning beauty of Cameron and West Fork, bought the telephone line from the Madison Valley, with its clean air and water and elbow room. Forest Service when it was aucti[...]was Varney area with it's view of Sphinx Mountain and the river sent to submit a bid and they bought it for $5.00. Later the is now a choice location. Charming modern homes now dot telephone company bought the line. the once bare hillsides, telephone and power lines and roads During this time of no telephone se[...]Varney may yet become a suburb of Ennis. and Post Office served as a common center for the people without phones. The Bear Creek area did have phones. They Margaret Daems took many messages which were dropped in the mail boxes·[...] |
| or sent with the mail carrier and if it was a message of urgen- cy someone would take it no matter the time or the weather. It is with warm regard that Chuck remembers the neighborly spirit of helpfulness between all the neighbors during those years at the Sun Ranch. Paul Butler treasured this also and urged Chuck to participate in the community projects and activities - with ranch help if that was necessary. Chuck married Fannie Armstrong Merica in 1955. She was born at Norris in 1918. In 1929 she went with her parents, Frank and Zora, to Kansas. In 1948 she returned to Mon- tana with her children: Jeanne, (Mrs. Johan Miller), Great Falls, Terry Merica, Helena and Tim Mercia, Cameron. Chuck retired from the Sun Ranch in 1974, but is still very involved in community affairs, both local and county level. They live at McAllister where they can see from Ennis Lake to the mountains on the Montana-Idaho border, and on the west old Baldy mountain in the Tobacco Roots, and the Gravely range and on the east the beautiful Gallatin- Madison range. What a privile[...]Vic and Mary in Portland, Oregon, 1944.[...]JOHN V., MARY M. AND ROBERT V. ANDERSON BETTY L. (ALTHOUSE)[...]Varmland, Sweden, via Melacca, Minnesota, and was |
| [...]Robert Victor Anderson attended Ennis schools and[...]Montana State College and during his freshman year he entered the service. Bob saw Marine Air Service in Korea[...]and Vietnam and was decorated for valor in combat in both[...]conflicts. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1973 with the rank of colonel after a distinguished career.[...]Bob sent a "Small World" story: One of the Hughes[...]e from Korea, 1952. family and he was a "maverick" - went west, when he was[...]ing, got the gold bug, made his first strike, went back to[...]Pennsylvania to marry Bob's grandmother and took her Vic and Mary remained in Ennis until 1942, where Vic was back to Montana. That probably explains the deep affection engaged in local trucking business, as a lineman for the that Bob held for his grandfather. Montana Power Co. and served as Town Constable from 1940 to 1942. When Vic had the Norris to Ennis mail con- Robert V. Anderson tract, in the late 1930's, it was routine for him, during heavy snowfall, to rent a sled and team from Mr. Easter and make the trip from the Easter ranch to Norris and return, ignoring the snow-blocked route over the Norris hill. His motto was "The mail must go through." During the same period, Mary served as an occasional substitute teacher at the Varney CLAUDE FRANKLIN AND School and had part-time employment as the Ennis ELLA MAE (WIGG[...]ard operator in what would later become a part of the M.ountain Bell System.[...]Franklin Angle was born August 19, 1912 to Vic and Mary were employed in the Kaiser Shipyards in Waller and Hattie K. Angle on his grandparents Frank and Portland, Oregon, during WW II and moved to Virginia in Mary Shriver's ran[...]Bozeman. 1960. Both are now deceased. Vic died in the Veterans He attended Ennis grade and high school, graduating in Hospital in Hampton, Virginia, November 12, 1972 and 1930. While attending high school he[...]ly. Both are winter north of Jeffers and one winter south and east of Jef- buried in the Vets. Adm. Cemetery at Old Point Comfort, fers. After graduating f[...]ing. The fall of 1933 he went to California to the National[...]ampton, 1956 - Marine Corps Operation, and Movie Projection. After graduation from the birthday.[...]Between the ages of eight to fourteen he spent alot of time[...]in the summer at his aunt and uncle's ranch, Delia and Edgar[...]While going to high school he worked at the Valley Garden and Oliver ranches, driving supply wagons, attending[...]stacker, mowing, raking and stacking hay. One of the most exciting events of Claude's life was when his father took the family to Wirtz, Virginia in 1922 to see[...]Waller's parents and family. In August of that year he fixed[...]their model 1918 Kissel car up for the trip-putting racks on sides and back for camping equipment and supplies. At this[...]over streams and rivers, no motels, and gasoline supplies were far apart. It took a month to get there and two weeks to[...]When he was twelve years old, his uncle Oscar taught him[...] |
| [...]Hattie Angle and chidren in their Hardware Store, Apri~[...]1980. Claude, Hattie, Roberta and Waller (Bud).[...]ship in the state chapter of Electrical Inspectors, at which[...]time he was presented with a bronze plaque by the Interna-[...]to the electrical industry. Claude has grown up with the September 29, 1940 he married a registered nurse, Ella Automobile and Electronic Industries. When he was a small· Mae[...]boy they were just getting a start. Over the years he has seen Claude is a charter member of the Madison Valley Rural! many wonderful and unbelievable things happen due to Fire Department, and has been a continuous member. In these two industries. May, 1944, he became a charter member of the Ennis Com- The Angle Hardware Co. was started in 1910 when his mercial Club and was a continuous member until 1981, serv- father bought out Otto Coss, who owned a repair and harness ing as president three terms during that[...]car, to help him. In 1953 Claude was elected to the Board of Directors of the They repaired farm equipment. In fact, they bu[...]dison Valley Hospital. He has served as a trustee and from the ground up, shod horses, and repaired machinery of director continuously to the present time. He has been all kinds. About 1920 Angles put in a line of farm im- Chairman of the Board for the past eight years. plements. In 1924 they added a lumber yard. In 1926 they Claude joined the Eagle's Lodge Aerie No. 664 in Virginia took the dealership for International Harvester farm im- City in 1944 and has been a member ever since. plements and trucks. They kept this dealership for 45 years. Claude served one year as electrical inspector for the state Winifred, the sister, joined the business in 1938, as book- of Montana when the State Electrical Board was created, keeper. In 1948 the brother, "Bud", joined the company. It and has been a member of the International Association of has grown fro[...]es at pre- Electrical Inspectors for forty years, and is a member of the sent.[...]When Claude was growing up in this area, the hunting and[...]shing were fantastic. He had a grand time hunting and Claude and Ella Mae, wedding September fishi[...]When going to school he enjoyed and participated in most all sports. He played basketball in high school and college. He is a ski enthusiast, and was instrumental in forming the Ennis Ski Club. He helped plan and build two ski areas and lifts, one in Cedar Creek and one in Jack Creek. Ennis Ski[...]tions the club disbanded. The Ski club entertained the[...]Claude and Ella Mae are comfortable settled in their Ennis[...]The youngest of four children, Waller Shriver Angle w[...]born at the Deaconess hospital, May 29, 1925 in Bozema[...] |
| Bud Angle three years old. Bud Angle and 3 daughters: Sherrie, Judy and Tammy. Montana to Waller S. and Hattie K. Angle. After ten days After his return home from the service he went to work in his mother brought him home to join the rest of the family, the Angle Hardware Store with his father, Waller, and brother Claude, and two sisters, Roberta and Winifred. He brother Claude. He is still continuing in the business. It is has lived in the Madison Valley ever since with the exception one of the oldest businesses in the county run by members of the years he served his country in the Navy in World War of the family continuously, for 71 years. II. His parents were pioneers of the valley, and grand- Janice Watkins and Bud were married February 10, 1950 parents Frank and Mary Shriver were early day pioneers at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Watkins. To here. "Bud" has been his nickname all through his childhood this union three girls were born: Sherrie Lynn, May 19, 1954, days and adult life. Judy[...]1958, Tammy Sue, November 20, 1966. He attended the Ennis Grade School and Ennis High He and Janice were divorced on October 3, 1968. The girls School from which he received~his diploma i[...]e back for short visits with their father and relatives. took training in aircraft mechanics for awhile before entering Bud and Jean Cline Saunders were married in the the service.[...]February 9, He worked for three summers during the haying season for 1974. Harold Miller on Cedar Creek in 1941 to 1943. Bud took over the weather observer duties for the govern- Bud was drafted into the service in April, 1944, and served ment, reporting the weather each day in this area from in the Navy. He received his boot or basic training in Far- November 17, 1964 to the present time. His uncle, Oscar ragut, Idaho and Shoemaker, California. He was in actual A[...]a reporter for over forty years before. combat in the South Pacific. He returned home April, 1946. Bud is a member of the Episcopal Church in Jeffers. He is a member and a past Exalted Ruler of B.P.O. Elks Lodge No.[...]ugh, 1944. 390 in Virginia City, and a member of the Ennis Volunteer Fire Department, also a past President of the Ennis Com-[...]CHARLES "CHUCK" AND[...]tana, December 27, 1907, the daughter of Louis and Esther Potter Weidner, the sister of Dixie and Bud Weidner and Edith Gilbert. She attended school in Virginia City and helped her mother and step-father (Lewis Gilbert), operate[...]Ennis that she met her future husband Charles Argent[...]"Chick" Armitage. Chick and a group of musicians played for the dances in and around Madison County. Chick and she[...] |
| 50th Wedding Anniversary of "Chick" and "Sis" Armitage[...]dison River. with their daughter Esther Warburton and their son Harold in 1979. were married in Virginia City, May 4, 1929, by Bob Gohn. The Hippe children attended grade school near their home, |
| lawn gracefully sloping down to the water, and with shrub- bery on the street side giving privacy. In 1952 the Armitages bought the Economy Store from Roy Wiedenmeyer. In 1954 they sold it back to him. They bought the Madison theatre from the Erie Estate in 1953 and still operate it. The Armitage Ford Garage was bought in 1961 and sold to Dan Todd in 1963. At that time Jess went into the Real Estate and Insurance business with Juanita Stalcup and others. They conduct a growing business under the name of F.N.I. (First National Insurance) with several offices in southwestern Montana. Jess and Grace are parents of Alice Sue, married to Charle[...]to Mary Lou McGraph; he operates two offices for the F.N.I. while living in Jefferson City, Montana. Kristin Kay was born August 26, 1956, and is married to Robert Bill Baker in 1943 and his catch of beaver hides resting by Whitaker of Dallas, Texas. the car and about 400 muskrat hides hanging on the car. The Armitages' have two grandchildren, Joseph Charles and Andrea Sue Wright.[...]Bill was raised on local ranches which included the Valley Jess is a member of Montana Lodge No. 2 A.F. & A.M. He Garden ranch, The Chowning ranch on Moores Creek, the and Grace are both active in Chapter No. 118 O.E .S. Elling ranch in the Varney area and the Green Acre ranch on[...]Jess C. Armitage In 1930 the great depression drove the family from the ranching business, so the family moved to Ennis in October 1930 and operated a restaurant known as Baker's Cafe.[...]From 1931 to 1936 Bill worked seasonally at the Jumping • Horse Stock Ranch and trapped in the winter months.[...]On September 2, 1936 he accepted employment with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries; now known as the U.S. Fish and[...]Lower O'Dell Creek and North Meadow Creek where it[...]in the spring and brown trout in the fall. From May until[...]Clear Creek and the hatchery on Yellowstone Lake. This[...]The off-time, which was during the winter months, was spent[...]trapping muskrat, mink and beaver along the Madison[...]In May 1942, Bill accepted a permanent job at the Ennis[...]manager of the hatchery. The family lived in the hatchery Isabelle and Harry "Bill" Baker.[...]for many y ears as HARRY W. "BILL" AND foreman and manager. ISABELLE L. (STOREY) BAKER[...]inia City, Mon- tana on April 6, 1913 to Olive L. and Harry W. Baker. His grade school education was received two years at Varney and six years at the Ennis school, graduating from Ennis High School i[...]lle L. Storey was born January 23, 1919 to Luther and Belle Storey at Cameron, Montana. She attended grade school at the Bear Creek School, Bozeman and Billings. High school education was received one year in Butte and three years at Ennis High School, graduating in 1936 from Ennis. "Bill" Baker and Isabelle Storey were married in Butte, Montana on[...]hem: Harry L. " Beezie" in 1939, Lois L. in 1943, and Daniel J. in 1954.[...] |
| dwelling from 1942 until September 1952 at which time the family moved to Cortland, New York where Bill att[...]ies Research School which involved fish nutrition and disease control and was operated in conjunction with Cornell Universi[...]ail was completed in August of 1953 at which time the family moved back to the Ennis hatchery where Bill resumed the management. By 1940, the Montana grayling had disappeared from the Madison River drainage. In 1945 a grayling research pro- gram was established at the hatchery and within 5 years the grayling had been re-established in the Madison River. A good population still remain, pa[...]n 1973, after 34½ years of creditable ser- vice, the family moved to Ennis where they still make their[...]Bud and Mary Ann, 1947.[...]In March 1941, Bud enlisted in the Air Force at Fort[...]graduated in August, 1942 and went overseas to England,[...]Tunisia, Sicily, Naples, Foggia, and Rome. He was with the[...]32nd Bomb Squadron 301st Bomb Group. He received the[...]the states in August, 1944. He was stationed at Fort[...]"Bud" went to work for the Montana Power Company and[...]1950, the same day that Bud's father had a heart attack in[...]Ennis and was taken to Butte. Vincent and Mary Ann mov- ed to Ennis to help with the Motel and Service Station. Bud went to work for the Telephone Company while taking over the Motel and Service Station. Their third daughter,[...]"Bud" was secretary and an active member of the[...]1957, and District Deputy South in 1970. He was a member VINCENT J. (BUD) AND MARY ANN BAKER of Veterans of Foreign Wars, a charter member of the Emergency Medical Technicians and helped operate the am- Vincent Joseph, son of Laurence ("L.J. ") Joseph and Nena bulance. Byrel Finch Baker was born Febru[...]Vincent suffered a heart attack in February, 1967 and had where the family, including an older sister Madeline Ellen,[...]ity. He passed lived. L.J. operated a lumber yard and did carpenter wprk. away June 12, 1973 afte[...]ptember 3, 1928, to Donald Edward carpenter work, and to Florida in the fall of 1925. They and Annie Isabell Thexton Neville at McAllister, Montana. returned to Ennis in the summer of 1930. Bud received most The family lived several places in the Madison Valley. Mary of his education in Cleveland. The family was in Ennis when Ann started school in Ennis in 1934. In 1943, the Nevilles he graduated in 1938. He helped his father in the service moved to Bozeman where Mary Ann attended high school station and the Riverside Motel, which they built. L.J. had a for half a year. She graduated from Ennis High School in contract to build a new gym and Bud noticed on the blue 1946. prints that the ceilings were too low to play basketball. He Mary Ann was active in grade school track meets and won went to the chairman of the school board and showed him the many blue ribbons. During her Junior and Senior years she mistake. The contract was thrown out and L.J. didn't get it played forward on the girls' basketball team. Following high when it wa[...]school graduation she worked as a waitress until her mar-[...] |
| [...]Earl I. Barnhart, 1949. Bud and family: Bud, Patty, Irene, Ellen and Mary Ann in 1954. the east. They then proceeded on to Hyattsville where[...]were located. Their children are: Irene McMahon and children, Chris, In 1914 Mr. Barnhart moved his family to Montana where Kimberely and Kara Leigh; Ellen Kreitzer and sons Aaron most of the Stalcups were then located. and Jake; and Patty Herman. The family traveled by wagon and drove a herd of 19 loose Mary Ann operated the motel for three years after Vin- horses. Earl and his sister herded them. It was quite an cent's death, then sold it. She then enrolled at Vo-Tech adventure for the children, with the loose horses finding an School in Billings and graduated as a Licensed Practical open gate into a farmer 's grain field, a front wheel on a Nurse. She has been employed at the Madison County Nurs· ,wagon losing its rim, to the trail tongue breaking, etc. Lynn ing Home• Enni[...]his mother on a wagon pulled by a large gentle She is a member of Madison Valley Women's Club and was team and his job was to jump out of the wagon and chuck a active in B.P.O. Doe's Lodge No. 77, Virg[...]n they stopped on a hill for as President in 1960 and 1970. She was District President in the horses to get their wind. This rock with the hand brake 1964. She was a member of the Ennis Chamber of Commerce enabled the horses to let their traces loose, and rest. The and the Ennis Commercial Club. She served seven years on same rock was carried the whole trip. the Chamber's board and two years as President of the com- Coming through Red Lodge, the boys' dad decided not to bined clubs.[...]y. After get- Mayor Bob Storey appointed her to the City Council where ting entangled with one lady's chicken run and another's she served four years. Mary Ann continues to enjoy her clothes line, he returned to main street and trotted the home in Ennis, with occasional visits to the homes of her caravan blithely through town. daugh[...]rnhart Family. Front: Sam, Lynn, Alta. Back: Irma and[...]Mary Ann Neville Baker EARL AND LYNN BARNHART The brothers Barnhart were both born in Hyattsville, |
| [...]Lynn worked on ranches and at logging and spent some time in the Butte mines. He graduated from the Ennis High[...]December 23, 1968 at the age of 60.[...]y camped about a mile this sid@ of Livingston for the midday meal only to discover that the dogs (2) had partaken of the biscuits usually reserved from breakfast for the noon lunch. The boys' father said he would ride back to Livingston and get a loaf of bread as he was also out of Horseshoe chewing tobacco. He mounted Irma's pony, Daisy, and left. The family set up noon camp and waited. About 45 minutes later a dust was seen coming up the road, Daisy trotted up to the wagons minus bridle and rider. Some time later a smaller dust was observed and a disgruntled Sam appeared with the missing bridle in one hand and a slightly crushed loaf of bread in the other and Jack and Ruth, 1982. some strong ideas regarding spoiled ponies who rubbed off their bridles. The kids ate the bread like it was cake and a very welcome change from the sourdough biscuits cooked in JACK F. AND RUTH (FAIN) BEALS the dutch oven. The boys got their schooling in Ennis and later in Twin Jack F., son of Harry and Lucy Beals, was born October Bridges. In 1920 when his father was killed on the Norris 30, 1907 at Jack Creek, which is eight miles east of Ennis. Hill, Earl quit school and hired out as a sheep lamber. He His father had acquired the forty acres in the late 1890's and worked as a farm hand and later as camp tender for different it had remained in the family until the early 1970's. sheep outfits. Later he hired on at the Elk Horn Guest Jack with two half-brothers, Everett and Clifford Watts, Ranch where he acted as scout and guide. He did lots of hunt- and Clyde, Bill and Alda Beals grew up here. These are all ing and trapping in the winter and spent some time in Butte deceased. in the mines. He was not able to get into the service due to a Jack attended school at Jack Creek, Jeffers and Ennis. leg injury when he was 18 years old. He never married and Those were the days of one room schools. Ben Krupp, Luella made[...]idowed sister on her ranch, three Pasley and Jack get together and talk about those old school miles east of Ennis, the last few years of his life. He died days. November 18, 1977.[...]Deer and elk were scarce when Jack was growing up and it Lynn was married twice, his first wife Helen McGuire took lots of hunting to get an animal. Now in 1981 deer, elk Barnhart was a native of the valley. They had a daughter, Sharon, born July 23, 1939, and now living in California. Jack Beals Jr., 15 years old. After their divorce, Lynn married Belle Brown Lawhead and they had seven children, three boys and four girls, all are liv- Lynn and first wife Helen, 1938.[...] |
| and antelope are plentiful. There was no scarcity of[...]ith bags of fish, which they canned or smoked, and which were much needed. Jack's father died in 1914. Jack can only remember one car at the funeral, the rest were horse drawn vehicles. His mother had a hard life supporting her family by cooking for ranches and working at various jobs.Jack was alone much of this time and his life was not easy either. Ruth Fain was born November 21, 1903 at Norris to Dr. T.J. and Margaret Earhart Fain. Ruth's father died in 1909[...]n sick for a year. Two little sisters: Florence 3 and Margaret 18 months had also died, all three in less than four- teen months. Mrs. Fain, William 12 and Ruth lived in Norris until 1912 L to R: Scott, Sally, John and Jack Jr, 1982. when Mrs. Fain took up a homestead, two and a half miles south of Norris, near the Hadzor ranch. It took money to graduated in 1962. He works for the IRS. He, Sally, and develop the homestead and with all the expense with the sons John (a dental labratory technician), and Scott born deaths, the money that Mrs. Fain's father had left her was September 28, 1962, all live at Lake Oswego, Oregon. Scott soon gone and hard times set in. They always had plenty to[...]d June 28, 1982. eat. There was a garden, a cow and chickens, although there was the time when all the chickens had to be killed and[...]ased. Ruth attended school at Norris through the first two years of high school then went to Wilsall where she graduated. She attended college at Dillon and then taught. Ruth remembers the time when Jimmy Shewmaker lost a big freight horse and he told William that he could have the hide if he wanted to skin it. William 13 and Ruth 9 took on the job and between tears, as it was cold and the horse was stiff and big, the job was finished. The hide brought a dollar. Jack and Ruth were married June 3, 1935. Their son, Jack Jr. was born May 28, 1936. They lived in Ennis the first four years of their marriage. These were hard times as there were few jobs but Ja-ck trapped and worked on WPA, so they had plenty to eat. Jack also hunted, so with wild meat and the garden produce from Matzick's garden, which they[...]ia helping her father feed cattle in 1927. a job and they moved up to Washington Bar. Jack oiled on the dredge and then winched, which was operating it. They moved[...]ke. In 1942 they moved to Seattle. Jack worked in the ship yards and Ruth worked for Civil Service and then Virginia, the youngest daughter of Mary Isabelle and in a play center, which was caring for working m[...]ber 4, 1922. Her elementary children. This was in the school just a block from their home school[...]Creek. She rode her Shetland pony there during good In 1[...]ad various jobs. weather. In winter months she joined her sister, Isabelle and The last one was working at the school, from which he retired the Hoag, Hutton and Hayden boys in a horse drawn sled for in 1970. the trip through the deep snow. When she was fourteen she Ruth worked at the Ennis Post Office for over twenty went to preparatory school in Albany, New York. The trip years and retired in 1966. Winifred Jeffers was the there took three days and three nights by train. After[...]graduating from St. Agnes she attended the University of postmaster.[...]Montana at Missoula where she was a member of Kappa Ruth is a Presbyterian and has served as an Elder, Kappa Gamma[...]reasurer, secretary, Sunday School superintendent and Sun- cisco where she worked for Pan American Airways. She mar- day School teacher.[...]Lehman Franklin Beardsley in September of 1946 at the She keeps busy with Senior Citizens, where she has served Trinity Episcopal Church in Jeff[...]khart, for five years as secretary, Womans ' Club and Bowling. Her Indiar.a and have a home in Jack Creek where they vacation summers are spent raising flowers and a ga_rden. each summer and fall. Lehman is a most enthusiastic fly Jack enjoyed hunting and fishing. His best fishing spots fisherman and the children enjoy ranch life while visiting were Axolotl and Elk Lakes. He got the most enjoyment at their grandmother "B[...]ith his friends. Virginia and Lehman have four children, the oldest being · Jack Jr. attended the Ennis school from 1945 and Jeffry Sumner, who lives in Elkhart with his wife Deborah graduated in 1954. He joined the Air Force and served four and two children, Christopher and Gretchen. He owns an op- years. In 1958 he, with his wife, Sally and baby John, born tical distributing compan[...]e 24, 1958, returned to Bozeman to attend college and he married to William Cecil Lyon.[...] |
| Virginia and Lehman Beardsley with their children and Chuck and Hannah Grandchildren. ticut. Rebecca teaches in a private school and lives in Cam- During his teenage years he worked on the Darnutzer Bennetts family - Chuck and Hannah with "Chick, "Jim and[...]Mary Isabelle Jeffers, Virginia, Deborah |
| [...]then in 1963 to Dillon, where they bought a home and he retired after over forty years service and Hannah retired from nursing at Parkview Nursing Home in 1972. Chuck is a member of the American Legion, and they are both in good health and active in Senior Citizens, social, civic, and entertainment programs at the Parkview Nursing Home.[...]several years exploring the west as a hunter and trapper, he married fourteen year old Lucy Ann Martin. Lucy's folks[...]me to Virginia City, Montana, by wagon train from the southwest during the gold rush days. Dock was thirty-four[...]Valley. In 1880, after they left their ranch and had moved to[...]In this country of miners, ranchers, Indians, and buffalo[...]and antelope skins, sewed, grew a garden which provided all food except flour and sugar. Her father raised the cattle. The children grew up learning how to do all the cho~es[...]necessary in a self sufficient pioneer life, and how to provide[...]own fun with games they invented, often including the ranch animals. Story telling, music, dances and "Roddie" with elk head.[...]NEST ("HODDIE") BENNETTS and cooking for a family of eight plus cowboys and[...]raised Morgan horses. He had some fine colts John and Hetty Bennetts at Varney. (page 19, Pioneer Trails part thoroughbred, and gave her a beautiful young horse and Trials.) He graduated from the eighth grade at the which she named "Flash." He could run like the wind and Varney School and at the death of his fath~r in 1920 he took jump anything. charge of the farming and stock-raising at the family farm at Julia loved to ride and helped with wild horse roundups, Wigwam Creek and was thus occupied until 1941 when he herding cattle and riding to the town of Toston, eighteen married Minnie Alger and he went into a fencing and wood- miles away, to get the mail. On the way to Toston the cutting venture with Clarence Woodward. He was a good Missouri River had to be forded, and Julia and her sister fisherman and hunter and spent much time at both. would wrap their skirts around their waists and let the In 1943 he took employment as sheep foreman for Cline horses swim the river. and Sinton at the Stoney Acres Ranch and in 1946 was employed by Bill Deneke at Manhattan in the same cal?acity. Julia and her brothers and sisters were educated at a one In the late forties he moved to the Horse Prairie area and room school six miles down the valley. They hitched a span worked at various ranches there until 1954 when he moved to of mules to the buck board for the drive in the spring and fall. Sheridan and made his home until his death in May of 1956. In the winter they went in a bobsled with heated rocks u[...]knew Jim Bridger as well as the cowboy artist, Charlie Russell, and he played the fiddle. Julia came to young[...]womanhood with a background of knowing the ways of the pioneers, Indians and ranchers supplemented by a school JULIA ANNETTA (BEMBRICK) BENNETT education and a capacity for plenty of fun.[...]At twenty-two she married Anson Bennett and they began Julia Bennett was one of four childr[...]ranching. Anson tired of ranching after awhile and turned to in Montana. Her father, Benjamin Frankl[...]keeping a store, building a railroad, and mining. The couple "Dock" had left Kansas when he was sixteen and after had two children, a boy, Don, and a girl, Marjorie. While the[...] |
| children were young, Julia separated from her husband and assumed the care of the children. When Don was fourteen, Julia moved to Bozeman so he could attend high school. She worked as a typist in the legislature, rented a large house and took in college roomers, and often hired out as a cook. Julia turned her hand to many things, but her greatest suc- cess was at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch on Taylor Fork, where she cooked for the crew and fixed up the cabins. Her capacity for this work led her into more and more respon- sibility at the ranch. One day a guest at the "Sun Ranch", as it had been renamed, suggested that Julia should have her own ranch. He would finance it if she would "find the spot". Julia found the spot up Jack Creek. By the time she acquired the property she considered ideal for a dude ranch, the crash of 1929 had taken place and her financier from Chicago was broke. Julia had to borrow money to scrape along. She had ideas and courage, both for building the ranch and for making "booking trips" to Chicago. It took ingenui- ty and hard work all the way, but Julia's resources of that type were abundant and she made the Diamond J Ranch, as she named it, one of the first, and most successful dude Jean and Ed Bigelow. ranches in the country. In the mid-thirties she started a ranch for the winter season near Tuscon, Arizona, the Dia- mond W. with booking trips to New York where her courage Montana and Ed worked at the Bear Creek Ranch for Alice and resourcefulness propelled her as it did in the west, she Orr. A poor living was made here, and Ed accepted a job of- managed to make all of her plans work. Her ranches drew fer on the Mojave Desert for a company mining tungsten. many people, often notable and wealthy, and provided for The family lived at Johannesburg, Calfornia where the first them a stirring, adventurous exciting example of the rugged daughter, Joyce was born in 1943. west; as stirring, adventurous, exciting as Julia herself. She A move in 1946 took them from the Mojave Desert to continued, into her 90 's, to ride, serve wonderful chow and Hayfork, California where Ed worked in the woods; later entertain all who came to see her, a true pioneer daughter of[...]odd jobs and did ditch work with a dragline for Earl Larsen[...]Sherry Merica tana a few years later and bought a home at ,Jeffers,[...]Montana from Rev. Sam Fletcher, the minister that had mar-[...]ried them. ED AND JEAN BIGELOW Ed was born May 25, 1912, at Lead[...]children in 1951 - Clifford, Clyde, Ernie, |
| [...]-- - Clarice and Bob Brooks wedding September 24, 1954. Taken in the Trinity Church at Jeffers, Montana. Ed worked for Sonny Jackson several years doing ditch teacher'and has been substituting ever since. She is also an |
| [...]ayle Brownell, is a bio- In December, 1977, Bob and Clarice became grandparents chemist doing research at U.S.C. of a granddaughter, Shani Noel and in November, 1979, a grandson Joel Robert, children of Kristi and Quentin Roesner.[...]Clarice W. Brooks Ralph and Harriette Bro wnell - Summer, 1976.[...]Maria Ellen "Rye " Burger. Ralph A. Brownell was born in North Dakota, September DANIEL ELMER AND MARIA ELLEN (WHITNEY) |
| in May 1901 and moved to the Clarks Fork River Country at as line foreman[...]942 when he was drafted in- Rockvale, Montana. At the time they left they had their 3 to the U.S. Army. He served 3 years during World War II at month old daughter, Mabelle, with them. In June 1904 their North Africa and Italy. He was honorably discharged as a twin daughters, Amy and Esther, were born at the family Tech Sergeant in 1946. After his return to the States, he and home at Rockvale. In 1916 they settled on their ranch home Hetty bought the farm at Varney from Hetty's mother. A (Peaceful Heart Ranch) at the foot of the Pryor Mountains, son, James Leonard, was born in 1950, he is unmarried and on the Crow Indian Reservation.[...]Ennis; a daughter, Judy Marie, was born in 1953, she Daniel died there in September 1939 and Maria Ellen died is married to Dwayne Roedel.[...]Hetty and Frank resided at their ranch until Frank's un-[...]timely death on January 18, 1963. Hetty and her children Amy Orser Swoboda, granddaughter then sold their ranch and moved to Ennis. Hetty has been[...]Judy Roedel Frank and Hetty Carlson[...]and Mrs. A.L. Chamberlin. Hetty Milroy[...]ry 24, |
| [...]L ewis and Gladys Chamberlin - 1978. Edwin N. Ch[...]and dry goods clerk. On April 9, 1923 he and Gladys M.[...]d. They have had a home in Ennis since years when she retired. She and Leonore Chamberlin had that time. Their son Norman Hugh, and daughters, Doris been schoolmates in Fertile, Minnesota. Clara died May 7, Marilyn, and Freda Louise were born here. 1974.[...]s a graduate of Montana After Tony retired from the railroad work, he was a State College, who worked for 27 years for the Secret Ser- maintenance helper in Yellowstone Par[...]He has a family of three girls, Julie, Linda and Donna. Edwin (Tony's son) retired from National Park Service as Doris was born January 25, 1927. She graduated from assistant Chief of personnel in 1976. He is the father of three Ennis High School and attended Wes tern Montana College children and grandfather of one. He and Tony live in Liv- for two years. She married Howard P. Barnett, June 17, ingston, Mont[...]1951. They are the parents of 3 daughters, Vurnie Kay, Holly[...]Winifred Jeffers Ann and Angie Lee.[...]school in Ennis she graduated from Montana State College[...]in accounting. She was married to Jerome "Jerry" Toner on[...]June 1, 1957, and they have one son and four daughters. LEWIS A. AND &'LADYS MAY (THEXTON) Wm[...]CHAMBERLIN and Brenda. Lewis ran a gas station, and for 10 years was manager of Lewis was born in Anoka, Minnesota October 30, 1899 to the Farmers Union in Ennis. He spent 3 winters in Death Edwin A. and Minnie Louise Chamberlin. He had an older Valley in the employment of Pacific Ore Co. Following that brother Anthony L. (Tony) and two younger sisters, Grace he worked in Anaconda for the Anaconda Company for H . and Dorothy. Both sisters are deceased. several years. Upon retiring he took up some civic duties in Lewis came to Montana i[...]mother. His Ennis. He was Justice of the Peace for 5 years, and City father had come ahead and was employed on the ranch of Judge for 3 years. He served 15 years as Secretary of the En- Will Ennis, who raised cattle and horses. In particular, Ed nis Commercial Club and 14 years as Treasurer of the local Chamberlin took care of Will Ennis' race horse, Dyke. The Masonic Lodge. first home of the Chamberlins was the building which is now Gladys Thexton Chamberlin was one of a family of 4 boys the city library. and 2 girls. She was born September 29, 1903 in Virginia There was no school in Ennis, at that time, so the children City, Montana. Her parents were Thomas and Mary Ann walked to Jeffers to school. They attended Sunday School in (Foreman) Thexton. She attended the Varney School 3½ Jeffers and one Sunday when it was hot they decided to go miles south of the Thexton ranch. She walked to school with swimming in one of the ponds near the river. When dressing her older brothers, Tom and Bill. School was only a 5 month they got their starched collars on backward. When they term in the summer months. To complete her grade school retur[...]ther asked if they were on time for work, she came to Ennis. The Thexton children took the job Sunday School. They said they had been, but after swimm- of cleaning the school rooms and building the fires. They had ing they weren't sure how the collars went on, so they put a Model T Ford that they drove to school. Ennis is 6 miles them on the way the minister wore his. north of the Thexton Ranch. Gladys graduated from The Ennis School District No. 52 was formed in 1902.[...]an High School in 1923. 1918 Lewis Chamberlin was the lone graduate of the Ennis Gladys worked 6 ye~s as cook and laundress at the two year High School. Madison Valley Hospital. She worked for Belle Jeffers at the[...] |
| [...]year he went to work for the Fish and Wildlife Service at the[...]retired. At this time Ed is a fishing guide on the Madison[...]Ed and family, at this time, plan to remain in Ennis.[...]Merrilyn L. Clark Lewis and son Norman Chamberlin. Valley Trading Post 10 years and eight years for Storrs |
| "Lady" with Beverly Clark, Monty Jackson {grandson), Ellen and Pamela Clark about 1957. Alaska doing carpenter[...]64. With those excep- |
| [...]"Bunk", Chuck, Ray, Bea and Grandson Jason, Dec., 1980.[...]Bunk enjoys golfing and is a stamp collector, he also en- joys hunting, fishing and little "panning for gold". Bunk and Bea Clark on wedding day, December 8,[...]Bea Bybee Clark Belgium and Germany along with his brothers Clarence and W[...]rk, December 12, 1980. Gladys and Roy Daems in 1929.[...] |
| [...]Daems, one of the first medical Doctors and Pharmacists in[...]Early childhood was spent between Virginia City and the Madison Valley, where the Daems brothers had land at[...]Varney. When Paul Daems became employed by the Elling Power Plant on Spring Creek, the family settled permanently in the Valley. Two brothers, Jim and Roy, and a sister,[...]Laura, were born in Varney. Laura died at the age of four. The Daems children attended the Varney school with all the neighboring children from several miles around.[...]Teachers and school terms were not always on schedule, but[...]Tony kept on until he finished the eighth grade, at the age of[...]t that time there was no high school in Ennis, so the[...]school. They lived in a house owned by the family ·and "batched". Tony attended for two years and stopped because he felt too old to be in school with students so much[...]younger. He loved to study and pursued learning to the end of his life. Gladys and Roy Daems ' 50th Wedding Anniversary - 1978. In the years following, Tony worked with his father at the power plant, on the family ranch, a_nd at an)'.'thing av~ab~e.[...]und an mterest m ScandmaVIan Roy has spent his life ranching. He learned rather young, languages, and with the help of a Swedish frien~. bec~me to care for she[...]ather with his small herd. able to write poems and letters that were published m a Later on, he worked for Tom Call with haying and sheep- Swedish-American newspaper. This started a lifetime of cor- raising. At that time all ranch work was done with respondence with people all over the United States and horsedrawn machinery. The depression hit when Roy was at Sweden. Later he became efficient in Norwegian and stud- the Call "Stony Acres" Ranch. He worked for $1.00 a day. ied Danish and Icelandic. when he met a problem in Scrip- Roy also worked for Vic Clark, who had sheep. When the ture, he settled it by turning to his No[...]anized he worked on a crew that built a road into the Federal Hatchery, in the Varney area, and also work- During the depression of the '30's, Tony worked on ~he[...]Fish Hatchery grade with the other men of the commuruty, ed on the Hatchery Buildings. Things got better, and Roy and later, at the hatchery itself for several years. When was hired to take spawn at fish traps on Spring Creek, O'Dell Creek and at Madison Lake. There was a gold dredge on World War II began, Tony was drafted and was a far as Fort[...]discharge because he had had a North Meadow Creek and he worked there until World War[...]typhoid when in his 20's. II caused a shut down. The Daems' father, Paul, ans sons Roy and Jim, started ranching together. This joint endeavor Settled on the home ranch in partnership with father and continued until Roy retired in 1978 brothers, Tony worked, studied, preached, and reached out[...]with letters. His love of poetry and talent for writing Roy and Gladys have two daughters, Merrilyn, born June[...]ht contact with.like-minded people in many places and 3, 1932 and Lois, born September 2, 1939. They also have two grandsons, Dan and David Miller and a step-grandson, eventually a major change in his life. Jerry Clark. In 1950 the Montana Institute of Arts, persuaded the Governor to proclaim Montana Poets ' Day, and local poets Roy and Gladys bought a house from the Hatchery and were invited to bring their works to the local newspapers for moved it to the ranch. Roy suffered a stroke, on the return[...]written by a woman in Libby, Montana, and a cor- his activities have been limited since th[...]lted in their marriage a _ye~ Gladys worked in the Ennis Post Office wheI? Mrs. later It was a beautiful and happy union that lasted until his Chowning was Postmaster. She was a school bus driver on death 18 years later in 1969. His widow, Margaret, still lives the Varney bus for four years and worked in the Post Office in the Varney area. after she got to Ennis, and until time to take the Varney[...]ing in Hamilton, Libby, on Noxon children home in the evening. Now, she dresses dolls, and Rapids Dam, Superior, and West Yellowstone, but Tony's makes knitted and crocheted outfits for them, for the Salva- heart was in the Madison Valley and here he returned when tion Army and Shodair Hospital to give to some loving child.[...]ill health compelled. At last count she had dressed over 300 and she still enjoys the work. She also makes beautiful quilts and because she is Tony passed away at the Madison Valley Hospital i~ Ma:y, a member of the Madison Valley Woman's Club she helps at 1969 and rests in the Virginia City Cemetery beside his the "Nearly New Shoppe" when needed.[...]orn on a ranch along Wolf Creek south son of Paul and Hattie Daems, in Virginia City, Montana. of Cameron on August 19, 1920. Her parents, Rollo S. and The middle name was for his grandfather, Dr. L[...] |
| [...]heir family ... Rolla Ruth, Kristi, Susan, Kelly, and Tracy Davis. When they sold this ranch, the Davises moved to Big Timber and Robert started to work for the Forest Service.[...]ment for the Forest Service. Three years later Robert was[...]reassigned to Plains where they now live and Robert con- tinues to work for the Forest Service.[...]Harold Tuttle is retired and lives in Kent, Washington.[...]Helen Tuttle Conrad died in 1974 at the age of 52 in Seattle,[...]Betty's mother passed away in 1933 in Ennis and her[...]OSCAR V. AND RUBY (SMITH) DA VIS B etty and Robert Davis[...]Oscar V. Davis was born July 26, 1880 and Ruby Smith[...]n June 12, 1886. They were married on children in the family were an older sister and brother, November 8, 1905, at the new Trinity Episcopal Church in Velma and Harold and a younger sister Helen, who was born Jeffers. They were the first proud couple to be married in in 1922.[...]Bible which is still in the family today. Oscar and Ruby lived Betty moved with her family to Ennis when she was about in several places in the Madison Valley. At one time they four years old. She attended Ennis schools through grade[...]nice ranch near Cameron which was recently owned and high school. After she attended Northwestern Business[...]er. College in Spokane, Washington for two years, she returned to Ennis to visit and met Robert Davis. They were married Oscar had two brothers, Jim and Bunyon. Bunyon went on October 1-5, 1940 in Bozeman, Montana. They worked at into the service when young, and was killed in France in the Meadowbrook Ranch in Manhattan for Lester Thompso[...]for his country. for a short time, then moved to the Madison to work at the Oscar was a farmer most of his life but also worked at the Jumping Horse Ranch. Several years later, they moved to Higbee Sawmill in South Meadow Creek around the year Roscoe, Montana to work for the Mackay brothers. 1903. In 1947 Robert's parents, Ethel and Paul Davis, purchased The Davis family moved to Olympia, Washington in 1923, a ranch north of Big Timber. Robert and Betty leased this due to Oscar's ailing health. It is said they were leaving ranch and spent the next fifteen years ranching and raising Montana to go to sunny California when[...]Olympia to visit their friends, Emmett and Ada Thornton.[...]so much they decided to travel no further The fi ve children of Betty and Robert Davis. and made this area their permanent home. Oscar and Ruby had eight children who were all born in[...]ased infant), Leone, Dorothy, Adelbert (deceased) and[...]Oscar died January 7, 1941 and Ruby died November 12,[...]ED AND PEARL DOYLE[...]Ed Doyle was born in Eagle Grove, Iowa to William and[...] |
| [...]In 1965 Ed sold his truck and trailer and bought a swather and other haying equipment. He hayed from the Sun Ranch, Ed and Pearl Doyle Wedding, March 31, 1929. south of Cameron to the Watkins ranch on Ennis Lake.[...]Later he bought a large tractor and plowed and did commer- took a homestead. Ed had three brothers, William Jr., Tom cial farming. When the crops were ready for harvest Ed had and Fred, four sisters, Helen, Ethel, Joy and Audrey. the job of combining the grain, and on some ranches he work- Ed went to a country[...]he worked ed with Charles Stoltz in baling, and stacking the baled hay. with his Dad on a farm. In the years 1974 and 1975 he leased the Lawrence Jeffers Pearl Stewart was born in Maxwell, North Dakota to Nor- farm land and worked on a 60-40 share basis. man and Elsie Stewart on September 4, 1906. In 1909 her Ed and Pearl are charter members of the Baptist Church. parents moved to Alberta, Canada, where her dad had a On March 31, 1979 Ed and Pearl celebrated their 50th homestead. Her folks[...]ov- Wedding Anniversary with an Open House at the Masonic ed to Montana. She had six brothers, Edgar, Kenneth, Temple given to them by Marvin and Bea Stewart, Norman Archie, Joe, Norris and Norman (twins). and Lois Stewart. This was a memorable occasion for t[...]ough grade school, then to Calgary to high school and Normal School. She taught school in southern Alberta, then in the Peace Pearl Doyle River Country. In 1928 she taught east of Edmonton in a country school near Vermilion, Alberta where she met Ed Doyle.[...]LAWRENCE (LARRY) DUNN Ed and Pearl were married March 31 , 1929 in Vermilion, Alberta. Due to hard times and drought, they came to Ennis, Larry Dunn was[...]ght Creek Montana to her folks in December, 1929, and they have resid- in Virginia City in 1884. His[...]r several Dunn, was born in Missouri in 1851. She was the oldest years.[...]e started a trucking business with two, 2-ton the Madison Valley". trucks and trailers. He hauled stock to many parts of the Jane and Marion Dunn came to Ennis in 1873 when their country. He also hauled sand, gravel and grain. Later he oldest child was three. They had eight children with sold these outfits and bought a larger truck and trailer. Lawrence being the youngest. Later, she married Alva Along with trucking in 1959, he bought a swather and cut Parke and had two more children. In 1935 five were still liv- hay and grain for ranchers, also combined grain. ing. Larry lived in[...]ewart, a nephew came to live with them Varney, and Dolly Weingart, Sadie Wilcox, and Olive Parke when he was a small child. He made hi[...]- Richmond, lived in Virginia City. Olive is the only one still til he graduated from high school[...]ice Duke. Larry started playing poker in the saloons of Virginia City They have three children, Debra, Miles and Kassie. Marvin at the age of 12. To use his own words, he was " unlucky now resides in Dillon, Montana and is the owner of the OK enough to win. " He soon became a professional gambler and Tire Shop. saloon keeper. Starting about 1900 and ending in 1942, he Pearl was a bookkeeper at the Chevrolet Garage from 1955 ran about four different bars in Ennis. to 1964 when the garage closed. She worked at the Ford Larry was married twice, first to Eva Williams, and second Garage from 1964 to 1967 when it closed. In 1970 and 1971 to Ella Lewis, a registered nurse and two boys resulted from she worked as Cashier at Bettie's Cafe for Betty Shae[...]her brother Norman has been in business in Ennis she Dick in 1919, and Clay in 1922. In World War II, Horace has been his bookkeeper up to the present time. (1982). was in the Marines, Wes was in the Navy, Dick was in the[...] |
| Lawrence and EUa Lewis Dunn in 1917 - Wedding picture. Air Force, and Clay was in the Merchant Marines. |
| Ryegate, Montana with their four sons and two daughters, degree requirements at the University of Washington and and where Betty teaches. Jess and wife live in Nevada. He Columbia University. She married Diggle I. Emerick in manages a ranch. John and wife, with two sons, live in Ken- 1920. He died i[...]Following four years as a teacher at Conrad, she joined the Purchasing for Battelle Corporation. Paul and his partner WMC staff in 1925 and chaired the art department until manage an independent airport in the Portland area. He and retiring in 1968. his wife have three children, and live in Aloha, Oregon. An- At that time she was accorded the rank of professor of art nette and husband live in Twin Bridges, where he is a teacher emeritus by Montana University System regents in and coach. Annette works for the soil and water conserva- acknowledgement and appreciation of her "personal interest tion distr[...]nts, her encouragement of their potential talents and completed a tour of duty with the Air Force at Little Rock, the teaching, counseling and guidance which she unselfishly Arkansas, where he and his wife still live. He operates heavy provided t[...]lege." equipment. Jeannette lives with her father and is a junior in Mrs. Emerick was a teacher member and life associate of Film and T.V. studies at M.S.U. the WMC Foundation and, prior to her death, had establish- Seven of the eight furthered their education after high ed a $[...]Emerick passed away in September of 1981 and has willed Each year the children meet at their Dad's to swap stories two trusts to the college which she served for over four and share dreams.[...]College officials said the exact total of those bequests is[...]yet to be determined but initial estimates place the figure at[...]Mrs. Emerick's outstanding guidance and individual atten-[...]uring her forty-three years at Western, that love and generosity will now be perpetuated to the advantage of[...]untless art scholars throughout decades to come." The[...]olarship program will be inaugurated in 1982 with the[...]award of sixteen $1,000 grants to both beginning and contin-[...]tana College as the result of this major bequest from a[...]Dayton, Ohio. His mother died, and Mr. Long couldn't care for the sickly baby, so Gertrude and Tom Finley adopted[...]November 1923 the Finleys lived with the Elmer Kurfiss'[...]school. After Tom's death in 1934, Gertrude and Junior Mary Baker Emerick, M.A. 43 years at Western moved back to the Kurfiss' and Junior started sixth grade in Montana Colle[...]and Johnny Reints. During shearing he helped Belle Je[...]John Ritchie, and R. Hippe. During harvest he helped Tim[...]BAKER) EMERICK Crandall and the Paugh boys. He worked for the State[...]Mary Baker Emerick was born at Lyon, Montana, the with the Grauman brothers, Ron McCausey, Homer Wekkin, daughter of Madison County pioneers. Her father, Jacob H. and the Armstrong boys, helped Jack Northway clean the Baker, came to Virginia City in 1864 from Virginia and he cemetery. Many's the time they'd dance all night at some and Mary's mother, Julia Harriet Dudley of Roanoke, hall in the valley, come home for breakfast at Gertrude's and Virginia were married in 1897. A brother, Thomas D. was work all Sunday. In winter the same group and their sisters born November 6, 1899 and Mary was born January 18, played Rook o[...]s Armstrong's or Gertrude's. three years old and the family moved to Butte where her While living with the Sam Ulmstead's in Jeffers he would mother had a[...]was cared for by her split wood, clean and rake yards, spade gardens and was brother. She graduated from Butte High School and earned janitor for the Woodman Halls and Episcopal Church. a Bachelor of Pedagogy degree[...]panied Rev. Harold Wilson, mal College) in 1920. She later complete B.A. and M.A. Episcopal Priest, to Virginia[...] |
| [...]THOMAS M. AND GERTRUDE D. FINLEY[...]in Sidney, Ohio on June 20, 1881 to Amanda and Samuel[...]Tom and Gertrude met and were married and lived in[...]Dayton, Ohio where Tom worked in a clothing store and Ger-[...]ir infant boy "Junior " whom they had adopted, to the Madison Valley and lived with the Elmer Kurfiss ' on their[...]Varney ranch until they found jobs with Wightman and Lawton as farm hand and cook. Later Tom helped build the telephone line across the Jack Creek Bench. Still later they[...]worked for the Tom Call Ranch. Tiring of ranch work, they[...]moved to Butte in 1929 where Tom worked in the Anselmo[...]In the summer of the same year, Gertrude moved back to the Madison Valley and lived with the Kurfisses again. From time to time she worked as a cook on different[...]ranches, one of which was the Jumping Horse. Eventually she and Junior moved in with her parents Sam and Amanda[...]Shroyer and lived at his place on Ennis Lake until her death[...]in 1950. She, Tom and Clark are all buried in the Madison Albert "Junior " Pinley, age 7, 1[...]Albert Finley Whitehall and Pony. In 1938 Gertrude married Clark B. Shroyer. In 1941 Junior enrolled at Montana State College and also served 3 years in the Marines. In 1945 he married Ruth 0. Smith of Bozeman, who died in 1946. He spent the summer of 1947 in Alaska. He graduated from college in 1948, and taught for 18 years in Cht>teau where he married[...], 1949. They have three children: Trudee, Allene, and Tom. In 1966 they moved to Spokane, Washington where Pauline has been an elementary school secretary and Junior High School biology teacher.[...]Pinley Family, 1978: Trude, Allene, Tom, Pauline and Albert Jr.[...]Mr. and Mrs. Simon Krauss, with Dave age 11 , John age 8,[...]Flora and Lewis came to Montana from Colorado in 1908.[...]for a time at the Curteman ranch at Cameron, then moved to[...]Alder in the Ruby Valley. Here Louise Elsie was born June[...]and his responsibilities and took off for Colorado again. The[...] |
| [...]ve Loertcher, had a ranch. Mrs. Krauss kept house and worked at various ranches in the Madison Valley. On July 20, 1918 she married John Hugel and lived in Ennis until her death in 1934. Louise[...]llege (later Western Montana Col- lege) in Dillon and began her career as a rural school teacher at Var[...]a. After two years at McAllister, Madison County, she taught the Cowan school in Park Coun- ty. She met and married Bert Gibson and taught at various other Park County schools. She was again teaching at the Cowan school when a tragic automobile accident took her life November 7, 1958. Louise Elsie Krauss and Gilbert Rae Gibson were married at Preston, Idaho[...]zer May 8, 1943; John Lewis, May 25, 1946. These and seven Gibson, Madge 'Switzer Walker, Kathryn Martin Clare. grandchildren, which she never saw, are her legacy of life. David married Carol Smith of Cincinnati, Ohio. They have three children: David John, Leslie Ann and Keri Louise and live in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Susan married David On November 6, 1932 she married John Clyde Kneedler of Schlechten of Boze[...]Pony, Montana. They lived in Pony, Jeffers and Virginia Ci- tian and Jana Louise and live in Hamilton, Montana. John ty. These were depression years and one went wherever married Cheryl Peterson of Livingston, Montana and they employment could be found. In 1935 they moved to Helena have Brian David and Jason Lewis and live in Tempe, where Clyde was employed by the Montana Water Conserva- Arizona.[...]tion Board until his death in 1961. She continued to live there until 1962. The Kneedlers were parents of three[...]ibson Arizona; David Clyde, December 20, 1938; and Gregory[...]grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. From 1948 until 1962 she was employed by the Montana Highway Patrol in BERT AND PATTI (SWITZER) GIBSON[...]On June 23, 1962 she married Gilbert Rae Gibson, a Patti Naomi Switzer, youngest child of M.A. and Lena Shields River rancher, father of D[...]lorence Gilmer Switzer was born February 3, 1912. She attended and John Lewis Gibson, making Patti grandmother to seven grade school at Jeffers for six years. The school was con- more children. In 1969, they sold the ranch and moved to solidated with Ennis and her education was continued there, Clyde Par[...]ng graduating from high school in 1929. That fall she enrolled the winter months they reside in Black Canyon City, at the University of Montana but the following two years at- Arizona. tended Monta[...]Patti is proud to be a member of the Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers, and the Oro Fino Chapter, Helena, Mon- Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gibson tana of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She treasures the memories of the years spent on the Madison[...]homesteaded in the lower Madison Valley in 1864. Many of the original buildings are still standing there. Patt[...]father, born in 1812, was 100 years older that she, who is his[...]HERBERT J. AND ANORA U. (MITCHELL) GOETZ[...]Herbert J., son of Ludwig and Elizabeth Goetz was born[...]1913. He received his elementary and high school education[...]in Dodge, North Dakota, and received his B.A. Degree at[...]at the University of Montana in Missoula and received his[...] |
| [...]Jim, Patricia Goetz Tavenner and Michael Goetz. Children of Herb and Anora.[...]Anora U. Goetz was born to Joseph Frank and Susan Mit- Herbert J. Goetz[...]l, September 17, 1911, at Mantador, North Dakota. She attended schools in Mantador, Douglas, and Verona, North Dakota. She attended school in Sauk Centre, Minnesota and graduated from high school there. She attended the College He taught school in North Dakota for seven years and in of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota from 1929 to 1932 and 1938 he married Anora U. Mitchell of Verona, North Dakota, received a Kindergarten-Primary Certificate. She taught and that year moved to Ismay, Montana, where he was a school in Dunn County, North Dakota until she married in teacher, coach, and superintendent for eight years. In 1946 1938. he moved with the family to Ennis, Montana where he ac- Anora has been a member and Past President of the cepted a position as superintendent of the Madison Valley Madison Valley Woman's Club since 1949. She is an active Consolidated Schools. After thirteen[...]igned his member of St. Patrick's Altar Society and is an auxiliary position in 1959, and accepted a job as salsman and state member of the Madison County Nursing Home. manager in Montana with the Hillyard Chemical Company, Three children were born to Herb and Anora at Miles City, and retired in 1976. Montana. All three children received their elementary and After his retirement he served as mayor of Enni[...]active in educational born February 10, 1941 and after graduation from high organizations and served as a board member and State Presi- school, she attended the college of St. Catherine in St. Paul, dent of the Montana Education Association, and as a direct- Minnesota and also the Montana State University at or and State President of the Montana High School Bozeman. She was the Valedictorian of the Ennis Class of Association. He was an executive member of the National 1959. She was elected as Governor of Girl's State and High School Association. Herb was interested in Fish and delegate to Girl's Nation in Washington, D.C., in 1958. She Wildlife management and was an officer and President of the was Freshman Princess at the annual winter carnival at St. Madison Valley Sportsman's Club. He was a charter Catherine and was Home Coming Queen at MSU in 1961. member, officer, and President of the Ennis Lions Club. He On December 30, 1961 Pat married Dean Tavenner of has been a member of the Elk's Lodge for 23 years. Deer Lodge, an Ennis music and English teacher. Dean is[...]Butte, Missoula, and Kalispell. Three children were born to Herb and Anora Goetz them, Perrin, Gregor, and Nicole. They presently live in En-[...]James H. was born Novemer 15, 1942 and was Valedic- torian of the Ennis Class of 1961 and attended Montana State University in Bozeman and received a B.A. Degree in[...]ty Law · School and graduated from there in 1968 with an[...]Septemviri, senior men's honorary, a member of the Varsity Debate Team, and Editor of the EXPONENT. He also serv- ed as President of Sigma Chi Fraternity and on the Student[...]Senate. He is presently practicing law with the firm of Goetz, Madden, and Dunn in Bozeman.[...]graduate of MSU and is active in Loft Theatre productions[...]Bozeman. Two children were born to them, Thaddeus and[...] |
| [...]ry 24, 1944. He attended Montana State University and was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. After two years he transferred to the University of Min- nesota Medical School and graduated there with a degree in Medicine. While in medical school, he spent six weeks at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and six weeks in Lon- don, England at the Royal Post Graduate Medical School. He interned at the Los Angeles County University Medical ~enter. Michael worked in various hospitals in the L.A. area m emergency wards. The past eight years he has been Direc- tor of Emergency Services at the Verdugo Hills Hospital, Glendale, Caifornia. He lives in the Hollywood Hills near Studio City, California.[...]Shirley Jeffers as a freshman. ARIE AND TJITSKJEN GREYDANUS |
| [...]-owner of a livestock market. They are members of the St. Marks Episcopal Church and she was involved in helping with the Red Cross blood mobile, PTA, 4-H, Cancer drive, and church activities. They live north of Simms, Mont[...]ir three children live in Montana; their daughter and son- in-law, Greta and Dick Siess, and their three boys, Klint, Ryan, and Kale in Belegrade. Their son, Dave, and his wife Vicki live on the ranch near Simms with their two sons Jake and Derek. Their son, Gary and his wife Lynda, and their son Brett, live on the Jo Jeffers ranch near Jeffers. Lawrence Jeffers passed away in November 1976, at the age of 87. Jo Jeffers died December 23, 1982, at the age of 89. S[...]Lois Hadzor Harkonen when she graduated[...]Lois taught Sunday School and was very active at St.[...]also active in the Butte Figure Skating Club where both[...]daughters, Lonnye and Wendy skated and went on to do ex-[...]Lois was a counselor and practical nurse at Galen from |
| [...],, Eleanor, Harold, Rose, Evelyn and Nels Haldorsen - Paul worked for Owens at Meadow Creek, then for Ralph |
| Harold and M el Helt - their 50th Wedding Anniversary -[...]The summer of 1928 Scott and Linn worked on the Valley[...]ught being Mother Advisor one term. Harold was on the Board of the Ray Smith ranch, situated about ten miles east of[...]high in the foothills of the Jack Creek bench. Harold was an active member in the Ennis Commercial There for the next sixteen years the family engaged in Club, which has now been joined by the Ennis Chamber of sheep ranching. Commerce. The Club was instrumental in getting the town Scott married Lucy Emily Kidder, daughter of Mr. and of Ennis Incorporated. Chas. E . M. Bauer was ele[...]ctober 27, 1940. Dr. Alfred first Mayor of Ennis, and was followed by Harold who served Franklin Sm[...]er perform- four, two year terms. Under his terms the sewer and water ed the ceremony at the Kid~er residence in Tenafly, New systems were put in. The council and mayor served without Jersey. A!ter ~ brief honerrooon in New York City, Scott pay and were able to leave a surplus in the treasury upon the brought his bnde back to the ranch in Montana where they ending of their terms[...]ved for thirty years. Mel has been a member of the Episcopal Church in Jeffers for many years and is an active member and worker of the Scott and Lucy first met in October, 1939 where she came Trinity Guild. to the valley to visit a close friend Ann Wilsey Hoag wi[...]Lindley Hoag Jr. and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J~es A. Both Harold and Mel support the Senior Citizens Club. Wilsey, formerly of[...]eman, Scott Varney Hoag Jr, was orgaruzed. Harold also goes and calls Bingo for the November 7, 1941; Mansfield Kidder Hoag, December 23, residents of the Madison County Nursing Home in Ennis. 1943; and David Murray Hoag, July 11, 1948. One of the highlights in their lives was October 3, 1971 . High altitude baking and canning on a wood range, churn- when approximately 200 relatives and friends helped them mg butter, feeding bum lambs, etc. and coping with every- celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary at the Masonic day problems which are an integra[...]couples were invited to dinner at exciting and challenging. the Sportsman's Lodge, followed by a dance. An ex-sister-in- law (G~ace McCaul) and her husband, Gene Trassello came In 1944 the sheep were sold. Scott and Lucy bought the from Albuquerque, New Mexico to be at the affair. ranch and became engaged in cattle ranching. Linn and Ann[...]near Bozeman. They had two children: a son, Mel and Harold were saddened.to receive word a few weeks ago that Grace had passed away. She and her husband had Scott and Lucy's home in Ennis. planned to attend their 60t[...], 1981. Th~ Helts have known what hard work is, and lean times, a~d sickness, but they are miniscule compared to the happy trmes they have had together.[...]River Falls, Min- nesota October 24, 1908. He was the son of Lindley Murray and Louise Tyson Hoag. They soon moved to Minneapolis[...]three children: Mary Elvene, Lindley Murray Jr., and Scott with them. In 1919 a fourth child Ro[...] |
| [...]the United States Air Force, serving as navigator on[...]Kong, Honolulu and San Francisco. Lucy 's brother, Amos[...]Hoag and wife Mary Lou was delightful.[...]An unexpected and sudden heart attack took Scott's life July 15, 1977. Dr. Hugh Leslie flew Lucy and David over the[...]beautiful mountains to scatter Scott's ashes over the ranch where their life had begun. On October 1, 1978 Hal Pasley and Lucy Hoag were joined in marriage by the Rev. William C. Hamm at Trinity[...]Lucy Hoag Pasley Scott and Lucy Hoag. James Murray Hoag, born July 4, 1950; and a daughter |
| [...]Prank Hungerford and nephew Ken Card. rigator and general ranch work. He loved to play his guitar[...]and banjo and often played for country dances. He was also |
| [...]George and Ruth Hungerford's 50th Wedding Anniver-[...]They sold their homestead and bought a home in Ennis and George worked for Harold Helt driving truck. He then George and Ruth Hungerford wed- was employed at the Valley Garden Ranch by Wetmore ding[...]In 1939 more work was done at the Blain Spring Fish Hat- Phyllis was born December 30, 1933. She married Douglas chery and George was made foreman. This construction was Woirhaye and has three children. They lived at Littleton, eventually turned to a W.P.A. project and George as made Colorado where Douglas was field c[...]busy munications Inc. out of their Denver office and while setting cooking at Baker's Cafe and taking care of the family. up a cable TV system in Knoxville, Tennes[...]In 1941 George was employed as foreman at the old Tom fatal heart attack. Phyllis still lives in Littleton and workf' Call Stony Acres Ranch for Cline and Sinton. They had for a tax accounting firm. 6,000 sheep and at times 1,500 Mexican steers. When this Vivian was born February 7, 1935. She married Leland ranch sold in the fall of 1944 George and Ruth purchased the Olsen and has two children and three grandchildren. They Ennis Bakery and Fountain which they operated until reside on their ranch in East Helena Valley and "Lee" works George entered the armed services, and sold at this time and as operating engineer on heavy construction. Ruth went back to cafe cooking for the next twelve years. The first summer that Ruth and George were married they George completed his hitch in the Army and followed con- worked for Tom Call and homesteaded 400 acres of stockrais- struction work until 1956 when he and Ruth took employ- ing land at Dry Hollow where they built their first home and ment with the Montana Power Company as caretakers at that fall fenced the property. Hebgen Dam and while there, experienced the 1959 earth- They worked for Ringling Bros. Bear Creek Ranch where quake which took 29 lives and made many changes in the they were at outlying sheepcamps with Ruth cooking for the landscape in the Hebgen area including the formation of men and at one time George and Ruth both cooked at the Earthquake Lake by the large landslide at the mouth of main ranch for 35 men. They moved to the Victor Clark Madison Canyon. ranch wh[...]ntil construction In 1972 they retired and moved to their home in Sheridan started on the Federal Fish Hatchery at Blain Spring in where they lived the next eight years when, due to George's 1932. George worked on this construction and was made failing health, they sold this home and moved to an apart- project foreman.[...]Dillon. Both were interested in hunting, fishing and[...]ties. George Hungerford family. Back row: Phyllis and Dorothy, Besides their daughters they had seven grandchildren George, Vivian and Ruth. and five great grandchudren. George died September 9,[...]Jeff was born July 7, 1923 to Fay B. and Winifred C. Jef-[...]fers. His first years of school were in the Jack Creek School. The family moved to Ennis where he began his 5th year[...]ticipated in sports, music and drama. That fall he entered[...] |
| [...]of 1949, and married Jeanne Lesh of Oak Park, Illinois, a[...]at the University of Washington in June of 1957. The couple[...]and Duff, 1957. The family moved to Juneau Alaska in 1957 where Jeff[...]took a position with the Department of Education. He[...]in 1980 after many years of air travel throughout the[...]tate, transferring to Western Montana College for the spring term. In 1943 Jeff entered the service, and after intensive train- ing was sent to Belgium where he was in the 18th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division knows as "The Big Red One". He was wounded at Aachen, Germany and later- sustained a second wound from a hand grenade when he was first scout attacking the city of Bonn, Germany. He was in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia on occupation duty. He was discharged in 1946 with the combat Infantryman's Belle Jeffers and father A.A. Gilmour in badge and Purple Heart with Oakleaf Cluster.[...]That fall he went to Alaska where he enrolled in the Jeff Jeffers in 1946.[...]York on March 2, 1896. Her parents were Allan A. and Mary[...]headlights and having to put the top up when it rained. Her[...]r was resigned to such trips, but refused to join the fun |
| [...]in 1941 to the shop on Main Street which became known as the Valley Trading Post. In 1942 Austin left the Madison Valley to work in the war effort in California, and eventually settled in Arizona. Belle[...]managed both the sheep ranch and the store until 1950, when she sold the sheep and started raising Black Angus cattle. She usually worked an 18 hour day; up at five to feed the ranch crew, driving eight miles to town in the morning to run the store, keeping it open until nine in the evening, then driv- ing home to the ranch. She managed to sandwich in ac- tivities in the community; 62 years a member of the Trinity Church Guild, 52 years in the Ennis Woman's Club, and an early member of the MadGals, the Cow Belles, and the Ennis Commercial Club. She was known as a "soft touch" by all those down on their luck, but claims she was repaid sooner or later. She soldthe Valley Trading Post in 1972, but at the Belle Jeffers ' first home, 1919. age of 85 still runs the cattle ranch and bucks snow drifts in[...]Duff Harstad ed in the Army and was alerted for active duty. The couple decided to be wed then and there, both families being pre- sent, so the ceremony was performed in Trinity Episcopal Churc[...]tin went overseas, not returning until July 1919. The young mother lived at her parent's home in Albany[...]d. Austin moved his family to his ranch against the foothills east of Ennis, and went into the cattle business with his brothers. Their first ho[...]room log house which later was incorporated into the big two story ranch house where Belle still lives. Their second daughter, Virginia, was born at the ranch on October 4, 1922. Also in 1922 the couple went into the sheep business and labored[...]7. L. to R .: James A., Joan, Jim, Lucie, through the years of five-dollar lambs and wool prices which Ann and Barbara. hardly paid the shearers. In 1938 Belle started a curio shop in Ennis with Mrs. Floyd Best, utilizing the front porch of the Best home. When it caught on, the enterprise became too large to be run out of a porch. Margaret Best decided to drop out, but Belle moved the business to a new location and then CHESTER AND JOAN (WILSEY) LLOYD-JONES Belle Jeffers, 198[...]Joan Wilsey Lloyd-Jones came to the Madison Valley from |
| [...]Ernest Vetter house located on the present-day Jumping[...]Horse Ranch to a spot just south of the Virgel Clark ranch[...]fers ". In 1957 they bought the Reid Pasley ranch across the[...]eir oldest son "Kit" was an avid mountain climber and had climbed extensively in the local mountains, as well as in the Tetons. In May 1965, he died on Mt. McDonald in the[...]the University. Pursuant to his previously expressed[...]his ashes were scattered over the Beehive Mountain in the[...]in 1970. The couple lives in Geneva, New York and have two daughters, Caroline (Daisy) and Claire.[...]"Tikker" spent two years in Peru as a member of the Peace Jones family - 1953. Joan, Lucie, Tikke[...]Creek at the southern border of the family ranch, moving the old schoolhouse that had originally been built near the L.M. exhibited at the Economy Store in Ennis. Lucie Wilsey died Jeffers ranch and then had served as a blacksmith shop in in 1950 and James A. died in 1959. Barbara died in 1938. Jeffers, to his new location. He then added to it the original Ann married Lindley M. Hoag Jr. in 1939. They moved to a log portion of the J.W. Saunders house. He has recently mov- ranch in Bridger Canyon near Bozeman in 1944 and she died ed the homestead house in which Susie Selby Davis was born in 1957, leaving a son James M. and a daughter Carol Ann. in 1890 and which had been used as a barn on the ranch for Jim Jr. married Caroline Williams in 1941 and became a many years. It will continue in[...]his new place. In petroleum geologist working in the Madison Range. In 1949 1981 he married Donna Henderson. he contracted polio and died, leaving a son David L. and daughter Lucretia.[...]ied Chester Lloya-Jones of (nee Saier) and Jeanne-Pierre Sonderer, in 1972. After Madison, Wisconsin. He was serving in the U.S. Army and finishing out a Navy hitch, the couple bought the Len Todd was shortly thereafter sent to the European theater. Joan ranch and engaged in cattle raising. They have one taught country school at McAllister and then at Ophir daughter, Lucretia. School in the Gallatin Canyon during his absence. After his release from the Army, they went to Ann Arbor, Michigan[...]lsey Lloyd Jones where he .attended Law School at the University. Christopher Lloyd (Kit) was born at this time. The family moved to Denver for two years where Chester was employed by Phillips Petroleum Co. Margaret Lloyd and Richard Lloyd (Tikker) were born in that city. In 1951 they moved back to the Madison Valley and Chester set up a law practice in Virginia City. L[...]he held until 1981 , at which time he pur- chased the Tom Duncan house in Virginia City, Montana, to use as an office for his continuing private practice. In the same year of 1954, the Jones family moved the Jones family - 1959. Margie, Lucie, Chester, Tikker, Kit and |
| [...]sy". Glen Shelton holding umbrella over Lucile as she pulls weeds. Alice up the ro w in the sun. session the four summer months. There were only five or six Alice Shelton Keller RODGER AND RUTH (ALTHOUSE) KENT Rodger Gillespie Kent was born in Butte, Montana August |
| [...]In 1968 Jack and Marjorie purchased the Kent ranch and Rodger and Ruth moved to Ennis. Jack with a background of[...]ranching ancestors is now the only one of the Kent or[...]After moving to Ennis, Rodger rode ditch and irrigated for the Long Horn Ranch and Ruth worked for a few years at the Cyprus Talc Mine. They are now retired, and enjoying it.[...]and other states, and British Columbia, where they have[...]es. They enjoy community affairs, friends, family and[...]lives in the Madison Valley is a privileged person.[...]and Robert Martello; all are graduates of Ennis, and all live in Ennis except Tom who is married and lives in Bozeman.[...]r, Jack. Front: Debbie, Ruth, Marge K ent at the ranch. Cafe for a time and married Rodger Kent in 1933. |
| [...]Shirley, Kevin - Age 2, and Fred. bass horn in the Bob Cat Band, was called to the service in |
| Tom H. McDonnell (left) and Ben Lockhart (Right) about to go fishing.[...]Pau~ Larry L., Marvin P. and Roberta. in return. Thus their friendship grew and lasted many years. came to the Madison Valley with his parents January 4, Ben bought out Charlie Williams and his brother and mov- 1916. The family stayed with his uncle Art Kelly at Spring ed to their ranch on Wall Creek. He then bought out Jim and Creek northwest of where the Fish Hatchery is, until spring Bonnie Lockhart, both Paine homesteads, Ashley's Tuttle's when they leased the Gordon ranch near McAllister. He at- and Monty Gorham. With the addition of deeded land and tended grade school at McAllister. Taylor grazing[...]His father bought the Shewmaker place one mile north of sand acres.[...]Ennis about 1920. Paul attended school in Ennis and Ben married Laura McDonnell of Ennis in Butte, Montana graduated from the first four year high school class May, and they had one child who died shortly after birth and was 1925. He drove one of the first school busses his senior year, buried at the ranch. Terence and Tom McDonnell leased a Model T Ford truck with si[...]ue to finances he did not continue. He worked for the to Tom's near Ennis and winter them on Cedar Creek. Forest Service, and on ranches in the valley, and the J.W. Even though Ben did well at ranching, he was more natural Chowning store. Mrs. Chowning sold the store to J.N. Mc- in the mountains, logging and trapping. He could remember Cracken who put Paul in charge about 1928. every tree and rock yet couldn't tell one cow from another. Paul and Roberta Angle were married June 22, 1930 in the The winter of 1940, he trapped coyotes and beaver along home of her parents Waller S. and Hattie K. Angle in Ennis. Wall Creek and Horse Creek and by spring had enough She was born February 5, 1910 in Bozeman, the oldest of the money to buy a new 1941 Studebaker car. This car had one children, and a descendant of the families of Shriver, Gilmer, front spring that ran the width of the car like an old Model T. and Angle. She attended twelve years in the Ennis School It was a long rough road from Ben's to Ennis and many graduating in 1928. She then attended Montana State Col- times, after d:[...]married Chick Armitage's garage to have him weld the front spring she clerked in the McCracken Store. where the brackets had worked loose and broken. In the winter, instead of using snowshoes, as many did, Ben would Paul and Roberta on 50th Wedding Anniversary, June 22, wea[...]1980. broom, using it for a rudder to steer with and a brake to slow himself. There were many mountain sheep in the early 1900's, but elk were scarce on the Madison. If Ben came upon a set of elk tracks he would return to the ranch, saddle a horse and a pack horse, then begin to follow these tracks. He would never return until he killed the elk, sometimes being gone for days and riding as far as Wolverine Basin. In 1946, Ben sold the ranch to Cecil Klatt (who later l'lOld to Andrew Kelly) and bought a home on N. Grand in Bozeman. Laura died Thanksgiving day, 1952 and was buried in Bozeman. Ben later remarried and with his new wife moved to Minnesota, where he di[...]Tom G. McDonnell PAUL H. AND ROBERTA S. LOVE Paul Homer Love, youngest son of James M. and Margaret |
| [...]Paul and Roberta were members of the Madison County[...]History Association, compiling "Pioneer Trails and Trials"[...]postal clerk in the Ennis Post Office from 1950-1973. She is a member of the Women's Club and a charter member of the[...]His children are Steven Paul and Timothy David. Larry Lee[...]and Laura Lee.[...]ter into politics. He ran for County Treasurer on the Democrat ticket in 1932 and was elected. They moved to Virginia City where Paul took office March 4, 1933. At this time the County Treasurer could ony serve two, two year te[...]Treasurer, Paul ran for Clerk of District Court, and was elected in 1936 and took office in January, 1937. He held this office until he retired January 1, 1972, 39 years service in the Court House. They moved back to Ennis October 1949 and he commuted to Virginia City until his retirement. Paul served on the Rationing Board during World War II, and helped the neighbors with their haying and lambing because of shortage of manpower. Paul and Roberta lived through the depression days with Paul playing the saxophone in orchestras every Saturday night. This helped with living expenses. He was manager of the Bickford Water Co. for twelve years, until the city, bought the company. Paul was appointed by Governor Bonner to serve as a member of the Board of Administration of Public Employee's Reti[...]March 1951 to May 1954. He was required to attend the meetings in Helena once Margaret (Peggy) and Joseph Maitin Wedding, a month.[...]1946. Paul has sung for funerals and entertainment since 1925. The last few years Roberta has accompanied him on the piano or organ on several occasions. Paul has al[...]er called upon. JOSEPH AND MARGARET (TRASK) MAITIN When Charles Bovey came to restore Virginia City, Paul joined the Virginia City Players under the directorship of Joseph and Margaret (Peggy) Trask Maitin arrived in En- Larr[...]member of nis, Montana, August 1949. Joe and Peggy came to Ennis the barbershop quartet, played the harmonica and musical because Joe had accepted his first teaching position with the saw.[...]s Schools. Roberta worked in Bovey's Gift Shop the summer of 1949, Margaret was born July 31, 1922 in Deer Lodge, Montana. and for Robert Julian in the Madisonian office 1947-49. She She was the sixth of ten children, born to Cora Nichols was a member of the Virginia City Womans Club. Both are Trask. The Nichols family came to Deer Lodge in the early members of Virginia City Chapter No. 9 Order of Eastern days of railroading. The Nichols' came from Milwaukee, Star. Paul is a mem[...]o. 1, Royal Arch Wisconsin. Masons No. 1, and Council No. 12, and Alder Gulch Aerie No. Peggy's father, still[...]age 90, is 664 Virginia City. He was a member of the Vigilance Club, Frank S. Trask. He was bor[...]After moving back to Ennis, Paul was Clerk of the owned the oldest established hardware store in Monta[...] |
| [...]Bennie held a seat on the American Stock Exchange. The[...]father was a Captain in the Cavalry, Joe was a Sergeant in the Air Force, Joe and Peggy's son, Christopher, is an officer[...]in the Army.[...]York to work for the Treasury Department in Washington,[...]D.C. Upon the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Air[...]the Air Force and in 1946 made his home in Montana.[...]Peggy and Joe met in 1943, while at the University of[...]Montana. Joe was a Sergeant stationed at the University and Peggy a student. A friendship developed and continued[...]years Joe was discharged from service and he returned to[...]Butte, Montana where Peggy was working for the Anaconda[...]the Business Department of the University. A Masters[...]Degree was later earned. They came to Ennis the summer of Lt. Christopher B. Maitin, 1981. 1949, and have lived and worked here with the exception of[...]ars living in Boulder, Montana. Joe was a teacher and Peggy's grandmother, Augusta Eliasson Trask, wa[...]incipal of Ennis High School. in a covered wagon. The exact location of her birthplace is unknown. What is known, is that she was born in 1862, two Shortly after the First Madison Valley Bank of Ennis was weeks out of Fort Laramie, Wyoming on the Platte River. established, Joe joined the Banks Board of Directors. He Augusta Trask served as President of the Montana Pioneers then helped organize the First Boulder Valley Bank in 1966. Society. Peggy's grandparents were friends with many .of During the four years the family lived in Boulder, Joe rose to Montana's early settlers, such as the Grants, Stewarts, W.A. be President of the bank and then in 1971, was hired as Ex- Clarks and the Ennis, Jeffers, Chowning families of Ennis. ecutive Vice President of the Ennis bank and the family Peggy Maitin attended schools in Deer Lo[...]returned to Ennis. graduation from high school she attended the University of In 1956 a son, Christopher, joined the family and a Montana. While in college Peggy took a course in drafting, daughter Jill in 1958. and with World War II started, joined the drafting depart- Chris attended the Ennis schools except for the years he ment of Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. She left Boeing to work was in Boulder. He was Valedictorian of his 1974 class. In as a draftsman for the Anaconda Company in Butte, Mon- 1974, he received an appointment to the United States tana until 1946.[...]orn in Brooklyn, New York, 1978, as an officer in the Corps of Engineers. 1st Lt. Chris November 16, 1919. His mother was Anna Reich Maitin, Maitin and his Texas born wife, Marcia Merritt, are station- who was born in Poland and came to America as a young girl. ed in West Germa[...]lyn in Jill Maitin attended Ennis schools and graduated in 1977. She was an all-round athlete and won the State of Montana shot-put championship. She graduated in Physical Educa- Jill Ma[...]1. tion in 1981 from the University at Bozeman. In August[...]1981 she married Robert J. Shea of Glen Cove, New York.[...]Jill is employed at the bank in Ennis and Bob is a foreman in[...]When Joe and Peggy first came to Ennis they lived in Scul-[...]ly' s Cabins, later that winter, the moved to the El Western. They purchased the Weidenmeyer home, where[...]CHARLES JESSE AND IRMA (BARNHART) MANLEY[...]now the kitchen of the home where his widow still lives, on the ranch three miles east of Ennis known as the Ribblet[...]He was one of the old time cowboys growing up among the cowboys and taking his place at a very early age as ho[...] |
| C.J. and wife Irma and son Charles L., 1933.[...]Major Charles L. Manley wrangler and cowboy. After serving in the Armed Forces in World War I he Char[...]uating from returned to Ennis in December of 1920 and he and Irma Lila high school at the age of 18, entered the Navy fqr two years Barnhart were married March 23, 1921. After their marriage and was then appointed as a cadet to Chapel Hill, North he took up ranching and followed it the rest of his life. Carolina. After graduating he entered the Marine Division. Charles had a string of breaki[...]He flew a reconnaissance plane in World War II and was call- rodeos and if they didn't have enough bronc riders he would ed back for the Korean Conflict. He returned to Camp participate. He and his wife, Irma, had charge of the Ennis Lejune, North Carolina where he was promoted to the rank of School lunch program for sixteen years, until ill health com- Major and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and pelled him to retire. Air Medal for meritorious service in the line of duty. In the Charles was a member of Masonic Lodge A.F.&A.M.[...]flict he landed his helicopter in enemy territory also the Royal Arch Masons, taking a very active part in all by flashlight to rescue two wounded officers. He was killed in branches, and filling most of the various offices at different a helicopter crash October 30, 1955 at Corpus Christi, Texas. times. He was also an active member of the Rodeo Associa- He left a widow, Janet R.[...]Warren, Massachusetts, whom he met and married in Corpus Charles passed away April 25,[...]1968. He is survived by his January 13, 1948 and a son Craig Lee, born April 29, 1949. widow.[...]Charlene is now married to Robert Lehmann, M.D. and they have a son and three daughters living in Nacogdoches, Irma Lil[...]McDonnel, Kansas, Texas. Craig is the father of a daughter Claire Lila, and a son November 17, 1901. While an infant of six m[...]ee. Craig, Irma's grandson, built a greenhouse on the parents moved to Hyattsville, Wyoming, hauling th[...]th a three horse spike team. running it and he is in Oklahoma City, flying helicopter for They stopped on the way, at Manderson, Wyoming, for six an oil company and teaching fixed wing and helicopter fly- months, to run a road house for the pioneer who wished to ing. visit his children in the east. The year of 1914, her family moved to Montana and Irma finished her education in Twin Bridges and Virginia City.[...]L. Manley Irma is very active in civic affairs and organizations, hav- ing chaired the Rodeo parade for eight years, being past presiden[...]al times president of Madison Valley Woman's Club and still president of Trinity Episcopal Guild, member of the Nursing Home Auxiliary and 4-H club leader for near- R[...]prize club being a cooking class of teenage boys, the Kulinary Kings Klub. Ruth Marion, daughter of M.A. and Lena Gilmer Switzer Irma lives on the ranch and keeps a few sheep, ducks, was born June[...]May 1, 1899. In 1903 the family moved to Jeffers, where[...] |
| [...]Edward was born on the Maynard ranch December 28, 1912,[...]him. He was named after his grand- Ruth S. and Claude Martin. fathers, Edward C. Kinney and Ethel Augustus Maynard,[...]making him E.A. Maynard III. He attended the Maynard they had purchased a home and general merchandise store. School until it was consolidated with the Jeffers School. He Both children attended grade s[...]rs. Ruth entered went to high school in Ennis and to Montana State College in Gallatin County High School graduating in 1918. She enroll- Bozeman for two years. While at Montana State College in ed at Montana State College which she attended for two Bozeman he was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity . years. In 1920 she became ill and returned home when she After leaving college Ed worked for the Montana Power Co. was desperately ill with the flu. At this time brother Lester, at Canyon Ferry, Montana during the mid 30's. ill with typhoid fever and flu passed away April 19, 1921.[...]Ed returned home to help his father run the ranch. He met Ruth helped in the store. On July 3, 1925 she married Dorothy Thompson, a girl from Vermont, who was a guest at Claude A. Martin and became step-mother to Louise and the Diamond J Ranch. They were married May 16, 1939. Kenneth Martin. Mr. Martin purchased an interest in the They bought the Maynard ranch from Ed's parents "."ho th_en store known as "Switzer and Martin". In 1936 Harvey retired to Bozeman, Montana. Ed and Dorothy built a ruce McKee bought the business. The Martins moved to Helena home on what had been the Bower property next door to the where Claude was employed by the Montana Highway Maynard home. Twins, a boy and a girl, were born to Ed and Department, until his retirement in 1956. Claude[...]Maynard IV) and Sue Ellen (Mrs. John France). Ed and Ruth and Claude's daughter, Kathryn, born in 1926 mar- Dorothy were divorced when the twins were two years old. ried Huber Barnes in 1947. They had two daughter[...]rried Billie Dee Linton of Ennis. Jeanette, 1950, and Barbara in 1954. Mr. Barnes passed[...]1946. Carol Ann was born June 18, 1950 and Robert Linton, In 1969 Kathryn married Ralph C[...]Montana City. Louise married Derryl and Billie developed a hunting and fishing resort out of the Hungerford, their two daughters are Sandra, 1942, and_ An- Maynard Ranch. They called it " The Channels" because the drea, 1946. They have one grandchild. Kenneth Mar[...]tana State College was employed by Boeing the Maynard ranch land. The Channels became a very well Aircraft in Seattle until he retired in 1981. He married his known and popular place for sportsmen and their families . wife Ruth in 1969.[...]fter year. In 1957 Ruth Martin was employed by the Montana In late 1973 Ed had open[...]some emphysema made it necessary for him to leave the very active in all her guilds and orgaruzat10ns. Ruth died on high altitude of the Madison Valley. He and Billie sold The September 5, 1979, and is buried in Helena. Channels (land that had been in the Maynard family for llO[...]years) in October of 1974 and moved to California. They liv-[...]ed at Santa Yenz for a time, then Lake San Marcos and are[...]ornia. Patti Gibson and Kathryn Clare[...] |
| [...]Gertrude and Clare McCausey -1960. CLARE AND GERTRUDE McCAUSEY hi[...]Idaho in a saw mill and later went into the timber business |
| [...]George, Mary Ann and Eva McDonnell - June 4, 1972. and Abbie Pearson who ranched 25 miles south of Ennis. She |
| [...]Jim McDonnell and friend while working for Cunningham and Biering on Crow Reservation.[...]In 1937-38, Jim ran the B-Q ranch near where Big Sky is[...]now. Fred Butler of Chicago owned this ranch and many of the cabins on it were built by Jim and his good friend[...]"English Tom" Lincoln who was also employed there. Jim became known for the excellent cabins he built, so in 1939 he[...]went to the Boulder River above Big Timber and built cabins for the Clydehurst dude ranch. Here he met his wife to be[...]Roxie Noon Knight, and they were married in 1940. Jim McDonnell and sister Elizabeth McDonnell[...]Jim returned to the Madison and went partners with his Scollard.[...]and ran around a hundred head of Angus cows and twenty many years and at one time ran 25,000 cows on the Madison milk cows. and Gallatin. On the Madison they had cattle ranging from In 1947, Jim and Frank sold out to their, brother, John. Bear Creek to the Idaho line. On one occasion Cunningham Jim and Roxie then moved to Belgrade where Jim worked at and Beiring were grazing 11,000 cows on the Idaho side of the cement factory in Trident for a year, then did carpentry Hebgen Lake. Rather than trail the cattle around they decid- work, including that on the MSU student housing. He final- ed to swim the cows across one of the narrower parts of the ly became Night Marshall until he retired in 1957. lake. They didn't think to swim the cows in small bunches and move each bunch away from the shore upon reaching the Jim died April 25, 1958 and is buried in the Bozeman other side, but instead Cunningham and Biering pushed the Cemetery. entire herd into the lake. The herd swam fine but when the[...]Tom G. McDonnell first cattle reached the other side, they began milling at the lake edge and didn't leave room for cattle in the rear to crowd ashore. Many cattle tired and drowned before the chaos could be straightened out, causing great fi[...]JOHN McDONNELL Later Cunningham and Biering joined a group of ranchers and shipped their cattle to the Crow Reservation in eastern John F. McDo[...]adison Montana. Jim was in charge of these cattle and the cows did county pioneer days. There are several versions of how he well on the good grazing and easy winters there. came to Amer[...]September, 1873, John boarded the steamship 'The City of Paris' at Liverpool, England and came to the United States."[...]But John's daughter Nellie, his nephews, George and Joe Jim McDonnell - a crew mowing hay on Bear Creek. McDonnell and niece, Lizzie McDonnell Scollard, all claim John was enlisted in the British Navy and at the age of 17,[...]silver miner, prize fighter, jewelry salesman and, if need be, a[...]In 1876, John came to Virginia City and in 1889 he married[...]bought the Sodom Ranch near Ennis and here their four[...]Nellie on March 25, 1893, and Katherine in 1895. They all at- tended school at the Farrell School, near Cameron. One year[...]nine of the twelve students attending were children of the John, Ted and Pat McDonnell families. Thus being Irish[...]dominated, Farrell school was nicknamed the "Irish[...] |
| [...]Kenneth, born July 14, 1919; John, 1921; and Victor, 1927.[...]Hospital. After Nellie and Kenneth were married they[...]homesteaded 360 acres in Cardwell Basin and ran it as a dairy farm. Kenneth then leased the old Fort Place and farm-[...]father died, so the next year Kenneth moved his family to[...]In 1968 Nellie was reading an issue of the Madisonian under the caption, "Can Anyone Identify This Photo? " She saw a picture of her father and his brother's stage and freight[...]York, also saw the article and identified it. The picture was taken in Adobetown between 1888 and 1890 in front of Mamie's home. The fence in the background had been built[...]by Mamie's father so she wouldn't fall in a flume that ran on the bank of the gulch and also to keep the Indians out of the yard. Squaws would come and whine and beg until Mamie's[...]Nellie lived alone at her home in Bozeman until unable to[...]care for herself. She moved to a rest home in Bozeman where John McDonnell taken in Bozeman, 1889. she died in December, 1981 at the age of 88 years.[...]Tom G. McDonnell In 1907 John McDonnell sold the ranch to Horace Elling and in 1908 the family moved to the newly acquired Fort Ranch near Harrison where the children finished their educa- THE CHILDREN OF PATRICK AND LUCILLE (LUCY) tion. Francis worked on his father[...]McDONNELL until 1923 when he caught pneumonia and died in a Butte hospital.[...]gh Mary Rose decided to continue her education and went to County, Ireland. After marrying Lucille Russell in Butte, he Missoula. She graduated from St. Patrick's Hospital and moved from Virginia City in the 1880's and homesteaded on moved to Butte and worked at St. James Hospital as a McDonnell Creek between Mill and Tomlan Creeks. Pat and trained nurse. In 1918 a flue epidemic swept the nation, tak- Lucy had thirteen children, losing two in infancy. Terence, ing the life of Mary Rose. born in 1883, died in Butte in 1885 and Josephine died in Katherine McDonnell taught as a substitute teacher in Harrison until about 1925 when she married William John and Astrid McDonnel with their Perlman. They had two children: Hannah Marie and Nellie two boys Robert and John Jr. Lucille. William worked for John McDonnell at the old Fort Place but he and John didn't get along. They then moved to Helena[...]1968 after a long illness. McDonnell freighting and stage outfit. Seated on stage: Dan |
| [...]McDonnell Scollard, Rose McDonnell Hohman George and Edward McDonnell. Middle: Be[...]Scollard, James, John Jr., Robert, John Sr. and Joe McDonnell. 1902 from pneumonia before her first birthday. All the married Bernice Hill. They worked and lived on the home |
| Terence J. and Gladys McAtee McDonnell Gladys (McAtee) McDonnell. taken in Bozeman. ing and for Horace Elling as a cowboy and hayhand. After Terry and Gladys were married, they leased the Family picnic - 1[...]hart, Walter, Patricia, Gladys, Ellen, Terence A. and Tom McDonnell, Mrs. Monty |
| The Nickerson place also housed the Abe post office. When Abe was first started in 1917, Herb Ashley and other community residents wanted their post office to be listed first in the "National Director of Post Offices" and succeed- ed with the name "Abe." Terry was appointed postmaster on January 1, 1932 and again on October 14, 1932. In 1936 Terry sold the Nickerson place and moved his family back to the home ranch where his brother Tom and sister Anne were living. Virgil Lichte ran the Abe post office until it was discontinued on April 30, 1938. Terry moved again to Bozeman in 1942 and worked five years at a dairy farm owned by Hartma[...]ing until he retired. Terry died February 4, 1962 and is buried by his wife at the McAllister Cemetery.[...]Tom and his sister, Anne, never married; they lived most[...]of their lives on the home ranch where they were born. Tom's[...]being able to mimic nearly anyone's voice. His favorite was[...]On June 14, 1949, Tom felt ill and had his nephew, Ozzie drive him to the hospital in Bozeman where he passed away[...]at afternoon. He was buried next to his family in the Valley Cemetery at Jeffers and his estate sold to the Kellers.[...]His house was burned several years ago by the Longhorn Ranch and nothing remains except the small bunkhouse he built. Arthur, Tom and Terry McDonnell[...]was born June 14, 1889 on Cedar Creek near Ennis, |
| Mrs. Tom Thexton holding Annie on the left, L. to R.: Darlene Rochez, Annie Neville, Donald E. Neville Gladys and Tom, Bill on right - 1906.[...]-Taken in 1960. one-half mile north of Ennis and died from the effects, June 22, 1935.'[...]to cave in unexpectedly. Ed ran in and dragged Norman out. In several of the places Annie made a home for the family. He had sustained a broken leg. At that time Mary Ann, Don They had no refrigeration, so she had a box in the spring or and Pearl attended Bozeman schools. creek, or had a box on the shady side of the building draped The Nevilles bought a home in Ennis in 1952 and Annie with a burlap which she kept wet. The laundry was done by began to work as a cook at Bakers' Cafe and also as a cook in hand, on a wash board after water had been heated on the Nick Glontan's Cafe in Virginia City, later on she took the wood stove. What Joy! when in 1933 she got a gas motor job of Head School Coo[...]as employed as ditch rider for several ditches in the When Ed was herding cattle in Antelope Basin, following a valley. He had hauled mail and freight for Gerald Stalcup hard rain the children filled their little wagon with tiny frogs from Norris to Ennis and in 1960 he got the mail contract that were so numerous they could not step without stepping between Ennis and Cameron. When Ed passed away on on one. In an hour the frogs had disappeared. November 3, 1968 Annie took over the contract, operated it One summer, at the home ranch, when Albert Thexton and for six years, and continued to cook at the school until 1972. Annie were walking along the river bank they saw several Ed and she had traveled to Washington, Oregon, Califor- water snakes which they killed and tied together and hung nia, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Colorado. Since his death, she on the door knob of the ranchhand's house. He had married a has vi[...]New York girl. They had planned to scare her with the in North Dakota, Hawaii, Ohio, California and South snakes. The tables turned on them, she thought it was a Carolina, there they[...]Washington, D.C. She has ten grandchildren. They lived in Bozeman after World War II broke out, and Annie is retired now and still lives in her Ennis home. Ed was working on the new N.P.R.R. tunnel. Norman Mary Ann married Vincent "Bud" Baker and they are Stewart Jr. was boarding with them. A blast caused a wall parents of Anita, Ellen and Patricia. L. to R.: Donald Neville Jr., Mary Ann[...]Thex- Donald "Kid" married LaVon Bailer and they have one ton Neville, Donald E. Neville Sr.[...]Pearl married Lester Kilman and their children are Karl, Kathryn and Karen. Darlene married Fred Rochez and their children are Julie, James and Jonathan.[...]Annie is a member of Madison Valley Woman's Club and of the Senior Citizens Club.[...]The Olsons came to the Madison Valley in June, 1937,[...]when Mr. Olson accepted the position of Superintendent of[...] |
| Olson family . Back row: Ray and Gertrude. Front row: Back row: Martin Crennen, Mike Crennen, Dixie Holmes. Marie, Margaret Ann and Edwin. Front r[...]and Ray Olson. the Madison Valley Consolidated Schools, Ennis. a member of the Masonic Lodge, Knights Templar, and |
| [...]1921. He graduated from Ennis High School in 1938 and attended Montana State University and the University of Montana. In 1943 he enlisted in the Army Air Force where he received flight training and served as a B-1 7 pilot. Following his discharge, he returned to Ennis and worked for several years at the Ennis Garage before moving to Dayton, Wyoming.[...]ado, where Ray is manager of "Bang-a-Way Gun Club and Kennels". Margaret Ann was born September 1, 1934. She attended Ennis schools and graduated from Montana State Universi- One way to pack-salt ty in 1956. On June 2, 1957 she married Martin Crennen of Bozeman. The Overstreets moved to the Lichte Ranch, southwest of The Crennens live in Helena where Marty is a partner in Cameron on November 9, 1947 to feed cattle for Homer the architectural firm of Campeau and Crennen and Wilson who had bought the Lichte hay. In the spring of 1948 Margaret is librarian at Capital High School. They have two they moved to the Wall Creek Ranger Station where they sons; Michae[...]duate of Stanford Universi- herded cattle for the Wall Creek Cattle Association, a job ty with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering, and Timothy which Cap held for ten summers. In the winters Cap usually David, a student at Montana State University. broke horses or did other ranch work. They were on the old Gertrude M. Olson Flying D for three winters where Cap broke many horses. Two winters were spent at the old Call Ranch working for[...]lder son Jim was born in Bozeman December 5, 1949 and[...]When Jim started school they moved to the Indian Creek Ranch, then part of the Sun Ranch, where Cap worked for[...]more than 18 years. He broke horses there, many of which[...]went for Polo horses. He also worked with the cattle. In 1958 they were at the Golden Spike Livestock Show at[...]Chuck Aaberg. They raised some great ranch, show and rodeo horses in the following years, especially rope horses,[...]When Chuck left the Sun Ranch he sold his interest in[...]Osage Roan to Cap, and Cap kept him until it died in April 1981 at the age of 23 years.[...]After leaving Indian Creek, the Overstreets moved to "Cap" Overstreet. Ennis and Jack Creek until buying acreage on Moran Creek[...]While living at the home ranch of the Flying D, which is in "CAP" AND "SMITTY" OVERSTREET Madison County, they were snowed in much of the time.[...]eople as "Cap", was born in Bozeman, May 5, 1920, the son of James William Cap '. s " Osage Roan " stallion - 23 years old. and Nell Reid Overstreet. Cap's grandfather, Charles Overstreet came to Montana from Missouri in 1878, and the Reids came to the Gallatin Valley in the 1860's. They all settled near Salesville, now Gallatin Gateway.[...]earned an Air Medal, a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Presidential Cita- tion. While working in Ye[...]la Smith, known as "Smitty" who was working there also. They were married September 1947 in Bozeman.[...]tts October 10, 1925 a daughter of Frederic Henry and Edythe Kingston Smith.[...] |
| One time they were going to town with the team and sled, it was one of those days with clouds and no shadows, just white. They got off the road several times, and then the team just stopped and refused to move. Cap told Smitty to get out with the boys and walk away from the team and sled. He cautiously moved the mares sideways until he could turn them around and find the road again. Looking back where they had been, they found that the mares had gotten above the road and on top of a small outcrop of rocks with an eighte[...]now a local brand inspector, raises a few horses and does day work, calving, etc. Smitty works at the Talc mine.[...]Pasley children - Louis, Irene, Dar, and Hal. graduating Dar was employed by Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Chown-[...]ing who had a general merchandising store and machinery business and the Ennis Post Office. He attended Butte[...]Business College taking a six month course in the winter of 1926. In 1927 Dar and Harvey McKee opened a meat market[...]Luella Krupp Hayden was born the yo{mgest of six children to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Krupp. September 5, 1906 in[...]Olive, died. For about a month she was taken care of by an Aunt and Uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Antor. Mrs. Mabel Hayden,[...]sister of her mother, came from Montana and brought her back to Montana with her. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden raised her.[...]They had lost a little boy, Wilford in 1900, and never recovered from the loss, until Luella came into their lives.[...]In about 1907 the Haydens took Luella's brother Ben, who was four at the time and he lived with them until he was six-[...]teen. Ben and Luella went to the Jack Creek School. They walked the two miles except for the year the teacher boarded at the ranch, then a horse and buggy was used. DAR AND LUELLA PASLEY When Luella was six, a son Dallas was born to the[...]ert Darwin Pasley was born August 10, 1905 to Mr. and Mrs. Reid Pasley near Fulton, Missouri. He was the Dar, Annabelle, Luella - James Reid, 1945. eldest of four children, Dar, Irene, Louis and Hal. He attend- ed school in Missouri two years. When he was eight the fami- ly moved to Montana. He lived with his fami[...]nce from Jeffers where he attended school through the eighth grade. His family home was a gathering place for many of the area youngsters. They went skating on the ditch above them and slid down the hill back of the home. Mrs. Pasley let the children warm themselves by the fire and provided them with cookies. Dar, Hal and Louis helped with the haying and general ranch work when they were older. They occ[...]Dar finished three years of high school in Ennis and finish- ed his fourth year in Bozeman. he worked for his board and room at Mr. and Mrs. Ritmeyer's who boarded teachers in their home. He helped with the serving of meals. After[...] |
| Luella took the 7th and 8th grade examinations in Ennis High School and attended there until 1924 when her father, Jake Krupp came from Michigan and she went back with him to finish her last year of high school. She returned the fall of 1925 and started working for Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Chowning. She attended Butte Business College for six months and came home and worked for Belle Jeffers, where she was working when she and Dar were married. After they were married they lived in Ennis about a year and Dar still had the meat market. Later he worked for the Diamond J Ranch and the Jumping Horse Ranch. At the time their first child, James Reid was born on November 12, 1936. Dar was working for Mr. Cadell who owned the Jeffers General Merchandise Store. They were liv- ing in a small house in Jeffers. They built onto the house and on February 8, 1939 their daughter Annabelle was[...]Hal Pasley home in Ennis. In 1942 they bought the Betty Baldwin house where t hey still live. In 1944 Dar became the manager and part owner of the He was a teacher and coach in the Junior High at Cardwell Marshall Wells Store and in 1957 he had the Pasley Farm for two years, followed by teaching and coaching at Service and Pasley and Son Construction. In 1970 he added Harlowton for two years. the Ennis Auto Parts and another addition was added in Hal began his career in the garage business in Ennis in 1981 for storage of grains, seed and machine parts. 1936.[...]1937. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wenzel Brown Luella Pasley of Butte, Montana, and widow of Gayle Nelson. He purchased and operated Hal's Chevrolet in Ennis until[...]1961, then went to Butte where he owned and operated[...]asley Motors until December 1975, when he sold it and[...]In the later forties and throughout the fifties Hal was[...]ed in business with his brother Dar. They started and operated the Marshall Wells Store in Ennis; formerly the site of the Woodsman Lodge Hall; presently the Economy Food[...]Hal joined the Masonic Lodge in the mid-thirties. He is a[...]member of Madison Chapter No. 118 Order of the Eastern Star. He headed the committee to achieve the incorporation of the town of Ennis, and served on its first town council. He[...]was an Ennis Lion's Club charter member, and later became president. He was a member on the board of the Madison Valley Hospital. He was also a member of the Interim Com- mittee of the Montana Highway Commission. He was also engaged in farming and ranching, having pur- chased the Len Todd ranch and other property on the[...]Hal coached high school basketball at the Ennis School during the World War II years. Hal 's mission accomplished.[...]His first wife Mary, studied voice at the Massachusetts[...]Conservatory of Music in Boston. She was called upon many[...]times to sing at various community functions . She was a member and past president of the Madison Valley Woman's Club, and the Ennis Parent Teachers ' Association. Also she J. HAL PASLEY[...]was a member of Madison Chapter No. 118 Order of the[...]ried to Dr. James D. Silva, D.D.S. , 1910. He was the youngest son of S. Reid and Myrtle Draper now resides in Butte, Montana. They[...]lder brothers live in Madison County. and James J . Robert Darwin lives in Jeffers, Louis lives in Twin The other daughter Hallie Pasley Adam lives in Bridge[...]way in 1936. Scottsdale, Arizona. She and her husband Robert have three Due to ill health of Reid and Louis, the family moved to daughters; twins Tammy and Tanya; the youngest is Mary Madison County in 1913, purchase[...]cattle raising. Their son Wenzel Albert and his wife Veva and four Hal attended grade school in Jeffers and graduated from children - Jason, Christopher, Brandi, and Nicole live in Western Montana college in[...] |
| Hal and Lucy Pasley -1977. During the years Hal was in Butte he kept his home ROBERT DAVIDSON AND RUTH JUANITA PIPER |
| Dave, David, Edith and Ruth Piper - 1952. Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in Mining |
| [...]Hialeah where Perry was Superintendent of Mail in the Hialeah post office. On February 28, 1953, Perry[...]se flew down to Hialeah to be with Elizabeth when the baby was born on May 4, 1953. Louise stayed until the baby was two weeks old and helped Elizabeth move back to Bozeman. Elizabeth moved in with her father who had lived alone in the family home since her mother's death in 1950. When her father died in 1956 she moved back to Portland and went to work again to support herself and three year old son. In 1970 Elizabeth developed cancer and died January 27, 1971 at the age of 59. She is buried in the Bozeman Cemetery near her parents and both sets of grandparents.[...]Audrey and Wilbur Powel4 Milton and Lynda, 1951.[...]with a train shipment of steers. Wilbur attended the[...]ed in the livestock business at the Chicago Stockyards. Mr.[...]Tinsley suffered from asthma and, as Wilbur assumed[...]greater responsibility, he gained experience and acquired considerable expertise in the livestock business while very[...]or those times, but he longed for ranch living so the Powells moved back to the Madison Valley.[...]owner of the Bear Creek Ranch near Cameron.[...]He then moved to the Utter Ranch in the Ruby Valley. He managed the ranch the last three years he was there until it[...]was divided into three separate units and sold. In 1959 Wilbur and his family moved back to the Madison Valley to manage the Ennis Company Ranch for State[...]Senator Sumner Gerard. It was formerly known as the Call Wilbur and Audrey Powel~ 1969. Ranch. In 1970 the ranch was sold to Alfred Stern and[...]w York City. It was · re-named WILBUR AND AUDREY POWELL the "Bar Seven Ranch ". Wilbur stayed on with the new[...]. Wilbur G. Powell, son of Jessie Janney Powell and George Besides the activities of ranch life, Audrey was involved in Powell was born in Pony,[...]anuary 9, 1914. He community activities. She served as treasurer of the attended elementary and high school in Harrison, Presbyterian Church in Harrison for five years. She is a graduating in 1934. Audrey Young from Norris entered Har- charter member and was the first president of the Sheridan rison High School when Wilbur was a senior. He took her to Auxiliary Friendship Circle of the Methodist Church. She is the Junior Prom, and it was the beginning of a romance that a past secretary of the Madison-Jefferson Cowbelles continued until they were married in 1938. organization. She and Wilbur devoted many years to 4-H Audrey, youngest daughter of Hilda and Ira Young, was Club Leadership, and she taught dancing to youngsters in born August 16, 1919. She attended elementary school in local communities. In 1967 she attended Butte Business Col- Norris and graduated from Harrison High School in 1937. lege where she received the Honor Scholarship A ward. She Wilbur and Audrey's daughter, Lynda, was born in Deer was employed in the Madison County Court House for Lodge, March 27, 1[...]Fraternally she is a past Matron of Madison Chapter, En- When Wilbur was fifteen his father leased the Bazil nis and Echo Chapter, Pony, Order of Eastern Star. She has Tinsley ranch near Pony. Mr. Tinsley was also engaged in received the honorary degree of the Grand Cross of Color for buying and selling cattle. Wilbur applied for a part time job. outstanding service in the Order of Rainbow for Girls. He also broke the neighbor's horses, riding them six miles At the 1974 Montana Grand Chapter session of the Order to high school in Harrison. In 1933 Mr. Tinsley sent him to of Eastern Star, she was elected Associate Grand Conduc-[...] |
| [...]John and Ema and children: Susie, Jack and Elsa, 1968.[...]ohn's uncle, William Reints, homesteaded close to the Bill[...]tage Ranch. In later years, William Reints bought the John Grady ranch, one and a half miles north east of Jeffers, and that is how the Reints .came to take over that place.[...]until he was fourteen years old, then returned to Iowa. John tress and advanced on to become Worthy Grand Matron of[...]uthern Idaho in 1930, for a climate change due to the Grand Chapter of Montana in 1977. his asthma and there met Erna Rast. Erna was born on Oc-[...]tober 11, 1911 in Kulm, North Dakota and when she was Wilbur was a member of Virginia City Masonic Lodge No. eight months old the family homesteaded in American Falls, 1 and was also a member of Madison Chapter No. 118, O.E.S. Idaho. On March 17, 1932, Erna and John were married in Richard Avedon, a world famous photographer and artist, American Falls, Idaho and boarded a train for Butte, who is one of the owners of the Bar Seven Ranch was Montana. They ha[...]ured in Newsweek magazine on October 16, 1978. In the could catch a train for Norris, Montana. F[...]id tribute to Wilbur rode with Vic Anderson on the freight truck to Ennis and with a "Portrait of Wilbur" he had taken, saying, "You don't then they rented a room in the Schoenek Hotel. In the morn- have to know Wilbur to feel the power of this Portrait. He is ing, Lou McKean took them to their new home in Jeffers. an uncommon common man." The great responsibility Neither of th[...]in Montana before but they Wilbur always assumed and the effort and time he gave of fell in love with the country and a few years later they himself to produce the excellent results of ranch manage- bought the ranch. The John Grady's called the place the ment for which he was widely known, are deeply etched in "Cold Springs Ranch" and rightly so, it had good cold water every character line on his face in the portrait. springs that they used for the household and livestock for For his family the tribute is beautiful, although to them it many[...]en later just raised stock doesn't really portray the gentle, loving, smiling husband cows. In 1957 they bought the Johnny Olin ranch in Jeffers. and father whose memory they will cherish forever. John and Erna had three children: Elso J ., Jack R., and Two weeks later on November 1, 1978, Wilbur pas[...]. Reints Whitman. Elso married Marlene J. away at the Cal-Creek (Utter) Ranch near Sheridan. His sud- den death was shocking to his family and host of friends. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him. Cold Spring[...]l moving to Missoula to become House Director for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorori- ty. On October 21, 1981 , she was united in marriage to Byron Manley, a lifetime friend. She presently resides in Big Timber.[...]Lynda Powell Henry JOHN AND ERNA (RAST) REINTS John and Erna Reints came to the Madison Valley in |
| Jack, Susie and Elsa Reints in 1950.[...]er in back with Annie Kurfiss Braadsgaard in 1960 and they reside in Jeffers. Marlene was and Ruth, Loula and George. born and raised in Sidney, Montana. They have four children: William John (Opie), 1963; Rydell Jay, 1965; and twin daughters, Lisa Renee and Lori Rochelle, born in 1969. Elso William, bot[...]na; Bessie Jean in Spokane; Jack is a bachelor, and has continued to manage the ranch Mabel Christina in Billings; ·and John Omar in Boulder, Mon- since his father's dea[...]o Whitehall where twin sons, Albert Clifford 1963 and Robert John, 1966. and Alfred Ernest, were born in 1944. The father, Albert, Erna still lives in Jeffers.[...]died in 1956. Loula still resides in Whitehall. She is the grandmother of 40 and great grandmother to 48 children.[...]e AMELIA LOUISE (MAYNARD) RINGWELSKI Omar, and Elizabeth Daems Vetter at the H.B. Daems home near Varney, the eldest of 12 children. They were George, Louise was born in Bozeman, Montana, April 23, 1907; the Ruth, Gladys, Marie, and twin boys - all deceased. Surviving first child of Lucy Kinney and Elbert (Bert) Maynard. She are Dolores and Maisie in Vancouver, Washington; John in started to the Maynard School when she was seven. The Torrance, Calfirornia; Frank in Seattle; and Harriet in teacher lived with the Maynard family, and she and Louise Boulder, Montana. rode horseback to school. Later she walked the mile to the Her father worked for Walter McAtee on his Wigwam schoolhouse until her sister and brother were ready to start Ranch. When Loula was five they moved near Sheridan and school. The three of them went with a horse and buggy until stayed two years. They moved to Virginia City where she at- the Maynard and Jeffers Schools were consolidated in 1920. tended school. Omar Vetter was made manager of the Tom Louise finished the eighth grade in Jeffers. Johnny Grady Hodgen's Elling ranch on the Madison, near Cameron. The drove his sedan for the first school bus. family moved and Loula and her sister, Dolores, attended the Lucy Maynard started the first 4-H club in Madison Valley " Irish College" school with children of Pat McDonnell and and Louise enrolled in sewing and canning projects. She ex- Grant Hill, also Mamie Crum and Selma Falbaum. When hibited at the Madison County fairs and the Montana State Loula was 14 her parents moved to Butte. They returned to fairs in Helena. In 1924 she won the Montgomery Ward & the Madison and she lived with her aunt, Olive Vetter Baker, Co. trip to Chicago as the top 4-H member in the state. That at the Valley Garden Ranch. She returned to Butte, worked was the only trip available to 4-H members at that time. for her board and room and attended high school. Louise atte[...]ty High School in Bozeman On November 12, 1926 she married John Ritchie, who had graduating in[...], where they lived for 5 years, State College and graduated in 1929. She taught four years then they moved to a ranch near Varney. in Montana, then she took graduate work at the University They were parents of 9 children: Ruth Mae and Douglas of Washington.[...] |
| [...]and continued in 4-H work in Clark County, Washington[...]til 1973. She has been a member of Community Garden[...]Club, Camas, since 1949. Sam and she belong to the American Legion and American Association of Retired Per-[...]sons. Sam and Louise divide their time between their homes[...]in Camas, Washington, and Mesa, Arizona.[...]aynard Age 4, 1911. When World War II started she joined the Women's Army |
| Jack Rowse and his dog team at West Yellowstone, 1917. Lodge No. 2 and a Past Patron of No. 118 Order of the Jane Jeffers Ry bus was born on the family ranch on Oct- |
| visited Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Holland. She has also travelled in the Caribbean, the Yucatan and other sec- tions of Mexico and Guatemala. She is active in the Episcopal Church and in service organizations in Bellevue. Her hobbies are tennis, skiing, bridge, salmon fishing, travel and reading. Jane Jeffers Ry bus EUGENE KARL AND PAULINE (PFUND) SAIER Eugene Karl was born in Konstanz on Bodensee in Ger- Pauline and Eugene and their home.[...] |
| and high school in Ennis. He was a down hill ski racer for the Ennis Sky club during and after his high school days. He joined the Marines September 29th, 1950 and served until April 8th, 1952. He was in Korea during the Korean War for most of his active duty. Soon after his return to the ranch he met and married Lois Camilla Sannes in Billings, Montana.[...]d May 19, 1956. They had two children: Kristy Ann and Karl Marten. Kristy was born in Ennis August 19, 1961. She at- tended the Ennis School. She married Douglas Hyde Richardson in 1979. They hav[...]Karl was born in Ennis July 25, 1963. He attended the Ennis School. Volker ranched with his parents. They sold the sheep and milk cows and increased their herd to 450 commercial stock cows of Black Angus and Herefords. They bought into the Snowline Grazing Assn. south of Lima and summers some of the herd there. Irmingard was born in the ranch home July 16, 1931. She attended the Ennis School and Montana State College. She met Jean Pierre Sonderer, from France, who was touring the United States and happened to stop by the ranch. They were married in 1951 in Virginia City. They had six boys: Pierre, Tyson, Erick, Vance, Shane and Cy. Pierre married Lucie .Lloyd-Jones at her parents ' ranch in 1972. They had a daughter, Lucretia. Pierre and his family bought the former Todd ranch on the Virginia City bench. Tyson is married to Hazel and Byron, baby Beverly and Raymon - Pam Royal of Fort Worth, Texas. They have two children: December, 1941. Joshua and Paul. Irmingard's husband is a French professor[...]. Byron attended one year of Radio and Electrical School in Alarich was born in the ranch home April 3, 1933. He at- Los Angeles, California. tended the Ennis School and was a ski racer for the Ennis Ski Byron and Hazel were married at the Ennis Hotel on Club during his school years and after. He attended Dart- September 3, 1934 by Rev. Wm. Reeves, Nelson Saunders mouth College and Colorado A & M, where he graduated. He was best man and Laura Shewmaker Crooker was taught school his fi[...]ski bridesmaid. Their two children were born at the Ennis instruct. He was an Instructor at Grizzley[...]oun- Hotel, Raymon Byron on July 11, 1936 and Beverly Jeanne tain, Aspen and Big Sky. In 1977 he went to work for Na-[...]alifornia. He spent one year in Saudi Arabia for the company and then Byron did much painting and carpentry work, and has returned to California.[...]followed that occupation. He helped build the Madison Theatre and was projectionist there for 35 years. In January[...]1942 he took over the operation of the Bozeman-Norris[...]Lois Saier Telephone Co. as Harvey McKee, the owner, entered the Navy. The family moved into the telephone company office[...]then located where Gambles store is now, and managed it un-[...]1948-1952. HAZEL AND BYRON SAUNDERS Walter Byron Saunders, the second son of Theodore and Hotel Ennis |
| Byron and Hazel at the Kapok Tree Inn, Clearwater, Florida, Ray Schab[...]the sickle bar. His left foot was nearly severed. Fre[...]him home. His mother quickly wrapped the foot in ice (lucki- Byron was active in the Commercial Club and in the ly they had an ice house full of ice) and tied it in a towel. organization of the Fire Department, of which he was Then she called the doctor at Ennis. Dr. Holmson arrived as Secretary for many years. He also helped organize the Soil soon as he could in an old Ford car. He gave Ray first aid Conservation District and was a School Board member. He and then hurried him off to Butte, Montana ninety mil[...]p Jack Creek for away, where Dr. McGinn sewed the tendons together. The 30 years. operation was successful and the injury healed rapidly. The Hazel worked in 4-H and Womans Club for many years. doctors gave all the credit for saving the foot to Ray's[...]mother for her quick treatment of the ice pack. It wasn't She worked as State Liquor vendor under Byron for four years and worked for Cloe H. Paugh in the Insurance office long, but perhaps to a littl[...]before he was able to run and play, but time waits for no one and at last he was able to work and play with the other Byron and Hazel took over the Saunders Hotel in 1955 children. from his[...]ers, which they operated until Ray attended the Meadow Creek School with his sisters. January, 1979. They continue to make this their home and ha~e plenty of room when their children, seven grand- When Ray was a young man he worked for the Montana children and two great grandchildren return home. Power Co. He helped build the bridge at Madison Lake.[...]the ranch for a short time, then moved to Ennis where[...]Ray age 4. RAYMOND ROBERT AND EDNA (DAEMS) |
| Ray and Edna Schabarker, 1975.[...]Kenneth Schoenek worked for the Welles and Krauss Lumber Co. He worked at KENNETH PAUL SCHOENEK |
| at the sawmill before going to Seattle. At the University of grade as they lived four and one-half miles from the country Washington he had a part time course in aircraft framing school and twelve miles from Ennis over a rough road. The and worked for Boeing Aircraft. next year, he and his sister, Edith, boarded and roomed with In August 1942 he volunteered for service in the U.S. a neighbor lady, Mrs. Joe Mackel, who rented a house in En- Navy Air Force and served until November 1945. He helped nis. For two years, Louis, brother Kenneth and sister Edith at the sawmill before entering pre-dentistry at Montana roomed with an Uncle and Aunt, Ferd and Jo Schoenek, at State College in 1946. He continued at Georgia . the Fitzgerald Hotel. Southwestern, Americus, Georgia, transferred to Memphis After selling the sawmill, the family moved into their State College, Memphis, Tennessee, but since there was no house in Ennis and Louis finished high school in Ennis. He openings in dentistry he continued in chemistry and then was on the Ennis High Basketball team, about the only decided to go into pharmacy.[...]school activity at that time. He belonged to the Episcopal In 1953 he graduated with his degree in pharmacy from Youth Fellowship under the leadership of Rev. William Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. He served his intern- Reeves, was confirmed and continued being active in the ship in California, then worked in California, Colorado, and fellowship and church in Bozeman. The Rev. Reeves was Wyoming. . transferred to Bozeman about the time Louis started college He bought a pharmacy[...]Louis graduated from Ennis High School in 1936 and were blown across the highway and he lost everything, even entered Montana State Co[...]In 1937 his He identification. and his wife were asleep in their apartment parents moved to Bozeman and built a house which Louis above the store and miraculouslv landed on their mattress planned and helped build, though he never saw it finished. wi[...]civil engineering, in his junior caused explosion and he was left with debts. year was stricken with the worst type of acute leukemia and Kenneth worked in Pharmacies in Denver and Col- died June 5, 1939 in Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. Records orado Springs. For awhile he owned and operated an auto show that he was the fourth person in the United States to parts store in Colorado Springs.[...]The St. James Parish Hall, Bozeman, was built in memo[...]Verta Shewmaker Shipman and Edward 0. Shipman. Louis E. Schoenek[...]EDWARD 0. AND VERTA M. (SHEWMAKER) SHIP-[...]tember 22, 1918. Her parents were Bessie Hutchins and Louis Erwin Schoenek, named for his grandfather[...]from pioneer families of born October 15, 1918 at the Schoenek sawmill. Dr. Madison County.[...]n a ranch one mile north of McNallan of Ennis was the attending physician. Ennis, purchased from Grandma Ennis in 1912, and later When Lewis was ready for school his mother obtained sold to the Love family and better known now as the Goggins material from the county superintendent to teach the first Hereford Ranch. Verta grew up in[...] |
| Whitmans: Kenneth, Edine, Quint. Aimee and Robin, Linda,, Travis D[...]of Ennis which left the five passengers with broken bones,[...]This put her on crutches for another year. school and graduated from high school in 1936 in a class of In 1937 after a year at the telephone company, Verta fifteen.[...]versity in Spokane, Verta's parents moved from the ranch to a home they built Washington. Upon her return she secured (seemingly) a in Ennis in 1920. That orig[...]ort, Madison County At- lives. Her parents, James and Bessie Shewmaker operated a torney, but spent nearly eight years in that office and in the dairy in Ennis and later bought what was known as the Kur- Clerk and Recorders office with John C. Tolson and Mary fiss Ranch, seven miles south of Ennis, toward the Varney Schneider Myers as her supervisor. Verta, her aunt Cloe Hut- area, now known as the Robbie Ranch. chins Paugh, and sis.ter Laura Shewmaker Crooker drove During Verta's growing up period she had only one sister, back and forth from Ennis to Virginia City daily, except L[...]cared for many young folks, Hazel when the roads were impassable. At that time there were no Grady Saunders, Ernie Erickson, Milton Moots and Jim Mc- paved highways and very little maintenance. Coy, to name a few. There was always a lot of activity and Verta married Edward 0. Shipman May 18, 1946 in the old never a lack of people around, as they had boarde[...]urch in Ennis, now an apartment house. Eddie boys and girls who lived in rural areas, during the school was known for his ability to announce rodeos and also work- season because of lack of school buses. ed as a heavy equipment operator and he supervised for After graduation from high s[...]Messmer & Haggerty Construction who installed the water job was at the Bozeman-Norris Telephone Company, owners system in Ennis. He was born April 27, 1921 and died and operators were Harvey and Mae McKee. Wages were February 1, 1973. $30.00 per month as an operator and they used the crank Three children were born to t[...]e Madge, switchboard, which connected local calls and party lines in January 29, 1948; Gregg James, November 9, 1952; and rural area. Everyone had a different ring, but it[...]yone Edine, born in Sheridan, lived and grew up in Ennis, attend- "rubbered". Everyone expected it, and weren't concerned. ed grade school and graduated from high school. She married Communication was limited, but many times[...]ive of West ed trips to town to shop, run errands and bring mail, if the Yellowstone. They had four children: Quint[...]le didn't jump in Kenneth, October 1, 1969; and Tracy Theron, May 30, 1971 the car to drive ten or twenty miles for the Sunday who died in infancy. They m[...]llon then. Yellowstone. Verta had the misfortune of having two accidents during[...]is, went to grade her younger days, one skiing on the-Jack Creek ski slope. school and high school there and graduated from high school Many complications followed this first accident. She had to in 1972. August 9, 1975 he married Linda Hubner and they have the leg re-broken and a skin graft at a Butte Hospital, have one daughter, Travis Dee, born September 14, 1977. as the area didn't have the "wizard with bone", Dr. Ronald They live in Ennis. Losee, who is here now. She is still aware of the injury, but Verta spent most of her normal, happy and uneventful life learned to live with it, and still loves the sport. About a year in Ennis. She was employed for many years by Beaverhead and a half later she was in an auto accident three miles south National Forest, Madison Ranger District from which she[...] |
| retired in 1977. She is now employed at the Sportsman's Lodge. The Lodge was built and owned and operated by her brother-in-law and sister, Otis and Laura Crooker and daughter, Stephanie L. Crooker Vujovich. Otis died in Oc- tober, 1974. Verta 's sister and niece still operate the lodge. Verta feels a part of this beautiful valley and community and doesn't expect to leave it until "death does us p[...]Alice and Mel Slater, 1933.[...]The coal miners all went on strike for many months. Coal[...]was hard to get and prices went up so most folks changed to[...]Electric refrigerators were becoming popular, so the[...]Mel then set up a garage and was also a Kaiser-Frazier[...]dealer, along with what was left of the coal and dray business. He also bought a big truck and hired a man to haul[...]Mel was a good mechanic and business flourished, but[...]much of his labor was "on the cuff" and it became increasing-[...]ly hard to collect so in 1951 he sold the shop and home and purchased the theatre building in Whitehall where they[...]resided for the next seven years. They remodeled, air condi-[...]tioned and bought new modern theatre equipment, leased[...]out office space, apartments, Bar and Malt Shop. Alice, Judy, Mel and Sue Slater.[...]who was doing a hitch in the Navy.[...]tayed home. In 1957 they were MELVIN (MEL) JESS AND ALICE (DELL) SLATER going broke so turned the building back to the original owner, got what they could out of the theatre equipment and Mel was born of Jess E. Slater and Elva M. (Butts) Slater took a $65,000 loss. August 11, 1914 at Twin Bridges, grew up on a ranch and The family moved to Pony where they bought a small brick went to school in the area with a younger sister, Wilma. He house for $1 ,200 which Mel remodeled and made modern. also had a half brother, Lee England (now deceased) by a For one summer Mel and Alice and the girls and her previous marriage of his mother. mother ran the Pony Hotel while they specialized in Sunday Dec[...]e Anaconda November 16, 1915, only child of Harry and it with the old obsolete facilities they had to work with, so Harriet Pat Jackson Dell, also reared on a ranch. they closed it in the fall. It was rough sledding that first year, during the depres- In the spring of '59 Mel and Alice's step-father, Paul sion. They lived pretty[...]so they moved there. They bought a mobile home and two at the Montana Auto where his brother worked. They were[...]ch they made into a small trailer court. That was the in the "chips ", he was earning $80 a month washing cars. summer of the earthquake when the mountain fell, August Then back to Twin Bridges[...]ked at Walter Pit- 17, 1959. cher's garage and also drove a school bus until 1936 when he September 1st they purchased the business called the Gift purchased the ice, coal and dray business from Ira Edwards. Shop which[...]years). During those years Mel did carpentry and never lack- divided between his two children, Mel and Wilma. With his ed work. Winters the last ten years they hired help in the $500 they bought a small log house in the south end of town store and traveled south in their camper, to Arizona[...] |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith[...]12, 1886, S. Roy born on September 11, 1889, and Adelbert[...]n on September 2, 1892. John was born in Michigan and Mel and Alice - May, 1977. came with his folks to the Madison Valley. Upon a visit of[...]Mrs. Smith's parents in the late seventies, he returned to[...]gan with them. There he died on December 3, 1878. The Susan married Robert Ren, August 19, 1960; went to infant daughter died on April 5, 187 4 and sleeps in the first California where he was stationed in the Navy. grave in the Evan's Cemetery on the hill east of the Evan 's Brother Lee England passed away in 1973[...]his grandparents in brief remission of six months and passed away shortly after Michigan, he was suddenly taken ill with the flue and died his 63rd birthday, August 31, 1977 at the University January 7, 1919. He was brought back to the Madison Valley Hospital of Utah in Salt Lake City. His body was cremated Cemetery for burial. All children except John were born in and his ashes are buried in the Valley View Cemetery at the Madison Valley. Sam Smith donated a parcel of lan[...]is granddaughter, Lola Dell Ren, age six, the community for a cemetery. It is known as the Valley daughter of Susan and Robert who died August 28, 1969 of Cemeter[...]In 1871, Mr. Smith took an " iron horse" bound for Alice resides in her home in Ennis. Daughter Judy and Corrinne, Utah. From there he went by sta[...]ome here on this property, as do her parents, Pat and Paul Johnston. Alice had four grandchildren, Steven, Melissa, and James Mrs. Smith and daughters: L. to R. : Hattie, Gertrude and Anderson, of Ennis and Jess Ren at present residing with his Ruby. parents Sue and Bob, at Imperial Beach, California where his father is soon to retire from the Navy. Alice Dell Slater SAMUEL R. AND MARGARET (YARGER) SMITH Samuel R. Smith was born in Cornwall, England on |
| and proceeded on to the Madison Valley where he readily secured work from[...]rd. He continued in this employment until renting the Henry Mitchell place, later owned by Bert Mitchell. He farmed this until 1878 when he purchased the old John Simpson place. He set to work im- proving that place and worked at the carpenter's trade to get supplies for the ranch. Later he became a road supervisor and was considered one of the best in the state of Montana. He held this position for over twenty years with the excep- tion of one or two terms. He practiced general farming, had a dairy on a small scale and often had forty or fifty head of cattle to sell. He also was a horseman. In the later eighties he owned about one hun- dred head. Horses depreciated in value and this business was not a paying proposition. He had his ranch surrounded by one of the best fences on the valley. He had numerous division fences made. He had plenty of irrigation ditches which carried the waters in good style through them. Mr. Smith was the best boxer in the vicinity. Mr. Smith died on February 28, 1913 and was buried with Masonic Rites at Ennis. Mrs. Smith was always a most faithful George and Elaine (Gretchin) Sprout - 1967. helper. After Mr. Smith's death, she spent her remaining years with her daughter Gertrude and son-in-law Dan Keller, at Cayley, Alberta, Canada[...]the Robison place, then to the Bill Jones place on the lower[...]treet George went to school in Ennis from the 6th grade until his[...]mill up Jack Creek in 1934. In 1935 he joined the CCC's at Thompson Falls and worked at Nine Mile. He came back to the Madison Valley where he worked several places, in[...]cluding the Bear Creek Ranch in 1936 to 1938 at which time[...]he started playing the guitar with Harry and John Mayo and his brother, Herb. at the piano. This orchestra played at the[...]He worked for George Carkeek, at Cameron, and Bert Frisbie, in the Meadow Creek area.[...]Chicago for a year where George worked in the Carnegie[...]the chrome mines, then to Butte where he worked in the mines. In March 1942 they moved to Ennis and he went to[...]That fall George went to Wyoming to work for the Elkhorn[...]Ranch. He returned to Ennis to wait for a call to the[...]worked several places, then George, Elaine, LeRoy and Richard, May 1951. worked for the county from 1945 for twelve years, during[...]this time he, Paul Love and Lucille Dixon played for dances.[...]The Sprouts purchased their home in Ennis in 1954. He GEORGE EDWARD AND ELAINE (BOVEE) SPROUT went to work for the Montana Highway Department in[...]November, 1959, and retired in May, 1977. George was born May 21, 1[...]ll, Montana. He He was a member of the Ennis Volunteer Fire Department went to school there and at Meyersberg and Porcupine. He for 23 years, a member of the Eagles, and B.P.O. Elks No. came to the Madison Valley with his parents, Earl and Clara, 390 of Virginia City. He was Exalted Ruler in 1964-65. He is in May, 1928, and sisters and brothers: Mildred (Midge), a member of the Montana Masonic Lodge No. 2, and was Herb, Helen, Ray, Betty and Norma Jean. Their first home Master in 1979, is a meinber of Scottish Rites, and a member was 2 miles south of Ennis at the present Saier ranch. They of the Episcopal Church. then moved to the Bill Reints ranch, then to the Homer Hut- Elaine "Gretchen" Bovee was born December 7, 1922 at ton ranch, then rented the Tom and Bob Wilson ranch on Reed Point, Montana. She attended McAllister grade school Meadow Creek then to the George Smith ranch on North and Ennis High School graduating in May, 1940. She was Meadow Creek, then to the Squire's ranch, which is presently the Ennis area Avon representative for 25 year[...] |
| [...]er, Madison Chapter No. 118 Order of Eastern Star and was Worthy Matron in 197 4. She was a member of the Virginia City B.P.O Does No. 77 and was President in 1964. Their children ,are Leroy, who married Jody Wortman. They have sons Craig and Croy, of Ennis; and Richard, who married Shauna Keller, and they have a son Lance and a daughter, Launa, of Bozeman.[...]Norman Stewart was a member of the Ennis School Board[...]for 17 years, President of the Madison County Wool Growers[...]Association, Chairman of the O'Dell Ditch Company and was a charter member of the Rocky Mountain Baptist Church in[...]1955. He helped build the first church building and served as deacon and trustee. He was always interested in Mr. and Mrs. NL. Stewart Wedding, the betterment of the community. He was a fine farmer and[...]Winifred C. Jeffers NORMAN LUTHER AND ELSIE (FARNHAM) STEWART Mr. Stewart was born September 10, 1880 in Old Friend |
| [...]parents were Frank Searle, a band leader and music teacher, and America Louise Peterson Searle. Frank took up a ranch on Moores Creek, west of Ennis. The Searles had four[...]November 25, 1901; Frank V., March 1, 1904; and Helen L., March 24, 1907. The first ranch was sold and the children[...]re brought to Ennis to attend school that winter. All three began school at the same time. The one room schoolhouse[...]was below Chamberlins on the county road. Mr. Smith was the teacher for all eight grades. The children trudged down the icy snow banked road past[...]Chowning's store on to the red barn, and past Chamberlin's.[...]In the spring of 1911, the family moved to their new home[...]on Moores Creek, and the children were happy to be out of school and to go barefoot. They had their two horses, Bonnie[...]and Gus, chickens, turkeys, pigs and a cow. They lived there Helen Lockridg[...]ht years. In 1919 they moved to Ogden, Utah where the[...]1923. Frank, the boys and Helen returned to Ennis.[...]Pacific Railroad and they were the parents of two daughters, June and Joyce. June married in 1940 and lives in Ogden.[...]Joyce graduated from nurses ' training in Ogden. She and her mother moved to Minneapolis where she went to college and that had been homesteaded in the 1890's by Frank Kirby. married Clarence Zwack. Gretchen took practical nurses ' The log house that was on the place then is still standing and training there. Joyce died leaving six small ch[...]r father married again in three Helen went to the log school house which was about a mile years. west of the present Bear Creek school house, and later at- Gretchen married Paul D. Stone in 1952. She still lives in tended the new school. She went to high school in Ennis for Minneapolis. two years and that was all that was offered then. She enroll- ed in a Nurses' Training program in Bozeman but was mar- ried before she completed it.[...]ried to Helen Lockridge on September 25, 1921 at the Luther Buford home north of Virginia City. Soon after the wedding, they left for Preston, Iowa where they farmed until January, 1926. Upon returning to the Madison Valley, they lived first at her parents' home on Bear Creek ROY AND LUCY TAYLOR and then moved to the Yellow Barn ranch which Helen's father had purchased. The Lockridges and Stoltzes operated the Bear Creek ranch and the Yellow Barn ranch for many Lucy Zeig[...]February 8, 1892. Her parents were years. During the summers, wild hay was put up on the ~oniface and Rosella Zeigler. Boniface was a freighter, haul- lower place and horses, machinery, and men were taken from mg ore out of the Rochester Mines. He was killed in a the Bear Creek ranch to help with the work. It took at least dynamite accident. A sister of Lucy was born six months three weeks, depending on the weather, number of after his death. Her name was Henrietta ("Doll "). breakdowns, and size of the crop. A hay crew was hired dur- The mother and two little girls lived with their Zeigler ing thi[...]ow called Two children had been born to Harold and Helen while Biltmore) between Twin Bridges and Point of Rocks, after they lived in Iowa, Charles Emmett on August 5, 1922 and which Rosella Zeigler married James Shewmaker, a widower, Irvin Clyde on December 20, 1923. After the Stoltzes return- with two sons, Jim and George. Mr. Shewmaker adopted ed to the Madison Valley, five more children were born: Lucy and Doll. Shirley Maxine on April 5, 1926; Naomi Lucile, on April 10, The family first lived in Twin Bridges, then they mov[...]ert on April 11, 1928; Harold Nolen on July the Ruby Valley. Mr. Shewmaker was a self educated 8, 1930; and Delores Ellen on August 8, 1931. At this time veterinarian and helped his neighbors out whenever needed. (1981) all the children are living. Lucy attended the Laurin School and remembers Mrs. The Stoltzes continued living at the Yellow Barn ranch Garvey, her teacher, re[...]they both passed away, Helen on January 21, 1955, and at her desk and taking a nap every noon. Harold on October 8, 196[...]Roy Taylor was born on June 12, 1893 on the Taylor ranch,[...]miles south of Alder. His father donated land for the[...]school house, a church, which later was moved to the town of Lucile Wellman Ruby, and for a cemetery, still called the Taylor Cemetery.[...] |
| Roy and Lucy's 50th Wedding Anniversary.[...]- Roy and Lucy's 65th Wedding Anniversary -1977. and bought a piece of land on the hill where they live now.[...]For 15 years Roy was in the employ of Harry Townshend[...]at his West Fork summer home. He was care taker and[...]der. He has retired now. Wherever Roy worked Lucy |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. Thackery, i971. Walt and Cora, 1943. When the second World War broke out, he joined the Cora was a real educator and enjoyed boys and girls of all Marine Corps and was stationed in Bremerton, Washington, ages. After retiring from her last teaching job at Alder, she then transferred to Pocatello, Idaho. While there, he married continued tutoring youngsters in studies and music. Cora Hoyt on June 24, 1943. She was teaching and con- Although she lived a very frugal life, she helped young peo- tinued to do so while he was in the service. ple financially if th[...]Walter was an ardent Indian artifact collector and found daughter of John and Catherine Shessler. She received her many, but the most important of his finds was the bones of a education there and taught school before coming west. She saber tooth tiger in a cave near Waterloo. These bones were and her first husband, Frank Hoyt, ranched in various places sent to the Smithsonian Institute for identification. After he in Idaho and Montana. He died in 1938 while getting out passed away Cora presented them to the Montana School of wood in the mountains. They were living 10 miles south of[...]Tech. His fine collection of arrowheads Ennis at the time. and Indian hammers was given to the Museum at Dillon. She attended Montana State Normal (now Western) He was a charter member of the American Legion at Dillon for a time, then contin[...]from On May 10, 1973 he passed away at the Veterans' Hospital the Marine Corps, they made their home in the Ruby Valley, in Sheridan, Wyoming at the age of 80, and was buried in the where he again worked on several ranches. Later h[...]National Battlefield, with full military honors. and erected themselves a five room log house with a fireplace Cora continued living in Laurin until she passed away on from rocks he had collected through the years. This is where July 3, 1974 and was buried in the Custer National Bat- , they lived until they both[...]They had no children. She and Walter worked very hard Walt 's Indian Artifacts which he donated to the Dillon and saved their money. Also, at her death she gave substan- Museum. tial sums to the Madison Valley Hospital, the Dillon Hospital, and the Sheridan Library. A $1 ,000 scholarship[...]was given to the Sheridan High School to be awarded at $100[...]per year, until the fund was exhausted, to a worthwhile stu-[...]ALBERT EDWARD THEXTON AND[...]tana November 30, 1907, the son of Thomas and Mary[...]and Donald; also two sisters, Gladys Chamberlin and Annie[...]After finishing high school he lived on the home ranch with his mother and brother Donald and helped raise hay and cat- tle. When World War II broke out he joined the Marine[...] |
| [...]Al was sent to Bremerton, Washington and stood guard in the shipyards, but later was fortunate enough to work in the[...]ook galley where he worked for nearly three years and was[...]During this time Violet worked in the telephone office in Bremerton and later returned to teaching, in the junior high.[...]Ennis and started ranching on ground they bought that join-[...]s home ranch, south of Ennis. He enjoyed ranching and raising cattle and especially liked anything that had to do[...]with horses. They raised many horses and he broke them to[...]One day he asked Violet to go with him across the river to check the cattle. He was riding a big paint horse and went to the crossing he had used the year before. Without hesita-[...]tion, he jumped his horse off the bank into the Madison River, and nearly disappeared from view, landing in a hole[...]that had been gouged out by the gorge during the winter. This really scared Violet and when Al re-appeared and mo- tioned for her to come, she yelled at him that there were[...]easier ways to get rid of a wife, and she stayed where she[...]In 1964, they joined the Centennial Train that went to the New York World's Fair. She went as a side saddler, and was Albert and Violet Thexton Wedding, 1942. accompanied by Pauline Hacker and Ida Schooler. Albert was their groom and caretaker of the horses. With his top Corps, and also married Violet Burns who had taught in En- s[...]g Washington, D.C. This was when Lyndon Violet, the daughter of Robert Burns and Annie Daley Johnson was President. In Chicago, Al's horse slipped on the Burns was born on a ranch near Cardwell, Montana, June 22, wet pavement and went down breaking Al's ankle and foot. 1908. She had four sisters, Bernice, Irene, Ruth (deceased)[...]on their way home, so he missed two parades, but and Ruby (deceased), and one brother Robert who resides in was kidded that it was the horse that got him down instead Helena. of the three women he had been looking after. Violet finished high school in Eugene, Oregon and returned Albert was interested in civic work and served on the to Montana to attend Montana State Normal School[...]Madison Valley Hospital board for several years, and belong- Western). She taught in several rural schools and in Ennis. ed to the local Lions Club for 25 years. A plaque has been She returned to college where she received her degree in erected in the Lion's Park in honor of him which reads "Al 1938. She taught school in Lewistown and Missoula until Thexton Picnic Area". the war. Albert and she were married in Missoula, May 31, 1942 and he was immediately sent to Boot Camp in San Diego. She One of the ranch chores attended to by AL stayed in Long Beach, California and took a course in riveting on airplanes. Albert, Sparkle and Jeff.[...] |
| The Thextons enjoyed traveling and visited all 50 states, besides driving all the way across Canada; and taking the 100 mile ferry trip to Newfoundland. They visited Mexico several times, and went to Yucatan to see the various pyramids. They flew to Australia, North and South New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji and Tahiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. They were in Alaska and flew to the Eskimo villiges of Kotzebue and Nome, crossing the Arctic Circle. They visited Hawaii twice. Also, they visited England, France, Germany , The Netherlands, and Switzerland. Their last trip was to South America where they were in Panama, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Peru. In Peru, they saw the famous Machu Picchu Inca Indian ruins that had be[...]rs. This was an In- dian village situated high in the Andes Mountains, 14,000 feet, to protect the women from the Spanish soldiers. In 1969 they sold their cattle and some farm land and semi- retired. They built a home in Apache Juncti[...]had undergone a cancer operation. He is buried in the Ennis Cemetery. Tom and nephew Duane Thexton, 1964. Violet served on the Madison Valley Hospital board, and the Ennis School board and also belonged to the Woman's Club and Cowbelles. At the present she spends six months at After finishing school Tom worked for the Montana Power her ranch home and six months in Arizona. Company helping replace the old pipeline at the Power Plant in Madison Canyon. He also worked for J.W. Chowning in the store in Ennis. He returned to the ranch assisting in its[...]operation, raising of hay, grain, beef cattle and horses. Tom[...]threshed their own grain. Then Tom and his brother Bill did '[...]custom threshing for ranchers in the Ennis-Jeffers area for[...]Order of Eagles, Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers, and a member and Elder of the Madison Valley Community[...]In 1932 he met Adah Osborne, the teacher at the Varney ------[...]School. They were married December 24, 1932 at the |
| [...]William and Helena and children, Frances, Homer, Melvin,[...]Raymond, Russell Pigs on the Thexton ranch. |
| [...]attended high school and worked. After the Thextons were married they lived at. Moran[...]Creek for five years. They moved to the Thompson Hot Springs in 1935. The Moran Creek home is now owned by[...]daughter Frances Eshe and her husband. Five of the Thexton children were born in Montana.[...]Frances Mae. October 21, 1930 at Moran Creek. She is a ,[...]California; Raymond Thomas at the Thompson Hot Springs,[...]Ennis, October 15, 1939 and is a Mechanical Engineer in[...]Long Beach, California; Russell Jay at the Hot Springs on May 15, 1941 and is employed at the School for the Deaf in[...]The Thextons moved to California in 1943, and returned in Bill Thexton and family leaving for California. 1961. They now live at the Hot Springs where they have[...]children and one great grandchild. Valley. He and his wife took a trip to see the Huttons on Jack Creek and check the saw mill. When they returned[...]o their cabin on South Meadow Creek. He was to be the new ranger in this area, so Helen's parents had to move. Frank Ayers had just resigned from the Bear Creek Sta- tion but they were unable to move as they just had a baby so the Bosworths lived in the Frank McDonnell cabin for a month. This was in 1913. Harlan was just a year old. This was a hard and lonely life for the family. Helen loved horses and spent much time riding. A horse was traded for a[...]who had been kill- ed in France. Helen finished the eighth grade at Bear Creek, she attend- ed school in Ennis for a short time and stayed with Mrs. Chamberlin, then they moved to V[...]tana, the son of the late Paul Vendal Tillinger, who came[...]from Noemec, Austria Hungary and Veronika, who came[...]the Madison Valley December 1, 1927. They leased the En-[...]to the Gilmer ranch, south of Ennis, which they leased u[...]1933. They then moved back to the Ennis Homestead and purchased it. In 1936 they bought the Robert Wilson ranch[...] |
| Paul 'Fillinger Jr. 's father and mother, 1964.[...]Gene " Todd, about 1965. Paul w-ew up in Ennis and attended Ennis grade school LL. (GENE) TODD AND PEGGY TODD and high school, graduating in May 1947. He helped operate both ranches. They operated a dairy in Ennis and ranched on the Robert Wilson place, where they raised cattle, hay and Gene Todd was the second of six children of Lennie grain. Paul took over both places when his father became ill Houston and Mary Edwards Todd; he was born on the home about 1960. His father died at seventy-seven[...]s west of Ennis on Moore's Creek on January 1971, and mother, Veronika, followed her husband in death[...]Mrs. Belle Jeffers, and on the Buffalo Ranch, as well as on 1977 he sold the Robert Wilson ranch to Ben Johnson Mon- tana Prop[...]Alice M. Orr's Bear Creek Ranch. His three years and Homesites. eight months in the Army was the only time he spent out of the Madison Valley. Gene served as a corpsman in the 170th Paul is active in Search and Rescue and has been an active Hospital Evacuation Unit in Italy and Africa. He was being volunteer fireman since the early 1950's. He is the last ac- shipped to the Pacific theatre when peace was declared. tive ch[...]He and Peggy McMullen met when she came to the Bear Paul has one sister, Veronica T. Baker and two nephews, Creek Ranch to take a job as a cook. During the war, after Randal and Wendel, who reside in Ennis. They help Paul on completing an Engineering War Training course at Mon- the ranch. tana State College, she had become a draftsman for Boeing[...]Aircraft Company in Seattle. She also worked as a layout[...]Peggy was born in Livingston on March 16, 1922. She spent her early childhood years in the gold mining town _of Paul 'Fillinger, nephew Rand[...]Veronica Baker Jardine near Gardiner. Peggy and her brothers, Lows, and nephew Wenda[ Baker. James and Gordon, children of Lewis Albert and Adelaide Forshaw McMullen, grew up on the West Fork of the[...]Their father died in 1929, and their mother, who had been a[...]the children at home, and later took them with her while she[...]t in rural schools in Gallatin County. After 1936 the family spent the school year in Los Angeles; Peggy attended the Art Center School there following high school.[...]Gene and Peggy were married at Trinity Episcopal Church[...]warden the same day the couple's first child, Dawn was born.[...]in Sheridan, Montana -- June 20, 1949. The other children[...]on January 14, 1953; and Lacey on November 6, 1954. In the more than eighteen years he worked as a game[...]warden, Gene earned a reputation for integrity and fairness.[...]Yellowstone, and knew it well. He went on many search and[...] |
| [...]amily, 1979. L to R.: Lacey, Gordon, Peggy, Dawn, and Jonathan.[...]"Dutch" Kurfiss, Carolyn Kurfiss. knowledge of the country and of first aid were invaluable. During the days following the 1959 earthquake he rescued a number of survivors, and recovered the bodies of ten people stands today. He was[...]Amanda Kaufman Umstead was also born in Ohio, where Gene died following a heart attack while returning from she met and married Sam. To this union were born four patrol on the upper Madison on December 27, 1967. After[...]rene, Mrs. Ed two miles in bitter cold weather to the nearest house, but Lally; and Ed, their son, who spent a year with the Kurfiss's died before medical help could reach him. before 1920 and returned to Dayton, Ohio, his old home. He was a member of Virginia City Lodge No. 1, A.F. & The Umstead's came to Montana in 1920 and stayed with A.M.; Sturdevant-Davis Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars; the the Elmer Kurfiss'. While "Pop" as Sam came to be known Ennis Rodeo Club; and the Montana Peace Officers Associa- by his many friends, worked on various ranches and at the tion.[...]k". Eventually, they saved Peggy had worked at the Madison Valley Clinic as a enough mo[...]in Jeffers where they liv- laboratory technician and physician's aide for two years ed out their lives. before Gene's death and continued in this job for several Amanda kept house and tended the annual vegetable years. In 1973 she returned to college, and took a bachelor's garden and put up the food stuff for winter consumption, but degree in[...]from Mon- "Pop" spent a lot of his time in the General Store in Jeffers tana State University. She is now a technical writer and spinning yarns and telling tales around the big pot bellied editor in the Publications Bureau of the Department of stove that was the center piece of attention, especially in the Natural Resources and Conservation in Helena, coming winter. He also spent an awful lot of time doing carpentry home on weekends to the Madison. Peggy has had watercolors and drawings hung in juried shows in Albuquerque, Cod[...]Back row. L. to R.: Harry, Elmer, Carolyn Kurfiss and Bozeman, and the first Electrum show in Helena. She has Marietta August. Front row: Lorrai[...]ur- free-lanced for several newspapers in Montana and Wyom- fiss, Gertrude Finley Schroyer, Rose Ballard,, Geo. August, ing, writing feature articles and area news. Clark Schroyer (Family Group). The oldest of the Todd children, Dawn, lives with her hus- band, Jack Wetherby, and her children, Jamie and Misty Carver, in Bellingham, Washington. Jonathan and Lorri live in Gillette, Wyoming, with their daughters, Becky and Courtney. Gordon has two sons, Jason and Mike; he recently moved to Texas with his wife Linda and her son, Bobby Whitehill, after serving as a councilman and mayor in Ennis. Lacey lives in San Francisco.[...]Peggy McMullen Todd SAMUEL AND AMANDA UMSTEAD Sam Umstead was the son of German immigrants who |
| [...]turned out numerous picture California and Aircraft Maintenance in Helena, Montana, frames, medicine chests and cabinets. All of his relatives had and worked at the East Base, now Malstrom Air Force them in their h[...]run t he family ranch in wi.th his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Junior 1946. Finley,Carolyn Kurfiss, Lorraine Kurfiss, and Edward Lally; On June 23, 1951 Jack married Faye Jul1e Oetter at whom he loved dearly and very much enjoyed teasing, Frankfort, Illinois. Faye graduated from the Joliet, Illinois although perhaps not as much as they enjoyed being teased. High School and attended Northwestern and DePaul He became a favorite with the store's customers and when Universities and is a graduate of the American Conservatory he passed away in 1938 he had one of the largest funerals in of Music in Chicago. the Madison Valley. All his life he was a Modern Woodman Jack and Faye returned to the ranch in May 1957 from Los and that organization was in charge of the burial ar- Angeles, California where Jack had worked at the Research rangements in Madison Valley Cemetery. Amanda preceded and Development Laboratory of R.C.A. They ran the Jour- him in death in 1934.[...]ICK WATKINS Jack McCormick Watkins was born at the ranch home of |
| The Watkins living room in the home built by Jack M. 's father. Fred and Betty Weber. in 1977. In 1978 they sold the majority of the ranch but re- |
| [...]rsyth, Montana '46-'48; Douglas, Alaska '48-' 49; and was Art Supervisor of Bozeman Public Schools '49-[...]uilding for 33 years, as a shipfit- ter, loftsman and draftsman for two private shipyards in Tacoma, pr[...]ived a rating of Naval Architect in 1952. Some of the most pleasant of his ship-building ex- periences[...]son Vernor Luther, on December 18, 1950. Frances and he were divorced in 1960. Vickie is married to Je[...]They have a daughter, Katie, born March 2, 1979, and a son Tom and Joan Williams at their home in Jeffers. Andrew, b[...]as to Virginia Chapman in 1962. During the time the Williams were working for the Brys, She had a daughter, Robin, born May 25, 1946. She is mar- the Williams had a son, Tom, and a daughter, Kevin born to ried to Dennis Nervik.[...]em. born August 24, 1966, Dean, born July 8, 1968 and Maralee, Tom worked for the Brys for a few years then went into the born September 10, 1970.[...]er business, then became bulk oil distributor for the Romell retired on August 31, 1979. Their home is on the 15 Carter Oil Company, now called Exxon. He then bought and acres which is six miles south of Port Orchard, Washington. ran the Tom Williams Tackle Shop for ten years, retiring[...]ness". His 1973. hobby is raising trees and shrubs. He has over 100 different In 1948 the Williams bought the Rose Matzick house in species.[...]Jeffers which burned to the ground the bad winter of 1949. They then purchased the Malphus Switzer home in Jeffers,[...]omell Wiles where their children were raised, and where they still live. Their daughter, and her husband, Kevin and Martin Bren-[...]Bridget is the Williams ' only grandchild. Their son and his[...]Tom and Joan Williams KEMP AND DORIS (ALTHOUSE) WILLETT[...]1908. His parents, Phillip and Belle, moved to a homestead[...]near Cameron when he was six weeks old. Nine years later |
| Kemp and Doris worked on various ranches around the Madison Valley until 1951, when they moved into Ennis and Kemp worked as a barber, and Doris operated a small restaurant for two years,[...]el. Daughter Juana moved to San Francisco when she finish- ed high school and married Arthur Pearce. They had four sons: Arthur Jr., 1959; Ladd, 1960; Robert, 1964; and Gary, 1969. Jay graduated from Montana State University and mar- ried Mary K. Frisbie. They have five childre[...]64; Christine, 1965; Jeffery, 1966; Andrew, 1969; and Phillip, 1974. Jay is now Ennis High School Principal and Mary K. teaches kindergarten. Lee graduated from Kinman Business College, Spokane, Washington and Cal Poly, Pomona, California. He died in 1972. He had served in the Army in Vietnam and Germany. Nita graduated from Kinman Business College, Spokane, Washington and married James Sinclair of East Helena. He is an electronic technician and has worked in Iowa, Texas and Kansas. Kemp and Doris moved to Helena in 1962. He worked as a barber and she as a restaurant cook until 1973. They then operat[...]December, 1944 when he was transferred to the infantry. He[...]Georgia and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant on July[...]19, 1945. He reverted to the Army Reserve in February, 1946 and returned to Montana.[...]E., April, 1954 and Jack Jay, August, 1959. Jon D. passed[...]ay from a brain tumor in 1970, while a student in the law school at the University of Montana.[...]January, 1947 and started his teaching career at Belgrade,[...]a. In 1949, he returned to Dillon as principal of the[...]from Western and in 1958 was appointed Superintendent of the Dillon City Schools. Several summers were spent[...]and the University of Minnesota.[...]John was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Montana[...]jutant General of the State of Montana and Director of the[...]Brigadier General in 1973 and Major General in 1974. On Vivian and John J. Wedding - 1942. January 5, 1981 , he requested retirement and now resides[...]Womack was born in Ennis, Montana to James Emmett and Frances Cerutti Womack on September 26, 1920. He attended Ennis schools, graduating in 1938. In the autumn of 1939 he enrolled in Montana State Norma[...]PETER AND RUTH WOMACK In the spring of 1942, he enlisted in the United States Ar- my at Wichita, Kansas and was assigned to the Horse Emmett Peter and Kathryn Ruth Womack were born and Cavalry and then transferred to the Army Air Force until raised in the Madison Valley. Pete in Ennis, November 7,[...] |
| [...]September, 1976, Pete and Ruth Womack, at Duncan[...]7, Peter, Greg, Tim Rickard and Frank Palffy. Roy, with his great sense of and Theresa.[...]broken down piece of machinery or 1922 to Emmett and Frances Womack. He joined a brother, bobsled builder for the girls. Frank, a kind and generous John James, two years older. Peter remem[...]p_ing, swimming, beautiful leather jackets and other garments for the family. and camping in summer. He graduated from Ennis High His car was always available to the girls when learning to School, class of 1940, bri[...]ed Western Montana Col- drive. lege, joined the Maritime Service in January 1942 (World[...]aining School at Alameda, California. He was with the pupils, mostly McAtee and Lichte children attended. It was Maritime Service[...]great fun to slide down the huge snowdrifts on the hillside on Ruth was born July 11, 1925 to Clarence and Esther the way to school. Lichte at Abe, about 25 miles south of Ennis. The Abe post Later, Esther moved with her daughters to Virginia City office at the Lichte home served eight or ten families. during the school term, returning to the ranch when each Ruth had three sisters: Dorothy[...]City High School 1922, Vivian Irma, May 2, 1924, and Ellen Marie, January in May, 1943 and from Eastern Montana College in 1945 on 30, 1927.[...]completion of a two year teachers ' curriculum. The next two when Gary Dale was born June 25, 1941. years she was second grade teacher in Manhattan, Montana. Ranch life holds many good memories for the Lichte fami- Pete and Ruth were married September 7, 1947 at a lawn ly. The ranch setting was really beautiful, with groves, lush wedding on the Lichte Ranch. Shortly afterward Pete green pastures and wheat fields, and the Madison River became a lineman with the Montana Power Company. nearby. The ranch is now part of a Fish and Wildlife Game Eleven years later he bega[...]contractor. The huckleberry woods were visited, and everyone looked Pete and Ruth's four children are: Peter C. born June 14, forward to the delicious huckleberry pies, jellies and syrups. 1948; Gregory D., December 7, 1950; Timothy E., January Esther was the expert in this department, as well as, in can- 23, 1953; and Teresa Kay, March 24, 1957. During the ning of the garden produce. children's growing years the Womack family was a closely Long hours were spent in the hay fields. The mowing, rak- knit group with a great love and respect for nature, with ing and stacking was done with three or four teams of horses camping trips, mountain climbing and automobile trips, well and one tractor. The brief mid-morning and mid-afternoon remembered adventures. br[...]ade root beer or gingerale were Pete and Ruth are still in Ennis. The children are on their heartily enjoyed.[...]own now. Peter C. is an economist with the Army Corps of Of great interest was the fall roundup. The cattle were Engineers, and resides in New Orleans with his wife Sharon. brought in from the summer range, Some were driven to Big Greg is employed in Billings. Timothy has been living in the Springs! Idaho and shipped to market by rail. San Francisco area with his wife Karen and daughter,[...]Shoshoni. Teresa is living in Portland, Oregon and is pursu- The Christmas get-togethers are a pleasant memory; a[...]r's house, ingenious homemade presents to delight the children. Ruth Pete enjoys prospecting and the study of geology. He also still treasures a wooden rocker for her doll made by her · has a flair for the unusual whether it is sculpting or building fathe[...]ic piece of furniture. Ruth enjoys hiking, biking and was a special thrill. Ruth particularly remembers when a time spent in the flower garden. She also does volunteer child remarked "Mommy, Santa has daddy's boots on!" work as a member of the Madison County Nursing Home There were giant size colorful pop corn balls and luscious ice Auxiliary. The only grandchild at present, Shoshoni, is their cream made with the old fashioned hand-cranked freezer. greatest joy. Two special men worked on the Lichte Ranch - Roy[...] |
| The Wonder family. L. to R.: Denny, Kathryn., Doris, Clarice and Helen.[...]ep being counted onto summer range, DENNY AND HELEN (CLARK) WONDER Helen Clark and Denny Wonder were married on May 24, da[...]their new log |
| store was closed, take what he wanted from the porch and to work for the Elkhorn Ranch as a horse breaker and sum- leave a note "I cut off a 50 ft. chunk of rope and took five mer Dude wrangler, and the fall months with Ernest Miller pounds of coffee; put them on my bill." Helen sorted the mail in hunting camps from Alaska to Mexico. on a table and handed each patron his mail as he came in. Immediately after Pearl Harbor Lloyd enlisted in the Later a part of the porch was enclosed to make a post office. Army and served nearly four years, with duty in Africa and When snow blocked the roads, Denny walked to the highway Italy. He then returned to the Elkhorn Ranch late in 1945. to pick up the Jeffers' mail and one winter Claude Angle and The Millers had just bought a winter dude ranch near Jack Rouse skied to Norris and brought first class mail for Tucson, Arizona, so the Elkhorn crew went south for the the area in their back packs.[...]r. Denny died in April 1965. Helen continued in the store and Mary was born April 25, 1922 in Rochester, New York, the as postmaster until her retirement in 1975 after 36 years of daughter of Dr. Edwin and Marie Ingersoll. She grew up and continuous service.[...]o school in that area. Helen has been active in the Episcopal Church, in Altar Mary will tel[...]it was not love at first sight, but Guild, Prayer and Bible study groups, her home always open Lloyd and Mary were married at the Arizona Elkhorn Ranch to visiting clergy and church meetings. She is a member of on April 9, 1946. Eastern Star and a Past Matron. She works actively with The valley was sparsely settled then compared to now, the Ennis Nursing Home Auxiliary. 1981, and they soon became acquanted with just about Helen continues to live in the now cozy and remodeled everyone within 40 miles. They felt it a rare privilege to be a 100-year-old schoolhouse visited often by her three part of such a beautiful valley, inhabited by the most friend- daughters, their husbands, the eleven grandchildren, and an ly and cooperative people in the world. ever increasing number of great grandchild[...]When the valley was completely cut off (except for phone)[...]from the outside world by drifting snow. and closed roads,[...]donations of cash and labor, which all went into the building[...]ir little hospital at Ennis. It was a real thrill and something they all could be proud of when their hospital was[...]finally staffed and ready for business. It was gratifying to[...]know of the many lives saved and the wonderful doctors and[...]20, 1950 and Randy, October 29. 1951.[...]by raising hogs, sheep and working part time for neighbors,[...]Wortmans finally got into the cow business. Guiding a few hunters in the fall also helped pay expenses. In the early 1950's they dug some open pit sumps from[...]water rights that they could depend on for the ranch. A[...]sprinkler system was then installed and 150 acres were[...]watered for hay. This was one of the first sprinkler systems in the valley, and many of the valley folks thought the Wort-[...]The old Gilmer place later owned by Lloyd and Mary taken in 1950. Lloyd and Mary Ingersoll Wortman. LLOYD AND MARY (INGERSOLL) WORTMAN It was an exciting event in the lives of the W ortmans |
| [...]s, they were told. In 1956 in partnership with the Granger Ranches and Ray- mond Carkeek they rebuilt the old Wellcome ditch (later ac- quired by the Grangers) out of the Madison River. This re- quired hauling and placing a clay lining in four and a half miles of gravelly hillside before it would[...]- teen miles of canal brought dependable water to the ranch. With the able help of Mary and all the children they were able to develop a nice little family ranch, supporting 250 cow and calf pairs. In 1971 Wortmans sold the ranch to Herbert Wellington, who had acquired the ranch to the west of them. It was a good feeling to see the old ranch being run for the raising of cattle, as they had envisioned it. Wortmans live on the 400 acres they retained but spend several winter months in Arizona. Jody is married to Lee Sprout and they live just under the hill from Mary and Lloyd. They have two boys, Craig and Cory. Keith is presently in Casper, Wyoming. He has twin boys, Mark and Eric. Randy is recently married and lives in Eagle Nest, New Mexico. W ortmans cherish the memories of the years spent in the Madison Valley and feel that their lives have been very rewar[...] |
| [...]a corporation known as the "Cameron Group", and it is now under new management. The "town" of Cameron had never The "town" of Cameron consists of a store, post office, gas grown beyond this one unit but the surrounding area has an station, the Chuck Wagon Cafe, the Blue Moon Saloon, and ever increasing population with the mailing address of[...]Cameron. some cabins that house fishermen and hunters in due season. The area served by that complex is far reaching and in- Roberta Cheney cludes ranchers and summer residents from Slide Inn almost to Ennis and from the Varney bench to the Bear Creek settle- ment at the foot of Red Mountain. The "town" began with that Bear Creek settlement back in A two-story building was constructed on the Cameron In 1910 Wade Lester bought the Cameron store and |
| [...]ge, Catherine Potter (dress made and worn by her mother June 12, 1907), matron of hono[...]ly, 1961. L. to R.: Clara Margaret, Jesse, Mar- The ranch once supported 4,000 breeding ewes and 500 tha, Catherine, Bill draft, saddle and pack horses. Bill doubled the ranch size and sold the sheep inl969 because of predator problems and difficulty in finding sheepherders. The cattle herd, once Herefords, is now crossbred Simmental. The Armitage Ranch has been a constant permittee on F[...]1911. Rangers have credited Armitage with having the cleanest sheep camps and best pack houses on the forest. Because of his improved grasslands, Bill toured Montana in 1957 with the Range Management Society explaining "Grass is my Crop". Catherine Emma Potter, born November 10, 1911, in Missoula, Montana, the only child of Jesse Alfonso and Clara Barbara Potter, lived on their homestead ne[...]la County High School in 1930. Potters traveled the USA and Canada. While attending the University of Montana, Catherine played cello in univer- sity and civic symphonies. She entertained groups with her musical ability and declamations. After graduating in 1934 with an English major and music minor, Catherine taught at several small Mo[...]a rich Virginia City lawyer, but Catherine jested she would rather marry a rancher. When calle[...] |
| Catherine and Bill married June 12, 1941. They continue to live in the ranch house built in the 1890's and use the horse barn raised in 1914. Armitage's children[...]ril 3, 1943), Clara Margaret (February 10, 1948), and Martha Louise (March 19, 1950) graduated from Ennis High School and Montana State University. Bill and Catherine are Eastern Star members. Catherine has[...]ive volunteer hours with Rainbow, 4-H, Red Cross, and Madison Valley and Montana Women's Club. Even her grandchildren know "Grandma is at the Nearly New on Friday. (Womens' Club thriftshop) Catherine has devoted her share to the ranch - cooking for hired men, feeding bum lambs, giving financial and especial- ly moral support. In 1970 Bill ret[...]ed to mileage, but never submitted claim for it. The high school completed in 1970 houses the Wm. K. Armitage Gymnasium. Creativity is Catherine's forte. She believes the only reason you can't create something is because you haven't tried and seldom makes anything without adding personal changes to the directions. She had a lot of patience with her children, taking[...]Gotfred Amston Besides whistling while working and playing the piano, Catherine enjoys sewing, needlework, weaving, painting and Norway, the land of his forefathers. Arnie won friends from[...]Scandanavia to Italy with his Cameron Western hat and his visitors. When young, her children thought it a treat to genial manner. The highlight of the trip for him was in shar- have "boughten bread"[...]ses than Canyon in July of 1981. His many friends and well-wishers saddle horses. He has never lost his desire to ride one more came from the Madison, the Gallatin, and as far away as good working horse. George was a keen horseman and Bill Washington, D.C. Throughout his life, Gotfred Arnston has credits his own perceptive ability with livestock to ex- been one of the best known, well-liked, and faithful residents periences shared with his father. He recalls his father holler- of the Madison Valley. ing, "Stay with 'em", whenever B[...]with a horse. Bill's children unconsciously hear the same from their father when riding gets rough. B[...]Storey MacNab Bill's desire to "stay with 'em", the fifth generation of Ar- mitages enjoy the ranch. Martha A[...]Cameron, Montana on June 28, 1922, the son of George A. |
| [...]decided the wide open spaces and the intrigue of owning a[...]From a modest beginning in the cattle ranching business,[...]Forest Service allotment for about 500 head, and was run-[...]the time he sold out in 1971. During the 25 years Ray Carkeek spent in the ranching business he bought, sold and operated various ranch[...]holdings, consolidating and operating them under the name[...]Varney at the head of O'Dell Creek, and in 1956 bought the[...]pasture for winter game range and helped the Fish and Game[...]Department acquire fishing accesses along the Madison[...]Creek. The Cameron Ditch Company was formed in conjunc-[...]tion with Lloyd Wortman and Jeffery Granger, to build the Cameron Canal that transported water from the Madison River to the Cameron bench. The canal has a carrying[...]capacity of 5,000 miner inches and put thousands of acres of[...]dry land pasture into irrigated pasture and crop land. The[...]enry Huber ranch at Cameron-was purchased in 1968 and consolidated with the Werner ranch and the original Carkeek ranch. The O'Dell property was sold in 1967 and the Varney Raymond George Carkeek and Cameron properties were sold in 1970.[...]Yellowstone, Montana and moved to a home on Hebgen Florida; and Beeville, Texas. He taught advanced fighter Lake. He formed his own company (Yellowstone Realty and tactics and was a test pilot serving as liason between aircraft Development, Inc.) to handle real estate sales and real estate companies and the operating squadrons. Ray was released development. He has been president, broker and owner of the from active duty in 1946 and has done some training with company since that time. reserve units of the navy since that time. A[...]ert F. Ray attended Montana State College after the war with Dye and Raymond G. Carkeek in 1973, at which time they go[...]ming an aeronautical engineer but bought the Valentine property on the Horse Butte peninsula L. to R.: Riley and Suzy Carkeek; Ray and Patti Carkeek,· Kelly and Sue Carkeek,· |
| [...]Truman and Roberta Cheney[...]to the 1860's when Harry Randall, a young law student fr[...]Rhode Island, came to Virginia City and soon married Sarah[...]Their daughter, Lillie, was to marry Amos Storey and together they homesteaded one of the first ranches on Bear Ray and Patti Carkeek at their Hebgen Lake home.[...]and was converted into a "planned uncles, and cousins, Roberta grew up in an atmosphere of unit[...]as Hebgen Lake Estates (now security and work-oriented lives. After six years at the Bear Yellowstone Village. Creek one-room school, she went to Bozeman for high school, The partnership also bought the Penny Plummer property graduating from Gallatin High in 1928. Her first job was on the South Fork of the Madison River, later developing cooking for the hay crew on the River Ranch; ten men, three and selling portions of this for homesites.[...]formal to take to college. Roberta attended over the years. Reserve training missions with the U.S. the University of Montana, was a member of Kappa Delta Navy and a couple of charter businesses were a welcome sorority and graduated in 1932 with a major in English. She change from the steady routine of a ranching operation. taught in the high school at Lavina, Montana for two years. Spo[...]ntana, operated a charter On June 7, 1934, she married Truman Cheney at St. James business out of the Madison Valley from 1955 to 1965. Ray was president and chief pilot of this operation. Bermuda Air, Inc. was an air charter business operating out of the Palm Roberta Carkeek Cheney, Springs, California, area during the winter months. Ray Montana author. spent two winters as chief pilot and president of that opera- tion. In 1965 Ray Carkeek helped organize and charter the First Madison Valley Bank in Ennis and has served continuously on the Board of Directors since that time. He had also serv- ed on the Board of Directors for Montana National Insurance Company of Billings, Montana, and as a Director in the Mon- tana Realtors. In 1974 Ray married Patricia Day of Henrys Lake, Idaho, and Orange, California. They are now living at their[...]KEEK CHENEY Roberta Eloise Carkef!k was born at the family ranch home |
| The Cheney family L to R.: Maureen Curnow, Larry Cheney, Truman Cheney, Karen Shores Chapman, and seated, Roberta Cheney. Episcopal Church in Boze[...]Her prime interest is in Montana place names and her first |
| Having. bee? in almost every state and lived in a good many of them, the Cheneys chose the old ranch home on Bear Creek and the Madison Valley for their retirement. They have remodeled the house that Roberta and her brother, Ray- mond, grew up in, and turned other small ranch buildings in- to cabins so that each of the children and their families have a place to come to and a little corner of the Madison to call their own. The fifth generation of the family appreciates its roots that go deep into Montana life and tradition. They are learning values that make our Western way of life a haven of security and wholesomeness in the midst of a turbulent society.[...]Ramona Herrick Durham as she[...]used in a hunting operation that they ran in the fall of the year. They have had a camp in the Shedhorn area of Indian[...]herded for the Wall Creek Stock Association and he now buys cattle for the Skelton Trading Company of Idaho Falls.[...]Pete and Mona are the parents of three boys, Wade, Todd and Zane and one daughter, Lisa. They have all grown up on the ranch and attended Ennis schools. The Durhams are ar- dent sports fans and enthusiastically support their children Pete Durham driving his best team of horses in the Bozeman as they participate in basketball, football and track both at Bi-centennial parade. the grade and high school level.[...]Pete Durham was born on the lower Madison between Cherry Creek and Logan on September 5, 1927. His parents[...]were Olin and Bessie Hubble Durham. He attended country KENNETH AND RAMONA DURHAM grade schools and high school in Belgrade and Bozeman. Ramona Herrick (Durham), daughter of Frank and Minnie[...]ham |
| ing, second son in a family of four sons and two daughters. never slept in the same place twice. Henry helped Frank Ar- His parents were Frank Gecho and Mary Garrick Gecho. thur build fence on the Call ranch and did any job that need- When he was very young, his family moved to Montana ed to be done. In the spring of 1924, Henry went to work in a where his father worked in the coal mines at Absher and mine up Alder Gulch but almost lost his life in a mine acci- Roundup where Joe received his e[...]nt, so quit that kind of work. to Madison Valley and worked for various ranchers, also at On November 27, 1924, Henry was married to Agnes the asbestos mine east of Reynolds Pass and in the gold Daems who was working at the Call ranch. They were mar- mines at Ruby Creek and Norris. During the time that Alice ried in Ennis by Justice of the Peace, Oscar Angle. That ran the cafe at Cameron, Joe operated the bar that was to winter Henry and his father-in-law, Levinus Daems ran a become the popular Blue Moon Saloon. trap line and sold the furs. In 1925 Henry went back to work After their marriage, the Gechos lived for three years at for Tom Call and stayed there until 1937. During most of the Ruby Creek and spent one summer at Norris before coming time Henry moved the sheep to summer range and stayed in back to Cameron to make their permanent home. the mountains with them until fall. At other times, he was The McAtees and Gechos bought the Charles Carlson tending camp using a buckboard and a team. A saddle horse ranch adjoining the Cameron Store _property and built up a named Beauty was his faithful companion. In 1937, Henry herd of black angus cattle. Joe and Alice moved to the ranch left the Call ranch to help Levinus Daems with his ranch in 1941 and have continued to operate it since that time. work. Two sons were born to the Gechos: John Edward on It wasn't all work in those days and Saturday night dances February 24, 1940 in Virginia City and Joseph Frank on July were the fun part of each week. One New Year's Eve, Henry[...]tehall. and Agnes went to a dance in Virginia City even though the Alice McAtee Gecho has spent her entire life in Madison road over the hill was blankented with snow. Howard County and Joe has lived here since 1932. They are com- McClurg hitched his team to a bob-sled and the ladies rode municants of St. Patricks Catholic Church in Ennis. with him. The men walked the five miles from the Hershaw[...]place to Virginia City. They danced most of the night, slept a little and came over the hill and home the next day by sleigh.[...]March 10, 1906, the daughter of Levinus and Mary L. Daems, and granddaughter of Dr. L. and Marie Daems, early[...]pioneers in Virginia City. Agnes had one brother and[...]Even as a child Agnes liked horses and cattle and was to spend much of her life working with them. She helped her father on the ranch, breaking her own horses and riding the range in the summer time looking for cattle. One day as[...]Agnes was driving the milk cows out to pasture, a bull hook-[...]ed his horns into her horse. He bucked Agnes off and fell on top of her breaking her foot and cutting a gash in her nose. She lay unconscious for some time.[...]Agnes cleaned house for Hughie Call every week and helped her with meals when the cook was on vacation. After the Hubers were married, they ranched on the old[...]Indian Creek from Mrs. Hadzor and they have lived there[...]ever since. They ran a mixed herd of black angus and white face cattle, keeping the herd small enough so Agnes could Henry and Agnes Huber recognize each animal and give it a name. They did all the[...]ranch work themselves, never hiring any help. The pet milk HENRY AND AGNES DAEMS HUBER cows[...]corral. The Hubers also raised white turkeys and sold them[...]liday time. Their prize was Rudy, a 32 pounder. The Hubers were both born in Madison County. Agnes liv- ed here her whole life and Henry was gone only for a few In 1972 Henry and Agnes took a vacation trip to the San years when he went to school and worked in Butte. Diego area. Until[...]their joints, Hank and Agnes could be found at every com- Henry was born September 19, 1903 in the gold mining munity dance. Now they settle for Senior Citizens and camp of Summit. he was one of six children born to John and Bingo, but they are on deck every week for that. In between Ellen Huber, and attended school in Virginia City. The fami- there's gardening and fishing. ly moved to Butte during his final years of school and Henry worked, too, at any job he could get, driving delivery wagon for three Butte stores, and sacking coal in burlap bags when[...]Agnes Huber coal was rationed in the 1920's. He came back to the county and to Madison Vall~y in 1921 and worked on the Jim Damurtzer ranch until 1923 when he got a job on the Tom Call place. He worked for $30 a month MELBORNE STOREY MacNAB and always had a dollar for a ticket to the Saturday night dance in Ennis. His first job ther[...]elborne Storey was born August 16, 1921 to Arthur and the starting bands to the big bands, and during that time, he Lillie Storey of Cameron. While still living at the ranch home[...] |
| [...]LEONARD AND JANET McATEE[...]For thirty-three years, 1948 to 1981. Leonard and Janet McAtee owned the " town" of Cameron. Their genuine friendliness and willfugness to be helpful endeared them to a[...]myriad of customers that spanned the area from Cliff Lake[...]almost to Ennis. As keepers of the general store and the post office, Janet and Leonard served as unofficial community[...]sent up by the first neighbor that came by. Their popularity[...]extended to the tourists who stopped by or stayed at the cabins and to the people who came to the Blue Moon Saloon or the Chuck Wagon Cafe.[...]d was born in Virginia City on October 18, 1917 , the first of Ed and Dorothy McAtee's six children. As newly-[...]weds his parents had come from Missouri to Ennis and then settled in the Madison Valley on Ruby Creek. Leonard grew[...]up on the homestead there but for his first two years of[...]school had to move to Varney for the winter. A school was[...].. . tended high school in Ennis and during those years as well as Melborne and Robin MacNab the ones following he helped his father on the Cliff Lake mail route. He also worked for Frank Falbaum who had moved the store and post office from Bear Creek to its present[...]location on the main highway. Ed and Dorothy McAttee bought the Charles Carlson of her parents, Melborne attended the Bear Creek rural ranch which bordered on the store property and in 1938 they school and later high school at Ennis and Bozeman, bought the property now known as "Cameron". graduating from[...]Janet Carson was born in Great Falls, Montana, on she enrolled at the Kinman Business University in Spokane. September 29, 1918. Her parents, Laurel and Lenora Carson She married Robin MacNab of Bozeman on July 21 , 1941[...]ortland, Oregon on July 8, fluenza in 1918. Janet and her mother were ill with the "flu " 1915. He attended Cornell University at Ithaca, New York; too and went back to the family home in Sturgis, Michigan to on an athletic scholarship and graduated from that institu- recover. Mrs. Carson was a teacher and secured a Montana tion in 1936. certificate where she taught most of her life. Janet went to Robin and Melborne MacN ab ·were engaged in the hotel school wherever her mother happened to be teaching, but business in Montana, North Dakota, Florida, and New spent the summers in Michigan. In 1929, Lenora Carson Jersey as well as in radio and television broadcasting until married Arthur Munson and Janet has a step-brother, Lloyd 1957 when they re[...]se business activities. While Munson. maintaining the Cameron ranch, as well as a cattle ranch Leonard and Janet were married in Bozeman on October 1, they[...]n, a daughter, Mary Margaret ecutive secretary of the Montana Livestock Auction and a son, Laurel, who is now vice-president of the Boulder Markets Association. Valley Bank. Mary Margaret also lives in Boulder where she As a hobby, Melborne and Robin became interested in the works as a Licensed Practical Nurse at the State School. tournament world of contract bridge[...]six grandchidren. national tournaments throughout the United States but also In 1948 Leonard and Janet bought Cameron from throughout much of the world, including many countries of Leonard's parents. It had been expanded to include the Europe, South America, and the Far East. cabins and a cafe as well as the store and gasoline station. While the MacNabs maintained Bozeman as their principal Leonard took over the post office when his father retired in residence after marriage, they also utilized the Storey ranch 1959 and is still serving as postmaster. During those past at Cameron and a home in the Gallatin Canyon area south of twenty-two years, he has served the local ranchers and sum- Bozeman. Two children, Duncan Storey and Robyn Gayle mer visitors with the kindness above and beyond the call of were born to them in 1942 and 1945 respectively. Duncan duty or the rigid requirements of the postal department. MacNab is currently mayor of Bozeman and he and his wife Leonard has also served as the official local weather bureau have two daughters, Dori Lin and Danine Rae. Robyn Gayle reporting to authorities our daily sunshine, storms, or wind MacNab Choate and her husband now live in Alexandria, velocity. Virginia, and work in Washington, D.C. They have two After thirty-three years of the demands of operating a children, Christopher Mark and Molly Anne. whole "town ", long hours, and often seven days a week work, Melborne vividly recalls her early life in the Madison and Janet and Leonard decided to retire and sold the Cameron riding horseback four miles each way to s[...]omley's home Creek, memories that to her are fond and lasting. in Comleyville near Ennis and went there to live. Leonard[...]drives to Cameron each day to dispense the mail and a cheer-[...]Melborne Storey MacNab Janet is active in the Ennis Art Association and now with[...] |
| Leonard and Janet are communicants of St. Patricks Catholic Church in Ennis. Roberta Cheney and Janet McAtee[...]Hadzor Nelson as a high school graduate. and water pumped into the house and there was electricity |
| [...]THE ORR FAMILY The Madison Valley in the early thirties was much dif-[...]ferent from what it is today, at least as far as the ranches and towns were concerned. The road south to Yellowstone was[...]bumpy, dusty gravel. Most of the flat and the Norris Hill were unpaved and the town of Ennis had seven or eight hun-[...]dred people. There were very few tourists and almost no[...]Alice Meigs Orr was fifty-one years old in 1934 and had lost her husband, Arthur, the year before in St. Charles, Illinois. She came to Montana and purchased the Bear Creek[...]1938 adding the Conklin property at Antelope Basin. Life was harder then; there was no electricity, county[...]were unplowed in winter, and the valley had not recovered Heid~ Gary and Gayle Clark and the lead sheep for the ranch. from three tough years of drought. With the advice and en-[...]Werner, and George Carkeek, she set about restoring the pro- equipment operator at the talc mine. Pauline keeps books for perty and building the herd of registered and commercial the ranch and cattle operations and is happy that she can Herefords. now leave the actual ranch work to the men in her family. She had six children in all. Arthur, who died of polio at ten; Pauline and Jim are active in Trinity Episcopal Church,[...]ow a retired architect; Mimi, living in Portland, she serving as Treasurer and he as Building and Grounds Maine; Dede, who with her husband, Les Jasmann, ranched manager and choir member. They continue to live on the near McAllister and who died in 1968; Toby, an agricultural Bear Cree[...]consultant, now -living near Washington, D.C.; and her[...]the ranch. Pauline E. Nelson World War II found Mrs. Orr alone at Bear Creek with[...]Toby flying navy bombers in the Aleutians and Les and[...]shortages of tires, gasoline and labor, and with prices fixed[...]artifically low, ranching was no cinch. But with the war's end, Les and Dede and Toby with his wife, Carol, returned and things looked up.[...]After Toby's purchase of the ranch in 1954, Alice Orr[...]traveled to Mexico, wintering there and spending summers in Montana. She died in 1967 at the age of 84, a great loss to[...]her many friends and family. Dede and Les had two children: Larry and Susy, a coastguardsman and a computer expert respectively. Toby and Carol had three. Monty is an offshore oil driller[...]physician, and Katherine (Bug), a lawyer. The Bear Creek ranch was sold to Jack and Rick Vujovich in 1964 and shortly thereafter, Toby and Carol purchased the Saier property (adjoining the Channels) which they own to-[...]day. L. to R.: Gamet, Stanley and Ivan Olliffe.[...]Garnet Olliffe was born September 15, 1922 on the Upper Madison Ranch where he still lives. His parents, John Fran- cis and Nellie Jane Churchill Olliffe had homesteaded there in May, 1899. On this ranch near the Raynolds Pass junc- tion, the Olliffes tried crops, then sheep and later a dairy DONALD ARTHUR STOREY herd. They finally settled for cattle and Garnet still runs cat- tle there.[...]Donald Arthur Storey was born to Lillie and Arthur Storey He has never married and except for a few years when he of Cameron on October 24, 1913. He lived there on the ranch worked on ranches on the Lower Madison, Garnet has lived that was homesteaded by his father and· his grandfather and worked on the family ranch. Amos Storey. In the early thirties, he left for musical train-[...]ing at a school in Burbank, California. He also attended[...] |
| [...]The Kenneth Storey family.[...]s born October 5, 1919 at Donald Arthur Storey and his salmon boat. Leith, North Dakota, where she attended grade school and graduated from high school in 1937. She moved with her[...]ked for , for a number of years before moving to the Portland, Oregon two summers at the Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park and · area where he entered the contracting business. While at attended the State Normal College in Dillon for two terms. Wallace, Idaho he was married and he and his wife, Doris, Her first teaching position was in the Bear Creek rural have two sons, Donald Lee Storey and Melvin Gail Storey. school. She taught there for two years and at the end of that •Donald also has two daughters, Sharon and Patricia, by a time the school was consolidated with the Ennis district. former marriage.[...]Kenneth Raymond Storey was the second of three children Presently, Donald Storey is retired and living in Portland , born to Luther and Isabelle Storey. He was born at the where he spends much of his retirement time in s[...]home at Bear Creek, east of Cameron, fishing off the Washington and Oregon coasts. Montana, on February 2, 1921. He attended the rural school there and later graduated from Ennis High School in 1939.[...]He played on the first Ennis football team. After high[...]the ranch, where they were engaged in the sheep raising[...]In 1942 the Storeys purchased the place that had originally belonged to Jim and Fannie Cameron. It was just west of the home place and after their marriage, Ken an_d[...]Adeline established their first home there and operated it[...]Two children were born to Kenneth and Adeline Storey.[...]Brenda, with her husband, Gordon Anderson, and their two[...]engaged in the ranching business with his father on their[...]place east of Cameron. They also lease the old Arthur Sto:ey[...]place where James, his wife, Barbara, and daughter Katrina[...]Adeline worked in the Cameron and Ennis post offices for a[...]Kenneth is a Past Master of Montana Lodge No. 2 and[...]as secretary for five years. Adeline is a member and Past Matron of the Eastern Star and presently active in the[...]Kenneth and Adeline are members of the Trinity Episcopal[...]a mile from their first one and from the place where Grand- Kenneth and Adeline Storey on their[...]father Amos Storey filed on a homestead and a tree claim in Wedding Day, May 8, 1943. the early 1880's. Kenneth is the third generation and his son, Jim, the fourth generation of Storey men to work that KENNETH AND ADELINE WESSEL STOREY land. The family ownership of it has spanned a century. Kenneth Storey of Cameron and Adeline Wessel of |
| [...]Dale A. Storey on the left; Randall holding his grandson,[...]William Randall Storey, and Randall Dean Storey on the right. RANDALL AND ANN (BALKOVETZ) STOREY gasoline tractors in the Bear Creek area, and for several |
| [...]and Robert L. Storey, 1954. and Game department in Indiana, returning at the end of |
| Bob and Shirley Storey with their three sons, Robbie, Rick Ronnie Sinclair, professional m;~ician and photographer. and Randy.[...]schoolboy, he played the piano at local theaters. pottery and clay work and has a kiln and workshop in her basement. ~ater he p~rformed on the Chautauqua and Orpheum cir-[...]cuits, sometrmes as a solo act playing the xylophone. He The Storeys moved to Los Angeles in 1956 where Bob at- ~so trav~led with _his ~ister, Maru, and his brother, George, tended 8:nd graduated from the California College of Mor- ma Scottish act with highland dancing bagpipes, and drums. tuary Science. He returned to Montana to continue ranching and to work at the local mortuary, moving to Ennis in 1957. Ronnie was also a photographer in Bozeman before he and his brother, George, purchased a property in the Madison Bob and Shirley built the Fish Bowl Lanes in 1963. They River Valley in 1938. This they operated as the S Bar B owned and operated the lanes for fifteen years, sponsoring Dude ranch until the onset of the second world war. At that bowling activities for high scool and grade school students time the Sinclair brothers sold the ranch to Johnny Brian. as well as building up an extensive program of teams and leagues and running a popular lunch counter in connection In 1948 Ronnie returned to Montana and repurchased the with the bowling alley. During this time, Bob served on the ranch. He stocked it with sheep and cattle. Town Council and as Mayor of Ennis. In 1954 Ronnie married Jane Irvine of Minneapolis. She They _sold the bowling alley in 1978. Bob ran for and was had a background of restaurant management, having elected as the first Chief Executive of Madison County under graduated fro~ the University of Minnesota with a major in the new Charter form of government and is serving at this home economics. In 1962 Jane and Ronnie took over the time in that capacity. operation of the Cameron restaurant, which they managed[...]successfully and happily for ten years. Three sons were born to Bob and Shirley: Robert Wilson on September 18, 1955; Roderick Lloyd on October 5, 1957; and Ronnie was well known in the valley, having played the Randy Lee on August 11, 1959, and they have one grandson piano and accordian at many of the dances and served as Nathan Robert Storey. ' school photographer in this county and across the state. Bob and Shirley are active members and lay readers in Ronnie passed away in August 1979. Tr~t~ Episco~al Church and work with Madison County Christians. Shirley has helped with the Nearly New Shop Jane I. Sinclair and other Womans' Club projects, and in more recent years with the Ennis Nursing Home Auxiliary. Robert is a past[...]tana Masonic Lodge NO. 2; he was an active member and is now an honorary member of Left to Right - Jane I. Sinclair and Ronnie Sinclair. the Ennis Lions club. He is a member of the Elks Lodge of Virginia City. Bob was a charter member of the Montana State University Rodeo team. For many years, Bob has worked with the Search and Rescue team. Bob Storey and his family represent a long line of interest in and contributions to Madison County and it's develop- ment.[...]neapolis, Min- nesota. He was a talented musician and played professional-[...] |
| [...]tr~er park, he s<?ld th8:t an~ concentrated on the highway[...]busmess. He retamed his residence directly on the banks of the Madison and still lives there.[...]Life, published by Popular Science Publishing Company and released through the Outdoor Life book club which sold[...]copies of it, 10,000 in hardback. Mr. Sturdivant also[...]photography, highway vandalism, and his flying ex-[...]has sold 5,000 copies and Montana press is seriously con-[...]L STURDIVANT Egbert Neal Sturdivant is one of the increasing number of |
| Fred and Lucile Wellman with daughter, Janet Wellman Sue Wellman Webster and Tom Webster on Wessel and Fay Wessel on their wedding day. their wedding day. kept six girls from the Madison Valley. They were Alice went on the cattle drives and later were active members of |
| THE AMERICAN LEGION ANDERSON - SIMPSON POST[...]it's name from two Sheridan men who met death on the field of battle; one, Albert Simpson of Company A - 31st Infantry, A.E.F. Siberia, the other, Clarence Anderson who was with the ex- peditionary forces in France. During the summer of 1920, Dr. E.L. Sutherland of Sheridan conceived the idea of organizing a veteran's post in Sheridan.[...]had served at Camp Lewis during World War I with the Medical Corps. With the assistance of several other ex-service men, a meeting was arranged at the city council room and about twenty veterans attended. The date of this meeting was June 2, 1920. Fifteen signatures were required for the application for a charter and the following listed veterans signed: E.L. Sutherland[...]lex Powell, E.J. Osborn, W.H. Schowe, Karl Vetter and Leo Baril. Dr. E.L. Sutherland was elected post commander and M.S. Bullerdick was elected ad- jutant. Jack Stine was elected Vice Commander. During the earlier days the members were called upon to conduct several military funerals. Two remaining old Civil War veterans remaining in Sheridan were Thomas A. Foster and Thomas L. Lee and they were elected into honorary membership of the post.[...]The Post held regular meetings and veteran's affairs as they were needed. The membership held steady and numerous dances, also other public entertainment, some for the benefit of the Post, others for public enterprises. The Post became inactive for a time and no regular meetings[...]were held between February, 1927, and May, 1932, but a good number of the ex-service men in the community retain- ed their membership in the American Legion and many ac- tivities were carried out in the name of Anderson-Simpson[...]The Post obtained a plot at the Sheridan Cemetery to be used for the burial of veterans and the post erected and dedicated a new flag pole at the Sheridan School on Ar-[...]The Post was re-organized on May 19, 1932, and a new[...]Bieler, Sergeant at Arms; and Harry B. Runkel, Adjutant and Finance Officer. The Post held their meeting at various places over the years dating back to 1920, meeting at the home of Dr.[...]Sutherland, Sheridan Meat Market, the 1.O.O.F. Lodge Hall,[...]U.S. Forest Service Offices, and the Ruby Hotel. In May[...]1932, they obtained use of the upstairs of the Raymond Building at the corner of Mill and Main Street and made it[...]In June 1933, the Commander was Clyde Rann and he Clarence Anderson, World War I.[...] |
| on which the Legion would build their Club House. Later that same month the members and their families had a large picnic up Ramshorn Creek and logs for the clubhouse were cut down, sawed into lengths, peeled and piled ready to be taken to the saw mill and cut on two sides.[...]house two miles west of the present building. L. to R.: Ethel[...]ers of Legion Post No. 89. L. to R.: Harry Norton and Robert Julian with the Post History Harry compiled. The Bear Creek School, District 28, at Cameron was the tenth one established in the Valley and, according to Jimmy[...]f Madison Valley, that was in 1891. Pearl Over the next two years numerous dances were held, also Howe was the first teacher. There were ten pupils. The log minstrel shows and other fund raising activities. Funds schoolhouse was located west of the Kilner ranch on Bear derived from these sources[...]ray expenses in Creek. Addison Cameron was also a teacher in this building. the construction of the building. Nick Birrer, local carpenter, The frame building was built two miles to the east, and the was hired to do most of the work along with help from the first teacher in it was Bessie Storey (Sandiland). For many members of the post, and the .building was completed in years Pearl Storey Carkeek was clerk of District 28. In the 1935. 1920's the enrollment reached as high as 40 pupils--all eight The Clubhouse has not only been used by the Post, but for grades and one teacher. Once a month the Episcopal Church many years, was used as a polling place for elections. held services in the schoolhouse. The list of Commanders of the Post since 1920 are as When the school district consolidated with Ennis, the follows: E.L. Sutherland, W.A. Schowe, Harry B. Runkel, building was given to the Cameron Community Club to be Frank Jackson, Sr.,[...]yde used for community activities. It is the meeting place for W. Rann, O.V. Crumbaker, Claren[...]s K. (Ted) Paull, Cliff Rodgers, Harry Armstrong, and James M. Darby. The Post still carries on with some of the programs that started back in the 1930's, sponsoring the Annual Christmas Treat for the children of the valley, conducting military funerals for veterans, conducting Memorial Day Services and flagging of all veteran's graves. For twenty-eight years, from 1937 - 1964, the Post sponsored an annual Cross Coun- try Run from Brandon to Sheridan, and sponsored a boy to Boy's State each year from 1948. At the present time we have fifty members in our Post.[...]on horseback, by foot or sometimes by horse and buggy. Ex-[...]Lois Storey (Murray) with big white ribbons on the horse The American Legion Sheridan, Montana[...] |
| [...]NINA BLACK - 90 YEARS YOUNG AND LIVELY[...]"One of the nicest ladies in the Cardwell Valley", on the occa-[...]log cabin, one of six children born to Mr. and Mrs. William[...]kirk in Pleasant Valley, south of Whitehall. When she was 10, the family moved to Summit Valley in the Cardwell area where she lived most of her life.[...]early education is vivid to her - walking a mile and a half to the schoolhouse. "I can still see the snow so deep and drifted, we would walk right over the fences. There seemed[...]to be so much more snow and the winters were so long and cold, " she recalled, "and I '11 never ever forget those wonder-[...]ful boiled beef sandwiches my mother had in our school[...]lunches. I really enjoyed school. The old log schoolhouse was where the Cardwell Community Church stands today.[...]ere was only one classroom, one teacher, about 32 The greatest thing to do at recess was to run for the swings students and eight grades. and play pump-up. Boys played on the left side, girls on the right. Mrs. Edna Hil~ the teacher, is sitting on the steps of the boy's cloakroom door. 4-H Clubs, Christmas parties, pot luck suppers, Red Cross R[...]"Oh, how I remember those wonderful school days and[...]sides and spell down. We spent 15 minutes each day doing[...]penmanship-guess they don't do that in the schools today. |
| By the time young Nina was 14, her father, mother and A number of men and Dr. Burns made a hurried trip to the two brothers had died. Two months after her mother's mine and the doctor had the boy home in less than an hour. death, her only brother, Francis, married and took Nina and The left foot was crushed and was broken and it is possible his two sisters into their home. the pelvic bone was broken. He was taken to Butte Wednes- She married Charles Edward Black in 1904. "I was an or- day to ascertain the extent of his injuries by use of the X-ray. phan, and just seemed like the thing to do then." she smiled. Later - Reports from Butte yesterday state that Fay's con- The young couple took up ranching in the South Boulder dition is more serious than was thought. The pelvic bone is country and ranched until her husband's death in 1943, with broken and internal injuries resulted from the rock passing the exception of managing the Jefferson Island grocery store over his body. His recovery, however, is fully expected. and post office for a short time. Hans was working in an open cut and Fay was up on a lad- They reared three children: Clela Hinderman, now living in der when the cave-in occured. A block of dirt about 3 x 8 x 7[...]feet fell. Hans was almost completely buried by the fall, only ly of Philipsburg, who makes his home[...]his right arm being free. His chest was crushed and death Mrs. Black was always active in community activities. She must have been almost immediate. Fay says h[...]uld ride a horse to Mrs. Mazie Sacry's home where she and ed to him to get a pick but the boy, though thrown from the May Rundell would take turns "holding the baby," while the ladder, was also covered by earth to the waist. A large stone mother taught them piano lessons. She mastered the piano passed from his right shoulder diagonally across his body, in- and for years played for the church and community funeral flicting his injuries.[...]crawled to his father and clawed the dirt off from his face.[...]d that his father was dead, he dragged himself She is a fifty-year member of the Women's Cardwell Coun- to the cabin, about one hundred yards away. try Club and was secretary for 44 years in the Randall Chapter Order of Eastern Star in Cardwell. She is a member Alone upon his bed in the cabin from Saturday night until of the Cardwell Community Church. Monday morning, no one can imagine how the boy endured his agony. All day Sunday he thirsted with water frozen in Her family and friends testify, cooking is one of her best the bucket. As he became hungry, he endured the sight of talents in addition to playing the piano. food that he could not reach. He declares that he never slept, She loved to play pinochle, and will challenge anyone to an watching for someone to come by. He tried to fire an old gun active game of scrabble if they have a lot of time. in the cabin to attract the attention of Bosanantz but could Mrs. Black loved to reminisce about her parents coming to not. The stoic courage of the boy when found won great ad- Montana from Missour[...]anantz was leaving for help his only Visits to the Pioneer Cabin in Last Chance Gulch in Helena[...]her's home, Ray Bullerdick came down by and stopped at the Albrecht built by her grandfather. Two locust tre[...]eem- cabin Sunday morning. He got no response and seeing what ing to guard the historic-preservation landmark. The trees looked like fresh tracks in the snow and door step swept clear were brought from Missouri in gallon milk cans and planted of snow, he concluded that Hans had gone to the mine. He as a remembrance of his homeland. did not see the trail made by Fay crawling to the cabin and is In all respects, like her ancestors, Mrs. Black is a pioneer inclined to think that the accident did not occur until Sun- and has become a legend in her time.[...]or unconscious at the time for he declares Ray was not there.[...]Dorothy Brooke Mr. Albrecht and Fay went out to the mine Friday night and were expected back Sunday afternoon. When they di[...]not appear, Mrs. Albrecht became alarmed and sought to get a friend to go up to the cabin, but was persuaded that they[...]had changed their minds and would easily get down in time[...]Grose and Miss Ella Schneider went to break the sad news, she met them at the door with the declaration that they need say nothing, she knew what had happened. HANS ALBRECHT LOSES LIFE AT CAVE-IN AT Brought[...]appear to indicate he has all the facts correctly fixed. It was "Fourteen year old son, badly injured, crawls back to cabin with great difficulty that the physician was able to induce where miner finds hi[...]sleep because of shattered nerves. juries and exposure." In addition to his wife and children, Hans leaves his father, Hans Albrecht was killed and his son Fay, 14 years old, Henry Albrecht and three sisters, Mrs. Frank (Marie) seriously injured by a falling mass of dirt at the Minnie Perrault of Sheridan, Mrs. Herman[...]ur o'clock, according to Popillian, Nebraska and Mrs. Katherine Schleusener of Ox- the boy.[...]ford, Nebraska. Two nieces reside at Gardiner. The accident was not known until Monday morning when Nothing else in recent years has so touched the sympathies George Bosanantz, who works a nearby claim, became con- of the community as this tragedy. The untimely passing, the cerned because he had noted that the Albrecht car stood by heroism of the injured boy, the stricken widow with nine the cabin all day Sunday and Mr. Albrecht was accustomed fatherless children facing the future, all claim profoundest to going home Sundays. Going up to the cabin, he found the sympathy for which words are wholly inadeq[...]ed boy in bed. After getting him something to eat and making him as comfortable as possible, he[...] |
| [...]E'ITE supplies come up the trail! Living in an isolated mining[...]camp high above the valley for days on end made a man One fine morn[...]any. inghouse backed his Velie touring car out of the garage and The men had been hired by Charles W. Chowning to dig the drove down the street to Chowning's store. There, Tony anthracite coal out of the 120 foot mine shaft, shovel it into Chamberlin and " Chick" Armitage helped him load supplies the little iron car which ran on rails inside the tunnel, roll it to to haul up to Mr. Chowning's coal mine near Mill Creek the entrance and dump the coal into a chute down the moun- under the shadow of Cedar Mountain. tain side. The coal was transferred to dead X wagons to be The young men were soon joined by three excited young carried to town. The loads were so heavy and the road so ladies, Miss Winifred Chowning and her cousin, Miss steep the two back wheels had to be rough locked. Kathryn Ennis, and Miss Florence Switzer. The trip would About 1912, James B. Cameron, an early homesteader in be the first time the girls had been to the mine, so this was to the area, had broached the idea to Mr. Chowning of extract- be a gay outing before the long, icy Montana winter set in ing coal from the mountain north of Mill Creek. He had seen and the mine operations shut down. substantial evidence of the mineral in the vicinity. For a cou- The ten mile ride south on the dusty road from Ennis ple of years, M[...]ected around until he found through ranch land to the base of the mountains didn't seem what he thought was a decent-sized outcropping or vein. long because the time was passed with bantering chatter and Then he took a sample of coal to an assayer, who reported it occasional bursts of song. The car sped along at 35 m.p.h. on was 1% harder than Pennsylvania anthracite. the level ground; Bing, a car dealer, was anxious to[...]analysis in mind, Mr. Chowning began friends what the new Velie could do. Upon arriving at the to plan how he would get the coal out. (As far as can be ascer- foothills, the group had to shift to a spring wagon drawn by a[...]d for this mine on Forest Service team of horses. The wagon bumped over the narrow, uneven Land.) Carner and Tillinger were to be the miners, Daly the track up the open hillside; when it started through the timber teamster and Vetter the cook. Eventually, a couple of tons of on the south side of Mill Creek, the going got worse. the coal was brought down and as a first test some lumps Although the horses were rough shod, the way was so steep were put into the stoves of Chowning's country store. Unfor- and rocky the passengers had to get out of the wagon to tunately, the white heat of that extra-hard anthracite melted lessen the load, and walk up, hanging on to the tailgate. the grates and cracked the doors. Even the local blacksmith, After crossing the creek it was a vigorous hike up the Waller Angle, found it too hot to handle! Everyone who used switchback to the mine's entrance where Medwyn Carner, the anthracite had to mix it with softer coal. Pat Daly, Carl Vetter and Paul Tillinger waited to greet After several years of trying to utilize the coal, Mr. Chown- them. What a welcome sight for the miners to see the weekly ing in frustration asked some mining engineers to go up and assess the potential of the mine. J. Atcheson Lucey and the[...]analysis was that when the Madison Range was upthrust, the vein was broken up and that what the men were digging[...]were only "faults". There was the chance of losing the faults and having to search, hit or miss, for other pockets.[...]the vein might be located farther down the mountain, thus facilitating the mining operation. The problem anthracite[...]He did intimate that the difficulties were formidable.[...]Perhaps, as the group of young people posed for their pic-[...]ture that sunny summer's day, they were thinking the weeks were numbered when the mine would be closed permanently. The next year Mr. Chowning did finally have to give u[...]dream. The physical problems seemed insurmountable, plus[...]financially the project was a dead loss. His sole reward was a[...]certain satisfaction in the knowledge he was the only person[...]who had ever tried to mine coal in the Madison Valley.[...]Forrest and Betsy Shirley came to Madison County in July[...]of 1948. They bought the land at the head of Cold Springs draw, west of the present steel bridge over the Madison River by the Beartrap Camp Ground. The house was built by Mr. Fisher who homesteaded the[...]n 1914. There was no electricity or running water and the inghouse, "Chick" Armitage, Tony Chamberlin, Paul Till- road from Four Corners to Norris was all dirt and crossed the inger, Pat Daly. Front: Winifred Chowning, Kathryn Ennis. Madison River on the old Red Bridge.[...] |
| [...]came to inventing toys and fun. They began to do chores as[...]A most favorite sport was the spring time Magpie Cam- paign. Forrest gave the kids a modest bounty for legs and[...]One technique was to ride their horse as near to the tree as possible, then stand up on the saddle to reach the[...]est. A little bucket on a string was handy to put the[...]An event much anticipated each year, was the annual trail-[...]pasture in the high country. The sheepmen often gave us a[...]behind. Cherry Creek School. The following January, in 1949, their first son Ken was |
| Laying Cornerstone for the Methodist Church in Sheridan. July 6, 1905. THE CORNERSTONE[...]J . Ogden, acting Senior Grand Warden; John R. |
| Evening service at 8 o'clock p.m. in the Old Church by Junior Grand Warden, John R. Co[...](now Bethany Hall - built in 1873) conducted by the peace. George Reif of Virginia City acted as Grand Marshal. Reverends Danner, King, Smith and Luce. The public George Reif of Virginia City acte[...]o attend. Following the addresses of the Grand Master and the usual responses by the officers, a finished oration was delivered by[...]Rev. R.P. Smith of Helena, who is rated as one of the most THE FOLLOWING IS AN ACCOUNT OF THE EVENT scholarly ministers in the West. AS REPORTED IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER. The Reverend Wiley Mountjoy was then called upon to[...]address the people and responded as was his wont, with LA YING OF[...]umorous expressions comingled with those of force and Madison County, Montana[...]Badcon, King and Luce occupied positions on the platform and participated in the exercises. Masonic Grand Lodge Conducts Impressive Ceremony at The choir furnished suitable music for the occasion, and Sheridan. last but not least, the ladies of the church provided delicious refreshments. The cornerstone of the new $4,000 church to be erected in Probably 500 people hailing from Virginia City, Twin the near future by the people of Sheridan and vicinity, was Bridges, Silver Star, Laurin, Dillon and the surrounding laid thursday by the Masonic Grand Lodge. The ceremony, country witnessed the impressive exercises preceding the as conducted by the Grand Master, his officers and such erection of this handsome edifice, and all returned well pleas- other officers and members of the local lodges as could con- ed with the day, its pleasures, entertainment and royal veniently attend, seemed very beautiful and impressive to welcome extended by the local lodge. those who witnessed the forms as followed such occasions. At 2:30 the representatives from various lodges, number- ing nearly 150 Masons, marched from the hall in regalia to a point opposite the platform where a triumphal arch was erected. Opening to the right and left, and uncovering, the Grand Master, Lew L. Callaway, with his officers, passed through the lines to the platform, while the remaining LILLIAN HOCKETT HANSON (GRANNY) CULVER brethren surrounding formed a hollow square and awaited the announcements and commands of the Grand Worshipful Lillian Hockett Hanson came to Montana in 1880. She and Master. The following articles as read by the Grand her son, Fred, came into Dillon on the first passenger train to Secretary, James Powell of Virginia City, were placed in the come up that far. stone by the Grand Secretary, a past Master of the Sheridan She was born August 21, 1850 at Cossuth, Iowa. Her Lo[...]mother died when Lillian was young and after her father Holy Bible came home from fighting the Civil War, he took his family to Poem, The Lord's Prayer, found in Charleston, S.C. Maine. There she went to school and by the time she was during the war between the states, and presented grown, lived at Lynn, Massachuse[...]offered in Congress, 1776; presented by She married William Hanson and a son Frederick was born J .D. Moore October 8, 1874. The marriage was not a happy one and she left Lynn and came with her six year old son to Montana. Copy of Central Christian A[...]That first year she kept house for an uncle, Sim Estes. Copy of Grand Lodge proceedings, A.F. & A.M., 1904 Then she went into the millinery business and had a shop in Shell watch Chain, made and presented by John F . Dillon for severa[...]up into Centennial Valley to live, and he asked her to keep Dollar Bill, State of[...]ted by Mrs. L. A. Fitch. down, so she packed up what she had left, took her young son Coins: 25 cents, 10 cents, and 5 cents, all of 1905; and went to the Centennial. They lived at Elk Springs. This[...]ent piece of 1864; one Cana- was later on to be the James Blair Ranch. dian piece and one Chinese piece Lillian loved the valley and wanted to stay. She filed on Copies of Sheridan Enterprise, June 29 and July 6, land, and Henry built her a cabin. That same year she met 1905[...]filed on more land to join hers. They settled at the ex- Roster, Grand and Acting Officers on this day treme eastern end of the valley. Two large gushing springs Roster, S[...], No. 20, A.F. & A.M. came out of the base of the mountain. They named the place Aluminum Card Case, presented by Mrs.[...]lor Picnic Springs. Picture showing the church and Pastor J .D. Badcon This land was all in Madison County at that time. All their[...]Virginia City. It was quite a trip After testing the stone by the proper implements of in those days, over the pass to Henry's Lake, over Reynolds masonry, it was declared to be well formed, true and trusty- Pass, down the Madison and over the Virginia City Hill. and then laid according to the ancient rules of the craft. Corn Sometimes they went down the valley and over the hills to go was scattered by the Deputy Grand Master, Thomas Dun- down the Ruby River. Whichever way they traveled, it was a can, as an emblem of plenty; wine poured by the Senior long way. Mrs. Culver had friends at Virginia City and Twin Grand Warden, Robert Ogden, as an emblem of joy; and oil Bridges and always enjoyed a few days visiting along the[...] |
| [...]In 1895, a writer named J.V. Brower came up the valley looking for the head of the Missouri River. He said Red Rock Creek was the longest tributary. He and Bill Culver went up into the mountains to find the head and marked the place which was the beginning of the "Mighty Missouri•. Lillian also made the trip up to the head. When Bower[...]te his book, he put in it that Lillian Culver was the first white woman to go to the head source of the Missouri River.[...]There were lots of Indians passing through in the summer. They trailed up the valley from the Lemhi County on their[...]arrows. The big springs had been their camping place for[...]About 1900 Mrs. Culver took a boy from the Orphans'[...]Hanson took his brother Herman Reis. The boys grew up on the places and were good hard working men. Herman went[...]to war in 1918 and was killed in action. Matt married and[...]Fred Hanson grew up in the valley and went to school at Twin Bridges and Dillon. He married Emma Jones and they[...]had four children: James, Chester, Zella and Lila. Fred took[...]and she has two daughters and several grandchildren. Lila[...]lives in Dillon also. Emma Hanson with son Fred Hanson. way. She also wrote news for the Madisonian. At least as |
| swans. They began feeding them grain at the spring and as it were intended to be used in publications of the National seemed to help, they decided they must have the land and Geographic Society. The pictures made a splendid file from springs for re[...]which to draw publicity for tourist brochures and to show ing her home. She loved it and had no intention of leaving. prospective guests. She had several small strokes that summer and fall, and as Mrs. Cunningham, who had been Mattie Tuthill of the winter went on she became feeble. She passed away in Bozeman, the sister of Raleigh Tuthill, was important in March 1936 at her grandson's home. She was 86. making the ranch a success. She was able to provide meals Fred Hanson sold the ranch to the Government and moved for thirty guests and eight riders while caring for her young to Dillon[...]Bob, who has provided information, was born in The Centennial Valley is now in Beaverhead County but 1907; his sisters, Elizabeth and Helen, were born in 1904 and when these hardy pioneers settled it, it was Madi[...]1912. Mrs. Cunningham had only one hired girl and was forc-[...]plan ahead because grocery orders were brought to the Alta Hanson ranch from Bozeman once a month. The schedule was[...]riding down the canyon to learn why the freight was late and finding the driver so drunk that he was trying to throw chips[...]into the river to discover which way it was flowing so that he DUDE RANCHING ON THE MADISON would know[...]the Cooper Tie Camp was hiring about 300 men and there The most traditionally western aspect of the tourist in- was a lot of activity in the canyon. dustry is dude ranching. The business in the Madison Valley In 1913 range conditions for cattle became so bad that it grew out of the ranches in the Gallatin Canyon. Marshall was necessary to stop taking dudes and give complete atten- Cunningham and Hans Carl Biering bought their Nine tion to saving the herds. The range was over grazed and the Quarter Circle Ranch on the Taylor's Fork of the Gallatin in weather had not been favorable. Bob Cunningham 1904. The partners had been ranching together in the remembers that during the season of 1916 to 1917 Gallatin Valley. Mr. Biering had a dry land farm near Ft. Cunningham and Biering had 16,000 cattle and were out of Ellis and joined Cunningham to farm land near the W.W. grazing land. Their cattle were spread from Mile CrE;Elk and Wylie ranches in the center of the valley. They started graz- the West Fork in the Gallatin Canyon to the Idaho line and ing cattle in the Gallatin Canyon and wintering them in the from Bear Creek in the Madison Valley south. They had six straw stacks they were able to buy in the valley. They in- cow camps and Bob says that he has been given branding tended t[...]irons that were picked up by friends all over the upper F.O. Butler started bringing his family from Chicago to the Madison. The brands they used were the Nine Quarter Circle Michener Ranch for the summer. He convinced Mr. and the Rising Sun. The Rising Sun, which has been featured Cunningham to let them move to his ranch where the boys in later tourist brochures from the ranch, was the second could join in the operation of running a cattle outfit. Marshall[...]ngham was a genial host who had been educated at _the from Johnny Kennedy who used it when he owned the Call University of Virginia. As a young man he spent some trme Ranch. It now belongs to the Sun Ranch and the name Ris- in Mexico and was said to be the first man to cross the ing Sun was dropped during World War I[...]Japanese significance. periences during the gold rush into the Yukon caused some people to call him "Klondike Cunningham". Mr. Biering was The riders Bob remembers who rode for his father on the a more quiet methodical man who backed his partne[...]ison range were Roy Frye, Otto Kirby, Sam Shelton and of his ventures. He was a bachelor who made the Brundage. These men were in the Antelope Basin part of ~he Cunninghams his family[...]were shipped to them at West Yellowstone while The Cunningham and Biering Ranch was magnificently Hebgen Dam was under construction. The cattle were located on the Taylor's Fork where they kept eight riders to spooked and scattered over the whole Madison. After the handle their cattle. Between 1907 to 1913 they kept thirty dam was completed the cattle had to swim the narrows to get guests in addition to the crew needed to run more than to some of their range. 10,000 head of cattle. The Butler family were the first guests and later ones were friends of theirs from Chicago. The There were homesteaders on the Missouri Flat while brochure which was published for the ranch in 1910 was cir- Cunningham and Biering were using the Antelope Basin culated in Chicago. It advertised[...]ctions including cabins, a strand of wire. The catle that were driven down from the Basin broke into the fields as though the wire wasn' t there bath-building, and a lodge with a fireplace. Bob and trampled the grain. The homesteaders had been eating Cunningham, the son of Marshall Cunningham, reme~bers Nine Quarter Circle beef because of the ruined fields. . the water for the bath building being heated by the kitchen range after coming to the house in a trough. It was piped In 1913 the Bear Creek Ranch was purchased by from the kitchen to the shower in the bath building. Cunningham and Biering to feed their cattle: In 1916 they Activities that were featured at the ranch were handling joined a group of ranchers from the Gallatm Valley who drove cattle to the Crow Reservation. There were twenty-two cattle, fishing and mountain climbing. Guests were met at[...]riders and each rider had twelve horses. The cook wagon and Gallatin Gateway. It took two days to drive them to the ranch so they were encouraged to book themselves into the bed wagon each had six horses. Young Bob[...]with that horse herd. The cattle found knee high grass on the ranch for the entire summer. reservation. Junior Spear was the wagon boss for this outfit. The first cabins were built for the summer season in 1910, Phil Evans, Oz Wingate, George Bowles, and Bob's uncle, and were for the personal use of the F.O. Butler family. In Raleigh Tuthill, all of whom had been riders at the ranch, 1912 Albert Schlecten, who was a photographer from went to the Reservation. Oz Wingate had been the camp boss Bozeman, was invited to the ranch to take pictures which on the Taylor's Fork.[...] |
| In 1918 Cunningham and Biering farmed their Bear Creek In the 1920's Paul Butler, one of the sons of Frank 0. Ranch to promote the war effort during World War I. Elgin Butler, bought the Seven Eleven Ranch in the Gallatin Keller was employed to run the Fowler Ranch. He also used Canyon. He used it to raise polo ponie[...]is saw mill on Indian Creek to produce lumber for the three companion ranch at Hot Springs, South Dakota. sets of buildings on the acreages where grain was planted. In 1927, J. Fred Butler bought the B Bar K Ranch in the Charles Armitage hauled some of the grain to Norris in his Gallatin Canyon for his daughter, Florence, who was married old rubber tired truck that made about fifteen miles[...]mer home which became a dude ranch after Florence and her Velma, who was a wonderful horsewoman. She worked the parents died in the 1930's. cattle on the Bear Creek Ranch and often rode broncs while All the log buildings on the Butler Ranches and the Dia- she worked. On one occasion Bob saw her force a raw bronc mond J were built by the same carpenters. They understood to stand while she opened the pole gate at the ranch and then logs. Lee Smith bossed the logging crews. The peeled logs take him briskly into the mountains. He remembered the were washed three times. When they were in place they were horse when she didn't return in the evening. Riders were washed with soap and water. After this they were stained soon combing the country to find her body, but she had ac- and finished with oil and varnish. tually ridden through the mountains to the Nine Quarter Cir- The new Sun Ranch Corporation had an option on grazing cle Ranch on the Gallatin where she changed horses and land from the Spanish Peaks to the Quake Lake area. went on to Gallatin Gateway--eighty miles! She met Merrill Marshall Cunningham approached President Hoover for per- Alexander at Gateway and they eloped. After they were mission to buy buffalo to start a herd on this range and was married she called Elgin on the telephone. given the right to purchase fifty head. Herbert Hoover While Cunninghams were working the Bear Creek Ranch, became quite interested in this project and spent much time Bob remembers seeing barrels of harness snaps standing in the area after he was no longer president. near Jim Cameron's old buildings near the mouth of North In 1928 the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch was opened for Bear Creek. Mr. Cameron polished the snaps during the dudes for the second time. The new brochure was designed winter. He had a patent for a special snap which was easy to by Mr. and Mrs. C. Holing who were then famous as the il- open when it was frosted during cold weather. The water lustrators of childrens' literature. They also planned the in- wheel he used for power could still be located in the 1930's. terior decoration for the buildings. Cunningham and the The Cunninghams became acquainted with Tom Lincoln,[...]elect better known as English Tom, when they had the Bear Creek group of people, and their rate was $150 a week. Ranch. He had a cabin on Indian Creek and rode the Bear Gary Cooper, who had attended school in Bozeman and Creek ditch during irrigation season. He didn't enjoy so was a friend of the Cunningham family, was invited to stay many people and was willing to become winter caretaker at at the ranch and he promised to bring his Hollywood friends the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch on the Gallatin after it was as guests. He wasn 't[...]this promise, possibly vandalized. Everything in the cabin was stolen. because of the depression. The guests who came were the Cunningham built Tom a cabin which became his permanent same ones who had stayed at the ranch between 1907 and home. 1913. This time they brought their friends and younger In" 1918 Cunningham and Beiring tried to promote an ir- members of t[...]of these people were friends rigation ditch for the Bear Creek Ranch. They wanted to of the Butlers. Several of the lawyers who handled build a canal out of the river just south of the mouth of Cunningham's suit against Ringling came. Cunningham Indian Creek. They incorporated and sold enough stock to remembers George I. Haight and Charles I. Carlson of pay for the Cameron Store, kept the books for the corpora- Minneapolis. Carlson had been County Attorney of Gallatin tion which lasted one year. The survey proved that the ditch County. would be too expensive to be feasible. Cunningham and Beir- The Diamond J Ranch on Jack Creek was investigated at ing Ranch crews moved the Cameron Store to its present this time because it could be used with the Nine Quarter Cir- location on the highway while the survey was being made. cle and the Rising Sun as a base for pack trips which could Mr. Cunningham had his ranchers try to use the old move from one ranch to the other over and through the Hodgens ditch which had not been used after it was lined mountains. Julia Bennett was the hostess at the Nine with chicken wire and a light cement mixture. Engineers Quarter Circle when it was reopened in 1928 and 1929. She said real cement would be destroyed by frost during the wanted to run her own ranch, and Marshall Cunningham ask- winter. Hodgens died before he had a chance to try out the ed that she be placed at the Diamond J as manager. Julius improved ditch, whi[...]t Butler promised to help finance her opening. The depression as though it had not been lined.[...]interfered with these plans, but Julia liked the plan so much Cunningham and Biering sold their cattle off the reserva- that she accepted the promise of one of the guests at the tion and were left with a huge acreage and no livestock. They ranch to finance her business. By the time she needed help formed a corporation with Richard T. R_ingling and Lester he had lost his fortune in the collapse of the stock market. Work to place sheep on the range. After a few years Starting i[...]m worked for Ernest Cunningham was frozen out of the corporation, and he Miller's Elkhorn Ranch. In 1927 the[...]twenty-one years. In 1924 Windy Water Ranch on the east side of Ennis Lake. It was he was given a j[...]to be a stock ranch to supply their dude ranch in the Gallatin when the Ringling Circus came to Montana. In 1928 he used[...]Ernest Miller was a native of Madison County. He the money acquired by attaching the circus to buy the Sun had had a homestead on the west side of the Madison River Ranch. Julius and Paul Butler became his partners. and his family kept a residence in Virginia City. The Millers ·C unningham retained one-third interest in the ranch. The had dudes at their Windy Water Ranch before the other dude Rising Sun Ranch, as it was then called, was operated as a ranches started in the Madison Valley. cattle ranch and the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch in the In 1929 the Millers decided to use the Windy Water Ranch Gallatin kept dudes.[...] |
| away from the pressures they were meeting in college. Many EARLY PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF PONY of the boys were alcoholics. The Millers leased the old VF Ranch, the Bry Ranch at the mouth of Jack Creek Canyon, the McKay Ranch on the Cedar Creek Bench, the Granger A community is gauged by it's teachers, preachers and Ranches near Cameron, the old Gilmer Ranch and the Bain physicians, hence Pony is "swollen with pride and ar- Ranch. They raised horses and farmed. Bob Cunningham rogance" in naming her three earlist physicians: Stafford, took stock in this corporation in lieu of much of his salary. Schmalhousen and Smith. By 1931 this enterprise failed and the ranches were sold or Dr. Stafford's histo[...]but in later years he made Pony his home and managed a Bob went to work for Julia Bennett when she started the drug store. Over a territory of thirty miles he administered Diamond Jin 1932. By 1935 the Sun Ranch was in trouble to the sick and wounded, only a circuit rider can appreciate again and the Butlers decided to let Bob Cunningham and what this means in the fierce heat of summer and winter's Julius Butler run the ranch for five years. They would be deep snows and blizzards. His services were those of love given title to the property if they were successful. Marshall and mercy and human kindness, often given without any Cunningham was to initiate the plan by giving his son, Bob, compensation. H[...]iful Christian character. this third interest in the ranch. The young men put out a Dr. Schmalhousen wa[...]great intellectuality, new advertising brochure and were handling the ranch suc- his patients yielding to him not through dread of their cessfully when the Butlers withdrew their support and the disease so much perhaps as to the presence of a superior will ranch stopped handling tourists. and intellect. He was no small factor in a community which When Bob Cunningham took over the management of the he left, when his family moved to Idaho[...]h in 1935 he could have had J . Fred returned alone in his extreme old age to die and where he Butler's B Bar K for $50,000. This was only a fraction of the rests. market value because the buildings were completely furnish- Enters Harvey Foster Smith, unpretentious, shy with the ed and adequate to start taking guests. J . Fred Butler[...]s. His skill as a surgeon was not daunted by Bob all his work horses to use on the other ranch. Bob took operations in lamp-lit, mud-chinked log cabins, when or the horses to the Sprague Ranch on the Madison Valley dur- wherever the necessity occurred. One case occurring concur- ing the winter, and he broke work horses to sell. He bought rently with the shooting of President McKinley resulting in a· the Sprague place for $10,000 but lost twenty-one head of the similar wound, also by shooting, is worthy of record. William valuable animals to lightning and sleeping sickness. Beckwith was accide[...]on a slope Julia Bennett continued to operate the Diamond J Ranch below the mining dump. Where Beckwith was working the with a companion ranch in Arizona. Before she retired she nephew sent a discharge of shot through his uncle's body, withdrew completely to the Arizona ranch. When she gave striking low in the left part of the abdomen and ranging up- up the Jack Creek Canyon Ranch it was purchased by her ward to the extreme right. News coming to Dr. Smith at 3:00 dudes. The ones involved put in about $10,000 each and one p.m., he hastily had a bed put in a spring wagon, was driven of them ran the headquarters. Management of this head- the three miles up into the mount~s where he gave first aid.[...]He returned to Pony with his patient, took him to the home quarters ranch was offered to Bob in 1955 if he would run it as a club ranch. The members would buy their acreages and of his sister, who lived in one of the first log houses ever built build their own cabins and would use the headquarters as a in the community. She refused to allow him to be moved, dining room and club. Pete Combs bought this ranch which even to the office of Dr. Smith, which was at the best only a has 160 acres. In 1974 he operated it and a dude ranch in plastered room. This necessitated the wiring of the house Mexico during the winter season. and installing lights. Meanwhile Dr. Blair of Bozeman[...]telephoned by Dr. Smith and requested to aid in an operation The Windy Water Ranch was sold to Ben Sheffield when it that might save the injured man's life. Dr. Blair arrived was no longer a practical addition to the Elkhorn Ranch in before midnight, after an overland trip of sixty-five miles. the Gallatin Canyon. It is still listed in the 1974 Montana Under what stress these two mou[...]that night cannot be recorded. The simple statement that William Bry operated a dude ranch at the mouth of Jack sixteen perforations in the peritoneum and intestines were Creek Canyon on land once owned by Homer Hutton. It ran found, cleansed and closed after which daylight came to an successful[...]not allowed even Bry brought Edward H. Beardsley and Marian E . Cummings water for three long hot summer months, but he lived! Never to the Madison Valley as his guests. They have long owne[...]d as permanent summer homes. mining and lived many years following this operation. In the 1973 to 1974 Montana Recreation Directory, four After the death of Dr. Smith in his forty-ninth year, June dude ranches were listed in the Madison Valley. They were: 1914, papers and correspondence were found revealing that Pete Combs, Diamond J Ranch; Pete and Nikki Durham's, he was a correspondent of the leading physicians of Europe Indian Creek Ranch; Ben Sheffield; and Lloyd Wortman's and America. His requested treatise on disease and surgery Willow Springs Ranch. Tourist resorts by this time became were given an honored place in the medical journals of both somewhat similar to dude[...]em re- continents. quired advance bookings and provided guide services to en- Many other excellent physicians have come and gone but courage their patrons to enjoy their stay. Resorts of this only the three mentioned made a permanent home here. type include the Sportsman's Lodge and the El Western at Ennis as well as the Channels Resort near Ennis Lake. There are also private guest ranches which do not advertise in t[...]len Paugh from the memory and files o[...] |
| [...]ere was an elderly prospector who had come across the country from Mexico with three borros, Jack, Jerry and Jen- ny. His name was Billy Vipond and he had a lovely little fish pond in the creek just below the bridge on his place in Bear Gulch. He had a log barn for his burros, and allowed the Todd girls to ride Jenny; the other two gave the girls a bad time. He also had a Mexican dog; he rigged up some rope and pulleys so he could lie on his bed or sit at his desk and open the door for the dog without getting up. One day Effie and her sister Florence were riding the little burro when they came across a watermelon that had fallen out of the stage that came daily from Twin Bridges. What a feast that was. William Todd, "Winnie ", ran the stage in those days. He was an uncle to the girls, who remembered that his name was given him because of his weak voice. The road to the gulch was very steep and rocky and the groceries that were hauled sometimes got bounced around a lot; conse- quently, the watermelon bounced out. Children in those days listened to old timers tell stories of their past experiences. One story Effie remembers was told by Mr. Vipond of the murder of his brother. He and his brother had a mine in Mexico, and Billy left him there to come west. When he returned he couldn't find his brother. He looked all over the area trying to find a clue; then several months l[...]atch from his pocket. It was his brother's watch. The man finally confessed to the murder and they built a scaffold in the street, and Billy pulled the rope that hanged him. After returning to Montana,[...]ds who visited him in Bear Gulch were W.A. Clark, the Copper King, Sam Johnson, and Alex Johnson, a Butte banker.[...]James Madison Page. The Experiences of James Madison Page in[...]squad of Fifth Virginia Cavalry and sent to Belle Isle Prison |
| fluke, Page had thrown up his arm just as Wirz rode by and tained train tickets to Detroit, and after a long-promised got a kindly salute in return. Wirz 's answer to the plea for Christmas dinner paid for by Bowles, set for Page, Bowles, help was to promise that the bakery being built would soon and the nine who were dead, they returned home. After 60 furnish bread and it did. days Page reported to Harper's Ferry for a time and after 19 More prisoners kept coming in. By Jun[...]joined his company. They participated in a men. The grounds were expanded to 21 acres. An addition to[...]Review in Washington, where Page was promoted to the hospital was built and the doctors worked conscientious- Second Lieuten[...]what short supplies they had. Thousands suffered and died from ailments, including dysentery and other Postscript: dietary problems.[...]le Prison, a Civil War Confederate Military In the spring, an organized band of thieves and cuthroats Prison, was maintained in an open stockade of 26-½ acres surfaced in the prison. These raiders preyed upon sick and near Andersonville, Georgia, from November 1863 until the helpless prisoners. end of the war. The suffering of the prisoners from conges- Page again talked to Wirz and a plan was devised to get rid tion, insufficient food, exposure, pollution of the water su~ of the raiders. All prisoners suspected of murder and robbery ply and diseases was terrible. Of the 49,485 prisoners receiv- were arrested and tried in a fairly conducted court. ed during the war, about 13,000 died. The prisoners burial Wirz's soldiers would hold the suspects. The prisoners turn- ground was made a national cemetery. It contains 13,737 ed over 175 men to the guards. Six were convicted of murder graves of which 1,040 are " unknown. " It is now a federal and 25 others had to wear a ball and chain for the rest of their park. imprisonment. Page had no part in the nex t action. Many[...]opedia Britannica, Inc. 1951 raiders acquitted by the court, but still suspected guilty had to run the gauntlet between two rows of fellow-prisoners and James Madison Page, born in Crawford Cou[...]ook, praised Wirz for his part in restoring order and at Twin Bridges. tranquility to the prison. His Parents, Wallace and Nancy Bonney Page, had four One bright hope in the life of a prisoner was to be exchang- other children. The father died in 1840 and Mrs. Page in ed. In August 1864, Secretary of Wa[...]death sentence for many when he ended the west as a child. He was working as a surveyor in Min- prisoner exchange. The stand he took was that " We will not nesota when the war broke out. He later trained (after the exchange able-bodied men for skeletons. " It was believed in war) at a business college in Chicago and in 1866 came to Washington that an exchanged rebe[...]Virginia City. He farmed with O.B. Varney in the Madison tions fighting on the defensive was equivalent to three Union Vall[...]He became Madison County Surveyor and in 1882 served During August, a heavy rain storm "swept over the in the Territorial Legislature as joint representative from camp," raising the stream to torrent proportions. The Beaverhead and Madison Counties. He was re-elected in prisoners suffered severely but good came of the ordeal. 1884. Above the creek on sloping ground the rain cut a deep chan- In 1895 he became State Land Agent. He was a member of nel through the camp and washed out the ground around a several Masonic bodies and the Eastern Star. He belonged to large pine stump. To everyone's surprise and delight a flow Lincoln Post No. 2 G.A.R., Butte, and was a member of the of cold pure water broke forth at the roots of the stump and Montana Historical Society. became a " livi[...]" He was all in all an outstanding citizen and man of many August, 1864 was a hot terrible month. Half the prisoners talents and experiences. were afflicted with scurvy and hundreds died daily. This was His obituary furnished t hese fact s. (From the Twin a time when the South was on "its last legs," transportation[...]ndent, Friday, October 17, 1924.) had broken down and supplies were meager and totally in- adequate.[...]Rations were corn meal, corn bread, peas, rice and bacon. Though Page and another prisoner, F . H. Mann, M.D. in their writ[...]ent was generally humane, conditions worsened. The U.S. Government comes in for some blame for not ex- HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS changing prisoners rapidly and for ignoring the Southern Confederacy's plea for more physicians and hospital supplies Almost every day was a holiday when I was growing up in for the Union prisoners. Sheridan, Montana. We had so many places to go and things Page and Billy Bowles left Andersonville in September, to do that the day was hardly long enough. This was made hoping to be exchanged, after all the other Michigan boys possible by loving parents, caring and sharing teachers, good had died. But they were not to be exchanged. They went to friends--both old and young--and a close family relationship. Millen Prison in Sav[...]son inmate This story is about people and places in and around they learned they could be paroled to work[...]heridan. I hope that it will bring back a memory, and Page was paroled to a shoemaker and eventually learned perhaps a chuckle or[...]d bluffed at first on his skill. Faced with the loss of the breadwinner in the heart of the He eventually got some flour sacks and made himself a depression, our wonderful Mom, Ida Gemmell, picked up the muslin shirt and pants. reins and with hard work and the help and generosity of On November 20, finally freedom came. Page and Bowles friends and neighbors kept the family unit together. Mom were sent out to the steamer Northerns and on to Annapolis. had a very simple philoso[...]u get as good as you There they were clothed, fed and given a clean bed. They ob- give, and it's best to keep a little credit on the giving side.•[...] |
| She never failed to help a friend in need and taught her fami- For the record these picture taking sessions occurred in the ly that you get respect by respecting others, reg[...]s were Dudley(s), Darby(s), Gem- their station in life. When we sometimes forgot who we were mel[...]Duncan(s), or where we were, a couple of swats on the behind and a very and Olson. few stem words brought us back to reality.[...]sophy, it follows that each of us had some chores and assignments to help the elderly and shut-ins in the communi- Fishing ty. One of my chores was to assist a fine elderly lady, Mrs.[...]t swimming we were usually fishing on Rightenour. She was hard of hearing and because of her Mill Creek, or First and Second Indian Creeks, north and stature and age, could not lift anything as heavy as a regular west of Sheridan. Since the season opened while school was coal scuttle.[...]times played "hookey" to partake of this It was my job to go to her home at least once a week and to activity. Mr. Murray (I never called him Chick until I got break the large lumps of coal into small pieces and place back from the Army service in 1945) would unofficially give the[...], but Lord help you if you manage for her cooking and heating stoves. This sweet old were just "goofing off". Tli.e limit was twenty-one fish in lady always gave me a nickel, and a few homemade cookies to those days, and we usually filled out before returning home. take[...]y loved. There were certain "holes" on the creeks that always produc- Though times were tough we had all the necessities of life, ed one or more fish. One such place was under the railroad the necessary clothes and plenty of good food thanks to trestle at First Indian Creek. We dubbed this hole "Old Mom. Being a quite active family there were always torn Faithful " and it was always a race to get there first when you knees to mend and buttons to replace, and laundry to do. I went fishing with Ted Darby or "Beaky" Albrecht. remember my first good suit, obtained from Montgomery Wards when I was about twelve years old. It was a brown tweed with an Eisenhower jacket ([...]nhower jackets Wintertime Fun• Skating and Skiing were heard of). I wore it to the 4th of July rodeo at Gus When it beca[...]of town where someone (probably Gus) the tennis courts between his house and Walter's house into convinced me that I should ride a calf. He also convinced me a skating rink. Anyone was allowed to skate there as long as that if I held the circingle with my left hand and held the they were not rowdy and helped to sweep the ice at the end of calf's tail over my shoulder with my right hand there was no the skating day in preparation for flooding to make the ice way I could get bucked off. Well I lasted about two jumps, smooth again. Mac furnished the lights and the water and forgot to let go of the tail and the calf drug me and my new did most of the work in maintaining the ice rink. As suit through some fresh cow manure. You know the rest of youngsters we took all this for granted, although we spent the story when I told my Mom what had happened. hour a[...]n this wonderfully maintained facility. Mac For the sake of brevity the rest of this narrative is condens- and Lynn McGregor were accomplished figure skaters and it ed under various headings. was a joy to watch them glide over the ice when they took a turn at the rink. Other places to skate when the conditions were right were the dredge ponds above Alder, or on Mill Swimming •[...]Hole Creek. In the latter places there was always the danger of falling through a hole in the ice, as brother Billy did once on About June 15 each year Dad (the town marshal) would Mill Creek. Quick[...]Albrecht may have gather up a group of eager kids and we would go down to the saved his life as she retrieved him at the next hole a few feet old swimming hole in the City Park and clean it out with downstream. rakes, shovels, and buckets. When Dad was sure that all the[...]snow that broken glass was removed, he would turn the water in from stayed on the ground for long, so skiing and sledding were Kalgren's ditch. I believe Harry Runkel took up this chore[...]r after Dad's death. What a glorious sight to see the first these activities we could be found towing on both skis and water coming out of the end of the pipe into the pond. The[...]pecting car driver would find a cou- Swimming was the order of the day almost every day for the ple of sleds hitched behind. The secret was to hitch with a rest of the summer. We often swam at night when the water free end on the rope so you could let go whenever you got go- seemed warmer than the cool night atmosphere. On these oc-[...]ing too fast or the sled tipped over. Favorite hitches of the casions some of the older boys would build a bonfire with[...]kids my age in 1933-35 were August Steiner's Dray Truck, wood, and throw on an old tire or two for lasting heat and light. Can you imagine OSHA sanctioning such shen[...]hitching a ride. For diversion some of the boys would go for a swim in the borrow pit by the railroad tracks, that mysteriously got filled wi[...]s were allowed, but not required. These The Cultural Center for Boys swims usually occurred on Tuesday or Thursday when the The City Jail was located on the alley behind Dad's train came by on its way to Alder and back the same day. In · blacksmith shop. I can never[...]hat it was used to order to hide their identity, the naked boys would duck their incarcerate a prisoner during the 1930's, so it was used in the heads under the water, with their tail ends in the air toward wintertime to house sheepherders and other less fortunate the railroad track. This must have offended the train crew men, that had no place to call home during the trying times and passengers, because the engineer used to blow his train of the depression. One such gentleman, who became a perm[...]ng. We called this "taking nent resident of the jailhouse when poor health would no pictures ",[...]ter term. longer allow him to herd sheep in the summertime was Bingo[...] |
| [...]k to this horse that Alvin let me have. He was a and never set properly so he was severely handicapped, and chunky little bay horse, his ears both came out the same hole used a cane to move about. He was a kind old gentleman and his eyes sort of set out on the front part of his head. He with a very keen mind. He read all the periodicals of that just wasn't the kind of horse one would want for a Sunday time, including Liberty magazine, the Country Gentlemen, mount. and others that I cannot remember, with avid interest, and I could ride him for a couple of hours,[...]rrent events with anyone who would his head and give a few hard bucks. He didn't seem to want listen in Leary's pool hall or in the jailhouse. to buck me off, he ju[...]me alert. I would give He had a weakness for the spirits and occasionally went on him a good spurring, but[...]n't a binge for an extended period of time. When the booze ran mind that and in another hour or two he would do the same out he would sober up and, since he was unable to do such thing. menial things as carry wood for the heating and cooking A friend of mine came along one day and stayed all night. stove, or obtain groceries or other neces[...]He said his horse was getting pretty well rode and wanted to that a group of boys including Pete Alb[...]orse that he could have for a few days. I Hadzor, my brother Billy, and myself made themselves said, "I have just the horse for you." available to assit in these chores. Wood for the stove came The next morning I got the saddle horse in. I dropped loop from the pile that Sam Hagenburger used to fire up the on this bay horse. I told my friend that the horse hadn't been smoke house behind the Sheridan Meat Market, and quite ridden for several days so he ju[...]wouldn't have any trouble with Sam to be taken to the jailhouse. Sometimes these delicious him. offerings, hot out of the cooking kettle reached the jailh9m1e in the stomach of the carrier. Notable among the gr<>u_l> that My friend, George, brought his saddle in and we soon had obtained a diploma for frequent visits to the jailhouse were, him geared up. George starte[...]as Bingo called them, Gerzowski No. 1 (Greg Hall) and Ger- ed him to hold everything. I told hi[...]ew steps then slipped onto bitch hearts, cribbage and rummy, and occasionally served him. The horse stood right still. So George said, "Well co[...]stew (fried potatoes, onion, with a mence," and slapped him lightly down the flank. few raw eggs mixed in. He also tau_ght us, unbeknownst to The horse jumped ahead about 10 feet, swapped ends, then our parents, how to mix up a wad of Beech Nut and sunfished a couple of times and old George bit the dust! The Horseshoe Chewing Tobacco, and hold it in the cheek horse bucked the length of the corral with the stirrups pop- without swallowing the juices and becoming violently ill (as ping together over his back. we did until we mastered the feat). Dear old George, who never seemed to lose his sense of They say home is where the heart is, and my heartbeat humor, raised up on one elbow and said, "I know what is the always picks up a little when we enter "pleasant[...]anticipation of visiting Mom, who still lives in the tion of yurs. " family home in Sheridan, and sister Bonny and her husband George got back on, rode him around the corral a few Bud Glasser, and other old friends who reside there. We times, then he says to me, "Open the gate. " especially enjoy the reunions with old classmates, and hope It was several days before he brought the horse back. I to have many more in the future like the class of "41 • had came in one evening and the horse was in the corral. He look- this summer of 1981 under the direction of Ted Darby and ed like he had been pulled through a knot hole. Bruce Pearson, with our favorite teacher and mentor Chick Murray as honored guest.[...]George had left a note thanking me for the use of the horse and saying that "If you ever come by my place and need a[...]good. I saddled him one afternoon and thought that I would go down to the gate to see if there were any cattle hanging[...]around there. I started out across the hills toward the mouth[...]of Timber Creek, got about half way down there, and was HORSE SHOWS TEMPERAMENT BUT riding along the gentle sloping side hill without a rock or[...]badger. I will always think that the horse deliberately stuck When I was riding for the Stock Association almost every his foot int[...]Anyway he rolled over on me. year, one or two of the stockmen would have a half broke I had learned from experience that whenever I got a fall it horse they wanted me to ride for the summer. And I was was a good idea to lay there for a few minutes and feel myself always glad to have an extra horse or[...]over, before I tried to get up. It took only a few seconds for One spring Alvin Reid h[...]d me to me to realize that I had broken a leg. take for the summer. Now I always thought Alvin was a Well, here I was several miles from anyplace and no chance friend until he let me have this horse. Alvin and I learned to for anyone to come along. It was up to me to get out of this walk at about the same time and very soon afterward, we one all by myself. The first thing I did was to rip my boot up started riding together, at first by riding the same horse. the side and get it off of my foot. Then I cut the top off leav- Soon we each had a horse and from this most of our days ing it as long as possible. I wrapped the boot top around my were spent on horseback. Alvin's father had a large ranch leg, then took my belt and wrapped it around the boot top and was always buying cattle so lots of the time he would and buckled it up as tight as possible. It made a very good have me go with Alvin and his brother, Almon, to bring in do-it-you[...]I didn't think there was any chance to catch the horse, but[...] |
| I knew I would have to try. I got up on my good leg and made a couple of hops toward the horse. He backed up a few steps and that left the reins trailing out toward me. I would give anothe[...]hop; pretty soon I was up close enough to pick up the reins. Well the picture looked brighter, but I still didn't know how I was going to get on. I got up close to the horse and I petted him and told him what a good horse he was and that I had always thought he was, and how sorry I was that I had ever spurred him. I to[...]et on, I would never spur him again. I got him on the downhill side. -I reached across the saddle and got ahold of the fork of the saddle on the far side. I put my knee against his side and pulled myself up until I got my left foot in the stirrup and the next thing I was on top of him. I wanted to shout "HUR- RAY", but I still had a ways to go and he might buck me off before I got there. We headed down toward the road. Several times I could feel him sort of skri[...], but he went along very nicely. We soon got down the road at the mouth of Timber Creek. I knew if he bucked me[...]come along, but nothing happened so we headed up the road toward Bill Marshall's place. I got there in[...]The log cabin on the ranch, Mama, Aunt Sarah Wilcox, Uncle[...]Lev Daems, Jerry 's and Sarah 's old Essex Car near cabin. In They took me to Sheridan and Dr. Burns patched me up[...]ound, Sarah, Jerry holding Wayne, Gerald, Lenore, and congratulated me on my improvised splint. He could not understand how I[...]Alpha, Betty. Well, that incident took care of my riding for that year, but next year I was up and at them and back on the job riding again, good as new.[...]seeking to glimpse the large mountain lion that left the huge tracks along the slough behind the cottonwoods, searching Jim Marshall for the long stemmed violets the tall grass hid, gathering the meadow mushrooms that turned the meadow white in mid-[...]J une. I REMEMBER MAMA AND 160 ACRES TO RUN ON There was the Garden Island where we could look for[...]ghosts and Hogback Island that took nerve to go on even in[...]d a refuge for us kids. When we I was born on the ranch that lay between the Madison had done something wrong we headed for old Hogback. Papa River and Spring Creek, a place where kids could run as free never found our hideout, but the time of reckoning always as the wild animals that prowled its islands and creek banks. came because, in those days, kids did not run away from Kids ran, seeking the elusive firefly, Negro Holly's ghost, home. There were ten of us kids, the four oldest being gone always searching for mysterious things, and never from home from the time that I can remember.[...]Mama told us stories and sang to entertain us. She would sing, "God Pity Bessie, The Drunkard's Lone Child", and Sister Lizzie, Mama Nancy, Brother Nick and sisters Lenore we'd cry. She'd say, "I won't sing it anymore." but we would and Orlean. beg, "Oh, please Mama, we won't cry." But when she once again got to the part, "Dark is the night and the storm rages wild, God pity Bessie the drunkard's lone child,• the tears[...]Mama taught us to walk with a book on our heads. She'd say "Walk straight, like a Lady, and you will not be stooped[...]or round shouldered. • She taught us to dance the Madison Kick, Virginia Reel, and the Rye Waltz. As she danced across the floor smiling and looking back at us, she would[...]Mama picked wild rose leaves and made rose Jars which we would open when the cold northern blizzards blew and it seemed you could feel the warm summer wind with the scent of roses wafting on the air.[...]love and were married June 10th, 1928, by Oscar Angle,[...]Justice of the Peace, in Ennis, Montana. On March 29, 1929,[...]God gave us Betty Ann, with her dark hair and sweet ways, she won herself into the hearts of everyone who knew her.[...] |
| [...]year later Mother standing there down through all the years. I have we got our boy, a big healthy baby[...]er as com- written this in loving memory to my mother, Nancy A. pletely as his sister had. We named him Gerald Nicholas Daems, and our ranch at Varney, Montana. after his dad and my brother, Nick. In two years another lit- Yes, I remember Mama and 160 acres to run on. tle girl came to our house, Alpha May, not unlike her sister with her dark hair and sweet ways. When Alpha was a few Sarah A. Daems Cadman months old I found I was pregnant again. I was crying and Mama said, "Don't cry. There's always room for one more.• Not at all like her sisters, Lenore Ellen came to us golden haired and with skin so white it looked like wax. Mother was[...]UN SHELLS Dr. John Clancy, who was in Ennis, came and delivered a AND FISHING HOOKS premature baby boy weighing 6¼ lbs. He was a breach birth and the Dr. didn't think he could live but with me nursing "It was just by accident I started teaching in the Sheridan him and my sister Orlean cuddling him to her bosom at night[...]arles Murray said recently. ~e is he thrived like the weeds in the garden. We called him the genial white-haired principal emeritus of the Shendan Wayne Leslie and he, like all the others, won our hearts. Grade School. We moved away from the valley in 1936; Jerry had gotten "I'd quit teaching after an experience in Idaho," Murray work in the coal mines at Bear Creek. There in 1947 in Bill- recalled, "and had a good job with the Forest Service in ings, Dr. Rathman delivered two babies, "TWINS", both Sheridan. The eighth grade teacher didn't come and the boys. They were born with one placenta which doesn't hap- supervisor of the Beaverhead National Forest said, 'Go and pen often. Sollie and Ted made life interesting for us, what help them out for a couple of weeks. This work can wait.' The one boy didn't think of, the other did. Our hearts grew larger teacher never did come and I became interested in the kids. with love for them.[...]ve been at it ever since." While in Bear Creek, my brother Nick was killed and when Murray was born in Murray, Utah and educated in his boy and girl were in the fourth grade, they came to live with us. We loved[...]hat time that I called them, "Coxey's Army". They all grew to be lovely men and women. Chick with the shotgun his friends presented to him at his[...]retirement party in 1973. Sorrow and tears came along with laughter and gladness. First I lost my angel mother, then Nick, Ed, Josie, Frank, Papa, Duffy, then my own darling Betty, and Jerry, my beloved husband, after 48 years of marriage. It seemed the world had ended, but life goes on. Through good time, bad times, laughter and tears, I see my The twins, Sollie and Ted.[...] |
| [...]d Ennis over because Jack Scully, a Dillon; has a life time teaching certificate; has credits from[...]of mine. We made it into a county every school in the state except Montana Tech. He introduc- track meet and it has been going ever since." ed athletics for boys and girls in the Sheridan Grade School, In 1928 the Sheridan School put out their first year book. I started the Madison County track meets in 1939 and added had a copy of it and Murray looked through it. He bad an events this y[...]tertaining comment or story to tell about most of the peo- member of the Sheridan Kiwanis Club, the Sheridan Trap ple in it. Frederick Brim was the school superintendent when and Wildlife Club, the American Legion, the Catholic Church Murray was in high school in 1924. He laughed when he saw and the Montana Education Association. He became the Brim's picture. Sheridan Scoutmaster about 1934 and was presented with " Our athletic fund was limited and we bought our own his Silver Beaver in Butte several years ago. Murray retired suits. The southern district track meet was in Three Forks.[...]a little cloverleaf Velie auto. I remember there and one year in Idaho before starting his 36 years in the were five of us big kids, Paul and Loyd Johnson, Nick Sheridan School. He was in the Air Force for 4½ years dur- Daems, another boy and myself. We left at five o'clock in the ing World War II.[...]e we got to Virginia City " I was friends with the Sheridan coach," MurrE!,y said. " He and three more before we got to Three Forks. Finally I said, got a job teaching in Garrett, Idaho, and wanted me to go 'Why not set the car on the jack?' so Mr. Brim fixed the with him. They were supposed to pay $110.00 a month but jack and we'd get hold of the back of the car and set it on the the district was broke and we were teaching for script. I've jack. st[...]"We finally got there at 1:15 and changed our clothes " Then these teachers who are starting in a _$7,000 - beside the track. We didn't have time to warm up but placed[...]it? third anyway. ' ' I remember the hardware dealer was chairman of the " We had four more flats coming home. The tubes had so school board. I told him " All right, I'll teach for you, but you many patches on then, you couldn't see the tubes." have to promise me that you'll keep me in shotgun shells and Murray turned some more pages in the annual and came to fishing (fly) hooks. If I can get those things, money means the picture of an attractive looking woman, Edith M.[...]hristmas I think can. we got $25 cash. At the end of the year we got quite a bit of back pay."[...]"Mrs. Duncan was quite a teacher," Murray said. "My favorite. She was the English teacher and we put on several Because of his love of fishing and trap shooting, when he plays each year. W[...]owns around retired he was given a fishing rod by the 8th grade students, Sheridan' Twin Bridges, Alder and Virginia City. fishing boots by the American Legion and Auxiliary, a gun for trap shooting by his friends and a carton of shells for the "Whenever I see her picture it reminds me of the time in gun by the Boy Scouts. 1924 that we put on the play 'Just Seventeen', by Clarence[...]Buddington Kelland. One of the players, Nick Daems, was "I started in the Air Force in Stockton, Calfornia, June 6, the colored boy in the play and he had to have a dog. Elmer 1941" Murray continued. "I was on K.P. two weeks. Hardest Glasser had a smart dog named Kazan, so we used him. First job I ever did. We had kettles you could get up on and skate we put the play on in Sheridan and then we were to put it on around. Finally payday came and I went up to the table to in Alder in their big show hall. collect my pay. I had $2.45 coming after I'd pay my squadron fund and paid for my laundry. I asked the captain, "Before we went to Alder we put the dog in a box so we 'How about getting a check for th[...]p it.' He wouldn't lose him. Then we forgot all about the dog, left him said, 'We haven't got time for checks.' All they paid was $30 'in the box. a month. Pay was limited I'll tell you. I went into special ser- "When Daems got to the part where he called the dog, I vice and taught albegra and other subjects. opened the box. The dog rushed onto the stage and had to go " I was transferred to Marfa Air Force Base in Texas and to the bathroom right away. Sniffed around and finally came had classes for the cadets-classes on progress of the war, to the leg of the table. It wasn't just a short going to the news from headquarters, and other things the public didn't bathroom. He just stood th[...]ce. Cliff Rodgers "Poor Mrs. Duncan. She started to cry and said, 'Our play of Sheridan was stationed at another base in Texas and we is ruined! ' I said, 'think nothing about it. I'll use this[...]out a place to meet on our two day passes. But it took sack to cover it up.' two days to get ther[...]it. I got out in "So I walked in and s~d, 'You've got to teach your dog October 1945, but was in the reserves for three years. better manners or I '11 fire you.' I threw the gunny sack "When I took over in Sheridan in 1932 there were very lit-[...]ve track meets " I'll never forget the roar from the house. It was terrific. where the grade school now sits, " Murray said, "That was all We couldn't do anything for about 15 minutes. Every time the ground we had. Talk about being hard pressed for land we mentioned the dog from then on it would stop the play.'' now, they should have been here when it was tough. "We played football there, also. A hundred yard dash had THE MADISONIAN - June 21, 1973 to be run on the diagonal. Had to run out in the street for a[...]onger race. I remember I used to have track meets and in- vite all of the little schools around; Duncan District, Lower Wisconsin, Upper Wisconsin Creek and Brandon, Robbers' Roost, Laurin.[...]ules. Just run a race. If we wanted to The following is the transcript of a letter written by John ha[...] |
| [...]l safely. Those hung have devulged upon history. The first letter was written; then, since the mail all their company and they will all be hung who are found. didn't go out (the town was posted) he wrote another letter My love to my dear wife and children. between the lines of the first. The top of the first page says John Jones "read the interlining after reading the other. " Here is the[...]an. 12164 MARION D. LYTLE My dear Rebecca and sweet babes - In about the year 1900 there came to the Upper Ruby I hasten to tell you of a great treat that I have had since Valley a man by the name of Marion D. Lytle. He was a very writing the first sheet. And can't you guess or must I tell well-educa[...]classmate of Woodrow you. Well, I have been to the office and to my great joy I got Wilson, one of our presidents. They both graduated from two letters from you, the first word from home since I left Princet[...]sure to any great extent. Woodrow landed in the White House as hear from you and to hear that you were all well and hearty. President, and Lytle wound up at Romey's Lake at the head Tell Emma that Pa (John Jones) is not at M[...]s soon as he can. Tell her that Pa says to keep all to their places, Tell Fanny to be in a hurry There was a rumor that he was trying to get away from and finish the quilt so that she can cover Pa with it when he something in his past life; I never knew just what. He came[...]quilt made by his daughter. Tell Eddy to pack in the wood as Hardy (Jacob ten miles from his nearest neighbor and fifteen from the post Hardesty) saws it and pile it up nice, and I will send him five office. cents to buy ca[...]fact, he was considered Tell Hardy not to cut the wood too long and made out his to be a little crazy on the subject. That is just about all he bill and present it to me when I get back. Tell Frank that would talk about. If one met him out on the range he John wants to see her very much, so muc[...]H them. Thus Jack starts for Salt Lake in the morning. other Hhoss •. |
| While I am on the subject of Morgan, I was at Morgan's I thought the sheriff would like to come up and get it place shortly after Lytle died. The first thing Morgan said himself, but no, he wante[...]it happened, a fellow from Sweetwater came along and He told me about one time Lytle came there when they stayed with me that night. The next morning I said, "Well, I were in the horse business together. They had some argu- will have to go up and get that head, and you are coming ment about the horses. Morgan started into the cabin to get along with me. • We had been friends for a long time, so his gun so Lytle beat it toward the barn. Morgan said, "I could talk to each other like men should. He was quite a kid- stuck the gun out through that hole in the wall and tried to der, so he said, "No, I 'm in a hurry! I have alot of things to get a bead on him, but he ran and zig-zagged like a coyote do, so I guess you will have to get along without me.• and got away.•[...]. You are coming along or that under- That was the end of the partnership. Lytle kept the race taker will have another carcass to take out[...]little more, then decided to go along with me. He The other horse he kept. had been in the army so another dead man didn't make any At the time of his demise, I was looking after the cattle for difference to him. the Upper Ruby Stock Association. On Warm Springs Creek We went up to the cabin, got the head, put it in another the range surrounded the land that Lytle claimed, so I had to sack, tied it on the back of my saddle and I took off down the ride around there pretty often. For several days[...]had never carried anything like this before, so I the dog around different places. Each time I would think,[...]down to Bill's place. It happen- "Now I will meet the Old Man•. The dog would disappear ed there was a car ready to go to[...]with my gruesome package and two hours later arrived in One day I was going up Davis Creek. I met the dog coming Sheridan. down the trail. I thought surely now I will meet the Old They had held up the inquest until they got everything Man, but no Lytle. Right then I said, "I had better go up and together, I suppose, mostly to see if there was any bullet see if something has happened to the old character. • It was hole. None showed up, so th[...]t five miles on up there so I trotted right along and soon causes. There was a nephew came out from Kansas City to came in sight of the cabin. see what he could salvage. He took back Lytle's Luger When I was about 100 yards from the cabin I had to cross pisto!, a rifle, and about eight or ten boxes of oatmeal. Bill the creek. Just after I crossed, there the Old Man lay Marshall was appointed administrator. He sold the land and alongside of the trail. It looked like a bunch of rags laying some of the horses. The stallion was shipped back to Ten- there, but I k[...]ing to do with dead men, I thought it best to get the So that is the way it was. law. I went back to the Ranger Station. They had a telephone line over the ridge to the Lyon Station. They got Jim Marshall the message to the sheriff. That afternoon I met the sheriff and the undertaker at my brother Bill Marshall's place at the mouth of Warm Springs Creek, and piloted them to where the· Old Man lay. They had a team and a wagon from Bill's but there was no wagon road.[...]NTY FAIR It was almost dark when we got there. The undertaker dip- ped Lytle's body in the creek and washed him off a little, The first Madison County Fair was held in 1903. Before then rolled him into a canvas sheet and we loaded him into that they were Harvest Days (1880 - 90's) and Southern Mon- the wagon. There was only one thing that was missing-the tana Fairs, locally funded. In 1928 the fair closed and for head. The officers surmised that some animal had carried it[...]dark to do any searching so, they looked around the cabin a little. There were several head of horses in the corral. The Fair Grounds in flood of 1927. stallion was in the barn. The sheriff said to tum them out, which we did. They[...]t ten days, according to Lytle's calendar. I saw the horses a few days later and they seemed to have suffered no ill effects from the ten-day fast. The stallion had never been out on grass, but he seemed to be enjoying it. It was real dark when we left the cabin, but I knew the trail so well we had no trouble finding our way down to Bill's place. I think the sheriff and undertaker were glad to get in- to their old car and head for town. I got myself something to eat and soon hit the hay, but I will admit my dreams were interrupted by visions of a headless[...]I got a message that they wanted m~ _to go.!!II and see if I could find the head. I got Con Reeder to go with me. We soon located it on the hillside above the barn. He rolled it into a sack and put it up onto the roof of the cabin. The bugs and birds had cleaned all of the flesh from it, so it was just a white bone[...] |
| [...]gh there was county monies. Much could be said of the early fairs: in 1901 a 249 pound cabbage and a 70 pound pumpkin were entered. In 1907 a profes[...]wo different days. In 1930 a Madison County Rodeo and picnic were held. The money available was spent on improv- ing the grounds and buildings during these years. In 1936 the Works Projects Administration built a log pavilion. In 1943 - 44 the budget for the fair was $165.00. In 1949 the budget was $11,729.13. Up to $3500 can be appropriated and a 1½ mill levy has been authorized by Montana co[...]was held, but from 1946 - 49 it was re-activated and merged with the county fair in 1950. A.C. Bayers, Ray Elser, Charles Purdom, Claude Windecker, George Reyner and Howard Holbert worked to revive the fair. In the 1950's a swine and sheep building and a 90-stall horse barn were added. In 1970 a new arena was built by Pete Novich, secretary-manager and the Vigilante Twin Bridges Parade, 1970's. Cha[...]Jemima Cook carries on with yearly im- provements and advertising for the best for the fair. It has been a prideful and successful endeavor since 1890. takes some of the pressure off of the main entrance traffic by[...]In territorial days, a toll bridge across the Madison River linked the two great valleys of Gallatin and Madison. Across the structure, built in 1870, rolled the stages, covered wagons of early pioneers and the wealth from the early day gold and silver mines. Today, all that remains of the old bridge are the piers which can be seen along the river's edge,[...]about 300 feet north (down stream) of the present Madison River bridge on the Bozeman-Norris road. Visible still on the[...]photographer for the Hayden Expedition that went through the area. Twin Bridges Fairgrounds Pavilion, February 14-15, 1981, The Fair Grounds have been under water periodically. On |
| west side of the river are traces of the road which wound site. Rock circles called 'Tepee Rings ' can be through the gully to Red Bluff, one of Montana's booming seen nearby.• mining towns in the 1860 and 1870's. Although nearly a cen· tury has pas.sed, time has not yet erased the ruts put deep in Daughters of the American Revolution, Mt. the hillside by early day travelers. The bridge was washed Hyalite Chapter and Bureau of Land Manage- out in 1889 by high water.[...]ment. In 1890 the "Old Red Bridge " was built across the Madison several miles south of the toll bridge, which was us· Ancestors of numerous present day Gallatin and Madison ed until the present bridge was built. County residents used the old Toll Bridge. It was built in From the toll bridge, a road went up Cherry Creek and into 1870 and owned by a Mr. Hayward. There was a stage stop Sa[...]ay · (changed about 1926 at Red Bluff and another at the Black ranch, about where · when the Milwaukee built the Inn as a stop• over for tourists the present road turns east from the river toward Bozeman. into the Park.) In the spring of 1888 the bridge went out in high water. Another road ran north from the toll bridge and to the Johnny and Mrs. Scanlon had owned it a lo~g time then. Black[...]ion was given in 1966 by Mrs. Irene Watkins meal. The Ranch, owned by William and Sarah Black was on Thatcher, a daughter of early Madison County residents. the east side where the present Bozeman-Norris road forks, Lester Todd said (1966) that his grandparents, Hiram and one branch going south along the river and into Norris and Nancy (Mitchell) Todd and family, came across the bridge the other, running north and into Three Forks. The ranch July 24, 1879 from Missouri via Corinne, Utah. He thought house burned down in 1910. At the corner where the present the toll was $1.00 for a wagon and one team and $1.50 for a road forks another road runs to the river where there was a wagon and team of four. ford known as the Black's Ford. A riffle is still visible where In 1888 when Minnie Vetter (Paugh) and Mary Vetter the wagons crossed for the entire width of the river. It was came from Ohio to the Madison Valley, their stage coach here that travelers crossed the river before the toll bridge from Bozeman forded the Madison River at Black's crossing was built. A cemetery is on the top of the hill just after the as the toll bridge was no longer in use. The "red bridge • present road leaves the river and at the corner of the ford. several miles south was built in 1890. Through the years descendents of the Blacks have kept the Mr. Ron Wall, who teaches in the Billings school system, few graves fenced.[...]has made slides of Jackson's pictures and, in the last several years, visited the same places and has taken pictures at the Ada Black Mills present time. The result is a very interesting comparison, and definitely proves the locations of Jackson's pictures[...]If only the hills and streams could reminisce, we would be The Madison Toll Bridge sign on the west side of the river astounded with the tales that could be shared. These two ac• near the present bridge was dedicated in 1968. The sign counts of history concerning the Madison Toll Bridge are reads:[...]in use from 1870 to 1888. We should all take note of the surrounding country the next Across it rolled the wagons of settlers and min• time· we pass through the canyon and the Bear Trap on our ers, six-horse stagecoaches and gold shipments way to Bozeman. One can only imagine the hopes and from the rich mines in this region. Deep ruts on aspirations, the hardships' and sadness shared by those ear• both banks[...]nt pioneer ly day pioneers that used the Madison Toll Bridge and later road. This area was also a popular Indian camp- the "red bridge•.[...]e area taken by Ron Wall in August, 1979, showing the piers of the old bridge in the river.[...]I remember the year 1936 most vividly. My brother,[...]Nevin, had to have an operation. Mom took Nevin to Butte where she stayed with a friend while he was in the hospital. My brother John and I stayed in Alder with Aunt Bertha.[...]perience. She would take us to the soda fountain, next to[...]behind where the Ox Bow Cafe is now. My cousins, Albert and Chester had to go to school, so Aunt Bertha would[...]with them in Alder during the winter months, while Uncle[...]Chris stayed on their big sheep ranch at the Sweet Water.[...]On weekends we would go to the Sweet Water and pick[...] |
| rubies on the hills. I still have some of those rubies. Years predicted the winter would be the coldest in 400 years, as the later when I attended a class at Western College, we made a mice were eating the vegatables in his garden. By the end of field trip to the Sweet Water to pick rubies. My instructor November the weather had cleared up and the thermometer said it was one of the best places to find them. never[...]year. This may have been There were good times and bad times; good, because life the winter when the ice on t he lake did not become thick was simple and our wants were few; bad, because of the enough to harvest so the ranchers went to the Beaver Dam depressed times. We had our dinner at noon and afterwards on South Meadow Creek for the summer supply of ice. we would watch for the mailman. When a big cloud of dust appeared on the horizon, we knew it was Frank Jackson's car Ku Klux Klan making his delivery rounds in the valley. The old county dirt In the early 1920's, a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan was road that meandered down the valley was full of chuckholes. held in the old hall. It was all very secretive and probably Watching the cloud of dust coming our way was the most of the men of the community attended. Nothing was highlight of many a day-always with the thought that ever said about who was[...]re for us: a catalog, a letter, or was perhaps the only meeting of the K.K.K. ever held in the maybe a magazine. There never was much mail.[...]valley. We could see any storm coming off the mountain, starting in Laurin Canyon and moving across the bench. It seemed Roads the storms always headed for the fields in which Dad had The Spauling Lane which is the mile-long road between planted his peas. He was constantly worrying about losing North Meadow Creek and the McAllister crossroad was a the crop which was part of our livelihood. The peas were sold complete boghole during the spring months. Teams had to be to the new seed factory which was located by the depot in doubled up to get through. Some drivers chose to take the Sheridan. more circuitous route of the original road from the top of the Summers were the most fun. We had an old white horse Madison Hills. In summer the horses had to be whipped named Dobin. We treated him with loving care because he through the lane as the flies of this swampy area were so was old and slow. We would brush him down, water and feed vicious that both men and horses dreaded them. him. Lindy and Nevin, my brothers, fixed up an old broken The road was rebuilt and oiled in 1934. The dirt work was down wooden cart which we hooked up to Dobin. My all done by local men and their teams. cousins, brothers and I would pile onto the one seated cart until we were spilling off the sides. The "spill overs " would[...]to his back. He clopped along giving us a ride to the swimming hole a mile away. Our swimming hole was the back water of the Ruby River where it wound through one of our past[...]e luxuries to us. We pumped our water from a well and packed buckets of it to the house. Our washing machine, Edgar C.[...]s, had a gas motor that Valley, Tennessee, the son of Matthew and Ella (Young) sounded like one of today's lawn mowers. We had no elec- McDonald. He and his brothers and sisters grew up near tricity and used a flat iron to iron clothes. It seemed that Chestnut Mound, Tennessee, and in 1910 he and his younger EVERYTHING was starched, so I spent m[...]brother, Howard M. McDonald, joined the western migration ping heavy irons on the ironing board. to Montana and homesteaded on the north end of the Crazy[...]Mountains, near Harlowton, Montana. Both Edgar and Mary Ann Magnus Duncan Howard learned the milling trade by working at the flour mill[...]al older McDonald brothers had already settled in the area. The oldest, G. Young McDonald, was the first white man to break the sod with a plow in what is now Wheatland[...]In November 1917, the brothers, Edgar and Howard, Voting Precinct at McAllister entered the U.S. Army, and were stationed at Camp Lewis,[...]e assigned to In 1914 there were 67 electors in the Meadow Creek Elec- the 316th Engineer Train, 91st (Pine Tree) Division. Their tion Precinct #19. They were all men. After the women won regiment sailed for Europe on July 7, 1918. Following five the voting privilege, one man said his wife wouldn't[...]f advanced training in England, they were sent to the because she was a lady. front in France and Belgium. The 316th Engineers fought in[...]three major battles of the First World War: Saint Mihiel, Huge Rock Landmark[...]Meuse-Argonne and Ypres-Lyons. Just east of the school yard, where the road turned north Both Edgar and Howard were cited for bravery and award- was a huge rock, used in early day drilling contests. It lay in ed the Victory Metal. They returned to the U.S. in April this roadside corner for years until, in recent years it was 1919. buried on the site by the county road crew when making a Following their discharge at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the small change in the road. brothers returned to the Harlowton area, but soon moved to[...]Bozeman where they worked for the Montana Flour Mills. Climatic Conditions[...]began to search for a mill of his own. In 1925, the fall weather was miserably cold and wet. An In June of 1923, Edgar and a partner, James 0. Reese, pur- old timer, Joe Garrish, who lived in Fletcher Creek Canyon, chased the idle Harrison Flour Mill at Stringtown fro[...] |
| F. McDonnell, and put the old mill in operation in time for MONTANA CHILDREN'S CENTER the harvest that year. By December of 1923, it became ob- vious there was not sufficient income from the business for The Children's Center had a large enrollment over the two millers, so McDonald purchased Reese's portions, and ye~s. It housed 240 students in 1930. It took two large ran the mill alone, with occasional help from his brother, truckloads of gifts donated by the Anaconda Company year- Howard, along with neighbors such as Jim Powell and Dan ly for Christmas. Employment was a b[...]townspeople. The McDonald brand, "Daisy Flour", was found on store In the earlier days a farm furnished work for the boys and shelves as far away as Helena, Bozeman and Butte. in January, 1921, there were thirty-seven milk cows. The Howard M. McDonald and his wife moved to Harrison and farm also had pigs and chickens. Boys worked also in the operated a boarding house for school teachers in the late 20's shoe shop and gardens. The girls worked in the bakery, laun- and early 1930's. dry, kitchen, cottages, sewing room and garden. Also some Edgar married Mae Lux of Bozeman at Missoula on June helped in the hospital-infirmary, and the nursery. 9, 1925 and they set up housekeeping in a small cabin just east of the flour mill. In February 1929, they purchased an additional 44 acres from John McDonnell, and opened a poultry farm, along with a grain and hay operation. At one time, there were nearly 1,000 chickens housed at the poultry farm. Edgar and Mae moved into the miller's house north of the mill. A son, C. Howard McDonald was born to them on September 22, 1933. Edgar improved the area by erecting a couple of new buildings and improving several old ones. He planted many trees and bushes, along with flowers and two garden plots. Many said it was the "prettiest place in Madison County". By 1936, water to power the mill became a serious problem due to irrigation up-stream from the mill site. Edgar pur- chased a Rumley steam engine for supplemental power, and was able to operate the mill until the fall of 1937, when the water situation and the Great Depression forced its closing. In 1939 plans were made to move the mill to Three Forks, via State Orphans Home in 1930's · Montana Childrens' Center the old Yellowstone Trail, and consolidate its operation with later. a grain[...]e to money problems. In 1940, Edgar leased out the property and moved his family to Cleveland, Ohio where he work[...]milling operation. A daughter, Edna, was The shoe shop and industrial arts building was built in the born there on October 24, 1940. They returned to the Har- 40's and the hospital was completed in 1944. rison area in the spring of 1941. In 1942 they purchased the The adoption of a policy for around-the-clock matrons and Jim Powell (Henry Warner) property east of the flour mill patrons started in 1948. This p[...]more home-like atmosphere for the children. In 1943 when the Harrison-Pony branch of the Northern In the 1950's the farm was done away with. Pacific was abandoned, the railroad allowed local residents to New buildings were constructed: the Food Center in 1959, salvage the ties and bridge timbers. Many of the old ties and High Boys and High Girls Cottages in the 1960's and the timbers were obtained by Edgar. The ties were used as fence new recreation cente[...]be seen Social workers were hired to direct the children's time and on the old Harrison Mill property. Many ties and the bridge a new attitude of counseling came int[...]that was con- handled in new ways. In the 1960's the personnel had to structed in a hillside south of the mill. The garage caught move off the grounds and they worked an eight hour shift. fire under suspicious circumstances in 1946, and the fire burned so hot it threatened the surrounding buildings and There were only fifty children at Montana Children's fields. The fire smoldered for several weeks afterward. Center in 1975. The Legislature failed to fund the facility and it closed down that year leaving the dispersal of the children The property was sold in 1947 to Robert Malone, with to foster homes. Edgar reserving the mill site, with the right to operate or dismantle the building. Although they used the mill for Administrators were George D[...]operation. Whitney, Earl Watts, Dick Little, and Joe Balkovatz. The building suffered from vandalism and was burned by an adjacent property owner in 1971.[...]Alice Dale Edgar C. McDonald departed this life on January 15, 1964 at the Fort Harrison Veteran's Hospital at Helena. Mae died at Salem, Oregon September 28, 1979. The Harrison Mill and Poultry Farm remains only in the THE MONTANA KID REMEMBERS memories of those who loved[...]Guthrie called it The Big Sky and the Chamber of Com- C. Howard McDonald merce capitalized on the title. Joe Howard called it Montana:[...] |
| High, Wide, and Handsome. Hughie Call in her Golden The Hospital is prepared to receive patients at Fleece gave a casual description to the same area which I the following rates: County patients at $10 per shall[...]a room $12 per "tierra" - hj.s land. I like that. My "tierra" embraces all of week. the southwestern corner of Montana. Beaverhead is the cor- ner in the bend of the continental divide. Madison County Sister Louisa Carney was the superior of this group staff- nestles in its eastern flank. the two combine to form the ing St. Mary's Hospital; Sister Mary Leo Dempsey was a cradle of Montana history. The earliest gold strikes occurred nurse and Sister Irene McGrath, the novice, would train as a in the counties. Bannack in Beaverhead County and Alder nurse under the older Sisters. Gulch in the old Territorial Capitol of Virginia City in Twelve years previously with the discovery of gold in Madison County are less than 100 miles apart. The two coun- Alder Gulch (1863) the first rush of placer miners swelled the ties geographically are a series of ranges of the Rockies with population of Virginia City to 20,000--mostly men, loud, the rivers flowing north to eventually form the Missouri rough, ambitious for gold and all it could buy. Father Joseph River. So "up" is sou[...]Giorda, S.J., missionary, hearing the mining camp's youthful It was mining country. Now it is ranching. The summers roar, establised All Saints Church there to keep the Catholic are short and hot and the winters are long and cold. Weather population together and faithful, for temptations to stray changes can be alarmingly abrupt. We have a saying: "If you from the fold were strong. Within four years the camp had don't like the weather, wait a minute." handled forty or fifty million dollars' worth of gold from the River bottoms rise gently into benchland which in turn Gulch. Then it sobered down with the ebbing tide into butt into the scarp of the range. In summer the land is green substantial legitimate business. with grass, grain and alfalfa, but I never knew how bleak and The second pastor, Father F.J. Kelleher, pleaded with the barren a Montana November was until I flew over i[...]ty, so the three mentioned above made the long trip from Spring comes late. The growing season is short. Frost in Leavenworth-nine days of it in mud. June and again in August. The valleys are about a mile high. As had been done in Deer Lodge, the people secured a Snow can come as early as September and as late as May. building-the old Madison County Court House-to serve as a And the wind. I can't forget the wind. Maybe that's why the hospital, and the description of Deer Lodge's first St. snow never gets deep in the Beaverhead Valley where I was Joseph's fits Virginia City's St. Mary. born and reared. The wind blows it away. The hospital prospered, proving a Godsend to the miners "What are you waiting for, a chinook?"[...]to it, not so much for cure as for care. In that the far northwest, that question has no meaning to you. And remodeled log courthouse, the Sisters worked strenuously it's always rhetorical[...]from southwest wind, foehn-like, that can come in the middle of a well or dipped it from the river; they built fires out-of-doors the winter and suddenly start a thaw. Just as suddenly the with wood gathered from the mountainside, and over the fire wind can "switch ends" and we get a "norther" from the boiled the daily laundry, which was hung to the mountain Canadian Rockies.[...]winds to dry or freeze according to the season. Over one But for the extremes and inclemencies, Montanans like it. small range all three of them cooked meals for the patients, They cuss it and discuss it. We even have an expression: "if did whatever sterilizing was part of hospital routine, and on summer comes on a Sunday we go fishing." But it is the same range heated the flatirons for ironing the wash. beautiful country, as any native will tell you. They took as a matter of course these trials and others conse- The people of Montana are 90% white, predominatly of quent upon the lawless days of gold rushing. northern European stock. Their humor is dry, their whiskey The couple of wards were constantly filled. One day to the is bourbon, their speech is measured, unlike the bourbon. Sisters' chagrin, when they returned from prayers, they They are slow to accept outsiders, and have definite opinions found a cow wedged between two beds in the fever ward. The on everything. The less government interference the better. space was so narrow that the animal had to be backed up into They are loyal, trustworthy and patriotic. And neighbors the parlor before it could be turned around and gotten out. help each other in time of need. At least they used to. I've Father Kelleher, seeing the Sisters' success in nursing, and been away! wanting the children of the camp to receive religious instruc-[...]tion, obtained permission from Sister Louisa, the superior,[...]Irene went to the church to give instructions, she noticed[...]later, after governing the Community for a term as Mother Irene, she was appointed superior of St. Jam.es Hospital in MOSTLY THE RAW WEST Butte. There she became acquainted with a patient, Mrs.[...]Harding from Virginia City, who told her she had organized a Three Sisters (two professed and an eighteen-year-old group of women in the camp to rotate turns as guardian of novice) scrut[...]on a sheet of paper as they Sister Irene when she was nursing in Virginia City. She said held it close to a candle set on a rough wooden plank that Sister Irene was so young and so pretty, and the camp so served as a table. They were reading "copy" for Virginia new and so rough, that Mrs. Harding thought she should City, Montana's newspaper of September 14,[...]out of sight, since rude characters were part of the they were inserting that read:[...]ty After a short four years of the hospital's usefulness, the placer "diggins" played out; the ground relieved of it's glit- Under Charge of the Sisters tering dust, the miners dwindled to but a few, and_the area[...] |
| [...]uickly as it had grown. St. Mary's still The other end of the trail is at an old buffalo jump at the stands, although now it is "Bonanza Inn", tourist hotel. The Billy Barr Ranch about nine miles southwest[...]ent still stands, too, where William The trail is about 50 miles long and can be followed in its en- · Fairweather first discovered gold in the Ruby Valley; a tirety only by walking or horseback. tavern. "The Bucket of Blood, " that once stood close to the The idea of marking the trail originated with Mrs. Irene hospital has been removed several blocks and now carries the Thatcher, Mrs. Catherine Carrau and J. Spencer Watkins, less gory title "The Bale of Hay." children of pioneer rancher George S. Watkins. J. Spencer The spirit of the early west in all it's cordiality and Watkins, Wesley Davis and Jim Todd of Bozeman helped to camaraderie still pervades the little hilly town with it's mud- put the black-on-orange signs marking the trail in 1965. dy streets and dilapidated buildings. When, in 1955, a few The dedication of the granite plaque on the Watkins Ranch Sisters visited it, two high school[...]places, then, when about a tional president of the Daughters of American Colonists half block away c[...]en from We Came North, Granite plaque of the Watkins Ranch marking the Old In- History of Sisters of Charity[...]NORRIS HIGH SCHOOL In 1920 the Norris School District and the Red Bluff OLD INDIAN TRAIL The trail ends, or begins, on the old Watkins Ranch near |
| unveiled the plaque and Mrs. Eugene Taber of Ryegate, Montana, D.A.C. President had charge of the ceremonies. The inscription on the plaque reads: "Old Indian Trail runs from George S. Watkins Ranch established in 1864 on the Madison River. Trail crosses over the Madison and Gallatin range to the Billy Barr Ranch and buffalo jump on the Gallatin. Marked by Daughters of American Colonists and descendants of George S. Watkins family and friends." The trail begins at the old "bear tree" to the left of the plaque and follows that ridge.[...]rs was born in Anselmo, Nebraska on April 5, 1909 and spent most of his life in Montana. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House on January 10, 1945. Display at the courthouse in Anaconda, showing picture of Leo won the nation's highest military honor for con- LeoJ. Powers in uniform and also his army uniform and all of spicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above his decorations. and beyond the call of duty on February 3, 1944 during an assault by the Fifty Army on Hill 175 near Cassino, Italy. Leo's wife, Jane Powers of Sheridan, Montana and Leo's four sisters were present at the ceremony. operations to establish bridgeheads across the V olturno Prior to entering the army on September 17, 1942, he was River and the offense that pushed over the Gustav line. employed by the Gilbert Livestock Company at Alder, Mon- In the exploit which won him the Congressional Medal of tana. He received basic tr[...]nia Honor, Powers, armed with four grenades and his rifle, single and joined the 34th Division in May, 1943, in North Africa,[...]where he trained for four months prior to making the inva- emplacements, entrenched in pill bo[...]soldiers, and wounding eleven, took four prisoners and led to Pfc. Powers was wounded twice during the Italian cam- the capture of thirteen more prisoners. paign, participating in the fight for Mount Rantano, three Repeated assaults on the heavily defended hill within range of the Cassino Monastery had reduced his attacking ri-[...]eing new Pfc. Leo J . Powers being presented with the Congressional[...]January 10, 1945. His wife Jane is assisting with the After inching his way up the hill, Powers stood up in the presentation. Leo's four sisters are standing behind the face of heavy enemy rifle fire to wipe out enemy resistance in president, witnessing the presentation. the vicinity. As a result of his heroism, Powers' ent[...]batallion was able to move forward and occupy the hill and then advance into the city of Cassino.[...]years their senior. He was the first Montanan to be awarded the Congressional Medal in World War II.[...]He was later promoted to the rank of Sergeant and when he returned to Montana the people of Alder honored him[...]Frank E. Blair as the speaker. From every section of the county, young and old streamed into the Alder Community Hall to shake hands with the 36 year old ranch employee now known throughout the country[...]Upon being discharged from the Army, Leo returned to the[...]his wife Jane, where he worked for many years for the ACM[...]He died on July 14, 1967 from a heart attack at the age of[...]Anaconda and he was buried in the Bishop Finnegan[...] |
| Military honors were provided by·the United Veterans Coun- never seen red hot iron and as I came into the room it looked cil of Silver Bow County.[...]never remembered any pain Leo was a member of the American Legion, the Veterans of though I must have yelled and dropped the iron. I do recall Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans, and at some confusion, but what is most clear in my mind is Grand- the time of his death he was the Department Senior Vice pa holding me in his lap, scraping a potato with his pocket Commander of the DAV. knife and spreading the cool, starchy pulp in my little hand. The burn left no scar.[...]Wagons were not used of course after the first snow in the Adjutant of Americ[...]bor~ in _th_e little log cabin at Glen Alder, on _my Thinking back over the years brings to mind many things mother's 80 acre homestead January 19, 1898. My parents which fit into a way of life that has gone by, and which also il- Will and Amy Page Nye had lived at Leiterville the summer lustrate progress and development over a lifetime. The before where my father ran hoist en_gine for · the Leiterville following bits of information are some of the things that par- mine.[...]ticularly interested me. My mother homesteaded this 80 acres before they were Living on a ranch in the country as we did, we attended a married in order[...]country school for our elementary education. For the most available to single women. They were married[...]part we were a pretty good bunch of kids, and we believed in 1894 and must have made this their home until some time in[...]rning our school courses; so problems with school and '99 or 1900 when they moved to the Centennial Valley where teachers were minimal. There weren't _many of us so we my father homesteaded 160 acres directly west of the Upper became well acquainted, and we enjoyed most of the same Red Rock Lake. My earliest memories center around that things. ·1t was a time when we made our own fun, and didn't locality - the two room cabin which was our home, the cellar have to be entertained. underneath the cabin where roving broad stripe skunks would often intrude and nearly "raise the roof" with their Every community had it's own baseball team made up of aroma, the woodpile which was close and the stable farther any men who wanted to play. Competition was keen and away. My uncle James Nye's honie and my paternal grand- there was considerable talent among the players, so it was father's home were a mile to the south toward the "Gap" natural for us to want to play, and as kids we learned the through which fierce south winds came in winter and piled game early. Later on I had chances to play in other places snow completely over the north end of our cabin and beat a where I lived, and I loved every minute of it. I still love the huge, perpendicular drift back twelve or fifteen feet from the game. south end, leaving the ground almost bare between it and the In the wintertime when the Parrott Canal froze over, we house.[...]learned to skate, and though we weren't fancy, we could At Lakeview[...]Skating parties were a way of post office, store, and blacksmith shop. My Aunt Jenny Kent entertainment for us on Sunday afternoons or nights in good and her family lived over the point just west of Lakeview. weather. Uncle Julian worked in the railroad shops at Lima, 50 miles One thing which impressed me very much were neighbors. away, and did not get home often. I remember happy visits In my early years people visited with their neighbors, and with the railroaders. My uncle James and Aunt Katherine learned to know them and became friends. Local card parties had three boys at that time all younger than I, and the Kent and dances seemed to cement these relationships. People young folks - 2 boys and 3 girls - were all older. didn't drive for miles for entertainment. I also very clearly In May 1902 my maternal grandfather Page brought my remember the time when my father was hurt in an accident mother and me out of the Valley. My sister Grace was born one fall when we w[...]was unable to work at Glen Alder on June 3, 1902. My father arrived a few days for several weeks at a busy time of year. Our neighbors before the event. As soon as possible we went back to organized a work day and all turned up with pitchforks, Lakeview, taking Mary Albrecht from Sheridan to help my teams, and wagons with hayracks, and stacked all the hay mother. and grain for us at no cost. That's neighbors - I love 'em! There were long trips with horses. My father usually drove Threshing was a community event every year, and we trad- four to the three and a quarter inch Schutler wagon, and ed help back and forth until every ranch was threshed. There would put on the bows and wagon cleat so that we had were lots of good cooks among the ranch women, and it seem- covered wagon protection in case of stormy weather. My ed that they tried to outdo each othe[...]ng grandfather Page had a boy, Willie Boyer, from the Orphans' crews. Home and I believe he was with us part of that summer. I As kids we also had the benefit of the latest movies in the suppose Grandpa brought him back home with Mary to 1920's. These were the old silent picutres, but they were Sheridan in time for school. Grandpa was more or less retired good and the actors had to act. Mr. O.T. Estlin had the pro- and often drove to Lakeview to visit us. It was about this jectors and showed movies in Silver Star, Twin Bridges, and time perhaps that he heated a center clip for one of his Laurin. singletrees in my mother's kitchen stove in order to re-shape Mining, of course, was perhaps the first industry in the it and tighten it on the center of the hardwood singletree. I'd Silver Star area, but in my time I didn't know anyone who[...] |
| made it rich, although a lot of men worked at it. Also, we had The Rural Electric Co-Op brought electric power to the our share of mining promoters, but not much ev[...]it wasn't long Another point of interest in the 20's was the proliferation before all kinds of electric tools and appliances were added. of moonshiners during the era of Prohibition. It seems that Radios were starting to become common in the late 1920's, at one time or another every cree[...]t. These were never in one loca- liferated during the 30's and many entertaining and educa- tion for an extended period of time as the revenuers were tional programs were broadcast. In[...]I never had any. Generally I'd say it was terri- favorite programs. Soap operas became perennials. ble.[...]Television swept the country in the 50's, and has become a Perhaps the greatest changes in our progress were brought tremendous business at the present time. Soaps are still about by developments in transportation and communica- perennials. tion as well as mechanization of agriculture. People of my generation have actually experienced the Agriculture in Madison County has always been based on greatest changes in the history of the world - from the horse the livestock industry. Cattle, sheep and, at one time, large and buggy and Model T to the supersonic plane and space ex- numbers of horses grazed more or less unlimited on the ploration; from no telephones to our present dial systems, ranges. This unplanned overgrazing depleted the ranges and and the development of raidos and television for instant and drastically reduced the grazing capacity. The days of the visible news broadcasts; from small farms to extensive open range vanished in the early 30's when lands were mechanized operations; from an agrarian population of two- bought by ranchers and organized into grazing districts and thirds to less than five percent; from the neighborhood range management practices were applied. Herds of horses general store to the supermarket and the great variety of pro- which lived year around on the range were eliminated mak- ducts available. in[...]vergrazing by It's been a great time, and I'm glad I didn't miss it! large numbers of sheep was also reduced, and today our pro- duction of grass is still increasing as well as the livestock[...], sheepherders, horses, roundups, cattle sales and bull sales, all of which still play an important part in everyday ranch life. Hay production for winter feed is also a very important part of the business, and developments for handling hay[...]fantastic. These ranges from horse drawn mowers and rakes, with hay wagons, pitchforks, derricks and slides, The Ruby Valley Women's Club was organized to the present power driven swathers, balers, and most September 28, 1937 in Whitehall as a Home Demonstration recently to the large oversize bales.[...]vice president; Horseback riding is one of my favorite pastimes, and was a necessary part of a ranch operation. It was also a very en- joyable recreation and was a very interesting way to explore areas in the mountains and foothills that were inaccessible to motor vehicles. I spent many an enjoyable Sunday with my Ruby Valley Women's Club picnic, June, 1947, at Leslie and brother and neighboring young people in this pursuit.[...]ble, L. to R .: Eliza When we first came to the ranch in 1915, most people Schowe, Hazel Stone, E[...]ldred Moran, Gussie traveled by horseback, team and wagon or buggy, with a rare Riddell,, Jessie Simo[...]Metzel Children: Byron McKenzie, Sherry Moran and any great distance. Dad acquired his Model T Fo[...]- which proved to be quite dependable, and a much faster way ~ .- , of getting abo[...]. Most ranch work was done with work horses, and this was general until about 1940 when the rubber tired tractor began to take over, · and all farming operations began to be mechanized. This[...]nts coming along every year. Two-thirds of the country's population lived and worked on farms in 1915, and at present it is less than five percent. This i[...]t wasn't long until we had a telephone - one of the two in the area. The other was at the Hathaway and Wilson store in Silver Star. Neighbors would co[...]ed to our line in later years. It was not until the 1950's that we all got telephone service.[...] |
| [...]Burke, Doris Cox, Suzie Shaffer, Leona Jackson and Lucille[...]Mildred Moran Members attending the June, 1947, Picnic: Rita Moore SCARS ON THE FACE OF OLD LONDON MOUNTAIN |
| Survey work was completed in May of 1888 and construc- tion began almost immediately. In midsummer, Dan Starret and a man named Fletch arriv- ed from Milwaukee to supervise the construction. A camp was set up at the base of Old London, where the South Boulder Creek empties into the Jefferson. The land was then owned by J.W. Sacry and is now part of the Harry Shaw ranch near Cardwell. The London Ditch began about three miles up the stream. At that point it was almost six feet wide and three feet deep. The first two miles appeared to be fairly easy diggin[...]other areas. Three tunnels had to be constructed and two and a half miles of wooden flume were needed to carry the water to the gold camp. However, the cost of building the London ditch is believed to have been in excess of $40,000. The placer mining at London continued for about six years after the ditch was finished, with other groups coming in to work the claims or stake new operations. Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Shaw. Finally in 1896 the London Ditch was closed after the Northern Pacific Railway obtained an injunction to halt the dumping of mine waste into the Jefferson River. The firm maintained that the dumpings were causing the river to family in England. She was there when the Conqueror came. work against the railroad's road bed. When the missionaries taught William and Martha Today few portions of the ditch and of the town of London Theobald the gospel, they joined the Church of Jesus Christ remain as a reminder of others who might feel the urge to of Latter Day Saints, "The Mormons". Martha was baptized chase the "easy money of gold mining". October 29, 1848, and William was baptized March 31, 1850, Clipping o[...]in South Sea Commons, near Portsmouth. The next spring Kalamazoo, Michigan died November 7. Mr. Johnson had they, with five children, took passage on the ship "William visited the valley the past several summers and renewed old Nonen" which brought them to New Orleans, th[...]ey residents he knew when he lived boat up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri. In here in the 1880's. He helped construct the placer ditch April, 1851, they crossed the plains, joining Kelsey's Co. of around Old London and lived at the former Will Stephens 100, and Isaac Allred's Co. of 50, landing in the Salt Lake Ranch. He was 70 years old." Valley Octo[...]ried Jane and Garland Guenin Burgess; Ruth, born Septembe[...]Utah; Frances, born January 24, HISTORY OF LOREN AND CLARA THEOBALD SHAW 1859[...]ed from the ground and this prepared Clara to cope with the Loren Lorenzo Shaw, who was born December 3, 1834 in rigors of pioneer life on their farm in South Boulder, Mon- Springfield, Massachusetts, to Loren and Malinda Wheeler tana. Her mother had died[...]called child bed. Something went wrong and she could not who wanted him for what work he could d[...]deliver her tenth child, which took her life. Drusilla had mar- the man gave him nine pennies.[...]ed Thomas Passey in August 1858, which left Clara the Being short, small, but husky, when twelve he tried oldest girl at home to help care for the other children. She leading a tow horse, pulling freight barges up the St. was 14 years old. Her father hired a widow with three Lawrence Riv[...]children for a housekeeper, Elizabeth Uren Old, whom he At fifteen, he had difficulty joining the Civil War Army later married, November 24,[...]haw, who had acquired an ox drawn freighting out- and drummer boy. He was later sent to Utah to control[...]e to travelers, which brought him Nevada and to Virginia City, Montana. While thus engaged west into the Salt Lake Valley. He also rode Pony Express he stopped near "Temple Square" to repair his outfit and for one year or so. rest. He listened to the Mormon choir practicing. While Clara was born J[...]f Wight, there he met Arthur Theobald, who took him to their home, England, the daughter of William and Martha Lane introducing him to hi[...]back there between freighting trips, as she ran away with the Conqueror, which has been traced back to Vavasour[...]270, goes With a young bride beside him on the wagon seat, they went back five generations to the year 1000 and the oldest known to Virginia City, Montan[...] |
| [...]ing at that time. Crowds flocked to Virginia City and as many as two thousand could be seen on the streets on Saturday and Sunday evenings. While there Highland, Helena, and a baby girl who died in infancy were born. He worked for wages for some time, and when he came home one evening he said, "Jake is l[...]better than ours. Hurry, get supper, we will take the kids and bedding there. I will get up early in the morning, take the rest of our belongings. " This they did, but when they got to Jake's house, he opened the door, and there was no dirt floor. Just a big hole. The place was undermined. It had caved in during the night. The big stove fireplace had fallen across both beds. The diggins, as mining was called, was played out. Go[...]hunt for a homestead. With lunch in his pocket, and a bed roll on his back, he started north from Virginia City, walking through the valley until he found the lower end of South Boulder Creek, sleeping there in his blankets. When he awoke the next morning, three bears were sleeping on a led[...]oulder in September, 1870. They drove a milk cow and an oxen, a rooster, and a dozen plymouth rock hens to help supply food. They put up a tent for the winter while he cut logs for building a cabin. On New Years day, January, 1871, Frances Clara Theobald and Loren L. Shaw. Shaw Powell was born. When it rained, it leaked inside through the dirt roof for a week. One winter Loren hauled logs and poles for Senator Card- well and freighted back. He went behind $1.50 a day each candles. She sewed every stitch of clothing by hand, and trip. With what he did get paid he bought food, some boards, there were hand me downs for smaller children. The happiest and old square nails to finish the cabin door, make a table, time of her life was when she brought home a coal-oil lamp. and some chairs. She made butter and cheese, which she kept on shelves, and[...]a saved every scrap of fat or grease to make soap and to Pony or Silver Star to trade for supplies every spring and fall, where they exchanged the butter and cheese she had made and saved. There were no bridges across the Jefferson River. Clara and Loren Shaw family. She made starch by grating large potatoes, rinsing, and draining the water off, saving the residue for starch. After washing, she folded clothes as smoothly and neatly as possi- ble. She then put them on her homemade chair with a wide[...]board over them, and sat on them while mending and sewing[...]uttons, rather than ironing them. Myrtle asked if she had safety pins. She said, "Gosh no, not until the kids were a[...]good size. We used long straight pins. The kids didn't get[...]One fall the family raised a big steer to butcher. They trim-[...]med the hide into a square for the dirt floor, then used pieces[...]that were left to upholster a couple of chairs, she had the fan- ciest chairs in the west. One of her hens nested in the bushes, hatching out twenty chicks. She was very proud of her big family and, of course, Clara saved scraps and crumbs from the table to feed them. The hen started coming into the lean-to kitchen where they'd moved the cook stove for the summer, which made more room and kept the cabin cooler. One morning Clara shut the[...]opened the oven door to put the biscuits in, the hen and[...]for the night. In early day trips overland when the men came to a dried[...]up pond, they would shovel up the top alkali, which was used[...] |
| [...]was held by her neighbors and friends." She saved tea leaves and coffee grounds, drying them on "Mrs. Clara Shaw was born on the Isle of Wight, 76 years the roof in the sun and Loren mixed a little tobacco with and six months ago. At the age of five she came to the United them to have a peaceful smoke in the evening, while he plan- States and settled in Utah with her parents. She was wed to ned the next day's work. Loren L. Shaw at the age of 17. They settled in Alder Gulch During the day he had been busy cutting brush, making in 186[...]ming to South Boulder September 11. Ten corrals, and digging miles of ditches to irrigate his small children were born to them and seven survive them. Her crops. For years he cut[...]Thanksgiving time. There are which he had made, and a scythe to cut what hay he could. thirty-three grandchildren to mourn her, and there are few The grain was cut the same way and had to be tied in who knew her but owe her gratitude for some kindly act. bundles, then stacked. Later the grain was beat from the Surely a good woman has been removed from our midst." heads with a flail in order to feed the chickens. There were two other families on the South Boulder when[...]t Dodge brothers got out here from Missouri. Down the creek and canyon a mile was another family of Reorganized L[...]Sacry. Clara had been raised a Mormon, but forgot all about it through the years. One morning about six a.m. when Loren stepped out the door to feed the horses, he was knocked dowu by a deer, who stood[...]up. He finally got up far enough HIGHLAND AND JOHANNA O'NEIL SHAW to grab a horn, flopping him onto his side. Sitting on his neck and shoulder, he yelled for Clara to bring a rope. He[...]n July 13, 1867 in Virginia City, told her to tie the deer's feet tight. During her excitement, Montana. He was the second child and eldest son of L.L. she'd tied his leg with the deer's leg. Later it was learned it Shaw and Clara T. Shaw. He grew up on the family ranch on was a pet some folks had raised on cow's milk. the South Boulder near the town of Jefferson Island. A neighbor stockman[...]ter Highland (High) started making his own way in life, They would milk one side, letting the calf suck the other side. he was engaged in a business enterpri[...]his This was done by hand sitting on a stool with the mail pail brothers. It is believed this was a fre[...]ing materials to the various mining camps in the area. One One evening while Clara was milking, a man came running. brother felt he was a bit sharper that the other and felt he Out of breath, he asked "Did you see a black bear come should have the better share of the dealings so the enterprise through this way?" She said, "No, I just saw a black dog fell apart and each went his own way. High homesteaded a come to play with the kids." Soon a shot was heard. He'd few miles south of his old home, and through the years he shot the bear down in some willows on Big South Boulder wa[...]at bordered his Creek. It had passed through were the kids were playing in own holdings. He became involved in cattle raising, but due the yard, and did not harm them. to the problem of not being allowed to use the government Loren planted saplings in the yard from cottonwood trees lands as summer range, he was able to buy other range land he dug at the creek. About the same time he planted some for summer use. Barley and wheat became important crops apple trees. When they bore fruit she made apple butter for so he became involved in hog raising and fattening. He used winter, using five gallon coal oil cans to store it in. Also she these crops for hog feed, but these grains made i[...]. Wild Gooseberries were to have a threshing rig, the first of which was pulled and also plentiful. powered by a steam engine. She raised a big garden; spuds, onions, carrots, beets, and High could not operate the steam engine as it was rutabagas. They were store[...]license. His daughter cellar, which was dug into the side of the hill. Rosie recalls one of the last runs this machine made when she was about four years old. Her mother heard the thing com- Before her daughter Susie Martin was married, she made ing up the road, so she picked her daughter up and ran down her wedding dress. There were flounces, a high collar, leg-o- the road to meet it and let her ride on the platform back mutton sleeves, and all sewn by hand. The next year in 1907 home. The fact the engineer would not stop for them still she paid $90 for a sewing machine, which was good as new. brings to mind unkind thoughts about his upbringing. She made a log cabin quilt for each of her eight chil[...]Lume Rose. She was born in Pennsylvania August 22, 1881 Clara only had three grades of schooling, so when her two and moved to Meggs County, Ohio, where she grew up. oldest, Hi and Lena, started school, Loren helped them with Johanna and her mother had problems getting along, so their lessons. She sat at the table with them, and with a when she was old enough, she left home for Montana. piece of paper she learned to spell, and write and "figger", as Highland and Johanna met and were married October 14, they called arithmatic. She wrote a good plain hand, and her 1900. Four children were born: Gerald, Elroy, Rosie and spelling was better than most of her kids. Esther, all of whom attended school at the South Boulder The funeral was recorded as follows:[...]is building later burned while George Patrick "The funeral of Mrs. Clara Shaw was held at Shaw's hall at and his family were using it as a dwelling. When this school Jefferson Island last Friday, the 5th, conducted by the Jef- was consolidated with the Cardwell School, High purchased ferson Island Chapter of the Eastern Star. Rev. Wiler an old stagecoach to take his and the neighboring children to Mountjoy in his funeral s[...]sed it about four or five months that first year. the life of the deceased. A large gathering at the funeral bore During that winter Johanna would heat rocks during the testimony of the high esteem in which the late Mrs. Shaw night and in the morning place them in the stage covered[...] |
| [...]had ever been blessed. It seemed the community was of the Mormon faith, and he had been asked this several times. He[...]that the day you locked me in the chicken house and it was[...]In the month of July, 1937, while working in the hay fields,[...]High's rake team ran away, throwing him off and breaking[...]7. After his body had been prepared for burial by the undertaker, it was kept at home in the parlor for viewing, and his services were also held there. He was buried near his[...]parents in the South Boulder Cemetery.[...]After High's death the task of running the ranch fell to Johanna and Elroy. This combination continued until[...]Shaw, stepped into his father 's shoes and helped with the ranch management. Johanna left the ranch and lived in[...]ll for a time before her death December 15, 1963. She is buried beside High in the South Boulder Cemetery.[...]1907, married Ada Callan of Butte, and settled on the[...]Herman Schell of Missouri, and settled in Delhi, California; Johanna Shaw.[...]Johnston of Pony, and settled in Cresswell, Oregon. with blankets to keep the children's feet from freezing. Later[...]Tom Shaw |
| passed through the windshield of the robber's car and out the right front window, lodging in the corner of the Raymond building at the corner of Mill and Main streets. John fired two more shots, one of which passed through the rear of the car and out over the steering wheel and through the wind- shield. The driver was not hit. Had he been sitting in the driver's seat in a normal driving position, he would have been killed. He evidently was crouched low and leaning to the right. The robber drove out the Wisconsin Creek road heading north (the same road on which he had entered Sheridan earlier) when he met and passed George Schotte who was coming into Sheridan in a car being driven by Everett Brug- german. The robber's car was later found by a hastily organized posse at the Noble Fork turnoff on the Wisconsin Creek road. Examination of the car disclosed a $100.00 bill which the rob- ber had evidently tucked behind the seat for George Schotte. Meanwhile, Selma Spuhler, who was the bookkeeper at the Bank of Sheridan, had earlier witnessed the robbery. She called the county authorities and they set up road blocks out of Twin Bridges in a vain attempt to head off the bandit. No trace was found of the robber, he just vanished from the scene. On April 9, 1934, about two and one-half years after the robbery in Sheridan a man by the name of Ray Canfield (41) Sheridan Meat Market when located at the corner of Main was arrested in Huson, about 20 miles west of Missoula. He and Water, looking west. Joe Hagenberger standing in[...]returned to Madison County where he confessed to the robbery. It seems that the woman he had been living with for about two year[...]He said in his confession that he had worked at the Silver here today, the meat market for a long time was located at Spring Ranch near Sheridan shortly before the robbery. He the corner of Main and Water Streets, where the present said that after he had parked the car at the Noble Fork Schulz and Shaffer Gas Station is located. The market at turnoff he simply crossed the Wisconsin Creek Road, went that location would date from 1868 - 1878. down to the creek and walked down stream about a half mile. About 1884 Joe and Sam Hagenberger were working in the He then hid in the brush until the posse left the area, walked Butte mines at a very young age. They also worked at the down the creek bottom for about three miles, turned north, mines in Rochester. Then about 1890 Joe bought the meat and walked over the foothills to Silver Star where he hired a market at Main and Water Streets it is believed from a man ride to Butte. He went up to a ranch in Brown's Gulch. The named Dudley. Joe continued to operate the market alone next day he deposited the money in two banks in Butte. A until Sam came to join him about 1895 in the venture. As week later he purchased 400 head of sheep, taking them to a kids, Sam and Joe had worked in a packing house in Kansas place up in the Cedar Hill district. He bought $800.00 worth City, Missouri. The year 1895 saw them bring in the best of hay and wintered them there. The next spring he took there was in sausage making equipment. The Buffalo Silent them to Huson where he farmed unti[...]Cutter, as it is known, was the first one brought into the Canfield said his reason for robbing the bank was because state of Montana. This type of machine is used to ma1re all he had been slightly unbalanced since being kicked in the kinds of sausages, especially emulsions such as weiners and head by a horse. He said he was unable to hold a job and had bologna. They also installed a large Enterprise Grinder. only seven[...]to These machines in town really brought the sausage business demonstrate the car for him. He said he did not recall using a to the people of Sheridan and southwestern Montana. gun in the robbery. When weiners and bologna were made, which was twice a Judge Lym[...]ek, there was always a gathering of people, young and old, in the state penitentiary for the crime. to get their "hand out" of free bologna and weiners hot out of the kettle. The only requirement was that they eat the quan- Ted Darby[...]nd Information obtained from file of the Madison beef, or hamburger as it is terme[...]came County Forum, Sheridan, Montana and from into great use as such until ab[...]rs. Helen Fenton in her greater demand all through the years as the trend of living interview with Georg[...]ahead as it is today. The year that the meat market moved from the corner of Main and Water Streets to a building back of the Sheridan State Bank is not known. It was located[...]RIDAN MEAT MARKET the site where the new addition presently sits to the Ruby[...]ation in 1916. "I remember going had it's past in the growth of the community since it's begin- after some chopped meat there about 1916 or 1917 and Sam[...] |
| [...]t~em to Butte where it was sold and delivered door to door.[...]Five hundred pounds were sent at a time. Later in the late 1940's and through most of the 1960's their slab bacon was[...]Ellinghouse in the market, became manager and remained in[...]became manager and part owner.[...]In 1925 it became Sheridan Meat Market Inc. and moved[...]from the building on Mill Street to it's present building[...]tween the new Bank of Sheridan and the Stockman Bar on Main Street. So the exact chain of workers and owners of the business of over 100 years must include the following from[...]as early as 1868): Mr. Dudley, Joe and Sam Hagenberger,[...]r Ellinghouse, Bill McKenzie, Joe Taken inside of the Sheridan Meat Market in the spring of Garrett. 1934. Joseph Garrett, butcher; SamJ. Hagenberger, butcher; In all the years of operation until the meat market located Carl Peterson, customer.[...]on Main Street, there was never a meat case. At the time of the move, a hand made meat case was built as well as[...]cooled by large blocks of ice. This was the beginning of ;etail Hagenberger and Jack Taylor, who worked there, would use meat. Up to this time meat was cut for the customer as he two small hand cleavers to chop the meat instead of using a ordered it. After all the work and the painting were com- sausage machine. I still have the cleavers that were used for pleted, Ehner Glasser[...]readiness for the move. "I must say that while most sausages mad[...]"Ehner in turn hired me to wash this meat case the first weiners, bologna, ground beef, etc. have me[...]ers, etc. such as bull meat flour, soy bean flour and such, many times I would wash it, as I later in 1926 became a never in the total years of operation of the Sheridan Meat steady employee and washed it every day." recalled Joe Gar- Market were any of these additives mixed with the good rett. meats used in the sausage making. The Sheridan Meat Mar~et was famous through the years for it's exceptional The Sheridan Meat Market was the only place that sold quality sausage and other meats." said Joe firmly. ~eat and processe~ it in Sheridan and in the Ruby Valley un- til 1938. The Shendan Meat Market at that time continued In these years and until 1928, the Sheridan Meat Market[...]~o pur~hase li':'e anim~s, slaughtering and processing them ran a meat wagon all up and around the valley. For many mcluding cuttmg, making sausage, bologna, etc., rendering years this was by team and wagon and by car and truck in the lard, curing ~nd smoking hams, bacon, etc. They did the later years. The meat orders would come in and, to be fill- complete processmg of farmer owned animals also and added ed, the meat had to be cut most of the night so that it could quick freezing and storage. go out in the early morning. The delivery man would then pick up the orders for the next delivery. Through the years there have been terrific price changes.[...]During the depression in the 1930's ground beef was sold at Before electrici[...]of three pounds for twenty five cents. Then be at the corner of Mill and Main. On a post beside it, the sometimes as a special, four pounds were sold for[...]which was lit every night. e~nts. Hearts, liv~rs and tongues were given away along This was Sheridan's[...]use there it with soup bones with MEAT! Sometimes the kids would was taken to the 1895 Slaughter House and now can be seen come into the meat market and get to joking around. Occa- in the window of the Sheridan Meat Market today. There sionally one wo[...]suspenders for a little period of time. Over the many years of operation of the Sheridan Meat . When the meat market moved to Main Street, the corpora- Market and until the last few years of operation, all tion added groceries to it's business and continued to ex- slaughtering was done locally. The first slaughter house was pand. In 1927 the Sheridan Meat Market, Inc. opened a in the field on the Foster Ranch (now Glen--Wood Ranch) branch store in Virginia City and hired Jim Vanderbeck to directly west of the house about 300 yards. The second manage it. After a period of time, Jim purchased the slaughter house was built near Mill Creek west of the Virginia City Market. About 1942 or 1943, Sheridan Meat railroad tracks and back of where Dollis Hodges now lives. Market bought the Virginia City Market back, kept it about The third slaughter house was built in 1890 near Mill Creek a year and one-half, then sold it to Dale Kisling. directly back of the Montana Power Building. The fourth and last slaughter house was built a mile and a half east In 1930 the Sheridan Meat Market, Inc., opened a branc~h of Sheridan on Mill Creek. The remains of it can still be seen store in Alder with Joe Garrett manager. This was retained on the site and is still owned by Joe Garrett It was built by for[...]r two years it was located in a building east Joe and Sam Hagenberger in 1895. of the old Leinweber store building, since torn down, and the last two years in the Mike Joseph building. In that location From the mid 1920's and 1930's, the meat market pack- aged their famous one pound packages of sausage and sent· besides meats, groceries, dry goods, gas and oil were sold. In[...] |
| [...]The first women to organize a library in Sheridan. Fr[...]Mrs. Chapdelain, Mrs. Mabel Rossiter and Mrs. Gertrude[...]Willson, Mrs. May Carey and Mrs. Maud Simpson. 't ~ |
| [...]My parents operated a dairy after moving to Ennis, a[...]father had ranched and freighted with a six horse team from[...]Norris for years. He also carried mail from Ennis to Varney and Cameron and back, three times a week. That is when I[...]to drive, perched up on mail sacks. There was an old barn on the North side of Ennis street just across from the[...]ng it for a horse ham. That building was removed, and[...]a house, which is still standing, was moved from the area where our big barn is now located. When the barn was built In 1928 and 1929, there was only three pieces of occupied[...]property south of it; the Faggin property, now owned and oc- cupied by Martha and Edgar Stewart; a house built by[...]Charlie Bauer, bought by Jack and Nora Northway and now occupied by the Ermin Shanks; the Armitage property now owned and occupied by Chick and Sis Armitage; an old barn south of the Ed and Norma Miller property, which has been[...]demolished and there is a vacant lot there now. The balance of the area was alfalfa field and willows.[...]e grew up delivering milk for 10¢ a quart or 5¢ and 8¢ if you took a gallon or more. The big barn could stall twenty[...]twice a day, but the average milking herd was eighteen to First Library building in Sheridan, behind the R uby H otel. twenty. We did have a milking machine and later on electric[...]d glass bottles that had to be washed, sterilized and cooled before milk could be bottled and delivered. The cream The library rapidly outgrew City Hall. In 1968 a govern- was sold to a creamery, located in the back part of the ment grant was obtained for 55 % of the $10,000 needed to Economy Grocery Store, which was where the Poole Hall is construct an addition to City Hall to house the library. Dr. now located on Main Street in Enni[...]our own H.N. Tragitt spearheaded a drive to raise the remaining butter, made our cottage cheese, had ample cream and milk money. Open house for the new library was held on July 13, for our needs. Cats, dogs and pigs enjoyed it too. 1969. The facility opened ten hours per week and circulation We had metal milk racks that held six quart bottles and we soared to 6200 volumes in 1969. In 1971 Dr. Tragitt was walked and carried them from house to house for delivery. In honored by the Montana State Library Association with the 1928 my family bought a new Model A Ford 4-door sedan. "Citation for Trustee of the Year Award ". Then we had a "hey day ", because we put canvas in to pro- During the 1970's, the Sheridan Public Library continued tect the seats, and we got to deliver milk in real style. We to grow. The Sheridan Kiwanis raised $972 for new books in[...]too -- "because no one wanted to hand carry 1972 and for the first time, the collection exceeded 3000 the milk." volumes. In 1973 the Butte Kiwanis donated 1000 pounds of Ernie Erickson and Milton Moots were two boys who lived books. After[...]ce, Mrs. Birrer with us, worked for their board and room, and helped with resigned in 1975. She was succeeded by Mrs. John (Judy) the cows and milk delivery. Hook. In 1975 the Cora Hoyt Thackrey estate willed almost $12,000 to the library and one year later library hours were Daddy had rented pasture across the river in summertime_ increased to twelve per week. Mrs. Hook resigned in 1977 and Mrs. T.S. (Judy) Burns worked as librarian until her resignation in 1982. Mrs. John (Peggy) Duezabou is the pre-_ sent librarian. Mrs. Vernon (Barbara) Wilson is assistant Shewmaker's Big Dairy Barn. librarian. The following citizens have given faithful service on the Sheridan Board of Library Trustees: Mrs. David (F[...]non Wilson. Taken from the Sheridan Public |
| Bessie and Jimmy Shewmaker. 50th Wedding Anniversary.[...]Silver Spring Mill as it stands today. and we would ford the cattle at milking time. I would wash |
| [...]a shaft that ran up Our one terror was the roar of the gorge when the Madison and down to run the gears on different floors. River, filled with ice, swept past our door. The excitement Frank Perrault's father hauled grain from Idaho to the mill and drama of rescuing our livestock was the height of in- and hauled flour back to Idaho. genuity and courage. Rising Shine and Standard were two brands of flour that How we loved watching the vast herds of sheep trailing up were milled in the Silver Spring Mill. our valley to summer range. And the cowboys keeping the The last time the mill ran was in 1904. The machinery and wild steers moving on. Something of romance was lost when milling stones are gone, but the building still stands, a monu- those herds foun[...]opped to give us a ride in his "horseless" buggy. Scared, Arl[...]The seclusion of our community was lost forever when the Elling Bank of Virginia City diverted the water of our Spring[...]reek into a power plant for electric power across the range.[...]Our serenity was shattered with the building of a saw mill[...]near our home. We gazed in wonder at the strange activities THE SPOT LATER CALLED HOME and thrilled at the logs floating down our river from the far (From the Book Voice of a Pioneer by H.B. Daems)[...]The dreaded World War I came to us. There was the My brother, Lev, and I rode one day from heartache of bidding our brother and other valley boys good- Virginia City looking for cattle. It was a bye. The comfort of making flags for our windows - a blue beautiful June day in 1883, and we rode on to the star for each soldier, a gold one for the one who did not come top of the range overlooking the Madison Valley. back. How hauntingly beautiful were the songs we sang -[...]We founded a post office, called Varney for an old-time ran- We rested beside the clear waters of Spring cher across the river. Our father was Postmaster for many Creek. How green were the meadows, how the years and it was always the focal point of our community. cottonwoods cast shadows of magic, how the birds sang without ceasing.[...]with his family, his horse and his travois to camp along the Suddenly it came to me, "This is the place I'll call river. With moccasins neve[...]stood every home. Here is where I'll bring my bride and raise day in our door, waiting for mother's sourdough biscuits. my kids. And the place from which I'll go There was a grandeur in the way he waved his hand saying, prospecting. " "My Country" meaning our valley. And a sadness, too. One This dream was fulfilled. Lev and I homesteaded year he told my mother, "I come no more." We missed him. that place, built our log houses and brought our Then there was the oil well drilling on the Coad property, brides, Nancy Dunn and Mary Kramer, to the sending our hopes and dreams higher than the rig, which place that would always be home.[...]we lived side by side. Our higher than the rig and then to fall lower than the dry hole young brother, Paul, homesteaded not far from only to be smothered and put to rest. us. He married a Valley girl, Hattie Woods. And Now after all the years, Dad, your grandson has written so our families were one and our world complete. some beautiful songs of your valley and your ranch. I hope Dear old ranch! What a paradise you were. You[...]. Farewell, dear Old Ranch! But never to the dreams that needed no fulfillment - to the memories that are ours forever. And an Eden for us, too, Dad. Your ten children· Uncle Lev's five and Uncle Paul's four. We grew up in a companionship that has lasted through the years. Orlean M. Daems Beeney How we loved our hills and meadows! The meadowlark's song at dawn, the coyote's cry from the hills at dusk, and always the glory of the Madison range of mountains. The ris- ing sun, the sunsets, the rainbows across our Valley. We grew up with the companionship of the spirit of beauty. It has remained with us always.[...]STORY OF PIONEER DAYS We shared, so very young, the sorrows of our parents. Un- cle Paul's little girl dying from diptheria, Uncle Lev's baby In the year 1863 my mother, a Mrs. Busick, with her two boy from whooping cough, and Dad's youngest son dying little girls, Emma and Lizzie, lived on a farm near Des from a gun accident on the meadow where we had roamed so Moines, Iowa. The older child, Emma, was born at Des many happy hou[...]Moines, June 17, 1857, and the other, myself, was born at Children meant schools. And so was established District Omaha, Nebraska, February 27, 1859. 33, and the building of our little log school. It burned down At the time my story begins there was a great stampede one sad night. The building that replaced it is still standing. among the people in that vicinity to go west to what was call- I wish it could write for this book, of the children who ed the Land of Gold. Mother, hearing so much about this studied there, and of the young dedicated teachers who open- new country, was very anxious to go and so a neighbor by ed for us the world of books. the name of Mrs. Fleecer asked and insisted that mother and[...] |
| we children make the trip in his wagon, he having a wife and miners and also keeping a few boarders. In this way the first two sons. She finally consented to go and packed our clothes winter was passed. This was quite an ordeal for my mother, in a small trunk, leaving all her belongings except a cow, and along towards the spring she took sick with mountain which was driven along with a small bunch of calves, the cow fever and the neighbors thought for awhile that she would of course furnishing the party with milk. have to leave us. She told us children afterwards that one We finally started on that dangerous journey across the day she lay there in bed, too sick to help herself, that the plains one morning, I think about the 15th of July, in the mice played in the sleeve of her gown, she being too sick even year 1863. Our party was comp[...]six to scare them away. men, two women and four children. There were three covered It took a long time for Mother to regain her health and wagons drawn by oxen, a Mr. House driving the loose stock. strength, but during the summer she was able to work again. Everything was lovely until we reached the La Platte It was during this summer t[...]r famine. A River, where one yoke of oxen got off the ford and upset one number of men came with wagons and went into the houses, of the wagons in the river. Luckily it was close to the shore, raiding all of what flour they had, taking the flour that was and by hard work the men pulled it out on the bank. The con- on hand and dividing, giving to each an equal share, which te[...]as small. Mother had a 100-pound sack of flour in the were soon on our way again. house at the time, but they did not come to our house to even[...]ask for the flour. When we had gotten about half way on ou[...]- ing mid-summer by this time, one day we saw in the distance Our next winter passed without note. The next year, 1866, a terrible dust cloud flying which drew nearer and nearer. the town was to have a celebration on the 4th of July, and Soon we made out a band of Indians, swinging the[...]have a car of state drawn by eight mules, ropes and yelling at the top of their voices. When they were with two guards to ride on each side of the wagon to protect opposite us they all stopped their horses and in one breath the thirty-six children, who were all dressed in white with a shouted, "How!" We were[...]heir approach, but blue sash fastened on the right shoulder and left side. Each concluded from their greeting tha[...]as inscribed with letters representing a state of the After passing us they met Mr. House, the man driving the Union. There were also three grown persons in the wagon loose stock, and they greeted him in the same manner as they besides our teacher, a[...]me did us, but as soon as they had passed, one of the Indians banner. took aim and shot Mr. House in the back with an arrow. The morning of the 4th, and in fact most of the day, was When he did not show up at the usual time two men went beautiful. The children gathered at the schoolhouse at acer- back to look after him only to find him lying on the ground tain time to await orders. Their sashes were pinned on and with an arrow point in his back. Mr. House was brought to they were arranged on the steps that were prepared for them the wagons and we set about relieving the pains of the suf- on the wagon, the larger children occupying the upper steps. ferer, as the arrow point was deeply embedded in the flesh Unfortunately, began one of the smaller children, I was plac- and was causing him great pain. Finally Mrs. Fleecer ex- ed on the second step, my feet resting on the first. Soon all tracted the point with her teeth. After a few days rest he was were in readiness for the start. well enough for us to resume our journey. I was too small to remember the route we took, but I After this experience we were very much[...]we passed our house on our way to what was call- and both men and women carried guns and ammunition. We ed the lower part of town or Eldorado. All at once the air saw many Indians after this but they never bothered us. A became cool and the sky clouded up, then the wind raised and few weeks later one of our oxen refused to eat one night and it commenced to rain in torrents. Many of the parents came the next morning it was found dead near the camp. The running up to care for their child[...]of it's death was a mystery. We had no spare oxen and frightened, some crying, some screaming[...], how I begged to be cared for as most of the children were, but the cow was yoked up. She looked very small beside her to no avail. No one seemed to hear my cries. Finally one of mate, but proved a faithful animal, and we drove her all day the guard's horses on my side of the wagon took fright and and milked her at night. In this way we traveled until one commenced to kick and plunge and finally kicked the step off afternoon, about the 12th of September, we drove through that my feet rested on, throwing me against one of the mules' Alder Gulch, or Virginia City, then the capital of Montana feet. Of course it scared him and before the driver could stop and quite a good-sized town. him he had kicked me and thrown me under the front wheel, The first vacant cabin Mother saw she asked to get out, as which passed over my right hip and left knee. I knew she intended to rent it if she could. Everything was placed in nothing until a man, stepping from the wagon with his little front of the cabin and as the next house was occupied Mother girl in his arms, stepped on my face. sat down and waited until a Mr. Henry Miller, recently of This seemed to bring me to my senses and I screamed, Helena, and Jake Spieth, a couple of miners, came home. "Oh, Mr. Davis!" He heard the cry and jumped to the ground Mother arose and asked if the cabin was for rent; if so, she ' threw his banner down and picked me up out of the mud and would rent it. They said it was and they would attend to it water that was n[...]or her. In about half an hour Mr. Miller returned and and two men in turn carried me home, a distance of about unlocked the door - a log cabin, about ten by twelve feet, with two miles, my sister Emma walking behind. When they car- a dirt floor, one door and one-half window was our mansion. ried me into the house my mother was crying. She had just received a letter telling of the death of her favorite brother. We children felt happy of course, but as for mother, I never When she looked at me and saw my condition - bleeding from knew how she felt. Her face was so sad that I will never eyes, nose and mouth - she was almost heart-broken, still she forget. But her will power was strong and she was very busy did not give up. I was cared for and made as comfortable as for a few days setting things right and getting what few possible, but there w[...]hings we had to have, among them being a wash tub and me, although there were no bones broken. board. All the neighbors were very kind, and soon Mother seemed happy - washing, mending and baking bread for the After a couple of months I could walk across the floor and[...] |
| [...]n her arms to a near neighbor. I asked At the end of four years we left the convent and went to the her if she wanted to see me walk. She said yes, so I started to Missouri Valley near Townsend. My sister was married the walk across the floor, only to trip my foot on a mat and fall following fall - November 25, 1875, to a prosperous farmer, a violently to the floor. Mother carried me home again and I Mr. Thomas Neild. I then made my home with them for two spent more weeks in bed. years, helping with the housework and teaching a country Towards the close of summer Mother heard of a school. During this time I met the man of my choice, Mr. prosperous mining camp, Diamond City, and thinking John W. O'Neil, and we were married in Helena the 8th day perhaps she could do better by going there than by staying of September, 1877, my husband being also a farmer. in Virginia City, she wrote to find out what she could do to We both went to work with a will and have gotten on nicely better her condition. The answer proved favorable, and she ever since. There were born to us eight girls, four of whom decided to go. First she made arrangements to have a house are married - Deete E., now Mrs. T. Reardon of Lewistown; built, and as soon as it was finished we would start. In due[...]Carthy of Townsend; Mary M., time word came that the house was finished, and taking with now Mrs. R.L. Raymond of Helena. The four younger girls her all of her belongings that she could carry on the coach, we are at home - Hattie, Stella, Vernie and Rachel. started for our new home. For the past nine years we have been living in East Helen[...]nd ride for us children, so different from during the nine school months of the year and giving our riding in a heavy wagon drawn by oxen. When we got off the children every possible advantage of school. During the coach we stayed over night at Last Chance Gulch, a new but summer months we go to the good old home ranch, eight rich mining camp, though having but few inhabitants, and miles from East Helena. only about a dozen houses scattered here and there. This is the story of my life as I remember it. My husband A few years later it was called Helena and it is now a and I are getting along in years. We have shared each prosperous city and the capital of Montana. I have been in others' joys and sorrows for over thirty years and though Helena often and have watched it grow and undergo so many somewhat declining in health are[...]can hardly realize it myself. and grandchildren around us. Next morning we resum[...]y for Diamond City. It was a long slow ride, but the roads were pretty fair untll Elizabeth E. O'Neil we neared the city. We drove across a trail on the mountain side that looked almost impassable, still it was the only road at that time and we crossed safely. Many places along the foot of the mountain were from 75 to 100 feet in depth, and looked very dangerous indeed.[...]STORY OF WOLVES Finally we reached the city and drove through the only street in town up to our house, only to find no door, no win- "When I homesteaded on the Upper Ruby in 1911, it was dows and a dirt floor. Mother was sorely disappointed but as back about as far as anybody could get. Alder, the nearest her money was now pretty well spent and she was not able to town, was 40 miles. finish the house, we got on the best we could until spring. " The nearest post office, 10 miles, was called Home Park. Mother used but one of the two rooms and hung quilts over Our transportation was mostly with a team of horses on the door and window. There we lived all winter, using a dry- horseback. Game was scarce.[...]x for a table. Mother earned a living by washing, and put in a pretty hard day to get back with any meat and baking bread and with her needle sewing late at night with that wa[...]hat not more than a half dozen elk were killed in the whole the spring of '66 and everything was high. Flour was a dollar country during a season. There were lots of coyotes and grey a pound and everything else accordingly, provisions and wolves were numerous. That is mostly what I want[...]pack animals. At first about. When I first built my cabin the wolves seemed to there was but one grocery store[...]hing on their domain. One would howl up boarders and made considerable money during the summer. back of my cabin, another one would answer from the ridge Finally she gave up the boarders as she thought it would be across the little valley. There is something about a wolf's[...]ems to get to you. I have awaken at night with The following spring our town was most prosperous. By my heart sort of skipping a beat, and before I got completely this time there were two hotels, two grocery, and two dry awake I would wonder what was wrong with[...], sometimes close, sometimes far in livery stable and a school. About this time Mother married a the distance and I would know what was causing the old miner, who took good care of her and us children, hiring a ticer to lose a beat. As I said before, it sort of gets to you. woman to help Mother and doing everything that could be It is truly the call of the wild. done for her, but she never regained her former health and "The first wolf I ever shot was one cold January morning. I after untold suffering was taken from us on the 9th of May, was just about ready to sit down to b[...]d 1868. How lonely we were when we came home from the the dog bark. He never barked unless there was something cemetery to the empty house. We now realized that we had to bark at. I went to the door and looked out. Frost was fall- no mother and were almost alone in the world. ing amost like a light snow storm. At first I was unable to We took care of the house the best we could, being still see anything but as I looked closer I could see something quite young, and then went to school. Three years later the down in the meadow. I knew it was either a wolf or coyote. I Sisters of Charity visited our little town, came to see us and reached and got my rifle which was a 32 special. persuaded our stepfather to send us to the convent at "I sat down there in the doorway. By then the frost wasn't Helena. He consented and the following fall we went to the quite so thick so I was able to tell for sure it was a wolf. It convent and stayed four years with the good sisters who[...]a 100-to-1 shot taught us in every way they could and gave us a home. but it was the only chance I had. Taking a very coarse be[...] |
| let him have it. At the crack of the rifle Mr. Wolf reared over back for the den. I tied my horse in the same place and decid- backwards. When I got his hide stretched[...]ed I would circle back about one half mile beyond the den and seven feet. I think he would have weighed 60 or 70 pounds. come in from the back side. When I got back to where I had The Stock Association was paying $75 bounty at the time, so planned on starting back toward the den, I heard the wood- it was a pretty profitable shot.[...]ee what was "One day I decided to go down to my brother's place about getting them excited. five miles down the creek. I wanted to get my mail and "It was a large slide rock hillside with timber all around possibly get a square meal. There was a little girl by the the outside. I singled out a place where I thought I[...]there. I thought I might a good view of the whole area. I looked out through the have a few words with her." timber and thought I had scrutinized every rock and place "As I went down the trail I crossed some wolf tracks. that might conceal a wolf. The woodchucks were still mak- There had been a light snow the night before so the tracks ing a fuss but I couldn't see what it was all about. I decided I showed up very plain. I didn[...]ttention to would just have to start out and see what would show up. them. My mind was on other things at the moment, possibly "I had only gone a sh[...]d Gladys. I went on down, had dinner, talked to the girl until off from a rock and started out across the hillside. At first he she had to call school, then I started back up the creek. was jumping from rock to rock, so[...]"I thought that I would take a closer look at the wolf running kind of smooth then I let him have it. He rolled over tracks. I saw that the tracks were going both ways on the a few times and lay still. I got up to him and I could see he same trail. That was a perfect clue that they had a den not was a very old timer. I was expecting it to be a female but it[...]look was a male. His teeth were worn down and he had some toes back up the south fork of Spring Creek. I knew that was the off from three of his feet and also two bullet wounds that most likely place for the[...]were healed up. He had lived a pretty charmed life up to the quite some distance, possibly a mile and it was heading last few minutes. I jud[...]I knew very well. I went It was just about all I could do to hang him up to pull his on to my cabin and got a few things ready for my wolf hunt hide off. the next day. I was sure there would be no chance to dig "Still thinking I had a chance at the old female, I started them out. I had a method I used to get coyote pups out of back to the den but no such luck. She had been alerted when their den. It was just a heavy wire with a staple fastened in I shot the other wolf. I got back to the den. The pups were the end. It worked very well to retrieve coyotes so I figured still tied the way I had left them the night before. I unrolled it would work with wolf pups. my wire and started fishing for pups. I soon had 6 more "The next morning I started out to track them down. The which made 8 pups and two old ones. trail was easy to follow so I was soon up into the rough coun- "The Stock Association paid $50 for each of the old ones. I try. I tied my horse to a small tree and started on foot. I just don't remember exactly what they paid for the pups but soon came up on plenty of tracks, both pup tracks and the I think it was $25. So I was well repaid for two days work. tracks of the old wolves. A short distance farther on I got a "I gathered up my pelts and went back to my horse, which glimpse of a pup going under a big[...]t was was waiting impatiently for me. I tied the sack of pelts on their main den so decided to try to get a shot at one of the old the saddle and as I rode away the sun was just disappearing ones. The sun was shining down there pretty warm so I laid behind the Snow Crest Range. From across the canyon came down on a big rock and waited for things to quiet down. I one long mournful howl. It was the old mother wolf saying knew the old ones would be coming back towards the den. farewell to her family. "After I had waited possibly fifteen minutes I got up and "That was many years ago and the snow on the ridges and slipped as quietly as possible out through the brush and trails where the coyotes and wolves used to run are no longer timber. When I h[...]tracks except perhaps a small snowshoe rab- wolf and started up a little ridge. It was a pretty easy shot so bit or porcupine. The 1080 poison has put an end to all I knocked him over. He rolled over into a small d[...]rs, with a few exceptions. " thought now if I get the dog to bark at him the other one might show up, so I told the dog to get him and sure enough, he ran right in there and took a hold of the wolf. That was Jim Marshall something I hadn't planned on. The wolf had the dog's front Taken from the Montana Standard leg in his mouth. If he had closed his mouth I would[...]dated January 24, 1971. three legged dog out there. Luckily I got the dog out of that before he got hurt. The other wolf didn't show up so I took a circle farther out but still didn't see anything, so I came back and skinned the one I had killed. "Then I started to fish the pups out from under the big rock. When I got the wire against a pup so I could feel the pup move, I would twist the wire around a few times until I SUN RANCH thought I had the wire twisted into his fur, then I would pull the pup out. I got two out this way before my wire got fastened down in the den and I couldn't get it loose, so I had Charles "Chuck " Aaberg started to work for the Butler to give up for the day. I tied up the two pups so they Ranches in South Da[...]located at Hot Springs. Chuck's uncle was the manager of some time after sundown and that would keep the old mother this ranch when Chuck graduated f[...]. Butler died this ranch became a South Dakota on my horse and went back to camp.[...]Experiment Farm specializing in research on "The next morning I rigged up another wire and headed Hereford Cattle.[...] |
| Young Chuck was interested in fine horses. The Seven The Sun Ranch has been able to cooperate with their Eleven Ranches both in South Dakota and Montana's neighbors even though the[...]ration. Gallatin Canyon were owned by Paul Butler and were used When Paul and Julius Butler were young the ranch was their primarily for the breeding and training of fine polo ponies. cherished possession and they encouraged their employees The Gallatin Canyon ranch was sold to the Elkhorn when the to be active in the community. In 1974 the corporation made mother ranch became the property of South Dakota. ranching decisions without seeing the country. On one occa- Chuck Aaberg was at the Butler headquarters in sion the ranch was advertised for sale because the accoun- Oakbrook, Illinois, watching the 1941 Kentucky Derby on tants found that the investment did not fit into the pattern television when Paul Butler asked him to take over the of their other holdings. management of the Sun Ranch in the Madison Valley of Chuck Aaberg like[...]d there in May of 1941 cooperation such as the building of the telephone and power and managed the ranch until he retired. He was in the Army lines and Mrs. Walter McAtee's handling of rationing during[...]during World War II. After World War II. She collected as many of the ration books as the war the Butlers asked him to return to Oakbrook where she was able to get from her customers and used them to he worked for part of two years before he returned to the Sun stock the store. Her system worked so well that Chuck felt[...]had never been inconvenienced by rationing. than the Butlers, and both were during short periods of time Chuck's wife Fanny remembers her life as a hostess at the when he was breaking horses. Sun Ranch. The ranch always had a cook house where the The Sun Ranch owned 8000 acres in 1941 when Chuck employees were fed, but guests at the ranch came to the became manager. In 1943 the corporation bought the Hippe manager's home. Although the guests at the ranch were in- Ranch, and in 1946 it purchased the Joe Dauterman Ranch. vited, the latch string seemed to always be out. After the Most of the land in the Fred Kirby Ranch was acquired and Butlers built their mansion in 1961, their staff became the Pearson Ranch was leased for ten years before it was pur- responsible for much of the ranch hospitality. chased in 1971. It bought Lewis Clark's Indian Creek Ranch in 1951, and the Wellman Ranch about 1969. They acquired the Alfred Storey Ranch then sold it again. In 197 4 they had about 23,000 deeded acres and 7000 leased acres. The Sun Ranch runs about 1500 cows and about 25[...]gh throughbred horses. While Chuck Aaberg managed the fro[...]h workers who are capable of training polo ponies and the Butlers are older and not so interested in fine horses. The buffalo which Marshall Cunningham acquired in 1928 were sold in 1941 when Aaberg became manager. The animals had become hard to handle. In 1942 he bought two cows and a bull to start a new herd; then Porter Nelson, w[...]arage in Ennis, sold his small herd to a butcher, and Chuck bought three calves and a bull. The Ranch had I was born on the Daems ranch at Varney, Montana, on twenty animals[...]e hard to handle again August 17, 1908. I was the ninth child of Harry and Nancy and were sold in 1954. The real reason for breaking up this Daems. I had four brothers and five sisters to welcome me. herd was that too many people wanted to be taken in to see From the time I was old enough to read I wanted to be just them, and the ranch did not have the staff to handle this like my Grandfather, Dr. L. Daems. I used to sneak a look[...]to his doctor book and spend hours deciphering it. Then Until 1958 the Sun Ranch did not have a telephone and the came the day when I had a chance to test my skills. My power line for electricity was put in in 1954. Before 1958 mother's pet hen got into the oaks and ate until she packed messages for the ranch were delivered by the staff at her craw. I got my scissors, thread, and needle and the McAtee's Store in Cameron. The telephone line was built by Lysol. I took her out in some tall rye grass back of the house. the Upper Madison Telephone Company which bought the I proceeded to make about a three inch incision, took a spoon Forest Service line. This organization was made up of ran- and took out the oaks. Then I sewed her up, put her in a box, chers headed by Chuck. He went to Dillon when the forest and each day took her water and food. She wouldn't eat or line, which was forty miles long,[...]hour with an eye dropper. In it in for $5. Later the telephone company bought the line and a week she was doing fine. My next episode was with an 18 started maintaining it. When the ranch added new buildings month old heifer that was going to calve in one month. She the telephone lines were attached to the same poles as the got kicked into the watering hole by the other cattle. We electric wires.[...]couldn't get her out! I rushed to the house and got the skin- When Chuck came to the ranch he bought a small power ning knife - I was ready to do a C section, when my mother plant hoping to be able to get effective electric light. The arrived and demanded my dad to stop me. She said, "This water supply came from an excellent s[...]it stuff has got to end right now Harry - she's a girls and has to possible to install, which worked from gra[...]up to be a lady." was always comfortable because the buildings were warmed I married Ed Taylor and we moved to Ennis. We had three by the barrel stoves and kitchen ranges which also heated children: Ralph, who only lived a short while; La Verne, who the water. When Chuck and Otto Kirby began to meet with lives in Ennis; and Ed, who has a home in Bozeman. I went Walter Sagu[...]o work at Madison Valley Hospital. Later I passed my state through the REA, the Montana Power Company agreed to exams and became an L.P.N. '" This gave me the opportunity put in the power lines on the Upper Madison. to work[...] |
| Dogan, Dr. Stanley, Dr. Wilkins, and Ron Handless, a licens- ed medic. I loved nursing[...]TWIN BRIDGES CHURCH HISTORY From 1923 - 1934 the Hope Methodist Church had no |
| [...]Way back in the horse and buggy days on October 15, From October 15-30, 1938, J.C. Bunn returned to hold 1901, to be exact, the ladies of North and South Meadow meetings and added two members. Creeks met and organized a club, namely the Ladies' Reading and Embroidery Circle. We had 14 charter members The group started renting their present building in the late with Mrs. Will Remington as our first president, and myself 1940's and purchased it in the middle 50's. Remodeling was as secretary-treasurer. The membership fee was 25 cents and done in 1980 and carpet added in 1981. 10 cents monthly dues. Reading matter being scarce in those The local members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter days, we deci[...]oks for a circulating library; Day Saints meet at the Sheridan Ward. so here I came in again as librarian, and to carry a couple of Kingd9m Hall is the meeting place of the Jehovah's sugar sacks of books to each meeting held at the members' Witnesses.[...]So in 1930, we became the Welfare Club and voted to use our funds for the betterment of our community.[...]Our first project was to paint the church inside and out - which, by the way, was all done by the ladies (the men reshingled the roof). We repaired the window, bought new ANDREW JACKSON (JACK) WATKINS shades and chairs, also linoleum, and fenced the cemetery, bought and placed new markers, and have over $400 on hand Andrew Jackson Watkins was born November 27, 1884 to toward improvements. Also we repaired and built on to our George Spencer Watkins and Frances C. Lee Fort Watkins old hall which was deeded to us for a club room. Each year we at the home of his maternal grandparents Andrew Jackson donate generously to Red Cross, Polio, Cancer, and T.B. Fort and Missouri Irene (Babe) Gorham in Harrison, Mon- funds. We also have given around $1600 to our Madison tana. Jack resided on the home ranch northeast of Ennis on Valley Hospital, something badly needed in the valley. We Jourdain Creek, his share of his fathe[...]cattle but turned to Mrs. Jessie Higbie at Alder and Mrs. Nellie Conway in Los running commercial Black Angus in the 40's. In the 1950's Angeles and myself. It has been a real pleasure all these · he bought out his sister Catherine's holdings, the "Cedar years to have known and associated with all these friends Hills". During his early life he was a trapper and hunting and neighbors and hope I may continue to be among you all guide and known for his shooting accuracy. Besides ran- for years to come. ching he was also interested in saw milling with a sal mill on The years following the first 50 were also good years. Jack Creek and, later, on Taylor Fork of the Gallatin River. Money was becoming more abundant and our membership He built many log buildings including the home on Jourdain was growing so we were able to a[...]nown for it's beautiful twisted juniper The abandoned schoolhouse was donated to the club and (cedar) staircase and quartz fire place. These logs came from was moved and attached to the old hall so we now had a large · Jack Creek and Homer Bosworth, early surveyer, helped separate kitchen. The club gave dances and had Bingo par- select them.[...]ties, both of which were quite popular. We also put on several In the living room is a chandelier with three mountain dinners for the public. By June 1960, we had donated nearly sheep heads on a cedar log suspended from the cathedral ceil- $2500 to the hospital. ing by a heavy log chain. The animals came from the Gravel- In the middle 1960's, our membership began to decline as ly Range and George Clark, of Ennis, was in the hunting par- several members had moved away and a number of the ty with Jack when one of them was killed.[...]Winters, November 17, anymore, Bingo was illegal and we were too few to put on 1917 in Evanston, Wyoming. She was born July 22, 1887 in. food sales and too old to serve dinners. Perhaps the incentive Sidney, Nebraska to Joseph Elmer and Hilda Lundean Mc- was gone. Cormick. Three children were born to them; Joan Lee, By 1970 the membership had fallen to nine, most of whom Decem[...]uite elderly. We tried to enlist new members, but the and Janice Germain, August 29, 1926. interest in club work was over and we had no choice but to Jack died October 22, 1957 in Bozeman and is buried in the disband. Our property was sold and the money amounting to Harrison Cemetery. Mrs. Watkin[...]larship fund for McAllister Fair Oaks, California and is buried there. She was a member community students. In this way, we hope our benevolence of the Madison Valley Woman's Club for many years and will continue for several years. was known for her lovely flowers and plants. (By the end of 1971, the club had given nearly $3000 to the[...]Doris Wilson THE WELFARE CLUB |
| homestead, which was neighboring the McCoy and Searle homesteads. We stayed a few winters in a small log cabin while Dad and Mother trapped some. Sometimes mother helped at some of the neighboring ranches during haying time. Sometimes in the winter there were quite a number of home parties and some were held at the Eight Mile schoolhouse. The winters were quite cold. One time it was necessar[...]own for provisions. A terrible cold snap came up--the team was so cold and the drifts of snow were so high that the team had to be led and stopped several times. The DeHony children, L. to R.: Emerson 1 year, Pearl[...]and Norma 9 years, standing.[...]dances which were attended by adults and children were held We lived in quite a number of rented houses in the town of L. to R.: Pear~ Emerson, Norma. |
| took a Civil Service test and was given a War Service Ap- Selby, old timers of the area and every now and then pointment, arriving in the District of Columbia in April, someone stopped to greet them; then the rodeo began. It 1942. I was assigned to the Pentagon Building in the Or- was a nice show with a good bucking string and as the saddle dinance Department under the Secretary of War. In bronc event finished the announcer asked Fay Selby to stand September, 1945, Harold O'Donnell and I were married while and take a bow. He stood up to his full 5'8", doffed his hat we were on leave. We later lived near Elkhorn and Delavan, and bowed as they announced that he had won the saddle Wisconsin.[...]9 years earlier on July 4, 1912. We returned to the Madison Valley for a time in 1948, Fay was born on May 7, 1893 on a ranch at Jeffers, Mon- where my husband worked on ranches. To this union were[...]ank Selby was born in 1851 in Bath, born two boys and a girl: James Merritt, born February 12, England and came to America when he was four years old. 1947; Patsy Ann, born June 30, 1949; and John Robert, born Frank was a college professor in the east until 1880 when he December 8, 1951.[...]r, born resided to this day, August, 1981. During the summer November 5, 1865, at Nevada City, Montana Territory, one months, we often visited my mother and many families who of the first white children born during the gold strike at have resided near the town of Ennis for many years. I look Virginia City. His parents were married in 1884 and resided back over those years with the fondest of memories. on the ranch where Fay was born. Somehow, a smaller community manages to keep busy and He grew up riding horses and doing chores, but when he offer many activities which keep us all together with a com- was ten and his brother Guy was eleven years old their dad mon cause for the true neighborliness which we should not became ill. One day their dad called them to his bedside and take too lightly. told them he was dying and that they would have to run the With all my best wishes for a happy valley and county, the ranch and help their mother take care of their sister and the Madison![...]two younger brother. Frank died that night, so the boys[...]med after William J. Parks, who with Dennis Leary and Joe Ramsdell discovered the Parrot mine in 1894. Parks was born in Kildare,[...]one, Ireland, in 1848. He came to Montana in 1864 and first lived in Virginia City, then later that yea[...]consisted of a few small cabins. Actual mining at the Parrot did not begin until 1866. The three partners were the first to ship ore from Butte to Swansea, Wales, for smelting. To eliminate the need for long transport of ore, Parks and Ramsdell built the first Butte smelter in 1868. Parks died in Sheridan March 10, 1924, at age 76, and is buried at the Sheridan Cemetery. Until the previous October, Fay and Edna Selby family, 1972. Standing L. toR. : Harvey, Parks had been working at the "Big Doughnut" Mine near Homer, Oren, Rita. Sitting: Edna and Fay. Sheridan. Another version of how Park Street was named appears in the Montana Standard's April 7, 1979 Centennial edition. Fay grew up fast and by the time he was fifteen he was not That story says old-timers had named Main, Park and Broad- only helping run the ranch, but was working for other way before the townsite was laid out. Park was named ranchers, breaking horses, branding and trailing cattle to because it was the old road straight out to Park Canyon. summer pasture in the Hebgen Lake Basin. He also hunted When the townsite was mapped, it was decided not to change and trapped fur bearing animals in the winter to supplement the names.[...]y-handed. Dur- Taken from The Montana Standard ing this period Fay wor[...]a pack of hounds which they used to hunt coyotes and[...]number of years breaking horses and all around hand on the old Circle Dot for Louie Fowler. WILD AND WOOLY AND FULL OF FLEAS Naturally Fay hit all the rodeos for quick, easy money and he rode against some of the old time greats such as Jessie The sun shone hot upon our backs and a slight breeze ruffl- Coates, the Cole brothers and Yakima Canutt. Lady ed the flag against the blue sky. "The Big Sky Country " of Trickery, one of the old time cowgirls, was also on the scene. Montana made a beautiful setting for the annual 4th of July Fay told me how he star[...]g when he was fifteen rodeo at Ennis. It was 1971 and we waited with anticipation years old. He went to a rodeo at Bozeman and ran into some for the rodeo to begin. My companions were Fay and Edna ranchers that he knew from Ennis. It was a hot day and he[...] |
| [...]when he spied their tub of iced beer, so one of the ranchers made him a deal. If Fay would ride their horses in the competition they would give him all the beer he could drink. After he rode their mounts he hurried back to collect, and when he was about half way through the tub of beer they slapped him on the back and told him he had won the money for the day; so he decided that was a good way to make easy money. Fay would have continued the rodeo circuit but there wasn't enough money in it[...]now Fay was not only a good judge of horses, but also of womanhood, so they were married on October 14,[...]He filed on a homestead out of Cameron, Montana, and continued ranching; but, he could never resist making a ride whenever they attended a rodeo. The last time I saw Fay ride in a rodeo was July 4, 1934, when he rode "Midnight" at West Yellowstone and was disqualified becaused he scratched him too high for the regulation rules. Fay and Edna had a son, Oren; twin boys, Homer and Harvey; a daughter, Rita. Fay sold his homestead and work- Fay Selby on "Ol' Peg". ed on the ranches finally finishing up on the Flying 'D' at Salesville in 1927. In 1928 he moved his family to the Centennial Valley where he operated a sawmill and ran a mail-line from Monida, Montana to Henry's L[...]got rough he drove a "jump box" on one bob taking the All winter the mail line was operated .with horses and sleds mail only. on a staked snow road with[...]akeview, which was only thirty cowhide and I've seen him come in with the mail in that miles, it wasn't too difficult and the mail ran daily. One "jump sled" when his coat was white from the frost. He'd driver leaving Monida and one leaving Lakeview each morn- laugh and say, "It's a little chilly on the Idaho side." ing, they would meet, exchange sleds and return where they When summer came Fay would ride and fish the country in started. But from Lakeveiw to Henry's[...]his spare time; that is how he found Elk Lake and decided it thirty-five miles, and the road goes over the Red Rock Pass was a perfect spot for a hunting and fishing camp he had which is the top of the Continental Divide. Therefore the always wanted. He and Edna secured a permit from the mail went to Henry's Lake from Lakeview one day and back Forest Department and went to work building a road around the next, this being the end of the line that Fay drove. When the lower end of the lake where, in 1933, they founded the the weather was decent, he drove a two-bob sled with a cab Elk and Hidden Lake Hunting and Fishing Resort, which for passengers and the back for dray hauling. But when the they operated until their retirement in 1[...]Fay and Edna had their 61st wedding anniversary in 1973 Fay and Edna Selby's 60th Wedding Anniversary, 1972. and they had spent their summers in the Centennial where they fished and rode together. Edna is like the poem "Lasca"; she's rode and worked by Fay's side giving her love and labor even though her life has been far removed from the convents where she received her education. Fay had to teach[...]her to cook, but she learned well as she was the best darn cook that ever put out a meal. She never held a baby until she held her own; but, she raised three boys and a girl and[...]Fay has always been a fair drinking man and when he's in his cups his favorite expression is: "I'm wild and wooly and full of fleas and never been curried above the knees!• But I think his old fishing buddy summed him up pretty well when[...]revolver at our hunting camp on Elk River. Old Bill, who is 6'4", shook his head and said to me "You know, Fay is the[...]Fay and Edna retired in 1965 selling their hunting and[...]ing camp, but continued spending their summers in the[...]y lived until Edna passed away November 13, 1981. She was 88 years old on November 7, 1981, She and Fay had[...] |
| Fay was 89 years old on May 7, 1982, and just recently back into the hill. It was shaded by a grove of quaking moved to the Ennis Nursing Home to be with his sister Susie aspens. A friend of Bill's, George Carson, also lived with Davis (who is 93) and many of his old friends of the Madison them. Valley. There was also an Assistant Superintendent and his wife who lived in one of the newer houses next to the cookhouse.[...]Arkansas, building levees on the Mississippi. The cook, Ruth Sandell, was his neice. She had a daughter, Mary Phylis. The Clyde Carters from the flat had a son, Laurence, and the Ames family from Pocatello, Idaho had[...]families came with several Unless you lived on the Upper Madison or were interested more child[...]likely that you have ever heard of Mont- All together these were enough to hold school. In prepara- bestos. Had they not been looking for a teacher and I a tion, a rough lumber extention had been added to the log school, this story wouldn't have been written. bunk house and the necessary desks, black-board, text books It was 1929 and depression times. I had just graduated and supplies had been borrowed from the Cliff Lake from college and was looking for work. Junior Pankey, Coun- Schoolhouse on the flat. Although two weeks late, we were in ty Superintendent of Schools, made the arrangements and business. we went up together. The first floor of the cookhouse was divided into a large Although I was a native of Madison County and knew peo- combination sitting and dining room in front and a good siz- ple who had once homesteaded on the Missouri Flat s, this ed kitchen and storage room or commissary in back. The kit- was my first visit. The Asbestos mine is situated in Sheep chen was modern to the point that it had hot and cold run- Creek Canyon, one of the several steep cuts in the range fac- ning water. It also had a large restaurant type cookstove, ing westward. Here one could look out over the Flats and see the kind with the huge grill and grease trough. There was a numerous buildings and sheds. These were ghostly stair from the storeroom to the cook's quarters above. These reminders of a group[...]sted of two good sized rooms. Another stairs from the tage of the Government Homestead Act and staked their dining room led to three bedrooms at the front of the money, dreams and future on making a living here. Lack of building. These were for visiting stockholders and water and intense cold winters forced them to leave until on- dignitaries. I chose the one on the northeast corner. Later it ly a handful remained.[...]developed that a stockholder from Idaho Falls, by the name provided for any children who might be there. The land had of Ed South, had thought of that a[...]er range to stockmen as far away keep it. He also tried to convince me that the camp would as South Boulder. A big barn at the Edward's place was a grow to the size of Butte by Christmas! prominent landmark. Soon a Mr. and Mrs. Harmon arrived. He had been sent by Although previous histories state the mine was working in his company to install the new mill and get it in operation. 1915 and several log cabins substantiated the fact, it was ap- She was an elementary teacher and very delightful. She also parent that some new monies had been invested. A[...]amy fudge, a recipe I story combination cookhouse and commissary as well as five still use. two and three room dwellings had been built of rough sawed At about this same time, the superintendent had been in- lumber. Also a new diesel powered mill was in the process of strumental in getting a post office for the camp which being installed farther up the canyon at the mine. became officially known as Montbestos, Montana. A corner The Superintendent was Dave Hamilton of Youngstown, of the dining room was partitioned off to accommodate th[...]wife, Bessie, sons Bobby age Until this time all mail was received at Lake, Idaho, just 13 and Bill, about 20, lived in one of the older houses built beyond Henry's Lake. In fact, after the post office was[...]dison. it by car or in winter by team and sled. This was a twice or[...]three times a week job for Bill and George. The weather[...]would often be very bad over Reynold's Pass and they would[...]and red flags. I often think back on these two city b[...]knew so little about horses, harness and mountain weather and marvel that they came through it all. Before Christmas, two noteworthy events took place. It[...]and an assistant also. The camp was dividing into two fac- tions, so the assistant left and the Sandells as well and we[...]Secondly, the Carter cabin burned to the ground one night. The cause was not clear, but one theory held that a b[...]any rate, it went up right now and the hastily formed bucket[...]brigade had little effect except to try to save the neighbor- ing Ames house. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ames had gone to Idaho[...]to Christmas shop, leaving the children with his brother. Luella, the oldest girl, had their household effects o[...] |
| She was only fourteen. I'll never know how she did it. For- heading, jokes, camp news and a poem or two. Needless to tunately the house was saved and the Carters moved into the say we didn't get too many copies printed, but it was fun and _cookhouse where she took over the job of cooking. an interesting learning experience. Eating a,t the cookhouse was an experience for me. We sat On a Saturday morning in March, I decided to go to the on benches around the long table. The food was good, but schoolroom to work on the next week's lesson plans. It was while some got tired of diluted canned milk on cereal and warm enough so that I wouldn't need to burn any precious dessert, I really liked it and still prefer it in coffee. It was dry wood and it was quiet. Looking out the window I spied purchased in gallon cans. I had n[...]ke that, nor three pre-schoolers heading up the road. I flipped the lock on have I seen it like that since. Eggs came in 48 dozen crates the door and stepped back into a corner. They alternated that[...]ne incident I particular- between peering in the windows and rattling the knob. After ly remember is something many camp c[...]at seemed like a very long time they came back to the door One older fellow always waited until the cook brought in the and yelled, "Darn you techa! Opa door!•, and with a final re- plate of fresh hotcakes whereup[...]hey left. I have had many good laughs over them. The cook was getting pretty irritated over the matter that, yet I feel guilty to think I didn't take time to share a as well as the rest of the men, so this one morning as he few minut[...]e little kids who had nothing to do. reached for the cakes, she wacked him over the knuckles with Should they ever read this, I hope they will forgive me. the hotcake turner! he got red in the face and left the table. One afternoon one of the miners came into the cookhouse It never happened again. wild-eyed and agitated. He was out of cigarettes! So, unfor-[...]tunately was the commissary. There would be none until the[...]with the order, I often wonder what would have happened.[...]Before the snow began to melt, a young man from Idaho[...]came to visit. He was traveling by dog team and sled. I[...]of Virginia City and we were quite impressed with his team.[...]Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis lived on the hillside across the creek from the bunk house. They stayed pretty much to[...]themselves with their little white dog. Mr. Davis became postmaster after the Hamiltons left. School ended in the eighth month. I overheard one of the stockholders telling his wife, "The cow is dry". Apparently[...]he was upset over the way the money had been spent and now it was gone. The camp closed and the families prepared to move. To my knowledge the mine has never worked since,[...]but I am happy to have had the opportunity to spend one[...]s, 1929 - Standing L. to R.: Mr. Briggs of Briggs and Stratton Motors, Clyde Carter (School Trustee), Daue Hamilton (Superintendent and School Trustee), Dorothy Ell- inghouse (teacher),[...]es, three other Ames THE WINTER OF THE BIG SNOW children in front. ____ Buddy. Laurence[...]Sometime in the winter of 1948-49, " the winter of the big[...]mountain, with his "Cat, " of course. It seems The last car into camp that fall was a man from down the that Lester Stiles was doing the trucking of the ore. A.B., valley, selling dressed turkeys for Thanksgiving. From then Lester Stiles and Earl Heaps started down the mountain at on we were snowed in, except for the mail sled, until April. nightfall, in one of the ore trucks to come home for the night. That day we all climbed into the big company truck and The storm was terrible and after some pretty difficult drove onto the flat. There were still spots of snow, the maneuvering with zero visibility the truck finally stalled. ground was soft, but it was Easter Sunday and spring was in They could clearly discern the light of Twin Bridges, but the the air. ground blizzard completely obscured the road. They had no One night I was awakened by loud voices in the dining choice but to start back to Dale's cabin on foot. room below me. One miner by the name of Jack Hamilton (no The three were separated in the snowstorm and I believe relation to the superintendent) was proclaiming that he was Lester Stiles made it back to the cabin. As I remember it, poisoned by something he had eaten. He was finally per- Dick and Lester went back down the mountain in a weapons suaded to go back to the bunk house. From my window I carrier on a rescue mission to pick up the other two. Austin could see him being supported up the hill. No one else suf- was completly exhausted and had been forced to stop. He fered any adverse eff[...]with a respiratory weakness that Dew• from down the flat. followed him through life. I can't remember how Earl Heaps One of the school activities, after the Christmas program fared, but do know they all got back to the cabin where they was out of the way, was putting out a little newspaper. This spent the night. A roaring fire at the cabin was, I am sure, a was a hand-printed[...] |
| The anxious wives had kept the telephones busy compar- sign in the valley below ... . There were pleasant ing notes on their men, even then not realizing the enough camping spots on the way down, springs seriousness of a near tragedy. Maybe it was a good thing and little meadows, but no good hiding place. Not tha[...]ember Alice Dale's until they reached the gulch bottom did they find comforting words over the phone, " Well, Ann, wherever they the cover needed: a place upstream a ways where are, they're all together; s~ they must be OK! " the canyon narrowed, where the Alder and Local road maintenance crews needed extra help that chokecherries gave cover to a man and horse and winter, so Austin and his bulldozer were kept busy. After one sc[...]ht keep his bad storm, he spent nine days opening the road betwen hair during another long night. Virginia City and Ennis and another two months of opening roads in the Waterloo area. Some families had been locked in After supper, four of the group unlashed picks for as long as six weeks. and pans and went upstream to prospect, leaving[...]Fairweather and Edgar behind to wash dishes Ann Sutton Egge and stake out the horses . .. mebbe they'd try to[...]When Bill had filled a pan, Edgar took it down to DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN ALDER GULCH the stream's edge. He dipped it expertly under[...]water, then up, swirling it dextrously above the[...]surface, then under again. . . . .he caught his The story of the discovery of Gold in Alder Gulch is one[...]ver tire of hearing. behind startled him. The following account was reported in the Sunday edition of the Butte Miner dated September 9, 1928. Februar[...]Rodgers, Tom Cover, Henry Edgar, George Orr and Lewis Simmons - set out from the boom town of Bannack City where gold had been discovered the year before. They intended to join a party under the leadership of James Stuart which was en route to the Yellowstone Valley in search of town sites and gold. The men went first to find their horses which had The seven men continued to hunt Stuart. They The seven men and the Stuart party had agreed In Gold Camp by Larry Barsness he continued the tale of the The six prospectors approached the skyline ridge |
| [...]PROVED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ALDER Thus the plot of the discovery of gold in Alder Gulch con- GULCH HAS PRODUCED OVER ONE HUN- tinued as recorded further in the Butte Miner: DRED MILLION DOL[...]AND PRODUCTION CONSIDERED, IT The four other members of the party returned to RANKS AS THE WORLD 'S RICHEST camp empty handed. They we[...]GULCH. told of Fairweather's rich discovery and growled because the horses had not been cared for. DEDICATED TO THE PIONEERS OF MON-[...]TANA IN HONOR OF ANDREW J . DAVIS, Shown the pan with the gold in it, according to PIONEER, B[...]UTTE, MONTANA. " salted," Edgar responded in the prospector's colorful idiom that if he would "pipe Bill and me Compiled from information in down and tunnel us through a sluice box, you[...]ner, September 9, 1928 couldn't get a color. The horses can go to the Gold Camp, by Larry Barsness devil or the Indians. " By Carol Lee Swager Convinced at least, the four men joined the other Soon a stampede followed. As the years went on No[...]honoring Montana pioneers ON THIS SPOT[...]BARNEY HUGHES. THIS GULCH WAS NAMED ALDER, THE |
| [...]Wall Creek Ranger Station -1929 Prior to the time the Forest Reserves were established and put under administration, people cut timber, grazed The Forest was created in 1902 and was called a Forest livestock, and used these areas for other purposes pretty Reserve. What transpired between 1902 and 1908 as far as much as they saw fit. There had ne[...]kind of regulation. It was simply a matter The earliest records available listed personnel being on the of "first come first served". Naturally, those who had a free Madison National Forest were 1908. hand in the use of these lands and the products which they The Forest Reserves were transferred from the Depart• produced resented any attempt at regulation, and they made ment of Interior to Agriculture in 1905. The name of Forest it as hot and disagreeable as they could for the few forest of· Reserves was changed by an act[...]The proclaimed boundaries of the original Madison Forest The old time forest officer had very little to work with ex- were finalized in 1908 and this is the year that records which cept his own ingenuity. The lands which he was supposed to are available about personnel and office locations appears to administer were in ma[...]they are today, maps were in most instances crude and unbelieveable, roads and trails • except The original Forest's boundaries encompassed several[...]to- cabins at which he might stop except those of the settlers, day considered the proclaimed National Forest boundaries and as a rule he did not receive much of a welcome at these. and so marked on the land and maps. He had to depend mostly on what his packhorse could carry The mountain ranges in the Madison Forest were: Nor· and camp where night overtook him. Transportation was them division · the Tobacco Roots; the eastern division • the limited to the saddle horse, and in some instances a West face of the Madison Range from Idaho border south of buckboar[...]ys most forest officers West Yellowstone to the Madison River north of Ennis Lake. were young, single men. They were men to whom a rough, The crest of the range then as now as the boundary between outdoor life appealed, and for the most part were recruited the Gallatin and Madison Forest. The southern division from the surrounding communities. were the Gravellies, Snowcrest, and Greenhorn ranges. With time the picture on the National Forest has changed. The forest headquarters during the 29 year history of the From the custodial state of the early days the National Madison Forest was Sheridan, Montana. The first office loca· Forests have become the supplier for many demands of the tion was 108 N. Main in Sheridan, next door to the Ruby American people. Management has become more complex as Hotel. In 1910 · 1913 the Forest office was located in a cor- conflicts arise from trying to meet the needs and desires of ner building on Main Street. the National Forest users. From 1913 · 1931 the Forest headquarters was located above the Sheridan garage, which was located at the present location of the Bank of Sheridan. MADISON NATIONAL FOREST In this early period the Forest was divided into Ranger[...]Districts as the present Beaverhead is today. From maps and historical written records the first Ranger Districts were The Madison National Forest was short lived Forest in[...]dan (Mill Creek), Carney (Waterloo), Pony (Pony), and tle only, being created in 1902 and reorganized and con· Smead (South Meadow in the Tobacco Roots). In the solidated with other forests by Presidential Executive Gravellies the Ranger Districts were the Ruby (Vigilante), Orders in 1931. The original Madison National Forest encom· Wall Creek, and Lyon. The Madison Range the Ranger passed public lands in Madison, Beaverhead, and Gallatin Districts were Basin (Hebgen Lake• West Yellowstone) and Counties. From a 1916 document the Madison Forest gross Bear Creek (Southe[...]n 1916 there were 75,575 April of 1916 the Madison Forest submitted a bounded private land acres within the Forest's boundaries, leaving a document to the Secretary of Agriculture titled "Extensive[...] |
| [...]ation of 9000 feet - Gravelly Range, 1930. map, and photo descriptions of the Madison Forest. This The exact objective of this report being submitted to the |
| [...]l stands in Sheridan, but is now 308 Mill Street, the home of Mrs. Catherine Doornbos.[...]SOUTH BOULDER RANGER DISTRICT Mr. D~rrick was the last Supervisor of the Madison Forest. No listing available. Mr. Derick after the consolidation in 1931, retired from the Forest Service. PONY RANGER DISTRICT The chonologic history of the Ranger Districts and their George V. Rowe 1910[...]1918 - 1919 The Pony District was divided in the fall of 1927 with a Adolph Weholt[...]portion going into a new District at Ennis and the remainder Clagett Sanders 1919 - 1920 to the Sheridan District. Harvey Rust[...]1941 - 1957 The Smead District was consolidated with the Pony John W. Venrick 1957 -[...] |
| [...]1929 · 1930 In 1967 the Ennis District was consolidated with Madison[...]dison District. Ruby District consolidated with the Sheridan District in 19:31.[...]rwitz 1943 • 1945 The Vigilante Experimental Range had an official life span Al Roemer 1945[...]. Sundell 1945 · 1946 The Experimental Range was a designation of 8,468 acres of The Wall Creek District was renamed the Madison District National Forest Land. The range was located on both the and the headquarters moved to Ennis in 1946. now Sheridan and Madison Districts, Beaverhead National[...]LYON RANGER DISTRICT The Range location was located approximately 2 miles[...]1912 · 1913 river (Ruby) from the Vigilante Station and ran eastward to Ray Maurer 1913 · 1914 the Gravelly Range Divide. The Lazy-man, Short, and Cot- Ross Stalcup 1914 · 1915 tonwood Creeks were located in the Range. Cattle were graz- Arthur T. Smith 1915 · 1924 ed on the lower half of the Range; 3,937 acres, and the upper C.A. Joy 1924 · 1931 half was grazed by sheep. The cattle allotment was fenced Lyon District was consolidated with the Wall Creek and the sheep allotment was unfenced. District in 1931. The purpose of establishing the Experimental Range was[...]RICT plants, soils, water, and livestock, and their reaction to graz- Frank Ayres[...]13 ing, various cultural practices, and gain soil, watershed, and Homer Bosworth 1913 · 1924[...]a has been hard to obtain, but from 1935 to 1941, the Consolidated with Pony District to form a new Ennis main work was establishment of the Range. With the advent District in 1927. of World War II the Range was not operated on a research basis. The research was reopened in 1948 and was very ac- ENNIS RANGER DISTRIC[...]ed. Became a District Headquarters in 1927 with the con- solidation of the Pony and Bear Creek Districts. From the limited data obtained, the major research con-[...]1930 · 1931 1. The gain and loss of weight of cattle on the range. W.E. Fry 1931 · 1936 2. Range Soil and Vegetation Condition and trend. Vern Edwards 1936 · 1937 3. Range Plant destruction values and identification. Merlin Stock 1937 · 1945 4. Control of Wyethia and Larkspur. Allen Roemer 1[...]5. Range revegetation research on the removal of C.A. Butler[...]Turley 1947 · 1951 The Range is a historical part of the Beaverhead (Madison) William A. Macke[...] |
| [...]They were brought out to the Seidensticker ranch and were[...]ot for without a short story on Conservation. In the mid 1920's and laying qualities), and after hatching were put in pens which 30's we ha[...]by our citizens which is were constructed by the Rod and Gun Club, which also paid an informative and colorful story. Each of the major towns for the feed. When the next spring came, the pheasant eggs had it's sportsmen's club. Ennis, Harrison, Jeffers, Alder were put under the hens (the pheasants would lay but would -and Sheridan were very active, and for a time before World not nest in the pens) who then raised them. After a few years Wa[...]very well organized county sportsmen's all of the pheasants were turned loose to rustle on their ow[...]which they did. Each summer the county group would have a big picnic The Rod and Gun Club also requested partridges to be which was attended by several hundred members and their turned loose in the vicinity. They were, but it was many families. O[...]years before they began to make a showing. The club also re- two days, along with a large number of other[...]quested chukars which were released near the Burma road clear the road so that cars could get to the site of the picnic on the Big Hole. which was held at upper Branham Lake. The Forest Service Elk had been decimated on the ranges throughout the took over the management of the traffic, keeping it one way state and there were few places to hunt them. Again, it was during periods of the day so that people could go up and again the sportsmen's clubs which found places to plant surplus come own- during the- oay. A fme picnic witfi a lot - of elk from the Yellowstone Park, and also collected donations old timers was held with events in fly casting, bait[...]sportation. _ _ trap shooting, dog trials and of course, horse shoes and I Requests were made to The State Fish and Game for believe a tug of war. The retriever trails was won by "Hauser antelope, and again for sheep and mountain goats which Lake Chief," a springer spaniel, owned and trained by John were also restocked on depleted ranges. The last antelope C. Tolson, now retired and living in Sheridan. That day one east of Twin Bridges had been killed in 1896. The last buf- of the fellows from Sheridan caught a two-pound trout falo had been killed on the Madison range in 1894, according (estimation) from the lake. to Julian Knight. I can best remember activities of the Twin Bridges Rod One of the success stories is with the whitetail deer. Short- and Gun Club. This group was very busy promoting dances, ly after the war two truckloads of these deer were brought bu[...]could eat lunches at from a trip at Ovando and turned loose on the Seidensticker the fair grounds, and they took an active part in the fairs ranch. They rapidly spread to cover much of Madison and which were held. My father, Jack Seidensticker, was Beaverhead Counties. The original whitetails had disap- secretary of the club for years and years and many of the peared back in the 1890's. They had all died in one year from prominent citizens belonged. One of Madison County's what was called the "black tongue". citizens, Bob Hill, was State Fish and Game warden for many I do not believe that a story about conservation would be years and helped with a lot of the programs. complete without telling of Mr. Carpenter of Butte, at orie One of the earliest programs was stocking fish in the rivers time a member of the Fish and Game commission. About and the lakes. The Big Hole and Beaverhead did not have once a year he would visit the Twin Bridges schools and tell brown trout. The rainbow trout which these rivers have,[...]ive us a perspective came from Maiden Rock where the Butte Anglers Club had about wild life and it's importance in the scheme of things established a hatchery, and from various other plants. and tried to keep us from shooting hawks, which he main- About 1924, the Twin Bridges Rod and Gun Club took tained were helpful instead of harmful birds. He was a man numerous barrels and wash tubs in their cars (quite a task far ahead of his times and in 1928 and 1929, when I heard considering that this was before all of the pickup trucks that him, his was the only voice that we heard. we see now) to the state spawning station at Odell Creek just outside of Ennis. They brought the fish back, cha::1ging water at the spring on the old road going over the Virginia John C. Seidensticker, M.D. City hill again down on the other side and turned 54 pairs of spawing trout loose at the Big Hole bridge. This was the start of brown trout in the river system--Beaverhead, Big Hole, Ruby and Jefferson. As far as I know there was only one other planting of brown trout and that was in the DISTRICT HISTORY OF SOIL CONSERVATION Lota bough slough on the upper Jefferson. At this time the fish were brought to the various towns by the Northern Pacific. The trains were met by the local The Ruby Valley Conservation District was organized as a sportsmen, and the cans of fingerlings taken to a predeter- governmental subdivision of the State of Montana on mined place where they were met by others with pack horses, December 11, 1950. All conservation districts throughout and then the fish would be transported to the designated the state are authorized under Section of Agriculture, Memo lakes. Many of the sheep outfits were very instrwpental in No. 1488 and the Montana State Soil and Water Conserva- providing the pack horses and help for much of this trans- tion Districts Law, Section 76-101 to 76-117 Revised Code of porting. The planting of these lakes was highly successful.[...]ally brook trout, were planted in many of The Ruby Valley District is authorized to cooperate with the spring creeks and were very successful for a few years. the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other agencies One of the birds which aroused a lot of interest was the through Memorandums of Understanding. chinese pheasant. This was before the state program which The original supervisors for the Ruby Valley Conservation started in the_ next few years. The Twin Bridges Rod and District were Dave Claypool, Stan[...] |
| Jr., James Giem and Dick Todd. These men served for rotation plans. The District's farmlands have also received several years and received no compensation for the time and great benefit by way of vastly improving cropping and ir- travel involved with their supervisory obligations. Over the rigation methods. Our cooperators have the benefit of the years, there have been several men who have given many extensive experimental research of the Bridger Plant and years of service to the District as supervisors. Mort Lott Jr. Materials Center which is owned by the conservation has spent over fifteen years on the Board of Supervisors. Jay districts of Montana and Wyoming and is staffed by Barnosky has spent over twelve years with the Board. Siv specialists of the Soil Conservation Service. Seidensticker had more than ten years on the Board; Due to the efficient and prudent performance of districts Laurence Giem and Vernon Wilson over eight years on the throughout the state, increased responsibilities have been Board[...]placed on districts. The Ruby Valley Conseration District The boundry for the district covers all of the Ruby River was the promoting district in establishing the Streambank Drainage, the Beaverhead River Drainage north of the Point and Land Preservation Act of 1975, better known as SB-310. of Rocks and the Big Hole River Drainage from the Biltmore Two of our board members, Siv Seidensticker and Laurence Hot Spring to the Iron Rod Bridge on the Jefferson River Giem were the original drafters of the proposal which later north of Twin Bridges. This[...]Through it's thirty"years of service, the Ruby Valley Con- The District was organized with the goal to obtain the best servation District has grown in it's responsibilities and land use and treatment for the protection and improvement authority. The District still holds true to it's original goal of of the resources of the District. In order to achieve this goal, best land use and protection along with the improvement of the District has acknowledged several areas of conservation our district's resources. practices. Over the past thirty years, giant strides have been taken in the area of rangeland improvement by way of im- proved or developed stockwater sources, fencing and grazing[...] |
| [...]horses. Prices of one, two and three cents per pound were 1920 t[...]during this time. A few truly wild horses ranged the area, notably those in Hells Canyon and the Ruby Moun-[...]Agriculture development in Madison County during the got away from their owners but developed into a wild breed period 1920 to 1950 was affected by the Federal Homestead that had instincts much like the native wild animals. laws, including the Desert Land Act of 1877 by virtue of Man[...]ich a homesteader could obtain 320 acres of land. The cheron and Belgian being most popular. Riding stock deriv- Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909 also allowed filing on 320 ed mostly from Morgan or Thoroughbred. Under range condi- acres and required cultivating one-eighth of the acreage tions, combinations of all breeds were present with a large beginning the second year and at least a quarter section by representation of plain Cayuse. This was still the era of the the third year. horse for power and riding. Horses pulled the mowers and In 1912 the Three-year Homestead Act reduced prove-up binders, hay rakes and bull rakes. Hay was still sometimes time from five to three years and allowed the homesteader to pitched by hand into hat boats and racks and stacked with be absent from his claim for five months of the year. It also slides or hay nets with one or two pole stackers. Overshot reduced the cultivation requirements of the 1909 law by one- and beaverslide stackers were used with horse pulled buck half. This set the stage for the wave of homesteading in rakes in the labor saving method of these times. Men with Mon[...]pitchforks worked on top of the stacks as they were built. The early homesteads in Montana were almost invariably Men also pitched grain bundles in the field onto racks from on or near the river valleys or mountain streams and hand made shocks behind the binders. Then they were haul- Madison County was no exception. Available water for ir- ed to the threshing machines and fed into them by hand. The rigation development being the principal need. Under the separators by this time were mostly powered by ga[...]sometimes still by steam powered outfits. Horses also tana received the greatest impact but the benches and high pulled the plows, disks and harrows to prepare the ground, mountain areas of Madison County saw the staking of many the fJ_oats for sm?oting and the ~ain drills for planting. claims. For example, the Centennial Valley homesteads were Despite the farmrng efforts, Madison County still remained a[...]successful dry-land grain farm- livestock economy and in 1920 dairy cattle were kept on ing. At this t[...]still a part of Madison County nearly every farm and ranch through this time. More restric- ·until the county-splitting Leighton Act passed in 1915. It tive health regulations gradually reduced the small dairies then became part of Beaverhead County. The dividing line and nearly eliminated them after the war. The few milk cows between the two counties that formerly went straight south on each place ·· the hogs, chickens and turkeys followed from near the Point of Rocks to the Idaho border took on a almost the same pattern as specialization due to equipment staggered south-easterly path roughly dividing the Upper and labor costs caused most agricultural operations to Ruby drainage from the Beaverhead and Red Rock Rivers, change. Beef cattle took the lead in this because of the lower the latter being the Centennial Valley. labor requirement, abundant available grazing and the short[...]that does not encourage crops other than hay The drought of 1917, 1918 and 1919 had much effect and and small grains. In spite of this short season, truck garden- the severe winter following ended the hopes of many ing did flourish before the war when transporting of homesteaders and much of their land was abandoned, later to vegetable crops hadn't reached the proportions of the pre- be bought up--sometimes by tax deed--as grazing land by sent. The large towns nearby needed this source and it was stockmen. One exception was the Harrison area, blessed supplied by farmers in the valley. with more rainfall, dry-land continues to be an important crop to this day. Also, by the use of better practices, some of The revolution in methods of cultivation and harvesting the East Bench area was again used for dry-land grain[...]not World War II. Some of this later came under the East Bench many tractors were used in Madison County and they were Reclamation Project irrigated through a canal system from slow and inefficient except of larger operations. Horses pull- the Clark Canyon Dam near Armstead in Beaverhead Coun- ed the equipment and trucks were just beginning to haul ty. some of the produce. For long distance shipping the railroad branch lines of the Northern Pacific from Whitehall to Alder The building of the Ruby Dam by the state above Alder on and Sappington to Norris took care of hauling to market. the Ruby River made an important contribution to the acreage under cultivation in the Ruby Valley: The East and In the thirties all this began to change rapidly and with West Bench Canals were constructed and brought new some. slowing during the war years of 1941 to 1945, when acreage into production and also provided storage for sup- machinery was hard to get, the change from horsepower to plemental water on many ranches further down in the Ruby mechanical power became almost complete. After the war, and Jefferson Valleys. gasoline was cheap and cattle prices were high (would you[...]for yearling steers?). Ranchers began Despite the farming efforts, Madison County still remain- to buy stock trucks and tractors and all the machinery to go ed a livestock economy and in 1920 according to the Mon- with them. The age of true horsepower was over. The decline tana Department of Agriculture there were 115,128 sheep in in the number of horses was even more dramatic than sheep the county and 42,713 head of cattle, of which 38,647 were durin[...]on County was credited with beef cattle. By 1950 the ratio was swinging in favor of beef figures showing 12,295 horses in 1920 which dropped to cattle as labor and other costs began to curtail the large 4,900 in 1950. This, too, according to Montana Department business in sheep--the figures showed 91,900 sheep and of Agriculture statistics. 50,200 cattle with 3,[...]Power equipment was used for almost every job on the ran- Horses still roamed the range in Madison County through ches, self-propelled or pull type combines now elinunated all the twenties and thirties. During this time the Hansen Pack- stages of grain harvest. They dumped[...]ng Company in Butte began slaughtering horses for dog hauled to the bins or to the elevator. food and other uses which used up much of the surplus range[...] |
| The handling of hay mechanically began to see the use of ty where it had been impractical with loos[...]akes to handle loose previously was consumed with the county by livestock. hay and field balers were used with a variety of pickup and stacking methods. This use of field baling began to ac- celerate the raising of hay for sale and export out of the coun· Dou[...]Plo wing on the Cis ler R anch, 1915. R oy S hafer, George Ell-[...]Building a 3 m ile di1ch to the Idah o line on the Missouri Flats. r;,eam engine and threshing machine in Madison Valley, 1900.[...] |
| The Alder Gulch Mill MINING IN VIRGIN[...]nucopia, 22,000 tons in five years. All of these mines produc- |
| the Elling Estate Co. These mines were quite rich in both gold and silver and the ore is high in silica. He began by min- ing these properties underground but after about three years and a broken neck, he gave up on the underground mining and began open pit mining. Ore from these properties was trucked to Alder to the southern terminus of Northern Pacific's Ruby Valley branch of the railroad and from there hauled in railroad cars to either the Anaconda smelter or the American Smelting and Refin- ing Company at East Helena for processing. Scheitlin continued mining the Easton-Pacific Group until about 1974 at which time his lease had expired and the Group was bought by Easton, Pacific and Riverside Mining Co. of Minnesota. During the[...], either through purchases or lease properties in the Alder Gulch-Virginia City vicinity. Among these were the U.S. Grant, Cornucopia and Cabin Lodes, El Fleeda, Eureka Open Pit Mining in the Upper Ruby and Bamboo Chief, along with many and varied unpatented mining claims. In 1974, the Anaconda Company announced they could no[...]tion drifts. The first ore taken from these drifts were longer take ore for processing from small mining companies, the result being that ASARC at East Helena was deluged transported by truck to the Yellowstone Mine located about with ore from mining companies all over the state. " Mining 25 miles south of Ennis,[...]1951 and was also owned by Sierra Talc. The talc was sorted talk " was of the need for a mill which could take ore from[...]by hand at the Yellowstone Mine and then sent to a process- small mines.[...]braska. . . Scheitlin began studying the possibilities of building a mill Early mining at the Beaverhead was difficult for many for processing gold and silver ore near Virginia City. The reasons. Mining underground was difficult because of heavy result of his studies showed that for the type of ore mined in ground that had to be spiled and caps boomed ahead in order the area a cyanide-leach process would be most feasible. to hold the drift open and make it safe to operate. Ore was After hundreds of hours of paper work and trips to Helena, transported from the mine by truck. Trucks were pulled in the required permits were obtained from the Enviromental on a cable by a caterpillar tractor and let down the steep ter- Protection Agency and Montana State Board of Health, a rain. Ore was hauled about two miles in this manner to the location was agreed upon and plans approved. The mill, Stone Creek road, the 20 miles in a westerly direction to named the Alder Gulch Mill, was built about one half mile Highway 41, five miles north of Dillon. In the late 195~ 's, a out of Virginia City, up Alder Gulch. road was built from the head of the Ruby reservoir 12 With a lot of very hard work and the much appreciated miles to the mine. Since then all operating was done from the help and advice of friends and acquaintances too numerous to Alder area. mention, the mill was in operation by the latter part of 1977. On a small scale, open pit mining started in 1962. Mining The mill is designed to handle 125 tons of ore per da[...]an accept- constructed so that another ball mill and set of flotation cells able product because of the large amounts of surface stain would increase capacity to 300 tons per day. The jaw crusher mixed in with the ore. and cone crusher can handle 750 tons of ore per day. The end In 1964, Cyprus Mines purchased all of Sierra Talc result is a silver, gray colored c[...]a smelter such as ASARCO for processing in which the pany. metals are separated; gold, sil[...]From 1962 until 1968, the ore was shipped by rail from The U.S. Grant mine, located just above the mill, is the Alder. In 1968 land was purchased in Alder, adjacent to the main source of ore to feed the mill, but ore from all the mines railroad where a washing plant was cons[...]ther independent it possible to remove the stain and other undesireable mines around the area, such as the Alameda, St. Lawrence material from the talc. It wasn 't until this time that the and the Uncle Sam mine above Sheridan. Beaverhead Mine began to expand and grow to several thou-[...]several new uses were found for this type of talc and because Vaeda Noble of the high quality of Beaverhead talc, this mine is con[...]Talc is shipped from the Alder plant to various destin!1· tions: the Cyprus mill in Grand Island, Nebraska and m TALC MINING IN THE UPPER RUBY Ghent, Be[...]from the Yellowstone Mine on the Madison is trucked to the In 1956, Sierra Talc purchased several mining c[...]ll in Three Forks or to Alder for shipment, since the only located approximately 25 miles south of Alder, known as the BN railhead remaining in Madison County is located in Beaverhead Mine. At this time, the mine was little more Alder. than a prospect. The previous owners had done a small amount of core drilling. The results of the samples taken were a very high quality of[...] |
| [...]aston-Pacific in Brown's Gulch near Virginia City and the[...]eiter Mine near Sheridan. Both were profit-makers and had[...]of years. All the larger and profitable mines had gold and[...]with the exception of the Toledo and Buckeye Mines near[...]Brandon which produced mainly lead and zinc. But back to the larger mines which were reputed to operate[...]in the black: The Noble mine up the Noble fork of Wisconsin[...]operated at approximately the same time as Leiterville but[...]have to include the Missouri-McKee near Meadow Creek, and of course, the Boss Tweed and Strawberry at Pony. One has to assume the latter were profitable at least for a period, to[...]keep the community the size of Pony alive for quite a long[...]spell. It is also known that the Boaz mine near Norris was[...]this category and they formed the true backbone of mining Leitch, Lew Moore. The mine was owned and operated by[...]rom approximately 1870 to World War II. Lew Moore and his son-in-law, Lyle Wright.[...]These latter mines and their operators did not contribute[...]share of colorful characters and they formed a unique guild, A THUMBNAIL SKETCH[...]jobs in other mines or farms. But once bitten by the down from Bannack when Bill Fairweather filled hi[...]City. It is common knowledge what a for life. On the average, this type of miner would ship his ore, splash this discovery made and why Virginia City was born get his check, pay his bills and then get gloriously drunk and and ultimately reached a population of nearly 10,000 in- stay that way till all proceeds were gone--with a poker game habitants, many of whom were Chinese. It is also common usually performing the final 'coup de grace'. Then back to knowledge that Virginia City is the richest gold strike in the hills and start all over. history, per square yard. As the boom slowly died the waves it created spread to sur- The Investors Co. Gladstone Mines, Quartz Mill-Lake S[...]Wisconsin Creek; 14 miles N.E. of Sheridan. and Wisconsin gulches, which were placered to some ex[...].•. ~. while Alder Gulch was still active. But the major disadvan- tage of most mines is that they eventually play out and thus[...]llf.1•,.<A~4~, ..--» :. the placer craze was replaced by a search for lodes and this ,1.:.'.t-'.· - ·- gradually led to the quartz mine industry which survived to[...]... a considerable extent even after agriculture and stock raising |
| [...]Toledo Mill and Tramway at Brandon, about 1900. Sheepherders perform historically in the same manner but crude but was all they had and considerable gold was Mining in the Tobacco Roots east of Twin Bridges has had[...]its ups and downs in the last sixty years and at the present[...] |
| [...]Gulch; 1928. time is at a pretty low ebb. During the 20's and 30's there were quite a number of fairly substantial operations and pro- motional developments, and in the depression of the 30's the[...]- hills were full of small operators and prospectors. Then the Typical Hoist House for shaft, 1948. McCartney Mo[...]it's ban on precious metal min- Mueller Mine. ing and it's demand for man power and the hills became deserted, except for strategic minerals developments, of which there were few in the north end of the Tobacco Roots. down but the road and buildings were maintained until the One of the larger developments during the 20's was the war when the company became inoperative. However, the Mojave Mining Company at the head of Bear Gulch on the mine was profitable to a number of lessees for the next few Old Band H property operated by J.V. Priest. This com[...]thirty or forty miners, teamsters, After the war the mine was taken over by the U.S. Gold carpenters, cooks, etc. They erected a large mill building, Mining Company and again the Mojave Tunnel was extend- shop and compressor house at the portal of the Mojave tun- ed to over 3500 feet, but money problems terminated the nel, which they started in order to tap the old workings at operation. After the machinery and equipment were salvag- about a 600 foot lower level. Many of the large dimension ed the mine project was sold for taxes. It now belongs to the timbers were brought from the old Watseka Mill in Hughes Mining Company with offices in Twin Bridges. Rochester. The Mojave Company operated until the death of The Pete and Joe Mine in Bear Gulch on the same struc- Mr. Priest in the late 20's, when it was taken over by the ture as the B and H was probably one of the richest and Inspiration Gold Mining Company which extended the Mo- best producers in the area. After a number of tries and con- jave Tunnel, drove an intermediate drift, the Ball tu~el siderable development in earlier years the main body of rich (about 1200 feet) and in 1932-33 constructed a beautiful ore was discovered in the early 20's by Amend (Ole) grade about four miles long along the hillside from below the Fossness, who was grub staked by B.G. Paige of Twin "slide" to the mill at the Mojave tunnel. This road is on an Bridges. The ore from this vein was plentiful and rich, rang- even grade and made Bear Gulch one of the most accessable ing in value from two ounces per ton to 200 ounces per ton in gulches in the range. A large old oil-fired steam shovel was gold. Most of this ore was sold at the old price of gold which used on this work and was of great interest to the natives. was $22.75 per ounce. After the main body of ore was taken After the road was finished the machinery was installed in out, the mine was acquired by the Bielenberg and Higgins in- the mill and it was put in operation as one of the finest one hundred ton mills in the Northwest. For about the next two years many tons of concentrates were hau[...]Mine in Construction; 1911. Twin to the smelter in East Helena. Ore on the upper levels Bridges. became harder to find in quantity and the mill was shut Mill at the Head of Bear Gulch. Hal Dale on skis.[...] |
| [...]The Grouse Mine at the head of Little Bear Creek, a[...]r Gulch, was worked briefly in 1949 by H. terests and many lessees made small shipments of gold ore McMurtrey and others. It is a lead and silver vein now own- through the 1930's and again after the war in the late 40's. ed by Hughes Mining Company. A t[...]on October 29, 1920, killed four men, In the lower mountains between Bear Gulch and Cole Can- Orrin Stone, Edward Glass, Oscar Burger and Mike Miller yon a large deposit of complex copper ore on the Alex and seriously injured Ike Burger. Johnson and Moffaat and Fox properties was quite The mine is now owned by the Hughes Mining Company throughly drilled and sampled. The Nemont Company of, and is inactive at present. Reno, Nevada, in 1970 built extensive roads and did much The Mascott, known as the Wiant, was worked briefly dur- surface work as well as drilling to develop this deposit. They ing the depression and produced some good ore from the also started construction of a large mill at the mouth of Bear removal of pillars left in the earlier mining. Gulch. The Nemont Company subleased to Teck Resources The Lincoln group of lead and silver claims owned by of Yerington, Nevada, which also continued the drilling and James Kearney and others produced some small shipments sampling and finally concluded that the price of copper of very good ore in the 1920's and a grade was made to and would have to be much higher to make the operation around Smelter Mountain in 1948, but the planned develop- feasable.[...]In Dry Gulch, just south of Bear Gulch, the Edmond For- ment was not pursued although this mi[...]rest Claim produced small shipments of lead and gold ore of the better prospects. through the years. It was worked by Otto Krueger until the The Giant Mine owned by the Dale brothers was re-opened early 1950's but has been inactive since then. and new bodies of ore developed in 1946-47, but the returns The Lucky Strike Claim, also in Dry Gulch, produced some on several cars prove[...]to be feasable to very high grade silver ore in the 1920's and a new access road develop. However, the beauty and accessibility of the mine and some development was done in 1978, but the mine is in- location have made it a fine vacation[...]mmer active now. It is owned by Esther Sommers and John and winter.[...]On and off Goodrich Gulch has been an active and produc- Bear Gulch, Giant Cabin in the Summer, 1980. tive area from ve[...]remembered that in the 20's and 30's the Crystal Lake Min- First Mill at the Strawn Mine, Bell Canyon, 1920's. (Ball[...] |
| Boarding House and Quarters at the Strawn Mine, Bell Canyon.[...]ulver, constructed a power line from Twin Bridges and built a mill and tramway to work the ore from the Little Goldie, the Elenora Group, the Argenta 1930's. Others who worked mines in the Wet Georgia area and Sunbeam, which produced a very good grade of ore were Ray Bullerdick on the Stella, later on Kirk Fox and operated until the 1930's. There was a work force of twenty Dusty Rhoads of Dillon worked the Stella. Adolph Levander men at times. Earl Pulver terminated this mining and mill- was on the Keynote and Bill Erb on his claim, The Mainstreet. ing operation and moved across the valley to Hell's Canyon. Below the High Ridge, Nick Troffler's Corn Cracker was Here at the mouth of the canyon he built a bridge across the worked in the late 30's and 40's by Lou Knitter and partners river, constructed a large modern bunk house and boarding and George Pesantz (who took over Knitter's lease when Lou house, and started a double-track tunnel to tap the ore in the went into World War II service). George Hubbard of old King Mine. He called his company Mammoth Mines, and Whitehall shipped several carloads from 1944-48 from the during it's heyday twenty to thirty people were e[...]d as a result of a mine-tramming injury In the head of Dry Boulder, north of Bear Gulch, are the in 1936 and the mine shut down permanently. The bridge Pollinger unpatented claims, now owned by Norman Smith was later purchased and moved by rancher George Swan to of Twin[...]is Jefferson River island pasture. off and one since before 1920. In 1931-34 the Stenstrom Another faithful producer of high grade gold ore in brothers of Idaho constructed and successfully operated a Goodrich Gulch is the Carolina claim, originally discovered ten stamp mill. Other companies shipped and developed un- by Andy Anderson before 1920. Later it came into the til World War II, including McAlliste[...]. possession of Mike Micklewich, "Goodrich Mike", and pro- In Hellroaring Gulch, north of Dry Boulder, (and only ac- duced many tons of ore during the 1930's. It was later work- cessible from the Hulbert Gulch road), is the Lester Mine. It ed by leasors including Charles Harvey, Lou Knitter, and is a large lowgrade gold lead, which was[...]eitlin operations in Virginia City, has reclaimed the old Richmond properties in the north fork of Goodrich and is at the present pursuing development of these unpatented[...]ine, 1924; Bell Canyon near Between Dry Georgia and Wet Georgia Gulches, in the in- Waterloo. Now at Mining Muesum; Butte, Montana. terlying hills, is the Highridge Group of claims; the dumps of which are plainly visible from the valley. This group has been a steady producer over the years and a man by the name of Roberts shipped many tons of good ore in the late Part of Strawn Mine Camp and Trail to Mine, 1920's. |
| [...]workers from Silver Star, Twin Bridges, Whitehall and inactive since. Sheridan. One of the richer producers in the Tobacco Roots is the From 1937 to 1943 a boarding house was operated at the Strawn Mine in Bell Canyon. It is a tellurium-gold ore. The Victoria by Mrs. Abe Parent and a number of families lived mine has had an interesting history and many will remember in houses on the mine property. With spring water piped in the famous "gold room " where Julian Strawn opened a chute they had beautiful lawns, lilacs and flowers to make the min- of ore, which glittered with free gold in the light of mine ing camp attractive. After everyone left the hill it became a lamps. Before World War II a Min[...]. sisting of lumberjack stockholders, constructed the tramway John T. Potts became the sole owner of the Victoria proper- (now demolished), the mill, partly deteriorated, and the camp ties in the 1950 's, until his death in later years at which[...]eir own his immediate family became owners and are at this time. hydroelectric plant. The mine is now owned by Hal and The Patrick Harrison Mining Company are now leasing the Claude Dale and a new hydroelectric plant has been installed Victoria with plans of putting it back into production. and the mill and mine are being restored to production. It is a mo[...]The Green Campbell was first operated in 1867 and bears[...]Montana Number 1-A which would indicate this was the first SILVER STAR MINING DISTRICT patent survey in the state of Montana. Bassett Layson was[...]rations until 1902. In later years a number of The Broadway first became productive in the 1860's and stockholders became owners with Walter G[...]was operated by a number of different companies and people dent. The ones Lloyd Harkins recalls are John Patterson, for many years. In 1936 the Knapp Taylor Nelson Company Andrew Sacchi, Mike Brain, Ivan Shaw, Ray Halvorsen, Joe took possession of this property and the name was changed Ferrel and some others. From 1938 to 1942 the mine and mill to the Victoria Mines: consisting of six patented and seven operated until the closing of gold mines during World War non-patented claims with the shaft at 600 ft. A one hundred II. They employed twenty-five men and the twenty-five ton ton cyanide mill to process the ores was installed and in a day mill had excellent recovery of gold and silver. Living operation the following year; the concentrates were retorted quarters and a boarding house were made available at the at the mine and bars shipped to the U.S. Mint. The property mine for those who needed it. was an excellent producer of gold and silver and at that time After 1942 and ensuing years, the ownership of the proper- employed about forty men. In 1937 the Ridge Road was con- ty was transferred to Walter Giebel and John Patterson with structed by Harry Heller to b[...]no mining or milling for a number of years. Then the proper- road called the Tramway. ty was purchased by the United Investors of Salt Lake City, In 1938 the Galligher Company of Salt Lake City, Utah Utah, in 1969, and some mining and milling was done for ap- with John T. Potts as it[...]ased these proper- proximately two years. At the present time the Green Camp- ties from the Knapp Taylor Nelson Company. At this time bell is owned by the Patrick Harrison Mining Corporation the shaft was at the one thousand foot level and all concen- and there are plans to do extensive drilling and excavating trates from 1942 to 1945 were trucked to the Silver Star Sta- with a larger ton capatjty[...]on where they were shipped by rail to East Helena and the Anaconda Company to smelter. In 1942 the Victoria was closed because the United States Government asked that[...]AURORA BOREALIS manpower be put into the war effort of mining essential minerals and gold was considered non-essential at this time. The Victoria was managed by Sherman Hinckley at this time The first recollection Lloyd Harkins has of this claim was and in 1942 they acquired a number of lead and zinc claims at in 1938. It was owned by Arnold Purves and Homer Hunt Sheridan, Montana called the Toledo and Buckeye where and operated until the early 1940 's as a producer of silver about forty men were employed. This lead and zinc ore was ore. At this time Arnold went into service for his country trucked to the Victoria Mill at Silver Star where it was milled and operations ceased until 1946 when it was re-opened and with the flotation process with six men working at the mill subsequently closed again in 1949. In the 1970's it was pur- and three trucks operating from Sheridan. chased by the Blue Jay Mining Company, Rick Dale and[...]n 1980 there was extensive diamond drilling on The Toledo, also at this time, was listed third in production the property. At this time there is no mining activit[...]ey continued as manager in 1944 property. and 1945. Then Bill Callaway of Sheridan became manager of mining and Walter Giebel was in charge of mill operations. In 1949 with lead and zinc prices making operations no longer profitable and the war being over the Sheridan Toledo and Buckeye Mines were closed. The Victoria re-opened, plus an open pit containing copper, gold and silver ore. THE MOONLIGHT Twenty-five men were employed with Sylvan Donegan Sr. as manager. Underground mining resumed at the nine hundred This mine is owned by Florence Bryant of Sheridan, Mon- foot level and milling also resumed. This continued until tana and was a very good producer of gold ore. For many 1953 and production was good with a healthy payroll[...] |
| STELLA The Stella properties are now owned by Securus Energy In 1940 a three hundred foot tunnel into the hill produced THE BLACKMAN PONY, MONTANA AREA Very little mining was going on in the early '20's. Ed |
| [...].... - View of the Gamet Mill and Mine above Pony.[...]Revenue Property. (L) Mary A. shaft and Revenue Mill (R) |
| [...]Lexington Claim of the Revenue Property, 1936. L to R.: Jess[...]O'Neil~ Stanton Frisbie. water out of the Kid Lake and steam fired by cord wood. This producing min[...]k promotion scheme from Des Moines, the mine. A school was also there and the stage coach from |
| and the girls back from Butte. He said this was cheaper e[...]Stanton E. Frisbie MINING IN THE UPPER MADISON VALLEY The Madison Valley is ranch country. Always was and |
| pany. The most recent step in the evolution of Maud Clark's ~chin~ry and supplies up to the mine. The nearest ship- talc discovery is the purchase of all assets by Standard Oil of pmg p_omt was twenty four miles away at Big Springs, Idaho, Indiana, which took place in September of 1979. the railhead of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line.[...]Many of the men who worked at the mine also homestead- ed on the Missouri Flats. Clyde Carter left Pony, Montana i[...]Deb Townshend 1914 to become foreman of the asbestos mine for three years.[...]His wife, Ora Young Carter, ran the boarding house.[...]Neighboring families near Mile Creek were the Dick[...]Huggins and the Floyd Edwards. Their children attended the[...]alk or horseback ride of about ASBESTOS MINING IN THE UPPER MADISON five[...]Mail was directed to the miners and homesteaders via the[...]ace Huggins On October 29, 1892, I.A. Hutchins and A.L. Chauvett was postmistress. Montbestos rated it's own post office in located_ the first asbestos mine in the Madison Valley and 1929 with David Hamilton as the postmaster, but the happy named 1t the Black Demon. In their claim they stated it was status lasted only fifteen months when the office was closed. one and a half miles from the mouth of East Mile Creek The Montebestos Company was incorporated under the three hundred yards from the creek in the Sheep Mountain~ laws of Montana on July 6, 1933 for a term of forty yrars. It and twelve miles above the upper Madison bridge. The same was dissolved in 1973 by operation of law due to the day, Hutchins and Tom Lincoln claimed the Phoenix in the limitations of it's charter. same gene[...]It spite of the hard work of the miners, the aggresive Apparently, the men didn 't do much about developing salesmanship of Ed South and the heavy investment of the their claims, other than keeping them legal, until about 1914. owners, the Montbestos Company did not prosper. The In that year Hutchins was joined by John P. Trout, J.W. asbestos was too difficult and expensive to get out, process ~en~er and James Elliott in filing claims in the unorganized and ship. district of the asbestos mines called Swamp Angel and Black Dragon. The Woodrow Wilson and Madisonian claims were Although Mr. South always felt that someday the mine located by Laura Hutchins.[...]himself from the company. He settled in Moore, Idaho and Mining operations must have begun at this time, probably died there in 1946. because of the war in Europe. More mines opened up in the next few years and more people became involved. All of Soon after Mr. South's departure, the mine was closed. these mines formed the Montbestos Company, together with Madison County sold the machinery buildings and material several later claims.[...]axes. Les Stiles of Virginia City remembers he The asbestos was seated in a vein system between bought the scrap in about 1940 and shipped it to Bethlehem limestone walls about 300-500 feet wide with the main Steel in Seattle. The diesel engine was bought for use on a fissure ext[...]selves of the asbestos fiber, so it was told, and mixed it with Operation of the mine started with the excavation of the cement to make a cheap insultation for the[...]Emmett (a later claim) tunnel driven easterly on the Lucky practice ceased when a guard was posted at the site of the Boy Claim, which cut the vein 500 feet from it's portal. This owners. became the main working tunnel at an elevation of 7600 feet. Tunnels from other claims were soon driven into the A tour of the old mine was taken by the author in asbestos ore up to an elevation os 9,000 feet. September of 1979. In the steep walled canyon of Little Mile[...]Creek evid_ence remained of the erstwhile mining camp; col- Buildings had to be erected and mining equipment lapsed cabms, a cement platform, parts of stoves, wheels and brought. The brick and cement power house encased the In- other debris. As for the excavations, the entrance holes were gersoll Rand Diesel engine wh[...]eclipsed by rock slides, but shiny gold fibres in the rocks generator. The reduction plant housed two Kennedy were proof that asbestos was still there. gearless crushers and a conveyor belt, which carried the ore 120 feet to the Kennedy Van Saun dryer. From the dryer Will the mine ever be reopened? the ore was transported 100 feet on a conveyor belt to a bin Is is still faithfully represented by the Hutchins heirs, but in the mill where a cyclone beater and shaker screen separated a new "wrinkle " has complicated and sullied the reputation the asbestos from the rock. The waste was shuttled by another of asbestos. Medical science had found that asbestos dust belt to the dump; the asbestos fiber was collected classified can cause three different diseases: asbestosis (lung damage), and weighed. The large suction fan did it's best to keep the air common bronchial carcinoma and mesothelioma. free of irritating dust.[...]s asbestos is, it is an essen- In addition to the above structures and material, there was tial product in modem industrial society and there is no three oil storage tanks, blacksmith s[...]e for many of it's uses" - according to t~o barns and three room office building. Camp housing con-[...]r measures have been undertaken since the discovery of cancer quarters), a two story boarding house of eight rooms, four in some of the workers, which should continue to reduce in- dwelling houses and two log cabins. quite a respectable-sized cidences of the disease. Technical advances in the operation outfit. And no wonder, for $500,000 had been invested in it. of mines may make it feasible to extract and process the ore. The most visable and forceful person connected with Mont- Wh[...]n coming down from Little Mile Creek president of the company and it's chief promoter. canyon into the Madison Valley. As general manager, South would see to the getting of the[...] |
| [...]Dr. and Mrs. LeClair, Josie Siprelle, James G. Walker[...]holding Bud Smith and Betty Romey, Vera Romey.[...] |
| [...].: Tin Lizzie (Ford) Exhibit and Convention - Virginia City, Placer Mining in Alder Gu[...] |
| [...]h of Virginia City with bun_k house & bungalow to the right.[...] |
| [...]Walter (Red) Gendrow, (Behind him is Con McClurg, and kneeling Nels Salmonsen.) 1st Row: L to R: Ben Wi[...]lling- house in Montana. Now the home of James H Vanderbeck .[...] |
| [...]arket - Nevada City - 1873. and John McDonnelL[...] |
| [...]At the foremost top of Old Baldy Mountain, south of Virginia[...]City. Picture taken by Joe Millard. In the picture R to L: E.M Smith and three of his children, Geraldine, Mary and[...] |
| Pitching kegs for the beer at Gilbert's Brewery in Virginia City, early[...]Sim Bufor<J, and his goat. T.J. Farrel house. Men standing:[...]oe Farre~ Richard Albright, Harrison Kiser, Helen and Florence Albright seated. Ray and Fem Bullerdick at their cabin up Alder Gulch,[...]sheep grazing above Axoloti Lakes SE of Virginia |
| [...]e Creek .. . L to R: Mrs. Katie · Celebration on the day when the monument where gold was Geer, Unknown, Ev[...]r Gulch was unveiled. Mary Carey of Virginia City and Audrey Shafer of Sheridan were chosen to unveil the monument. Picture taken in September, 1928. The good old days. All dressed up in their dusters to go for a ride. E . M Smith of Virginia City in front seat by the driver.[...] |
| [...]lbert, Mrs. Kramer, Frances Albright with Richard and Helen in buggy, three unknown l[...]rld War I Veteran. Member of At Puller Springs in the Upper Ruby - About 1911. L to R:[...]llea, Margaret Dullea, (Mother of Dullea children and sister of Dennis Mahagin) Mrs. Gen- drow of Grani[...]L to R: Leo Dullea, Bill Mahagin, Pauline Mahagin and Cyril Mahagin.[...] |
| From a newspaper article about 1937: "The gigantic dry land dredge of the Humphrey Gold Corporation of Denver. . ., con- sists of one power shove~ two drag line shovels and the washing plant. All are electrically operated on caterpillar or crawler tread. The washing plant is probably one of the largest pieces of machinery made to run on its own power. Mounted on three sets of crawler tread, the gigantic machine is seventy feet high, weighs 500 tons and has an overall length of one hundred eight[...] |
| [...]to R: Lucinda Connors Weingart, Evalena Weingart and Johnny Weingart; prior to 1900, on Granite Creek.[...]Wedding Picture of Bill and Ethel (Peterson) Marshall -[...]3. Their history is on page 386 of Pioneer Trails and[...]Trout, Leo Dullea. Taken at Adobetown, Montana at the Dullea home, about 1917.[...] |
| [...]Edwin Lueck. L to R: Ethel (Peterson) Marshall and her niece Goldie Smith, Alex Peterson, Fer[...] |
| County Fann, Alder, Montana in the early 1900's. Alder Grade School.[...] |
| [...]essel Teacher - Hugh Clark. Addison (Ad) Tate and Mary A. (Mollie) Tate, taken June, |
| At Puller Springs in the Upper Ruby, people unidentified. Jack Anderso[...]Belmont Park Ranch in the Upper Ruby (Sweetwater) when Rance Weidner on the right with furs. Herb Gilbert at left. it was the home of Williams family. Taken at Home Park Ranch in the Upper Ruby. L to R: Rance Weidner and Bill Corin. |
| [...]by. Earnest (Peck) Tate - World War I Veteran and Upper Ruby Ad and Mary (Mollie) Tate with grandchildren, Mary, Kar~ |
| [...]Esther and Owen Judy of Alder - 50th Wedding Anniver-[...]sary. Sam Maloney (left) and Mike Birrer (right) with bull moose |
| Hennann and Mary (Galiger) Hansen, Alder ranchers.[...] |
| [...]e seen top of dry hil~ typical of those bordering the valley. In .center background may be seen. two steam dredges in operation - the first ones for the area. Note: Many large haystacks.[...]A work team of horses used to haul the heavy machinery to and from the work shops at south Ruby for the Dredge boats digging for gold between Ruby and Virginia City, early Number Two Dredge b[...] |
| [...]. Number 2 dredge with broken frame. Hazel and Emerson Stone, Alder ranchers.[...]. The big iron buckets one of the g-old dredges .[...] |
| [...]in, (Buddy Gratton 's Mother). Sitting, Middle dog, Joe O'Connel4 unknown, Mrs. Jensen. Front Row: L[...](1871-1958) wife of Oliver Shewmaker (1867-1935) and mother of two sons, Elmer and Claude. A wonderful neighbor with a Louis R. Hansen and Herb Hansen placer mining at the keen sense of humor. She is just posing for the picture, as she mouth of Davies Gulch. 1938. did not kill the deer.[...] |
| The O'Connell Family of Ruby, Montana. Margaret, sister and nurse - 1864-1958. and brothers: James W O'Connen[...]Threshing peas at the Chris Hansen Ranch at Ruby, 1935. Company C, 5th[...]Field Ar- tillery, World War I Veteran, 188(H949, and Joseph A. O'Connel~ 1885-1962. Natives of Boston Mass., who came west and took up homesteads in Granite Creek in the 1920's. Later operated an Apiary in Ruby for many years. They are all buried at the Laurin Cemetery. In picture, L to R: Joe, Margaret and Bill.[...]Alice and Joe Wilson. Katherine Williams and her daughter Jane, at the Donegan[...]- 1919. Big City - Ruby, Montana 1920.[...] |
| [...]Alder Section. Carrie Reynolds, Alder, Montana. She and Jim operated the[...] |
| [...]R: Leslie Gilman F. Dugay, about 1904, members of the[...]Number 4 Dredge boat being built - Men and horses at[...] |
| [...]m Dredge at right. No. 1 Steam Dredge at left. In the late lBCXJ's. Believe taken around 1900. (Note piles of cordwood used for the steam dredges). The Maggie Gibson was moved to Ruby from Bannack, moving over a million cubic yards of gravel and becoming a prototype for Conrey Company's[...] |
| [...]Front Row: R to L: Bill Miller, Chester Stine and Harry G. Stine. Lowell Gilman is sixth from right[...]from left,· Lei.a Gilman, then-Alice, Davenport and Mikkelsen girl. Row 1 - Bottom• 8th from left-[...]t. - Chester Nelson, 11th from left - Bill Miller and 12th from left - Clif Rodgers.[...] |
| [...]Joe Archambault in center and his two sons -Arthur on lefr and Ed on right, Laurin, Montana (Joe Archambault was[...]Alice and Babe Peterson's grandfather). George Anderson (Ho[...]. His real name was Urick An- drietzeo. Born 1900 and died 1976. ()[...] |
| [...]L to R: Sam Peterson and Ed Archambault - 1947 - Sam[...]ersons' history is on page 391, of Pioneer Trails and[...] |
| [...]Wedding Picture of Alex and Alice (Archambault) Peterson[...]917 - Their history on page 412 of Pioneer Trails and[...]ohnson's Store - Laurin. In- strumental in having the Laurin School built.[...] |
| [...]rray (Chick Murray's Aunt), L to R: Rance Weidner and Ed Johnson. Mrs. Martin[...] |
| [...]L to R: Ralph Peterson and Alex Peterson. History of Ralph[...]Peterson is on page 391 of Pioneer Trails and Trials. Picture[...]- Mary's Church, Old Church building, Warehouse for Morse[...]Brothers Store,· The Ruby Valley Mere. Co. (Morse Brothers),[...]Mrs. Guthrie's home, Her house the store and warehouse all[...] |
| [...]Arthur (Buddy) Gratton and Ireta Gratton. Laurin - Old Timers, L to R : Pete Sink and Ike Elliot - Pi,c-[...]n - 1942. Street Scene - looking west - early 19<XJ's - Johnson's |
| [...]w "' '>loqP C'oof'l1 f11m,, !fo11h1r10 Laurin Old Timers - L to R: Bill Whitford, Pete Sink. Pic- t[...]Ras and Bessie Bullerdick Hansen. Their history is[...] |
| [...]sketball Team - 1933-34; L to R: Goose Hunters at the Schulz-Morrison Ranch in Centennial Jac[...] |
| Sidney (S. W) and Daisy Baker - Long time Sheridan ran- chers. Thei[...]Montana's best trap shooters: L to R: Nick Birrer and Otto Schulz. Nick won the ATA Singles Championship from[...]Frank (Smokie) Axtell and his pet bear. Lake Shore Mine -[...] |
| [...]n in 1914 - Reunion - Class of 1904 - Luncheon at the home of Mrs. Perrault on Water St., Sheridan, Montana honoring the 1st graduating class from the Sheridan High School in 1904. Top Row: L to R: Je[...]R : Mrs. E .D. Marsh, with daughters, Dorothy and Grace, Mrs. Baker, Mamie Hart,-Class of 1904, Mar[...]Viola Jones-Class of 1904, Mrs. Pamela Perrault, and Mrs. Amelia Rightenour.[...]er, Edith "Talking It Over" L to R: Earl Robinson and Walcott Ray-· Morrison, Madeline Flick, Audry S[...]on) and Stella Miller. Teacher not pictured: Rober[...] |
| [...]to R:•Jack Cowan, Pete Van Slette, Sid Part of the Graduating Class of Sheridan High School - 1924[...]k - July 4, 1924. L to R: Noah Stine, Jack Stine, and Art Keller. In background - Harry Rowe. Artie and Rita Cowan Morris - 1947 - Their history is on[...]page 136 of Pioneer Trails and Trials. L to R: Roy (Tuffy) Foster and Buddy Gratton with Dixie Lee[...]Albre~ht in Tuffy 's bug~y - _about 1940. |
| "Two Old Wrecks Arrive in Florida" Jan. 1955. Jack Speedy, 77, of Sheridan and his old model 1934 Chevrolet. (Wind blew it off the road during the trip).[...]history on page 506 of Pioneer Trails and Trials. Spring time pedestrians on Main Si:.-[...]Courtney Taylor, Rea Townsend, |
| [...]R: Frank (Smokie) Axtell (woman, unidentified) and Everett[...] |
| [...]tine. In Front: L to R: Jack Burlingame Jr. and David Lueck. Absent when picture was taken, "Babe[...]wo of her Eleanore Dyer, daughter of Dr. R.H. and Frances Dyer of faithful friends - 1967.[...] |
| [...]"Blondie" Pickett and his Vigilante Motor F~ight . . .[...]e Morris, Eva McGlinch, Jay McGlinch, Rita Morris and Bus Morris. Long time residents of Sheridan.[...]ckson, Walter Sagunsky, Arie Doornbos, Les Schulz and Madge Marsh, and Coach, Sigrid Benson. Chick Murray. On right: Mayor A.C. Smith of Sheridan and J.L. Weis of |
| Charlie Rodgers in his Creamery - Main St., Sheridan in the "Blondie" Picket behind the counter at Happy Halse's Ser- 1930's.[...]cyle at left. In front seat L to R: Harvey Marsh, and Everett Ball In back seat.· L to R: Sport Simpso[...]ross Hall IL 1882-1933. History in Pioneer Trails and[...] |
| [...]barber and Chick Rossiter in chair. Samuel McCrea - 1852[...]ils & L to R: Lloyd C. Wright and Nick Carey U.S. Navy - World |
| Mr. and Mrs. Anton Lueck 's Golden Wedding Anniversary, 1[...]uden, Elizabeth Schneider, Mrs. Spuhler, unknown, and Henry Hubner. 4th Row: L to R: William Buh~[...]hlman Zerby, Jim Duncan holding daughter E/,aine, and Mrs. Rudolph Flick.[...]the Ruby Valley for many years, at cabin on Be[...] |
| [...]Pauline Jennings (1) and Lura Edwards {r) Main St., Sheridan[...] |
| [...]Ted Darby, Alan Hickethier, Jim Hines. In front: and sitting beside him is Fay Edwards.[...] |
| [...]ight, Archie Elser of Sheridan. These men were in the battles of Meuse, AT" rgone and St. MehiL Moving the Payless Store Bldg. (previously damaged by a[...]ek Canyon in |
| [...]"Dulaps Hotel" between Maddison 's Store and Maverick Bar - 194,7 - Three of the best sheepherders in the country;[...]al Pl,aque - Mounted on Arrastra Stone taken from old mill near Branham Lakes. James Gordon (Gordie) Walker,-1884-1963 - Long time resi- dent of Sheridan, Mine and Ranch Cook.[...]les B. Murray for his contribution to Scouting by the[...](L) Arie Doornbos and (R) Paul Schoenek - hunting trip -[...] |
| [...]Post 1189, and Greg Hall 1st VJ Day Anniversary Celebration[...]Pat Braach and his faithful dog. |
| [...]- 1920's. Ed Temple - Camp tender for Schulz and Foster anches. Jim Covill, Blacksmith - Lake[...]Elser, Lydia E! ser, Wesley Elser. The Lueck brothers - L to R: Ross, Jack, Edwin. Sons of |
| [...]963. His history is on page 554 of Pfoneer Trails and Trial-s.[...]Sheridans' Silver Coronet Band leading the parade. At corner of Mill and Main Streets, Sheridan.[...]dan, J.M Maddison Store, early 1900's, showing on the left- Fire 1908-1910). John Hatfield sitting at left with white shirt and and Curfew BelL suspenders. Harry Howe, between Hatfield and Godfrey.[...]William Shaffer at far right with cap on. The old Sheridan Meat Market building tom down in 1947 to make room for the Ruby Valley Bowling Alley.[...] |
| Karl Edelmann and wife Marie Edelmann, early day residents of Sheri[...]to R: Delmar and Nellie Clemo Duncan, Frank "Buss"[...] |
| [...]f George and Mary Bothwell -at their cabin on Ramshorn Gulch n[...]Ras and Bessie Hansen "60" Wedding Anniversary, Ju[...] |
| [...]dzor, Mary Bruggeman, Doris Weame (Kitt) (Teacher and Spon- sor), Fem Keller, Francis Stin[...] |
| [...]ter. Second Row: L to R: unknown, mander of the Post in 1924-1925. Picture taken 1960. Sey[...] |
| [...]VIRGINI" CITY AND ENNIS[...]L to R: Claude Fitzhugh and Clarence (Blondie) Pickett.[...]Cooley and "Skeet " Marsh.[...] |
| [...]sen, Frank Hansen, Jean Hansen. Flossie Marsh and son, James Vernon Marsh, 1941. John and Petra Simonsen, children Viola and Jack, 1934.[...]Post Office Building, Sheridan, 1960. Darby and Springer Spaniel '.' Skip". Walter Molti[...] |
| - ~ - L: Floyd Moore and R : nephew, Bud Albrecht with bear kill- S[...]George Copp, son of Harry and Minnie Copp. 1908-1933.[...] |
| [...]Halse. Joh John and Marguerite Halse with Mrs. Zeigler, picture taken[...]L to R: John Simonsen and Ras Hansen, October, 197Z Ras |
| The Vigilante Line - Pickett (Blondie) and Fitzhugh. 1930's.[...]\ L to R: Bobby and Billy Gemmell of Sheridan, 1934 or 1935.[...]. Front Row: L to R: Harold Gilman, _ _ ___, "Nif |
| Twins in the Sheridan School - 1938. Top Row: 1., to R: Rosalie and Charlie Pillen, Betty and Bobby Moore, Etta and Everett Moore. Middle Row: L to R: Marian and Mildred Johnston, Mildred and Mar- jorie Marsh, Doris and Dorothy Garrison. Bottom Row: L to R: Martin and Marla Connelley, Donna and Dolores Wright, Don and Doug Elser. - The Marsh Twins, Garrison Twins, Pillen Twins and Moore Twins (Bobby and Betty) were all in the same grade. .. Fay Bari~ Warrant Officer, US. Air Force, World War II. L to R: Martin Simonsen and Ras Hansen, Sheridan ran- |
| [...]' Fishing on the Madison: L to R: Charles Walter Sr., Dr. Sutherla[...]Donald E. (Bud) Wright, son of Lloyd C. and Anna Wright of Sheridan. Bud attended the Sheridan schools third grade[...]gh Junior year in High schoo~ then he enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Feb. 12, 1941 and remained in the U.S. Navy[...]the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer, Served aboard the U.S.S. Philadelphia (Light Cruiser) and various submarines, including the Puffer, Tilefish, Raton and the U.S.S. Gray back (The Navy's first Guided Missile Submarine). He was a[...]team Engineman (Machinists Mate) in surface craft and Diesel Engineman on Submarines, also Chief Auxilaryman. Everett Ball-Barber Shop in what is now the old brick Pick Olive Pillen, 1895-1979. Wife of Alb[...]f Eileen 1916-1929, Charles B. 1923-1944, Rosalie L to R: Maude Bullerdick Simpson, Millard Bullerdick, |
| [...]ke Simonsen, John Simonsen, "It's That Time of The Year Again" - Seasons Greetings - holding Tyler and Jack Simonsen.[...] |
| Sheridan Grade School - 7th and 8th grades -1914-, Front Row: L to R: Alta Crary,[...]van Moore, - - - ~ Lloyd Ferguson, son of Robert and Gannie Ferguson, long |
| The Cork Mining Company Wisco;sin Creek, North[...]and Harry E. Stine. Mamie Boyd Bruggeman and Alfred Halse (cousins) as[...]young people. "Nifty" Castles' mules - Rock and Rye. 1940's. L to R: Florence Tolson, Nan Lee, and Maude Glick.[...] |
| Right to Lert: Vernon Marsh and daughter MaryLou: and Sheridan High ·school-Sophomore Class - 1933-34,[...]Maddison, Edna McKenzie. L to R: Wesley DeArmond and brother Clinton DeArmond.[...] |
| [...]cinkowsk~ Bab Narancich, and Coach-Velma Gustin.[...] |
| [...]One of the Lakes at the head of Bell or Beale Canyon, Tobac-[...]George Hurd, Eli Allen, Doc Heller. Maude Mulhall and Claude Dale courting in Bear Gulch - 1908.[...] |
| [...]River Dam broke.[...] |
| Twin Bridges 3rd and 4th Grades Class, 1928. - Mabel Harvey, teacher.[...]Twin Bridges and Sheridan Beau Brommell's - early 1900's[...] |
| [...]nzie, Jim Fred Gray. Nicholls. Twin Bridges - Old Timers - L to R: Van Gould, Marth,, Twin Bridges Harvey's Cash Grocery[...]l Class - about 1924 - Front Row: |
| [...]elebration - Twin Bridges - Elks Float - Indian and Manhead Mountain East of Bell Canyon, site of 1[...]ridges - 1947 - in process of Tree. building. Old bridge to right. Mac Taggart on his un[...] |
| iack,-Mac and Betty Jeanne Taggart- Twin Bridges, 1928.[...]Frank Wyrouck and Betty Brady - Bear Gulch - 1948.[...]History - Wyrouck, on page 712 - Pi,oneer Trails and[...]Alden and Margaret Knight, early 1920's - Children of[...]Julian and Lucille Knight of Twin Bridges.[...]✓ Fred and Catharine Gray - 1940's. Twin Bridges -[...] |
| [...]rd, Margaret Marshall Davis, Mrs. Frank Reed, Mr. and Mrs .. George Nyhart. Willis and Bert Heller izs children in Twin Bridges. Twi[...]ss~~t ~ John |
| [...]eft; Stark Hotel L to R: from bridge,-Pump house, and iown council chambers, Creamery, Theatre Building[...]IvoBirrer, World War I and World War II Veteran -Picture[...].8asolo Texaco Station - 1950's - Pete and Martha Basolo[...] |
| [...]known, Alicia Ann Shular, :/essie Woods. Mary Kim and Edna Mae Nicholls. Dist. 117- T[...]velyn Simpson. 50th Wedding Anniversary - Ora and Hazel (Gillies) Olson, 1948 Twin Bridges Falcons -[...] |
| [...]Cox, D. Hedegaard, Boyd DeTonnacour, Jim Seyler, and Teste Basolo, Mgr.[...] |
| [...]Ziegler, oldest son of Charles Ziegler, Sr. Owned the ranch south of the springs.[...] |
| Madison County Creamery with Owner Charles Jessen and his delivery truck - 1945. - -- -"--'=:--[...]w: L to R; Alice Barkel4 Seidensticker, Ruppel, and Talcott Families - At |
| [...]Haying on the Logan Smith Ranch - 1941, Beauerslide[...]Stacker, Buck Rake (horse) and Oliver Tractor. Merton Gould and son, Donald, on farm at Ulm, Mont. 1973. L to R: Nurses - Lolo Catherine Gillies and Marie Husbey, |
| Floyd and Gladys Davenport - History in Twin Bridges sec- t[...]k Seidensticker . African Safari - i960 ;s. Jim and Bob Lawyer, Son's of Harry and Doris Rankin |
| L to R: Margaret, Harry Lawyer, and Ella Dillet (Leslie Ann Clarence Doak, Telephone Maintenance Man - 1930's and on Harry's lap. Dec., 196Z[...]istory in Twin Bridges section. . . Haying on the Mike Rebish ranch, 1930's.[...] |
| [...]ges -1960. - Veterans from Twin Bridges, Sheridan and Dillon. Back Row: L to R: unknown, Fran[...]Phillips, Ed Nolte, Ray Cornforth, unknown. John and Gwen Spinner. Their history in Twin Bridges sec- John and Gwen Spinner with granddaughters Tanya Kae[...] |
| [...]Agnes Weingart and Joe Couch at the Weingart Home about[...] |
| [...]Glen and Josephine Kyle (Patrick) - South Boulder.[...]er Sta~ntana in 1899. Mammoth while the Mine was working.[...] |
| Fred and Isa Hemund. Will and Maizie Sacry, Mrs. J.L. Carrol~ Carroll and Mariet-[...]Ed and Nina Black's home on South Boulder.[...]Paul Sacry and Alney shocking wheat. Parsons Bridge when[...] |
| [...]The Old Home of Fred & Isa Hemund-known as the Shad-[...]er. Della M<M! Richards, George, Charlie, Roy and Bill Richards.[...]Lavina Grantier Cooley and Edwin Cooley. The Old Whiting - Alexander Place - South Boulder. The Old Home of George and Florence Sacry Sparrell - Jef· |
| [...]Jerimah Roach and the first lunch pail patented. View of the South Boulder Valley. Summit Valley School-19[...]k, Mildred Miller, Bernice Jerimah Roach and wife Alice (Meiklejohn) Roach. The Old John Kyle Home - South Boulder.[...] |
| Myrtle and Ruth Richards, sisters of Wm Richards, died at Te[...]Leroy Buker. The Old Dillet Hotel - Jefferson Island. Summit[...] |
| [...]Martin Boys - 1918 - Sons of Bob and M illie. L to R: Jim, Harrison, Montana -[...] |
| Martin Men - 1967 - Sons of Bob and Millie. L to R: Lee, Charley, Archie, Bil~ Dick and Jim. Taken at their Aunt Louise Johnson's funeral. They were pallbearers. Children of Wilford and Margaret Darby Manley. Ba.ck Row: Young Comers -1914 - Tom and Mary's family. Front -[...]Bertha, 2nd row: L to R; Albert L and Alma L. 3rd Row: L to |
| [...]Pony Public SchooL Tom and Mary Comer - 1950. Their history on page 231, Pioneer Trails and Trials. )[...]- 1949 .- Pete MacMillan and Charley Durham. Game not go-[...]ke, Clarence Walter, Catherine Lieb, Elva Harrison Fire - 1972:...-[...] |
| [...]Fay White, All Around Cowboy during 1930's, Pony, Mon-[...]tana. Old Barn at the Clarence Bell Ranch, located 3 miles North[...] |
| [...]Gordon McLeod on the left and friend, taken near Gordon's[...]setter - Dick - 1920's. Marion Stiles Van Houten and her husband Jack.[...]Norris Bridge over the Madison River.[...] |
| [...]to be shipped out on the train. The Josephine Mine near Norris, Montana in abo[...] |
| Saloon and Blacksmith Shop at McAllister - Crossroads where[...]a quarter mile in 21 ¼ seconds, a world record. The record at the time was 21 ½ seconds. The race took place in Whitehal4 Montana in 1918. Owen M[...] |
| [...]ville. Tom Call Ranch located at Cherry Creek and Sunrise Creek Jack Watkins, (L) Jacks father (R)[...]rie Howe Fowler on the Fowler Ranch.[...] |
| C. W Chowning, Crowell Shelton, Porter Nelson and Jim Davis with a good catch - 1927. The Varney, Montana oil wel~ whiich was a dry hole.[...]ly 1900's. Andy Jones selling stock in Var[...] |
| [...]j :Mrs. Homer Bosworth and twins - Mattie and Wirt - March, 1915. Her history on page 23 of Pioneer Trails and Trials. Sam and Alta Barnhart - 1914.[...]ley, Keith Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDonnell - 195Z[...] |
| [...]Ed Keyes and Captain Bob Anderson in Korea - Definitely[...]Left: Bob Anderson (S.S. Captain USMC) and his Marine[...] |
| [...]Family of Peggy Todd and the late I.L. "Gene" Todd ofEn-[...]da, Lorri holding Becky, Jonathan, Peggy and Lacy Todd, "Nearly New Shoppe" Ennis, Dawn and Jack Wetherby. In front L to R: Dusty, Jason para[...]Todd, Jamie and Misty Carver, Mike Todd. 7/5/1979. George Hun[...]n, L to R: Jim Gibson, Lloyd San- |
| [...]Creek Camp - On the Madison - 1923. L to R: Mr. Odney[...]"Balanced Rock" In the Madison River near Hutchins Place,[...] |
| [...]ax: Lois Harris. Horn.· Fay Kohls, Dick McGuire, and Erwin Stoltz. Trombones: Caroline Kurfiss, Jeff J[...]bin on Beaver Creek, Madison National Forest - in the 1920's on right side up on scaffolding: Ed[...] |
| Old Fish Hatchery Ponds - 1949.[...] |
| [...]"The Old and New - McAtee Bridge," Built in 1967. Enn[...] |
| Before the days of bales, all hay was brought to stack with two horse bull-rake[...]Nolen Lockridge and his tea-m ready for field work. 1950. Transfe[...]f 1923. Grain field on Lockridge ranch. On the Madison, 1941. L to R: Dar Pasley, Ed Doyle, Pe[...]Cattle erasing the Old McAtee Bridge.[...] |
| [...]Earle Sprout with mower and team, 1938. Tom Hughes, Modem horseless hay b[...]Sadie Sanders, Minnie Hayes. |
| [...]Replacing Madison River overflow bridge on old county road[...]Raymond Carkeek - taken in 1941 while he was in the U.S. Thexton Ranch, 1930. Air F[...]Red Mountain in winter. Picture taken from the Carkeek[...] |
| [...]ver Dam on South Meadow Creek - 1933. Members of the West Fork Stock Association, taken about |
| [...]Now known as the Ennis Hot Springs and Thexton Hot Spr-[...]No energy shortage here ::: one pinto pony power and one dog power hooked to sleds and driven by Raymond Carkeek.[...]supply of wood. Before the days of trucks and Semi's Bob-[...] |
| [...]Sheeps Head Rock on the Madison River. Constructing the 13 ft. Pipe for conveying water to power house. P[...]ruction Camp, 1924-1925. Power House, Madison Dam and old pipe lines. Developing 10,000 H.P.[...] |
| [...]New Northwest Shovel being delivered to the Yellowstone[...]1963. Derrick-clearing gr~~ of old pipe cradles at Power House - Madison River Ice Jam at the McAtee Bridge, January, 1963. Standing L to R:[...]Sitting L to R: Lawrenc(Dummy) Cline., Leo Dullea and An- |
| [...]William R. Frew Jr. and wife, Hannah Clapp Frew on their[...]and Trials, page 407. Harvey B. Rust-Forest Ranger in Pony and Sheridan in |
| [...]E. Buried Pettus, William, 1905 - 1975, miner and rancher, World War at Taylor Cemetery.[...]Laurin. Hettick, Wilbur, 1885 - 1969, homesteader and farm worker in Alder, buried at Sheridan.[...]Dygert, Laura L., 1885 - 1975, buried at Laurin. and farmer, Laurin, buried at Sheridan.[...]Ferguson, W.O., 1890 - 1938, barber and bar owner, buried at[...] |
| [...]Walker, James G. (Gordie), 1884 -1963, mine and ranch cook, Judy, Owen, 1887 - 1967, rancher, Ald[...]Donegan, Charlotte, 1911- 1981, daughter of James and Jen- McFadden, Rose, 1860 - 1941, buried at Lauri[...]Erb, Seth, 1900 - 1929, son of Alvin and Mary Erb. Buried at O'Connell, William, 1880 - 19[...]Erb, Edward R. 1885 - 1957, son of Alvin and Mary. Miner Laurin. and ranch worker, buried at Sheridan. O'Connell, Marg[...]William Erb, Mort, 1895 - 1957, son of Alvin and Mary Erb. Ranch and Joseph O'Connell, buried at Laurin.[...]Erb, Willis C., 1899 - 1961, son of Alvin and Mary Erb. Sink, Pete, farm worker, buried at Laurin. World War II Veteran, clerk and miner, buried at Sheridan.[...] |
| Ferguson, Robert, 1878 - 1963, rancher and ranch worker for Parks, William J., 1838 - 19[...]ridan Cemetery. Foster, Roy, 1880 - 1956, rancher and ranch worker, buried at Peterson, Chris, 1883 -[...]lbert, 1881 - 1968, electrician, bar owner, Alder and buried at Sheridan.[...]Rood, Guy, 1889 - 1972, farmer and farm laborer, buried at Gilbert, John H., 1901 -[...]Redding, Ruth M., 1899 - 1951, bar owner and operator, Guinnane, Mary Costle, 1912 - 1982, daughter of Michael Sheridan, buried at Sheridan. and Lillian Costle, wife of Ed Guinnane, buried at Sh[...]on, Temple, Ed, 1884 - 1960, ranch worker and camp tender, buried at Sheridan.[...]cian, repaired radios and TV's, buried at Sheridan.[...]Harold, buried at Lavender, Adolph, date of birth and death unknown, long Sheridan. time miner[...]Wright, Alvin L. 1914 - 1967, miner and railroad engineer, Moore, Benjamin, World[...] |
| [...]nd. Anderson, Andrew, 1848 - 1920, Goodrich Gulch and Wet Georgia Gulch miner.[...]Cook, Philip G., 1907 - 1963, owner and operator of the Blue Baker, Lizzie, 1841 - 1935. Anchor Bar and Cafe. Baker, Palmer, 1832 - 1911 Cox, Earvel - son of Harry and Lillian Cox, a miner, died in[...]man (Evans), Sept, 28, 1911 - June 20, 1968, cook and waitress. Cox, Harry W., 1882 - 1958, freighter and laborer. Beck, Virginia Gale (Cox), 1934 - 1975, daughter of C.J . and Cox, Helen Ann, 1912 - 1960, waitress, wife o[...]x, beauty parlor Birrer, lvo M., 1899 - 1980, WWI and WWII Vet., sawmill operator. worker and operator. Birrer, Ruth Jacobs (McMurtry), 1912 -[...], Bernard A., July 29, 1908 - May 17, 1964, store and Blaisdell, Helen "Nellie" Page, 1873 - 1955, daug[...]operator, Waterloo, Montana S. Sgt. Svc. Co. 164 and Mrs. Page.[...]1964, ranch labor. Pvt. Co. D 242 Q.M.C. Bn. WW I and II. Ranch worker and loyal veteran. Twin Bridges Legion Post named for[...]v. Brown, Henry H., 1874 - 1951, Rochester miner, also worked on McCartney Mountain and garage employee. Edwards,[...]Fosness, Amund " Ole" , 1859 - 1928, miner and prospector, Call. found a rich vein of ore on the Pete and Joe claim, Bear Campbell, Eva G., 1907 -1970, ma[...]French, Tom, 1894 - 1981, Worked in timber and at sawmill. Carnes, Andrew, 1872 - 1945. Carnes[...]Gains, Rose, 1903 - 1973, daughter of Fred and Gertrude Carstensen, Chris L., 1887 - 1950, dairyman and rancher. Sommers. Carstensen, Cora A., ([...]and State Representative from Madison County.[...] |
| [...]ery McMurtry, Harold, 1906 - 1979, miner and bar operator, operators. Mint in Twin Bridges and Barkell Hot Springs. Hammond, Mary, 1880 - 1973,[...]Olson, David Z., 1893 - 1971, farmer and laborer. Harvey, Mary A., 1874 - 1954.[...]id. Hedegaard, Nicolie C., 1905 - 1974, Custodian and engineer at MCC. Hedegaard, Vina N., 1898 - 1979,[...]etc. Hunter, Ed and wife Edna (died 1945), watchman and part owners in Inspiration Gold Mining Company, B[...]harles E ., 1895 - 1968, mortician. during 1930's and early 1940's.[...]aper, Marguerite M., 1894 - 1967, wife of Charles and asis- Hurd, George M. 1886 - 1966, Twin Bridges d[...](Ernest Ruby and Nancy, mining locally.) Kelly, James Ricky, 1957[...]worker. Son of Edwin "Ted" and Lil. Marcinkowski, George J., Aug. 29, 1910 - Aug[...]Shields, Addie, 1883 - 1974, operated the Midway Bar. Middleton, Yuma C. (Frazier), 1906 -[...]Shields, George, 1881 - 1962, operated the Midway Bar. Morrow, Clara B., 1880 - 1970,[...] |
| [...]1, 1895 - Dec. 12, 1918, died in flu Crase, Mr. and Mrs. epidemic.[...], Walter, Mar. 4, 1881 - Sept 4., 1881. geologist and mine operator "Strawn Mine", Bell Canyon, Waterlo[...]Nov. 4, 1908 - Mar. 24, 1970, Colorado R. and Aunt to Leland Graham. Pvt. 216 Coast Arty WW II.[...]Johns, Billie, miner and rancher. Barkell, Kenneth, 1896 -1953, operated B[...]Linden, Carl, 1910 -1982, miner and son of Anna and Anton. Burger, Laura, May 5, 1888 - Feb. 20, 1906[...]iner. Cabbage, James Willia, 1830 - 1908, rancher and miner in Martin, Carl Henry, Aug. 5, 1866[...]ea. and S.L. Martin. Cabbage, Tillitha, 1835 - 1914, wife[...]an early age. Cornforth, William, father of Mabel and Forest, lived at Iron Rod and ranched.[...] |
| [...]d graders. Pilkington, Ray, 1901 · 1958, jack of all trades. Hunt, Alfred, 1875 • 194[...]Hunt, Edna Cox, 1897 -1964, farm wife and boarding house S.Sgt. COC 53 Infantry, World War[...]Hunt, Bertha, 1878 • 1935, midwife in the Waterloo area. Schmidt, Johanna M., 1916 • 198[...]Sperry, Leroy G., 1878 · 1937, worked on ranches and |
| [...]man. Combs, Ella Pauline, 1910 • 1957, waitress and housewife. Maxwell, Violet, 1899 •[...] |
| AFTERWORD The courageous pioneers you read about in volume one are long-gone, but they The came west for gold, land, and a new way of life. They overcame the These brave and resourceful people left far more than footprints and dates on The generations that followed them are heirs to the past and the ones you The first pioneers and their offspring are the very warp and woof in the The new generations are the new pioneers in agriculture, mining, transporta- |
| [...]Balkovetz, George and Mary . .. ...... . ..... ... ... . . 364[...]Balkovetz, George and Sally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Aaberg, Charles J . and Fannie (Armstrong) ..... . ..... 709 Ball, Everett and Dot .. ... .. ............. . . .... . .. 1 70 Ad[...].. .. .... .. ... ..... . . 171 Aesenbrey, Edward and Matilda .... .. .. .... .. ...... 363[...].. .... 167 Baril, Bruce and Joeen .. ... . . ... ... ... ...... ..... . 171 Albrecht, Donald and Audrey .......... .. ...... . ... 163 Baril, Wilfred and Thelma ................. .... .... 173 Albrecht,[...]. 163 Barnhart, Earl and Lynn ... . .... .. .... . ..... .. . ... 717 Albr[...]. 162 Barnosky, Jake and Oline . .. ..... . .... .. .......... 174 Albrech[...]. 164 Barnosky, Jay and Arlene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Albright, Clifford and Virginia (Hungerford) . . ... .... ... 6[...]... . ... ..... ... .. . .... 174 Albright, Jacob and Frances (Gilbert) . . . . ... ..... . ..... 6 Barter, Albert E. and Anne (Lemon) .. . ... . .. . .. ... .. 663 Alger,[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . 554 Basolo, Batista and Berta ... . ...... . .............. 365 Allen Dou[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 Allen, Frank and Margaret A .. ......... . ........... 529 Basolo, Pete T. and Josie ... .. .... .. .. . ............ 367 Allhands, G. Dewey and Delaphine Mae (Smith) . ...... 119 Batten, Evan and Clida .. . ............... .... .... ... 9 Almendinger, David W. and Blanche (May) . . ... ...... 601[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Alsop, Charles Richard and Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554[...]Batten, William John and Margaret .. .. ... ............ 8 Anderson, Chris and Olga ....... .. ......... ... ... . 167 Battle, Francis X. and Ona (Goodwin) ............. .. .. 65 Anderson, John H. Jr. and Estella (Hansen) ......... .. . 63[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682 Anderson, John J. and Ann (Mikkelsen) ....... . ....... 64 Bausch, John and Donna (McDaniel) ... ............. . 683 Anderson, John V., Mary M., and Robert V . .......... 710 Bausch, Otto and Sophie .. .. ... ... . .. .. ..... .. .. . . 531 Anderson, Marjorie (Van Slette) and Louise (Van Slette) 120 Bayers, Arthur and Elizabeth ......... .. .... .. ..... 368 Anderson[...]7 Bayers, Byron and Pauline ........... . ... .. ....... 369 Andren, Clarence and Eva ......................... 530 Beaber and Staley Families ..... .. .......... . ...... . 10 Angle, Claude F. and Ema Maie (Wiggins) . ........... 711 Beals, Jack and Ruth (Fain) ... . .... . . . ........... .. 718 A[...]Beardsley, John Pierpoint and Jessie (Baker) .. ..... .. . 121 Armitage, Charles "Chick" and Lenore "Sis" .... . ... . 713[...]. ..... ...... ... . .. .. ... 719 Armitage, Jess and Grace (Hippe) ... .. .... . ......... 714 Beebe, George H. and Clara M. (Fenton) .. ........... . 122 Armitage, William and Catherine .............. . .... 804[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Armstrong, Charles and June ... .. ... . . .. ......... . 555[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Armstrong, Carl and Vena .. .... ... .... .. .......... 555[...].. .. ........ . ..... ... 721 Armstrong, Charlie and Lucy ... .. ................. 555[...]. . . . . . . . . . 11 Armstrong, Edwin Franklin and Billie . ...... .. ...... 556[...]C. ...................... 720 Armstrong, Edwin F. and Jennie . .. . . ... . . ..... . ... 556[...]ie) ............. . . . . . 721 Armstrong, George and Juanita ............... . ... . 557[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604 Armstrong, Harry and Peggy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. ... . . .............. 319 Armstrong, Robert F. and Gladys ....... . .. . ....... 558[...]Birdsill, James and Wanda .... . . . .. . ............ . . 176[...]Birdsill, Orman and Nova ........ . .... . ..... . ..... 177[...]Birrer, David and Florence ...... . ... . .. .. ........ . 178 Baco[...]Birrer, Nicholas and Ethel ......................... 179 Bailey, Fred and Beulah (White) . . . ................. 602 Birrer, Robert L. and Gwen (Daley) . ......... . . ... .. . . 66 Bailor[...].. .. .... . .............. 559 Baker, Charles S. and Nellie (Cole) ....... .. ......... .. 25 Blair, Francis (Frank) E. and Eda . .. ....... .. .... . . .. 11 Baker, John Y. and Emma (Sandige) ... . ......... .. .. 169[...]... . .......... . .... 13 Baker, Harry W. "Bill" and Isabelle L. (Storey) .... ... .715 Bock, Elmer 0. and Theresa Ann (Booth) .... ... ..... . 123 Baker, Lelan and Florence ........ ... .............. 169[...].... . .... .. ....... . 67 Baker, Vincent "Bud" and Mary Ann ......... ... ... 716 Boken, Milton (Mitch) and Elaine .... ... ...... . ..... 371 Balkovetz, Frank B. and Louise .. ...... . . ... . ... .. . 363[...] |
| Bowen, Russell and Edith .......... .. ... . ......... 372 Carlson, Oscar and Marie ........ . ..... . . . ...... . .. 378 Bowe[...]. .... . . 178 Carmody, Leo and Verna ...... . ....... . ........... 560 Box, Fred and Oleta (Carmin) ......... ... .. ... .. ... 605[...]. . ... . .. 180 Carroll, Don and Carolyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Braach, Albert and Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]..... . .. . .............. 198 Braach, Frederick and Laura . . . . . .. .. .. .... . ....... 182[...]L .. . .... ... . .... . .... 725 Braach, Walter and Miriam . . . . ...... . . . .... . ...... 184 Chamberlin, Lewis A. and Gladys M. (Thexton) ........ 726 Bray, William Kenneth and Doris . . .... . .. ... ... .. . . 184[...]. . . . .. .. . .... .. ... 808 Bridges, Charles and Vivian ........ .. .... . .. . ..... 372 Christensen, Lawrence and Ruth (McClurg) .. . ......... 23 Brim, Blanche Ta[...]Clapp, Daniel Adelbert and Corrine (Perrault) . . .... .. . 198 Brim, Frederick A. and Dora ........ . . .. ... . .... . .. 186[...]........ . . ...... . ........ 199 Broksle, Frank and Anna .. .. .... . .... . ... . .... .. .. 374[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Broksle, George and Marian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]... .. ........ . .... .. .. 561 Broksle, John J. and Gloria .. .. .... . ............. . . 375 Clark, Edward C. and Merrilyn L ... ................. 727 Broksle, Rudolph M. and Pearl. ........... . ........ 376[...]... ... ........... ... ... . 728 Brook, Lloyd W. and Selma ..... . .... . . . .... . ....... 14 Clark, Wilson and Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Brooke, Cornelius B. and Alyce (O'Conner) ...... . .... 606 Cocanougher, Charles and Julia . .......... . .. ... .. . 381 Brooke, Edwin Marvin and Dorothy (Capp) .. . .. . . . .. . 607[...].. 723 Cole, Nelson E. and Ella (Fitch) ....... . .... . . . ....... 24 Brown, John Cyrus and Helen . .. ... .. ... ... .. . .... . 377[...]...................... . . 195 Browne, Maurice S. and Muriel (Smith) ....... . ....... 50 Comer, Albert L. and Henrietta (Jackson) . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Brownell, Ralph A. and Harriette (Baker) ........... . . 724 Comfort, John M. and Betty ... .. ........ . .. .. ...... 26 Bruggeman[...]. . . . . . . 187 Conklin, N.D. " Pete" and Marie ....... . .... . ....... 105 Bruggeman, The[...].... . .... . ....... .. .. 610 Bryant, George A. and Florence T . .... . ...... . ... . .. 188[...]Van Slette) ...................... 148 Buck, Alan and Jane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]190 Cook, Philip and Jemima .. . ..... .. . . ..... . ........ 381 Burger, Daniel E. and Marie E. (Whitney) . . .... . ..... 724[...]. . . . . . . . . 19 Costle, Clarence (Nifty) and Edith (Morris) . . ... . .... . . 200 Burke, Pat and Marie ... .. . . . . ... . ................ 191 Costle, Elmer and Gladys (McQuiston) ............... 201 Burnett, George and Margaret ... . .... . ... .. ..... ·. . 192 Cote, Charles J. and Nora (Munster) . ....... . ......... 69 Burnett,[...]. 192 Cote, Edward and Grace (Craddock) .................. 70 Burnett, D[...]. . .... 192 Cote, Odilon and Frances (Theobald) .. ........ . ..... .. 69 Burp[...].... .. .. .. .. 20 Cox, Don and Dolores .. .. ... ................. . .... 382 Bu[...]. .. . 193 Cox, Walter and Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]Craine, Thomas Edwin and Lillie ........ . ...... . ... 561[...]Crane, Newton and Elizabeth (Finnegan) Family . ... ... 123[...]Critchfield, Bert and Clare (McPherson) ....... . ...... 612[...]. . .. .... .. ... . .. ... 829 Caldwell, Karl M. and Mabel. .... . .. . ............ . . 193[...]... . ............. . .... 532 Caldwell, Karl W. and Grace .. . . . . .. ... ... . .. . . . .. . 193 Curry, C. B. and Lena May (Cozart) ............ . .. .. 612 Calloway, William and Boone . . .. ... .. ... .. .. .. ... . 194 Cushman, Paul and Hope (Seyler) .......... . ........ 384 Carey, Au[...]. ..... .. . . . 195, Daems, Ray and Gladys . . ... . . . . .. ... .. ........ .. . 729 Carey, Joe and Willa (Marshall) .. ... . ... ... . .... .. . . 1[...].... 201 Dale, Claude 0. and Valora . ..... .. . . . ....... ... . . . 385 Car[...]. 195, Dale, Hal J. and Virginia ...... . ....... .. ... .. ..... 385 Car[...]Dale, Richard, 0. " Dick" and Alice (Fox) ..... . .. . .... 386 Carlson, Frank and Hettie (Bennetts) . ... .. .. . .. . .... 725: Danforth, Charles and Clara (Barrett) and Raymond .... 124 Carlson, Fred E. and Lillian ..... . .. .. .......... . .. . 378; Darby, Dale I. and Ruth Jane (Christensen) ........... 202 Carlson,[...].... 683 : Darby, Ted J. and Donna J. (Wright) .. ... . ...... .... 203[...] |
| Dauterman, Earl and Ida (Elser) ........ . .. .. ..... ... 70 Edmisten, W. S. and Iola . . .. . . . ....... . ... .. ... . . . 210 Dauterman, Joseph J. and Dorothy (Roach) . . . .. .... ... 71 Edwards, Fay E. and Nancy (Murray) ..... . ..... . ... 212 Davenport, Floyd E . and Gladys (Nyhart) ........... . 388 Edwards, Robert Ross and Mary Ramona (Grant) ... ... 617 Davis, Betty (Tut[...]Edwards, Russell I. and Pearl (Woods) ............... 392 Davis, Oscar V. and Ruby (Smith) ........... . . .. .... 731 Ehlers, Clifford and Helen ... .. ...... .. .. . ......... 213 Davis, George and Esther (Davidson) and Family ...... 125[...].... .. ......... .. ........ . 393 Davis, Alfred and Nellie .......... . ..... .. . . . .... .. 613 Ellinghouse, Bert and Edna ............... . . . ...... 215 Davis, Virgil F . and Eva Mae (Bailey) ................ 614[...].. .... . .. ........ . 217 DeArmond, John Wesley and Julie Artilie .. . ......... 205[...]. . . . . . . . . . . 394 DeFrance, Donald James and Elsie (Maack) .... .. .... . 616[...]s) ... . ....... .. .. . .. .. ... 394 DeHony Ada and Brooks .... .. .... . .... . .. ... .... . 869[...]..... . ......... . .. ... .... 218 Denny, Harlan and Opal A. (Brown) ....... .. ........ 126[...]388 Elser, Glenn G. and Lydia (Braach) ...... ............ 219 Dixon, Carl and Florence (Cox) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Elser, Ray and Ella (Braach) .. . .............. .. .... 220 Dix[...]27 Elser, Wesley and Peggy ............ . ... . ......... 221 Dixon, L[...]... .. ............. .. ..... . 6 Dodge, Benjamin and Abigail ............. ... .... . . 562 Erie, Herman John and Dorothy May (Buell) ........ . . 618 Dodge, Lester and Agnes ...................... . ... 563 Erie, John P . and Minnie (Goetschius) ........ . ...... 619 Donegan, John C. and Helen Dorothy .... . ........... 388[...]. ......... ............ . . 733 Donegan, Sylvan and Effie (Todd) ............ . ..... . 390 Evans, J. Gilbert and Elizabeth (Linn) ..... . .......... 30 Donlan, Ma[...]erman) ............. .. ....... 72 Doornbos, Arie and Nellie ............... . ......... 205 Doornbos,[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Doyle, Ed and Pearl. ........................... . . 731[...]................... . ........... 74 Dringle, Ray and Charles ... .. . .. . ........... .. .. .. 664 Fairfull, Harold and Madge .. . ... .. .... . ........... 222 Dringle, Mike and Irene ..... ... .. . . . .............. 665 Fenton, John Stanley and Helen (Brim) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Dudley, Robert and Mildred . . .... . .. . . .. .. ........ 207 Fenton, Stanley Jack and Frances (Edwards) . . . . . . . . . 224 Duffey, Frank and Margaret ...... . ................ 533 Ferguson, Wm. H. and Irene (Ewan) . . . . .... . ........ 620 Duncan,[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Ferrell, Brown and Elizabeth (Denning) .. . . . ... .. .... 621 Dunc[...]) .... ............. .. ....... 702 Duncan, James and Jennie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]Finley, Tom and Gertrude ......................... 735 Duncan, Ma[...]0 Fisher, W. B. and Amanda (Housel) ........ . ........ 622 Duncan, P[...]. . . . . . . . . . . 29 Flager, Carl W. and Alice (Peterson) . ............ .... . 75 Duncan,[...]. . . . . . . . . . 27 Fletcher, Donald and Myrtle (Bartz) . ........... .. ... 684 Dunn, Law[...]Flick, Leroy and Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623 Durham, Pete and Ramona ........ ........ . . ...... 810[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Dutton, Herbert and Aletha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]Fox, Charles K. and Fern .......................... 395 Eby, Carroll[...]Frazier, George J. and Bertha {Wudel) ............... 396 Eby, Charles I[...].. . 73 Frew, George K. and Edna Pearl (Griffin) ... .. . ....... 127 Eby, Do[...]74 Fries, Norman and Carrie (Hansen) .................. 108 Eby, Gene[...]. 74 Frisbie, Stanton and Kathleen (Mulholland) ........... 685 Eby, Peter[...]3 Funk, Harold and Dorothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]..... 74 Funk, Willis and Pearl (Battle) ...... . ... .... . .... . . 228 E[...]............................... 210 Edmisten, Ray and Gladys .... .... . . . ........ . .... 210[...] |
| [...]Hancock, Walter and Ruth (Davis) .................. 405 Gage, Camilla[...]. ... . . . ..... . ....... 396 Hancock, Shirley and Alderine (McClurg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Galahan, Sylvan and Doris ...... .. ................ 397 Hancock, Shi[...].. . ................ . ..... 239 Galahan, Walter and Bessie ............ . ........... 398 Hansen, Dav[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Galiger, Martin and Mary (Ehlinger) ......... . ...... 128 Hansen, Hermann and Mary (Galiger) ...... . ......... 78 Galiger, Mike and Julie (Bartha) . . ... .. ....... .. ... . 129 Hansen, Archie and Herbert .. .. .. ..... . .. . . . .. .. .. 109 Gall, Stephen P . and Leona (Bette) ....... . .. . . . ..... 399 Hansen[...]................................ 564 Hanson, Fred and Emma (Culver) .... . . . . .. . ... ... .. 829 Gandenberger, Albert and Alma (Comer) ... . . . .. .. ... 625 Harding, Jun[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Garrett, Joe and Marion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Harkins, Lloyd and Ann ................... . ...... 535 Gecho, Joe and Alice ........ . ......... . . . ........ 810 Har[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 Harrington, Ralph and Marietta .................... 566 Gemmell, Billy[...]............. .. .... . ... . 230 Harris, William and Rena (Paul) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 George, Guy and Lucille ............ . .... . ..... . . . 231 Har[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566 Gibbs, Harrison and Eliza (Megee) ............. . .... 692 Hartford,[...]........ ... ... . ..... . ... . 79 Gibson, Bert and Patti (Switzer) . . ... . ... . . . ....... . 736 Hartman, Paul and Evelyn ............... . . . ...... 739 Gibson, F[...].. . . . ...... ... .. ... .. . .. 36 Giem, James and Viola ............. ... . ... ... .. ... 400 Hask[...]m) ........ . ............. 17 Gilbert, Greenland and Dixie (Widner) ...... . ..... . .. . 31 Hatfield,[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Gilman, Harold and Alice "Peggy" (Costle) ... . .... . .. 106 Hausem[...]........................ . .... 29 Gilman, Lowell and Laura (Moore) ..... . . . .......... 107 Hedges, Howard and Luella Belle ...... . ............ 567 Ginal, Eli[...]. . .. .. ...................... 407 Ginal, Frank and Mary (Kis) and Family ............. 130 Helin, Wilma (Huber) Hill ... ....................... 37 Ginal, Frank Jr. and Dorothy (Barringer) ...... . ...... 131 Helt, Harold 0. and Melva L . .................. .. .. 740 Ginal, Giz[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Remund, George and Maxine ........ . .... .. ... . ... 567 Ginal, Stephen G. and Dorothy (Gossett) . . ........... 132 Henneberry,[...]nk) ............ . .. 243 Glasser, Joseph Raymond and Mabel .... . . . ......... 232 Hermsmeyer, Richard C.. .... . ................ . ... 244 Glasser, Raymond and Bonny (Gemmell) . . ..... . ... . . 232 High, Bet[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Goetschius, Jefferson and Maria (Osmund) . . . . . . . . . . . 625 High, Do[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Goetz, Herbert and Anona U. (Mitchell) . .... . ........ 736 High, Emerson and Roberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 Goforth, John and Katherine (Theaubold) ........... . . 76 High, Eu[...]... . ................... 409 Gohn, George Harold and Kathryn (Huber) . . ....... . .. 31 High, Margare[...]. ... .. ............. . . . . 34 Hillier, Elmer and Losee ........ . .... . ............. 410 Gohn, Robert E. and Margaret (Staley) .......... . .... 32 Hinton, Clovis and Zona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...].. .. ... . ... . ..... . ... 565 Holbert, Howard and Leona ..... . .. . . .. ... . . . ... . . 411 Greydanus, Arie and Tjitskjen ............. .. ... .. . 738 Holland,[...]) . .. ... . ............. .. . 412 Grose, George and Mary (Daisy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Hopper, John and Eula ........... ... .. .. ... .. .... 413 Groves[...].. . ............ .. ... .... .. 738 Huber, Henry and Agnes . . .. . ......... . ........... 811 Guthrie, John and Mary (Gendrow) ..... . ............ 35 Hubner, Et[...]Huck, John C. and Thelma .............. . ..... . .... 414[...]Hudson, John and Wilma (Marshall) ....... . ..... . ... . 80[...]Hughes, Edwin and Margaret (Howell) ....... . .. .. ... 687[...]Hughes, Lewis and Mildred (Sprout) ... . ........ .. ... 688 Hacker, Parham and Pauline (Wirak) . . . .. ............ 77 Hughes, Thomas and Darlene (Harris) ...... . ........ 689 Hall, Gregory M. and Rita S . . .................. . . .. 235 Hulse, Guy and Helen ........ . ............ . ..... . . 38 Hall[...]. .............. . ...... 743 Hall, Martin Slocum and Mary K. (Foley) .. . ...... . ... 533 Hungerford, George and Ruth ....... . ... ... . . .... . . 743 Halse, Harvey and Mabel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...] |
| [...]Kent, Rodger and Ruth (Althouse) ........ ... .. . .... 748 Icenoggle, Melvin and Lila (Nicholls) ... . .... . . . ..... 415 Kingrey, Ed and Elizabeth Anna (Talbott) ............. 39 Iglehart, Edward McCoy and Laura (Ware) .......... . 626[...]Kitson, Walter and Lois ........... .. ......... . .... 423[...]Kitt, Dr. Sidney P. and Doris E . ....... . .. . .... .. ... 256[...]. .. . ........ ... ......... 425 Jackson, Frank and Leona ............ . ....... .... . 245 Kloos, Art and Celia (Mercer) .... . .. . . . . .. . .. . .....[...].... . ...... . .. . ...... 109 Jackson, J. Peter and Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . ......... . .... . . . .. 750 Jackson, Leslie and Betty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 7 Krause, John E. and Florence D .. ....... ... .... . .... 669 Jackson[...].... 744 Kyle, LeRoy and Doris .......... . .... . ...... . ..... 571 Jeff[...]. .. .. .. .............. ... 745 Jenkins, George and Una Mae .......... . ........... 416 Jerome, Clifford and Olive (Sill) ..... . ... .. ... .... . . . 417[...]-L- Jessen, Charles and Christiane ....... . ... .... . .... . 417 J ohos, Harold and Amelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 LaDue, Charles M. and Dorothy ................... . 258 Johns, William and Mary ... . ................. . . .. . 570[...]... . . . . ...... ..... 426 Johnson, Charles E . and Ruby (Duncan) .............. 247 Landis, Bruce and Faye ........................... 572 Johnson, Edgar and Ireta (Lynch) ... . .... . ......... . 133 Lane, Herschal R. and Geraldine (Smith) .......... . .. . 51 Johnson, I[...]............... .. .......... 427 Johnson, Lester and Louise (Peterson) ..... . .. .. . . .. . 249 Larson, Gene and Faythe (Marshall) . ... .. . ........ .. . 80 Joh[...].. 302 Larson, Chris and Bertha (Salmonsen) ... . .... .. . . . . . 136 Johnson, Paul Duncan and Freda (Dudley) . ... . . . . . . . . 249 Lasich, George A. and Isabel (Costle) ......... . ...... 428 Johnson, Philippe and Marie Louise ...... . ... . . .. ... 135 Lasich, Jack and Ida (Wiant) .... ......... . .. . ...... 429 John[...]. . . . . . . . 627 Latus, George N. and Nellie .... .. ... . .... . ......... 260 Johnsto[...].... . .... 250 Lau, Leo and Frances (Tate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Lawyer, Harry and Margaret . . .. ........ . ......... 430 Johnston[...]. . . . . . . . . . . 250 Leebenow, Clayton and Donna ............ .. ....... 111 Johnston, Theodore and Mabel (Winslow) ........ .. .. 250[...]. . ..... . .... . ...... 83 Jones, Chester Lloyd and Joan (Wilsey) ...... . . . ..... 746[...]....... . ....... .. . ....... 629 Jones, Evan E. and Blanche (Paige) ................. 418[...]........ .. .... . . . .. .. . 750 Jones, Herbert and Mary (Steiner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]............ . ............ 261 Jones, Milton E . and Helen (Nordberg) .... . .. . . ... .. . 419[...]................ . ... 73 Jones, Samuel Ellsworth and Margarete Elizabeth ... . . 420 Lott, Dawes and Joy ............ . ................ 430 Jones, Theodore and Louise . . .... . .. . . . ............ 668[...]. ... . ...................... 432 Jones, Wallace and Betty (Hansen) .......... . ....... 421[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Julian, Robert and Mildred ... . ..... . ... .. . .. . . .... 253[...]. .. 301 Love, Paul and Roberta . .. ... . ............... .. ... 751[...]Love, Raymond V. and Hazelle ............ . ........ 262[...]Ludvigsen, Carl and Sylvia .......... . ............. 111[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Kaatz, Alfred and Henrietta (Donegan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 Lueck, Edwin and Cecelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Lueck, Frederick and Theresa .............. . ....... 264 Keller, Alic[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Kelly, Albert and James ................ . ...... . ... 83[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Kelly, Frank and Mae (Metzel) . . .................... 82[...]....... .. ... . ..... . ..... 264 Kelly, Orville and June (Van Slette) . . .......... . ... . 136[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Kendall, Oliver and Frances .............. . ........ 255[...] |
| [...].. .. .. ... ... ..... 691 Lynch, Almour Frances and Inez (Peterson) . . ......... 138[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 690 Lynch, Gerald, Wayne and Ellen (Lynch) Morin ....... 139[...]......... . ...... . . . . 690 Lynch, John Thomas and Sibyl (Bull) ..... . . . ....... . 139[...]McAtee, Leonard and Janet ...... ... ......... . .... 812 Maack, Keos[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630 McCausey, Clare and Gertrude ... ......... . .. .. .... 756 MacMillan, Peter Myles and Mary Elsie (Periman) . . ... 631 McClurg, Con, Jr[...]. . . .. ... . ......... 811 McClurg, Daniel Nels and Leota (Ries) ......... . ... .. . 40 Maddison, Br[...].... . ... . . . . . ...... 41 Maddison, James A. and Marilyn ...... .. ........... 267 McClurg, James[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 McClurg, Leroy and Laura (Cox) ......... . ........... 42 Maddox, William and Mary Adline Frances Family . .... 513 McComb, Willard and Hazel . ....... . ......... . .... 572 Magee, Amb[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 McCrea, Robert and Mary . ...... . ................. 276 Magee, Patr[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760 Magnus, Victor and Martha (Salmonsen) ... . ........ . 270 McDonnell, George and Eva (Pearson) .. .. .. ... ...... 756 Mahagin, El[...].. .... . .... . .... . ... . .. 760 Mailey, Fred and Edna .. .. . .... . . . .... .. .. .. ... . .. 43[...]. . .. ......... .. ... 760 Mailey, James Howard and Florence ... .. . . ......... 435 McDonnell John,[...].... . . . . ... . .. . ..... . 758 Mailey, John and Josephine ............ . ... .. ... . . 435 McDon[...]" . ...... .. . . ........ . . 760 Maitin, Joseph and Margaret (Trask) ... . ............ 752 McDonnell[...]....... . .. ... ...... . ... 760 Maloney, Sam W. and Evelyn (Cochrane) ......... . .. . . 85 McDonnell, Terence J. and Gladys (McAtee) ... .. .... . 760 Maloney, Wm. H. and Rose (Ball) . .... . ... . .... . .. . . . 86 McD[...]. . . .. ... . .. . ......... 632 McDowell, Lloyd and Alice ...................... .. 691 Manley, Charles J . and Irma ... . . . .......... . ...... 753 McElderry, Charles Henry and Suzie .. . ............. 438 Manley, Hartman and Helen (Miller) .... .. .. ... ..... 632 McGregor, Floyd B. and Adeline (Walter) . . .......... 277 Manley, Harvey D. and Madge Ellen (Jenkins) ... . .... 633 McLaughlin,C[...](Pillen) ......... . . ... .. 439 Manley, Jack D. and Audrey (May) ... . ............. . 634 McLaughlin[...]andirene . . ........ .. .... . 439 Manley, M. D. and Rita (Hildebrand) ......... . . . .. . . 635 McLaughlin, James G. and Betty ...... . ...... . .... . 277 Manley, Philip[...]. ........... . ........ . .. 672 Manley, Wilford and Clela (Hanson) ....... . .... . .... 636 McLean,[...]..... . ... . . . .. . . . ...... 88 Marsh, Glen and Maybelle ..... . .... .. ... .. . . . .. . .. 273 McMillin, Ervin E. (Bill) and Dorothy (Hungerford) . ... . 440 Marsh, James Ver[...]. ... .. . . ... . ......... 240 Marsh, Vernon W. and Lillian .... . .. ............ .. . 274 Megee, El[...]... .. .. .. .. . ..... .. . . . 692 Marsh, W. G. and Isabel (Kearney) ....... . ..... .. ... 275 Megee, Lawrence and Franke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...].. . ......... . .... . ... .. . . 637 Megee, Ora and Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637 Mercer, Clifford and Eliza (Stark) .... . . . ... . .. . . . ... 441 M[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 Mercer, Frederick and Maxine . ........ .. ......... . 442 Marshall, Ke[...].. ... .. ........... . . 638 Mercer, George H . and Lura Ellen (Stark) . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 Marshall, Lewis E. and Isabelle (Berg) ... ............ 638 Mercer, Mild[...].. . ......... . ...... 444 Marshall, Lewis Leroy and Marian (Black) ....... ..... 639 Metully, Charles and Ann .. . ......... . ............ 573 Martin, Ann[...]... . ... . . .. .... . 42 Martin, John R. (Dick) and Jessie (Critchfield) . . . . . . . . 640 · Miller, Charles M. and Ruth B .. ... . ................ 536 Martin, Lee R. and Hazel (Brooks) .. . .. ....... .. .... 641 Miller, Clyde and Helen .. . ... . ........... . . .. . ... . 574 M[...]) . . .......... . ............. 28 Miller, Homer and Selma . ............. . . . ....... . . 574 Masolo, Charles and Wilma (Jones) ... . . ... .. .. .... . . 437 Miller, James A. and Terona (Ransom) ......... .. . . . .. 89 Mason, Frank and Kate ... ... ............ . .... .. .. 671 Miller[...]......... . ........ . ... 537 May, Arthur Keppie and Agnes (Griffin) ........ . . .. . 642 Mill[...] |
| Miller, Louis and Sarah ........ . ......... . .... . . . . 111 Odden, Harry and Marguerite (Halse) . . ...... .. .... . . 292 Mil[...].. . ... . ........ . .. . . .. 460 Moltich, Fred and Violet .......................... 281[...]Olind, Charles Edward and Edna (Parsons) ........... 643 Moltich, Tony . .[...]281 Oliver, Joe and Laura (McAllister) .................. 693 Moltich[...].... . .. . . . . ... 293 Moore, Charles Franklin and Reta (Brundage) ...... . .. 281[...]. . ...... . . .. .. .... .. 461 Moore, James B . and Roberta (Armitage) . .. ... .. . . ... 284 Osborn, Lewis and Grace ................... . ...... 112 Moore, LaM[...]. . . . . . . . . 285 Overstreet, "Cap" and Smitty" ................ . .... 765 Moore, Mildre[...]........ . ................ .. 333 Moran, Leonard and Mildred (Redfern) . .. ... .. .... .. . . 89 Morc[...]-P- Morris, James F. and Virginia (Costle) . . .. ....... . ... 286 Morris, Myron and Nora . .. ......... . . .. .... . . . ... 444 Pack, Elbert and Monty ... . ...... . ... .. . . .. .... . .. 193 Morse, Oliver Shroy and Jessie Catherine (Bock) ... . ... 140[...]....... . .. .. .... .. .... 461 Morse, Revilo J. and Bernice L. (Elser) ............... 141 Paige, Boynton and Helen (Bayers) . . .. . .. .. ......... 461 Morte[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 Mueller, John and Estella (Moison) ............... . . . 142 Paige, Lowell M. and Bobby (Jackson) ..... . ...... . .. 294 Murphy, Frank and Hilda . . .... . ... . . . ... . ... . . . .. 445 Paige, Luther and Frances . .. . ... .. ................ 463 Murphy[...]. 287 Paige, Orrin E. and Mae (Cornforth) ... . ..... . ...... . 464 Murray[...]Parker, F . M. (Dick) and Audra (Vanslyke) . . . .... . . . .. 644 Myers, Walter H. and Mary Ann (Schneider) ........... 44 Pasley, Dar and Luella (Hayden) ...... . ..... . ....... 766[...]Patrick, George and Helen .... .. ... . . . ............ . 576[...]Patrick, Herbert and Viola ..................... . . . 576[...]Patrick, Sam and J osephlne ............... . .. . .... 577 Naugle, Fred and Nora . . .. . .................. . ... . 446 Pattee, David D. and Nancy Agnes (Handley) ......... 645 Nelson, Axel T. and Ruth V . ....................... 538 Paugh, Earl and Marie (Ryan) ... . ........ . ......... 693 Nelson, Chester A. and Helen (Castle) .......... . .... .. 45 Pearson, Bruce E. and Gay (Nelson) ..... . ... . .. . ... . 295 Nelson, Nick and Ruth S . .. .. . ............ ..... .. . . 539 Perry, James and Eleanore (Perrault) ................ 296 Nelson,[...]..... . . . .............. 296 Nelson, Raymond W. and Evalena (Weingart) ......... 289[...]. ....... .. . .. . ......... 465 Neville, Edward and Annie ............... . . . ..... . 762[...](Box) .... . ..... . .......... 646 Newkirk, Roy and Arlone . ... . . . . .... . .... .. . . .... 575[...]. . . . . . . . . . 448 Phillips, Fred and Helen (Walter) ................... 646 Nolte, Robert and Lucille . . . ......... . .. . ... . .. . . . . 452 Pickett, Clarence and Bessie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Nordberg, Linus and Gwendolyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5[...]............ . ..... ...... ..... 298 Novich, Dan and Lucille .... . . ....... .. ........ .. .. 289[...].... . ...... .. . ... . ....... 541 Novich, Nick and Ann (Linden) ................ . .... 449 Piper, Robert Davidson and Ruth J . . .......... .. .... 768 Novich, Steve and Marge .................... .. .... 450[...]d) ......... . . . ... . ...... 769 Nydam, Andrew and Lorean . . . ..... . .... . ......... 452[...]r) Held ... . ................ . .. 46 Nye, Harry and Alta (Redfield) ............ . ........ 454[...]..... . . ........ .. .... .. 465 Nyhart, Earl J. and Doris ...... .. ..... . .......... . 455[...]. .............. .. ... . . 542 Ny hart, Maynard and Thelma .. . .... .. ............. 456 Powell, Donald and Alice ... . .. . . ............... ... 577 Nyhart, Orrie and Mae (Cocanougher) ...... . .... . ... 456[...]Powell, Thomas J. and Catherine ............... .... 579[...]Powell, Wilbur and Audrey ..... ... ........ . ....... 770[...]. . . . . . . . . 290 Preston, Lawrence B . and Elaine (Duncan) ............ 299 Oakwood,Pauline([...]291 Pulver, George A. and Julia ... .. ................... 467 Oberg, J. Ross and Oubri . ............ . .. .. .... .. ..[...] |
| [...]Sagunsky, Walter G. and Edith ... . ....... . ... .. ... 309[...].... . ......... . . . .. . 649 Ramer, Joseph Jay and Lois (Fudge) ................ 299 Saier, Eugene and Pauline (Pfund) ....... . .. .. ... . . . 775 Ramey, Dee and Laura . .. . ................ . ....... 580[...]. . . . . . . 300 Sauerbier, Karl L. and Edna (Anderson) ... .. ... .. . . . . . 93 Raymond, Walcott and Clauda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Sauerbier, Neil and Mary (Tate) ..... . . .. . ..... . ..... 94 Rebich, Michael and Frances . .... . ..... . ... . . ..... . 468 Saunders, Byron and Hazel . . .. . ... .. ..... . .. . . . ... 776 Re[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 469 Schabarker, Raymond and Edna (Daems) ... . ... .. ... 777 Redmond, Edward[...]... .. .... . ............... . . 545 Reel, Cecil and Winifred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]......... . .. . .... . .... . . 95 Reid, Charles and Sally Jo (Telin) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 71 Schneider, Michael and Marie . .... . .. . . . . . .. .. ... .. 310 Reid, George and Laura (Stocker) .. . .... . .... . .... . . 472[...]g" ... .. ......... . .... . ... 312 Reints, John and Erna (Rust) ........ . . .. . . . .. . .. .. 771 Schneider, William and Elizabeth . .. . ......... . . . ... 311 Remingto[...]... .... . . . .. .. .. ..... . . 478 Reyner, Max and Melvina (Comfort) .. . .... . .... . .... 472 Schultz, Fred and Florence (Cox, Talbott) .... . .. . .. .. 489 Reynolds, Anson and Caroline (White) ............ .. . . 93 Schulz, Edward and Velma .... . ...... . ... .. . . . .. .. 313 Reyn[...].. .... . . .. . . . . 314 Reynolds, William Jr. and Inez (Olind) . .. .... . ... .. .. 677 Schulz, Lawrence and Juanita (Glasser) ...... . . . . ... . 314 Rhodes[...]. . . . . . . . . . . 305 Schulz, Lester and Neva .... .. ... .. ... ..... . . .. . . . 315 Rh[...]. . . . . . . . . . . 305 Schulz, Norman W. and Donna Lee (Romey) . . .... . ... 316 Rhodes, Vere[...]. . . . . . . . . . . 304 Schulz, Russell and Margaret .. . . . . .. ..... .. ... . ... 317 Rice, Robert C. and Bonnie (McMillan) ....... . .... . .. 648[...]e . ......................... . ..... 318 Richard and Brennan Families . .. .. . ............... 143 Seidensticker, John and Gladys .... . .. . . .. . ........ 479 Richard, L[...]... . .... ... .. .. .. . . . 481 Richards, Frank and Charlotte ............... . ..... 473[...]... . ...... 581 Selby, Fay and Edna . . . .. .... . . . . ... ..... . .. ... ..[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Seyler, Bill L. and Margaret G . ........... . . ........ 483 Ringwel[...].. 772 Seyler, Bud and Gloria (McLaughlin) .... . . . .. . . . . . .. 484 Robinson, Earl and Mabel (Stone) Family .. . ........ . 144 Seyler, Donald L. and Frances L ........ . . ...... . . .. 485 Robison, Max and Katherine (Armstrong) .. .... ... .. . 694 Seyler, Edwin E . (Ted) and Lillian R. .. . ........ . .... 485 Robison, Wayne Lee and Floral. .................... 696 Seyler, Edwin E . and Mary (Albrecht) . . ..... . ... . ... 487 Rodgers, Clif W. and Patricia (Walsh) ............ .. .. 306[...].. 113 Seyler, John and Margaret . . .. . ... ... .. . . .. . ... . . . 489 Romey, Harvey E . and Vera (Smith) ... . ... . . .. . ... ... 49 Shafer, Lowell and Odessa .... . ..... . ..... . .... . ... 318 Roper, The David Earl Family . . ... .. ... . .. . . . .....[...]. . . . .. .... . ... ... .. .. . 319 Rose, Frank and Isabella . . ... . .... . ..... . ......... 474 Shaffer, Roy and Stella .. . ... . ... . .... . ........... 320 Rosling, Evert and Nettie (Braach) ... . .... . .. . . .. . . . 475 Shaffer, William and Addie .. . .. . ... . .............. 320 Rossiter, H . D. and Bertha ............. . . . .. . .... . 307[...].. . 308 Shaw, Arthur and Minnie .. . ........ . ........... . . 585 Rovano[...]145 Shaw, Charles Leslie and Clara Mae . . .... . .......... 586 Rowe, George[...]......... . . . ....... .. . 586 Rowe, Raymond R. and Edith J . ... .. . . ...... . .. . ... 675 Shaw, Elroy and Ada . . . .. .. .. . .. .... .... . . . .. . . .. 587 Rowse, Jack and Aretta . . . ... .. . . . . .. .. ... . .. . . . . . 773 Shaw, Frank and Dorothy ... . . . . ........ . ......... 587 Runk[...]308 Shaw, Gerald and Dema ... . ...... . ................ 588 Ruppel,[...]..... 476 Shaw, Harry, Jr. and Jessie (Felsheim) ... . ...... . ..... 589 Ruppel, Henry G. and Gladys . . .. .. .. . . . . .... ... ... 477 Shaw, Harry, Sr. and Ruby ........... . . . . . . .. . . . .. 588 Rupp[...]....... 478 Shaw, High and Johanna ........... . .. . . ......... 855 Rybus,[...]. . . 774 Shaw, John Thomas and Loretta (Haines) ... . ... .. ... 321[...]Shaw, Loren and Clara ...................... . ..... 853[...]Shaw, Loren Allen and Cena .. ... .. .. .... . .... . .... 591[...]Shaw, Thomas G. and Lois . . . . . ... . .... . . . .. .. .... 591[...]Shaw, Vern and Irma Jean . ....... ... .. . . . .. .... . . . 592 Sacry, Carroll and Cora ....... .. .... . ............. 582[...].. .. . .. . . . . . . ... . .... 490 Sacry, Dale and Winona ........................... 583 Shipman, Edward 0. and Verta M. (Shewmaker) . . ..... 779 Sacry, Paul and Ruth ..... . .... .. ........ . . . . . . . .. 585 Shipp, Jean and Melva (Warden) .. . ..... . .. . . .. . ..[...] |
| Shular, Newton P. and Lillian (Dean) .. . ...... . ...... 491 Stone, Emerson F. and Hazel (Rice) ..... . . . .......... 98 Sicora, Ma[...]................. . ..... . .... 789 Sill, Alfred and Hazel (Richmond) . . .......... . ..... . 492 Stone, Frank W. and Elizabeth (Emerson) ...... . . . . . . . 97 Simon[...]. . . ..... . ... . 814 Simonsen, John (Jack) Jr. and June (Nelson) . . ...... . . 323 Storey, Kenneth and Adeline ....... . ....... .. .... .. 815 Simonsen[...]. .. . . 324 Storey, Randall and Ann .. .............. .. ..... ... 816 Simpson, Henry and Evelyn ..... .. .... . ..... . . . ... 492[...].. ... . ....... . ..... 335 Siprelle, William J. and Mary (Dale) ..... . .... . ....... 47[...]. . . . . . . . . . 335 Siprelle, William Steven and Josephine (Gendrow) . . . . . . 48[...]. 324 Sutton, Austin and Ann ..... . ......... . ........... 507 Slater, Jess and Elva (Butts, England) .. .. ..... .. .... 493 Swartz, Claude and Della ... ... .... ... .... . ........ 506 Slater, Mel and Alice (Dell) . .. .. . ........ . ... . . . ... 7[...]............. . . . ........ 326 Smith, Adelbert and Lucille . ........... . .... .. .. . .. 325 Smith[...]-T- Smith, Elbridge W. and Dorothy (Lichte) ... .. . . . . ..... 53 Smith, Fred and Margaret (Ferrell) ...... . .... ... .... 650 Talbott, Alfred and Charleen ..... . ...... . .......... 336 Smith, George and Emily (Kumer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Talbott, George and Idella ........ . .... . ....... .... 337 Smith, Lloyd and Sarah (Mize) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697 Talcott, Clarence and Helen (Narancich) ...... .. ...... 509 Smith, Logan and Hazel . .. ....................... 497 Tash, Leland and Edith (Frazier) ... . ..... . .. . . . . ... 510[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Smith, Oliver and Edna . .. ...... . .. . ....... . . . .... 498[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Smith, Samuel and Margaret (Yeager) ....... . . . .... . 782[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Smith, Sydney, Jr. and Lenore ......... . .... . ... .. . 499[...].... . ........ . .... . ....... 99 Smith, Virgil and Hazel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. .... . .... ... .. .... . .... 99 Smythe, Hugh and Doris ........................ . . 501[...]. 494 Taylor, John and Sophie (Spinner) .. . . ..... . . . ... .. .. 511 Sommers, Howard and Esther (Brobst) ... .... .. ..... 496 Taylor, Roy and Lucy ........ . ..... . .. .. ... . ...... 785 So[...].. . 495 Telin, Matthew and Valborn (Val) ......... . ......... 511 Sommers,[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 Terry, Dave and Elizabeth Family ......... . ........ 512 Spinner, Frank and Clara .......................... 502 Terry, Edward and Mildred (Miller) ..... . .. . ........ 651 Spinner, John and Gwen (Nordberg) .......... . ...... 502 Tezak, Joe and Jessie (Wilcox) ................. . .... 146 Spra[...]Thackrey, Walter B. and Cora (Hoyt) .... . ........... 786 Sprague, Ray and Margaret (Basolo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Thaxton, Albert and Violet (Burns) ...... .. .......... 787 Sprout, Earl and Clara (Wellman) ......... . ......... 698 Thaxton, Thomas L. and Adah (Osborne) ...... . ...... 789 Sprout, George and Elaine (Bovey) .................. 783 Thexton, William G. and Helen (Bosworth) ............ 790 Sprout, Herbert and Martha Elaine (Vincent) ......... 699[...]ght) ................... ... ... 6 Spuhler, Frank and Shirley . ........ . ...... .. ... . . . 328[...]. .. ........... . ....... ..... 699 Stark, Paul and May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]9 Tinsley, Edwin J. and Buenos (Noble) ........ . ..... . . 652 Steiner, Lee Boyd and Norma E . ........ . ........... 330[...]Tinsley, Joseph Hamilton and Martha Emiline Steiner, Lowell August . ..... ...[...]. . . . . . . . . 505 Tinsley, William Bailey and Lucy Ann (Nave) ......... 655 Stephens, Dorothy E[...]. 16 Todd, George and Bertha .......................... 513 Stevens, Edwin W. and Lucille (Barrett) ...... . .. . .... . 95 Todd, I. L. " Gene" and Peggy (McMullen) ............ 792 Stewart, Clara[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Todd, Richard L. and Dorothy (LaDue) ............... 339 Stewart, Norman and Elsie (Farnham) .... . . . ........ 784 Tolson, James L. and Mary (Swisher) . . .............. 340 Stiles, Mar[...]. ....... 21 Tolson, John and Dorothy ...... . ...... . ... . . .. . ... 341 St[...].. 332 Tolson Robert and Bessie (Schneider) ...... . ..... .... 342 Stine, Jack and Anna . .... . ..... . ... . ..... . ....... 334[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 Trout, Edward and Amelia (Gilbert) .. . ............... 54 Stoltz, Harold and Helen (Lockridge) . .... .. . . . .. .... 784[...]. . . . . . . . . . . 217 Trout, Samuel and Kathryn (Dullea) ... . ....... .. .... . 5[...] |
| [...]........ 54 Williams, Harry and Katherine (DeForest) ............ 100 Trudeau, An[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Williams, Noah and Elizabeth Christina .. ... .. . ...... 545 Tudor,[...]... . .. 700 Williams, Peter and Thelma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]... . . 344 Williams, Ray and Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 Turney, Glen and Nora . .. . ... . ... . . . ... . .......... 514[...]Williams, Tom and Joan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]Willis, George E. and Mabel .. . .................... 351[...]Wilson, Harry J . and Doris (Connell) ... . ..... . ... . ... 702 Umstead, Samuel and Amanda (Kaufman) ..... . .. . ... 793[...]... .. .......... ... ..... 351 U 'ren, John Pool and Elizabeth Ann ................. 515[...]Winslow, Ervin and Elizabeth ........ . .... . . ... . ... 352[...]Winslow, Fred and Myrna . .. . ......... . . . .. .... . .. 353[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Vanderbeck, James H. and Marguerite (Winslow) . .. ... . 56[...]............. . ... . . . 596 Van Slette, Camille and Mabel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 W oirhaye, Frank and Virginia (Salmons) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658 Van Slette, Frank and Jean (Bock) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1[...]. .... .. . . ............ 797 Van Slette, Joseph and Delina (Hebert) ... . . .. ... . ... 149 Womack, Pete and Ruth (Lichte) . .. . ....... . ....... . 797 Van[...]. . . . . . . . . . . 311 Wonder, Denny and Helen (Clark) ........ .. . ....... . 799 Varnado[...]... 516 Wonderly, Sam and Deanne (Sommerfelt) ... . .... . ... 101 Vickers, John R. and Helen (Vanderbeck) .......... .. . . 57[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 Vincent, Walter and Helen (Parent) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]Wortman, Lloyd and Mary (Dugersall) . . ... . .... ... . . 800[...]Wudel, Edward and Ellen Adele (Johnson) . . ......... . 155[...]-Y- Walter, Charles Jr. and Marybelle . .... .. ...... .. .... 345 Walter, Ed[...]..... 355 Walter, Henry T. and Viola .... . ... ... .. .... .. ... .. 346 Yeo, Charles and Edna ....... .. ... . .... . ...... ... . 356 Walter, William and Irene ... . .... .... ............ . 34 7[...].. . . .. 192 Yunt, Frank and Mary (Davis) and Family .... .. .... . . 156 Warden, John and Mary Alice .. . ... . ........ . . .. . . . 516 W[...]-Z- Watt, Willard James and Daisy Lee (Foster) . . ..... .. . 656 Watts, Earl 0. and Virginia . . . .. ... ............. . .. 517 Zahn, Paul and Lucille .... . . . ............. . ... .. . . 522 Weatherwax, Howard and Nellie .. . . . ... .. . ... ...... 348 Weber, Karl Fred and Betty (Beals) ............. . .. . 795 Weeks, Jan[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Wehrle, August and Mary (Richmond, Davis) . .... ... . 518 Weidner,[...]... ....... .. .. ....... . . . 150 Wellman, Fred and Lucille .... . ............ ... .... . 819 Wessel, Michael and Louise (Sueltz) .. .. . .. . ... . ..... 349 Wheatley, Calvin and Lucinda ... . ..... . .. . ..... . .. 518 White, Richard Homer and Winona (Gray) ............ 657 Whiting, Burton and Betty (Brown) .. .. . .. . .. . ...... 519 Whitney, Charles and Mary Gerlean (Wickham) ..... . . 520 Widener, Fay and Wilma N. (Utley) ............ .... . 151 Wiggins,[...]. . .... . ... . .. . .... . . 279 Wilkinson, Ray and Elva .......... ... ... ... .. ... .. 593 Willard[...]aham .... . . . ........ .. . . 154 Willett, Kemp and Doris (Althouse) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796 Williams, Benjamin H . and Marie (Foster) . .... . ...... . 58[...] |
| [...]...... . 826 Scrars on the Face of Old London Mountain[...]Buz Cowdry and Garland Guenin .... . . .. ... .. .. 852 Cold Spr[...]Shaw, Loren and Clara Theobald The Cornerstone Local Newspaper . ........ ... .... .[...]Myrtle Shaw and Drucilla Lambert ..... . ........ 853 Culver, Lil[...]Shaw, Highland and Johanna (O'Neil) Dude Ranching on the Madison[...]Sheridan Bank Robbery Early Physicians and Surgeons of Pony[...]Shipman ..... ...... ......... 860 Home is Where the Heart Is[...]Story of Pioneer Days, A I Remember Mama and 16 Acres to Run On[...]Store of Wolves Keep Me in Shotgun Shells and Fishing Hooks[...]shall .............................. . . 864 The Madisonian, Helen Fenton . ............... . . 83[...]......................... 867 Ada Black Mills and Dorothy Paugh ... . . .... .... 843 Watkins, Andr[...]nus Duncan .................... 844 Welfare Club, The McAllister Historical Facts[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846 Wild, Wooly and Full of Fleas Montana Kid Remembers[...]... . .... . .. . 846 Winter at Montbestos Mostly the Raw West[...]ity ....... . ................... . 847 Winter of the Big Snow Norris High School[...]. 848 Discovery of Gold in Alder Gulch Marked by Old Indian Trail[...] |
| [...]"Mining-1920 To The Present Time" Gil Evans and Ben Williams ..... . .... .. ...... 892[...]McAllister: "Talc Mining in the Upper Ruby" "Mining in the Madison Valley" Bud Cooper . . . . . . . . .[...]" Mining in the Upper Madison Valley, Talc and H.D. Rossiter . . . . . ................. . .[...]................ 903 Twin Bridges: " Mining in the Tabacco Roots" Richard 0 . Dale .. ...[...] |
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| This is a compilation of family and community histories of Madison County Montana. Histories were submitted by county residents to the now defunct Madison County History Association. The first volume Pioneer Trails and Trials spans the early days of settlement from 1863 to 1920. The second, Progressive Years, continues from[...] | |
| Pioneer Trails and Trials 3-7-77 |
Madison County History Association, Progressive Years: Madison County, Montana, Volume II (1983). Montana History Portal, accessed 12/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/5620
