Our home place, a quarter section, has been in the family 107 years. My great grandfather bought it in August, 1903. The next day he went in to a local bank and wrote a mortgage on it for $4800. Eight years later to the day, he walked into the bank and paid the mortgage off in cash.
Life was a whole lot different back then Some people call them the good old days. However--my paternal great grandmother had ten children and outlived five of them, including my grandmother.
A 4 year old boy who would have been my great uncle was buried in Germany in 1871 before they came to the States. A 2 year old boy and a 4 year old girl died two weeks apart of whooping cough in 1879, and a 14 year old girl was killed by a runaway horse in 1884. My grandmother died in 1899 at age 31 the day after my father was born. Probably a simple complication they'd fix without thinking today.
It's mind boggling when you think of the emotional trauma they went through.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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