"My first memory of my mother is of her sitting on the board seat of our covered wagon driving our two scroungey horses west. We pulled up along a stream not too far from a farm home in Medicine Lodge, Idaho and here my father died. My mother weighed 96 lbs. but managed to pull the harness from the horses which she had done for several days along the trail as my father was very ill. He had been working on a narrow gauge railroad in Canada and had caught the flu. When my mother found my father dead in the back of the wagon she gathered us children together and we walked to the farm house owned by the Smalls. They helped bury my father and gave my mother work in the fields with us children, aged 10, 8 and 6 helping as we could. We picked potatoes, weeded, fed the animals, cleaned stalls and generally helped but this was just for the summer. When fall came the Smalls gave my mother enough money to help us back to Minnesota and our grandparents."
Written by Jesse's son William
To read about William going back to visit his father's grave click on William's memorial below.
Written by Jesse's son William
To read about William going back to visit his father's grave click on William's memorial below.
"My first memory of my mother is of her sitting on the board seat of our covered wagon driving our two scroungey horses west. We pulled up along a stream not too far from a farm home in Medicine Lodge, Idaho and here my father died. My mother weighed 96 lbs. but managed to pull the harness from the horses which she had done for several days along the trail as my father was very ill. He had been working on a narrow gauge railroad in Canada and had caught the flu. When my mother found my father dead in the back of the wagon she gathered us children together and we walked to the farm house owned by the Smalls. They helped bury my father and gave my mother work in the fields with us children, aged 10, 8 and 6 helping as we could. We picked potatoes, weeded, fed the animals, cleaned stalls and generally helped but this was just for the summer. When fall came the Smalls gave my mother enough money to help us back to Minnesota and our grandparents."
Written by Jesse's son William
To read about William going back to visit his father's grave click on William's memorial below.
Written by Jesse's son William
To read about William going back to visit his father's grave click on William's memorial below.
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