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NOTE ! Sent by Richard Ratcliff. CONT -no more good to us and after a time
died. Simpson traded for a couple of cows
-no more good to us and after a time died. Simpson traded for a couple of cows
so we got a start once more. He also raised three mules. At this time he did
his own farming. I raised chickens and ducks, but duck raising was not very
profitable as the hunters along the river got most of them. The last one I had
left came running up the bank one day scared so bad and all the feathers were
gone but the wing feathers. I tried raising turkeys but had not luck with
them. My old gobbler wanted to help me with the chickens so he fought a
sitting hen from her nest and set on her nest a week or so, then the pigs broke
up the nest so he tried it again. When in the bushes where a hen was about
ready to hatch and took possession and when the chicks hatched he layed them
out around him so they were all gone, yet he would not give up so he stole
another nest but the pigs found it and he then grieved around like an old
turkey hen when she had lost her young. Simpson bought a threshing machine and
ran it for some time. I think it was in the year 1883, Simpsons mother came to
live with us. While in Neb. there were four children born to us, one of which
I had previously mentioned, two of the four were taken by death and are lying
in the Seward Cemetery and two are in the Cemetery at Clear Spring Indiana. My
health gave way and we came to Washington County, Colorado in the fall of 1888
with our four children. Here we have worked hard and went through many
hardships that only the early settlers of thirty years ago can tell. I think
at the age we are, I in my 71st year and he in the 73rd year of our lives.
After coming to Colorado our little Mattie was drug to death by a cow and she
with her grandmother and uncle are in the Cemetery at Burdett, oh hard to give
her up. Now we are comfortably situated at Otis waiting for that last call.
Martha was dragged to death by a cow.
S/o Jacob and Eliza Fisher.
D/o Samuel and rebecca Pearce.
Sent by Richard Ratcliff. Russell died from Scarlet Fever.
Sent by Richard Ratcliff. Homer died from Scarlet Fever.
Sent by Richard Ratcliff. William and Edna Reddick had an adopted daughter,
Ruthanna. Edna was a record minister of the Society of Friends. S/o William
Reddick and Emma Sail.