1925 or 1926 3 BOYS TRAPPED IN CAVE AT PLAY ONE LOSES LIFE! (FROM THE ABERDEEN (IDAHO) TIMES The entire community was saddened last Saturday noon when the news reached town that Kurt Klassen was dead and two other boys had a narrow escape when a cave in which they were playing caved in entombing…… Continue reading My Dad Trapped in a Cave-In!
CLAUDIA WINONA FIELDS BRADLEY
This is the life sketch of our grandmother, Claudia Winona Fields Moore Bradley Moore, in her own words. “We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestor’s dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies”. ~…… Continue reading CLAUDIA WINONA FIELDS BRADLEY
Grandpa Isaac Nelson’s Inventions as told by Uncle Leslie Pratt.
Grandpa Isaac Nelson (Nielsen) Aberdeen has many firsts in the field of machinery in relation to the potato industry in harvesting and handling of potatoes. Mr. Isaac Nelson, a farmer and a man with ideas and good mechanical ability to match, is the person responsible for the ideas in developing the machinery that took so…… Continue reading Grandpa Isaac Nelson’s Inventions as told by Uncle Leslie Pratt.
THE GLADWILL’S OUR NOT-SO-HONORABLE ANCESTORS.
This history was written by a very distant cousin, Barbara Gladwill. She was a grandchild of John and Sarah Gladwill. This story was told when she was elderly, so her memories might be a bit cloudy, but I believe there is more truth here than not. So, in her own words, here we go, and…… Continue reading THE GLADWILL’S OUR NOT-SO-HONORABLE ANCESTORS.
THE BRADLEY’S PART THREE
Mama and Papa were very different. Mama was a very even-tempered person. I can only remember her a couple or three times being riled up enough that you’d really say she was angry. And Papa was just the opposite. He was a “fly-up-the-creek”! He was a short-fused little bomb ready to blow up at any…… Continue reading THE BRADLEY’S PART THREE
THE BRADLEY’S PART TWO
“When America’s early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all”.PAUL HARVEY Grandpa Strawn and his family were getting ready to…… Continue reading THE BRADLEY’S PART TWO
THE BRADLEYS PART ONE
(Grandma and Grandpa in this history are Ermina Strawn and William Bradley.) I am condensing and writing in story form from a question-and-answer interview conducted by Brad Naegle with his mother, Gladys Josephine Bradley, sister of my grandmother, Claudia Bradley Moore. My own words will be emboldened. This is my beautiful great-aunt, Gladys Josephine Bradley…… Continue reading THE BRADLEYS PART ONE
MOM AND DAD
Dad was born and raised on his families’ ranch on Sandy Creek. At 16 years of age, he ran away from home, and went to work for Mrs. Matlock for a couple of years, then went to California and worked. He boxed for a while and had the Golden Gloves Trophy for California. (This is…… Continue reading MOM AND DAD
SCHOOL DAYS
I started school when I was six and attended the Sandy Creek School with Roy. We had to either walk or ride horseback, 2 and a half miles. On the days in winter when it was below zero, Dad would take us to school in the buggy or sleigh. I attended all eight grades in…… Continue reading SCHOOL DAYS
GROWING UP TOO FAST
Mother had a heart attack while we were all quite young. I was eight, Roy 9, and Ray, Athena and Bertie, all quite small. (With all due respect to my grandmother, who lived to the ripe old age of 87, I’ve often wondered if her heart attack was a massive panic attack and subsequent nervous…… Continue reading GROWING UP TOO FAST