Margaret drove a team of horses hitched to a light wagon, which carried their small children, while her husband William drove an oxen team from Illinois to Kansas to homestead. The family ran a one-horse tread cane-mill, where neighbors came to process their cane into molasses. Once in a while the Larkins would put on a taffy-pull, inviting the young people of the area to their place for a social.
Margaret drove a team of horses hitched to a light wagon, which carried their small children, while her husband William drove an oxen team from Illinois to Kansas to homestead. The family ran a one-horse tread cane-mill, where neighbors came to process their cane into molasses. Once in a while the Larkins would put on a taffy-pull, inviting the young people of the area to their place for a social.
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