"Richard R. (Dick) Johnston and Lillian Francis (Lilly) Wix Johnston were both born in Missouri and were married there in December of 1898. ... After farming there for a few years they went to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma in search of so-called free land. From there to Ocean Park, California, then to Nez Perce, Idaho. After about three years in Idaho, where Mother and Dad ran a telephone office, the urge for free land sent Dad to Great Falls, Montana, late in 1909, where he and his nephew, John Johnston, filed on homesteads in the Wilson Post Office area. ... They returned to Idaho after filing and returned to Montana in April of 1910. John Johnston shipped an emigrant car loaded with three horses, two or three head of cattle, farm machinery and household goods. Dad and John both rode in the railroad car arriving April 10, 1910 and April 11th they took the first load out to the homestead. Mother, Cliff and I came in August of 1910." Note: An excerpt from "The Richard R. Johnston story" by his son, and my father, Lloyd Beaty Johnston November 1974. Joe Johnston
"Richard R. (Dick) Johnston and Lillian Francis (Lilly) Wix Johnston were both born in Missouri and were married there in December of 1898. ... After farming there for a few years they went to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma in search of so-called free land. From there to Ocean Park, California, then to Nez Perce, Idaho. After about three years in Idaho, where Mother and Dad ran a telephone office, the urge for free land sent Dad to Great Falls, Montana, late in 1909, where he and his nephew, John Johnston, filed on homesteads in the Wilson Post Office area. ... They returned to Idaho after filing and returned to Montana in April of 1910. John Johnston shipped an emigrant car loaded with three horses, two or three head of cattle, farm machinery and household goods. Dad and John both rode in the railroad car arriving April 10, 1910 and April 11th they took the first load out to the homestead. Mother, Cliff and I came in August of 1910." Note: An excerpt from "The Richard R. Johnston story" by his son, and my father, Lloyd Beaty Johnston November 1974. Joe Johnston
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