Ray was a World War I veteran, service no: 2779139, enlisted 27 Apr 19 18, Malta, Montana., discharged on 20 Apr 1919, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming., he was a private, stationed with the Battery C 348 F. A. of the U.S. Army. As young man, Ray was a cowboy. Following his marriage they moved to his homestead at Lost Lake, M T., near Dodson, a railroad town 14-20 miles away. Only access by team or horseback. They lived on the homestead summers and he worked in the coal mines for the first two winters to provide money to survive on. All his marriage life he was a farmer. Later he moved his family through Colorado and Arizona., farming in various locations. He finally settled in Washington where he operated a fruit orchard raising Bing cherries. He loved to trout fish, hunt deer and elk in the Washington mountains. When Grace was seven, her parents moved to Calhan, Colorado and she lived there until her marriage. During her years on a dry land farm she had many interesting things happen and enjoyed telling them to her children and grandchildren. She lived in a sod house on the prairie and nature was strict on the early prairie people. Following her marriage to Ray they moved to Missouri. where they took up a homestead near Dodson, Jackson Co., Missouri. In 1935, the family moved to Gleed and in 1942 moved to Grandview where Ray and Grace purchased an orchard on Cherry Lane near Grandview. Grace had worked in warehouses in Zillah to Prosser. Grace died of lung cancer.
Ray was a World War I veteran, service no: 2779139, enlisted 27 Apr 19 18, Malta, Montana., discharged on 20 Apr 1919, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming., he was a private, stationed with the Battery C 348 F. A. of the U.S. Army. As young man, Ray was a cowboy. Following his marriage they moved to his homestead at Lost Lake, M T., near Dodson, a railroad town 14-20 miles away. Only access by team or horseback. They lived on the homestead summers and he worked in the coal mines for the first two winters to provide money to survive on. All his marriage life he was a farmer. Later he moved his family through Colorado and Arizona., farming in various locations. He finally settled in Washington where he operated a fruit orchard raising Bing cherries. He loved to trout fish, hunt deer and elk in the Washington mountains. When Grace was seven, her parents moved to Calhan, Colorado and she lived there until her marriage. During her years on a dry land farm she had many interesting things happen and enjoyed telling them to her children and grandchildren. She lived in a sod house on the prairie and nature was strict on the early prairie people. Following her marriage to Ray they moved to Missouri. where they took up a homestead near Dodson, Jackson Co., Missouri. In 1935, the family moved to Gleed and in 1942 moved to Grandview where Ray and Grace purchased an orchard on Cherry Lane near Grandview. Grace had worked in warehouses in Zillah to Prosser. Grace died of lung cancer.
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