It was at the end of sheep shearing time and Noah and Amanda Kinsey were camped out on the prairie in a tent with their five children about 13-15 miles from Ekalaka where there was water and good grazing close by. It was no place for kids and their mother had taught them never to go near a place where a rattlesnake could hide and they carried a long stick to beat the brush with. Noah was away on an errand for a few days and Claude, the eldest child, who was tending a band of sheep near by, returned to the tent and when he left to go back to his sheep he was followed by his little sister Nora who had never been out and didn't know the rules. She saw a rose and started to pick it and was bit twice on the leg by a rattlesnake. "There was no way she could have been saved". From an interview conducted by Maurice Hurd with Nora's sister, Nellie Kinsey Martin (1888-1984).
"The old cemetery has sunk into the prairie and is hard to locate, construction on the new highway ran over the headstones and scattered them. Renetta Kinsey's headstone is broken in two pieces and is in the museum at Ekalaka." Bob Kinsey
"The old cemetery has sunk into the prairie and is hard to locate, construction on the new highway ran over the headstones and scattered them. Renetta Kinsey's headstone is broken in two pieces and is in the museum at Ekalaka." Bob Kinsey
It was at the end of sheep shearing time and Noah and Amanda Kinsey were camped out on the prairie in a tent with their five children about 13-15 miles from Ekalaka where there was water and good grazing close by. It was no place for kids and their mother had taught them never to go near a place where a rattlesnake could hide and they carried a long stick to beat the brush with. Noah was away on an errand for a few days and Claude, the eldest child, who was tending a band of sheep near by, returned to the tent and when he left to go back to his sheep he was followed by his little sister Nora who had never been out and didn't know the rules. She saw a rose and started to pick it and was bit twice on the leg by a rattlesnake. "There was no way she could have been saved". From an interview conducted by Maurice Hurd with Nora's sister, Nellie Kinsey Martin (1888-1984).
"The old cemetery has sunk into the prairie and is hard to locate, construction on the new highway ran over the headstones and scattered them. Renetta Kinsey's headstone is broken in two pieces and is in the museum at Ekalaka." Bob Kinsey
"The old cemetery has sunk into the prairie and is hard to locate, construction on the new highway ran over the headstones and scattered them. Renetta Kinsey's headstone is broken in two pieces and is in the museum at Ekalaka." Bob Kinsey
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