Carrie Isophone Morgan was born on August 25, 1881 in Evanston, WY, to John and Mary Ann Wilkerson Clergy Morgan. Carrie's mother had been married before to Louis Clergy and had two children: Louis Jr. and Mary Mae. In the fall of that year, John, Mary Ann, and Carrie joined Marcus Daly's survey crew and journeyed to the Anaconda area. Mary Ann had been hired to be the crews cook. Soon Mary Ann was able to set up a tent boarding house were Cedar Street and Washoe Creek meet. Carrie went by the last name of Morgan and Clergy interchangeably since on some documents she would list her maiden name as Clergy or Morgan. It is not clear at this time what the correct story was about her father. Her daughter, Carrie L., said Morgan had deserted from the military in the civil war and was never heard from again. Dean said John Morgan was a deserter and came with Mary Ann and Carrie from Wyoming.
Carrie grew up without her father John after he deserted the family when she was little. Her mother, Mary Ann, continued to run a boarding house for the men who worked on the smelter. Sometimes Carrie would help her mother by delivering lunches to the working men. When Carrie was about 9 years old, her mother divorced John and gained full custody of Carrie. It was later the next year, Mary Ann married again to Charles Bills.
Carrie and her family were together until Carrie was sixteen when her mother, Mary Ann, passed away. Carrie met and married William Riley Staton on February 3, 1900 in Anaconda by Reverend J. A Jenkins, the pastor of a Baptist Church. William and Carrie took up residence at the Staton family's Willow Creek ranch located just south of the Anaconda Smelter.
I know she always talked about taking care of people and I know people would have her come in to take care of them after a surgery and she also talked about delivering babies in the early days. So I guess you could say yes, she was s nurse but I don't think she had a nursing degree.
Joan-¬Oh Grandma Staton had many potions. One I remember that she made and I dreaded was very yellow She would take a rag and soak it in hot water and ring it out, put the yellow stuff on the hot rag and slap it on whatever needed treating like a sore throat, around the neck, a sprained ankle or elbow pow went the potion. A cut or anything especially if it was infected on went the yellow gunk but it always worked. This was in the days before penicillin. It smelled awful I do remember
William and Carrie had two children, Arron Grant and Doris Mae, who went with their parents to either work or visit William's brother, Arron Grant Sr. ranch which was located on the western side of Chinook, MT. The family was going on a picnic and taking a boat across the Milk River. During that trip across the river, the boat tipped over and they all went into the water. Carrie grabbed for what she thought was one of the kids but when she pulled herself to the bank of the river, what she thought was one of her children was the food for the picnic which she had wrapped up for the trip. William survived. Neither one of the children did. It is unclear if their bodies were ever located. Carrie never did recover from the deaths of Aaron and Doris Mae. When she talked to Joan about them, it was a hurt to her heart forty years later. On the way home from the children's funeral, William's brother, Walter, was involved in a minor railroad wreck.
His father and brothers and their families farmed the land until about 1905 when the New Works of the smelter was built and began pouring out toxic gasses that caused the land around that part of the valley to be adversely affected. The land was unable to produce as much bounty as it had. Their family continued to grow with William Elmer being born in 1905 and Lewis being born in 1906. By 1909, William moved his family in to Anaconda to 406 East Third Street to work produce at 410 East Park. According to the 1910 Census report, William moved his family to the Duffy School District to work as a farm manager and Carrie worked as a cook. In 1909, Lewis joined the family in a nearby town of Two Dot, MT.
His father, Peter, died on September 21, 1910 and either William and his family came back to take over running the farm or had moved back early. The family continued to grow with son, Peter Morgan, in 1914, and a daughter, Carrie, in 1921. According to her son, Peter, the house had 5 rooms: a kitchen, dining room, living room and two bedrooms downstairs and upstairs was two large bedrooms where the boys always slept. In later years they built a summer kitchen that was on a porch on the outside of the house. "In front of the kitchen clear around including the dining room and screened it all in and then in the summer time we fed our crew there…on the porch. They had no running water in the house until about 1921, but it was strictly used for washing and laundry and stuff like that. We used water from the well for drinking and cooking."
Their farm had a garden, fish ponds, cows, pigs, and hay. Much of their produce was sold to the stores and restaurants in Butte and Anaconda. Carrie, her daughter, had written that her mom was a task master, but there was so much for Carrie to take care of. Her son Pete said of her, "My dad always had the brains from the animal…scrambled eggs and brains were a great dish for him. And the tongue was always taken. My mother would always take and clean and fix that up and pickle it. We'd have pickled tongue wonderful sandwiches and …the whole animal was used really right down to the soup bones because we had a large family. There were six of us. And we used it all."
Either way, William and Carrie continued farming until 1927 when they sold the farm and moved to Anaconda. In They set up house at 213 E Fourth Street which they rented for $35 a month.
In 1930, William was working on the Anaconda smelter as an unloader. Soon they moved to a house that the owned on 402 Oak Street. On May 9, 1936, Anna turned on a light going down to the basement of the house. The spark caused a gas leak to explode and the house burned down. William moved his family to 408 Cedar Street. William Riley retired from the ACM in May of 1937 and passed away the next year on June 12, 1937.
Carrie Staton broke her hip about 1958 when she was walking by the ice cream store on East Fourth Street and hit her with a bike. She was in a wheel chair after that whenever she went out. In a conversation with Joan, she said that she liked using her wheel chair because she got attention for it.
One story that Bob and Tom talked about their Gramma Carrie Staton about her having her beer and then tossing her empty beer cans into the neighbor's back yard. She didn't want anyone to know that she was having a beer at night.
Carrie Icephone Morgan Clergy Staton died on September 17, 1961,at St. Ann's Hospital of pneumonia of the left base of her lung. She had suffered from a hiatal hernia for about a year and arteriosclerosis for many years. Her funeral took place on September 20, 1961 and she was buried in the Staton plot in the Hill Cemetery next to William who had died twenty-four years before.
Carrie grew up without her father John after he deserted the family when she was little. Her mother, Mary Ann, continued to run a boarding house for the men who worked on the smelter. Sometimes Carrie would help her mother by delivering lunches to the working men. When Carrie was about 9 years old, her mother divorced John and gained full custody of Carrie. It was later the next year, Mary Ann married again to Charles Bills.
Carrie and her family were together until Carrie was sixteen when her mother, Mary Ann, passed away. Carrie met and married William Riley Staton on February 3, 1900 in Anaconda by Reverend J. A Jenkins, the pastor of a Baptist Church. William and Carrie took up residence at the Staton family's Willow Creek ranch located just south of the Anaconda Smelter.
I know she always talked about taking care of people and I know people would have her come in to take care of them after a surgery and she also talked about delivering babies in the early days. So I guess you could say yes, she was s nurse but I don't think she had a nursing degree.
Joan-¬Oh Grandma Staton had many potions. One I remember that she made and I dreaded was very yellow She would take a rag and soak it in hot water and ring it out, put the yellow stuff on the hot rag and slap it on whatever needed treating like a sore throat, around the neck, a sprained ankle or elbow pow went the potion. A cut or anything especially if it was infected on went the yellow gunk but it always worked. This was in the days before penicillin. It smelled awful I do remember
William and Carrie had two children, Arron Grant and Doris Mae, who went with their parents to either work or visit William's brother, Arron Grant Sr. ranch which was located on the western side of Chinook, MT. The family was going on a picnic and taking a boat across the Milk River. During that trip across the river, the boat tipped over and they all went into the water. Carrie grabbed for what she thought was one of the kids but when she pulled herself to the bank of the river, what she thought was one of her children was the food for the picnic which she had wrapped up for the trip. William survived. Neither one of the children did. It is unclear if their bodies were ever located. Carrie never did recover from the deaths of Aaron and Doris Mae. When she talked to Joan about them, it was a hurt to her heart forty years later. On the way home from the children's funeral, William's brother, Walter, was involved in a minor railroad wreck.
His father and brothers and their families farmed the land until about 1905 when the New Works of the smelter was built and began pouring out toxic gasses that caused the land around that part of the valley to be adversely affected. The land was unable to produce as much bounty as it had. Their family continued to grow with William Elmer being born in 1905 and Lewis being born in 1906. By 1909, William moved his family in to Anaconda to 406 East Third Street to work produce at 410 East Park. According to the 1910 Census report, William moved his family to the Duffy School District to work as a farm manager and Carrie worked as a cook. In 1909, Lewis joined the family in a nearby town of Two Dot, MT.
His father, Peter, died on September 21, 1910 and either William and his family came back to take over running the farm or had moved back early. The family continued to grow with son, Peter Morgan, in 1914, and a daughter, Carrie, in 1921. According to her son, Peter, the house had 5 rooms: a kitchen, dining room, living room and two bedrooms downstairs and upstairs was two large bedrooms where the boys always slept. In later years they built a summer kitchen that was on a porch on the outside of the house. "In front of the kitchen clear around including the dining room and screened it all in and then in the summer time we fed our crew there…on the porch. They had no running water in the house until about 1921, but it was strictly used for washing and laundry and stuff like that. We used water from the well for drinking and cooking."
Their farm had a garden, fish ponds, cows, pigs, and hay. Much of their produce was sold to the stores and restaurants in Butte and Anaconda. Carrie, her daughter, had written that her mom was a task master, but there was so much for Carrie to take care of. Her son Pete said of her, "My dad always had the brains from the animal…scrambled eggs and brains were a great dish for him. And the tongue was always taken. My mother would always take and clean and fix that up and pickle it. We'd have pickled tongue wonderful sandwiches and …the whole animal was used really right down to the soup bones because we had a large family. There were six of us. And we used it all."
Either way, William and Carrie continued farming until 1927 when they sold the farm and moved to Anaconda. In They set up house at 213 E Fourth Street which they rented for $35 a month.
In 1930, William was working on the Anaconda smelter as an unloader. Soon they moved to a house that the owned on 402 Oak Street. On May 9, 1936, Anna turned on a light going down to the basement of the house. The spark caused a gas leak to explode and the house burned down. William moved his family to 408 Cedar Street. William Riley retired from the ACM in May of 1937 and passed away the next year on June 12, 1937.
Carrie Staton broke her hip about 1958 when she was walking by the ice cream store on East Fourth Street and hit her with a bike. She was in a wheel chair after that whenever she went out. In a conversation with Joan, she said that she liked using her wheel chair because she got attention for it.
One story that Bob and Tom talked about their Gramma Carrie Staton about her having her beer and then tossing her empty beer cans into the neighbor's back yard. She didn't want anyone to know that she was having a beer at night.
Carrie Icephone Morgan Clergy Staton died on September 17, 1961,at St. Ann's Hospital of pneumonia of the left base of her lung. She had suffered from a hiatal hernia for about a year and arteriosclerosis for many years. Her funeral took place on September 20, 1961 and she was buried in the Staton plot in the Hill Cemetery next to William who had died twenty-four years before.
Carrie Isophone Morgan was born on August 25, 1881 in Evanston, WY, to John and Mary Ann Wilkerson Clergy Morgan. Carrie's mother had been married before to Louis Clergy and had two children: Louis Jr. and Mary Mae. In the fall of that year, John, Mary Ann, and Carrie joined Marcus Daly's survey crew and journeyed to the Anaconda area. Mary Ann had been hired to be the crews cook. Soon Mary Ann was able to set up a tent boarding house were Cedar Street and Washoe Creek meet. Carrie went by the last name of Morgan and Clergy interchangeably since on some documents she would list her maiden name as Clergy or Morgan. It is not clear at this time what the correct story was about her father. Her daughter, Carrie L., said Morgan had deserted from the military in the civil war and was never heard from again. Dean said John Morgan was a deserter and came with Mary Ann and Carrie from Wyoming.
Carrie grew up without her father John after he deserted the family when she was little. Her mother, Mary Ann, continued to run a boarding house for the men who worked on the smelter. Sometimes Carrie would help her mother by delivering lunches to the working men. When Carrie was about 9 years old, her mother divorced John and gained full custody of Carrie. It was later the next year, Mary Ann married again to Charles Bills.
Carrie and her family were together until Carrie was sixteen when her mother, Mary Ann, passed away. Carrie met and married William Riley Staton on February 3, 1900 in Anaconda by Reverend J. A Jenkins, the pastor of a Baptist Church. William and Carrie took up residence at the Staton family's Willow Creek ranch located just south of the Anaconda Smelter.
I know she always talked about taking care of people and I know people would have her come in to take care of them after a surgery and she also talked about delivering babies in the early days. So I guess you could say yes, she was s nurse but I don't think she had a nursing degree.
Joan-¬Oh Grandma Staton had many potions. One I remember that she made and I dreaded was very yellow She would take a rag and soak it in hot water and ring it out, put the yellow stuff on the hot rag and slap it on whatever needed treating like a sore throat, around the neck, a sprained ankle or elbow pow went the potion. A cut or anything especially if it was infected on went the yellow gunk but it always worked. This was in the days before penicillin. It smelled awful I do remember
William and Carrie had two children, Arron Grant and Doris Mae, who went with their parents to either work or visit William's brother, Arron Grant Sr. ranch which was located on the western side of Chinook, MT. The family was going on a picnic and taking a boat across the Milk River. During that trip across the river, the boat tipped over and they all went into the water. Carrie grabbed for what she thought was one of the kids but when she pulled herself to the bank of the river, what she thought was one of her children was the food for the picnic which she had wrapped up for the trip. William survived. Neither one of the children did. It is unclear if their bodies were ever located. Carrie never did recover from the deaths of Aaron and Doris Mae. When she talked to Joan about them, it was a hurt to her heart forty years later. On the way home from the children's funeral, William's brother, Walter, was involved in a minor railroad wreck.
His father and brothers and their families farmed the land until about 1905 when the New Works of the smelter was built and began pouring out toxic gasses that caused the land around that part of the valley to be adversely affected. The land was unable to produce as much bounty as it had. Their family continued to grow with William Elmer being born in 1905 and Lewis being born in 1906. By 1909, William moved his family in to Anaconda to 406 East Third Street to work produce at 410 East Park. According to the 1910 Census report, William moved his family to the Duffy School District to work as a farm manager and Carrie worked as a cook. In 1909, Lewis joined the family in a nearby town of Two Dot, MT.
His father, Peter, died on September 21, 1910 and either William and his family came back to take over running the farm or had moved back early. The family continued to grow with son, Peter Morgan, in 1914, and a daughter, Carrie, in 1921. According to her son, Peter, the house had 5 rooms: a kitchen, dining room, living room and two bedrooms downstairs and upstairs was two large bedrooms where the boys always slept. In later years they built a summer kitchen that was on a porch on the outside of the house. "In front of the kitchen clear around including the dining room and screened it all in and then in the summer time we fed our crew there…on the porch. They had no running water in the house until about 1921, but it was strictly used for washing and laundry and stuff like that. We used water from the well for drinking and cooking."
Their farm had a garden, fish ponds, cows, pigs, and hay. Much of their produce was sold to the stores and restaurants in Butte and Anaconda. Carrie, her daughter, had written that her mom was a task master, but there was so much for Carrie to take care of. Her son Pete said of her, "My dad always had the brains from the animal…scrambled eggs and brains were a great dish for him. And the tongue was always taken. My mother would always take and clean and fix that up and pickle it. We'd have pickled tongue wonderful sandwiches and …the whole animal was used really right down to the soup bones because we had a large family. There were six of us. And we used it all."
Either way, William and Carrie continued farming until 1927 when they sold the farm and moved to Anaconda. In They set up house at 213 E Fourth Street which they rented for $35 a month.
In 1930, William was working on the Anaconda smelter as an unloader. Soon they moved to a house that the owned on 402 Oak Street. On May 9, 1936, Anna turned on a light going down to the basement of the house. The spark caused a gas leak to explode and the house burned down. William moved his family to 408 Cedar Street. William Riley retired from the ACM in May of 1937 and passed away the next year on June 12, 1937.
Carrie Staton broke her hip about 1958 when she was walking by the ice cream store on East Fourth Street and hit her with a bike. She was in a wheel chair after that whenever she went out. In a conversation with Joan, she said that she liked using her wheel chair because she got attention for it.
One story that Bob and Tom talked about their Gramma Carrie Staton about her having her beer and then tossing her empty beer cans into the neighbor's back yard. She didn't want anyone to know that she was having a beer at night.
Carrie Icephone Morgan Clergy Staton died on September 17, 1961,at St. Ann's Hospital of pneumonia of the left base of her lung. She had suffered from a hiatal hernia for about a year and arteriosclerosis for many years. Her funeral took place on September 20, 1961 and she was buried in the Staton plot in the Hill Cemetery next to William who had died twenty-four years before.
Carrie grew up without her father John after he deserted the family when she was little. Her mother, Mary Ann, continued to run a boarding house for the men who worked on the smelter. Sometimes Carrie would help her mother by delivering lunches to the working men. When Carrie was about 9 years old, her mother divorced John and gained full custody of Carrie. It was later the next year, Mary Ann married again to Charles Bills.
Carrie and her family were together until Carrie was sixteen when her mother, Mary Ann, passed away. Carrie met and married William Riley Staton on February 3, 1900 in Anaconda by Reverend J. A Jenkins, the pastor of a Baptist Church. William and Carrie took up residence at the Staton family's Willow Creek ranch located just south of the Anaconda Smelter.
I know she always talked about taking care of people and I know people would have her come in to take care of them after a surgery and she also talked about delivering babies in the early days. So I guess you could say yes, she was s nurse but I don't think she had a nursing degree.
Joan-¬Oh Grandma Staton had many potions. One I remember that she made and I dreaded was very yellow She would take a rag and soak it in hot water and ring it out, put the yellow stuff on the hot rag and slap it on whatever needed treating like a sore throat, around the neck, a sprained ankle or elbow pow went the potion. A cut or anything especially if it was infected on went the yellow gunk but it always worked. This was in the days before penicillin. It smelled awful I do remember
William and Carrie had two children, Arron Grant and Doris Mae, who went with their parents to either work or visit William's brother, Arron Grant Sr. ranch which was located on the western side of Chinook, MT. The family was going on a picnic and taking a boat across the Milk River. During that trip across the river, the boat tipped over and they all went into the water. Carrie grabbed for what she thought was one of the kids but when she pulled herself to the bank of the river, what she thought was one of her children was the food for the picnic which she had wrapped up for the trip. William survived. Neither one of the children did. It is unclear if their bodies were ever located. Carrie never did recover from the deaths of Aaron and Doris Mae. When she talked to Joan about them, it was a hurt to her heart forty years later. On the way home from the children's funeral, William's brother, Walter, was involved in a minor railroad wreck.
His father and brothers and their families farmed the land until about 1905 when the New Works of the smelter was built and began pouring out toxic gasses that caused the land around that part of the valley to be adversely affected. The land was unable to produce as much bounty as it had. Their family continued to grow with William Elmer being born in 1905 and Lewis being born in 1906. By 1909, William moved his family in to Anaconda to 406 East Third Street to work produce at 410 East Park. According to the 1910 Census report, William moved his family to the Duffy School District to work as a farm manager and Carrie worked as a cook. In 1909, Lewis joined the family in a nearby town of Two Dot, MT.
His father, Peter, died on September 21, 1910 and either William and his family came back to take over running the farm or had moved back early. The family continued to grow with son, Peter Morgan, in 1914, and a daughter, Carrie, in 1921. According to her son, Peter, the house had 5 rooms: a kitchen, dining room, living room and two bedrooms downstairs and upstairs was two large bedrooms where the boys always slept. In later years they built a summer kitchen that was on a porch on the outside of the house. "In front of the kitchen clear around including the dining room and screened it all in and then in the summer time we fed our crew there…on the porch. They had no running water in the house until about 1921, but it was strictly used for washing and laundry and stuff like that. We used water from the well for drinking and cooking."
Their farm had a garden, fish ponds, cows, pigs, and hay. Much of their produce was sold to the stores and restaurants in Butte and Anaconda. Carrie, her daughter, had written that her mom was a task master, but there was so much for Carrie to take care of. Her son Pete said of her, "My dad always had the brains from the animal…scrambled eggs and brains were a great dish for him. And the tongue was always taken. My mother would always take and clean and fix that up and pickle it. We'd have pickled tongue wonderful sandwiches and …the whole animal was used really right down to the soup bones because we had a large family. There were six of us. And we used it all."
Either way, William and Carrie continued farming until 1927 when they sold the farm and moved to Anaconda. In They set up house at 213 E Fourth Street which they rented for $35 a month.
In 1930, William was working on the Anaconda smelter as an unloader. Soon they moved to a house that the owned on 402 Oak Street. On May 9, 1936, Anna turned on a light going down to the basement of the house. The spark caused a gas leak to explode and the house burned down. William moved his family to 408 Cedar Street. William Riley retired from the ACM in May of 1937 and passed away the next year on June 12, 1937.
Carrie Staton broke her hip about 1958 when she was walking by the ice cream store on East Fourth Street and hit her with a bike. She was in a wheel chair after that whenever she went out. In a conversation with Joan, she said that she liked using her wheel chair because she got attention for it.
One story that Bob and Tom talked about their Gramma Carrie Staton about her having her beer and then tossing her empty beer cans into the neighbor's back yard. She didn't want anyone to know that she was having a beer at night.
Carrie Icephone Morgan Clergy Staton died on September 17, 1961,at St. Ann's Hospital of pneumonia of the left base of her lung. She had suffered from a hiatal hernia for about a year and arteriosclerosis for many years. Her funeral took place on September 20, 1961 and she was buried in the Staton plot in the Hill Cemetery next to William who had died twenty-four years before.
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