Family Life in Kansas and Missouri
by Lois Bean
In a rural community the day begins early for the hole family. On the farm there are always chores to do. Children that grow up on the farm learn nature first hand. Each member of the family must cooperate, one, with the other as they work in crops, livestock or whatever. Working together promotes family unity.
Our family was small but closely knit. My mother worked with my father in the field and with livestock. Together they planned for the future. Since my sister had passed away, I learned, being an only child, amusement was mostly of my own making. My father made me corn stalk fiddles and my mother showed me how to decorate my straw hat with flowers of the Spanish needle.
A grew up on a rocky 160 acres, approximately 8 miles north east of Girard Kansas. My schooling through the grades was gained in country and village schools. My chores of evenings was feeding the chickens and pulling those sharp bill "old" setting hens off their nests and penning them up. In the summer I hold pop corn and with my shucking peg helped to harvest it in the fall. Because of my Father's ill health my family left the farm and moved to Mulberry, Kansas when I was 12 years old. The deep mines were working and the numerouss camps were thickly settled. This move was the start of a completely different life for all of us. Since my mother made all my clothes, she embroidered and starched a pink sun bonnet for me to wear. I chose to ride on the load of furniture and as the team and wagon moved through #9 camp north of Mulberry, a group of "teen agers" hollowed and made fun of me and my pretty pink sun bonnet.
A few years of mixing school, music and assisting my parents in a small variety store, eulminated in my graduation from High School and marriage. My mother would tease me and say "you traded your music for Beans" I couldn't work hard all day and have nimble fingers for violins or piano, that evening. My parents had much affection for Edgar and since he was raised an orphan he "took" them for his parents.
We had opened a variety store in lamar in 1929. Then in 1936 my parents, with my husband and myself left sadness and a boom town that had gone "bust". We had lost our first little boy so a change to live near a progressive town and a productive farming community, near by, was a welcome move.
When Sherrell was born in 1936 my mother, though in failing health, managed to sew for him as an infannt and a toddler. She could be happy if she could see him every day. Through the years as Edgar and I became involved in others stores leisure time was hard to come by. But occasionally we would pack a lunch and go on Sunday to one of Missouri Vacation Spots Roaring River State Park" and watch the 20 million gallons of sparkling clear water gush forth from the Roaring River Spring.
My husband and I enjoyed the scenery around Pilot Knob, Ironton and the area near Fredericktown and Mine La Motte. This Iron mine was opened in the 1700's and has been worked in recent years, may even be working now. Edgar's grandfather came from Germeny many, many, years ago and worked in mine La Motte. The drive north of this and south of St. Louis on highway 67, is quite scenic and is sometimes called the Royal George of Mo. As a family, when time we enjoyed permitted visiting the many scenic spots of Mo. But I never dreamed I would live near a town where a president of the United States was born.
All who have learned of President Harry Truman know he was a family man of MO. No other public figure I know of, exemplified this characterestic so prominently as he did.
by Lois Bean
In a rural community the day begins early for the hole family. On the farm there are always chores to do. Children that grow up on the farm learn nature first hand. Each member of the family must cooperate, one, with the other as they work in crops, livestock or whatever. Working together promotes family unity.
Our family was small but closely knit. My mother worked with my father in the field and with livestock. Together they planned for the future. Since my sister had passed away, I learned, being an only child, amusement was mostly of my own making. My father made me corn stalk fiddles and my mother showed me how to decorate my straw hat with flowers of the Spanish needle.
A grew up on a rocky 160 acres, approximately 8 miles north east of Girard Kansas. My schooling through the grades was gained in country and village schools. My chores of evenings was feeding the chickens and pulling those sharp bill "old" setting hens off their nests and penning them up. In the summer I hold pop corn and with my shucking peg helped to harvest it in the fall. Because of my Father's ill health my family left the farm and moved to Mulberry, Kansas when I was 12 years old. The deep mines were working and the numerouss camps were thickly settled. This move was the start of a completely different life for all of us. Since my mother made all my clothes, she embroidered and starched a pink sun bonnet for me to wear. I chose to ride on the load of furniture and as the team and wagon moved through #9 camp north of Mulberry, a group of "teen agers" hollowed and made fun of me and my pretty pink sun bonnet.
A few years of mixing school, music and assisting my parents in a small variety store, eulminated in my graduation from High School and marriage. My mother would tease me and say "you traded your music for Beans" I couldn't work hard all day and have nimble fingers for violins or piano, that evening. My parents had much affection for Edgar and since he was raised an orphan he "took" them for his parents.
We had opened a variety store in lamar in 1929. Then in 1936 my parents, with my husband and myself left sadness and a boom town that had gone "bust". We had lost our first little boy so a change to live near a progressive town and a productive farming community, near by, was a welcome move.
When Sherrell was born in 1936 my mother, though in failing health, managed to sew for him as an infannt and a toddler. She could be happy if she could see him every day. Through the years as Edgar and I became involved in others stores leisure time was hard to come by. But occasionally we would pack a lunch and go on Sunday to one of Missouri Vacation Spots Roaring River State Park" and watch the 20 million gallons of sparkling clear water gush forth from the Roaring River Spring.
My husband and I enjoyed the scenery around Pilot Knob, Ironton and the area near Fredericktown and Mine La Motte. This Iron mine was opened in the 1700's and has been worked in recent years, may even be working now. Edgar's grandfather came from Germeny many, many, years ago and worked in mine La Motte. The drive north of this and south of St. Louis on highway 67, is quite scenic and is sometimes called the Royal George of Mo. As a family, when time we enjoyed permitted visiting the many scenic spots of Mo. But I never dreamed I would live near a town where a president of the United States was born.
All who have learned of President Harry Truman know he was a family man of MO. No other public figure I know of, exemplified this characterestic so prominently as he did.
Family Life in Kansas and Missouri
by Lois Bean
In a rural community the day begins early for the hole family. On the farm there are always chores to do. Children that grow up on the farm learn nature first hand. Each member of the family must cooperate, one, with the other as they work in crops, livestock or whatever. Working together promotes family unity.
Our family was small but closely knit. My mother worked with my father in the field and with livestock. Together they planned for the future. Since my sister had passed away, I learned, being an only child, amusement was mostly of my own making. My father made me corn stalk fiddles and my mother showed me how to decorate my straw hat with flowers of the Spanish needle.
A grew up on a rocky 160 acres, approximately 8 miles north east of Girard Kansas. My schooling through the grades was gained in country and village schools. My chores of evenings was feeding the chickens and pulling those sharp bill "old" setting hens off their nests and penning them up. In the summer I hold pop corn and with my shucking peg helped to harvest it in the fall. Because of my Father's ill health my family left the farm and moved to Mulberry, Kansas when I was 12 years old. The deep mines were working and the numerouss camps were thickly settled. This move was the start of a completely different life for all of us. Since my mother made all my clothes, she embroidered and starched a pink sun bonnet for me to wear. I chose to ride on the load of furniture and as the team and wagon moved through #9 camp north of Mulberry, a group of "teen agers" hollowed and made fun of me and my pretty pink sun bonnet.
A few years of mixing school, music and assisting my parents in a small variety store, eulminated in my graduation from High School and marriage. My mother would tease me and say "you traded your music for Beans" I couldn't work hard all day and have nimble fingers for violins or piano, that evening. My parents had much affection for Edgar and since he was raised an orphan he "took" them for his parents.
We had opened a variety store in lamar in 1929. Then in 1936 my parents, with my husband and myself left sadness and a boom town that had gone "bust". We had lost our first little boy so a change to live near a progressive town and a productive farming community, near by, was a welcome move.
When Sherrell was born in 1936 my mother, though in failing health, managed to sew for him as an infannt and a toddler. She could be happy if she could see him every day. Through the years as Edgar and I became involved in others stores leisure time was hard to come by. But occasionally we would pack a lunch and go on Sunday to one of Missouri Vacation Spots Roaring River State Park" and watch the 20 million gallons of sparkling clear water gush forth from the Roaring River Spring.
My husband and I enjoyed the scenery around Pilot Knob, Ironton and the area near Fredericktown and Mine La Motte. This Iron mine was opened in the 1700's and has been worked in recent years, may even be working now. Edgar's grandfather came from Germeny many, many, years ago and worked in mine La Motte. The drive north of this and south of St. Louis on highway 67, is quite scenic and is sometimes called the Royal George of Mo. As a family, when time we enjoyed permitted visiting the many scenic spots of Mo. But I never dreamed I would live near a town where a president of the United States was born.
All who have learned of President Harry Truman know he was a family man of MO. No other public figure I know of, exemplified this characterestic so prominently as he did.
by Lois Bean
In a rural community the day begins early for the hole family. On the farm there are always chores to do. Children that grow up on the farm learn nature first hand. Each member of the family must cooperate, one, with the other as they work in crops, livestock or whatever. Working together promotes family unity.
Our family was small but closely knit. My mother worked with my father in the field and with livestock. Together they planned for the future. Since my sister had passed away, I learned, being an only child, amusement was mostly of my own making. My father made me corn stalk fiddles and my mother showed me how to decorate my straw hat with flowers of the Spanish needle.
A grew up on a rocky 160 acres, approximately 8 miles north east of Girard Kansas. My schooling through the grades was gained in country and village schools. My chores of evenings was feeding the chickens and pulling those sharp bill "old" setting hens off their nests and penning them up. In the summer I hold pop corn and with my shucking peg helped to harvest it in the fall. Because of my Father's ill health my family left the farm and moved to Mulberry, Kansas when I was 12 years old. The deep mines were working and the numerouss camps were thickly settled. This move was the start of a completely different life for all of us. Since my mother made all my clothes, she embroidered and starched a pink sun bonnet for me to wear. I chose to ride on the load of furniture and as the team and wagon moved through #9 camp north of Mulberry, a group of "teen agers" hollowed and made fun of me and my pretty pink sun bonnet.
A few years of mixing school, music and assisting my parents in a small variety store, eulminated in my graduation from High School and marriage. My mother would tease me and say "you traded your music for Beans" I couldn't work hard all day and have nimble fingers for violins or piano, that evening. My parents had much affection for Edgar and since he was raised an orphan he "took" them for his parents.
We had opened a variety store in lamar in 1929. Then in 1936 my parents, with my husband and myself left sadness and a boom town that had gone "bust". We had lost our first little boy so a change to live near a progressive town and a productive farming community, near by, was a welcome move.
When Sherrell was born in 1936 my mother, though in failing health, managed to sew for him as an infannt and a toddler. She could be happy if she could see him every day. Through the years as Edgar and I became involved in others stores leisure time was hard to come by. But occasionally we would pack a lunch and go on Sunday to one of Missouri Vacation Spots Roaring River State Park" and watch the 20 million gallons of sparkling clear water gush forth from the Roaring River Spring.
My husband and I enjoyed the scenery around Pilot Knob, Ironton and the area near Fredericktown and Mine La Motte. This Iron mine was opened in the 1700's and has been worked in recent years, may even be working now. Edgar's grandfather came from Germeny many, many, years ago and worked in mine La Motte. The drive north of this and south of St. Louis on highway 67, is quite scenic and is sometimes called the Royal George of Mo. As a family, when time we enjoyed permitted visiting the many scenic spots of Mo. But I never dreamed I would live near a town where a president of the United States was born.
All who have learned of President Harry Truman know he was a family man of MO. No other public figure I know of, exemplified this characterestic so prominently as he did.
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