Martha Lumbert Fordice married Richard Clark in Kansas.
Martha and Richard came by covered wagon from Cedarville, Kansas in the spring of 1882. They settled on the homestead that later was sold to Beckers. He in turn sold to Moncrieffes and they to Bradford Brinton. They built a one-room cabin with a large stone fireplace on the north side. Between fires, grasshoppers and dry years they had lost everything they had. And this was a new start for two people no longer young, their families were grown. There was not time to build a barn that fall, so they went down by Little Goose and made a shelter of logs and brush for the horses, a cow and a few chickens. The wild grass was waist high. They cut all they could and piled it up by the shelter and got enough to keep the stock that winter. Not far from the cabin just over the hill was a nice cold spring. That winter they cut small trees and made a spring house. They took straight branches and made places for the milk pans and cream jar to stand. Next spring they started grain and hay and also a garden that soil made things grow. When I would go down and stay with them, Grandma Martha would walk me up to our place. The first winter they were there they made the watering trough, took large trees cut the length they wanted, then used hammer, large chisel and an axe to cut out the inside of the log.
(Excerpt from a story written from notes kept by Madge Austin Wade of memories of her childhood in Big Horn, Wyoming and as published in the Sheridan County Heritage Book published in 1983 with permission from the Sheridan County Extension Homemakers Council.)
Martha and Richard came by covered wagon from Cedarville, Kansas in the spring of 1882. They settled on the homestead that later was sold to Beckers. He in turn sold to Moncrieffes and they to Bradford Brinton. They built a one-room cabin with a large stone fireplace on the north side. Between fires, grasshoppers and dry years they had lost everything they had. And this was a new start for two people no longer young, their families were grown. There was not time to build a barn that fall, so they went down by Little Goose and made a shelter of logs and brush for the horses, a cow and a few chickens. The wild grass was waist high. They cut all they could and piled it up by the shelter and got enough to keep the stock that winter. Not far from the cabin just over the hill was a nice cold spring. That winter they cut small trees and made a spring house. They took straight branches and made places for the milk pans and cream jar to stand. Next spring they started grain and hay and also a garden that soil made things grow. When I would go down and stay with them, Grandma Martha would walk me up to our place. The first winter they were there they made the watering trough, took large trees cut the length they wanted, then used hammer, large chisel and an axe to cut out the inside of the log.
(Excerpt from a story written from notes kept by Madge Austin Wade of memories of her childhood in Big Horn, Wyoming and as published in the Sheridan County Heritage Book published in 1983 with permission from the Sheridan County Extension Homemakers Council.)
Martha Lumbert Fordice married Richard Clark in Kansas.
Martha and Richard came by covered wagon from Cedarville, Kansas in the spring of 1882. They settled on the homestead that later was sold to Beckers. He in turn sold to Moncrieffes and they to Bradford Brinton. They built a one-room cabin with a large stone fireplace on the north side. Between fires, grasshoppers and dry years they had lost everything they had. And this was a new start for two people no longer young, their families were grown. There was not time to build a barn that fall, so they went down by Little Goose and made a shelter of logs and brush for the horses, a cow and a few chickens. The wild grass was waist high. They cut all they could and piled it up by the shelter and got enough to keep the stock that winter. Not far from the cabin just over the hill was a nice cold spring. That winter they cut small trees and made a spring house. They took straight branches and made places for the milk pans and cream jar to stand. Next spring they started grain and hay and also a garden that soil made things grow. When I would go down and stay with them, Grandma Martha would walk me up to our place. The first winter they were there they made the watering trough, took large trees cut the length they wanted, then used hammer, large chisel and an axe to cut out the inside of the log.
(Excerpt from a story written from notes kept by Madge Austin Wade of memories of her childhood in Big Horn, Wyoming and as published in the Sheridan County Heritage Book published in 1983 with permission from the Sheridan County Extension Homemakers Council.)
Martha and Richard came by covered wagon from Cedarville, Kansas in the spring of 1882. They settled on the homestead that later was sold to Beckers. He in turn sold to Moncrieffes and they to Bradford Brinton. They built a one-room cabin with a large stone fireplace on the north side. Between fires, grasshoppers and dry years they had lost everything they had. And this was a new start for two people no longer young, their families were grown. There was not time to build a barn that fall, so they went down by Little Goose and made a shelter of logs and brush for the horses, a cow and a few chickens. The wild grass was waist high. They cut all they could and piled it up by the shelter and got enough to keep the stock that winter. Not far from the cabin just over the hill was a nice cold spring. That winter they cut small trees and made a spring house. They took straight branches and made places for the milk pans and cream jar to stand. Next spring they started grain and hay and also a garden that soil made things grow. When I would go down and stay with them, Grandma Martha would walk me up to our place. The first winter they were there they made the watering trough, took large trees cut the length they wanted, then used hammer, large chisel and an axe to cut out the inside of the log.
(Excerpt from a story written from notes kept by Madge Austin Wade of memories of her childhood in Big Horn, Wyoming and as published in the Sheridan County Heritage Book published in 1983 with permission from the Sheridan County Extension Homemakers Council.)
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