John was born in Cambia, Wyoming. His birth certificate from the Catholic Church is signed by Rev. Father P.J. Lynch.
Cambia was probably unique among mining camps in that it had no saloons. The Kilpatrick brothers, who started the camp, had promised their mother Rachel that they would not permit the sale of liquor in their camp. However, the brothers ran a scheme which induced families to take up homesteads on the acres overlying the coal beds and sell them to the firm, as soon as it was legally possible. John's dad, Joseph, had it in his mind to own his own farm and the family moved on to Montana within a year.
John was paralyzed on the right side of his body. Since there is more than one family story as to how it occurred, I'll relate them all. While John and his brother Joe were walking to Stanford to attend school, he "froze" his lungs and ended up with pneumonia in the hospital at Gaylord where one lung was supposedly "dried up". One story was that an injury occurred when the Koval kids were clearing rocks and one went over the wagon and hit John. Another is that he fell from a wheat stack and hit his head. Since he suffered the stroke that paralyzed him at a later date the stroke may also have been the result of the previous lung problem. John worked the farm with his mother Mary his entire life. On a visit there in 1945, I can remember my uncle John taking me up to a ridge where he had buried a 5 gallon barrel that he had left in a hole with the top of the lid open. When he took the lid off, the barrel was half filled with snakes mostly rattlers. He had put some type of concoction in the barrel to attract them, they would crawl into the hole and fall into the barrel.
My uncle Albert says that a contributing factor in his death was the ingestion of gasoline while siphoning from one of the farm vehicles to another.
Contributed by Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Cambia was probably unique among mining camps in that it had no saloons. The Kilpatrick brothers, who started the camp, had promised their mother Rachel that they would not permit the sale of liquor in their camp. However, the brothers ran a scheme which induced families to take up homesteads on the acres overlying the coal beds and sell them to the firm, as soon as it was legally possible. John's dad, Joseph, had it in his mind to own his own farm and the family moved on to Montana within a year.
John was paralyzed on the right side of his body. Since there is more than one family story as to how it occurred, I'll relate them all. While John and his brother Joe were walking to Stanford to attend school, he "froze" his lungs and ended up with pneumonia in the hospital at Gaylord where one lung was supposedly "dried up". One story was that an injury occurred when the Koval kids were clearing rocks and one went over the wagon and hit John. Another is that he fell from a wheat stack and hit his head. Since he suffered the stroke that paralyzed him at a later date the stroke may also have been the result of the previous lung problem. John worked the farm with his mother Mary his entire life. On a visit there in 1945, I can remember my uncle John taking me up to a ridge where he had buried a 5 gallon barrel that he had left in a hole with the top of the lid open. When he took the lid off, the barrel was half filled with snakes mostly rattlers. He had put some type of concoction in the barrel to attract them, they would crawl into the hole and fall into the barrel.
My uncle Albert says that a contributing factor in his death was the ingestion of gasoline while siphoning from one of the farm vehicles to another.
Contributed by Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
John was born in Cambia, Wyoming. His birth certificate from the Catholic Church is signed by Rev. Father P.J. Lynch.
Cambia was probably unique among mining camps in that it had no saloons. The Kilpatrick brothers, who started the camp, had promised their mother Rachel that they would not permit the sale of liquor in their camp. However, the brothers ran a scheme which induced families to take up homesteads on the acres overlying the coal beds and sell them to the firm, as soon as it was legally possible. John's dad, Joseph, had it in his mind to own his own farm and the family moved on to Montana within a year.
John was paralyzed on the right side of his body. Since there is more than one family story as to how it occurred, I'll relate them all. While John and his brother Joe were walking to Stanford to attend school, he "froze" his lungs and ended up with pneumonia in the hospital at Gaylord where one lung was supposedly "dried up". One story was that an injury occurred when the Koval kids were clearing rocks and one went over the wagon and hit John. Another is that he fell from a wheat stack and hit his head. Since he suffered the stroke that paralyzed him at a later date the stroke may also have been the result of the previous lung problem. John worked the farm with his mother Mary his entire life. On a visit there in 1945, I can remember my uncle John taking me up to a ridge where he had buried a 5 gallon barrel that he had left in a hole with the top of the lid open. When he took the lid off, the barrel was half filled with snakes mostly rattlers. He had put some type of concoction in the barrel to attract them, they would crawl into the hole and fall into the barrel.
My uncle Albert says that a contributing factor in his death was the ingestion of gasoline while siphoning from one of the farm vehicles to another.
Contributed by Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Cambia was probably unique among mining camps in that it had no saloons. The Kilpatrick brothers, who started the camp, had promised their mother Rachel that they would not permit the sale of liquor in their camp. However, the brothers ran a scheme which induced families to take up homesteads on the acres overlying the coal beds and sell them to the firm, as soon as it was legally possible. John's dad, Joseph, had it in his mind to own his own farm and the family moved on to Montana within a year.
John was paralyzed on the right side of his body. Since there is more than one family story as to how it occurred, I'll relate them all. While John and his brother Joe were walking to Stanford to attend school, he "froze" his lungs and ended up with pneumonia in the hospital at Gaylord where one lung was supposedly "dried up". One story was that an injury occurred when the Koval kids were clearing rocks and one went over the wagon and hit John. Another is that he fell from a wheat stack and hit his head. Since he suffered the stroke that paralyzed him at a later date the stroke may also have been the result of the previous lung problem. John worked the farm with his mother Mary his entire life. On a visit there in 1945, I can remember my uncle John taking me up to a ridge where he had buried a 5 gallon barrel that he had left in a hole with the top of the lid open. When he took the lid off, the barrel was half filled with snakes mostly rattlers. He had put some type of concoction in the barrel to attract them, they would crawl into the hole and fall into the barrel.
My uncle Albert says that a contributing factor in his death was the ingestion of gasoline while siphoning from one of the farm vehicles to another.
Contributed by Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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