Still Plugging Away

I just finished re-reading Uncle Herbert's biography - or whatever you might call it - about growing up in South Dakota.  I pick up more details each time I read it and get a better understanding & picture in my head of what it must have been like.  I am able to get past all of his "good, moral, Christian, loving, never questioning anything commentary and get a good feel for the layout.  I was also able to find a land map for the period he is writing about - after losing the farm in 1906 (the Pellar place) and moving to the homestead on Turgeon Hill.

I was able to look at the map when he wrote about walking through the Sabin winter Pasture land to go to the Turgeon school right next to the timberland on the Missouri River (bottom of the map).  In between the 35 & 36 there is a little square next to the plot that says School Land - that is where the school was. 

I also posted Uncle August's biography (the first one, not the one in conjunction with Herbert's) to his page on ancestry.  It's in a PDF file and I can email a copy if you are interested in it.

I'm making a trip to Wharton & El Campo to see Mary and dig around the local museum the weekend after the 4th.  I'm looking forward to it - both to see Mary and to see what I can dig up.  I'm taking Abby with me, poor thing.  She'll either love it or be totally confused and bored, probably both.  I tried to explain to her what a cemetery is, not sure she quite got it.