Great Grandfther home in Nebraska

gitrib · Mar 10, 2013

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Do not know why it worked this time.This picure was my great graand father who moved from Wiconsin to Nebraska in 1880's with wife and four children. My grsndmother told of having a cow along to provide milk. gitrib

Vito · Mar 10, 2013

Very nice old picture.Thanks for sharing it and hope all is well.

Vito

larrystinescorner · Mar 10, 2013

that is interesting! Hope all is well,glad to see you posting again

IrvIA · Mar 10, 2013

Is that a sod house? I assume that it is. You'd have to be dern tuff to live out on the prarie in that!! Great picture.

Mark Peters · Mar 10, 2013

Do not know why it worked this time.This picure was my great graand father who moved from Wiconsin to Nebraska in 1880's with wife and four children. My grsndmother told of having a cow along to provide milk. gitrib[/quote]

My grandfather also moved from Wisconsin to Hay Springs, Nebraska in 1896 with his mother and step-father to a homestead. We also have a picture of him in front of their sodhouse. Also have one of him sitting in his one room schoolhouse in front of a poster with an American flag and pictures of the president and vice president,William McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt. He moved back to WI when he turned 18

Russ from MN · Mar 10, 2013

I clicked on the little picture and it got a lot bigger and I got to see some other pictures, Thanks!

gwstang · Mar 10, 2013

Very cool pic! I was just thinking today, while doing the plowing, just how tough the old timers that built this nation, had to be to do so.

Greg K · Mar 10, 2013

I hate to sound like a copycat, but my ancesters moved to Nebraska from Wisconsin in about the same time too. They started out from by Lacrosse. I don't have any pics, but the origional farmstead is still in the family name.

J.Wondergem · Mar 10, 2013

I also clicked on the small picture of the sod house. Got to enjoy a lot of pictures. Thanks Gitrib.

RusselAZ · Mar 10, 2013

Loved the 60 year video.

RusselAZ · Mar 10, 2013

Loved the 60 year video.

Paul from MI · Mar 10, 2013

Great picture--you can just see the pride in building something from nothing in it. Our ancestors were some pretty tough guys. Good to see you back on here.

John in Nebraska · Mar 10, 2013

Must of been a thing to do with the Homestead Act. One of my great grandfathers left the LaCrosse Wis. area in the early 1880s, moved to Decatur, Ne. Stayed til he passed in the 1930s. Funny, because I think of that part of Wisconsin as rather pretty.

Dr. Walt · Mar 11, 2013

Graydon, thank you for sharing all of your family photos and videos, they were great. In one of your photos you show a piece of farm equipment. I've never seen anything like it before, what is it? , what is it used for? . I'm not a Farmer, I'm a Miner but I do have tractors & crawlers. - Doc

gitrib · Mar 11, 2013

iT IS a Vemeer Disc mower.

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