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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
Mosty Family History
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LA Mosty moved from Lampasas to Kansas City, MO 1883. Worked for a Hardware Store & then as a cattle buyer for Swift & Co. Moved to Sumner Co. Kansas about 1889. Stayed 1 year there. Lived in a tent through the winter with only a small Oil Lamp Stove for heat and cooking. The stove about one foot high with a wick about 4 inches wide. Mush was cooked for supper then the left over fried for ...
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... breakfast, etc. No other food other than meal was had. Water was hauled from a river no well being on the farm.
Hot winds burned the corn down & we moved to a farm about 2 miles north of Hepler, Kansas. [Authors note: See pages XXX-XXXI] The only thing I remember of Kansas City was a day we spent at a family we called Auntie Sees. We went on a street car pulled by a little mule. The conductor stood on a little platform on the front of the car & prodded the little mule along. Auntie Sees lived on a hill over ...
