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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
Mosty Family History
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... switching cars in the little town. The engines had a very large drum looking out t on the smoke stacks. Late in the evenings the trains would stop & the reman would climb up to the Kerosene head light & light her up & the brakies would lite up tail lites & lanterns & the conductor lit all the lamps in the passenger cars.
Crop failures made hard times harder. Some shark lawyers came to the house when Dad was away & they talked Mother into signing some paper telling her it would save her home, etc. It turned out to be the opposite & the farm, ...
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... livestock, implements all were sold at Sheriff’s sale. [Authors Note: See page XXIII] We loaded into a covered wagon & left Hepler on Thanksgiving day for the trip to Texas - 1894.
Went into Missouri. A blizzard, rain, sleet & snow caught us on a road. No timber & no wood. A farmer near where we were stuck in the mud came to us & took us to his home. The 1st nite they popped corn and made taffy candy & with a hot supper we all thawed out.
When the blizzard broke we started on our way. The farmer must have liked me very well. When we left he gave me a donkey & bridle. I felt big & very important to know I owned ...