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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
Mosty Family History
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... Bean furnished me a double shovel plow & showed me how to sow the oats & plow it in. He started me off keeping the front plow shovel in the furrow left by the rear shovel the previous round. I got about half through the eld & it looked like I was not getting along fast enough. So I took to running both plows cutting 2 furrows at each round. When Spring & Summer came the oats planted according to Grandad Bean’s instructions made a good crop.
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The rest that I had hurried on was nothing but weeds. I learned then to do everything right & as told by older people.
Summer of 1897 Mother loaded her kids at home, Lizzie, Mark, Addie & Karl & yours truly, on a train for Menard. It was late in the evening when we pulled out of Lampasas. Traveled all nite & next AM was in Balinger. We took a stage coach there for Menard arriving after nite. Dad & Lee were ...