This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RJB.2ACI/242.4 Message Board Post: When he first came he worked on a farm one mile north and one mile east of what is now hills. He later moved to the west half of the north west quarter of section 3, township 101, range 46 in martin township and purchased it from thaddus grout on april 23, 1894. They lived in a one room sod house for a few years until theeir wood frame house could be built. They had 6 kids. 1918 they moved off the farm located midway between beaver creek and hills and purchased a house and lived in hills west on highway 270 on the south side. They rented the farm to their daughter clara.