The following is a message posted to the Dunn County message board. Unfortunately it was too long to be reposted on the mailing list. Please go to the message board using the link below to read the whole thing. Enjoy! Linda Widunn List Admin >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFC.2ACI/1352.2 > >Message Board Post: > >And here's another recollection of the folks who live "on the hill" above >Missouri Valley. > >ON THE HILL >There is another group of people that must be included in this brief >history of Missouri Valley. Although they did not live in the Valley, they >were a part of the same school district and the lives of some of them were >closely interwoven with those of the Valley folks. This group is made up >of all those that lived on the hill, once known as Bakers Hill. This name >having been forgotten for years, it was referred to simply as the hill. > >Beginning at the west end of the hill is the old Nick Marson farm. There >was a nice house, with a fairly large yard in which flowers bloomed from >early spring through to fall. It was fenced in as most of the yards were >in those days, and one approached the house by entering through a small >gate that opened directly from the road to the house yard. The family was >of German descent and each one had to do his or her share of the work. The >barn and other farm buildings were up to date and kept painted and well >cared for. The farm was not a large one but a productive one. The home was >well furnished and everything about the place indicated prosperity. I do >not know when Mr. and Mrs. Marson moved there nor where they came from. >The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Marson, Henry, Frank and Flora who >were twins and Edward, the youngest. Ed, it was thought by everyone, was >very much pampered but his mother said his heart was bad and did not >require the work from him that she did the ! > others. He was a handsome young man and enjoyed the company of young > ladies, especially the pretty ones. At all the public affairs he could be > seen with a pretty girl or two in his company. He dressed well and seemed > always to have plenty of spending money. When he was about thirty, he > married Hannah Kainz who worked in Elmwood. They had several children and > farmed the home place for by this time the old folks had passed away. He > passed away before the children were grown, from a heart attack and > Hannah moved with her family into Elmwood. Frank Marson was married > twice. His first wife died and he married a widow by the name of > O'Connel, who had two or three grown daughters. They lived on Morton Hill > for some time, but their later years is unknown to me. Flora was also > married, but something happened and she came home with her young daughter > Marie, and lived with her parents. Henry, too married and built a home > for his family about a half mile east of the old folks. He farme d there > a few years and later moved away. (more)