Memories

Well, in my last article I wrote about Bob and Grace Renshaw getting married, moving over to the homestead, digging a well, and planting and harvesting a crop. Bob and Grace both taught, and earned money to by material for a barn and a chicken house, other essentials they needed. They had a boy and a girl, filling out their family.

Renshaw continued to teach at the Peabody School during the 1914-15 term. With some cash he finished fencing his land and bought a walking plow, a rod-breaking plow, and a harrow to break more sod. During the spring of ’15, rains started early and lasted all summer....