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I believe it was the next spring that Dad sold our home. He and other crops, but the water didn’t quite reach our house.
got the Missouri fever. So we sold off our livestock and our But lots of people drowned. Dad helped to get people out.

household goods. He fixed two wagons up with bows and That disgusted him so we started back to Kansas that fall. I
Chariton Courier (Keytesville, Chariton, Missouri) · 5 Jun 1903, Fri · Page 1
covered them so we had two covered wagons. He bought remember when we went thru Kansas City. Mother wasn’t
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two spans (teams) of mules. We loaded well all fall.

our belongings and started for Missou-
It was cold when we reached our destina-
ri. It was really early in the spring and as
tion, which was at my father’s oldest sister
I remember we had lovely weather for
Eva’s home. She and her husband had a
traveling. I can remember about Mother
large ranch and a family of three boys and
cooking our meals over campfires. Some
two girls. We stayed with them for quite a
young man drove one of the wagons. We
long time, Dad helped the husk their corn.
reached Missouri safely in about three
Their youngest girl and child Vada was a
weeks, I believe. Dad rented a small farm
few weeks older than I. So Blanche and I
near Gilliam, Missouri (1903) with a
went to school while there with Aunt Eva
creek thru it. We weren’t very far from
and Uncle Joe’s children. Then it seems in
the Missouri River. He worked awfully
the meantime Dad bought a place near
hard that summer and so did Mother.
Soldier, Kansas, but couldn’t get posses-
She became ill and later lost a baby boy. I
sion until in March, but they rented a
can remember Dad setting the dish pans
house near Soldier where we lived the rest
down where Blanche and I could reach from the Chariton Courier, June 5, 1903
of the winter. But again we weren’t close
Great Floods of 1903reat Floods of 1903
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them to do the dishes. Then the rains came and the Missou-
to the schoolhouse, so we didn’t go to school that winter
ri River and creeks left their banks, flooded our corn field
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